The First Gun & Knife Show In West Texas for 2024 Is Returning

According to recent reports from the Texas Tribune and Trace.org, Texas has some of the highest number of gun sales in the United States. In June 2023 alone, over 150,460 guns were sold in Texas alone. Furthermore, over 1.4 million firearms were purchased by Texans in the first six months of 2023.

The majority of those firearms sold are primarily rifles and shotguns that are used for hunting or target shooting. So as firearms sales continue to rise in Texas, many of those are traditional purchases. Especially around holidays like Valentine's Daly, Father's Day, and or Christmas.

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Furthermore, a traditional purchase also includes when a person comes of age to go hunting with parents, grandparents, or relatives, they receive their first rifle or shotgun. The latest numbers for the entire year "Gun Sales Rise at the End of 2023" according to the online publication "The Reload.com"

To reserve a table at the gun show contact Janice Hill at (830) 285-0575

That said, the Texas Gun & Knife Show is returning to the Abilene Convention Center. The event is scheduled for Saturday, January 20th from 9 AM to 5 PM, and Sunday, January 21st from 10 AM to 4 PM. The cost is $10 for persons 13 and up; children 12 and under may enter free.

Word of advice: if you bring your firearm to the gun show, remember it MUSTbe unloaded and checked in at the front desk everytime.

Recently "The Reload.com" released their latest findings that "The 2023 fourth quarter saw a 4.6 percent increase in sales run through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) compared to a year earlier, according to an industry report released on Wednesday, January 4, 2024." Below are the NSSF latest graphs.