I attended the Austin Gun Show-Round Rock (to use the full appellation) on Sunday, and here are a few random observations:
The venue, the Round Rock Sports Center, is much bigger and better suited to a gun show than the Austin and Cedar Park venues. There’s room for more vendors in the central space, there’s none of that inner ring/outer ring/multilevel nonsense, and it’s a nice modern building.
You had the weird Russian guy selling the one Nazi flag, WWII stuff…and bedsheets.
He wasn’t the only bedsheet dealer.
There was also a Tupperware dealer. Evidently non-gun vendors have figure out that gun shows get lots of foot traffic.
When it comes to guns, prices seemed up roughly 10% over the show I attended last year.
Some manufacturers (including Kimber) are going into custom colored grips and such in a big way. I understand the reasoning (more money from the growing female shooter demographic), but they don’t do much for me.
Ditto what I call Ruger’s “Logan’s Run .22”:
One dealer did make a strong pitch for us to buy the Barrett .50 BMG we were ogling, but it was a tad out of our price range.
I’m looking for an AR-pattern rifle in 5.56 NATO/.223, probably a Smith & Wesson M&P, but they’re still a little more than I want to spend.
There was a Trump swag guy at the show. He didn’t seem to be as busy as the people selling “Hillary for Prison” shirts.
Speaking of Hillary, actual announcement at the show: “Building management has asked that you refrain from putting Hillary Clinton pictures in the urinals.”
Tags: 2016 Presidential Race, gun shows, Guns, Hillary Clinton, Round Rock, Texas
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