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Posted: 9/11/2017 10:17:16 PM EDT
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I've done an ftf deal there, they must not have been on the cameras.
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Posted: 9/11/2017 10:22:30 PM EDT
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Yeah I don't know, parked on the side of the building towards back well beyond public vision from street. Just totally rubbed me the wrong way, will spend money elsewhere. Just feel stupid because I always used to stick up for them.
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Posted: 9/11/2017 10:25:49 PM EDT
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What place is this? I must not have gone to this shop yet. Feel free to PM if its that hush hush
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Posted: 9/11/2017 10:28:29 PM EDT
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Are we talking about Hoffman's?
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Posted: 9/11/2017 10:30:04 PM EDT
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Hoffman's Gun Center in Newington.
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Posted: 9/11/2017 10:32:16 PM EDT
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Hoffman's Gun Center in Newington. 
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Posted: 9/11/2017 10:48:40 PM EDT
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I also am done with them..
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Posted: 9/12/2017 7:06:50 AM EDT
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How about dont go and do a transfer in the parking lot of a business that is in the business of transferring firearms...
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Posted: 9/12/2017 7:39:32 AM EDT
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How about dont go and do a transfer in the parking lot of a business that is in the business of transferring firearms... take the butthurt elsewhere. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 7:40:17 AM EDT
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How about dont go and do a transfer in the parking lot of a business that is in the business of transferring firearms... |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 7:53:09 AM EDT
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How about dont go and do a transfer in the parking lot of a business that is in the business of transferring firearms... That's a great way to alienate your clientele, as seen here. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 7:55:38 AM EDT
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That's BS. They should welcome it. It's not like they had a sale vultured from them or something. Hell, its more likely they'd have come in after they wrapped up their business anyways. That's a great way to alienate your clientele, as seen here. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How about dont go and do a transfer in the parking lot of a business that is in the business of transferring firearms... That's a great way to alienate your clientele, as seen here. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 8:38:37 AM EDT
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this. take the butthurt elsewhere. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How about dont go and do a transfer in the parking lot of a business that is in the business of transferring firearms... take the butthurt elsewhere. That being said I think that place sucks and have finally convinced my BIL there are other places to go that that place. But yeah not the smartest place to do that transfer(I know it was convient when looking at the whole thing from your perspective OP). but at the end of a day it is a business and the #1 rule in any business is to make money. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 9:20:31 AM EDT
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That's BS. They should welcome it. It's not like they had a sale vultured from them or something. Hell, its more likely they'd have come in after they wrapped up their business anyways. That's a great way to alienate your clientele, as seen here. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 10:11:56 AM EDT
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It's like taking a hibachi and some burgers to the parking lot of Burger King and expecting them to bring out some milkshakes to you...
Do the transfer in someone else's parking lot who isn't in the business of doing what you're doing...not really too much to ask. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 10:26:07 AM EDT
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True,but as a business long at the long game here. If the OP stated to the shop clerk "Hey I am coming in with my new rifle to get ammo as soon as I finish this" I honk would of helped his cause as I am sure Hoffmann would of made more money selling him the ammo(maybe range time too?) than doing just the transfer. That being said I think that place sucks and have finally convinced my BIL there are other places to go that that place. But yeah not the smartest place to do that transfer(I know it was convient when looking at the whole thing from your perspective OP). but at the end of a day it is a business and the #1 rule in any business is to make money. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How about dont go and do a transfer in the parking lot of a business that is in the business of transferring firearms... take the butthurt elsewhere. That being said I think that place sucks and have finally convinced my BIL there are other places to go that that place. But yeah not the smartest place to do that transfer(I know it was convient when looking at the whole thing from your perspective OP). but at the end of a day it is a business and the #1 rule in any business is to make money. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 10:26:27 AM EDT
