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22. I once tagged along with a friend to a big gun show here in CA.

Fri Jan 4, 2013, 03:49 PM

Jan 2013

It also featured a big chili cook-off (which is what enticed us to come). I imagine they are the same everywhere. It's like a Star Trek convention for gun nuts, except the fantasy they are all living out is a crazy bang bang shoot 'em up Rambo scenario that they want to live out in real life. You can buy pretty much anything that shoots there (all I bought was chili), and if what you want is not sitting on the table in front of you, someone will give you a connection to make that purchase. It's sort of like an unspoken gun nut brotherhood. Everyone sitting behind the table claimed to be a "gun dealer" but they all looked like they lived alone in a cabin in the woods. Beyond creepy. Rachel Maddow once took a camera into a gun show and it was exactly like the one I attended. A whole convention floor full of crazy. Chili cook-offs are a good thing. Gun shows? Not so much.

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A Connecticut Cop Halts Gun Shows After Newtown [View all] onehandle Jan 2013 OP

Amen! Little Star Jan 2013 #1

Amen to your Amen nt duhneece Jan 2013 #5

Look out, here they come... Kingofalldems Jan 2013 #2

Drip, drip drip mikeysnot Jan 2013 #3

Thanks, Chief! mbperrin Jan 2013 #4

thank you samsingh Jan 2013 #6

Good for the chief! n/t cosmicone Jan 2013 #7

K&R for reasonableness. Chorophyll Jan 2013 #8

Ninth District in Nordyke v. King deal with gun shows. If a suit is brought in jody Jan 2013 #9

Take it back to the gungeon. nt onehandle Jan 2013 #11

Do you want readers to remain ignorant because OP only told one side? jody Jan 2013 #14

Yeah, heaven forbid we learn about laws and shit NickB79 Jan 2013 #40

Only use for a gun show is to show your young children what domestic terrorists look like. Hoyt Jan 2013 #27

And let's CONTINUE to call this disaster what it is: Domestic Terrorism! calimary Jan 2013 #10

Wouldn't "Domestic Terrorism" bring it under the Patriot Act and citizens candidates for a jody Jan 2013 #18

If that doesn't show you that those policies, "Patriot" Act etc..., daleanime Jan 2013 #21

Let the Delicate Flowers defend themselves! bongbong Jan 2013 #31

Connecticut closed the "gun show loophole" several years ago hack89 Jan 2013 #12

hack89 please clarify what area around a "gun show" is defined by CT as requiring NICS jody Jan 2013 #15

That is the irony of this act. hack89 Jan 2013 #17

Thanks, CT law is comprehensive for all handgun transfers. Private long-gun sales only at gun-shows. jody Jan 2013 #19

So we should do nothing... right? mikeysnot Jan 2013 #29

The same promoter that was going to hold the gun show in Waterbury... George II Jan 2013 #13

Awful idea. CT requires background checks for private sales at gun shows but not yard sales Recursion Jan 2013 #16

In the case of Connecticut, this move is purely symbolic and will not stop a single unlawful sale slackmaster Jan 2013 #20

Presumably the goal is fewer guns sold, not more background checks. n/t Plaid Adder Jan 2013 #36

I once tagged along with a friend to a big gun show here in CA. SunSeeker Jan 2013 #22

Chili is dangerous at a Delicate Flower Convention* bongbong Jan 2013 #33

Chili is dangerous, period. But unlike guns, it's worth the risk. nt SunSeeker Jan 2013 #34

He made the right decision. WhoWoodaKnew Jan 2013 #23

Pass a Law Against Gun Shows Macoy51 Jan 2013 #28

First Amendment. Good luck with that. n/t PavePusher Jan 2013 #44

Wake up-just another knee jerk resolution jerfro Jan 2013 #24

Yeah, I agree with that. But if you're sitting in his seat... WhoWoodaKnew Jan 2013 #26

Um, you know, follow the freaking law. n/t Ashgrey77 Jan 2013 #38

I was just saying that the guy had a horrible thing... WhoWoodaKnew Jan 2013 #42

It was a gesture to the families in Newtown. Jennicut Jan 2013 #30

So you alone get to speak for 110,000 people? Ashgrey77 Jan 2013 #39

Thank You Chief supercats Jan 2013 #25

good, thank you Chief Gugliotti. More chiefs should do the same. wordpix Jan 2013 #32

So people sell their assault weapons at yard sales or on the internet hack89 Jan 2013 #41

I Wonder How Many Death Threats Chief Gugliotti Has Received, So Far. (nt) Paladin Jan 2013 #35

Halleujah!!!!! ReRe Jan 2013 #37

Ah yes, rape the First AND Second Amendments at the same time. How very... Rethuglican... of him. PavePusher Jan 2013 #43

Kick! n/t Tx4obama Jan 2013 #45