{"id":233052,"date":"2013-01-06T17:38:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T23:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233052"},"modified":"2013-01-07T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T00:03:38","slug":"big-turnout-for-longview-gun-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233052","title":{"rendered":"Big Turnout For Longview Gun Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=233053\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-233053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/01\/longview_gun_show.1357509616-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"longview_gun_show.1357509616\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-233053\" \/><\/a>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; Despite soaring prices and dwindling stock, gun and knife enthusiasts descended Saturday on a Longview gun show in force, pressing shoulder-to-shoulder in the hope of finding a rare deal. According to KETK, some shoppers waited more than 30 minutes to enter the exhibit building at Maude Cobb Convention and Activity Complex when the Classic Arms Productions Gun &#038; Knife Show began at 9:00. <\/p>\n<p>Twice in recent months, news events have caused gun sales to skyrocket. First was the re-election of President Barack Obama. Second was a mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school and the increased gun control rhetoric that followed. From Nov. 23 to 25, an FBI database shows 283,423 background checks were performed nationally, an increase of more than 30 percent from the same period in 2011. <\/p>\n<p>Before doors opened Saturday at the gun show in Longview, a hundreds of buyers had formed long lines. Some shoppers said they waited almost 45 minutes just to get in. But vendors, many of whom travel from gun show to gun show, were not overwhelmed with the traffic and said that for the past month, guns and ammunition have been sold faster than they can be replaced. Ammunition also was in high demand at Saturday\u2019s show. Large pallets of ammunition dwindled quickly as the day progressed, dropping from stacks of seven or eight boxes per stack to one or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; Despite soaring prices and dwindling stock, gun and knife enthusiasts descended Saturday on a Longview gun show in force, pressing shoulder-to-shoulder in the hope of finding a rare deal. According to KETK, some shoppers waited more than 30 minutes to enter the exhibit building at Maude Cobb Convention and Activity Complex when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233052\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Turnout For Longview Gun Show<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 21:22:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233052"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233253,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233052\/revisions\/233253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}