I have been shown that to join or support WAC is a mistake.

[Scaredfuzz]

I saw the Gun Show today at the Fairground, leaving church, I was quite happy because I had a free afternoon and my wife surprisingly even said "oh look a gun show, you can drop me off and come back" (I almost wrecked the car in disbelief). However, I then saw the "no guns" sign and realized it was a WAC event. Sorry fellows, my personal policy is to not patronize any business with a "no guns" sign, and you guys fall into that category. You are no friend of us fellow gun owners when you treat us no better than any other anti-gun establishment, if you truly believed in the 2A this wouldn't even be up for discussion.

 

[NavyLCDR]

I saw the Gun Show today at the Fairground, leaving church, I was quite happy because I had a free afternoon and my wife surprisingly even said "oh look a gun show, you can drop me off and come back" (I almost wrecked the car in disbelief). However, I then saw the "no guns" sign and realized it was a WAC event. Sorry fellows, my personal policy is to not patronize any business with a "no guns" sign, and you guys fall into that category. You are no friend of us fellow gun owners when you treat us no better than any other anti-gun establishment, if you truly believed in the 2A this wouldn't even be up for discussion.

Also, you have to be a WAC member and prove to them that you have a CPL or submit to their own background check to purchase or sell firearms at the WAC gunshow, even though the transaction would comply with all state and Federal laws. It's bad enough I have to pay to prove my innocence to the government, I'm not going to pay to prove my innocence to the WAC.

 

[shonmow]

I have been a member for years and I have seen "misfires" at both Monroe and Puyallup, while I trust myself to keep my firearm loaded and secure the insurance companies and the venues do not trust "ANYONE" with a loaded firearm in their facility. The "loop-hole" of gun show sales does not exist if the WAC performs the same tests as the state would to approve firearm purchase approval. There will always be someone to complain about the rules and the regs. and while I always question authority, it is very simple if you don't want to play by the rules then don't play!

 

[NavyLCDR]

The "loop-hole" of gun show sales does not exist if the WAC performs the same tests as the state would to approve firearm purchase approval. There will always be someone to complain about the rules and the regs. and while I always question authority, it is very simple if you don't want to play by the rules then don't play!

Wow. The gun show loophole just does not exist period because it is an imaginery term used by anti-gun groups to gain support for regulating the private sales of firearms between commoners. The WAC is simply catering to the anti-gun crowd.

What I find most intolerable about the WAC is their claim that used to be on the front page of their website that they fully support the 2nd Amendment.... oh, but only if you pass a background check and pay us for membership. I don't care if you want to be a members only club or not, just don't claim to support the 2nd Amendment of the United States and then impose the same restrictions that the government does which people who do support the 2nd Amendment are trying to fight.

If the WAC feels that background checks are required for their members to buy and sell guns in otherwise legal private sales - what message does that send to the anti-gun groups? To me, it sends the message that "we support private background checks for gun sales. Heck, we even require our own members to have them and where we can we prohibit those without them from buying or selling! Nobody can claim that we are not doing our part to close the 'gun show loophole'! "

 

[Scaredfuzz]

Thanks NavyLCDR, you beat me to the punch. After reading several comments from WAC members both here and on the Open Carry forum, you guys are seriously no better than the politicians with the "no one should have guns........except me and my body guards".

 

[Scaredfuzz]

I have been a member for years and I have seen "misfires" at both Monroe and Puyallup, while I trust myself to keep my firearm loaded and secure the insurance companies and the venues do not trust "ANYONE" with a loaded firearm in their facility. The "loop-hole" of gun show sales does not exist if the WAC performs the same tests as the state would to approve firearm purchase approval. There will always be someone to complain about the rules and the regs. and while I always question authority, it is very simple if you don't want to play by the rules then don't play!

See that's funny because Puyallup State Fairground has no rule against weapons (nor can they by law if I remember correctly). As for the gun show loophole you you may need to go do some reading.

 

[jlbreak]

Thinking of going to the show this weekend for 7.62X54R ammo. Would I have to be a member to buy ammo?

 

[r1derbike]

Never been to a gun show. Quit going to hamfests 25 years ago (high priced used junk). I don't know if there is any high priced, used junk at gun shows, but as a consumer, won't go to a gun show or attend Black Friday fight-fests at any retailers either.

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