CQB45ACP
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Yeah I’ve lived here since ‘66 and am pretty familiar with past and present stuff.There was a place years ago called "The Reloading Bench", I think it was in Alexandria. Not sure if they are still in business.
There also were several gun shops near Gainesville, or thereabouts, when I left Virginia two years ago.
And don't forget the gun shows. Chantilly is huge, but the one in Woodbridge at the VFW was always interesting to me, lots of antique military stuff if that's your thing.
I'm pretty familiar with Northern VA and if you don't mind a drive west you can probably find something. Make a day of it and just go shop to shop, never know what you might stumble across.
chris
Reloading bench along with a couple of other gun shops and a very small range were in Annandale (the inside the beltway part) but closed maybe 20 years ago. Today they are Korean bbq, Pho shops, or Halal meats (and I don’t mean that critically only that things are really changed).
Woodbridge, Manassas, warrenton, leesburg, etc, one can travel far and wide but, the point though isn’t gun shops or gun shows— been to them all—it’s reloading components and there aren’t any such animals. The cabelas to which I referred is in Gainesville btw.
And I’m not talking about they are out of components, I’m saying they never sold them.