{"id":30077,"date":"2020-03-08T13:07:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T13:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=30077"},"modified":"2020-03-08T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T13:07:25","slug":"quick-takes-from-the-asheville-gun-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=30077","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes From The Asheville Gun Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5091,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mkshows.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/shows.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mkshows.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/shows.asp&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5092,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.npr.org\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/07\\\/813191533\\\/why-is-there-a-worldwide-run-on-toilet-tissue-amid-the-coronavirus&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I helped manage the Grass Roots North Carolina booth at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mkshows.com\/cgi-bin\/shows.asp\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asheville Gun Show<\/a> yesterday. I wasn&#8217;t there the whole day but here are some quick takes on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fear of coronavirus did not stop people from attending. The crowds seemed to be every bit as big as from the January show. <a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2020\/01\/06\/the-virginia-effect.html\" class=\"rank-math-link\">As I noted then<\/a>, we hadn&#8217;t seen crowds like this since 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did notice booths selling MREs, Mountain House freeze-dry packs, and other emergency foods. No <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/03\/07\/813191533\/why-is-there-a-worldwide-run-on-toilet-tissue-amid-the-coronavirus\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">toilet paper sellers<\/a> that I noticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insofar as people wearing face masks, I only saw two older gentlemen wearing N95 masks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were a lot of MAGA red hats in evidence. Then there was the guy wearing the t-shirt saying, &#8220;Only Trump Can Prevent Socialism&#8221;. It was similar to this one. The difference was that it replaced &#8220;you&#8221; with &#8220;Trump&#8221; and had the bear pointing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/variant_image_ef319117-9576-46f9-9e8e-d24051b37156-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/variant_image_ef319117-9576-46f9-9e8e-d24051b37156-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/variant_image_ef319117-9576-46f9-9e8e-d24051b37156-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/variant_image_ef319117-9576-46f9-9e8e-d24051b37156-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/variant_image_ef319117-9576-46f9-9e8e-d24051b37156-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/variant_image_ef319117-9576-46f9-9e8e-d24051b37156-940x940.png 940w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/variant_image_ef319117-9576-46f9-9e8e-d24051b37156.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The guy wearing the shirt commented that the gun show was probably the only place he could wear it without being hassled. Given the progressive\/liberal\/radical proclivities of Asheville, I fear he was correct.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I helped manage the Grass Roots North Carolina booth at the Asheville Gun Show yesterday. I wasn&#8217;t there the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,5051,1560],"class_list":["post-30077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asheville-gun-show","tag-coronavirus","tag-prepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30079,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077\/revisions\/30079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}