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What really goes on at a gun show
money.cnn.com ^ | 10/26/2015 | Aaron Smith

Posted on 10/27/2015 10:09:22 AM PDT by rktman

Where else, but a gun show, would you see a man with an oxygen tank pushing a walker and wearing a sign trying to sell a Chinese AK-47 ($845) and an Albanian military rifle ($695)?

Other vendors sold Confederate flags and "Don't Tread On Me Flags" with the yellow rattler. Others sold DVDs, mostly war movies, or books focusing on guns and military history.

Tables were piled high with T-shirts. Some were serious, with grim slogans and skulls. Some were political; one seller had shirts bearing Donald Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Aga

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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OMG!!! Hide the women folks and chirruns. Didn't notice in the article if the intrepid 'urinalist' mentioned any uh, diversity in the attendees. Were there any black folks there? And inciteful 'confederate flags'. Where the hell is #blm when you need them? Hope the 'urinalist' didn't misplace his murse while there.
1 posted on 10/27/2015 10:09:22 AM PDT by rktman
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I do have to say I’ve seen more blacks at the last few shows I’ve been to.


2 posted on 10/27/2015 10:12:36 AM PDT by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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What really goes on at a gun show====car sales.!!!


3 posted on 10/27/2015 10:13:05 AM PDT by Paul46360
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Other vendors sold Confederate flags and "Don't Tread On Me Flags" with the yellow rattler.

LOL. Sounds like the plot to a liberal horror movie. Those ignorant Rednecks are buying guns, and will load up their pick up trucks, with Confederate or Tea Party flags flying from them, and invade the Upper East Side or West Hollywood. They'll then force the residents to go to church and watch Hee Haw!!!!!

4 posted on 10/27/2015 10:13:08 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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“a man with an oxygen tank pushing a walker and wearing a sign trying to sell a Chinese AK-47”

Theres a better than good chance the gentleman was a US military vet. But this hard hitting piece failed to dig that deep.

Capitalism, AND the 1st and 2nd Amendment all in the same place.......oh the humanity!


5 posted on 10/27/2015 10:16:25 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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My husband goes to look at the guns. I go to keep him company. He seldom buys anything, but I’ve bought beautifully framed wildlife prints; a pair of otter earmuffs which I still wear 30 years later; an antique “fox farm” farm sign for my neighbor who lives on an historic fox farm; sassy bumper stickers; books; beautiful handcrafted jewellery boxes (really pistol boxes); food; etc.


6 posted on 10/27/2015 10:18:34 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic (.)
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No shirts or hats with TRUMP on them at my gun show last weekend, but this week I found one at a T-shirt shop in a flea market. RED! with large TRUMP and smaller line for the motto. I bought plain red caps and have painted the MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN on the front with liquid embroidery.

Have to go out today just so I can wear it!


7 posted on 10/27/2015 10:20:26 AM PDT by 3D-JOY (FREEPATHON IS ON! "add to the fun" $$$$$$)
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When I am at a gun show, I feel like I’ve come home to America again. There’s nothing quite like picking through the tables, trying to find that one gem, talking with like-minded people, bartering with the dealers, finding that .43 Spanish die for your reloading equipment......it’s just a little slice of heaven.


8 posted on 10/27/2015 10:21:41 AM PDT by RepRivFarm ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell)
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Telling that the CNN “journalist” is too ignorant of history to know it’s a Gadsden Flag.

“The scary yellow one with the snake-thingy...”


9 posted on 10/27/2015 10:22:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Just checked...the paint is dry and bright white as well as looking like the heavy embroidery on some caps...not bad for a fast job!


10 posted on 10/27/2015 10:23:10 AM PDT by 3D-JOY (FREEPATHON IS ON! "add to the fun" $$$$$$)
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CNN embarrass itself again with a ignorant advocate pretending to be a ‘reporter.’

“Shotguns for sale. The one on the left has a high-capacity banana clip.”

No matter how often they are corrected, the leftist sheep cannot comprehend the difference between a clip and a magazine. Even at the odd picture angle, it looks like a Saiga 12 or 20 magazine.

“Alex Pierce doesn’t need a license to sell his guns.”
“Alex Pierce was one of those mobile sellers. He walked the floor, an NRA cap on his head and two 19th century guns — a rifle and a shotgun”

And if you did your job and looked up the Federal law, you would know that pre-1898 rifles and shotguns, except for a few exceptions (i.e. machineguns, short-barreled shotguns) are not covered under the NFA law.


11 posted on 10/27/2015 10:29:34 AM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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Imagine going to a place where if you see something on a table, and it has a tag that says $695, you ask the dealer, "$400?" and he acts like you just offered to buy one of his children, and says $650 and you shake your head and say $450...

Walk into anywhere else in the country and bargain.

12 posted on 10/27/2015 10:32:42 AM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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Silly. #factsdontmatter.


13 posted on 10/27/2015 10:33:55 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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>>Capitalism, AND the 1st and 2nd Amendment all in the same place.......oh the humanity!<<

Unrestrained freedom!! Oh noes!!

libtards would not know what to do with freedom. They would immediately create a fettered environment so The State will decide everything for them (and everyone else).


14 posted on 10/27/2015 10:37:34 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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Who wouldn't be intimidated by a banana clip?

15 posted on 10/27/2015 10:38:55 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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“No matter how often they are corrected, the leftist sheep cannot comprehend the difference between a clip and a magazine.

Deliberate propaganda to keep the uninformed and ignorant disinformed and misinformed. Like the difference between semi and full auto. You are thinking that they should know better- they do.

When you are talking to an informed or activist anti, your use of “clip” identifies you as belonging to a particular group.


16 posted on 10/27/2015 10:45:04 AM PDT by DBrow
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...and when you’re done firing, drop the banana mag, and toss it toward the enemy, in no time at all they will surely slip in fall.


17 posted on 10/27/2015 10:45:27 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Rap music: Soundtrack of the retarded.)
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How to defend yourself from an assailant wielding a banana
18 posted on 10/27/2015 11:02:39 AM PDT by slumber1 (Islam delenda est)
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The one on the left has a high-capacity banana clip.

Banana Clip photo Banana_Clip.jpg

19 posted on 10/27/2015 11:08:04 AM PDT by umgud (v)
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This piece tells us very little about gun shows, but a great deal about CNN (as if we didn’t already know...)

They treated a gun show in Pennsylvania as an anthropological study in what “those people” in flyover country do. Sadly, they found it’s pretty boring so they had to go off the rails and start talking about the “gun show loophole” and how “lax” regulations in one state can have theoretical effects in another.

Very predictable.


20 posted on 10/27/2015 11:13:53 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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