Personally, I believe full disclosure should be the only way to go (due to the partisan rhetoric and ranker, from our government), and I am a "half independent and 1/2 libertarian," if a person was to rate, or have to put a label on me. Also, I have grown up with guns, around guns, have hunted, and understand that everyone should be able to protect themselves. However, I have also quit hunting, even though I ate the things I killed. I saw that I was able to buy whatever I need to eat, and their need not be "any" suffering, in the least, to the animals I may have shot in the future. I also believe that there is a difference and a "huge" facade, by the far right and the NRA, to try and make the AK-47's, AR-15's, and all the other heavy military weapons, used at "home defense guns." On the left, they to have the same talking points and the same tricks, but they are obviously looking to have the United States, "just like London, England" and the rest of the European Union. Now, with that being said, I will continue with the article.
Last weekend, I was able to muster enough strength and go to a "a major gun show in the Missouri area," with my father. I was there, not just to have a good time and look at high dollar, collector's, and just overall (to me) neat looking guns and knives with my dad, but also to look at the "tea party people" (which are often labeled by the media, as "gun nuts," "huge amounts of people, mobs if you will, who hoard guns and ammunition"), and also to just get a feel for the overall sense of who the people were that worked there. To be honest, there was about 10% that were just about as "batty" (or how MSNBC would label them), for my taste, in that they were there as obvious racists, obvious survivalists, and some separatists. Then there was about 60% that were die-hard gun owners, collectors and were seller's. NOT ONE GUN, THAT I SAW PURCHASED (48, while I was there, and witnessed the whole process) DID NOT DUE A BRADY/FBI CHECK, AND DID ALL OF THE CORRECT PAPERWORK AND PHONE CALLS. These dealers walking around and those people who were there to sell a gun, or two out of there own collections (I saw seven of these), asked for ID (which they didn't have to), talked to the guy (for more than 5-6 minutes, which they didn't have to), and they also made the decision to sell to each of those people (which they didn't have to, and two guys turned down people "for the asking price of their gun," do to the fact they did not feel "comfortable selling to those two people", and both were white men). Then there is about 30% of people selling everything, from purses, candles, and a combination of all kinds of items. As there is a certain amount of things, other than guns and weapons, allowed in each show (depending on the show).
Meeting more than 400 people personally, that day, getting pictures, and video, I did not have any bad relations, talks, and there was more people and vendors there to just talk about their own hobby. However, one stood out, from the other vendors/dealers. I walked up to the majority of the tables, but when I walked up to the table labeled, "She's A Pistol", I was really blown away. They had a mixture of things. Yet, the thing that caught my eye, was they had a set of "sensual clothes/bikini's" (see pictures below, there is nothing lewd about them), having a combination of pink with camouflage. Then I looked, more and a little more, and they had a mixture of outdoors things, clothes, and also some of the most "quiche" side of the outdoor world, I have ever seen. Then, up walks a lady, to help me, and we begin to talk about how they got started. These people did not only have the best booth, but they were also great people. They were not terrorists, did not sell any guns, and they were in the "norm of society." I would have to say, they were as far away from the "belt way, as they could be, but they had common sense and knew about a host of political issues. (If you wish to look at these cool things, not in my pictures, below, here is their web site: ( http://www.shesapistol.com/ and all questions, for thier products are to be directed to ( sales@ShesAPistol.Com ).
This was the overall vibe, of the whole gun show. It was not about whether you were one of those fringe elements, as those people who were there to buy a ticket "knew" who was for "them," "on the fringe," and/or just something they were not into, or were into. The people in between the aisles of sale, were a mixture of races, genders, and ages. There were people there of different sexual orientation, those that were way out on the "far right," and there was not problems. There was not any police action, except one rumor that a gun went out the front door, without the dealer, or the owner's permission, but they would not go into any details, or specifics. With the right and left side of the media, side of the population, or the fact that those who have given these shows a "label" (one way, or another), there is only one thing I would say about this show. It was "everything" the mainstream, right and left fanatics, and those who want to squelch "the right to bare arms," opposite, of what is coming out of the majority of those venues.
