the glendale, ca gun show was packed. I attended a few years ago, not too many attended. This year, had to park down the street, and things were selling real fast!
Orlando gun show is this coming weekend.
I’m looking to buy a Barrett or maybe a couple SKS-D.
bmwcyle and I worked the Virginia Citizens Defense League membership booth at this show. Just got the report from the coordinator and it wasn’t just gun sales that set a record. VCDL set records for memberships and merchandise sales.
I hadn’t planned on buying anything, but ended up joining in the feeding frenzy. A Ruger 22/45 followed me home; my wife says I can keep it as long as I feed it, take it for walks to the range and clean up after it.
Asked one vendor about stripped AR-15 lowers and he just laughed. Ammo vendors were sold out of most common calibers by Sun afternoon. I did see one dealer with an off brand AR-15 lower for $180 - nearly twice what it would have sold for a few months ago. A few of the dealers had a decent selection of AR-15’s at fair prices given the demand.
I stood at the VCDL table and watch dealers walk out with stacks of cash.
I went to this show on Sunday. It was kind of depressing. Never before have I seen empty tables. And never have I ever seen so many people there on the Sunday! The line to get in at 10:15am (when I got there) was as long as the Saturday morning lines have been in the past... and that was after they’d already been letting people in for 15 minutes.
I didn’t buy any guns, I was there for ammo (and still spent about $130). And while prices were higher than they were a few months ago, I would say there was no “price gouging” per se.