Weird Horror Stories/Buying And Selling

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Confederate said:
My father was having lunch with friends in Paducah, Kentucky, when one of them mentioned he had a German Lugar he got just after the war. As they continued to talk, my dad offered to buy it sight unseen for $500. The man agreed, they shook on it and when they left the pancake place, they drove to the man's home to get the gun. That's when the proverbial $&#@ hit the fan. The man's wife was not happy and she tried to quash the deal, but the man had the money and they'd shook hands. So my dad got the gun and three man was happy to get the $500.

My father tried to cycle the gun's action but it wouldn't budge, but no worries, he had the gun. Some years later I got possession of the gun and discovered the gun wouldn't cock. I began working on it and discovered the problem. There was a 9mm cartridge struck in the action, keeping it from working. The firing pin also was incorrectly inserted and was sticking out. I got my tool box and began working on it and, with some force I was able to free the action and remove the cartridge. But with the firing pin sticking out, had someone tried to chamber a round, the producing firing pin would have slammed into the primer and there was a good chance the gun would have gone off. I removed the firing pin, reinstalled it, put the gun back together and the action worked perfectly.

I have no idea who put the gun together and could never see how it could even go together. Whoever did it, had they been able to get it together in working condition, might have had an ugly surprise. I never shot it, and sold it for $1,500. I sometimes wish I'd kept the gun because it was beautiful. But the person who bought it seemed to have a higher appreciation for it than I did. I still wonder how long my dad's friend was in the doghouse for selling it. I don't know how much it's worth today, but I have no regrets. Guns come and go, and sometimes you win and other times you don't.

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Mine was acquired from an old chap who said his uncle “killed an SS officer for it.” Its a WW1 era with no Nazi-era markings so color me skeptical, but anything’s possible. When I dropped the mag it was loaded, the cartridges looked very old. The gun was also assembled incorrectly so the upper was just flopping back and forth on the frame. I wonder how long it had been that way. Of course, the fact that it was “broken” also meant I got it for a very good price, so, I can’t complain that much...
 
Here’s a weird one. April of 2020 I bought a RIA 10mm from a reputable chain retailer. The manual warns that it may need 500 rounds fired for break in. I have a book I keep round counts in so no problem.

The manual also said there was a protective coating in the gun which needed to be cleaned out. Well, I tried using gunscrubber and it seemed to get pretty clean.

Fast forward to two weeks ago. I now have 135 rounds through it, all except the last 35 were FMJs or JHPs. The last 35 were SWC/FP loaded under the max recommended by the manufacturer.

I tied the gun up with some bad range brass and took it into my gunsmith to unlock it. He said ‘how many rounds have you shot through this gun?!’

I said ‘135’.
‘How many were lead?’ He asked
I said ‘ None! The closest would be the SWC/FP. Why?’

He said that the gun was badly fouled with lead residue, which should be impossible given the rounds put through it. He worked for five hours (only charged me for one) and used half of a small tub of bore paste to get it clean. His opinion was that the gun had been shot a lot using lead wad cutters and wasn’t new.

So who shot so many rounds through it? The retailer would deny it, as would Armscor. But it’s the weirdest ‘new’ gun I’ve ever bought!
 
Mosin77 said:
Mine was acquired from an old chap who said his uncle “killed an SS officer for it.”
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It's one thing to kill an SS officer because he's an SS officer, but to kill a man to get his gun is cold. There were trials for those who committed war trials, and I won't mourn his passing, but I would have no respect for a man who killed another just to relieve him of his gun. Perhaps there was more to the story.

When I was a kid, Marx Toys put out toy Lugars that were gold and they were nearly always sold out. They were called Golden Guns, and they came with rubber holsters. Got some in trades, but never got a new one. These are from ebay.

