Gun Show Loopy

Anybody that has ever been to a gun show will find this description by the Associated Press pretty silly:

But it would not prevent Cho from acquiring guns by several other means that require no background check in Virginia, including buy-and-trade publications, individual transactions among gun collectors or hobbyists and gun shows - vast firearms bazaars where scores of people sell or swap firearms.

Vast firearms bazaars? Scores of people? One imagines acres and acres, with guns stacked 12 deep, swarming with crazed gun owners. "I'll give you my AK-47 for two of your Glocks and that old Mauser. DEAL!"

It's more like a large room with a hundred middle aged men shuffling quietly past tables filled mostly with military collectables and hunting equipment. Usually, there are no more than 6 or 8 tables actually selling guns, and they are performing NICS background checks.