Moses Lake Gun Show looking to expand

MOSES LAKE — $70. That’s all you needed to be ready to fend off the zombie apocalypse if you’d attended the Moses Lake Gun Show on Saturday or Sunday.

“I like things off the wall,” said Gary Hust of the three Biohazard throwing axes and multi-tools designed, well, to kill zombies.

Hust, who stood behind several tables spread with knives, swords, and axes of various shapes and sizes, said he’s been selling at the gun show in Moses Lake for the last two years. He tries to vary his wares, he said, because that keeps his customer base as broad as possible.

“I sell a lot of practical and survival gear,” he said. “I try to cover as many areas as I can.”

The set of three Biohazard throwing axes — handles wrapped in day-glo green rope for easy gripping — are $30 each, or $70 for the whole set.

Mostly, though, it’s firearms of all kinds. Rifles, handguns, ammunition, specialty add-ons, like scopes and even special last-emitting cartridges for nearly every make of firearm to center them properly.

Nicole Aguilera of Osprey Global explains how battery-powered laser cartridges — what Osprey calls its laser boresight system — emit a laser out of the barrel that will allow for the optimal setting of a scope or a gun sight.

“We’ll get the scope and gun sighted for you,” she said. “It’s super accurate.”

Ron Warren, head of Northwest Gun Shows and organizer of this weekend’s Moses Lake Gun and Knife Show, said he decided to run gun shows because he wanted to see what it was like “on the other side of the table.”

“I was a seller,” and a federally licensed firearms dealer, Warren said. “And I told my wife we should give it a try. We try to do this a little differently, and we’re social and friendly with all the vendors.”

The Wenatchee-based Warren has been running the Moses Lake show in the Commercial Building of the Grant County Fairgrounds for the last five years, but has managed a show in Moses Lake for the last eight.

“We’d like to see the industry grow,” he said.