We used to have a pretty decent local gun show. We hadn't had one in over a year and I checked to see why. The last one had a couple of surprises. The deputy checking to be sure guns brought in by the guests were unloaded screwed up and fired a bullet into the table he was sitting at. Then an exhibitor somehow accidentally fired his personal carry gun into the crowded room. Even though nobody was hurt, the City decided no more gun show for a while...Geo
Unfortunately, we do hear of these accidental discharges from time to time. They are quite rare, and always the result of carelessness and/or unsafe gun handling practices. All of the gun shows I have attended in recent years have a security guy checking all guns brought onto the premises, and securing them with a Ty-Wrap. That does make it a problem when a potential buyer wishes to open a gun to check the bores, etc.
I used to try to go to at least one gun show every weekend from Fall to Spring, if I wasn't working. If I went to a show during hunting season, it would be on a Sunday. I still go to them, and still find some great deals that make the cost of Admission very worthwhile. But I don't go nearly as often because of the trend toward more and more non-gun related vendors. A few weeks ago, I got some screaming deals on ammo, reloading components, percussion caps, new Conetrol rings and bases, a new 98 Mauser Timney trigger, a snatch block, and a nice 42" long .36 cal. octagon barrel. I also had a Gun Show vendor there ask me if I would like to see his Gutter Guard system. I said, "No, you got any guns for sale?"
One thing I have never seen or heard of happening inside a Gun Show is having some lunatic choose that as a target for a mass shooting, or an armed robbery. As crazy as some of these perpetrators may be, they know better than to choose a venue where their crime would come to a sudden unpleasant end in a matter of seconds. So to me, the extremely remote risk of getting struck by an accidental discharge at a gun show is probably even less than the same thing happening while hunting. And both the gun show and hunting activities are much safer than merely walking the streets in many crime ridden Democrat run cities. Over 100,000 people per year are dying from drug overdoses, most due to Biden and the Democrats leaving our borders wide open. And Democrats say and do nothing to stop those deaths. So there's that bit of evidence that guns in the hands of law abiding citizens are not nearly as dangerous as anti-gun Democrats claim. I'm still trying to figure out why any gun owner would ever vote for anti-gun Democrats. The only answer I can come up with is "You can't fix stupid."
