{"id":28582,"date":"2016-09-20T06:41:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T11:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=28582"},"modified":"2016-09-20T06:41:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T11:41:26","slug":"random-observations-from-the-round-rock-gun-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=28582","title":{"rendered":"Random Observations from the Round Rock Gun Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended the Austin Gun Show-Round Rock<\/a> (to use the full appellation) on Sunday, and here are a few random observations:<\/p>\n

  • The venue, the Round Rock Sports Center, is much bigger and better suited to a gun show than the Austin and Cedar Park venues. There’s room for more vendors in the central space, there’s none of that inner ring\/outer ring\/multilevel nonsense, and it’s a nice modern building.\n
  • You had the weird Russian guy selling the one Nazi flag, WWII stuff…and bedsheets.\n
  • He wasn’t the only bedsheet dealer.\n
  • There was also a Tupperware dealer. Evidently non-gun vendors have figure out that gun shows get lots<\/i> of foot traffic.\n
  • When it comes to guns, prices seemed up roughly 10% over the show I attended last year.\n
  • Some manufacturers (including Kimber) are going into custom colored grips and such in a big way. I understand the reasoning (more money from the growing female shooter demographic), but they don’t do much for me.\n
  • Ditto what I call Ruger’s “Logan’s Run .22”:\n

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  • One dealer did make a strong pitch for us to buy the Barrett .50 BMG we were ogling, but it was a tad out of our price range.\n
  • I’m looking for an AR-pattern rifle in 5.56 NATO\/.223, probably a Smith & Wesson M&P, but they’re still a little more than I want to spend.\n
  • There was a Trump swag guy at the show. He didn’t seem to be as busy as the people selling “Hillary for Prison” shirts.\n
  • Speaking of Hillary, actual announcement at the show: “Building management has asked that you refrain from putting Hillary Clinton pictures in the urinals.”\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I attended the Austin Gun Show-Round Rock (to use the full appellation) on Sunday, and here are a few random observations: The venue, the Round Rock Sports Center, is much bigger and better suited to a gun show than the Austin and Cedar Park venues. There’s room for more vendors in the central space, there’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12],"tags":[2091,1827,2868,779,347,2861],"class_list":["post-28582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-texas","tag-2016-presidential-race","tag-gun-shows","tag-guns","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-round-rock","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28582"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28592,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28582\/revisions\/28592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}