Anyone remember EUROARMS in Alhambra, CA?

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Posted: 10/18/2006 10:31:03 PM EDT

Anyone remember or used to shop at EUROARMS in Alhambra, CA? I used to work there, what an...interesting experience.

Posted: 10/19/2006 9:53:48 AM EDT

[#1]

Are they still around? I remember those guys. They seemed to have a real hard on for anything European. Explains the name.

Posted: 10/19/2006 11:29:48 AM EDT

[#2]

Yup. On Garfield south of Main in Alhambra. Visited a few times, but never bought due to cash shortage.

I understand there was a shootout and the store closed soon afterward.

Posted: 10/19/2006 2:00:54 PM EDT

[#3]

Yup, that's where I got my OLL's. They moved to Valley Blvd near the end of the 710 fwy.

Posted: 10/19/2006 8:29:25 PM EDT

[#4]

I was there earlier this year. Weird a** operation!

They pretty much told me they don’t have anything until I spoke Chinese.
I though I was wearing my ATF cap. Something is going on there!

Posted: 10/19/2006 9:17:17 PM EDT

[#5]

I was there a couple of years ago (new location). Did a transfer from another AF'comer for a Fab-10 lower (having cut up my Bushmaster).

I think gun shop guys are fairly typical. Loners who like german cameras and guns.

Not bad. Just a little off and out of the way for any impulse buying.

tk

Posted: 10/20/2006 6:53:22 AM EDT

[#6]

Yep, I was there 94-95. I could only a do a year there, $6-7 bucks a hour with bouncing paychecks is not good employee welfare. The owner, Ashley, is something else. Lets just say I haven't been there in years and we never spoke. The experience made me realize that I will never work for an ethnic Chinese man AGAIN.

I also realized I should have worked for Turners for a better learning experience yet with the corporate employee benefits, and western business model.

Posted: 10/21/2006 12:51:27 AM EDT

[#7]

i have to agree..

i bought my first gun there.. i didn't have that much of a good experience.. service was not good until i spoke chinese to the guy..

Posted: 10/22/2006 4:59:54 AM EDT

[#8]

Most wealthy immigrants see Americans the way they would look at a rickshaw
driver in their own country: as peasants.

Until you "flash the cash" you're just waisting their time.

But, if THEY need YOU (my wife's a buyer, does LOTS of business with Asians in the fashion industry) they:

Want to be your friend.

Want to take you out for lunch.

Invite you to go to Vegas, on them!

Offer to have body work done on your car, on them.

If you wear a suit, they look at you as aristocracy, and will treat you better.

Ever notice they like Rolex, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Calvin Klein...even though they live in dumps that stink like rotten fish?

I've been to EuroArms ONCE when I first found out about them. MANY years ago.

I always warn anybody that asks, "Stay away from EuroARMS!"

Posted: 10/23/2006 2:47:03 PM EDT

[#9]

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Quoted:
Most wealthy immigrants see Americans the way they would look at a rickshaw
driver in their own country: as peasants.

Until you "flash the cash" you're just waisting their time.

But, if THEY need YOU (my wife's a buyer, does LOTS of business with Asians in the fashion industry) they:

Want to be your friend.

Want to take you out for lunch.

Invite you to go to Vegas, on them!

Offer to have body work done on your car, on them.

If you wear a suit, they look at you as aristocracy, and will treat you better.

Ever notice they like Rolex, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Calvin Klein...even though they live in dumps that stink like rotten fish?

I've been to EuroArms ONCE when I first found out about them. MANY years ago.

I always warn anybody that asks, "Stay away from EuroARMS!"

hey! my house doesn't smell like rotten fish! hahaha... but for the most part what you said is true... i guess long story short.. don't go to euroarms....

Posted: 10/24/2006 4:30:06 PM EDT

[#10]

They had a robbery years ago, owner/worker in back hears whats going on outside, grabs AR, confronts robber, robber turns around with a handgun. Owner/worker double taps missing both times robbers runs between counters turns to return fire, owner/worker double taps again this time hitting him both times. The guy told me he screamed like a woman when he got shot and collapsed. He wore a 1911 in the small of his back but still grabed the AR, I would of done the same.

Posted: 10/24/2006 6:17:12 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
They had a robbery years ago, owner/worker in back hears whats going on outside, grabs AR, confronts robber, robber turns around with a handgun. Owner/worker double taps missing both times robbers runs between counters turns to return fire, owner/worker double taps again this time hitting him both times. The guy told me he screamed like a woman when he got shot and collapsed. He wore a 1911 in the small of his back but still grabed the AR, I would of done the same.

Wow, I heard about this one. I always thought it was that other gun store in that strip mall on Garfield and Garvey, next to what used to be KFC and ABC Cafe.

Posted: 10/24/2006 8:33:48 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

Quoted:
They had a robbery years ago, owner/worker in back hears whats going on outside, grabs AR, confronts robber, robber turns around with a handgun. Owner/worker double taps missing both times robbers runs between counters turns to return fire, owner/worker double taps again this time hitting him both times. The guy told me he screamed like a woman when he got shot and collapsed. He wore a 1911 in the small of his back but still grabed the AR, I would of done the same.

