Runner Runner Guns ran off and out of business

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Posted: 4/10/2019 3:51:58 PM EDT

Appears that Runner Runner Guns has gone out of business.

Well, more so that they ran off in the middle of the night forcing the building landlord to change the locks.

From their Facebook comments, they were in business last week and vanished this weekend leaving quite a few pissed off people.

Posted: 4/10/2019 3:53:15 PM EDT

[#1]

What do people expect with a name like "Runner Runner"?

Posted: 4/10/2019 3:54:44 PM EDT

[#2]

fpni

i have never heard of this company

Posted: 4/10/2019 3:54:53 PM EDT

[#3]

Damn, I like their hydramatic clone lowers. I only got one now.

Posted: 4/10/2019 3:56:11 PM EDT

[#4]

It was an ATF front.

Posted: 4/10/2019 3:58:06 PM EDT

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Interesting. I bought some lowers from them a couple years ago.

Posted: 4/10/2019 3:58:32 PM EDT

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as well as

...not sure if serious...

Posted: 4/10/2019 3:59:23 PM EDT

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Had an upper from them a few years ago. Ran just fine. Shame that they wound up being shitty in the end.

Posted: 4/10/2019 3:59:52 PM EDT

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I remember seeing that store some months ago when I went to the McKinney Walmart nearby.

Posted: 4/10/2019 4:00:37 PM EDT

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I bought a sweet Come and Take It billet lower from them in 2015. I used it for my 300 BLK pistol build.

Posted: 4/10/2019 4:02:23 PM EDT

[#10]

So runner runner is on the run?

Posted: 4/10/2019 4:03:06 PM EDT

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The archived AR15.com thread says they have two stores. Maybe they closed one down

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Posted: 4/10/2019 4:03:34 PM EDT

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Me too, I like it but guess I’m not buying another

Posted: 4/10/2019 4:09:05 PM EDT

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Their Irving location was short lived. The main one in McKinney was in a downward spiral for the past 6 months or so.

Posted: 4/10/2019 4:09:42 PM EDT

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They had a decent glock mag lower too.

Posted: 4/10/2019 4:10:40 PM EDT

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They had a store in Irving for a while but it closed down a while back. I guess now the McKinney store is closed.

I bought an upper from them once.

Posted: 4/10/2019 4:17:37 PM EDT

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Run Bambi Run!

Fuck, Run Runner Run!!

Posted: 4/10/2019 4:19:53 PM EDT

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Meh. I had a bad experience with them when they were newer but I wrote it off as growing pains.

Looks like they didn't outgrow it.

Posted: 4/10/2019 4:36:24 PM EDT

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I have bought a few lowers from them in the past at shows, seemed like nice folks. But if I'm in that part of the metromess, Allegiant Rifleworks or Evolve gets my money every time.

Posted: 4/10/2019 5:00:49 PM EDT

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Send the Sandmen after them! Run, Runner!!

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Posted: 4/10/2019 5:36:45 PM EDT

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Yeah, was going to buy another one or two this summer.

Posted: 4/10/2019 5:43:22 PM EDT

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2 threads on them in the HTF.

Posted: 4/10/2019 5:48:40 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/10/2019 5:51:41 PM EDT

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Can't say that I am shocked by this.

Posted: 4/10/2019 6:04:35 PM EDT

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I got a poverty pony lower and a billet Texas flag marked lower from them a year ago. Even then their store was very thin on inventory.

Posted: 4/10/2019 6:06:50 PM EDT

[#25]

Web site is still up?

Posted: 4/10/2019 6:18:46 PM EDT

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I got charged for a 80% GM Hydramatic lower that didn't show up.

After many attempts, I finally got through.

He gave me some bullshit story about mail service problems.

But, he did get my lower to me in two days.

It's cool.

Guess it's a collectors item now.

Posted: 4/10/2019 6:20:16 PM EDT

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Sure is and while you can probably place an order, odds are you won't get it.

