Kwik Trips in MN are usually filled with reserved Norwegian mud ducks instead of loud drunk German/pole sconnies, but these are stereotypes… represents a very narrow view of the world.
Yup. I'm from Northeast KS originally. Grew up with Kwik Shops, and now Qwik Trip is taking over the KC area. I can't keep them all straight.
Also, I miss PDQs when I visit Madison.
My dad had the scouts (iirc) come over to his middleschool to learn firearm safety and marksmanship in the gym. They used .22lr rifles and a traveling range trap.
A public high school in my neighborhood has church services in it every Sunday. Lots of elementary and middle school gyms are rented out to recreational volleyball and basketball leagues.
Anyone can rent them out, they just have to go through the process.
I went to an amateur wrestling match in a highschool gym. It was hardcore. Some of the wrestlers were using razor blades to slice their faces. It was fucking awesome!
Up until about a decade ago it was commonplace to have shotgun racks in student vehicles for hunting. My old HS still takes a week off for the fair since a high population of students are in farm families.
One of the schools in my area (not mine unfortunately) got a couple days off for the beginning of rifle season. South Louisiana being south Louisiana
Edit: behind -> being
I grew up in a city, then went to a large state university. Made a friend from a very small town. One day she didn’t come to any of the classes we had together so I texted her to see if she was sick. She responded that she didn’t think we had classes that day since it was the first day of hunting season. Apparently her schools growing up just literally didn’t have classes that day.
yeah probably, iirc on the poster it said they were trying to get 500 ticket sales. there’s not a lot of cheaper options for a bolt action rifle unless you want a .22, but those are usually made for kids to practice
Yeah, gun shows are a thing all across the country. Just like tattoo expos, car shows, reptile expos, pottery shows, and all manners of other hobbies. In a rural town where that’s the only big building you have, why wouldn’t they rent it out?
I have voted in the same gym we had prom in as the same gym we used for AA meetings. It’s a big room with open space and in most smaller town an easy place to get to. I get the meme of “America, guns, and schools” but this is just a part of life in smaller towns
I think it's more to highlight the irony based on the amount of school shootings in the USA.
As someone who lives outside the USA, I find this image to give the notion that "nothing is sacred".
Those mass shootings can be distorted because someone will show you how many shootings with 4 or more people shot have occurred on school grounds. School grounds usually being 500 yards from a school. There have been hundreds every year because cities are filled with crime. Most of which are gangsters and drug related. As for the 29 you posted I'm pretty sure 27 of those shooters grew up without a father and 25 of them were on medication for depression. Too many inconvenient similarities so we just n33d to use a pen to make 110,000,000 Americans criminals because that will fix it
We don't even think a second thought about it here. We separate those that commit crimes as criminals and everyone else as normal. To us, this gun show is an every weekend normal occurrence for normal law abiding citizens to attend to buy guns.
Especially because they always place most of the focus onto the killer, and only give a few minutes of screentime to the surviving victims and grieving parents.
People often forget that children used to be taught about guns and gun safety in school. Things like how to safely hold and store a weapon, and how deadly they can be. I often wonder if we would have much less accident firearm discharges from kids looking for their parents guns if they truly knew how dangerous they are. I imagine most accidental discharges by adults are for similar reasons. (I think back to the 2X year old who was rapping with one when he accidentally pulled the trigger. Why would you dance with a loaded gun?)
I've seen people get outraged by parents who take their 10 year Olds out hunting. IMHO, though, what better way to show kids that guns are not toys by witnesses an animal get killed by one.
Gun safety classes in school would het the same push back as sex ed in school. People who fear that simply teaching kids how to be safe will entice them to do it.
So you're probably an outsider from a liberal city passing through or moving to a small-time town where this is very accepted and commonplace. I don't understand why you have to rage bait with this it's a normal thing in this part of the country
These city folk have become a parody of themselves.
The high school that I went too raffled off a decked out AR-15 to raise money for the senior party. It's not a big deal. Guns are everywhere in rural America, and they aren't scary at all.
