Pawn shop disaster

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Sounds like it was stored in non-climate controled enviroment. When metal gets cold overnight and warms too fast in the morning it will sweat like an iced tea glass. This is why you should not put a gun safe in a garage or storage building if you live in a humid climate like the South.
 
I have even seen a handgun passed down the counter to four different guys to look at it. When it was returned to the case it received no wipe-down at all - just right back into the case. We all know better. Greasy fingerprints and sweat are a gun's worst nightmare. Most pawn shop employees I have met do not know or do not care.

I've observed the sales people in gun shops and big box stores for many years and have yet to see one of them wipe down a firearm after a customer handles it. It either goes back in the case or back up onto the rack. You make it sound as though it is all about the incompetent pawn shop employees. I don't see how it is restricted to just them.
 
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I bought a near-mint S&W Model 25(1955) at an auction and crossed my fingers that the idiot handler (an LGS employee) didn't show mine. Each revolver he showed (including VG+ vintage S&W 1917s), he opened the cylinder, spun it, then snapped it shut with his wrist. They're everywhere.....
 
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Wait a sec!!!

If you pawn your firearm in Tennessee, when you pay your loan off you have to fill out a 4473?

Yes, as it's no longer your gun. You actually sold it to the pawnshop when you took their "loan." They simply agreed to resell it to you at a later date, (at a higher price) so federal and state laws must be followed.
 
I don't want to be a jerk, but pawning makes horrible economic sense and might be indicative of why money is tight when you own new unfired firearms.

I won't ever pawn anything.
 
I don't want to be a jerk, but pawning makes horrible economic sense and might be indicative of why money is tight when you own new unfired firearms.

I won't ever pawn anything.

While you are correct and I'm fully aware of that fact there are obviously details that you are not privy to due to this not being the venue for those details to be discussed. If you'd be so kind as to not assume I'm a moron who can't manage finances and instead stick to the subject at hand that'd be preferential.
 
The best gun shop in Omaha just happens to be a pawn shop, where the firearms department is run by a genuine bullethead---so there is an element of care that might be missing in a regular pawn shop setting.
Their secure storage for firearms is in the basement and while there is heat in the winter and cool air in the summer, I would not class the environment as strictly climate controlled, even though they have dehumidifiers set to run when the humidity down there gets a little too thick.
So as it stands, it is still possible for rust to start on an unattended item in that lockup---like that growing on the Browning 1886 I bought last month.
Nobody at the shop has time to scan the pawned collection every day, the way I check my stuff---and even with a daily scan, I have caught rust starting in my vault, in secret little places.

I think a Pawn Shop Disaster would involve getting the pistol back with signs it had been used to drive nails, or maybe as a shoebox full of parts.
-----krinko
 
regarding topics and comments--would that i could say it completely and rightly; taking into account all perspectives and possibilities and get it spot on the first time i type. sadly, i was not granted a forth wish.

------been in may pawn shops, never bought or sold anything.
been jacked up in other ways though. life happens--live & learn
 
I have never pawned a gun but I have looked at and handled many guns in pawn shops. I have even seen a handgun passed down the counter to four different guys to look at it. When it was returned to the case it received no wipe-down at all - just right back into the case. We all know better. Greasy fingerprints and sweat are a gun's worst nightmare. Most pawn shop employees I have met do not know or do not care.

Perhaps. But while the gun is still within its redemption period, it should not be accessible to customers or on display.
 
My favorite place in town for used guns is a pawn shop (by far). Off the top of my head here are some of the deals I have gotten in the last couple years. All the guns were in very good condition and price is out the door.

