Asheville gun show

[jaykellogg]

All I can say is WOW! The traffic was awful coming and going. I probably waited in line over 20 minutes to just get in. It was packed, but it always is and in fairness i usually don't go this early. AR and self loading rifle stuff was very expensive. My favorite LGS has 30 round pmags for $40. I said they were $35 in the store and the guy said to come to the store after the show. I saw at least two other vendors selling them (or trying to sell) for $60 each. I didn't price any ARs, but I saw a couple of AR's laying there with $2500 price tags. I met one man who was carrying some Colt pistols. One was a first gen SAA that had been reblued. Otherwise it didn't appear to be remarkable. He asked me $10,000 for it. Another gun he had was a fairly worn looking 1903 pocket automatic and he wanted $4000. I would like to have some of the stuff he was drinking if he actually thinks he can get those prices.

Most everything I saw was priced fairly high. I did not dicker on any guns as I felt most I saw would be overpriced by at least a couple hundred. There was a Colt Lord Deringer for $200 and a set of two for $500. I bought some .44 Mag and some .38 special from Georgia Arms. I probably waited in line there 10-15 minutes to get waited on and they were out of .44 Mag jacketed and out of 44-40.

I didn't see as many collector guns as in the past.

 

[GF]

They don't need to pass legislation to do away with gunshows, we'll do it ourselves.

GF

 

[boykinlp]

I bought some .44 Mag and some .38 special from Georgia Arms.

Did you see how much the 1000 round cans of .223 were?

 

[DMC]

I went today looking for some practice ammo since I can't find any at the stores. I couldn't believe all the people there today.
The prices at some of the tables were just absurd. One table wanted $30 for a 50 count box of PMC 9mm. Thankfully another one had the exact same box for $15. One guy bought 10 boxes.

 

[deralte]

Kind of like all the gun shops that I have visited in the last three weeks - a jammed madhouse.

 

[ar15ed]

it was chaos. i have never seen that many people at a gun show around here, in my life. i got there early, and got out, but was in the middle of a trade, and had to go back after lunch. it was even worse! you literally couldn't move in there. the crazy thing is that people were actually buying stuff. lots of stuff! good grief, i saw a case of lake city 308 for 995.00! guys were literally hand-trucking cases of ammo (who knows what they paid for it!!!) out, and their wives and children were carrying more.

i honestly thought that the last 4 1/2 years of wild buying would have eventually slowed down the chaos, but it has hit totally new highs!

one thought i had was, "why the insane gouging?". for example, one place always comes with a bunch of entry-level ar15s, with lots of fluff on them. he always has several tables, and lots of guns. they are usually about 950.00. THE SAME GUNS he has had for the past year were priced 2900 today! and i don't think i saw a single one sell. it seems to me, he could have sold them like hotcakes for 1500 or 1600, and made a fortune. who knows? maybe he sold a few, and made a fortune, anyway.

i have been to gunshows for the past three weekends, and i will have to say that the chaos is getting tiresome!

maybe it is good, if we are gaining numbers. i don't know.

 

[jaykellogg]

I paid $23 for each 50 round bag of .44 mag and $13 for each 50 round bag of .38 special from Georgia Arms. On their website they are showing "sold out" for everything. I wish I new if things will return to normal or this is the new normal.

 

[sw44spl]

thursday I heard on the radio that the city council of asheville is meeting to stop haveing the gunshow there.I guess the san francisco of the east coast has struck

 

[ladder13]

I'm surprised there's any gunshow in Asheville. I visited that city in the summer of 2008, it looked like Obama headquarters.
Beautiful area though.

 

[snake803]

The Asheville gunshow isn't even held within the city limits...Yet the city wants to shut it down....STUUPID??
JIM..............

 

[mjr]

The Asheville gunshow isn't even held within the city limits...Yet the city wants to shut it down....STUUPID??
JIM..............

That sounds like a bunch of Buncombe.

 

[McGee]

I went ( or tried to go) saturday morning around 10:30am. I turned around in the parking lot when i saw the line. Went back today (sunday) and walked right in. I paid $50 for a 9mm M&P 17rd magazine. But i would've probably gotten another if i would've had another $50 : )