Salisbury Gun & Knife Show — Local services in Salisbury

I hate to leave a negative review, but the promoter chose to ask a (paying customer) private seller walking around the show with numerous “private sale“ guns to leave, because some dealers complained that a table fee was not paid. Promoter obviously reserves the right to ask patrons to leave; however there is no signage or notice limiting the number of guns a private seller can bring and sell while walking around.

Promoter was polite, but decided to allow dealers to bemoan private sales by an individual with multiple guns, rather than honoring paid admission by a customer.

Signage and posted policies would be recommended in the future, as would advising tableholders that paying customers are permitted to sell so long as applicable laws are followed.

Unfortunately, allowing dealers (tableholders) to protest and ultimately affect the ability of customers to deal privately only diminishes the success of a show and discourages open trading.

Ultimately, inconsistent policies (i.e. Allowing multiple private sales until tableholders complain, even though multiple private sales are openly allowed) as well as arbitrary decisions to ask a customer to leave, simply due to acquiescing to dealers who don’t agree with multiple private sales without paying for a table, resulted in a paying customer to be asked to leave the show, after violating zero policies or laws. If a table must be purchased in order to sell multiple guns, admission should have not been granted the previous day of the show, nor upon entry on...

"The best little gun show in NC." Well, it was LITTLE all right. Charged full admission price $10 to see ONE (that's not a typo by the way) gun dealer and numerous others selling knives, food and ammo (two ammo dealers). Luckily, I was in the market for both a new pistol AND ammo. The pistols were overpriced, but the ammo was decently priced. Bought my 1,000 rounds and went home,...

If the staff would answer phones and return calls would be great! When you could have rented a few tables vs pay multiple people to carry items around on foot to sell that would be so much more economical for both the promotors and the sellers. But at the end of the day it's always the promotors who lose money not the customers. We depend on the customers because the management is much...