Monday - August 23, 2004
The Gun Show
My expedition to the gun show was a non-event. As I have already written Allan, I paid $12 (5 of them just to park. Now there's another bitch fest waiting to be exploited. $5 to put your car in a place where you might spend one hour. And this is Florida. NOT New York! That ranks right up there with paying those fucktards at Ticketmaster a "service" fee to give you a ticket. You look them up on the web, you look up the event, you pick your seat, you pay for the internet connection allowing you to do all this, you enter your credit card info, and THEY get $5 for the privilege of having you do all the work. Something wrong there.) But I digress.Inside I find a wealth of booths dedicated to leather goods (not holsters); Indian jewelry; cleaning products (not necessarily gun cleaning); food; beverages; WW II and other military paraphernalia; knives; swords; etc. Then there were LOTS of booths for magazines, ammo, holsters.
Lastly, some booths with actual GUNS! (GASP!)
The prices were OK, I guess but the shops were, for the most part, from the other side of the state so if I wanted to buy a gun I'd have to fill out that dumbass form, wait three days and have them ship and insure it whereupon I'd then pay the FFL fee to a local dealer to pick it up. I looked at prices for local dealers and albeit a bit higher, ended up being about the same after you factor in above fees/costs.
Unfortunately, what I wanted my local dealer did not have so I will be paying him a visit since he said he has it in his shop. At this point it'll be a toss-up between a Springfield 1911, a Ruger GP97, Glock 21 or a S&W 45. The other one looks like it will be a Ruger GP100 revolver with 2 speed loaders and 2 grips.
So, all in all, I was not too thrilled with my little trip yesterday. On the plus side, I did learn a few things so I can not be too harsh.
Stay with me today. I have a buttload of stuff to post about.
Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler
on 08/23/2004 at 07:26 AM
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