Military Arms/Bulk Ammo Banned At Pensylvania Gun Collectors Assn. Show?
I've noticed a few of you attend this show, which was formerally held at Greengate Mall. I heard a RUMOR that the show, which will now be held at the Monroeville Expo Mart, will not be allowed to have military arms or bulk ammunition by order of the Expo Mart. Is there any truth to this?
Thanks.
THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME TRUTH TO THIS AFTERALL.....
I posted the original question on a number of forums. A reply by Kevinch on the Makarov.com forum has shed some light on this. The following is a copy of his post, as well as the .pdf of the BANNED ITEMS list.
Others have mentioned that some of these rules may be changed prior to the show...I hope they are correct.
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The attached .pdf is the back of a flier I picked up for the Expo Mart show. The PROHIBITIVE ARTICLE LIST looks long - but to be honest, I never looked at what was off limits at the Greengate shows.
There was rumbling at the last Greengate show about ammo sales; the flier says no New or Bulk Ammo. Before I realized I was attending the last show there, I heard one big vendor saying that initially there was one rule but that might be changing; I didn't know what to make of the converstation until later. Check out the military ammo: no more than (6) identical containers (1000 round maximum). Also - no more than (6) identical military firearms.
No flashlights - I sort of got a kick out of that. Glad I bought my SureFire at the last show. No walkie talkies or radios. Oh - & no High Capacity Magazines. I guess that is anything over 10 rounds? What a joke.
I'd like to find out why they left Greengate; although the facility is kinda run down the show was finally starting to attract a lot of vendors although no where near what the old Monroeville Expo Mart show used to attract. Back in the early 90's, that show was huge - must have been at least 1000 to 1200 tables. They are advertising 1000 tables, but with these restrictions I doubt it, & if they do get 1000 tables what will be on them?
I believe they are tearing down the Greengate Mall so they decided to go to the Expo Mart. I hope they don't ruin the show but out of the five dealers I talked to at least three will no be attending the new ones.
I just read the form saying what's not allowed. The list includes camo clothing, flashlights, political bumper stickers (except non-partisan NRA and 2nd amendment), fishing equipment, food, games, jewelry, mugs, primers, signs above tabletop, sun glasses, stamps, walking canes, and t-shirts.
This is the most @#$%ed up thing I've read in a long time. They're just going to have to find another location, or the show will die.
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Why in the world would someone not be allowed to have a flashlight or a radio at a gun show?? Maybe I'm being dense, I just don't get it. Someone please 'splain this to me. -UR.
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Hey,don't feel too bad,here in Tampa our former PC mayor banned gun shows in the city limits,she had a big time offer from Klinton to be a wheel in the urban housing division until her hubby was caught up in a local scandal uf banking corruptoin,too bad,so sad.
To this day we have no gun shows in Tampa,so it can and probably will get worse,especially if McCain gets his way!
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