How times have changed !!
I was a gun dealer , specializing in the AR platform , back in the 80's ....
I was going to the annual gun show in St Charles ,IL , at the fairgrounds ...
myself and 2 cohorts show up at the fairgrounds , sling up our AR's we were going to display , walk thru the main entrance and wander around looking for the show ... turns out they'd moved the gun show down the road a few miles , to a different venue , because the fairgrounds was hosting an antique furniture show !!
3 guys , with slung ARs wandered around a furniture show for close to an hour and not a person freaked out , called the cops , panicked or even made a notice of us ...finally a "security guy" on a golf cart drove up and just asked politely if we were looking for the gun show and informed us that it had been moved from it's traditional location ....
How perceptions have changed !!
PS.
not a single furniture shopper was gunned down that day , nor did one of these evil bayonet lugs stab any shoppers ...