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Rost Martin R1MF comes to Califnoria

Question Gun Shows in California - A thing of the past?

The locals and Del Mar got the gun shows banned here. This stuff happens when liberal gun haters run the government.

This stuff doesn't happen in Arizona.
 
Jimi Jah said:
The locals and Del Mar got the gun shows banned here. This stuff happens when liberal gun haters run the government.

This stuff doesn't happen in Arizona.
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You elected Mr. Gabby Giffords... give it time.
 
jarhead714 said:
Drive to Reno, Vegas, or Phoenix if you want a gun show.
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Are the former California style gun show "loopholes" for lack of a better word, still a thing in AZ? Can you walk into a show in Phoenix and walk out with a long gun, sidearm and or ammunition without being a resident of the state?
 
USMC06RET said:
Are the former California style gun show "loopholes" for lack of a better word, still a thing in AZ? Can you walk into a show in Phoenix and walk out with a long gun, sidearm and or ammunition without being a resident of the state?
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I wouldn’t know. I’m a California resident so I’ve never bothered to ask. I don’t buy ammunition, and I don’t buy standard capacity magazines. In fact, I don’t buy anything when I go to gun shows outside of the state of California.
 
jarhead714 said:
I wouldn’t know. I’m a California resident so I’ve never bothered to ask. I don’t buy ammunition, and I don’t buy standard capacity magazines. In fact, I don’t buy anything when I go to gun shows outside of the state of California.
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Well, maybe someone else will know the answer. If the proper conditions exist, it could justify a trip to Phoenix.
 
Ammunition, you can buy as much as you want, no ID, no 11% extra. Just use up every single round before you cross the border to come back home.😆😏😉
 
USMC06RET said:
Are the former California style gun show "loopholes" for lack of a better word, still a thing in AZ? Can you walk into a show in Phoenix and walk out with a long gun, sidearm and or ammunition without being a resident of the state?
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No. You must be an AZ resident to purchase a firearm. You can buy gun parts and ammo.
 
USMC06RET said:
Well, maybe someone else will know the answer. If the proper conditions exist, it could justify a trip to Phoenix.
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All I want to know what the average price of beef jerky at gun shows. Everyone keeps saying jerky at gun shows is very prominent, but no one seems to know the price.
 
I know there is a gunshow in Escondido this Weekend through guntvshows.com, but I have never been to one of theirs just the crossroads of the West. Anyone been to a show put on by this promoter GunTv Shows? Any good or not worth it?
 
etaylor said:
I know there is a gunshow in Escondido this Weekend through guntvshows.com, but I have never been to one of theirs just the crossroads of the West. Anyone been to a show put on by this promoter GunTv Shows? Any good or not worth it?
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I've been to a GunTv Show. To say it was small is an insult to the word small. About 75 tables total, and many were accessories, T-shirts, beanie babies, etc. Effectively, I paid $1 for each gun actually available for sale based on the $15 admission. Suffice it to say, I won't be back to one of theirs.
 
Used to love going to the OC fair grounds and catching the Gun show then walking s few hundred feet and catching the Guitar show on the same day!
Soooo bummed when they passed the law banning gun shows on publicly owned land (at least in OC)
 
The best thing about Crossroads when it came to Del Mar, was the fact that a lot of vendors from outlying areas (OC, Riverside) would be there along with the local shops. This was back-in-the-day/nascent internet period and prior. The proliferation of online sales took away the mystique of seeing what shops from some "far-away exotic place" like Lake Forest had for sale. The real upside to this was it was almost guaranteed that something in their stock of wares wasn't selling locally (to them), and they were looking to make deals.
 
Jimi Jah said:
The locals and Del Mar got the gun shows banned here.
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And shortly thereafter iirc, that guy trying to buy tickets to an Ice Cube concert at the fairgrounds got mad that it was sold out, pulled out a gun and started firing wildly right in front of sheriffs. But yeah, having a gun show on the property was too dangerous, nevermind all the horses which die on the racetrack. We're the problem though.
 
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