The armslist thread has me thinking about this. If the interwebs went away today how would you buy gun stuff? Are you old school enough to manage? Would you just stop buying and selling? Have you cultivated enough relationships locally to get by?
I am old school. My habits haven't change much since Al Gore invented the internet. All but one of the guns I currently own were bought at local gun shops and/or face to face. I frequent 3 gun shops and occasionally stop at Cabelas. These are all within 50 miles of my house. The 3 gun shops know me, some of my family and some of my friends. Gun searches start and almost always end at one of those shops. All 3 of those shops have a list of things I'm looking for. Most of my selling and trading also happens at these shops. Over the years I have bought and sold guns through the gun clubs I've belonged to and through word of mouth.
In other words, I do some leg work and talk to real people face to face just like I have always done.
I am old school. My habits haven't change much since Al Gore invented the internet. All but one of the guns I currently own were bought at local gun shops and/or face to face. I frequent 3 gun shops and occasionally stop at Cabelas. These are all within 50 miles of my house. The 3 gun shops know me, some of my family and some of my friends. Gun searches start and almost always end at one of those shops. All 3 of those shops have a list of things I'm looking for. Most of my selling and trading also happens at these shops. Over the years I have bought and sold guns through the gun clubs I've belonged to and through word of mouth.
In other words, I do some leg work and talk to real people face to face just like I have always done.