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Oh, no argument from me. I took the story with about 43 grains of salt. First, it’s hearsay. Second, it’s a war story, and it seems almost every GI who brought a gun back, either said absolutely nothing about how he got it, or personally took it off Hitlers chief of staff or top SS general. In reality I suspect most of the guys (especially the ones telling a big story) probably traded for them, considering there were hundreds of thousands of captured weapons, most of which ended up in big piles, and quite a demand from behind the front lines troops for a good souvenir. My grandfather was a cook and he brought back quite a bit of loot (sadly no guns) as a result of doing favors for the guys in his unit.
 
I was told by a friend that his high school buddy had an S&W 66 4" in near new condition. My friend hadn't seen it, but he had known the guy for like 20+ years at that point, so I called him and he said "It's in great shape, and shoots great, too!", so I go over to his house, about 45 minutes away, and we talk for a couple of minutes outside while his two junkyard looking dogs check me out. I passed their inspection and we go into the house and it just reeks of cigarette smoke and cat urine. I don't know how many cats they had, but there were really dirty litter boxes everywhere. I'm clearing my throat like a machine gun and he said something about it and I told him I was allergic to cats. Not true, but I didn't want to insult him. So he gets the gun out, and the first thing he does is open the cylinder up, and flick it closed, TV cop style. He hands it to me and I see the crane is messed up, with a uneven space between it and the frame. There are rust spots on the right side of the gun that he had tried to polish off/out and I started looking really closely at it and the recoil shield was all scratched up. I told him, "It's hardy in near new condition!", and rattled off the things I saw wrong with it. He got mad and said, "You just want me to drop the price!", which back then was $400, I think, which was great, IF the gun was in near new condition. The screws looked absolutely perfect, I guess they had been replaced as there were polish marks all around them. I told him I was going to pass, and he got really angry and I just said, "see ya" and went out the door to my car. His dogs followed me out and I think they wanted me to take them with me. He said something to me as I got into my car and I left and went home.

My phone is ringing when I walked in the door and it's my friend, kind of upset with me about me not buying the gun. I explained why, and he seemed to doubt me. Then he said, "It looks great in the pics he sent me!". He never said he had pics of it. I had him forward me the pics and instantly, I knew the pics had come from a Gunbroker auction and weren't the same gun at all. I found the pics on GB and sent him the link. When he called the guy and confronted him about sending him the pics, he denied ever claiming they were of the gun he was selling, and hung up. They haven't spoken since.

People do a lot of dopey things.
 
[QUOTE="Mosin77]Mine was acquired from an old chap who said his uncle “killed an SS officer for it.” .[/QUOTE]

That usually means "won it in a poker game" or "grabbed it from a pile of surrendered weapons."
 
Had a guy bring a Smith 36 in to try to trade. The cylinder spun both ways. He said it was a special model. I told him what I'd give after our gunsmith fixed it (minus the "fix" cost). He refused because there "ain't a da** thing wrong with it". His gunsmith told him so. Wouldn't name the smith. Back later with it and it was fixed. Same offer. He wanted more since it was even better. No deal.
 
So back in the 80's I grew up in a N.W. Ohio and those hilljacks gave a reputation for buying all there junk , and giving up good money for it.
I earned this after buy someone's grandfathers offenhauser powered midget for $200.
So one afternoon "the boys" payed me a visit, asking if I buy 22 rifles....they had a pair of "weird foreign guns" give them $65 each....I did they laughed as they left....I bought a pair of anschutz 54's .....

Yes sir those were the days when I could buy your junk
 
Speedo66 said:
There probably weren’t enough SS officers to account for all the guns taken from them.
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Worked with a guy who’s grandfather had a P38 in a Nazi holster. Story was they came into a French town. The residents told them some Germans were hiding in a basement. The grandfather and others got them to surrender. He spoke German. He then relieved the SS officer of his P38 and wallet. I saw both. The holster had a metal deaths head pin on it
 
I have heard from more than one WWII GI and read in more than one bio about literal piles of guns and pits filled with guns along roads and streets where retreating German troops of all stripes passed in the closing day of the war or immediatly afterward. Guys said they would dig through the pile and take what they wanted.

