In the Phoenix area admission to a gun show costs about $9 - $10 for an adult.

Oh yeah I forgot - $6 to park

Is this about par everywhere ??

How much is admission in your part of the country??

Just curious.

in minn. most of the shows range from 4-5.

Here on the illinois side of St louis its 5 bucks.

Corpus Christi Texas, $5.

Palm Bay Florida - $5

Alaska - Usually 5 bucks

Here in CO $7-8....which happens to be about where the 'breakeven point' was for going in the first place...for deals on powder and primers.
Nowadays I see the same crap everytime I go, over priced gun paraphenalia, dolls, perfume, crafts and coins.
Its free to go to Sportsmens Warehouse, Bass Pro and Cabelas..plenty of parking and better prices.

Houston, 5 to 6, and the ^ one is with an extra cost for parking

charge em for tables and charge em to look at tables

jeffe

Six dollars Alabama and Florida. if it goes to 7, I stop going. Thanks to the web, gunshows have become superfluous. They have also become very very BORING; no quality and lots of redundancy. Only advantage is that I can walk out with a gun at no cost above the gun price.

In Idaho price is $5.00

Richmond to Raleigh, 7-8 $, parking included. Fewer & fewer component dealers, new gun dealers. More Pawn shop guns at new prices, fantasy knives for punkers, some reasonable surplus and bulk surplus ammo dealers. Free indigestion with every dog. The times ther are a'changing.

I just atteneded one here in Tennessee last weekend. $8 got you in on both Sat. & Sun.

Well the one here in Houston a couple weeks ago was $8 to park and $7 to get in the door.

5 to 6 in Louisiana. parking free at all shows except GREAT SOUTHERN. At their shows I just park across the street.

I think the last few I've been to cost a 5 spot, but that was $5 too much! All I've seen lately was a bunch of junk...

nothing in LA county at any price and Orange County is a knife show at best and all for only $9.00. Only the criminals have an easy time buying guns here. roger

All of the Georgia shows are $7.00

Weagle

$9-10 here in Knoxville, TN for the honor of looking over the best fake jewelry, fantasy knives, and (for God's sake!) paintball guns to be found. They have REALLY gone downhill here in the last 5 years. Same junk, different weekend.

MKane160

It has gotten so bad here that you don't have to look up from the table to know who the dealer is. Same junk over & over!

At the shows I like best, Puyallup in Washington, and Roseburg in Oregon, I believe admission is still $5, with no charge for parking. (Know that's true in Roseburg...it has been about a year since I've been to Puyallup. In Roseburg you can also get a two-day admission for $7.)

For vendors, it is even better. Tables are $50 for 2-1/2 days (just went up from $45 due to Fairgrounds raising the building rent), with free Pizza for two on Friday night, free steak dinner for two with all trimmings on Saturday night, and free entry into a $200 cash drawing on Sunday. Local motels give show-arranged room discount rates to exhibitors. Also, you can drive your rig right into the exhibition hall, to your table, for set-up and tear-down. Roseburg also doesn't allow ANY non-gun or knife-related items on tables. No wonder all their tables are always sold in advance.....with a waiting list on top of that.

Eureka was $6 free parking
Ferndale was $6 free parking (same organizer)
Ventura was $10 with $10 for parking
Nevada was $5 free parking

All last year.
Frank

Nashville show was $7, last week, with free parking. It wouldn't have been worth the ticket price, except that I actually found something that I was looking for.

Nashcat

Vegas is $ 3 to park and $ 12 at the door. Past the point of being not worth it, unless you look at it as the price of entertainment and don't feel like watching TV.

Last time I went I counted out loose change from the ashtray to pay the $ 3 parking and the attendant refused to accept it- he just waved me through rather than take the time to count it (no pennies)

Usually no more than $5, but some little shows go for as little as the $3.50 I paid at Kingsland, Texas last weekend. It's considered unAmerican to charge for parking in Texas, outside of unTexan cities like Dallas and Houston.

The little shows are MUCH better, because the exhibitors are usually individual hobbyists and an ocassional collector, very few "dealers". The individuals are looking to move a gun that they've become disinterested in so they can buy something else. All they want is their money back and not to try to make a living off of commerce. As a result, if they happen to have something you're interested in, you can usually buy it for less than the 20% markup over retail that most gunshow "dealers" ask.

Now a rhetorical question: Why would someone go to a gun show and buy primers or powder for MORE than their common retail price, when you don't know how old the merchandise is or how it has been handled or stored? It beats me, but someone must be paying the price or the "dealers" wouldn't be showing up weekend after weekend and hauling out the same old crap.

Just the opportunity to view the masses of marginal and weird humanity is worth the price of admission to any gunshow. The visitors come in all shapes and flavors (most of which you'd rather not have buy the house next door), but the majority of the exhibitors seem to fit in a particular mold: A jello mold that is. Jabba The Hut would have made a great gun show dealer. Many of them have obviously not fired a gun in years, because there's no way they could haul their 400 pounds of bulk out of a chair long enough to go to a range, much less hunt an animal.

