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Ever seen anything obnoxious at a gun show?

OPERATOROPERATOR Member Posts: 61 ✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
I was just at a small show here in northern NV a few hours ago and it was very disappointing... A lot of equipment being sold were overpriced and some had questionable information on it. One particular item was a Chinese SKS that had a very catchy "PRE BAN" written beside the $350 price tag. To make it more interesting, the bayonet lug was missing. Besides is there really a way to tell what year your sks came to the US? Since it wasnt any of my business and considering that the observation I conducted might be inaccurate, I just smiled and said nothing as I walked away.


Since there are sellers among us on this board, I would like to make it known that I'm not partial to anyone, besides...who else would I buy my equipment from?

-Operator

Life is simple, living is what makes it complicated.
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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    Chinese SKS with bayonet lug missing....for $350.00....sounds like it might be the SKS Sporter that takes AK mags.

    A lot of people like to call their SKS's "pre-ban". The SKS Sporter is one. They do have the year of manufacture included in the serial number. Some people like to point out that the date indicates it was made before 1994.

    The problem is there were so many bans on SKS, which ban are they really talking about? In reality, only SKS's that were in assault weapons configuration prior to the 1989 ban should be called "pre-ban". Putting one in that configuration after the ban would be illegal.

    If it was a new in box SKS Sporter, $350 wouldn't be a bad asking price, regardless of the "pre-ban" fluff. I've seen some of these at shows and overheard the FFL dealer telling potential buyers "Oh yeah, it's legal to put a folding stock on these". NOT!

    One probalem with the current gun laws is they are so complicated anyone can claim ignorance and be believed.

    To err is human, to moo is bovine.
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  • OPERATOROPERATOR Member Posts: 61 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Unfortunately, this was not the more than often sought after SKS sporter...just the plain jane chinese model.



    -operator

    Life is simple, living is what makes it complicated.
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  • Matt45Matt45 Member Posts: 3,185
    edited November -1
    Hmmmmmmph- In that case I'm inclined to say it was one fool trying to part another fool from his money.

    Reserving my Right to Arm Bears!!!!
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Ever seen anything obnoxious at a gun show? AT the last gun show I went to I witnessed a small child, maybe 5 years old, pick his nose and eat it, then the same child goes a couple of tables over and sticks his same hand into a vendors gummy bear bowl that was set out for the kids.

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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  • GreenLanternGreenLantern Member Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just the prices!
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  • YanquiYanqui Member Posts: 58 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah. The most obnoxious thing I have seen are the gun owners that pass right by the NRA booth and do not bother to greet them and/or bother to join.

    "A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands"
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the younger" ca. (4 BC - 65 AD)
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What really gets me are all those tables with guns and stuff. They take up so much room it is hard to shop for sunglasses, beanie babies, carved wading birds, Bavarian nuts, knife sharpeners, the stuff that keeps your glasses from fogging, synthetic chamios, and Ginsu kitchen knives. Besides the prices on the guns are mostly way too high.

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  • sig-mansig-man Member Posts: 591 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Aside from the Beanie Babies, right after the Columbine shootings,A couple of punk teenagers walking around in black trenchcoats,I think after the thousandth time they were toldjust about how evryone felt about their choice of dress they were all to happy to vacate the premisis...
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  • Spring CreekSpring Creek Member Posts: 1,260 ✭
    edited November -1
    So right Yanqui, it should be necessary to be a member to even get into a Gun Show.
    This weekends Gun Show in KC, MO is an excellent example of the NRA working side by side, in helping to sponsor the show. (And one heck of a GOOD show)
    Unbelievable how someone with spend $35 on ammo or such and complain that the NRA costs to much.
    No NRA-No need for Gun Shows-No Guns-It's simple logic!
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  • WittumWittum Member Posts: 553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    lol, I loved the post about all the other things than guns at a show
    . I get so sick of seeing tshirts and big breasted women in tank tops selling the newest gimick and all the ole perverts including me catching a glance. All the sh*t just gets on my nevers, oh well.
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wittum , That Is being forced to see "merchandise" you will never be able to use or buy Either because you havent got the money or you are an ugly mother and them chicks will run away from you .....

    Definitely quite ( The most obnoxious ) you won !!!!!!

    Definitely frustrating ...AWW ! the cal 50 or the blonde in the thongs .

    Were can I get iced water ???? AWWWWWWWWWWW! psssshhhhthhthththh!
    (steam pouring from the ears and hear etc.)

    HEHEHE !

    JD

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
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  • WittumWittum Member Posts: 553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That is so funny, i cant stand all that stuff. I mean i am a big guy and i like a little beef jerky, but not a person heckling me every row wanting me to try one of there 30 types of jerky, oh well. I would rather have one of those 6 dollar bbq beef sandwichs that everyone tells you not to eat and you know it will give you bad heart burn, you do it anyway. I love gun shows and spent half my childhood at gunshows and my dads sporting goods store. there is just nothing in the world like it.
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    Summer shows where women who should know better walk around in skimpy little clothes showing off their cellulite and stretch marks

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    D.D.Snavely
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Our Fort Wayne gun shows are pretty straightforward -- I'm glad I don't have to deal with your BBQ sandwiches. Jerky gives me heartburn, so even if its in a legitimate survival gear display I won't be buying. There's so much more to love about gun shows, that I pretty much ignore the occasional obnoxious vendor (and vendors can definitely be more obnoxious than any of their merchandise if they are doing too many shows).

    Peeves: Heaping piles of anything, especially cheap cordura-type holsters and holders. Dealers who have their best values like used holsters in "grab boxes" with right & left handed stuff mixed and nothing labelled (what else do they have to do with those slow periods they complain about?). Very worn guns, still overpriced like they were better specimens. Cheap leather products that will fall apart next week. Dealers who leave their most unique stuff at home and only bring the most popular stuff that everyone else has, thereby guaranteeing I can't find that rarity I've been looking for. As a general rule, a gun show is a place to buy stuff to bet your life on. Anybody selling junk that is poorly made, likely to fail or get somebody injured or killed ticks me off. Bad quality in general is obnoxious. Value is good.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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