While in Germany in the early to mid 1970's I heard the same thing from German vets, about tossing guns into piles or pits and US GIs picking out what they wanted. There actually were a lot of SS and so SS officers and I have known or met a few. Many SS were under the impression that some allied troops were simply shooting SS rather than even taking surrender...almost to a man of the folks I talked to.

I met a regular Wehrmache vet at a rifle range shooting a very nice K98k with out any mods ( in the early 1970's West Germany and unmodified K98k was considered a "Weapon of War" and a no-no) and neither the Police nor military were bothering him. Nice man, and a prewar school trained "Sharpshooter" ( actual sniper) That served in every German European theater from Poland on. I asked if that was his gun from the war and he let me know that over the war he had several. He told me that about the time of the end of the war with Americans and French driving every where word came that people with scopes on their rifles were being shot out of hand, to the point of being allowed to surrender then taken to the side of the road and executed. His last scope mounted Mauser went into shallow pit bulging with weapons and he cut himself a stout stick to walk home with.

Apearently many Germans either did not surrender weapons or snuck out at night and gathered them from those piles and pits.

One night after a GI performed horrible crimes involving live stock in the little village we worked near, a large group of villagers showed up at the gate of our "Camp BlackJack" . Looked like angry villagers from some bad movie ("A riot is a terrible thing.") Torches, pitch forks, hoes, and also an MP40, and StG44 and a PPSh41 as well as a host of Mausers and some military handguns including at least one TT33.

and nothing came of it.

Such guns were called "Barn Weapons" and police I knew said they were called such as so many were stored until need under barn floors. BTW illegal modern hand guns were call Bahnhof Waffen ( Train station weapons) as supposedly many were sold face to face in the bathrooms of train stations. While in Neu Ulm across the river from Ulm am Danau I saw a number of P38/P1 and PP pistols with out Walther roll marks that the local police called lunch pail guns that had walked out of Walther as pieces in lunch pails....and one German I knew was familure with the Johnny Cash song about the Caddy made for parts stolen by an assembly line worker.

Papa at my favorite GuesteHaus who had been captured at Stalingrad and held until 1952, but had a Luger he had gotten from some where. Oddly he and the young man from the family that ran the other decent eatery in town were the ONLY military age guys in that village not to join the SS. The SS vets hung around at the Krona (Crown) bar and sang the old songs and and told the old tales.

The guy in charge of the facilities plant in Camp BlackJack was a freaking SS Brandenburger!!!!!! Back in the rear in Neu Ulm the Facilities engineer at the Artillery Kasserne was SS Hitler Youth Division and a good friend. The guy that ran the hotel at top the Zugspitze who's daughter was dating my Jewish room mate was an enlisted man in SS Gebergersjager (Alpine).

SS were not "uncommon" about 5 percent of German Ground forces by the time the US entered Europe were SS and more importantly they made up about 1/3 of Panzer Divisions and 1/4 of Panzer Grenadier (mechanized infantry) Divisions, as the SS had few support troops. Thus troops encountered in combat were far more than 5 percent SS.

-kBob
 
Mine was a weirdo buyer and not a gun. Guy on Armslist wanted to look at a Beretta 92A1 I was selling. I get there, and it's his girlfriend's scrapbooking store (whatever, that's cool). But then he's got this USPSA belt and a black fishing/tactical vest and is giving me this spiel about how he works for Homeland Security and can't tell me what he does (Sure man. OK.). Then he says he left his concealed-carry permit (serves as permit to purchase handguns/'assault weapons' in my state and was required to show me as part of my terms of sale) in his other 'tactical gear' at his house. I tell him whatever, I'll meet him again when he has it.

Later on he e-mails me and acts all offended that I didn't just sell him the gun because 'didn't you know that law enforcement officers don't have to go through background checks or have concealed-carry permits'?