Posted: 4/10/2019 6:27:23 PM EDT

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Many years ago, in the days of "computer shows," I bought a mother board at a computer show. It had a problem so I called the vendor and he said, "Bring it back." I explained that he was forty miles away and that it might be a while before I could get there. "No problem."

About a month later I had nothing pressing so I headed off to his store. I had a rough idea of where it was and drove up and down the stretch of highway looking for it. No store. Looking for the number, I found an empty store so I went into the business next door and asked if they knew anything.

Business was owned by a pair of brothers and had been going great guns until one brother discovered Atlantic City. He was dropping so much at the casino that they'd send a jet to pick him up. He started dipping into the till and the business went under. Very suddenly. The one owner went to my informant one day and said, "We're closing" and the next day the store was empty.

I never did get my new motherboard.

Posted: 4/10/2019 6:36:06 PM EDT

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A lot of people ask why I got my FFL and didn't open up a brick and motor store, because it is a losing venture, for most cases. Even stores I thought were going to stick around have closed. You can't compete with the internet prices. It is lower than the cost to most dealers.

There was a store around here the closed and had tons of customers' guns, Class III stuff and customer's money who ordered guns. Hundreds of thousands worth of guns, cans and money. Don't know what happened to the people, but I hope they got arrested

Posted: 4/10/2019 6:41:10 PM EDT

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Huh, interesting. I remember reading about someone trying to track down a purchase/parts from them but never heard a conclusion to that. This new info is interesting in light of that.

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:04:06 PM EDT

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I bought a sweet Come and Take It billet lower from them in 2015. I used it for my 300 BLK pistol build.

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Same here

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:07:31 PM EDT

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R-U-N-N-O-F-T?

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:08:58 PM EDT

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Bullshit. Where's the glory hole?

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:09:02 PM EDT

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Screen name?

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:12:47 PM EDT

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No it was not

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:18:20 PM EDT

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Is he the former owner of Lancaster Arms?

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:24:39 PM EDT

[#37]

I’m from the DFW area and I guess I’m lucky to never heard of them.

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:25:13 PM EDT

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Chet Durda lol. Haven't heard that name in years.

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:32:06 PM EDT

[#39]

Sorry to hear that. They showed off some nice stuff at gun shows. I think I have a couple of their lowers.

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:38:20 PM EDT

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Pretty sure any time somebody vacates, the landlord has to change the locks...

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:40:34 PM EDT

[#41]

From my experience they sent a lot of business to Brownells.

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:40:57 PM EDT

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I have one of their flowers. They're in Frisco I think.

They used to be at a lot of local gun shows.

It's a hard time to be in the gun business.

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:42:31 PM EDT

[#43]

I was bummed when I found this out. I really wanted one of the gm hydra-matic lowers. Clone of course

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:46:26 PM EDT

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Or under investigation?

Kinda makes me wonder if there was any unfinished business - orders or the like - that they scampered off with.

Posted: 4/10/2019 7:47:44 PM EDT

[#45]

Good fucking riddance

Posted: 4/10/2019 8:05:37 PM EDT

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Logans Run - Run Runner!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoKz-ilaZiA

Posted: 4/10/2019 8:20:44 PM EDT

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Based on the lawyer letter taped to the front door, Runner Runner ran off in the middle of the night for failure to pay rent.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:29:02 PM EDT

[#48]

is the firearms retail world not MAP enforced?

it must not be with all the comments that internet pricing is lower than cost to dealers...

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:38:45 PM EDT

[#49]

A few months back i bought some 80% lowers from them. Only shipping option was priority 2 day. I got the lowers about a month later with zero response from multiple phone calls and emails. The phone would just ring and ring. I guess i should be thankful i got them at all.

Posted: 4/11/2019 7:44:18 PM EDT

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A few months back i bought some 80% lowers from them. Only shipping option was priority 2 day. I got the lowers about a month later with zero response from multiple phone calls and emails. The phone would just ring and ring. I guess i should be thankful i got them at all.

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Yes you should, unlike some others, such recent customers with transfers in limbo from last week.

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