When Did Gun Shows Start to Become A Little Bad?

[inlineman]

Cool might have to go,thanks.Going to be too cold to find any mushrooms yet anyways.

 

[BoldCourageousWoman]

Where else can you go and be with hundreds or thousands of like-minded people?

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Shows seemed to turn into flea markets and tacticool stuff around '95.

That too changed around mid 90's IMHO.

I concur. It's Clinton's fault. Seriously, I agree. During the first AWB the prices at gun shows started topping what your typical LGS was charging. The only reason I continued to go was for reloading supplies. I quit going about the time Cowboy Action Shooting started taking off and the shows were full of clothes to play dress up with.

 

[Shootin'IN]

When I first started going to gun shows it was just a bunch of local guys getting rid of the extra junk that everyone accumulates with a gun hobby. Then the LGS found it was a good way to get rid of the hard to sell guns that they take in as trade. Then about the time of the Clinton gun ban they found that if the gun buying frenzy got high enough that people will buy junk at high prices like(WASR10). It has been getting worse ever since & now the Fed's are trying to jump in, to throw a spin on the whole works.
Every time you find something fun someone takes a dump on it.

 

[Bradsknives]

Not much has changed over the last 30 years except the players. The perception of shows going bad or getting worse has been fueled by Internet forums. All the negative people in the world now have a place to go and b*tch about it.

 

[Woodrow]

Not much has changed over the last 30 years except the players. The perception of shows going bad or getting worse has been fueled by Internet forums. All the negative people in the world now have a place to go and b*tch about it.

I agree with this completely. We go on and on about wanting more people to come over to our way of thinking. Guess what, they are coming, and they are starting out at gun shows. If shows are a little more crowded, and prices seem a little higher, well, that's capitalism. Want to know the alternative? If i am moderately inconvenienced every couple of weekends, well, good, because it's more voters in the booths, and I am glad to see them in the aisles.

Anyway, that was a little off-topic, but something to consider.