Where I live all the gun ranges give you 3 months of free shooting if you buy a gun through them. I also notice their prices are lower than what you see at gun shows. Do any of you get free range time where you live? If not maybe you could suggest it lol. I do love going to the gun shows though.

Thats pretty good marketing. The range I use to frequent had a decent variety of in-stock firearms with very competative pricing but they didnt hook you up with the 3 months. The next time I'm there to check the latest stock I'm going to drop that marketing brainstorm. It might be worth a 10% discount? Nah.

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You can find a deal at the shows on occasion but you have to know what things are really worth.Here in North Carolina,I`ve noticed undercover Feds trying to catch someone in an illegal sale at some shows as of late.I had one try to buddy up to me a few months ago.I was carrying a .357 in its` box,looking for a holster that I liked and he tried to get me to sell it to him.I love to unnerve people so I played along like a good ol` boy.We were shooting the bull when a not attractive woman walked past and he made a snide remark. I looked at him and said "Hell,when I was single I didn`t turn nothing down but young boys...and I turned them face down." He didn`t seem to want to talk to me no more.God,I love gun shows!!

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LOL, thats a good one, youre lucky he didnt want to talk to you any more!

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I found an HK P7M8 gently used for $850, good luck finding that at a gun store! I prefer a nice mixture of both, most of my safe queens are new and alot of my shooters are used!

I never buy at Gun shows, they are very expensive, I buy either online and or do the layaway thing. The only thing I do at the gun show is sell and get the hell out of there in a NY minute.

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one of the ranges here gives one hour of range time with gun purchase and they do have the best selection in the area by far but the hour of range time costs $14 and you can bet thats not worth the higher price there as compared to other small gun shops. I was very close to buying a new cw45 at a gun show a while back for 419 but that was before I was sure I wanted a kahr. I got on here and some other places and read up after that and went to the gun shop of the same guys that had it at the gun show. Got it for the same price and they have become my go to shop.

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I went to a smallgun show last saturday, Paid my $5 to enter and was there about 20 minutes tops. No ammo for sale at all, mostly long guns and Smith J frame . very few semi's Not one kahr in the building. only thing selling was the hot dog stand. use dot be gun shows were the best plce to buy right, doesn't seem that way anymore. Sure didn't see people grabbing their wallets either...

I'm fortunate in that in the Northern Virginia area, there are qute a few gun show, and there are a good number of sellers that show up with ample stock. Dark Sun and Trader Jerry's are among several that always have good prices. The last pistol I bought was the CW9 at $328.

Found a left handed AR, (always hard to find and over a Grand), for my son, for less than $900. He was happy.

I love going to gun shows, just to see the latest and greatest , but mainly to fondle and drool, (like I did over the FN SCAR)

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But usually find what I am going to buy online. Both of the two dealers here who have ranges are overpriced. One gives you a token for a free range session, the other you are just as happy they don't.