WAC gun show at Monroe

[Wenatcheejay]

once again!!I pay an admissions fee which allows me to access the event. I do have a CCl and I see a item I want and I chose to purchase it from a dealer!He does a Backround on me this should be a done deal!! No membership dues at all.


Also if I purchase from a dealer and I have all my ducks in a row why do I have to pay this membership?

No, they would not let you. And at this point the argument that it is your right not to pay would probably negate your right to play. 

[Ridgeratt]

Sorry if I am dense... Are you saing you have done this, or is this your desired approach?

If I'm visiting my Grandkids on the coast and I see a show and want to go!
Come on grandkids lets go spend some time together. I'm more than legal over here. just seems like a bunch of rings to jump through when I could go to the dealers shop and buy the Dang thing!! Without paying the membership dues!!   

[CAMPMEAT]

My name doesn't start with a "D"

Maybe a "P"

Not you my son.....

[turkeyfeather]

It just seems to me that you guys on the wet side are getting the shaft from this WAC. If it's your thing cool I'm not going to judge. But to me it's the same thing as me going to buy a new truck and having to pay a membership to purchase it. Maybe I'm dense, but it just seems like your getting taken advantage of.

[Ridgeratt]

My name doesn't start with a "D"

Maybe a "P"

Not you my son.....

LOL but to know me and meet me is just like an adoption!!!


So can I call you DAD from now on?
If so I need some money!!

[ICEMAN]

Sorry if I am dense... Are you saing you have done this, or is this your desired approach?

If I'm visiting my Grandkids on the coast and I see a show and want to go!
Come on grandkids lets go spend some time together. I'm more than legal over here. just seems like a bunch of rings to jump through when I could go to the dealers shop and buy the Dang thing!! Without paying the membership dues!!   

True.

The shows offer so much more than a single dealers shop...  The WAC show can be a half day event if you want it too...

[ICEMAN]

It just seems to me that you guys on the wet side are getting the shaft from this WAC. If it's your thing cool I'm not going to judge. But to me it's the same thing as me going to buy a new truck and having to pay a membership to purchase it. Maybe I'm dense, but it just seems like your getting taken advantage of.

Not at all. Imagine going to 40 new car dealers, 100 used car dealers, 200 vintage car dealers all in one place. 'This is what it is like at these shows. Lots of all categories under one roof. Save the gas and go to the show!

[turkeyfeather]

True.

The shows offer so much more than a single dealers shop...  The WAC show can be a half day event if you want it too...

That's nothing! I've been known to spend half-a-day at Cabela's without even trying.  Ask my wife!

[Wenatcheejay]

It just seems to me that you guys on the wet side are getting the shaft from this WAC. If it's your thing cool I'm not going to judge. But to me it's the same thing as me going to buy a new truck and having to pay a membership to purchase it. Maybe I'm dense, but it just seems like your getting taken advantage of.

Not at all. Imagine going to 40 new car dealers, 100 used car dealers, 200 vintage car dealers all in one place. 'This is what it is like at these shows. Lots of all categories under one roof. Save the gas and go to the show!

Iceman, I need to by you a beer or a burger one of these days  I like how you see things.

[MrsTurkeyFeather]

That's nothing! I've been known to spend half-a-day at Cabela's without even trying.  Ask my wife!

   

[ICEMAN]

It just seems to me that you guys on the wet side are getting the shaft from this WAC. If it's your thing cool I'm not going to judge. But to me it's the same thing as me going to buy a new truck and having to pay a membership to purchase it. Maybe I'm dense, but it just seems like your getting taken advantage of.

Not at all. Imagine going to 40 new car dealers, 100 used car dealers, 200 vintage car dealers all in one place. 'This is what it is like at these shows. Lots of all categories under one roof. Save the gas and go to the show!

Iceman, I need to by you a beer or a burger one of these days  I like how you see things.

I will take it!

Next time you are in Olympia.... I will return the favor!

[Special T]

I think Ice did a fair job at explaining the benefits of the WAC. I also think that the WAC does a couple of other things that have not been pointed out. Gov like to work with intrest groups. Be it the Washington State Archers Association, SCI, DU, the WAC. they deal with less people that have a concise position on a topic. the WAC i believe also did the membership thing as an a pre-emptive solution to the attacks on gun shows. You see this ALOT in industry. Government threatens to impose X law so the association gets out in front of it and creates a standard so that it is better thought out, and has less GOV involvement.
There are LOTS of good upstanding citizens that want a private sale instead of one with a NICS record, even tho they SAY they don't keep one. 

I have been a member, I am not one now, and have not been to a show in a few years.  I think the internet is one of the reasons why the show isn't as good as it once was.