where do you buy most of your guns?

where do you buy MOST of your guns?

  • The Internet (gunbroker, auction arms, gunsamerica, etc.)

    Votes: 36 15.0%

  • Retail (Academy, Dick's, Cabelas, etc.)

    Votes: 20 8.3%

  • Local range/gunshop

    Votes: 108 45.0%

  • Gun shows

    Votes: 25 10.4%

  • Beats me, they just seem to follow me home... That's what I tell the wife, anyway.

    Votes: 22 9.2%

  • Pawn shops

    Votes: 6 2.5%

  • Friends who have even more guns than I do

    Votes: 10 4.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 13 5.4%
  • Total voters
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For me in the past year it's been one from Bass Pro, one from an internet site, one from a Gun Show. I couldn't believe the gun show price I got. 100% Henry in 45LC for $450.00. I've never seen anything like that before that show. Also saw a Blackhawk hunter with a scope for $589.00. I think my next buy will be at a gun show. No sales tax, shipping or FFL fees :)
 
I've bought 4 from Gunbroker. Two of those were, as strange as it may seem, accidents. That is, I bid ridiculously low thinking I'd never win. Then I won. Being a stand up guy, I then had to scramble to get the funds together for my unexpected purchase.

I've bought 4 from guns shows.

I've bought 2 from Cablea's (both were gift where I had to go fill out the 4473 myself).

Some (a number which I can't pin down) I have bought from random places.

Most of the rest (the majority) I've bought from the range where I am a member.


-T.
 
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local gunshop

Ten years and more ago, I used to go to gun shows a great deal. These days, I am lucky that there is a fine local gunshop - Mainstream Outfitters, Winona, MN - a block down from my office. :D

I frequent the store for a cup of coffee several times a week, and sometimes a gun "sticks to me" when I leave. Fine service, fair prices - and I want to support a good local store so that I have the pleasure of having a good store right down the street.
 
It was a very close shave, as I've almost equally bought from our local gunshop, retail, and some from gun shows. Plus there's CMP...I guess that counts as "internet purchase".

But retail won out by a hair.

Springmom
 
i buy most of mine from the local range/ gunshop, i like to keep my business local and help out the small business owner as much as i can unless of course it is one of the gunsops that are right around a military post that try to take advantage of soliders, i don' do business with them and i urge others not to either. not all of them are like that but there are alot that are. i also have purchased many guns used from coworkers, my dad etc.
 
Mostly from the paper, seem to get better deals. A few from an auction house and the rest from a gun shop.
 
My guns come from all over and I don't know where "most" of them came from unless I really think about it. The majority of the used guns probably came from gunshows or contacts made at shows. New guns almost always came from a local gun shop. Never bought a gun from Walmart or similar stores.
 
I bought my M-1 Carbine at the last local gun show. My Ruger 22/45 was gifted to me for Christmas, 3 years ago. My other three pistols, XD-40, Taurus PT-140 Pro, and Taurus Tracker 357 mag were purchased at Specialty Sports, an awesome, very well stocked gun dealer here in Colorado Springs.:D

I bought my Mossberg 500 12 gauge at Big 5 and my Yugo SKS at specialty sports.

So my most of my guns have come from the local gunshop.:D
 
I've found it is very easy to get my dad to buy me guns at gun shows. Shops are not the same. It's the whole atmosphere, I think. Still, last gun I bought was no paperwork from a ex-cop at his garage sale- a Mosin-nagant M44
($125)
 
I get them here and there, but it seems each time I get a $100.00 coupon from Cabela's, I gotta' make more room in the safe for a new one.
 
You can only vote for one, but in descending order (most to least often), for me, it is as follows: local gun shop, retail (Cabela's), pawn shops, gun shows, and the rest never (or, more precisely, not yet).
 
The Internet (gunbroker, auction arms, gunsamerica, etc.) for me, as I mainly collect milsurps, and sadly, there is only 1 place anywhere nearby that carries anything other than mosins and sks's, and his stuff, while VERY cool and unusual/hard to find, is also the types of milsurps that I cant afford (as much as I would love to).
 
I've got two gunshops within six miles of me and most of my business goes to either one of them. Cabela's is about 15 miles away, I have bought a couple there, but their prices are usually substantially higher so I just look while I am there. I recently bought a NIB Ruger Single Six stainless from the local guy for $339. About three weeks later I was in Cabela's and saw the exact same gun for $429! :eek:
 
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