I actually did respond to that and told him that law enforcement officers indeed could carry under LEOSA, but that had nothing to do with the state requirement for permits to purchase handguns, and that I didn't for a nanosecond believe he actually was a law enforcement officer anyway.
 
Something I wrote in 2012 about online sales I'd made. This is from the era when Oregonians could freely exchange private property before they closed "the gun show loophole".



Over many years, I have sold guns via a local forum. Normal gun people are usually the most solid, salt-of-the-earth honest people in the world. However, for every few normal gun guys, there is usually one or two that are a little off...

Some examples:

The Barterer: "I don't have any cash but I do roofs and I mow lawns."

The Amway Salesman: "I am wondering if perhaps I could offer you something more valuable than cash for your gun - a future. I am the largest MegaPowerUltraLife Supplements distributor in the Northwest and am looking for qualified business partners..."

The Neurotic: "I see there is a scratch on the slide in picture number 4. Can you give me a zoom in on that? Also, do you have a borelight shot of the chamber? Do you have a shooting log book to verify your claim of the number of rounds shot?" Will you be needing an electron scanning microscope examination, or is a metallurgic analysis sufficient? For the record, my listings contained 4000x3000 jpegs and tons of detail, and no one who bought them complained.

The Lay-it-Away Plan: "I saw your listing and I am a little short on cash, so I'm wondering if I can pay you $20 now and then $20 for the next ten weeks and by that time I should get another $100 and..." Dude, if finances are that tight, you don't need to buy another gun.

The Traveler: "Hi, I'm in (some small town on the other side of the state) and am wondering if we could do a deal here? I don't drive." Sure, let me drive 7 hours round-trip to service you. I told him maybe, if he added $100. "A HUNDRED? I don't know what you drive, but it can't be more than one tank of gas, can it?" No, but my time has a value, too.

Rosebud: "I'm not actually interesting in that gun you're selling, but I've been searching for the last 20 years for a gun I foolishly sold when I was 19. It's Winchester 70, serial number XXXXX and I'm wondering if you've seen it or might have it for sale. It has tremendous sentimental value." Talk about a needle in a haystack.

The Sad Luck Case: "I realize you have a right to sell at market value but things are really hard for us here with all of the good jobs gone now that the factory closed. I'm wondering if you can help out a fellow American who is down on his luck and maybe accept $200 for your rifle?" OK, I feel for you and I'm the kind who would give you a deal on some hunting ammo if you needed to put meat on the table...but we're talking about an M1A, which is not really an item essential to modern life. Besides, if you buy it, how are you going to afford ammo or driving to someplace where you can actually shoot it?

The Credit Risk: "I'd really like to get that gun from you, but my atm card isn't working. Can I give you a check?" Riiiight...

The Trader: "Hi, I know you said cash only but I was wondering if you wanted to trade for my 1958 Mauser bolt-action rechambered in .425 Westley-Richards." Gosh, I have been looking for just that exact obscure caliber. I would love to sell this incredibly common, always-in-demand AR-15 for a gun that shoots an obsolete African hunting round which was last manufactured in the Eisenhower administration. Can you give me instructions on how to neck cartridges down because I really have been wanting to get into .425 Westley-Richards. What a stroke of luck our paths crossed.

The Trader, 2nd Attempt: "Hi, didn't hear back from you on the trade we were talking about for the 1958 Mauser. It's a sweet gun and it's actually worth about twice what you are selling." Great - sell yours and then you'll have no problem buying mine. If you can't sell it...then it isn't worth that much, now is it?

The Trader, 3rd Attempt: "I don't think you realize what I'm offering you. The Mauser is a classic and is one of the finest rifles ever made blah blah blah gold standard in blah blah I personally would never use anything else blah blah blah." Then why do you want to part with this amazing firearm!?!?

