Whats the best lie you had a gun seller tell you

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Well one of her regulars remarked how he bought that last 38 for his daughter and she took back to Arizona were she lives and is a resident,...
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Sounds to me like the gun was gifted from father to daughter. Quite legal if she is not excluded from purchasing (those types of) firearms (in her area of residence).
 
Was looking at a new Howa at a gunshow last weekend.

The seller claimed it was made by Weatherby...
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May not have been an intentional lie. The Howa 1500 is made in the same Japanese factory that made the Weatherby Vanguard action. Might be a little confusion. I hear (never tried) that all the parts are interchangeable from one to the other. I know the scope mounts are the same.
 
I was a teenager. I showed a dealor my dad's issue 1911. It had a 41,000 serial number. It was made in 1915.

The dealor said, "Boy the finish sure is rough, why don't you have it reblued?"

I said that it was pretty rare. He said that, "Naw these things were made by the boat load. They have no real value".

So I followed the guy's advice and gave it to him to be reblued! New sights too.

I could shoot myself!
 
I was in a gun store that I seldom frequent because the owner is the slime of humanity. The owner of this notorious shop saunters up to me while I am looking at a used Model 10 S&W. He pulls out a Bryco .380 chrome plated POS and proceeds to tell me how it was the most reliable gun on the market and the .380 caliber was a real man stopped and he would work with me to get it OTD for $200 instead of the $250 marked price.

I just rolled my eyes and walked out. Every now and then I will go back in just to take a look and then I hear the owner bsing some poor bas*ard and end up walking out wondering why I go in there twice a year for...
 
I heard a guy at the last gun show tell a would be buyer that the double action revolver he was looking at had a "safety" "You let the hammer down to it, about halfway down"

I don't think he was lying, I just think he was seriously ignorant.
 
This REALLY happened to me!

I was about 30 yrs old and my best friend wanted to buy a Beretta 92 and he knew that a Gun show was coming soon to our city. He went and did the required paperwork to get a permit to purchase a pistol and the day before the gun show his wife went out of town and had his wallet in her car so he didnt have a state issued drivers license with him, instead he had his US Passport. We looked at several tables and he found the Beretta that he wanted (Inox by the way) and he handed over the cash, the pistol permit and his passport to the vendor. "Whoa there buddy, I need your DL or I cant sell this to you" My friend: "Sir, that is a US Passport and it is a Federally issued ID confirming my identity and address, its as good as or better then a state isued DL" The vendor refused to sell him the Beretta claiming that he was trying to buy it with invalid ID.

here is the best part

The guy at the NEXT table heard the whole thing and as we started to walk away he said "I have the same Beretta in Inox and will sell it at the same price and I know that the Passport is acceptable as ID for the transaction"

The first vendor watched in shock as we handed over the cash and the vendor who actually made the sale looked at him and said "buddy you are a total dumbass and I just made a $500 sale because you dont know what a passport is"


My friend still has that Beretta too.
 
"if you remove the firing pin, the gun will be full auto"

"you need a license to buy sheenguns" (he actually said sheenguns)

"this here is a german mp40" (holding up a m&p 40)

"you'll shoot yer eye out"

"you can't hunt with sheenguns like that ak-47"

"only criminals use assault rifles"

"45-70 drops 25' at 200 yards"

"30-06 is obsolete"

"glocks are completely plastic"

"garands are junk"

"no one makes 1911s anymore"

and many more
 
I was at a gun show looking for an M&P when the new S&W had come out. At one of the tables full of older black tupperware the guy asks, "Why you want one of them? All the cops 'round here use Glocks, so ya know they're the best."

I just moved on, but not before saying, "That lowest bidder concept must be one of those internet fairy tales or something."
 
I once saw a dealer at a show sell a USED Hi-Point 9mm to a sucker for $250. (For those who don't know, you can get them for $150 new)
 
Just last night, salesman was referring to a screw-in "tactical" choke on the muzzle of a pump action shotgun:

"Yeah, it's real sharp. If you ram it against a door knob, it'll bust the door down. The gun's made for going into a house, not coming out."
 
Obama is going to ban all our guns, especially assault weapons. HAHAHA, like he would ever do that. :neener:
 
Cabela's Gun Library.........the computer they use to 'look up gun values' is really the long list of lies recently approved by managment.
Anyone notice that 'gun prices went up about 2 years ago on that style' and you just missed the deals!
And my favorite.....'if your over 30 you can't see any more detail then what a pine ridge scope can show you!'
 
I've been lied to by an antique arms dealer.

He had a nice 1860 Army Colt 2nd generation he was trying to pass as an original 19th century gun.

I pointed out to him that the gun looked too much in a good shape to be real and that "mint" ones like that would generally cost 3 times the priced asked.
Too good to be true.

He answered that it had been re-polished and re-blued, which was true, but it was obvious that the replica maker's markings under the barrel had been sanded off/

I'll never visit that shop again.
 
True that, my Marlin 60 will shoot the tacks off the 10/22's shotgun-patterned target
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I've got a bone stock 10-22 with the cheapest Tasco 4X you can buy on it that will scare most Marlins off the range.

And no, I'm not a Ruger fan... at all. I guess even a blind pig (Ruger) finds an acorn (a 10-22 that thinks it's a match Anschutz) once in a while.

Or maybe I'm a blind pig. Who knows.

Anyways, had a gunstore cowboy tell me the .300 Savage was Savages answer to the .308 WCF, but the short throat kept it from being as fast as the .308. I replied, with head cocked like a curious dog, "REALLY?"
 
I was holding a cz-452 to purchase at a gun shop and the clerk asks me which one it was so he could go get it in the back. I told him it was the cz-452 ultra lux, then he says to me, "you mean the American with iron sights? Cause the one you said doesn't exist." I ask him to go back and check and sure enough he comes back with an ultra lux and tail between his legs. At least he admited his mistake and didn't actually lie. But still kinda bad.
 
Dick's Sporting Goods and Cabela's. The smaller standalone gun shops aren't as bad. They may not know everything about every model, but at least they don't BS you.
 
Bushmaster AR-15 is the same as Colt AR-15. See, the flat top has the same mark on it. Both are made with the same components. :eek:
 
Never owned a AR.
But I thought Bushmaster AR-15 parts were interchangeable with the Colt AR-15. Is that wrong?
 
A few years back I briefly played with the idea of trading my Marlin 39 , dealer says I can give you $175 tops - we sell used ones all the time for $200. Really?:rolleyes: I'll buy all you can get at that price.

I overhear a Gander Mountain "legal expert" giving advice to a woman who has a restraining order on her ex and wanting a gun for defense. Was showing her a DA revolver and said "As soon as you pull the hammer back for SA its considered premeditated murder." I am wondering? If she shoots her ex dead in self defense in her own home is his ghost going to hire a lawyer and file charges - "She shot me dead in the SA mode."
 
Springfield Armory is the oldest gun maker in the USA

This sales person decided to demonstrate the virtues of the XD line of handguns:
-He removed it from the locked display case without ever clearing it.
-He waved it around and muzzle swept everyone to his left (group of teens) while pulling the trigger to show how the trigger and grip safety worked.
 
With an AR-15, yes, most parts are very much interchangeable. But, out of the box, the components in a Colt are not all identical to the components in a Bushmaster. For example, the barrel may have a different twist ratio, type of steel and come from a different vendor our built in-house. They may look the same. But, they are different.
 
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