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#1786008 - 07/19/21 01:55 PM Chantilly show 7/23-25th
Racin Junkie Offline
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We have a table again.
Bring your guns &/or gun related item to sell or trade.
Will post table location Thursday or Friday when I set up.

https://www.showmastersgunshows.com/nation-s-gun-show-.html
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#1787179 - 07/22/21 09:58 PM Re: Chantilly show 7/23-25th [Re: Racin Junkie]
Racin Junkie Offline
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Ok table is in AISLE 10, Section B, Table 5.
For those that where there last show, same table.

Go in front door of South Hall(the big room) turn left go to Aisle 10 turn right. If you get to Trojan Arms you went to far.
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#1787205 - 07/23/21 06:26 AM Re: Chantilly show 7/23-25th [Re: Racin Junkie]
VicodinES Offline
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If anyone plans on browsing the show, and you come across a sig P320 Fire Control Unit, can you please PM me who has it and where they are?
My immune system has been suppressed by chemo to the point that a cold would take me out, so there's no way in hell I can mosey around the show looking for it. Basically 2-3 masks, gloves, and run in and out.
Thanks.

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#1787235 - 07/23/21 08:22 AM Re: Chantilly show 7/23-25th [Re: Racin Junkie]
Batty67 Offline
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Registered: 04/16/13
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Loc: Fairfax County
City or County: Alexandria
I go to the Nation's Gun Show 3-4 times per year (minus 2020, but I went to the Feb 2020 and if I knew then...I would have dropped $2k in ammo).

I'm going to the show this weekend (likely). In the 20 or times I've gone starting in 2011, I've found TWO (total) great deals. A minty Marlin Camp 45 for $600 (snapped up, sold later as it was not for me). I also picked up 1000 rounds of Sellior and Bellot 30 carbine ammo for $400, no tax or shipping. That saved me like $150. That's it. Oh, I could have picked up a NIB Browning Hi Power with black epoxy finish for $1000 in 2018, but I had just gotten my BHP (which I got at an earlier Nations Gun Show) back from refinishing. That would have been a great deal, but I passed. So we'll say three.

A few general observations of the Nations Gun Show, since I've gone a lot for a long time.

Ammo sales are coming down for sure but the show seems to run about 2-3 months behind current online prices. Examples follow. Back in March, at a 50% capacity show, the BEST and only vendor (of 30-40 total) selling brass-cased 9mm was $30 per box (60 cents per round; cpr). Everyone else was $35 to $45 per 50-round box. Like they were unionized. At that time, maybe $28 (56 cpr) a box was also the best you could do online, but with shipping and taxes. So ONE vendor had a reasonable price.

7-8 weeks ago (early June 2020; first FULL gun show in well over a year), the best price you could do online for 50 rounds of decent brass-cased 9mm was maybe $25 per 50 (50 cpr). At that show, most everyone was selling for $30 to $35 per box. One bulk vendor of Brass MAXX 1000 rounds had pallets for $46/box (46 cpr).

As of today, using ammoseek, prices have continued to fall for brass-case 9mm, LOTS of $17 for 50-round box available (34 cpr) + SH&H and taxes. I EXPECT the prevailing price at this weekend's Nations Gun Show will be $22 to $25 per box. Best bulk 1000-round case price will likely be $400 or a tad more (40 cpr). I'd love to be pleasantly surprised. If I can find some decent quality 124 grain brass-cased FMJ for 40 cpr ($20 per box), I might pick up 500.

As prices continue to fall, EVENTUALLY, Nations Gun Show prices will catch up with just about the best you can do online, so if you can get no tax and with no shipping, when the market bottoms out, prices can be quite good, but again, they lag 2-3 months. LOTS of vendors are happy to try and pass on the high prices they paid and will not budge on ammo prices.

As for guns, availability is down a bit, prices up a bit, but true deals continue to be very rare. There are very few small vendors who can afford the table prices at Nations Gun Show.


Edited by Batty67 (07/23/21 08:28 AM)

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#1787457 - 07/23/21 08:36 PM Re: Chantilly show 7/23-25th [Re: Racin Junkie]
VicodinES Offline
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Only gun "deal" I got was a bunch of gen2 magpul mags in the packaging for 5 bucks each, and a used Ruger 101 from Trader Jerry's that I talked him down on. Especially now that it's 15 bucks, it doesn't give any advantage over ordering and paying tax and shipping.
I did get a lot of good small items from the VAGT table.

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#1787508 - 07/24/21 01:06 AM Re: Chantilly show 7/23-25th [Re: VicodinES]
Stevie703 Offline
Pea shooter

Registered: 06/27/21
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Loc: VA
City or County: Falls Church
I need one too!

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