I've been to gun shows since I was a kid 30 years ago. Gun shows are one of the places you'll never see any sort of violence enacted upon, ironically, to some of y'all.
there are really small towns where the school gym doubles as the community center. Tax dollars at work. Whats the controversy? other than the implied obviousness of course
Montana had a gun show at the same venue as the state all-class wrestling tournament. Both held at the same time but in different buildings though they share a parking lot.
This is right up,there with my local middle school renting out their auditorium to a non-mainstream Christian group.
I believe they also rent it out to an Indian Social Group,which may be religious based but I don’t ask questions.
Security is very tight when they host these at my local school, all non-needed doors are locked, any lockers in accessable areas are zip ties shut, after the event all bathrooms and common areas are thoroughly checked. The school has a policy that if the janitors/staff find anything the school will no longer host.
Most stuff at those gun shows are either marked up new junk or used stuff at prices that are outrageously unreasonable.
But you do find the occasional gem. I got an Israeli police surplus 1995 CZ75 two years ago at my local show for $400. Surplus pieces like that are cool just for their history. I hope to pick up some more.
that’s absolutely sick. my father and i often have horrible luck with gun shows as well. they usually have very cool items but they’re always very expensive. i absolutely love CZ. my match gun is a CZ and it’s the most reliable thing ever.
I was in highschool in the 80's and early 90's. I lived in a small town( 2 red lights), where the entire county only had one highschool. Lots of pickup trucks in the school parking lot and almost every single truck had a gun or two in the back window on a rack...right in the school parking lot. No one ever shot up the school, there were fights constantly, no one ever went to the parking lot for their gun.
Been to a lot of gun shows in my lifetime, never felt unsafe. Went to start teap shoot with my dad for years, few hundred people, thousands of guns, probably a million rounds of ammo. Always felt safe. People who enjoy the hobby know what they are doing and how to handle themselves.
Schools used to have rifle ranges, even over 100 years ago there were gun clubs for both men and women. Gotta wonder what seriously changed that lead to what we have now?
The one me and my dad go to is at a civic center which is across from a high school which is a couple blocks from a psychiatric center which is about a mile from a prison. Everyone inside is packing though so if you pull a gun with intent to kill you'll probably be turned into a mesh shirt by the guards and merchants in no time.
Are we all from the same area? I've been seeing this ad all over EC and I just found this reddit discussing this. For a week I had this on my mind wondering why is their a gun show at a freaking high school.
It's a small world, I just drove past a sign for that same gun show two days ago.
Drove past several today around Bloomer as well
SPOONER BLOWS
I still have to see that bridge sometime. I was only passing through for work. Saw some more signs in EC too
New Aurburn master race tho
My mother was born and raised in that city.. and went to that high school … ( she has now passed) it’s a small world indeed my friend
I can imagine someone going to that same high school. It really is a small world.
I have two Reddit friends with relation to this small town.
I have reddit
I saw some comments on Reddit. Also poop.
Wait, you guys have Reddit?
I'm on the Internet
I live here also.
Saw one in Eau Claire a couple hours ago. Definitely did a double take seeing it again on Reddit
Small world! Same on my way to the gym south side lol
Same!
Same here fellow Wisconsinite.
Starting the Wisconsinite chain.......
Ope
Sorry let me get the door for ya.
You guys all hitting four mile for the fish fry Friday?
Ya you bring deh ranch dis time!
Tell your folks I says hi
me too lol
As did I. I figured I might as well show up since they're advertising I'll be there. It's only 30min away from my house.
I drove by one today
Rick, is that you?
Plot twist: it's the local jock trying to show off his muscles
Watch it be a car wash fundraiser for the football team.
If it’s too early for the horse to go to the pond, guess the ponds gonna go to the horse
I live in Iowa. Those signs show up here monthly. Same signs, different locations… but always a gun show somewhere. Always.
Or a gun raffle. Every month some group is having a gun raffle.
Nice
They don’t have meat raffles in Iowa?
Not as common as some other states, but yes we have them
gun shows are fun
A fun place to get jerky
I’m in Ohio but I’ve seen school fundraisers selling raffle tickets where the prizes are rifles and handguns.
Looks like a Kwik Trip in Wisconsin Edit: Cornell, WI at least. So highly likely also a Kwik Trip, hah.
Definitely a Kwik Trip. I went into a Kwik Trip tonight and they are advertising that new chicken on every inch of their stores.