Ruger Single Six (stainless) 22.lr for $225
Ruger Blackhawk (blued) 357 mag / 9mm convertible $335
Ruger Blackhawk 357mag (stainless) $385
Makarov 380acp $199
NAA mini revolver .22lr $99

Good for me, but makes me wonder what he gave the other guy for them
 
from my point of view ,I have and still do prowl pawn shops and have picked up a few choice pieces two of them now sit in my air rifle case ,a Remington springer and the other a Benji pump ,the others include a S&W 686 that I will never part with ,it's too good of a shooter ,one man's situation can become anothers gain
 
I am a pawnbroker and have been for 12 years or so now. In every shop i've worked in, your gun is stored in the manner it's brought in. When you bring it in i'll point out knicks and dings, and note them on the ticket. I'll also note rust if I see it.

If your pawning your gun....OIL the hell out of it BEFORE you pawn it!!!!!!!!!! Yes I know you'll be back in two weeks to get it but........sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

I ain't gonna beat your guns up but if you didn't prepare them for storage......I really can't help you. I keep oil and cleaning suppies at the shop.....if you didn't do it at home.....ask i'll give you the stuff to do it at the counter.

You should have prepared them......they should have told you how they store them......and the requirements and paperwork to pick them back up.
 
I am a pawnbroker and have been for 12 years or so now. In every shop i've worked in, your gun is stored in the manner it's brought in. When you bring it in i'll point out knicks and dings, and note them on the ticket. I'll also note rust if I see it.

If your pawning your gun....OIL the hell out of it BEFORE you pawn it!!!!!!!!!! Yes I know you'll be back in two weeks to get it but........sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

I ain't gonna beat your guns up but if you didn't prepare them for storage......I really can't help you. I keep oil and cleaning suppies at the shop.....if you didn't do it at home.....ask i'll give you the stuff to do it at the counter.

You should have prepared them......they should have told you how they store them......and the requirements and paperwork to pick them back up.
As a pawnbroker would it not be benifical for you to clean and oil them yourself? I assume a large percentage of them end up as your inventory to sell
 
Yes it would, but I really don't have the time to do each and every one. I have several customers who ask to inspect their items when they come in to extend them every month, doesn't bother me a bit, if they want to oil them be my guest.

Today I loaned on 7 guns, I also dealt with other customers with other things. Just ain't got time.
 
Yes it would, but I really don't have the time to do each and every one. I have several customers who ask to inspect their items when they come in to extend them every month, doesn't bother me a bit, if they want to oil them be my guest.

Today I loaned on 7 guns, I also dealt with other customers with other things. Just ain't got time.
I understand that. Time is hard to come by in all professions. As I said before I love pawnshops and feel they get a bad rap. The one I mentioned earlier has been very fair to me. I have never pawned anything but have traded a few guns with them. They have always offered more than the traditional gun shops in town and typically give me close to what I would sell them face to face in trade value.
 
It's your fault, not the shops, the gun should have been prepped for storage, live with it.

That is an awfully heavy handy comment to the OP and maybe not actually factually correct. The care of the pawned items are the responisibility of the pawnbroker under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. It may be that restitution could or could have been sought for the rusted gun. Yes, it should have been prepped for storage.

shiftyer1 noted that it is not practical for the pawnbroker to go in an oil people's guns. He is correct. Texas pawn laws do indicate that the pawnbroker is responsible for the care of the goods as well. If a gun rusts up when in a pawnbroker's care, the owner of the gun can seek restitution for the item. Generally, this is impractical, however, because nobody ever has proof of anything. We have even had customers complain that we broke something of theirs when the breakage was already noted on the pawn ticket. Customers can be screwy.

If you think about it, do you really want the pawnbroker finger your goodies while they are in his care, or should they just be left alone? There is less chance for something to go wrong if they aren't being handled.
 
RIG would have prevented the rust. Oiling guns just causes a mess on stock of handguns and esp long guns. Ever see a longgun wher the 2-3" of the stock immediately to the rear of the action is black? That is the wood sturated w/ oil that has run down the barrel and into the stock. It will never run back out.
 
Being as you are in a humid climate, don't oil it. Polish it inside and out with auto polish and your rust problem will be gone.
 
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