OAKS 3 Day Gunshow March 23, 24 & 25, 2018

**ForeverPA** · March 28th, 2018, 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by Carson

A vendor notifying management or the detailed Police Officer that someone is attempting a straw purchase is a “sting” in your opinion ?

How else do you read this statement?

"have the vendors hooked up to make an illegal sale and have the buyer nabbed right there"

**gghbi** · March 28th, 2018, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by ForeverPA

How else do you read this statement?

"have the vendors hooked up to make an illegal sale and have the buyer nabbed right there"

As stated sounds like entrapment. I am sure that is not what was intended.

**Walleye Hunter** · March 29th, 2018, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by gghbi

As stated sounds like entrapment. I am sure that is not what was intended.

You are close but no cigar. Entrapment is when I come to you knowing that you are a cocaine user/dealer and offer to hook you up with a supply. If I knew that you were a dealer and I came to you under cover to buy it is not entrapment. Accordingly, a gun dealer who you go to and try to do something illegal is not guilty of entrapment if he just plays along with you then you get nabbed. Now if that gun dealer advertised such a service it would be another story. My method would be considered a sting. Now...the police would have to know ahead of time that a sting was set up and there would have to be a method to notify them of the action should it take place, that's the 'hooked up' part of it.

**PA_PB&J** · March 29th, 2018, 05:24 PM

Back to the regularly scheduled nagging about the show.

Was it me or was it incredibly hot in there?

It was almost as if they wanted to burn the public out. Saw a lot of people sweating profusely in the aisles, walking awkwardly with coats/sweatshirts in hand.

I would probably have stayed longer if it hadn't been so hot.

**Daycrawler** · March 29th, 2018, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by PA_PB&J

Back to the regularly scheduled nagging about the show.

Was it me or was it incredibly hot in there?

It was almost as if they wanted to burn the public out. Saw a lot of people sweating profusely in the aisles, walking awkwardly with coats/sweatshirts in hand.

I would probably have stayed longer if it hadn't been so hot.

I figured that is why idiots carry backpacks. That and so they can walk into you and not apologize.