[wideglidejoe]

this comment is kinda off track, out of your neighborhood, but if you want to see the "worlds largest gun show", come to Tulsa, OK in the spring and fall. They are literally dealers there from all over the US and world.

Gun shows are categorized by the number of 8 ft tables they rent to vendors. Tulsa's show has always been the biggest in the US since I can remember. We had a show 2 weekends ago, it was 4,100 tables. Indoors, one bldg, 11 acres under one roof. If you walk every row of tables, it is over 6 miles. Local newspaper interviewed the promoter. He said if you were there the whole 18 hrs they were open (Sat & Sun), and you stopped at every table, you have 15.6 seconds per table to look. There's always a few tables of non-gun related stuff; jewelry, gold, dried fruit, beef jerky, etc., but I think the promoter limits it to something like 5%-10% of the tables rented, to keep it from turning into a flea market. Most of the dealers are FFL, so normal paperwork is req'd, but there are always a few tables of individuals that are buying/selling/trading "private collection" guns, so no FFL or 4473 paperwork is done on them.

If you look at the shows in Shotgun News, Dallas or Houston shows are 2,000 tables, others are 1,000 tables, etc.

You ought to check it out sometime!