The first day sans wifey. So of course I went to the gun show. Gun shows in Texas are a family event. Guys bring their wives and kids. Many of the times the wife/kids are carrying firearms for sale or that have been purchased. That's what I like to see - full participation. There weren't as many buyers there as last year. I don't know if that was because I was there on Sunday morning or if it was because of the economy.
Firearm prices seemed to be down a little bit from last year. Ammunition was available, but very expensive. I'd say at least twice the price it was before Obamanation. I actually found a firearm that I was interested in purchasing. It's a Colt pistol that went out of production 10 or 15 years ago. Unfortunately the seller thought it was worth a lot more than I did. (I looked on the internet later , the price was not out of line - just more than I want to pay). It would have been a pain to buy anyway. The seller would have had to ship the pistol to Oregon.
After the show I stopped to do a little grocery shopping and then went home. That meant traveling Hwy 281. It's a four lane divided highway with stoplights. This is incredibly stupid. I was stuck in a traffic jam caused by the first northbound stoplight for about half an hour (it was almost a mile long). Apparently there's a whole controversy going on on how to fix this. The simplest approach would be to replace the lights with overpasses. Of course the local government wants to do something different. They want to replace it with 20 (that's right, 20) lanes of asphalt and make it a toll road. Somebody's brother in law must own the local asphalt plant.
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