Wow, I heard about this one. I always thought it was that other gun store in that strip mall on Garfield and Garvey, next to what used to be KFC and ABC Cafe.

Garfield & Garvey? Shit, I used to live off Garfield in Monterey Park from 1980-83. Didn't even know there was a gun store there. Was it in Atlantic Square?

Posted: 10/24/2006 10:22:12 PM EDT

[#13]

dayam.. if i got hit twice i would have screamed like a woman too..

Posted: 10/25/2006 8:53:15 AM EDT

[#14]

Garfield & Garvey? Shit, I used to live off Garfield in Monterey Park from 1980-83. Didn't even know there was a gun store there. Was it in Atlantic Square?

Jays Pacific, the last I heard they moved down on Atlantic.

Ah the golden days of the San Gabriel Valley gun dealers ; Eurorarms, Jay's Pacific, Firepower in Montery Park, Code 3 USA, Bain & Davis gunsmithing in San Gabriel; Pete Stefansky and even the sporting goods shop next to B & D.

Posted: 10/26/2006 7:45:18 AM EDT

[#15]

Garfield and Garvey was probably the Lin brothers' place (of Brolin fame). It was open for about year and a half about three stores down from the KFC.

Posted: 10/28/2006 11:18:59 PM EDT

[#16]

Stop it!!!!!!!!!!!

You're making miss home......Grew up in Alhambra but haven't been back for almost 10 years now.

Gosh, I remember working at Turners in Pasadena (back when they first opened).

So is Code 3 and Firepower still open? I was sure EuroArms closed years ago.

Gotta make a trip down there one day.

Posted: 10/30/2006 7:09:32 AM EDT

[#17]

Code 3 is gone man...Its a flower shop or something now. I ate at "the Hat" on valley and garfield a few weeks ago and noticed it wasn't there anymore. Those other places, I don't know. Obviously Turners in Pasadena and Bain & Davis are still there because quite frankly, white people know how to run a business compared to the Chinese folks. I'm American of Chinese ancestry by the way.

Posted: 10/30/2006 6:16:13 PM EDT

[#18]

The main problem with the Chinese gun stores is that they only want to cater to the Chinese. granted there are a lot of Chinese in Alhambra/Montrery Park/San Gabriel Area(suburbs of approx 5 miles east of Los Angeles), but there isn't that many, and beside these guns stores are also has to compete against other gun stores such as Turners, Bains etc.

Posted: 10/30/2006 7:39:30 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

Garfield & Garvey? Shit, I used to live off Garfield in Monterey Park from 1980-83. Didn't even know there was a gun store there. Was it in Atlantic Square?

Jays Pacific, the last I heard they moved down on Atlantic.

Ah the golden days of the San Gabriel Valley gun dealers ; Eurorarms, Jay's Pacific, Firepower in Montery Park, Code 3 USA, Bain & Davis gunsmithing in San Gabriel; Pete Stefansky and even the sporting goods shop next to B & D.

yea that was jays. they ended up taking over andys pool hall property. jay was also at the code 3 location for a short time.. then soon shut down. the employees went elsewhere.. oscar went to national guns in reseda, and have also since shut down. don sent into computer hardware.

rick used to own code 3. he was kina a nicer guy.. but he didnt need the money, lemme tell you guys.....

Posted: 10/30/2006 7:40:54 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Most wealthy immigrants see Americans the way they would look at a rickshaw
driver in their own country: as peasants.

Until you "flash the cash" you're just waisting their time.

But, if THEY need YOU (my wife's a buyer, does LOTS of business with Asians in the fashion industry) they:

Want to be your friend.

Want to take you out for lunch.

Invite you to go to Vegas, on them!

Offer to have body work done on your car, on them.

If you wear a suit, they look at you as aristocracy, and will treat you better.

Ever notice they like Rolex, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Calvin Klein...even though they live in dumps that stink like rotten fish?

I've been to EuroArms ONCE when I first found out about them. MANY years ago.

I always warn anybody that asks, "Stay away from EuroARMS!"

thats the thing bout asian around here.. you cannot tell whether they are rich or poor.. either way theyll be rolling in a BM/Merc.

Posted: 10/30/2006 7:41:47 PM EDT

[#21]

none of you guys went to tuans... ?
ever been to gunrunners?

Posted: 10/30/2006 10:59:40 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Code 3 is gone man...Its a flower shop or something now. I ate at "the Hat" on valley and garfield a few weeks ago and noticed it wasn't there anymore. Those other places, I don't know. Obviously Turners in Pasadena and Bain & Davis are still there because quite frankly, white people know how to run a business compared to the Chinese folks. I'm American of Chinese ancestry by the way.

Its not that they dont know how to run a business, its that they dont know how to run a gun business.

The client el are not what most asians are accustomed to dealing with. They simply dont know the market or its customers.