{"id":733,"date":"2007-11-24T19:24:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T03:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/today-at-the-gun-show\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T16:32:10","slug":"today-at-the-gun-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/today-at-the-gun-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Today at the Gun Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/gun-show.jpg' title='gun-show.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/gun-show.jpg' alt='gun-show.jpg' width='230' class='left' \/><\/a>Every few months, we head off to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadsgunshows.com\/\">Gun Show<\/a>. Today, we took the drive down to the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, CA. <\/p>\n<p>As most of those who attend gun shows know, there are few guns and almost everything else. We saw jewelry, crystal and optics*, polished rocks, luggage, apparel, bumper stickers, safes and just about anything related to firearms. There is also plenty of stuff having nothing to do with guns or shooting, including a couple of &#8220;Ron Paul for President&#8221; booths.<\/p>\n<p>* The Swarovski Group manufactures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarovskioptik.at\/index.php?l=us&#038;css=&#038;nID=x434b76b737c887.28186349&#038;c=produkte\">optics for guns<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarovski.com\/is-bin\/INTERSHOP.enfinity\/WFS\/SCO-Web_US-Site\/en_US\/-\/USD\/SW_BrowseCatalog-Start?CategoryName=03\">fine crystal and jewelry<\/a>. One enterprising couple has a booth where Pop is selling Scopes in one half  and Mom has a nice selection of crystal in the other half.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, an especially pushy saleswoman was hawking stuffed pillows that transformed into &#8220;bed pets.&#8221; &#8220;Lady,&#8221; I said, &#8220;do you think I came to a gun show to buy a freakin&#8217; pillow?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In spite of all of the non-gun stuff, we bought a couple of magazines for the new Warthog and Glock 30 pistols, a &#8220;Glock&#8221; T-shirt, a &#8220;Route 66&#8221; tote bag, some silhouette targets and a thousand rounds of .45 ACP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every few months, we head off to the Gun Show. Today, we took the drive down to the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, CA. As&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firearms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}