Pro-Gun Show Essay on Kentucky Newspaper




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It’s nice when you can find something pro-gun in a newspaper, here’s the article Laurel Wilson wrote:

Gun show viewed as’a reunion’

By LAUREL WILSON The Daily News [email protected]/783-3240 | 0 comments

CAVE CITY — Brent Turner of Bowling Green enjoys getting to know the people who come to the Cave City Gun Show.

“It’s just like a family reunion,” he said. “All of us know one another, and it’s just like a fraternity.”
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He and his wife travel to gun shows at least once a month. The one at the Cave City Convention Center, which began Saturday and continues from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, is always fun for him.

“It draws crowds from everywhere – from Louisville, Bowling Green and all the surrounding counties,” Turner said.

He has collected rifles, shotguns and pistols since he was 18.

“All my life, I’ve been a hunter,” he said. “I just enjoy the outdoors.”

Jim Kinnarney of Bowling Green has been coming to the Cave City Gun Show for years.

“It used to be these were all collectors” at the show, he said. “Now, there’s more dealers than collectors.”


Gun shows are a great place to find ammunition and parts, but it’s also nice to meet other gun lovers.

“We sit around and talk,” Kinnarney said. “Most of us know each other. It’s more of a social thing.”

He believes many people have misconceptions about gun shows.

“The media tend to say it’s a place where people go to buy illegal guns, but that’s not true,” Kinnarney said. “These guys are pretty good about checking (gun licenses). If someone doesn’t look right, you don’t sell to them.”

Turner agrees the vendors at the Cave City show are reputable.

“Everybody here, they take precautions,” he said.

Caleb Smith of Tompkinsville saw several items he liked at the show Saturday, but most were too expensive for him. He was looking for a bargain.

“I like looking around,” he said. “It’s pretty interesting. (Guns are) something that are always going to hold their value.”

Jonathan Romans of Madison County has a good time traveling with his dad to gun shows like the one in Cave City.

“I learn something new about it every weekend, every time I come to one of these shows,” he said.

For him, buying and selling guns is a hobby, but he doesn’t shoot many of the guns he owns.

“We just enjoy coming out and trading with folks and talking with people,” he said.

Romans generally goes for older pistols and revolvers with a specific look.

“I guess for me, for a lot of them, I look at the aesthetics, the way they look and feel,” he said.
Source: http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/gun-show-viewed-as-a-reunion/article_d3b8d610-278b-58e5-a663-ec41182537a1.html

 

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Backwoods Engineer

I don’t recall anyone checking “gun licenses” the last time I went to a gun show. This is pure media bias. They need to tell what actually occurs: the NICS check.

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