Posted: 5/26/2005 1:18:25 PM EDT
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So I'm out making a business appointment and on the way back home I stop at a pawn shop. First one nothing much, but there is another shop right next to it. The other place had lots of guns. I make it over to the AW section. One Bushy M4 16" Carbine $989, a RR 20" with a SIR system for $2300 (yes $2300) and some type of AK for $560. A guy comes in and wants a 9mm assualt weapon for $200. Said he was a former Marine. But did not know that the Bushy I was holding was basically a copy of the M16. He said their rifles in the Marines was 9mm and that's why he wanted a 9mm. |
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Gotta love them pawn shops. I think the owners keep the prices inflated so they wont loose their toyz for their Sunday shoots. Ive found a couple of deals on rifles..................but for the most part the prices are outlandish. I got a Rem 700 BDL in 270 in ex cond for 300 bucks in Georgia,but the same shop wanted $950 for a plain vanilla DPMS AR.  Im not too sure these guys knew about the AWB sunset almost a year ago.
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No doubt he needed one for the SEAL class he was going into next week?
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There's ONE pawnshop by me that'll wheel & deal. The rest are money laundering fronts as far as I can tell. I've bagged some GREAT deals from that one pawnshop. The rest want MORE for a USED gun than what you'd pay for a NEW one with a warranty. I was in the "good" pawnshop one day and a guy was looking at a full-sized Bushy, the shop wanted $650 for it-I knew that cash and a little gab would get the price down-and the guy was having trouble making up his mind. He'd never heard of Bushmaster   so I said, "Dude-if you don't buy it RIGHT NOW, I WILL".He bought it. The pawnshop guy-who kinda knows me by know-said thanks on the side. This was before the AWB sunsetted. I've bagged a Colt .380, S&W 686, HiPower and a 30-30 for a gift from them, ALWAYS lower than the marked price.  And stereo equipment-let's say I'm SET UP. 
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