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 ?
lol
That would be memorable for anyone I would think. Interesting that you never saw the guy again.