Tell Us Your Best Gun Show Tale!?

First gun show I went to, I had my hair tied back with a hat on.. I was talking with one guy about a shotgun and he kept calling me 'son'/'sir'.

Needless to say, I didn't buy anything from that guy.

I attended a gun show one Saturday morning, then went home and watched the evening news and saw that the show made the 6 o'clock news.

Turns out that someone at the show picked-up a small autoloading pistol to see how they liked it. They aimed it at the floor and pulled the trigger. Bang! The gun fired and the bullet bounced off the concrete floor and hit another spectator in the calf. Luckily the wounded man did not sustain any life threatening injuries and was discharged from the hospital within a day.

The show officials kicked-out both the owner of the table (a gun shop retailer) and the clown that fired the gun. Let's face it. The person running the table display should know if his/her guns are loaded and should do their best to make sure they can not be fired. And, let's face it. The first rule of firearms handling is to treat every gun as if it were loaded. Check the chamber. Check the magazine. Then, check the chamber again and ALWAYS point it in a safe direction. The goof that merely picked it up and pulled the trigger obviously was not thinking straight that day.

A little over a year ago I was at the Deland Florida show,and I was admiring some nice WW2 vintage rifles. This fellow was there before me and had made his mind up on a nice looking K98k. He finished his deal and walked away with his rifle. I stayed at the table,looking at some really nice rifles from different European countries. About 10 minutes later the man who had bought the K98k was back wanting to return the rifle. The look from the dealer was priceless. I wished I had had a camera. The dealer,myself,and two others just busted out laughing all at once. The guy turned beet red and was going to leave,but the dealer told him that he was not walmart,but that he would take the rifle back. All the paper work again included. The dealer sold the rifle later that day,TO THE SAME GUY for $200 more than the first time and this time the customer went away happy. Go figure,it`s a strange world.

I was at a gun show a while back, and as I'm dealing with one of the sellers, the whole building reverberated with the sound of a gunshot. There was a bit of confusion for a couple minutes while everyone was wondering who had the AD, and then a woman with a baby carriage realized that one of her tires had blown, and that's what had created the noise. It sounded exactly like a gunshot. The woman was right behind me when it popped, but I couldn't tell where it came from because of the echo.

Two stories in one day. I was at a show and I was eyeing about 5 Marlin 336s on the stand 3 feet in front of me. I stood there 15 minutes with the guy running the stand staring at me before he came over and asked if I needed some help. I said I was looking to handle a few of his Marlin 336s. He turns around looks straight at them and says I will have to see if we have some in stock. Another worker behind the table said to him yes we do its towards where I was standing. The guy went down the rack looking at tags until he showed up at the 336s and then handed me one. I didn't end up buying but really??? They are that hard to see? Same day I was going over to visit one of my favorite gun store owners at his stand he does at the Gun Show. A kid maybe 19ish walks up and wants to handle a AR-15 Carbine. My buddy hands him the AR and the kid does the usual shouldering and then says. I only want it if I can fire in 3 round bursts. The look on my friends face was priceless. He didn't care at that point... Good luck on that friend.

I don't go to those to often. The reason being I have to take a towel with me to catch the drool running down my chin....lol

The first one I ever went to was an eye opener. Downtown St. Louis convention center and there was everything you could ever want all lined up. lol...And I had no money..

In the mid 80's my brother traded a .405 winchester for a M1A once...dummy... I thought it was worth much more than that cause it came from a friends grandmother that didn't want it anymore. It was her husbands and was is very very good shape. I'll always wonder what it was really worth..guess I'll never know.

Dark Sun, a garage based gun shop sets up tables at Tidewater Va. gunshows frequently. One of the owners decided it would be funny to insult every dealer at the show by calling them all backwoods inbred rednecks to several customers, myself included. Little did he know that I'm good friends with the majority of the dealers at these shows, maybe 5 minutes later and EVERY dealer there knew what the guy at dark sun had said about them. Word got around to everyone shortly afterwards, even customers coming into the show were being warned off about this guy, this guys tables were devoid of customers for the remainder of the show! He still shows up to the shows when they have them, but now he keeps his cake hole shut about other dealers there, but he still doesn't get much business.

I remember the most optimistic price I ever saw,

a generic 1903 Springfield with a $3000 price tag on it. I actually laughed out loud.

I was actually going to buy something at one of those shows and NO ONE would help me! I tried to get like 5 people to sell me something but apparently girls don't buy guns!

don't know if you know the hillsville VA show....the whole town sets up...50,000 people on labor day weekend.....main hall is in fire dept /resque sq [or elks club i forget] anyway i wait in line for 20 min to get in...wall to wall people...im being pushed along fast!!! cant see a freaking thing....finally get pushed out the exit...i turn to my wife and say,,," i felt like i was being pushed through" she sez " you were,,it was me pushing you" LOL GOD love her shes a CCP holder and has a few nice guns..