Its been since I think 1991 since I was at a gun show. I remember walking in and buying a new Russian SKS still in cosmoline, for 175$.
I went to the Costa Mesa gun show on sat. What a waste of time. I paid 833 for what they are charging 1015 and up for in a upper assembly. Mags (magpul 10rds) were 17$ and up, amazon I paid 13 or 15 with free shipping. Ammo was all wolf crap. Gun bars were like 50$ and up. I can find nice ones online for 38 and up. And only 2 SKS's total in all the the vendors and 700$ I think was the cheapest and very well used.
It was cool to go look. But why buy there? I guess no paper records, but really who cares if you walk in and get a cash reciept from joe blows guns for anything above that doesnt even have your name on it.