Wash. Arms Collectors website

[gmerkt]

Click on any page on the WAC site, it says:

Error establishing a database connection

What does this mean?

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[Ramjet12]

It means it's broken and they need to fix it.
The web server can't reach the database, or DB server, that stores site data.

 

[Flopsweat]

It also means they never bothered setting up user-friendly error messages.

 

[Hemlock]

Aren't they the ones that you have to be a member to bring a firearm in if you want to trade or sell?

 

[gmerkt]

It looks like the web site is up again today.

Aren't they the ones that you have to be a member to bring a firearm in if you want to trade or sell?

Yes. But I think they have suspended that rule lately. As one more desperate attempt to get people into the shows.

After 34 years, I let my membership lapse in January. Due to Covid, they haven't put on a show in a year. Beyond that, changes in Wash. state law make dealing in firearms at gun shows very problematic. So gun shows are no longer of utility to me. As a viable organization, I don't know how much future they have.

After decades of dithering, financial irregularities and bad decision making about donations to political causes, they finally bought a piece of real estate with the remnants of the "building fund." In Sumner, WA. It's an office space, which got them out of paying rent and I think it has a couple of rental spaces that they actually make a little money on. But as for holding gun shows, attendance will be so bad in future that maybe they won't have to rent a hall to hold their shows in either. They can just set up half a dozen tables at their office in Sumner.

 

[Hemlock]

Good info. Thanks for the update.

 

[rdb241]

Aren't they the ones that you have to be a member to bring a firearm in if you want to trade or sell?

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