Gun Show Report, 11/01/2015

Skipped it yesterday because we had "stuff" to do.

This was almost called the "GET OFF MY SIDE, DAMNIT!!!! Gun Show Report", because, especially after reading Tam's post View From The Porch: Two Americas... from the other day, I  noticed a few old things as well as a few new ones really make me wish that some folks would either stop coming to the shows, or in a few cases maybe find a way to express themselves while hiding their candle under a bushel as it were.

• Guy who sells WWII Nazi bring-back gear and paraphernalia. Interesting stuff, but I wince every time I walk by him because of the visuals...
• Guy selling t-shirt advocating an eternal war with Islam.
• The guy who made up a remote weapons mount for your AR15. He wasn't at this show, but the memory still makes me twitchy, especially the way he was sweeping the entire show...
• New one: Today a local training facility (about which I have never blogged) that is infamous for high prices had a simulator. The scenario they were simulating was that there's this guy in robes and keffiyah in the corner rocking back and forth and chanting "allahu akbar" while you try to get him to comply...
• Just noticed today, but may be a trend: Many new businesses are getting simple logos which seem to be based on Nordic/Germanic runes, and which therefore could be easily confused (especially by those already inclined to view with alarm anything gun-related) as being some sort of neo-Nazi/White Supremacist iconography. 
• Paintball/Air Soft gear sold as being suitable for the Battle of Fallujah.

Mind you, generally speaking I don't oppose these people's rights to do any of this -- except for remote weapons mount guy, who needs to Get A Clue -- but can we at least act like we're thinking about Winning The Hearts And Minds of those not members of the Gun Culture?

Almost enough to make me wish for the days when Beanie Targets Babies were ubiquitous...