The Trader, 4th Attempt: "I'm really surprised you declined the opportunity I'm offering you. Your loss, buddy. I think once you learn more about guns, you'll regret passing on this. I suggest you read up on firearms a bit because you're woefully uneducated."

The Trader, 5th Attempt: "Sorry if my last note sounded rude. I also have a revolver in .401 Herter I could maybe work into the deal." Gaaaaaah!
 
Just one issue...bought a S&W 629-4 from another forum. When I received it the revolver had a previously undisclosed push-off issue. Seller claimed he was unaware.

I was sending a different revolver off to S&W for some work, so just added that one to go along. S&W repaired it at no charge. They did something to the internals because the action came back incredibly smooth in both SA and DA.
 
raindog said:
Something I wrote in 2012 about online sales I'd made. This is from the era when Oregonians could freely exchange private property before they closed "the gun show loophole".



Over many years, I have sold guns via a local forum. Normal gun people are usually the most solid, salt-of-the-earth honest people in the world. However, for every few normal gun guys, there is usually one or two that are a little off...

Some examples:

The Barterer: "I don't have any cash but I do roofs and I mow lawns."

The Amway Salesman: "I am wondering if perhaps I could offer you something more valuable than cash for your gun - a future. I am the largest MegaPowerUltraLife Supplements distributor in the Northwest and am looking for qualified business partners..."

The Neurotic: "I see there is a scratch on the slide in picture number 4. Can you give me a zoom in on that? Also, do you have a borelight shot of the chamber? Do you have a shooting log book to verify your claim of the number of rounds shot?" Will you be needing an electron scanning microscope examination, or is a metallurgic analysis sufficient? For the record, my listings contained 4000x3000 jpegs and tons of detail, and no one who bought them complained.

The Lay-it-Away Plan: "I saw your listing and I am a little short on cash, so I'm wondering if I can pay you $20 now and then $20 for the next ten weeks and by that time I should get another $100 and..." Dude, if finances are that tight, you don't need to buy another gun.

The Traveler: "Hi, I'm in (some small town on the other side of the state) and am wondering if we could do a deal here? I don't drive." Sure, let me drive 7 hours round-trip to service you. I told him maybe, if he added $100. "A HUNDRED? I don't know what you drive, but it can't be more than one tank of gas, can it?" No, but my time has a value, too.

Rosebud: "I'm not actually interesting in that gun you're selling, but I've been searching for the last 20 years for a gun I foolishly sold when I was 19. It's Winchester 70, serial number XXXXX and I'm wondering if you've seen it or might have it for sale. It has tremendous sentimental value." Talk about a needle in a haystack.

The Sad Luck Case: "I realize you have a right to sell at market value but things are really hard for us here with all of the good jobs gone now that the factory closed. I'm wondering if you can help out a fellow American who is down on his luck and maybe accept $200 for your rifle?" OK, I feel for you and I'm the kind who would give you a deal on some hunting ammo if you needed to put meat on the table...but we're talking about an M1A, which is not really an item essential to modern life. Besides, if you buy it, how are you going to afford ammo or driving to someplace where you can actually shoot it?

The Credit Risk: "I'd really like to get that gun from you, but my atm card isn't working. Can I give you a check?" Riiiight...

The Trader: "Hi, I know you said cash only but I was wondering if you wanted to trade for my 1958 Mauser bolt-action rechambered in .425 Westley-Richards." Gosh, I have been looking for just that exact obscure caliber. I would love to sell this incredibly common, always-in-demand AR-15 for a gun that shoots an obsolete African hunting round which was last manufactured in the Eisenhower administration. Can you give me instructions on how to neck cartridges down because I really have been wanting to get into .425 Westley-Richards. What a stroke of luck our paths crossed.

The Trader, 2nd Attempt: "Hi, didn't hear back from you on the trade we were talking about for the 1958 Mauser. It's a sweet gun and it's actually worth about twice what you are selling." Great - sell yours and then you'll have no problem buying mine. If you can't sell it...then it isn't worth that much, now is it?