Still, I go every chance I get, 'cause you never know when your going to find just that rare jewel you've always wanted and at a give-away price. Well, we can dream!

I think parking at the Del Mar race track Fairgrounds in SanDiego is more than the gun show entry fee

You know, I'm not sure what it costs. I haven't missed a single show in over 5 years here in Albuquerque but haven't paid to get in even once, thanks to setting up and sitting at the NRA table at every one of them. That changes this weekend as there's a show and it will be the first one I'm not working; I'll let you know next week what it cost.

Here in Pa they are 5-7 bucks but even that is too much. As several others stated, nothing but junk to look at. I stopped going several years ago and have not missed them one bit.

Homemade jelly, the 2 for $5 pocket knife table, Chinese toys and a couple of clapped out, rusted up guns. $7 admission, $3 for a corndog and $2 for a coke. It's either a wasted afternoon or an expensive lunch.

Terry

$7 or 8. That's to look over 800 tables, but space for 1500. Park free.

The shows that only charged $5 were not gun shows. In fact, there was all kinds of stuff EXCEPT guns. I made a mental note of the promoter and stopped going to those crap shows. It was a waste of money but more so a waste of my time.

Colorado Springs $5/free parking to the one I go to. Main reason I go at all is to meet my dealer to pick up an order, or just get more supplies from him. I call him to the door and get an exhibitor's pass from him for that.

Down here in Pueblo, haven't been to one in 4-5 yrs. But, they used to be $5, and knock off a buck for being an NRA member. Can't say if that's still true or not. Free parking there.
But, I've never seen more than about 30-50 tables.

In the Springs about half is unrelated junk.

George

Here in NW Lower Michigan, cost is $5 with free parking to view the over priced junk!!!

I have found in the gun shows that i have been to,usually are from $5-10. At least in my area,but one item that has come up at local gun shows that i am totally against,and i think it hurts the gun people and what others perseve of us is these gun shows have "open bars" This is not the place for a bar i think!!!!!!!! van

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Originally posted by TC1:
Homemade jelly, the 2 for $5 pocket knife table, Chinese toys and a couple of clapped out, rusted up guns. $7 admission, $3 for a corndog and $2 for a coke. It's either a wasted afternoon or an expensive lunch.

Terry

That hits it on the head!!

There are two outfits that run the guns show that come into Las Vegas every 2-3 months ( please don't think the true antique gun shows or the shot show are of this quality. They consist of the usual Chinese crap, jewelery, flea market cast offs, rot-gut food and miscellanous junk. It is hard to find even a decent second hand gun to look at much less buy. For the pleasure of looking or buying will set you back $10-12 for admission and $3-5 for parking. Totally a waste of time and money!

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Originally posted by TC1:
Homemade jelly, the 2 for $5 pocket knife table, Chinese toys and a couple of clapped out, rusted up guns. $7 admission, $3 for a corndog and $2 for a coke. It's either a wasted afternoon or an expensive lunch.

Terry

Terry-

The "shows" in Memphis were some of the worst I've ever seen!

Nothing but "non-gun" stuff, with a few tables of beat up "surplus" rifles just so that could keep calling it a gun show!

And I hate to sound "liberal" or anti-gun, but the crowd that would show up... I wouldn't sell them anything that *I* might have been selling (if I ever had a table there).

Hadn't been to one in years, and don't miss them now that I've moved.

Too bad too, cause 15-20 years ago, they were some good shows....

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Originally posted by TC1:
Homemade jelly, the 2 for $5 pocket knife table, Chinese toys and a couple of clapped out, rusted up guns. $7 admission, $3 for a corndog and $2 for a coke. It's either a wasted afternoon or an expensive lunch.

Terry

Terry-

The "shows" in Memphis were some of the worst I've ever seen!

Nothing but "non-gun" stuff, with a few tables of beat up "surplus" rifles just so that could keep calling it a gun show!

And I hate to sound "liberal" or anti-gun, but the crowd that would show up... I wouldn't sell them anything that *I* might have been selling (if I ever had a table there).

Hadn't been to one in years, and don't miss them now that I've moved.

Too bad too, cause 15-20 years ago, they were some good shows....

Yea, they really had some nice ones back in the day. Lots of stuff for everybody.

My Uncle would make the drive up and stay with us. He always' had a booth and dealt exclusively in antique Colt SAA's. It would amaze me to watch him drop $2-3K on a nice engraved pistol. I was always' sure he'd been taken, then he'd turn around and sell the same gun, sometimes the same day and make a nice profit. Back then I was young and dumb. Had assault weapons on the brain. I wish I'd paid a little more attention to him and his business. That was 25 years ago. I sure miss him now.

Terry

San Antonio today--free parking, $5 entry fee, and lots of milsurp junk. All I bought was a can of powder and 100 .22 LR rounds.