A couple of weeks ago I went to the Wannemacher Armory Show (?) in Tulsa. It was billed as the largest gun show in USA, 5-6 miles of tables, limited flea market chit. $15 to get in, but you could just about find anything you need. Since it was the Saturday after the election, a sense of peace over the place. People were belly button to bobo in each aisle. No way to see it all in 2 days. Next one is in April I believe. Could be a bucket list for some.
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@Fred106 Welcome to our community, we are glad to have you with us. 
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Another welcome from me, Fred106! We hope that you enjoy the community and thank you for joining us.
Take care and be well
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This mess happens at every gun show here in Texas also, even for folks with CCL. Here they will demand you surrender any bladed weapons you have also. Best option, if you want to go to the gun show, is to leave it at home. They will do a very thorough search of all bags or pouches going into the event, including womenās purses and diaper bags.
I havenāt been to a gun show since covid hit. Before then I would go every time one came to the Expo Center here in town, not specifically looking to by any weapons, but maybe some hard to find British .303 ammo or optics or some other accessory or apparel.
Now that covid is no longer a real threat (as if it ever was) I no longer have the funds to go. I lost the good job I had before covid (because of covid) and I donāt make nearly as much now as I did then.
I blame the Demon-Crats.
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I havenāt been in years but I want a big rolling block or falling block in .45-70 real bad
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If someone attempted to make me disarm like that Iād turn and leave. Iāve never been to a gun show and have no desire to ever go, from what I read and hear about them. Iām perfectly happy visiting my local gun shops and checking out things I canāt afford there, with people I know and trust, and with my sidearm still in place, and not zip tied open and empty.
What a crock of poop 
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I concur.
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with no entrance fee 
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I think that at some gun shows and shops that they have security issues that someone, anyone might pick up a weapon, and if pre planned might have a large capacity (maybe 3O round magazine) might insert it and start firing at people. It might be the showās or shopās legal team concerned about legal liability if that happened and they got sued for negligence, and unlawful deaths or injuries, etc, That type of (CYA) cover your assets thinking that motivates them to be so anal, they donāt know what is on the minds of their attendees / customers and who might have another agenda. Or, just be an unsafe careless gun handler not controlling their muzzle / trigger, etc.
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I know that if I were a sales clerk on a show room floor and saw Al. Baldwin walk in the door, that I would lock everything down, call in the National Guard, and go to lunch.
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The gun shows I attend, itās the policies of the event locations, not the gun show organizations, to require firearms to be unloaded. Based on some of the handling I have seen, I understand it. However, the screening is voluntary, unless it is visible - there are no metal detectors, and as we say, concealed is concealed. Holstered and left untouched, guns donāt fire by themselves.
Now a caveat, I only attend as a rep of a gun rights organization and after a stupid incident outside the event last year, the organization has asked that we are not loaded, even outside greeting attendees. I used to do outside only, so as to not have to unload. I donāt want to create ill-will, so I do mostly abide by the rule, but keep a loaded mag in my backpack.
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A guy from here we all went to school with and his entire family his name was Greg Porter and had just got out of the Marine Corps walked into one of the biggest and oldest gun stores ( it was a big store w/a big gun section) and he walked in and told Bill the operator of the shop to let me see that .357 and Bill was like ok and handed it to him because he knew him for years and he got in his pocket got a round out socked it into the cylinder and put it to his head and pulled the trigger, as you can imagine there was no second shot. And from that day forth Bill carried in the store and said if it ever happened again he would shoot the guy first if he had the chance because he never wanted to see anything like that again. Turned out it was about a girl that left him when he was a boot on Paris Island.
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I work a table for the AZCDL at the local gun shows. There are a new merchandise items the some venders bring in. Accessories not guns. Nice AR ambi charging handles for $20. I have run into some good buys from walk ins. 200 rounds of Wolf copper jacket 7.6239 for $40. Always check what they are looking to sell. The guys checking for loaded guns at the door get some great buys. Earlier this year I stopped a guy entering as I and a friend were leaving. Friend got a good 1911 for $200. He also had an old Mossberg 500 for $150.
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Shaking them down at the door, good scheme Brother. 
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Like guys parked next to local PDās āgun buybackā event
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There are guys that will wait outside the building and stop the people carrying stuff in. Working the parking lot. Want some good buys? Set up a table outside a gun buy back.
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Ok, I can understand wanting to get along: but in a backpack? I would have it on the belt in a pouch/carrier.
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Not allowed to have loaded mags, either, so I am just visually complying. I have been told that most vendors that sell fireams carry regardless of the rule. I just donāt want to give our organization a blackeye.
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