A little Ace Hardware in the next town over from where I work has a gun and ammo counter and fishing supplies and ... but you get the idea.
Hmm, I'll get a bottle of Pepsi, a Snickers......oh, and a box of .38 Spl please...
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wally
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Its an ACE Hardware store here that I do most of my FFL transfers for Internet orders.
In Corpus Christi Texas, there is this pharmacy that sells guns. As a matter of fact there is a billboard that says Guns and Drugs. The owner is Robert Nichols and the business I believe is Nichols Pharmacy. Good way to get aspirin and ammo at the same time.
rcmodel
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Try this for a gas station / bait shop alongside the highway!!
North of Lyndon KS, U.S. HW 75 36 miles south of Topeka.
https://www.facebook.com/SportsMart01
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North of Lyndon KS, U.S. HW 75 36 miles south of Topeka.
https://www.facebook.com/SportsMart01
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rromeo
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My local feed store has a decent stock of ammo and archery supplies.
Here in SD, its more the rule than the exception that most gas/convenience stores carry at least a few basic "sporting goods". Nearly every one here in Pierre sells some basic ammo (mostly shotgun shells as we are in a big upland/waterfowl area) live bait, and fishing and hunting licenses. Some have a better selection than others, but you can get 12 gauge shells, nightcrawlers, and minnows at every station I can think of offhand.
larryh1108
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The Barn Store in Salisbury, NH is a nice place that sells hardware, has a breakfast and lunch counter, sells farm products and has a nice gun area with a nice selection of everything for shooting and reloading. Nice people too! I stop by whenever I'm in the area.
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Here's my local general store:
http://www.snowsville.com
Online listing of their current stock of firearms. Good people, too.
http://www.snowsville.com
Online listing of their current stock of firearms. Good people, too.
FROGO207
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There is one down in Windsor Maine called Hussey's General Store.
http://husseysgeneralstore.com/
I go there some when things take me nearby. The sign on the front used to say
"General Store"
" Food--Gas--Guns--Wedding Dresses"
Always had reloading stuff for cheap.
http://husseysgeneralstore.com/
I go there some when things take me nearby. The sign on the front used to say
"General Store"
" Food--Gas--Guns--Wedding Dresses"
Always had reloading stuff for cheap.
ljnowell
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We have places like that here in rural Illinois. You can walk in and buy a fifth of Seagrams 7, a pack of smokes, two large pizzas, a compound bow, three boxes of ammo, and a glock handgun. Oh and those longaberger basket things my mother and wife like.
bluetopper
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I've always heard Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
huntsman
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One stop Christmas shopping at it's best
jr_roosa
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There's a shop at the turnoff to my rifle range called "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms" where you can get all three.
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tuckerdog1
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Ah, the good ol' days...
Growing up in the 50s and 60s, I recall in the time before "convenience stores" when every neighborhood had a small mom & pop grocery. Besides penny candy, a "lift the lid" soda cooler, freezer full of popsicles, and 5 cent Snickers bars, they almost always had at least 22LR and 12ga ammo. Usually on the shelf behind the cash register.
If I had 16 cents in my pocket, I felt like I could buy the whole store. Heck, my weekly allowance was 15 cents.
Growing up in the 50s and 60s, I recall in the time before "convenience stores" when every neighborhood had a small mom & pop grocery. Besides penny candy, a "lift the lid" soda cooler, freezer full of popsicles, and 5 cent Snickers bars, they almost always had at least 22LR and 12ga ammo. Usually on the shelf behind the cash register.
If I had 16 cents in my pocket, I felt like I could buy the whole store. Heck, my weekly allowance was 15 cents.
Ace Hardware, by my neck of the woods, has a gun section. Trouble is he can't get any ammo. We spoke yesterday about his brother bringing down some from Jacksonville.
Kind of like a Home Depot, with a gun section, and a Post Office.
I don't know how they get around that.
Kind of like a Home Depot, with a gun section, and a Post Office.
I don't know how they get around that.
We were upscale in my town. We had TWO stores like that right across the road from each other. 5 cents for a candy bar, 5 cents for a pop and the rest on enough penny candy to last the whole day. Yep, 16 cents was a lot. Boxes of shorts were 45 cents and longs were expensive at 60 cents. We almost always bought shorts to save the money. Sometimes we would pool our money and buy hot dogs though. I remember eating 17 hot dogs one day but my brother ate 21. Needless to say they were cheap too. And there was potted meat, Vienna sausages, sardines, and a small deli where they would make you a killer sandwich for almost nothing. Gas was 25 cents a gallon too. Mostly my family bought bread and milk there because we grew the rest of our food ourselves. Be we got to splurge on junk food pretty often.
We had a store that worked it both ways. 1 .22 LR cartridge = 1 cent. I remember buying a a cold Pepsi for 7 .22 "shells", not having 7 cents on me. Nobody bought Coca-Cola because their bottles were only six ounces instead of twelve and the price was the same.
(Earlier, both sold for a nickel, and the Pepsi radio jingle was "twice as much, for a nickel too, Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you.")
Jim
(Earlier, both sold for a nickel, and the Pepsi radio jingle was "twice as much, for a nickel too, Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you.")
Jim
Robbins290
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Ya. "Hussy's" is the best.
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very true. i grew up in New Bern and used to stop at Merchants Grocery (more of a gas station that sells bait and has a grill) id get a sausage and cheese biscuit and a box of shotgun shells then go dove hunting for the morning...
BADUNAME30
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In case you weren't aware.
PepsiCo Is anti gun.
And, they own a LOT of big name fast food companies and big name fast food products.
PepsiCo Is anti gun.
And, they own a LOT of big name fast food companies and big name fast food products.
PJSprog
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A band I was in many years ago used to play every Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend at a small amphitheater near Lesterville, MO. On our way down there from the St. Louis area, we would always stop at a small gas station / convenience store (don't remember the name now) in the Arcadia / Pilot Knob area. They had a sign out front touting "Over 1000 Guns In Stock!" One day, I ventured in to have a look. I walked through the convenience store to a doorway in back ... and brother, they weren't kidding! There was a large room with rack after rack of long guns. I thought I was in heaven. That was definitely the most impressive "small" gun shop I've ever encountered.
swiftak
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Best one I ever saw is L.L. Cody in Errol NH. I cannot think of anything that cannot be bought there. The whole top floor is guns and ammo. Downstairs is gas, grocerys, fishing stuff, 4 wheelers, canoes, boots, chainsaws, tools, etc etc.
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