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I thought long and hard about going to the Pasadena show, too. But the sanity check of "keep your wallet in your pocket" prevailed. I have my discretionary dollars for Christmas earmarked for a new 1911...it's just proving to be difficult getting something I really want delivered before next May.

Someone far more expert than I will have to comment, but my take is that you absolutely could have gone in loaded. The 30.06 would have been required to keep your carry outside, and that would have been impossible since it was a gun show.

One hopes the organizers were simply reinforcing that folks displaying guns for sale would understand anything to be handled would need to be unloaded. Duh.