Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: Funshow AAR

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Funshow AAR

Fun show..... and the only thing I bought was a toy for me grandboy. Pretty sure that's a duty of a granddad.

Anyway.... big show, decently attended, with all the usual suspects. Enough black plastic to arm a small country, which is about normal around here. LOTS of AR15/M16 accessory dealers, which is cool since #2 son just got his first and is hungry to learn. He bought a handful of magazines, an armorers wrench, and a sling. I saw a few tables full of uppers at competitive prices, and a table full of plastic lowers that looked like products of Matel or maybe Chrysler motors. Yucky things. Also a guy selling 80% complete lowers and oil filter 'adapters'. I looked him in the eye and didn't like what looked back.

Ammo: Sparse. All there, but prices still higher than I'd like. No rimfire still.

All in all, seemed more like a pre-crazy times show than I have seen in several years. The only thing that might have really got me going were some old S&W pistols.... but those seemed lacking.

1 comment:

Old NFO said...: Now if the ammo would just show back up... sigh; February 24, 2014 at 1:55 PM

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Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"