I went to the local gun show last weekend with a couple of friends of mine. One was a prolific shooter, the other was getting his first gun. More on him later.<\/p>\n
There were two guys selling personal Tec-9’s. It’s a long-term goal of mine to own everything on the ’94 ban list, so I have to look. Don’t judge me. <\/p>\n
The first guy had an absolutely pristine one with a stainless upper receiver, barrel shroud, and 32rd magazine. He wanted $400, and I probably would’ve negotiated a bit with him if I’d had more cash on me.<\/p>\n
The second guy had a standard one, but it also had a barrel extension on it. The extension matched the original barrel shroud, so it looked like it had a 12″ barrel on it. Kinda silly looking–even moreso than the original design. That guy wanted $500 for his, saying “you’ll never find another Tec-9 in this area”–right as the guy with the stainless one rounded the corner.<\/p>\n
It’s odd what you notice when you start paying attention. I’ve been going to this particular gun show since 1998, and I don’t think I’d ever seen a single IFAK<\/a>, aka blowout kit<\/a> until this weekend. And I swear every third table had one, ranging from about $45 for a simple kit with some bandages and quikclot to $200 for a minor-surgery-in-a-molle-bag kit.<\/p>\n I asked every vendor I saw with one where I might be able to take a class to learn how to actually use one of these kits<\/i> and not a one of them reacted like they’d ever been asked that. They also didn’t have an answer.<\/p>\n I went looking for a new factory threaded Ruger 22\/45 and a S&W M&P15-22 just to check street prices. They were everywhere last month but this month I only saw one of the Rugers and the only M&P15-22 I saw was a pistol version that someone else had just purchased. <\/p>\n So in summary, I found everything I wasn’t looking for, and nothing I was<\/i> looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went to the local gun show last weekend with a couple of friends of mine. One was a prolific shooter, the other was getting his first gun. More on him later. There were two guys selling personal Tec-9’s. It’s a long-term goal of mine to own everything on the ’94 ban list, so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}