Last weekend, I was able to muster enough strength and go to a "a major gun show in the Missouri area," with my father. I was there, not just to have a good time and look at high dollar, collector's, and just overall (to me) neat looking guns and knives with my dad, but also to look at the "tea party people" (which are often labeled by the media, as "gun nuts," "huge amounts of people, mobs if you will, who hoard guns and ammunition"), and also to just get a feel for the overall sense of who the people were that worked there. To be honest, there was about 10% that were just about as "batty" (or how MSNBC would label them), for my taste, in that they were there as obvious racists, obvious survivalists, and some separatists. Then there was about 60% that were die-hard gun owners, collectors and were seller's. NOT ONE GUN, THAT I SAW PURCHASED (48, while I was there, and witnessed the whole process) DID NOT DUE A BRADY/FBI CHECK, AND DID ALL OF THE CORRECT PAPERWORK AND PHONE CALLS. These dealers walking around and those people who were there to sell a gun, or two out of there own collections (I saw seven of these), asked for ID (which they didn't have to), talked to the guy (for more than 5-6 minutes, which they didn't have to), and they also made the decision to sell to each of those people (which they didn't have to, and two guys turned down people "for the asking price of their gun," do to the fact they did not feel "comfortable selling to those two people", and both were white men). Then there is about 30% of people selling everything, from purses, candles, and a combination of all kinds of items. As there is a certain amount of things, other than guns and weapons, allowed in each show (depending on the show).
Meeting more than 400 people personally, that day, getting pictures, and video, I did not have any bad relations, talks, and there was more people and vendors there to just talk about their own hobby. However, one stood out, from the other vendors/dealers. I walked up to the majority of the tables, but when I walked up to the table labeled, "She's A Pistol", I was really blown away. They had a mixture of things. Yet, the thing that caught my eye, was they had a set of "sensual clothes/bikini's" (see pictures below, there is nothing lewd about them), having a combination of pink with camouflage. Then I looked, more and a little more, and they had a mixture of outdoors things, clothes, and also some of the most "quiche" side of the outdoor world, I have ever seen. Then, up walks a lady, to help me, and we begin to talk about how they got started. These people did not only have the best booth, but they were also great people. They were not terrorists, did not sell any guns, and they were in the "norm of society." I would have to say, they were as far away from the "belt way, as they could be, but they had common sense and knew about a host of political issues. (If you wish to look at these cool things, not in my pictures, below, here is their web site: ( http://www.shesapistol.com/ and all questions, for thier products are to be directed to ( sales@ShesAPistol.Com ).
This was the overall vibe, of the whole gun show. It was not about whether you were one of those fringe elements, as those people who were there to buy a ticket "knew" who was for "them," "on the fringe," and/or just something they were not into, or were into. The people in between the aisles of sale, were a mixture of races, genders, and ages. There were people there of different sexual orientation, those that were way out on the "far right," and there was not problems. There was not any police action, except one rumor that a gun went out the front door, without the dealer, or the owner's permission, but they would not go into any details, or specifics. With the right and left side of the media, side of the population, or the fact that those who have given these shows a "label" (one way, or another), there is only one thing I would say about this show. It was "everything" the mainstream, right and left fanatics, and those who want to squelch "the right to bare arms," opposite, of what is coming out of the majority of those venues.
This is not the only gun show I have been to, or the only state (Missouri). I have been to more than fifty gun shows in my life, pretty easily. The only problem(s) I have ever seen, heard, or was involved in anything wrong (as portrayed in the media, the far side of each), was when I saw one white man (in one of the smaller gun shows, not that it makes it right), not serve someone of another color. This is the only thing, I have ever seen, heard, or witnessed bad, at any of these gun shows. Some people take these times to have and make money, others are there to let others see the collection, and then there are others that are at these gun shows, like I was (last weekend), to spend time with their father.
Copyright. DMAN @ TheThoughtSpigot.Com
