AK-47s. SKS sniper rifles. Armor-piercing bullets. Machine gun displays.More hoplophobe hysteria, and this one, as the opening sentence makes evident, has got all the talking points:
It’s just another weekend at a Kansas City gun show, where there is so much firepower at your fingertips that even some gun enthusiasts shake their heads in wonder.
They're a major source for criminals!
BATFU hardly pays 'em no never mind!!
Terrorist rely on them as a source for Middle East weaponry, because we all know you can't get guns over there!!!
You can even buy scary books and pamphlets!!!!
It's telling that reporter Judy L. Thomas' "go to guy"/voice of authority is a white supremacist/bank robber.
Then we have the dealer who claims he can "read people like a book." Good Lord, man, these reporters are not your friend. Can't you just stfu and not give them more ammunition to use against you?
My favorite anecdote:
Even some gun show attendees seemed surprised at the array of weaponry.Oooooo! A .223!!!
“I don’t see how that can be legal,” one man remarked to a friend as he pointed toward a Bushmaster assault rifle — the kind of weapon used in the 2002 sniper spree that left 10 persons dead in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
Under current law, it is legal.
Leave it to Thomas to cherry-pick the views of a newbie, one who obviously doesn't know squat about firearms.
But then again, neither do her readers--and giving her the benefit of the doubt that her anti-gun screed presented as straight news is not a deliberate misinformation piece--neither does she.