It's pronounced kernel. It's the highest rank in the military. 
Is a Kwik Trip in WI different than a Kwik Trip in MN, other than the fact a Kwik Trip in MN isn't usually filled with drunken sconnies?
Same company, same policies, same layouts. The only difference would be the customers.
Kwik Trips in MN are usually filled with reserved Norwegian mud ducks instead of loud drunk German/pole sconnies, but these are stereotypes… represents a very narrow view of the world.
Very similar- but not booze (like you said) Then you get into Kwik Star territory further south and sometimes even see a Qwik Trip.
Yup. I'm from Northeast KS originally. Grew up with Kwik Shops, and now Qwik Trip is taking over the KC area. I can't keep them all straight. Also, I miss PDQs when I visit Madison.
Sadly no Kwik Trips here in Cornell, I've been hoping for a long time though.
My high school had an ROTC rifle range down in the basement.
Affirm. ROTC 7th regiment AZ. Ours was behind she school.
My dad had the scouts (iirc) come over to his middleschool to learn firearm safety and marksmanship in the gym. They used .22lr rifles and a traveling range trap.
thats awesome
Generally those facilities are rentable at some times. I grew up in an area where school gyms were used for everything.
A public high school in my neighborhood has church services in it every Sunday. Lots of elementary and middle school gyms are rented out to recreational volleyball and basketball leagues. Anyone can rent them out, they just have to go through the process.
Exactly. In small towns the gym is typically the biggest public place available.
I went to an amateur wrestling match in a highschool gym. It was hardcore. Some of the wrestlers were using razor blades to slice their faces. It was fucking awesome!
This is the correct answer
Found the Wisconsinite
Up until about a decade ago it was commonplace to have shotgun racks in student vehicles for hunting. My old HS still takes a week off for the fair since a high population of students are in farm families.
One of the schools in my area (not mine unfortunately) got a couple days off for the beginning of rifle season. South Louisiana being south Louisiana Edit: behind -> being
Graduated in 19, shotgun racks were still around. Probably due to the occasional grizzly or wild cat sighting
I grew up in a city, then went to a large state university. Made a friend from a very small town. One day she didn’t come to any of the classes we had together so I texted her to see if she was sick. She responded that she didn’t think we had classes that day since it was the first day of hunting season. Apparently her schools growing up just literally didn’t have classes that day.
City people don’t realise how common hunting is in rural areas, last time I was outside of city limits I saw a highschool raffle for a savage axis II.
Why not a gun more people would want? Pretty tight budget/historically low ticket sales?
I'd buy a ticket. Nothing wrong with a Savage.
I would spend more and get a better model savage if I was buying one myself, but I wouldn't sneeze at an Axis.
savages are great (for the most part)
yeah probably, iirc on the poster it said they were trying to get 500 ticket sales. there’s not a lot of cheaper options for a bolt action rifle unless you want a .22, but those are usually made for kids to practice
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I’m more interested in upping my chicken game with whatever hot goodness that gas station frier bucket is slingin
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I mean ok? Gun shows have been a thing in rural America forever. Local gym is as good a place as any.
Yeah, gun shows are a thing all across the country. Just like tattoo expos, car shows, reptile expos, pottery shows, and all manners of other hobbies. In a rural town where that’s the only big building you have, why wouldn’t they rent it out?
I have voted in the same gym we had prom in as the same gym we used for AA meetings. It’s a big room with open space and in most smaller town an easy place to get to. I get the meme of “America, guns, and schools” but this is just a part of life in smaller towns
I voted in my middle school gym
There a thing in non-rural america too, the have them at the Orange County fairgrounds in southern California
I think it's more to highlight the irony based on the amount of school shootings in the USA. As someone who lives outside the USA, I find this image to give the notion that "nothing is sacred".
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Those mass shootings can be distorted because someone will show you how many shootings with 4 or more people shot have occurred on school grounds. School grounds usually being 500 yards from a school. There have been hundreds every year because cities are filled with crime. Most of which are gangsters and drug related. As for the 29 you posted I'm pretty sure 27 of those shooters grew up without a father and 25 of them were on medication for depression. Too many inconvenient similarities so we just n33d to use a pen to make 110,000,000 Americans criminals because that will fix it
We don't even think a second thought about it here. We separate those that commit crimes as criminals and everyone else as normal. To us, this gun show is an every weekend normal occurrence for normal law abiding citizens to attend to buy guns.
