PHOTO GALLERY: Sales, prices higher at gun show

January 5, 2013 | 5:21 p.m. CST

Gun buyers and sellers brought out large numbers of assault rifles and high-capacity magazines at a gun show at the Central Missouri Events Center. The show continues Sunday.

A shopper walks through a gun show with an AR-15 assault rifle across his shoulder at the the Central Missouri Events Center on Saturday morning. In the frenzy surrounding the Newton, Conn., mass killings, gun buyers and sellers brought out large numbers of assault rifles and the high-capacity magazines. | Kile Brewer

Gun enthusiasts stroll through the Columbia Gun Show on Saturday. Attendees stood shoulder to shoulder examining assault weapons and high-capacity magazines as well as a variety of handguns and antique weapons. | Kile Brewer

AR-15 assault rifles sit on a table at a gun show at the Central Missouri Events Center on Saturday. Sales of this type of rifle have increases since the shootings in Newtown, Conn., in December that involved the same type of weapon. | Kile Brewer

Assault rifles at the gun show were brisk throughout Friday and Saturday. The show continues Sunday at the Central Missouri Events Center. | Kile Brewer

Shoppers examine several types of AR-15 rifles in the packed aisles of the gun show at the Central Missouri Events Center on Saturday. | Kile Brewer

A Bushmaster AR-15 lays on a table in the Central Missouri Events Center during the gun show Saturday morning. Prices and sales of the guns have increased as many fear the weapon might be banned soon. | Kile Brewer