Posted on 08/09/2014 6:19:43 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A Texas agency wants to allow alcohol sales at gun shows that meet certain requirements, including not allowing live ammunition.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission announced the proposal Friday. It will hold a 30-day public comment period before any rules would be enacted.
(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...
“...gun shows that meet certain requirements, including not allowing live ammunition.”
Huh?
Never been to a gun show where ammunition wasn’t sold, also....
Booze n guns.
What could go wrong?
“Booze n guns.
What could go wrong?”
Probably not much. There have been beer and food sales at Missouri Gun Shows for years.
Well, then, there you go. What do I know? Suburbs. I never knew people knew how to manage guns, lock them up, never mix shooting and drinking, ‘til I got out into flyover and talked to people. Now I know they’re just like cops...that is, people... who can deal with firearms safely and appropriately.
In the early 70s I was a dealer at a gun show in a mall in San Antonio when the idiot dealer across the aisle pulled the trigger on a Luger that had a round in it. I was seated and the bullet went right between my legs and ricocheted off the floor into the wall behind me.
The shooter said, "Are you okay?" and he immediately started packing up his tables as he knew he was going to be thrown out of the show.
I never saw the guy at any other gun show I've attended and still haven't in all these years since. And I've probably been at more than couple or three of hundred gun shows in the 50 plus years I've been attending them, and never had I seen anyone fire off a round except for that time in San Antonio.
Now, as to beer at gun shows, I don't recall if there was beer allowed at the mall in San Antonio but I am sure I could have used one or ten after the shot was fired. In the 60s and 1970s they sold beer at the Houston Show and I can remember bringing beer in my cooler at the Dallas Show in Market Hall during those days. We were able to smoke, too. Nowadays and since the late 80s. early 90s, no beer, no smoking at all. All in all, it is probably not smart to allow beer with the brood of idiots we have bred and raised the past forty years. For the most part they cannot pour piss out of a boot, so their record with beer would be a disaster, IMHO--
And, yes, I still get itchy when any dealer across from me has a Luger on his table--
...and that’s how you first met Dick Cheney ?
Seriously, did you have to change your underoos after that near-fiasco ?
I am a hard core right wing, 2nd amendment man. I carry 24/7 if it is an area which is legal. I do not carry if I drink alcohol. If I drink alcohol I do not go anyplace where I think I might need a weapon. I stay home and with rare exceptions I do go out. I do not carry at those times.
lol
That would be memorable for anyone I would think. Interesting that you never saw the guy again.
Hunting & fishing licenses, too!
Gadzooks, field! Had Dick Chaney taken aim at me... 
I'd have been deader than your sense of decorum in semi-slamming a great man like Dick on a conservative website--
When you wish to make fun of Dick... 
tell about his relentless hunt for the white whale or how he knocked up Ann Coulter or other ways as shown below:
...
...
...
Yes, my undies were a might soiled but nowadays... 
my 'New 'n Improved!' Depends make it matter moot--
I’ll have a beer for me, and one for my gun.
Not really as the Gun Show regular dealers would make sure the word about 'him' would get around to all the shows--
Had I seen him set up at another show, believe me, I would have let the folks putting on the show know what he did.
I wonder how Dick Cheney would deal with movie moguls and directors back in da day I think him and Erich Von Stereim would been hunting buddies with Fritz Lang and Maurice Stiller the same guy that discovered Greta Garbo
I think he could hang out with John Huston he love to hunt
The story is wrong. TABC’s proposed rule would, with an exception for government owned facilities, cost alcoholic beverage permit holders thier license if a gun show is held on the premises. Period. Doesn’t matter if you are not selling alcohol during the gun show, and in fact have it all under lock and key during they gun show. The rule is designed to force every privately owned venue in the state to chose between hosting gun shows, and holding alcoholic beverage permit. It could not do both (I’m classifying an event that requires weapons to be disabled AT ALL TIMES and NO AMMO as not being a gun show — it certainly is not by Texas standards). The proposed rule is a naked attempt to shut down gun shows..
That’s a keeper! LOL!
Yes, it is, and am surprised more Texans don’t know it.
This is something Abbott will fix asap.
How perceptive, Seven... 
for you hit the nail right upon the head--
Up here in heaven, we eagerly look forward to Dick joining our little hunting club... 
Right, Bogie?
You said it, John... 
Dick will fit right in here as he three drinks ahead of the rest of world, too!
http://www.film-foundation.org/common/11004/slideshow/john_huston.jpg
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjI0OTcyMDcxMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDY0MjE3Mw@@._V1_SY317_CR12,0,214,317_AL_.jpg
http://www.possumsal.com/BOGART/humphrey-bogart2.jpg">
Bring on the wymin and the rock-n-roll and it sounds like the fixins for a great party.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.