Gun Show North Atlanta Trade Center

[41mag]

[9114901230803615850336QUOTE=chucklenut;3567087]going and looking is cool, but i figured a gun show was supposed to be a place where people bought and sold guns lol

i hear ya. it just sucks they werent like they use to be (back when i was 12 or so when my dad would take me)[/QUOTE]
Exactly, we use to go to every time they came. That was about 4 times a year....we could get our supplies(powder,primers,etc.) and usually find a gun or two at real good prices. In the last 10yrs or so they have really gotten cruddy. The prices aren't anything less than LGS price, there aren't as many vendors and everyone thinks that their stuff is gold. We use to find cool stuff to play with too....dart guns, nunchaku , really cool knives, all at GOOD prices. On top of that, people would walk around with their stuff for sale(private sellers) and have a piece of paper pinned on their back with a price and description...but now even the private prices are as high as the retail prices. Definitely not what it once was. Not worth wasting time, money to get in, gas to go IMO.

 

[JWC]

going and looking is cool, but i figured a gun show was supposed to be a place where people bought and sold guns lol

i hear ya. it just sucks they werent like they use to be (back when i was 12 or so when my dad would take me)

Hard for me to disagree with you post. But, things change. Gun sites, auction sites, and just internet buying in general, have taken a toll on gun shows. Heck, when I was 12, the local hardware store was the "gun show". Looked at catalogs and ordered your gun, bought something in stock, or just looked at catalogs. Have my expectations, regarding gun shows changed, well yeah. Like I said, I enjoy them, I just don't buy guns at them often. I doubt that I would ever have been able to see and hold a S&W Registered Magnum were it not for gun shows. I will go to some, but not all guns shows. Like Ray posted, I will not go to the gun show held at the Farmers Market. Now that show, with the small number of dealers that are there and the "type"(ie scum) of dealers that are there, I avoid like the plague. I fully understand folks not wanting to go, but dang, I have had to stand in line to get in at the last two I attended. So, just because you don't go, that doesn't mean that everyone stays home. Just my take.

 

[chucklenut]

Exactly, we use to go to every time they came. That was about 4 times a year....we could get our supplies(powder,primers,etc.) and usually find a gun or two at real good prices. In the last 10yrs or so they have really gotten cruddy. The prices aren't anything less than LGS price, there aren't as many vendors and everyone thinks that their stuff is gold. We use to find cool stuff to play with too....dart guns, nunchaku , really cool knives, all at GOOD prices. On top of that, people would walk around with their stuff for sale(private sellers) and have a piece of paper pinned on their back with a price and description...but now even the private prices are as high as the retail prices. Definitely not what it once was. Not worth wasting time, money to get in, gas to go IMO.

yup. i know its asinine to remember a bit about the good ol days, but gun shows were getting expensive years before obama got elected the first time and all the other panics

not to mention eastmans in particular are price fixing douchebags

 

[jloneill17]

if it's an Eastman show, theres no way in ****ing hell i'll go.

 

[chucklenut]

Hard for me to disagree with you post. But, things change. Gun sites, auction sites, and just internet buying in general, have taken a toll on gun shows. Heck, when I was 12, the local hardware store was the "gun show". Looked at catalogs and ordered your gun, bought something in stock, or just looked at catalogs. Have my expectations, regarding gun shows changed, well yeah. Like I said, I enjoy them, I just don't buy guns at them often. I doubt that I would ever have been able to see and hold a S&W Registered Magnum were it not for gun shows. I will go to some, but not all guns shows. Like Ray posted, I will not go to the gun show held at the Farmers Market. Now that show, with the small number of dealers that are there and the "type" of dealers that are there, I avoid like the plague. I fully understand folks not wanting to go, but dang, I have had to stand in line to get in at the last two I attended. So, just because you don't go, that doesn't mean that everyone stays home. Just my take.

ohhh i agree

i think if more folks stayed home the prices might even get better lol

i feel like a third of the folks there are regulars, another third are rotating folks (might go two or three times a year) and then there are folks like me who might go once every year or two and leave there thinking "why, why did i do this"

i gotta wonder how many people are actually buying there. the lines to get in might be long but the lines at the tables from what i remembered werent. mostly just folks shuffling around like a museum