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If you’re looking for the best place to buy a gun, you need to get your tickets to Pennsylvania’s Largest Gun Show. Held in local conference rooms, event centers, and exhibition halls, gun shows offer a unique opportunity to members of your community who are looking to buy, sell, or trade firearms. Whether you want a better selection, tailored bundles, or the best gun prices on the models you’re looking for, your local gun show is where you’ll find them. It’s your one-stop shop for hot gun deals and a little bit of everything else.
Whether it’s a sporting goods store, a pawn shop, or an actual gun store, these brick-and-mortar businesses fall short compared to a gun show. Many don’t specialize in firearms and may be leery about ordering items already in stock. Even those who specialize in firearms face limitations in the display area, stockroom, ordering budget, etc.
Gun shows draw vendors from around the state and across the country, each bringing their top guns and accessories. These independent businesses and private citizens rent their table space, book their own travel accommodations, and work with us to create a welcoming environment. These local gun shows do more than give you the best place to buy a gun. They offer a welcome gathering place for Second Amendment enthusiasts from the region to come together for a family-friendly weekend of shopping fun.
Brick-and-mortar stores can’t compete with a gun show’s selection. Most “gun stores” are sporting goods chains that carry a small “approved” selection of new guns or pawn shops that have a handful of new-in-the-box weapons and a lot of the same few used models. If you are lucky enough to live near a gun store, you’re paying a premium to shop from a place that–let’s be honest–still favors the same handful of major manufacturers on its shelves.
You’ll still find plenty of the most popular guns at gun shows, but you’ll find a lot more sitting on the tables next to them, making a gun show the best place to buy a gun. Vendors know they’re going to have the chance to sell to people who KNOW guns and are looking for something a little different. You’ll find guns in a wider variety of calibers, including obsolete rounds that only a collector can appreciate. You’ll also find the deals on guns “corporate” would never approve of in their chain stores.
The best gun prices are often found at your local gun show. Traditional retailers have to mark up prices to pay for their more expensive overhead, like utilities, building, marketing, and failed products. Some larger chains may be able to buy in bulk and get special deals on some of the more common firearms, but the savings are usually negligible.
At gun shows, vendors set their own prices, and we handle the building, utilities, and marketing. Since multiple vendors might be offering the same model for sale, this often drives the price down to the same range you’d find at a chain store. For more unique guns, deals can be found if you do your research and come prepared to negotiate.
If you’re lucky, the gun store you go to has a few old-timers who know what they’re talking about. Otherwise, you end up talking to someone who may be interested in guns and has had all the corporate training but also has very little real-world experience. They may mean well. They may try to find an answer for you. In the end, you’re often left with more questions than answers.
Our gun show vendors make guns their career, with plenty of real-world firearms industry experience. Many also bring lived experiences from the military, law enforcement, or security fields, offering you plenty of practical information if you want to talk shop. They know their products, they know the mechanics of shooting, and they’re willing to share that information in polite conversation under most circumstances.
Buying a good used gun is a great way to save money. Unfortunately, most retail gun shops won’t touch them due to a lack of employee experience and liability concerns. Shops that do sell used guns often pay a fraction of the price they sell them for, allowing for a hefty markup. They also prioritize buying just the most popular models, meaning your selection of used guns may be just as limited as your selection of new guns.
If you want to buy a pre-owned firearm, the gun show is the best place to buy a gun for you and the seller. You’ll find private citizens looking for a fair deal on guns from their collection and vendors who bought or traded for preowned weapons as part of their weekend gun deals. You can find prices that represent a lower markup, and if it’s a private seller, you can feel good that you both got a better deal than you’d get just about anywhere else.
If you can’t save money, then get more for it. Gun show vendors don’t just have more leeway to set prices. They can make larger deals to encourage you to spend more with them. It’s not uncommon for holsters, knives, spare magazines, and other accessories to be on the table for negotiations. If they can’t come down on the price of the gun by itself, they may be willing to offer a deep discount on a carry rig in order to make the sale.
Sure, you can take your spouse and kids into most gun stores, but that doesn’t exactly make them family-friendly. The boredom, fidgeting, and eye rolls say it all. You’ll find vendors of all types at the gun show, including ones selling the things your kids want to buy. Get them a cap gun to start learning gun safety, buy a children’s bolt action if they’re ready for it, or let them browse the toys and collectibles. The gun show isn’t just the best place to buy guns–there’s something for everyone.
Check our gun show calendar because your next local gun show is coming soon. Do your research, make your travel plans, and get ready for a weekend with the best gun deals around. Get your tickets to the best place in PA to buy a gun–an Eagle Shows Gun Show–today.
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