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I was thinking the same thing. I’ve given Bernie’s a good amount of business. They have great prices on firearms, but I wouldn’t think of buying mags from them. For some reason, they are usually very high on their mag prices. Even Maria, Bernie’s daughter who works at the store, will tell you to buy mags on-line. When I bought my DSA StG-58 from her I wanted some mags. She told me to go to Tapco instead.
They’ll be at the gun show this weekend. I’ll be sure to bring this up with them.
Shamayim, I know the other guy in Bernie’s old place too. The only dealing I had with him was trying to buy a RRA lower parts kit. I called on a Thursday afternoon and was told they had “plenty” of [b]standard[/b] (I specifically said I did NOT want a National Match kit) RRA lower kits. I drove to the shop in terrible traffic on Friday around lunchtime. Because of the traffic, the round trip took me almost 2 hours. When I got there the guy said all he had was NM kits. When I reminded him of our earlier conversation he argued with me and said I never asked for a standard kit. What an asshole. Plus his entire store smells like the cheap cigarettes he chain-smokes.
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Hey, watch the cheap cigarette cracks. I'm a smoker too, and that was one of the things I liked about the place[:D]
Seriously, though, I'm not sure Rock River even ships their complete rifles or lowers with anything but the match triggers, unless you special order one. The complaint I saw posted was from an out of town person who had a credit card charged for an order that wasn't shipped, because he didn't have it in stock.
When you're at the show this weekend, look for a gray haired guy carrying too many pounds, wearing a tan bush hat with funny scribbling on the front brim. That'll be me [:D]. Hat was issued to me in 1956 and the "scribbling" is the Hebrew letters for IDF. Had it stored for 30+ years. Found it whilst moving out during the end of a marriage, and reserve it for shooting sessions and gun shows[:D] If you spot me, come say Hi. Always good to talk with another AR guy.