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Post by parson on Nov 7, 2008 7:43:25 GMT -5
What are some of your favorite gun shows around central Indiana?
Are deals as hard to find at all of them as they are at the 1500? parson
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Post by Decatur on Nov 7, 2008 10:33:43 GMT -5
Gun show "deals" are few and far between. Your best bet is to watch for individuals selling firearms.
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Post by TagTeamHunter on Nov 7, 2008 10:54:05 GMT -5
Been to several and not very happy with any of them .. but that that is just me.
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Post by dbd870 on Nov 7, 2008 12:54:07 GMT -5
I quit going to them.
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Post by danf on Nov 7, 2008 14:15:35 GMT -5
I went to one in Greencastle back in July or so. Main reason I went is because it was close and it was the only one I could remember there in the 6 years we've lived here. There were deals to be found, but only on certain specific items. There were also a LOT of overpriced things. I did pick up an AR-15 stripped lower for a decent price at that show.
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Post by Decatur on Nov 7, 2008 14:21:57 GMT -5
I haven't been to a gun show in probably 3 years. The last few I went to were overpriced and tons of garage sale/crafty junk!
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Post by bomonster on Nov 7, 2008 16:26:19 GMT -5
I find its hit and miss, got a good deal on a Moss. synthetic deer gun with a rifled and ported barrel last week in Lafayette for $160 already tapped for a scope. bought it for my son who was with took it to sportmens warehouse and had it scoped with a red dot 2 hours later. Also picked up a Remington 700 in 308 from the same guy for about 300. I always go the last day about 3 hrs before they shut down and seem to find the better deals. Have one coming up in Crown point Dec. 6th and 7th, one of the nicer shows other than the Indy show. Just my 2 cents.
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Post by chicobrownbear on Nov 8, 2008 8:22:44 GMT -5
Gun shows are great to take a 12 year old to. Other than that you won't find a whole lot of deals.
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Post by drgreyhound on Nov 8, 2008 13:11:15 GMT -5
Gun shows are great to take a 12 year old to. Other than that you won't find a whole lot of deals. Yeah. I've been just to spend time with Mbogo--as I recall, he hasn't really found great deals, at least not at any when I was there.
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Post by chicobrownbear on Nov 8, 2008 13:16:30 GMT -5
When you are a kid, everything is super cool and awesome at gun shows. Its like a museum of awesome. When you are grown up, you realize that they are going to charge you to park and to get in the door, on top of that most vendors are asking way too much for way too little.
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Post by birddog on Nov 10, 2008 10:02:36 GMT -5
Here in this area I find all gun shows very underpower,most have nothing but junk or military stuff.If you want to attend a REAL GUN SHOW then I suggest taking a long week end in April and going to the one down at Tulsa,Ok.,I've been going each year for several years now and I can say one thing..THIS IS A GUN SHOW!!!!! 11 ACRES UNDER ONE ROOF...If you a modern sportsmen as I or if you're into old west weapons,somebody there either has it or can tell you were you can find it at.
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Post by mbogo on Nov 14, 2008 17:06:06 GMT -5
It depends on what you are looking for at the 1500, I have found some pretty good deals on stuff that I didn't really need or have a use for. The main problem is that most of the good deals disappear quickly because of the volume of people. You either need to go first thing Friday when it opens or wait until Sunday when the vendors are more willing to deal. I read/heard that one vendor was selling blemished name brand AR lowers for $85 a piece or 5 for $400 at the last show.
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Post by coyote6974 on Nov 15, 2008 17:55:19 GMT -5
I see gunshows as a cultural event and just enjoy the atmosphere of them. I don't go for deals as I know there are usually none to be had, so I don't expect any. The best thing about them is that I am able to check out lots of different dealers all in one location. I also like seeing the variety of items for sale at the larger gun shows like the 1500. A guy can pick up all the parts he needs for building AR's. Seems that you can get all the items right now that you'd usually have to order and wait a week for. The best thing though is that you won't see any liberal idiots at a gunshow.
