I happen to work security for the Washington Arms Collectors. It is a private club. Yes, if you want a table there it will cost you. Yes, to buy a firearm there you must be a member. You can purchase anything else there besides a firearm without becoming a member.
The $55 is a prorated membership fee. This gets you your membership for the remainder of this year, and through December of 2011. Normally the membership fee is $35.00 for one year.
This is the way it has been for decades. It's not BS, how do you think the club pays to rent the facilities so that people have a gunshow to go to?
You don't need to rent a table if you're a private seller who just wants to try and make a deal with someone.
The guy at the Monroe show with the cowboy hat has nothing to do with WAC, he's helping with promoting James Watkins who is running for office. They have their table out at the front entrance, by the tie-table.
How does the show in Chehalis pay to rent the facilities they are in without a membership and are they affiliated with the NRA also? They seem to do ok. Maybe they dont have to pay...
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Seems like an awful lot of people to rent a building to sell guns in.