Finding the reviews of this place absolutely made my night. I almost felt bad everytime anyone mentioned going to the gun room, because of the quick angry response I always give without thinking, to the tune of the biggest rip off shop I'd ever seen, with a bunch of jack wagons behind the counter that don't know their a$$ from their elbow. Considering I'd never had really any major negative things to say about any gun shop, I felt maybe I, just by complete chance-- had the two worst shopping experiences ever consecutively at the same place. After reading these reviews, I don't have to worry about my opinions being bias.
My first experience was when I first moved down here, I was looking for a correct grade m1 garand. I saw the gun room and pulled in. Met with incoherent mumbling rather than maybe a hello, I was shown their selection of m1 garands. I wouldn't call myself an expert, but quite an enthusiast. I am a professional in my career, and when I go to buy something, I'm looking for a professional to buy from, who hopefully knows more than me about the product theyre trying to sell me. He pulled out the most shot out, oil soaked near black wood, zinc phosphate depleted piece of firearm history I had ever seen. With a wonderful pricetag of almost $1900! Thinking this was probably a complete matching original that had been to hell and back in the tropics of the pacific and would make a wonderful wall hanger for someone, I looked over it, and huge red flags instantly stuck out. The biggest being, the glorious importer marking on the side telling me this was one of those overseas government giveaways that had been used, abused, torn apart in bins and put back together with non-milspec parts filling in the blanks, bought by an importer-- AKA the m1 garands Big5 was pawning off periodically for way under half the price they wanted. Trying to be nice, I told him it was out of my price range. I was told ""we have financing!"" yeah, great idea-- take out a loan on a triple priced POS that I'd be lucky to get through an enbloc clip with. I laughed, said thanks and walked out. I ordered my m1 garand from the cmp the next day, a beautiful correct grade shooter with a receiver made in 1943. And guess what? Half the price.
I could go on forever about my second experience, but looking at my rant I think this one gives you my impression.
The only reason I'm giving it 5 stars, you could go in and laugh your ass off at the ignorance and anger dribbling out of these old bubbas mouths. Entertainment factor, I've never seen a shop like it.
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