Coyote 6973
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Post by gunnah on Nov 17, 2008 10:40:00 GMT -5
Quote: "The best thing though is that you won't see any liberal idiots at a gunshow."
Here's this mornings Indianapolis Star writeup on gunshows.
There's Nothing Fun About This Fairgrounds Show Monday Nov. 17 2008
It is Friday evening in late October, and the shadows on the Indiana State Fairgrounds are starting to lengthen as I pay nine bucks to gain admission into the 1500 Gun and Knife Show.
Twenty-five feet inside the entrance of the South Pavilion building, a display table is draped with the striking red background and black swastika of the Nazi flag. Ten feet farther, an SS uniform is for sale. The crowd of several hundred, virtually all white men, mill past displays of Confederate flags and National Rifle Association literature. One vendor features T-shirts of the iconic yellow smiley face with a bullet hole in its forehead and brains blown out the back of its skull.
Thousands of weapons are for sale. Glock 23 fully automatic pistols, Uzi nine millimeters, Colt 44 magnum Anacondas. Some cost less than $100.
One display includes copies of legal treatises on the "castle doctrine," the law that allows the use of deadly force on intruders. Next to the stack of treatises are bumper stickers reading, "Osama bin Laden/Obama Joe Biden. Coincidence?"
When someone picks up a bumper sticker, the man working the display nods. "God help us if McCain doesn't win," he says. "I live in South Bend, which is 35 percent black. That's what you call a target-rich environment."
My companion at the gun show is Joe Zelenka, who coordinates for the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis the prayer vigils held after murders in the city. When weapons like the ones sold at the firgrounds make real human beings look like the blown-away smiley face on the T-shirts, Zelenka is there to hear the mothers' cries of anguish.
He points to a Springfield XD 9 millimeter semi-automatic pistol. "Not legal in California," the box reads. "The only things these are used to hunt for is people," Zelenka says.
Zelenka is helping to coordinate a petition from nearby St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic parish asking Gov. Mitch Daniels to stop hosting these gun shows at the State Fairgrounds. The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1983 requires that licensed gun dealers conduct background checks of purchasers before selling firearms. But there is no such federal or state requirement for private sellers. They are free to sell weapons, including at gun shows, to anyone, including convicted felons and spouse abusers, who plunks down the cash.
A handful of states have closed this gun show loophole, sometimes in the aftermath of tragedy. After gun show-purchased weapons were used by the Columbine High School killers to shoot 26 students in 1999, Colorado voters passed a referendum requiring background checks for all sales at these shows.
But Indiana has no such limitation. And Daniels, like Govs. Evan Bayh and Frank O'Bannon before him, doesn't plan to stop the State Fairgrounds gun shows. "We are not in a position to discriminate among potential users (of the fairgrounds) that comply with applicable laws and the lease requirement," says Daniels spokeswoman Jane Jankowski.
Meanwhile, the only-in-America headlines continue. On Halloween, a 12-year-old South Carolina trick-or-treater is gunned down. At a Massachusetts gun fair, an 8-year-old boy accidentally shoots himself in the head with an Uzi submachine gun. A dispute over an LSU-Alabama college football game leads to two people being shot to death. In Arizona, another 8-year-old shoots and kills his father and another man.
Zelenka continues his grim ritual of prayer vigils, as the Indianapolis homicide total climbs to more than 100 deaths again this year. And next year the Indiana State Fairgrounds is scheduled to host five more weapons extravaganzas, each providing a forum for the fringes of hate and the merchants of violent death.
Quigley is an attorney and director of operations for the Indiana-Kenya Partnership.
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Post by dbd870 on Nov 17, 2008 10:45:50 GMT -5
What? Absolutely clueless.
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 17, 2008 10:48:57 GMT -5
Wrong! They are used to protect people from scum..
When will these people ever learn - The Second Amendment is NOT about hunting.
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