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Posted: 4/18/2002 12:18:09 PM EDT
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Super Pawn in Las Vegas (if I remember correctly) is excellent for gun deals. I picked up a Hi-Power in .40 from them on auctionarms and even with the shipping and transfer fees it was WAY less than I would have paid anywhere else.
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Posted: 4/18/2002 12:19:33 PM EDT
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Hehe. I've seen worse.
I saw a Yamaha piece of crap guitar for $499. I had just bought the same guitar new for $179 including an amp. I can't think of too many gun deals that were WAY off. They tend to know more here. |
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Posted: 4/18/2002 12:21:39 PM EDT
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Last month i saw a preban CAR-15 (i confirmed the S/N)for 800 dollars... looked real nice... only problem was i had 500 dollars and i was leaving the next day for North Carolina.... God i was pissed off. I should have put it on credit...
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Posted: 4/18/2002 12:30:17 PM EDT
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You're right that pawn shops miss the mark on pricing a good bit of the time (in both directions). On ammo, however, I think many of them count on an ignorant buyer who doesn't know the market. The $15 Turk 8mm bandoliers (that cost $4) and the $20 boxes of cheap import 9mm are pretty commmon in pawn shops. They often deal with a very different kind of buyer than us.
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Posted: 4/18/2002 12:49:04 PM EDT
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They get $10 for a box of S+B ammo and they are the stupid ones.
Yes and Bill Gates gets $300 for a piece of plastic that a laser light etched some bit patterns on but no one calls him stupid. |
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Posted: 4/18/2002 3:01:02 PM EDT
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Here in Phoenix, there are good and bad. I've bagged some screaming deals on guns and stereo equipment at a few, and others just seem to be a front for laundering money. A few I've been into want as much-if not more-for used rifles than what they cost new, and won't budge on the price. The good pawn shops might have high prices, but will wheel and deal with you if you try. I was in one pawn shop and they had a 1965 Winchester mod. 70, .308 w/Leupold (sp?) 3X-9X scope, and it had been converted to accept a Remington clip. VERY nice, tight as a prom queen's thighs, riflings in great shape. They wanted $700.00 for it, the guy came down to $500.00. I went back two days later (payday) and it was gone.[pissed]
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Posted: 4/18/2002 4:02:44 PM EDT
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Here in SoCal the Russian Mafia own almost all pawn shops so if you buy from them you are helping launder drug money. Very obvious scam. I often wonder why no LEO checks into it.
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Posted: 4/18/2002 4:32:05 PM EDT
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At a pawn shop down the street, they were selling a ASA "preban" rifle for $900. What made it preban, to them, was the fact that it had a 20" Colt preban upper on it.
For those who don't know, ALL ASA lowers are post ban. |
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Posted: 4/18/2002 5:09:05 PM EDT
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I think they price high and are counting on people chewing them down on the price I didn't know the pawn shops in so cal are mafia run?
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Posted: 4/18/2002 6:34:16 PM EDT
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My understanding is that the California legislature is a money laundering scam concocted by organized crime. [:D]
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Posted: 4/18/2002 6:47:09 PM EDT
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Do you have to have paper on the guns you buy at pawnshops? In other wards no private sales?
What are the laws in the various states,on this matter? |
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Posted: 4/18/2002 10:30:22 PM EDT
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Quoted: Do you have to have paper on the guns you buy at pawnshops? In other wards no private sales? What are the laws in the various states,on this matter? All pawn shops that sell a firearm must use a FFL & follow all local & BATF laws. No private sales allowed. |
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Posted: 4/19/2002 6:12:40 AM EDT
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OK pawn shops like to give you about 1/4 the value of an item and then re-sell it for near full retail.
I tried pawning a rifle (Rem 700 VSS w/Leupold scope) at an ezpawn, needed cash quick. The people there said they couldn't go any higher than a hundred dollars. I laughed at them... |
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