Where was your first Gun Show?

[TFLeader]

Mine was Concord, NH Sept 2009 bought an Enfield Jungle Carbine, and never looked back.

 

[76Too]

at the beach, mon. sunz out gunz out, word?

 

[mac1911]

Mid,eighties some school near white river junction vt I was 12 I think. Dad always tried to find gun shows on camping trips. I didn't go to my 1st MA gun show until 2005.

 

[jake]

Late 80's, Glastonbury, ct high school.....man, the sh*t I shoulda bought!!

 

[LuvDog]

Late 80's in Ohio. I wish I would have bought everything

 

[ProGun]

Sun Coast Gun Show...Ft. Myers, FL in 1993

 

[jamison55]

My 18th birthday 1992, Ocala, Fl. Bought the cheapest old .22 rifle in the Pawn Shop. For my 21st birthday, I bought a Mountain Eagle .22 pistol. Don't care what happened to that rifle, but I wish I'd kept the Mountain Eagle!

 

[Steelitall]

Marlboro, March of 2015. I think the only thing i bought was a tekmat (beretta 92)

 

[Eric H]

Fitchburg 2008, over at the Royal Trade Plaza which is now some overpriced kids resort hotel.

 

[Halligan]

The former north Woburn "trade center"

 

[Len-2A Training]

Mid 1970s, likely at the Big E.

 

[johnnymac101]

Early 90's- picked up a Colt 1911, I remember walking around with it under my arm and others asking if I was selling!
Can't remember where the show was located!

 

[LuvDog]

Early 90's- picked up a Colt 1911, I remember walking around with it under my arm and others asking if I was selling!
Can't remember where the show was located!

Is it for sale now?


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[Chet0729]

Fitchburgh around 2009 or so.

 

[gscott]

Boy that's a ways back . I think it might have been in Brattleboro when they used to have them at the high school.

 

[von buck]

I went to my one and only show in Connecticut, I think Durham. It was in 2009 while waiting for my permit. I was looking for the gun show loophole I kept hearing about. Still looking

 

[mark056]

Yuma, Arizona 1964 pre GCA 1968. I could tell you what you could get and the prices offered but you wouldn't believe me.

Lugers for 30 dollars? 1922 FN 32's for 12 dollars, no forms to fill out. Cash and carry, but no credit cards either. Webleys for 11.00 dollars, Victory Model Smiths for 16 dollars, 1903 Springfields choice for 35 dollars, Mausers from everywhere 9.99 and up.

But that was back in the FUDD days when evil white males ruled America, crime was low and shooting was primarily a recreational endeavor.

Don't get me started on ammo prices.

I was only 15 years old.

 

[Billsail]

Yuma, Arizona 1964 pre GCA 1968. I could tell you what you could get and the prices offered but you wouldn't believe me.

Lugers for 30 dollars? 1922 FN 32's for 12 dollars, no forms to fill out. Cash and carry, but no credit cards either. Webleys for 11.00 dollars, Victory Model Smiths for 16 dollars, 1903 Springfields choice for 35 dollars, Mausers from everywhere 9.99 and up.

But that was back in the FUDD days when evil white males ruled America, crime was low and shooting was primarily a recreational endeavor.

Don't get me started on ammo prices.

I was only 15 years old.

I remember '03 Springfields, at an antique show, in MA no less(!) for $50-$60, In the early 70s!

 

[fitzknny]

Parris Island 66 ( oh, firearms ! ) , then AIT "fam" fire ,at Camp Lejeune ....... sept. 66

 

[MarkT]

I'm ashamed to admit it, but after 25 yrs as a "gun guy", I went to my first gun show last month in Nashua with my son. It was much smaller than I expected.

I picked up a nice 400 lumen, tiny, Olight flashlight that I could have found cheaper online, and a sheriff's badge for my nephew. However, I was unable to locate any "loopholes." I looked all over, but there were none to be found.

 

[nstassel]

September 1986, Nashville Fair Grounds. Bought a Model 27 in presentation box. I think it was $200.

 

[Kevin_NH]

Cook County, Illinois.

 

[knfmn]

September 1986, Nashville Fair Grounds. Bought a Model 27 in presentation box. I think it was $200.

If I wasn't at that show, I would be very surprised. Are you from Tennessee? Supposedly they are stopping the shows at the fairgrounds now, but they haven't been much good in several years. The ones in Murfreesboro are really good. I've been to a couple of those during the last two years.

 

[MikeInMA]

Marlboro back in the 90's

 

[lowbuckbob]

Mid 70s. Scottsdale, AZ. I was visiting relatives and my uncle brought me there. I couldn't believe the variety of guns and the sheer number of vendors.

 

[jhrosier]

Mid 60's, Peoria IL. Pre-68GCA The paperwork mostly looked like pictures of dead presidents.
There were few if any licensed gun dealers at the shows in those days, mostly private sales.
I makes me feel good just to think about it, mostly.
Well, there was that time that I turned down a pretty nice Colt SAA for $75 because the grips were crappy.

Jack

 

[J.A.C]

Not sure, I just remember I was a kid and with my dad.

 

[nstassel]

If I wasn't at that show, I would be very surprised. Are you from Tennessee? Supposedly they are stopping the shows at the fairgrounds now, but they haven't been much good in several years. The ones in Murfreesboro are really good. I've been to a couple of those during the last two years.

I was a freshman at Vanderbilt, and that was my first handgun purchase.

 

[knfmn]

I was a freshman at Vanderbilt, and that was my first handgun purchase.

I'm a little younger than that. ;-) my BIL went to Vandy. Great school.

 

[IPSC_DRL]

Marlboro back in the 90's

Same here. Bought a 1911 .45 for $200. Had to have a co-worker show me how to take it down. The upper is all Remington Rand and was sold to me as such. I later learned that the frame was some no-name alloy part. I still have it as it was my first 45 and the first of many 1911's.