@RogerB said:
Depends on what you are carrying. Doughnuts and pizza are nearly always welcome. M&Ms and Snickers bars are popular, too. "Free Kittens" are probably not going to be appreciated.
Not true. Many convention centers prohibit carrying in food, and the Ft. Lauderdale Convention Center was pretty aggressive with this policy in January, even harassing people for bringing in water. I don't think they'd have cared had you brought in "free kittens," though. (Jokes about the Chinese food vendor are left as an exercise for the reader.)
Can canines smell ammunition? Most certainly. Will they alert on it? Depends on how and who trained them. I have seen LEO's with trained dogs take a cartridge from a spare magazine and "hide" it for the dog to practice finding.
@RogerB said:
Depends on what you are carrying. Doughnuts and pizza are nearly always welcome. M&Ms and Snickers bars are popular, too. "Free Kittens" are probably not going to be appreciated.
Not true. Many convention centers prohibit carrying in food, and the Ft. Lauderdale Convention Center was pretty aggressive with this policy in January, even harassing people for bringing in water. I don't think they'd have cared had you brought in "free kittens," though. (Jokes about the Chinese food vendor are left as an exercise for the reader.)
Agree. The concealed carry gun is primarily for the long walk from the parking lot to the coin show.
And the drive to and from. It is not to protect oneself from fellow numismatists or even coin thieves, but rather the meth heads, junkies and ne'r-do-wells. You must reside in a very low crime locale Keets.
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@georgiacop50 said:
Well I asked one of the armed guards on the bourse floor tooday and he could not give me an answer. He said in Disney (where he has done duty) you absolutely can not, and that they even have gunpowder sniffing dogs prowling. But he did not know the answer concerning OCCC.
Can a dog really smell gunpowder that's inside of a loaded cartridge?
You would be surprised what a dog can smell!!
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I carry to and from ANY coin show I go. I don't even think twice about it. I'll promise you a cop will not be there when you need em with cash and coins in your possession.
The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
MM, that's pathetic reasoning. one of my father's favorite sayings when I was young --- It's possible, but not probable. all things considered what really drives most people with concealed carry, even though they are almost universally loathe to admit it, is fear.
I refuse to live in fear and make decisions based on fear.
@keets I don't live in fear but I have seen and been involved in situations that leads me to believe the boy scouts got it right when they said, "Be Prepared". I don't care how big or tough you think you are. I worked for years in crime infested areas of the inner city. Once you witness pure evil, you realize that being prepared for the worst is not fear, it is being street smart. It is your right to choose not to conceal carry and I respect that right. I choose to be prepared.
@hchcoin said: @keets I don't live in fear but I have seen and been involved in situations that leads me to believe the boy scouts got it right when they said, "Be Prepared". I don't care how big or tough you think you are. I worked for years in crime infested areas of the inner city. Once you witness pure evil, you realize that being prepared for the worst is not fear, it is being street smart. It is your right to choose not to conceal carry and I respect that right. I choose to be prepared.
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Not true. Many convention centers prohibit carrying in food, and the Ft. Lauderdale Convention Center was pretty aggressive with this policy in January, even harassing people for bringing in water. I don't think they'd have cared had you brought in "free kittens," though. (Jokes about the Chinese food vendor are left as an exercise for the reader.)
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Can canines smell ammunition? Most certainly. Will they alert on it? Depends on how and who trained them. I have seen LEO's with trained dogs take a cartridge from a spare magazine and "hide" it for the dog to practice finding.
Here is a great little video on dogs smelling abilities:
https://www.facebook.com/TEDEducation/videos/1271444302868773/
Well, the title says "concealed......"
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Absolutely. They have even trained dogs to sniff out USB/SD card and other mass storage devices.
https://bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-23/a-police-dog-for-the-digital-age-she-can-smell-the-usb-drive-you-re-hiding.html
That poor dog would go insane at a computer show.
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So a dog would not be able to smell a black powder cartridge then?
It would just depend on whether or not the dog was trained to alert for black powder.
But are there BP cartridges out there? Left over from wild west era I guess. Isn't BP relegated to muzzle loaders these days?
You would be surprised what a dog can smell!!
I carry to and from ANY coin show I go. I don't even think twice about it. I'll promise you a cop will not be there when you need em with cash and coins in your possession.
They escorted out someone in handcuffs today at the ANA show..caught him stealing from the tables.
I will say this DO NOT
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DO NOT ever try to carry at the Baltimore show. Never ever try!
Better yet...just don't go to that F'ed up state!
To take a turn
Years and years ago cops shot an unarmed black man in the heart of baltimore. He was just yelling in general and non compliant. He died. No riots.
And there are still dirty Baltimore cops being arrested.
There is a #FTP movement on twitter - f the police - and they highlight national police crimes and """crimes"""
lately a string of cop shooting have sparked riots.
So, now we have cop assassinations making the news in states all over.
They aren't all bad, though, right?
I hope not. If they are, then the plain citizens are all bad, too, because some citizens assassinate cops.
It's a mad mad mad world.
can anyone link me to some reports of Coin Show attendees being mugged in the parking lot of a show??
you can't say it won't happen. weirder things, like the follow to a gas or food stop, have happened.
MM, that's pathetic reasoning. one of my father's favorite sayings when I was young --- It's possible, but not probable. all things considered what really drives most people with concealed carry, even though they are almost universally loathe to admit it, is fear.
I refuse to live in fear and make decisions based on fear.
@keets I don't live in fear but I have seen and been involved in situations that leads me to believe the boy scouts got it right when they said, "Be Prepared". I don't care how big or tough you think you are. I worked for years in crime infested areas of the inner city. Once you witness pure evil, you realize that being prepared for the worst is not fear, it is being street smart. It is your right to choose not to conceal carry and I respect that right. I choose to be prepared.
Tis better to have one and not need it than to need one and not have it.
So far, It's way more probable to be followed than robber in the lot going by threads here.
Parking lot robberies' probability is enough for me though.
here is a burglary in a coin show parking lot
that's all I could find, some generic store lot robberies have occurred - grocery, pawn, coin, more.
That's enough for me.
There's risk/reward, too, along the lines of being prepared. Carry and there is less of a successful robbery risk. Again, that's enough for me.
You'd think robbers would get nailed in one of their robbery attempts? Like 11 years ago, none of them were; http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2006-01-20/news/COINTHEFT20_1_coin-dealer-coin-show-silver-dollars