Lionheart LH9 Threaded barrel

[Deplorable me]

When they will still had car dealerships in America we used to go in and ask them if they'd include a 9 mm with every purchase.

 

[hemiram]

I liked the Lionheart when I shot one a couple of years ago. Reminded me a lot of my 5906. I wouldn't mind adding one to my collection some day.

The stuff said by salesmen, in all industries, be it car, guns, electronics, etc, is sometimes amazingly stupid. I have dealt with car dealers who have no idea what they are selling many times over the almost 40 years I've been buying cars. Gun and electronic sales people aren't much better, some of the stuff I've heard just cracked me up, it was so dumb, I just couldn't control myself. Some of the things I heard about guns I've owned was just downright bizarre. The stuff about Dan Wesson revolvers tops the list of stupid. "The barrel comes loose", "They fall apart!", etc. My many thousands of trouble free rounds through over a dozen 15-2's, and 715's prove they have no idea what they are talking about.

 

[SHOOT1SAM]

Because sometimes there's still a pretty big demand for POS guns. When customers are constantly asking for a certain gun that you don't carry, and you're constantly special ordering that gun because people want it, doesn't it make sense just to stock it?

For the most part, our shop doesn't stock POS guns. But we stock a few. We carry the Walther CCP, which -- in my opinion -- is a not a good gun. We've seen a disproportionate number of CCPs that had all sorts of problems and had to be sent back. But people still want it.

The key is not offering an unwanted opinion. If someone comes into the store and wants to buy a CCP without asking my opinion, I'll sell it to them without comment. And if they ask my opinion I'll give it to them, and I'll do it as tactfully as possible. After all, there might be a CCP owner nearby who likes his and hasn't had problems.

As for the Lionheart, it is not a POS. I'm not a huge fan of the design, but that's just my personal preference. We don't stock them only because they don't sell.

Theohazard,

I respect your response; well stated, and if "you're constantly special ordering that gun because people want it", it makes more than a modicum of good business sense to stock it. I guess I was referring more to those "unwanted opinions"-when I've asked them why, there's never seemed to be a credible or sensible reason.

For instance, the former manager of Impact Guns here in Boise Idaho was physically/morally/intellectually/emotionally/spiritually/linguistically/absolutely, INCAPABLE, of uttering a single, solitary, good word about Hi-Point firearms, despite the fact that the store sold a boatload of them; remember how hard it was for Fonzie to admit he was wwrrooo..ooonngg? It was that bad. To prove a point to him, my shooting' pard & I both bought the 9mm carbines (he already had 2 or 3 of their pistols) and we vowed to shoot them, with absolutely zero maintenance until one of them developed an issue; this was 6, maybe 7 years ago.

Within the 1st year & after about 2500-3000 rounds through them, I did the unforgivable (at least, in my shooting' pard's eyes)...I put exactly 2 drops of oil on the outside of the actions-my pard was apoplectic! To this day, that is the ONLY "maintenance" his has ever had and it has yet to even hiccup. Not too bad for a certified POS, eh?

Sam