Tyrod
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For transfers, I had been using the closest gun store to me for years. But, their prices for transfers was getting pretty high, $35 +$5. Still, I'd been going there for years and I knew all of the guys pretty well. It's the kind of place, if they're not busy, you can chew the fat for hours about guns. Well, on sunday and again on wednesday I bought guns on GunBroker. Now I've stretched my buying limit to the max and I needed to economize. So on checkout each time I selected a Pawn Shop that is just a mile or two further away because they advertise $20 transfers on GB. It took me till today (thursday), to get all my ducks in a row because one seller I bought from isn't open until wednesday (go figure, their auction ends on sunday but you can't call 'em till wednesday after 3:00pm) and go to this pawn shop with the appropriate paperwork. I don't usually like dealing with pawn shops for buying guns cause guns are just a part of their business and they are mostly pretty proud of their guns. But, I made an exception this time. I walk in and first find out they've changed their transfer price to $25. But, the guy made an exception for me because I was buying 2 guns and gave me the old price. So, I fillout the paperwork and he faxes his FFL to the 2 sellers. We talk about multiple hangun purchases, bla, bla bla. The owner seems to be a nice guy but could talk the ears off a Gondor. I had other errands to run and I kinda needed to get going.
Then he starts going off about FEMA death trains and FEMA grave sites and politics. I tend to be a nice guy (at least I try 20% of the time, ok ok 10% of the time) and I didn't want to be rude, lets just say I was tied up for the next hour. I even had the pleasure of watching several youtube videos of the aforementioned subjects. I just know Mama (local term for my wife) is gonna be calling at any minute wondering if I had gone into a diabetic coma. Finally (thank gawd), another customer comes in and I find a way to gracefully exit.
Now, I admit, in my younger days I was slightly excitable and tended to get caught up in conspiracy theorys and space aliens and all that ****. Now that I'm older, I finally figured out it's mostly just marketing hype. Didn't we just live through Y2K like last year. That was fun! The big multinational company I worked for, at the time, went absolutely off the deep end on that one. Naturally, anybody with half a brain has figured out Agent 47 killed Kennedy. And Zombies are just teenagers on meth and crack. As for space aliens, they're just illegal (you fill in your favorite illegal alien) without the space.
Signing off from Uranus!
Just another bored guy that worked too many night shifts and now retired can't sleep at night.
Then he starts going off about FEMA death trains and FEMA grave sites and politics. I tend to be a nice guy (at least I try 20% of the time, ok ok 10% of the time) and I didn't want to be rude, lets just say I was tied up for the next hour. I even had the pleasure of watching several youtube videos of the aforementioned subjects. I just know Mama (local term for my wife) is gonna be calling at any minute wondering if I had gone into a diabetic coma. Finally (thank gawd), another customer comes in and I find a way to gracefully exit.
Now, I admit, in my younger days I was slightly excitable and tended to get caught up in conspiracy theorys and space aliens and all that ****. Now that I'm older, I finally figured out it's mostly just marketing hype. Didn't we just live through Y2K like last year. That was fun! The big multinational company I worked for, at the time, went absolutely off the deep end on that one. Naturally, anybody with half a brain has figured out Agent 47 killed Kennedy. And Zombies are just teenagers on meth and crack. As for space aliens, they're just illegal (you fill in your favorite illegal alien) without the space.
Signing off from Uranus!
Just another bored guy that worked too many night shifts and now retired can't sleep at night.
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