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I go to local gunshows all the time. I also have sold in rivate sale an occasional gun. Anyone who pays the fee to the event organizer can set up a table and sell as a private citizen with no background check presently required. People wandering around at the shows sell to each other and to the booths, without background checks of any kind. People trade guns with each other at shows (the January gunshow, I traded the upper of an AR15 I built, for a new Franchi 12 gauge inertia driven shotgun) with all the trimmings. ONLY the FFL sellers are required to do the background check for their sales at gunshows. The following is ONE reason somethig should be done to regulate sales at gunshows ... I'm giving you a first-hand eyewitness account from a gunshow two years ago which I attended:

I watch an Hispanic speaking man walking around in the show with another man who was translating for him. The Hispanic speaking guy was buying rifles and pistols (no revolvers that I saw) from individuals and they would walk those purchases out to a van where another man sat in the back and oiled them up. Then they would go back in and mill around, looking for more to purchase. NOTHING illegal was occurring in these transactions, as far as I know. At the very least, ANY sale done inside the event confines or deemed due to the show attraction/gathering event should have to be run through a competent FFL dealer (for a nominal fee as is already collected) so a background is done on the purchasers.
Caveat: the requirement for the checks should terminate outside of event connections, period. The government should not have the right to regulate the private transfer (with or without money involved) of properties. BUT a publicly advertised gunshow is a public event and can be regulated in some fashion, addressed via votes over legislation/legislators. And we are long past due to revolve many of the scum calling themselves 'elected representatives'.