Guns Getting Worse Than Cars!

[Bb70charger500]

I have my ruger 1911 s and I love it . I also usually Carry my most favorite my ruger p90 in .45 it's fully modified band shoots better then any off the shelf 1911 period! And there a hell of a lot cheaper! When I buy my next 1911 it will be a colt! I'm told there fine weapons!

 

[Bruzilla]

gun.deals (to buy)
&
Floridaguntrader.com (to sell)

Thank me later.

Florida Gun Trader is a joke! That's nothing but an outlet for low-level dealers who flip guns they snag from other people. I've seen the same guns go up for sale on there from six to ten different sellers. They think they can charge a premium because they do private sales, but only a fool would pay more for a used gun that it costs new and with a warranty. I just go on those sites for the laughs.

Speaking of which, there was a guy on the Central Florida page who was just pissing everyone off by running tons of ads like "I am selling my Colt revolver. I think it's a Python, but I lost the box. A friend told me it isn't worth much without the box, so I'm asking $250 OBO." The ad screamed phony, but I guess lots of idiots were replying to it. I thought it was pretty funny myself.

 

[Bruzilla]

Just a thought Bru, check out pawn shops?

Every week, but they're getting to be as bad as the gun shows. They just want to sell crap guns cheap. We did have a gun shop outfit that partnered with the Value Pawn chain to sell guns in their stores, and the guy who ran the operation at our local Value Pawn knew what he was doing. He priced his guns to sell, they sold. Most of the time I would go in there and his cases would be empty. But then I guess someone up the food chain wanted better margins and put a new guy in there and he hiked the prices wayyyy up. Now the cases are always full, but nothing goes out the door.

 

[Sweet5ltr]

Florida Gun Trader is a joke! That's nothing but an outlet for low-level dealers who flip guns they snag from other people. I've seen the same guns go up for sale on there from six to ten different sellers. They think they can charge a premium because they do private sales, but only a fool would pay more for a used gun that it costs new and with a warranty. I just go on those sites for the laughs.

Speaking of which, there was a guy on the Central Florida page who was just pissing everyone off by running tons of ads like "I am selling my Colt revolver. I think it's a Python, but I lost the box. A friend told me it isn't worth much without the box, so I'm asking $250 OBO." The ad screamed phony, but I guess lots of idiots were replying to it. I thought it was pretty funny myself.

That is why you never sell gun.deals for everything else, formerly, slickguns.com.

 

[747mopar]

Yeap, people don't care as much about quality these days. My concealed carry coarse was a prime example, many first time shooters that went out and bought a cheapo handgun and boy did it show! I hadn't bought a compact yet so I took my Sprinfield 1911, clip after clip of flawless performance while I watched the instructor teach the rest how to clear jammed rounds.

I hear you on the shows too, last one I went to trophied damn near every new car there ignoring some nice classics... won't be going back to that one. I don't get it, someone resurrects a car from the dead and a guy that simply brings a new car wins???

 

[Bruzilla]

Yeah, I learned you never sell some guns. This was a super nice Colt Series 80 Mk IV, polished blue, and premium grips. I got that sucker for $500, and that was a $900 gun all day. Then I sold it for $1,000 and when I went to replace it I saw it was going to cost me about $1,200 to get the same gun. I can't complain too much as I really wanted a bare-bones, vanilla, Colt Government like it would have been bought by the government, so I well-polished finish didn't quite meet my needs. The new one I bought this weekend is a matte blue that is more in line with what I needed.

As for GI guns, forget CMP. We're looking at close to a million M1911A1s, M-1s, M-1 Carbines, and other arms coming back from South Korea before too long. They'll have an import stamp, but they'll likely be in better shape than those 100,000 pistols that have been sitting untouched in US storage for 40 years.

 

[NJRR]

Yeah, I learned you never sell ANY guns.

Fixed it for ya. At least that holds here in NJ. It's such a hassle to get a permit to buy a pistol, why sell it !!!!!

 

[Slap Stick]

clip after clip of flawless performance

Magazine after magazine.
The 1911 doesn't use clips. A M1 Garand does. The clips load the magazine.

Have you looked at a Citadel 1911? One of tbe best triggers I have had and dead nuts accurate. Reasonably priced.

 

[Bruzilla]

Have you looked at a Citadel 1911? One of tbe best triggers I have had and dead nuts accurate. Reasonably priced.

It's usually the shooter, not the gun.

I was gun shopping with some friends up in Maine, and we stopped at a small gun shop outside Brunswick. My friend found one of the 3rd gen Llamas that was a Combat Commander clone. He liked it, but said Llama's weren't accurate, so the shop owner offered to let him shoot it on the range behind the shop. We went outside and behind the shop, and Steve shot seven rounds at a standard NRA 25-ft pistol target and hit it with four of the seven, but only got one hole in the black. He said "See, I told you." Llamas are not accurate.

Then the shop owner put another magazine into the Llama and chopped the X right out of the center of the target, and didn't even need seven shots to do it. Steve bought the pistol on the spot once he realized he was the inaccurate part of the equation.