The Trader, 3rd Attempt: "I don't think you realize what I'm offering you. The Mauser is a classic and is one of the finest rifles ever made blah blah blah gold standard in blah blah I personally would never use anything else blah blah blah." Then why do you want to part with this amazing firearm!?!?

The Trader, 4th Attempt: "I'm really surprised you declined the opportunity I'm offering you. Your loss, buddy. I think once you learn more about guns, you'll regret passing on this. I suggest you read up on firearms a bit because you're woefully uneducated."

The Trader, 5th Attempt: "Sorry if my last note sounded rude. I also have a revolver in .401 Herter I could maybe work into the deal." Gaaaaaah!
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These are very similar to my local armslist experiences! Enjoyed that.

In my stories, not included because a deal was never completed with any of those guys! But 100% true.
 
raindog said:
Something I wrote in 2012 about online sales I'd made. This is from the era when Oregonians could freely exchange private property before they closed "the gun show loophole".



Over many years, I have sold guns via a local forum. Normal gun people are usually the most solid, salt-of-the-earth honest people in the world. However, for every few normal gun guys, there is usually one or two that are a little off...

Some examples:

The Barterer: "I don't have any cash but I do roofs and I mow lawns."

The Amway Salesman: "I am wondering if perhaps I could offer you something more valuable than cash for your gun - a future. I am the largest MegaPowerUltraLife Supplements distributor in the Northwest and am looking for qualified business partners..."

The Neurotic: "I see there is a scratch on the slide in picture number 4. Can you give me a zoom in on that? Also, do you have a borelight shot of the chamber? Do you have a shooting log book to verify your claim of the number of rounds shot?" Will you be needing an electron scanning microscope examination, or is a metallurgic analysis sufficient? For the record, my listings contained 4000x3000 jpegs and tons of detail, and no one who bought them complained.

The Lay-it-Away Plan: "I saw your listing and I am a little short on cash, so I'm wondering if I can pay you $20 now and then $20 for the next ten weeks and by that time I should get another $100 and..." Dude, if finances are that tight, you don't need to buy another gun.

The Traveler: "Hi, I'm in (some small town on the other side of the state) and am wondering if we could do a deal here? I don't drive." Sure, let me drive 7 hours round-trip to service you. I told him maybe, if he added $100. "A HUNDRED? I don't know what you drive, but it can't be more than one tank of gas, can it?" No, but my time has a value, too.

Rosebud: "I'm not actually interesting in that gun you're selling, but I've been searching for the last 20 years for a gun I foolishly sold when I was 19. It's Winchester 70, serial number XXXXX and I'm wondering if you've seen it or might have it for sale. It has tremendous sentimental value." Talk about a needle in a haystack.

The Sad Luck Case: "I realize you have a right to sell at market value but things are really hard for us here with all of the good jobs gone now that the factory closed. I'm wondering if you can help out a fellow American who is down on his luck and maybe accept $200 for your rifle?" OK, I feel for you and I'm the kind who would give you a deal on some hunting ammo if you needed to put meat on the table...but we're talking about an M1A, which is not really an item essential to modern life. Besides, if you buy it, how are you going to afford ammo or driving to someplace where you can actually shoot it?

The Credit Risk: "I'd really like to get that gun from you, but my atm card isn't working. Can I give you a check?" Riiiight...

The Trader: "Hi, I know you said cash only but I was wondering if you wanted to trade for my 1958 Mauser bolt-action rechambered in .425 Westley-Richards." Gosh, I have been looking for just that exact obscure caliber. I would love to sell this incredibly common, always-in-demand AR-15 for a gun that shoots an obsolete African hunting round which was last manufactured in the Eisenhower administration. Can you give me instructions on how to neck cartridges down because I really have been wanting to get into .425 Westley-Richards. What a stroke of luck our paths crossed.

