It will be my first gun show. It should be a eye opening experience
Wife and I went. I really like this show. Never too crowded, fun to just stroll around.
I mean, most everything is over-priced, and it's like the attack of the Rock Island 1911s and Sig police trade-ins, but it's a gun show. It's leather and surplus, and blasting heat vents, with organic farm smells and stale tobacco clothes. "Did she paint those jeans on," and how many rolls of Israeli bandages could we really need when it's sold in bulk. Two men were trying to open an ammo crate "did they use metric nails on it," "no, I reckon they're standard," but at a gun show, someone is bound to have a conversion crow bar. Arisakas and Mausers mingle with Garands and Lee Enfields and at the end if the day, it's a $3.00 coke, and $6.00 nachos and a military issue field guide for the M1911A1 being read in the car...it's a gun show, and thank God for the loophole, and for these people packed in rows like 4H sheep, and for the families together, and the men who snuck away, and the women newly empowered, and the watchdogs and pamphlets, and the dusty ammo and walnut media, and the whole giant collage of Americana, every weekend in the armories and civic centers, and fairgrounds, and conference halls...I walked with my people and talked and relaxed, and I enjoyed every minute of it.
I left before that. What was someone from IL doing with a loaded gun in the car?
Just left. Sold my Spyderco M390.
Besides some upper end factory knifes, couple custom knifes and grips...this show is and continues to bring junk to the masses.
He was probably unloading/unholstering/reloading/reholstering it before entering/leaving.*
*It is possible for Illinois residents to obtain a non-resident permit from another state that is recognized in Indiana.
If it was the Carbon Fiber Military with M390...that cost me!