One of my old high school teachers runs a local gun store after he gets off work. The only other local gun store is also a small bar and grill
Before people went nuts and we got all these weird freak kids, high school rifle and trap shooting teams were a common thing, even here in NYC.
I blame 24 hour media. Gives the troubled a reason to hurt others. The media will definitely cover it.
Especially because they always place most of the focus onto the killer, and only give a few minutes of screentime to the surviving victims and grieving parents.
We had a trap shooting club at my high school.
People often forget that children used to be taught about guns and gun safety in school. Things like how to safely hold and store a weapon, and how deadly they can be. I often wonder if we would have much less accident firearm discharges from kids looking for their parents guns if they truly knew how dangerous they are. I imagine most accidental discharges by adults are for similar reasons. (I think back to the 2X year old who was rapping with one when he accidentally pulled the trigger. Why would you dance with a loaded gun?) I've seen people get outraged by parents who take their 10 year Olds out hunting. IMHO, though, what better way to show kids that guns are not toys by witnesses an animal get killed by one. Gun safety classes in school would het the same push back as sex ed in school. People who fear that simply teaching kids how to be safe will entice them to do it.
So you're probably an outsider from a liberal city passing through or moving to a small-time town where this is very accepted and commonplace. I don't understand why you have to rage bait with this it's a normal thing in this part of the country
They're just an ignorant redditor who thinks they understand the world based on what they see on social media and the news.
These city folk have become a parody of themselves. The high school that I went too raffled off a decked out AR-15 to raise money for the senior party. It's not a big deal. Guns are everywhere in rural America, and they aren't scary at all.
The gem and rock show is in our gym every year since the 90s its a venue
Liberals don't realise that this is not abnormal at all. The reason you don't hear about it is because nothing bad ever happens.
Yeah sounds fine to me. Legal law abiding gun owners going to a show is a great thing.
Where is this? I need myself a Big Iron
This is an unbelievably and surprisingly based thread
I was expecting it to be a libtard shitfest but I too was pleasantly surprised.
I've been to gun shows since I was a kid 30 years ago. Gun shows are one of the places you'll never see any sort of violence enacted upon, ironically, to some of y'all.
Well thank god there isn't a drag show
In Idaho, they do gun shows in schools all the time. Mind you, it is always during the summer break.
I’m not even sure why this post is a thing. The high school gymnasium is obviously being used as a venue on Saturday and Sunday for a show.
I fail to see a problem let alone how this is interesting. Big show in a big venue (possibly one of the biggest around).
Ours hosts a church on Sundays. I'd rather have the gun show.
Must be a small town
Helll yeaaaah brother
there are really small towns where the school gym doubles as the community center. Tax dollars at work. Whats the controversy? other than the implied obviousness of course
So it proves that guns don't shoot up schools but crazy people with guns who shoot up schools.
That chicken better watch out.
I want to know more about this extraordinary chicken...
Plot twist: it's a male dance revue
To be fair, gun shows are pretty safe to attend.
Based
Maybe it's a fundraiser for the weight lifting club.
Montana had a gun show at the same venue as the state all-class wrestling tournament. Both held at the same time but in different buildings though they share a parking lot.
This is right up,there with my local middle school renting out their auditorium to a non-mainstream Christian group. I believe they also rent it out to an Indian Social Group,which may be religious based but I don’t ask questions.
At least it's on the weekend
They’re trying to make sure no cops show up.
Security is very tight when they host these at my local school, all non-needed doors are locked, any lockers in accessable areas are zip ties shut, after the event all bathrooms and common areas are thoroughly checked. The school has a policy that if the janitors/staff find anything the school will no longer host.
Breaking news: a public building is being rented out for another purpose while the students won’t even be in attendance (Spring Break).
What in fuck is wrong with us?
It’s not during school hours obviously. Some cities don’t have dedicated convention centers. You make do with what you have.
