r/cincinnati • u/Opie4Prez71 • Mar 08 '26

Traders World

I have a buddy that wants to come up from KY to visit Traders World. The website says 1200 vendors and he’s wondering if there are any that sell firearms. I’ve never been, but can’t find any info online.

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u/hitemlow Fort Thomas Mar 09 '26

I can't say I've seen any good deals on firearms at a gun show in years. You can find far better deals from licensed FFLs on https://Gun.Deals.

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u/Farming_whooshes Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

Why don't people ever recommend Gun Made? They've got 30x the # of stores as gundeals plus they have local search. I don't get it.

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u/hitemlow Fort Thomas Mar 09 '26

Probably because their search is dogshit? It constantly shows OOS shops as having an item in stock. And it's not a filter option, because it's set to hide OOS items.
The local search is kinda worthless because many gun shops don't have their on-hand inventory listed on their website, and may not even list the models they're able to order from their distributors.

It doesn't have any sort of a database feature to show parent or similar models (different colorways, low-capacity versions) when searching by UPC or SKU. If you're searching by just model name, it doesn't show you the variants to narrow down by, it just lumps them all together on one list instead of aggregating the listings by SKU or UPC.

If you go search for a "Ruger Mark 4 Tactical", you'll get a Mark 4 22/45 Tactical, a Mark 4 22/45 Lite, a Mark 4 Tactical, and 2 different kinds of Pac-Lite upper receivers. And they're all lumped together on one list, with an incredible number of duplicates.

On Gun.Deals, it has a similar issue of showing you all the Ruger Mark 4 listings, but at least it has the decency to separate them by SKU so they're not repeated dozens of times.