GRAYRID3R
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I own a low voltage contracting company, and am sometimes cash poor when I need to rent equipment. When this happens I reluctantly go to my safe and sacrifice a seldom used weapon to a pawn shop. I've only had to resort to this twice before and I've never lost anything except the unbelievable interest. Anyway I chose a Ruger RedHawk Stainless .44 Mag for this particular transaction. I keep everything, including lock, fired round, manual, and original receipt in the gun case. I double checked the weapon to make sure it was not loaded and put it in the original plastic case. I walked into the pawn shop toward the owner whom I have done business with before, but I'm stopped at the counter by a clerk who takes the case out of my hands and puts it on the counter, "what do we have here" he asks, so I explained I was there to get a loan on the handgun, and am describing it,when he opens the box, takes the gun out, sweeps me with it and looks down the barrel!!! I knew the gun was empty, but instinctively moved to the side as he sweeps me a second time. Then he takes a ballpoint pen and sticks it down the barrel and looks right into the barrel of the gun! He STILL has not opened the cylinder to see if the gun is loaded!! He asks me how much I want and I said I only needed $350.00 to rent a lift for a job I'm doing. He laughs and says "you mean $250.00?" Well now I'm getting a little angry 
and said something like, if you would open the cylinder and give the gun a real inspection, and look at the receipt. I would say $350.00 is LOW. So he asks the mgr. what he should do as he turns to talk to him he sweeps him too. He said "This guy wants $350.00 for this Red Hawk, and he has a receipt here from ******** for $799.00. The mgr says "give him the $350.00!" I was happy to get out of that place and the only time I plan on going back is to redeem my handgun! BTW before somebody says I should have openned the case myself, took the weapon out, openned the cylinder, and placed the gun on the counter, that was my intention until the clerk actually reached across the counter and took it out of my hands.
and said something like, if you would open the cylinder and give the gun a real inspection, and look at the receipt. I would say $350.00 is LOW. So he asks the mgr. what he should do as he turns to talk to him he sweeps him too. He said "This guy wants $350.00 for this Red Hawk, and he has a receipt here from ******** for $799.00. The mgr says "give him the $350.00!" I was happy to get out of that place and the only time I plan on going back is to redeem my handgun! BTW before somebody says I should have openned the case myself, took the weapon out, openned the cylinder, and placed the gun on the counter, that was my intention until the clerk actually reached across the counter and took it out of my hands.