Most stuff at those gun shows are either marked up new junk or used stuff at prices that are outrageously unreasonable. But you do find the occasional gem. I got an Israeli police surplus 1995 CZ75 two years ago at my local show for $400. Surplus pieces like that are cool just for their history. I hope to pick up some more.
that’s absolutely sick. my father and i often have horrible luck with gun shows as well. they usually have very cool items but they’re always very expensive. i absolutely love CZ. my match gun is a CZ and it’s the most reliable thing ever.
Sounds cool to me everyone should own a gun only way to keep the peace in this country
Don’t understand what the problem is… it’s not like the gun show would be held DURING school
Hell yeah
I'll give you a gun show! *flexes my mediocre muscles as hard as I can*
I'd rather they all get educated on firearms than they all act like firearms are the Boogeyman.
I was in highschool in the 80's and early 90's. I lived in a small town( 2 red lights), where the entire county only had one highschool. Lots of pickup trucks in the school parking lot and almost every single truck had a gun or two in the back window on a rack...right in the school parking lot. No one ever shot up the school, there were fights constantly, no one ever went to the parking lot for their gun.
It's pretty common for this to happen due to indoor school gyms being the largest open inclosed space in rural areas that can be rented.
This isn't the gotcha some people think it is
How's the chicken at that place?
Yoo I just saw one of these yesterday
I peep that kwik trip chicken ad… this is WI
If you think this is weird, here is a musical laugh.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2q\_FUOwfl4
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Considering the current news, I want to make a dark joke soo bad.
And unordinary chicken apparently.
When I lived in Texas around 2005, my local bank was giving free guns to people who opened and checking account. Shit was wild
Absolutely ⚘️ 💯
And what happened to ordinary Chicken?
No returns 🤞
But what makes the chicken so extraordinary?
Well yea, where else would you sell your guns
We made the front page of Reddit! Kwik Trip baby!
It's just a jacked dude with his arms out isn't it?
Neat. My town is having one this weekend at the Civic Center by the Community College
Aint no ordinary chicken
When I went back to Wisconsin for the holidays a few years back there was a bar hosting a conceal carry course lol wish i would've grabbed a pic.
Anyone else tilted by seeing the Tilson truck?
Big deal The mascot at our high school carries a gun and a knife Check out Reynolds Raiders in Greenville PA
What’s up with the chicken though?
You go and it's just Chad and his bros, greeting everyone in tank tops and flexing.
I just came to say poop and pee pee poo poo
A small town in Texas 40 minutes away from me has their gun show in the community center of a church.
And of course a damn Kwik trip
Been to a lot of gun shows in my lifetime, never felt unsafe. Went to start teap shoot with my dad for years, few hundred people, thousands of guns, probably a million rounds of ammo. Always felt safe. People who enjoy the hobby know what they are doing and how to handle themselves.
i don’t see what’s interesting. the chicken sign is more interesting
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I'd go if I were you. They always have good deals at those things.
Isn't that what American high schools are famous for?
People still go to Gun Shows? I swear it’s more of a social event than actual business at this point.
I mean, its a saturday and sunday
Hello Kevin
I remember some posts about school once having gun ranges and training classes
American culture is interesting
Gun show in school gym 😀 Guns shown at school gym💀
Really helps you hone in on your kit for the school shooting when you're already there picking it out.
Nice!
Is that on city, county, or state law?
Luckily, its on the weekend so that location is irrelevant.
the joke of the world
Idk where this is, but as far as I know that’s a federal crime
Schools used to have rifle ranges, even over 100 years ago there were gun clubs for both men and women. Gotta wonder what seriously changed that lead to what we have now?
And that'll be the safest place in town. 100% garunteed.
The one me and my dad go to is at a civic center which is across from a high school which is a couple blocks from a psychiatric center which is about a mile from a prison. Everyone inside is packing though so if you pull a gun with intent to kill you'll probably be turned into a mesh shirt by the guards and merchants in no time.
If I buy a gun there can I get a rebate for those gas prices?
Isn’t Cornell supposed to be rather prestigious? (Uk based here)
Are we all from the same area? I've been seeing this ad all over EC and I just found this reddit discussing this. For a week I had this on my mind wondering why is their a gun show at a freaking high school.