The Trader, 2nd Attempt: "Hi, didn't hear back from you on the trade we were talking about for the 1958 Mauser. It's a sweet gun and it's actually worth about twice what you are selling." Great - sell yours and then you'll have no problem buying mine. If you can't sell it...then it isn't worth that much, now is it?

The Trader, 3rd Attempt: "I don't think you realize what I'm offering you. The Mauser is a classic and is one of the finest rifles ever made blah blah blah gold standard in blah blah I personally would never use anything else blah blah blah." Then why do you want to part with this amazing firearm!?!?

The Trader, 4th Attempt: "I'm really surprised you declined the opportunity I'm offering you. Your loss, buddy. I think once you learn more about guns, you'll regret passing on this. I suggest you read up on firearms a bit because you're woefully uneducated."

The Trader, 5th Attempt: "Sorry if my last note sounded rude. I also have a revolver in .401 Herter I could maybe work into the deal." Gaaaaaah!
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You are spot-on with every example. You had me laughing.
 
raindog

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant! I can just picture these people and their "great deals" they want to make you!
 
Raindog,

I’m going to pile on and say great post! I love these personality catalogs. Years ago on here someone did a classic one on gun show personalities and I’ve never been able to find it again. Ah, well...
 
@raindog
Have you gotten over the angst of missing the opportunity to buy that Mauser yet?

Great funny diatribe, thanks for brightening my morning!

At least no barnyard animals were involved.
 
Just remembered a couple more :

Probably 30 years ago about 9:00 one night I was reading a local “Shopper” classifieds that had just come out that day.
Buried in an ad for “garage sale” it said “guns” so I called him and asked what he had.
I wanted several of them and the prices were dirt cheap - Win 94 $125, Win 100 $100, etc.
I asked if I could come over right then. He said it was kinda late.
I told him I had to work the next day so could I stop by about 6:30 am. That was too early for him.
Then he said “if you are sure you want them, I’ll hold them for you.”
I said “I am sure, I will come by at lunch with cash.”
The next morning about 8:30 my wife called and she had locked her keys in the car so I had to run home. I figured I would also make a mad dash to the guy’s house and get the guns. My boss was a jerk so I had no time to spare.
I ran home, let my wife in, then sped to the guy’s house.
His wife said he had gone to get change but she showed me the guns lying on the living room carpet. She said she wasn’t going to sell the guns unless her husband was there.
I honestly didn’t have time to wait so I told her I would be back at noon.
Got back to work and got to thinking that it was odd that he had MY guns out on display so I called him.
When he answered I said “Hey, I’m calling about the Winchesters and the Ruger Blackhawk”. He said “they are sold”.
I said “Yes I know, I’m the guy who bought them. Just wanted you to know I’ll be there at noon.”
He said “What are you talking about, the guy that bought them just left.”
I told him he promised me last night that he would hold them for me.
He said “Which one are you? There were so many.”
So, I asked him again if those guns were gone, left the premises and he said yes so I hung up.
Then I made copies of pages out of the Gun Trader catalog showing that the guns were worth close to 3 times what he sold them for. Just for fun.

Another time I sold not a gun but a nice hard gun case.
This short, squatty guy got out of his car and the first words out of his mouth were “I’m a wounded warrior”.
He then proceeded to tell me how he had 22 Purple Hearts.
I knew he was full of it but played along.
I said “Where all did you get shot”?
He answered “Hell, EVERYWHERE!”
My friends and I still laugh about that one.
 
I bought a used Taurus 357 and couldn't get it to shoot with in 10 inches of bullseye. A gun collector friend look at it. He said the front sight is filed down. Took it back to the LGS. The LGS made it right. He gave me a new stainless Taurus 66. Couple years ago i bought a 9mm 1911. When i got it home. I noticed the feed ramp was gouged with what looked like screw driver marks. And the bore was leaded bad. It cleaned up nice. And i got the gouges out. Guns been doing well.
 
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