{"id":3122,"date":"2012-07-15T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/07\/15\/trip-to-gun-show\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:03","slug":"trip-to-gun-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"A Trip To The Gun Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1920,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mkshows.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mkshows.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14614,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mountainfair.org&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;},{&quot;id&quot;:15490,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.meadowsforcongress.com&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;new&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15491,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.grnc.org\\\/grnc-alerts-archive\\\/311-grnc-alert-7-12-12-grnc-targets-wral-tv-over-chp-list&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.grnc.org\\\/grnc-alerts-archive\\\/311-grnc-alert-7-12-12-grnc-targets-wral-tv-over-chp-list&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, the Complementary Spouse and I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mkshows.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Land of the Sky Gun and Knife Show<\/a> held at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainfair.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WNC Ag Center<\/a>. This was her first gun show and my first one in a couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Things have changed since the last one I attended. I saw more guns, ammo, and knives and less military surplus and Nazi militaria than in the past. In fact, I don&#8217;t think I saw any of the Nazi stuff. The gun show had moved to a new building and this attracted more vendors. This was a welcome change in my opinion. I also didn&#8217;t notice that many people selling personal guns like in the past. So much for the myth of the gun show loophole.<\/p>\n<p>I asked the Complementary Spouse for her impressions of the show. She said there were a lot of families and a lot  of baby strollers cruising the aisles. Of course, one of those strollers had five Yorkshire Terriers in it! The other thing she noticed that there were a lot of people buying stuff as evidenced the number of shopping bags. <\/p>\n<p>I had a couple of things I wanted to do at the show and I accomplished both. First, I wanted to meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meadowsforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Meadows who is running as a Republican<\/a> in the 11th District of NC. He has received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grnc.org\/grnc-alerts-archive\/311-grnc-alert-7-12-12-grnc-targets-wral-tv-over-chp-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four stars from GRNC as well as their recommendation<\/a>. He was the leader in the first primary but just missed the 40% threshhold to avoid a run-off.<\/p>\n<p>The second thing I wanted to do was find .380 ammo at a reasonable price. I ended up getting a box each of ammo from American Eagle, Tula, PMC, and Sellier and Bellot for an average of $15 per box. I want to try them out in my new-to-me Sig P238 which I bought used last week.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, going to a gun show is like going to WalMart &#8211; you always leave with more than just what was on your list. I ended up getting large and small pistol primers, some cleaning equipment, and even a leather pocket holster for the P238.<\/p>\n<p>The Complementary Spouse got in the act as well. She ended up with a selection of exotics meats jerky for her son-in-law Jeremy as well as paracord in a variety of cool colors to use in crafting. <\/p>\n<p>We had a good time and I think we&#8217;ll be going back the next time they are in town.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Complementary Spouse and I went to the Land of the Sky Gun and Knife Show held at&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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1056],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gun-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","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=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8181,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/8181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}