The New Yorker sent a writer to the NRA's Personal Protection Expo in Texas recently. It went about like you'd expect it to.
If you don't want to talk to reporters at a gun show or any other firearms-related event, just wear a polo and some chinos, or other business casual type attire, and they'll 100% leave you alone to go talk to the dude in the wife beater and the rebel flag gimme hat.
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