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It's like taking a hibachi and some burgers to the parking lot of Burger King and expecting them to bring out some milkshakes to you... Do the transfer in someone else's parking lot who isn't in the business of doing what you're doing...not really too much to ask. This is more comparable to a movie theater taking away a Nalgene bottle of water on the way in. No, wait, its more like the movie theater saying you have to leave because you brought your own water and they sell it. The only way I'd side with Hoffmann here was if the two guys were at the counter and one of them was looking at a rifle Hoffmans had for sale, and then the other guy said, "I have one in my trunk I'll sell you for less". They performed a perfectly legal transaction. If I'm at BK selling a guy a rifle and I take it out of my trunk and put it in someone else's there's like a 50% chance someone calls the cops. I always thought a gun store is a "no brainer" place to do FTF transactions. They are gun friendly, and the people that would witness the sale would likely be, too. Hoffmans is retarded. It would have been one thing to say we don't appreciate it, it's another to make their own clients feel unwelcome. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 10:29:20 AM EDT
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im not really looking at it from a business perspective rather a legal perspective. every gun store is under a microscope by the state, dems, antis, and the media. hoffmans still moves the most paper in the state. all it takes is the wrong eyes to see a transfer in the parking lot to get into the medias hands to start a shit show. i can just see WTNH running a story of "firearm sales in gun store parking lot" and then comes a storm that points back to that particular gun store. this is a similar argument to open carry . yes its legal, but do you want that kind of negative attention ? the gun store, whoever it may be , may not want it due to the unwanted negative attention it could have produced. Besides that, it's legal. No harm is done either way. It's easy to "what if" worst case scenarios in CT. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 10:35:46 AM EDT
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What?! If I was eating a sandwich in the drive through at BK, and when I got to the window for my milkshake, you think they wouldn't serve it to me? Lol. This is going to blow some minds in here I guess. I work construction and I always bring a lunch. Most of the young guys don't. So when it's lunch time they drive to wherever to eat. I have actually brought my sandwich into Subway and ate it with them, while they all ordered from there. Do you think they said I can't eat that sandwich in there? Hahaha Nobody cares. This is more comparable to a movie theater taking away a Nalgene bottle of water on the way in. No, wait, its more like the movie theater saying you have to leave because you brought your own water and they sell it. The only way I'd side with Hoffmann here was if the two guys were at the counter and one of them was looking at a rifle Hoffmans had for sale, and then the other guy said, "I have one in my trunk I'll sell you for less". They performed a perfectly legal transaction. If I'm at BK selling a guy a rifle and I take it out of my trunk and put it in someone else's there's like a 50% chance someone calls the cops. I always thought a gun store is a "no brainer" place to do FTF transactions. They are gun friendly, and the people that would witness the sale would likely be, too. Hoffmans is retarded. It would have been one thing to say we don't appreciate it, it's another to make their own clients feel unwelcome. I have no love for Hoffman's, but I harbor them no ill will either. In my book, they did nothing wrong by asking the OP not to do a firearms transfer in the parking lot of their firearms business. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 10:36:48 AM EDT
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I'm looking at it the exact opposite. Imagine "firearm sales in Stop & Shop parking lot". I think you'd be less likely to find trouble in a store who's shoppers are generally pro gun, as opposed to virtually any other parking lot. Besides that, it's legal. No harm is done either way. It's easy to "what if" worst case scenarios in CT. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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im not really looking at it from a business perspective rather a legal perspective. every gun store is under a microscope by the state, dems, antis, and the media. hoffmans still moves the most paper in the state. all it takes is the wrong eyes to see a transfer in the parking lot to get into the medias hands to start a shit show. i can just see WTNH running a story of "firearm sales in gun store parking lot" and then comes a storm that points back to that particular gun store. this is a similar argument to open carry . yes its legal, but do you want that kind of negative attention ? the gun store, whoever it may be , may not want it due to the unwanted negative attention it could have produced. Besides that, it's legal. No harm is done either way. It's easy to "what if" worst case scenarios in CT. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 10:46:11 AM EDT
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except the biased antis of Connecticut wouldn't point the finger at stop and shop for that headline. they certainty would if it was hoffmans, cabelas, NGX, the gun shop, or any other well known gun store. 
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Posted: 9/12/2017 11:05:07 AM EDT
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except the biased antis of Connecticut wouldn't point the finger at stop and shop for that headline. they certainty would if it was hoffmans, cabelas, NGX, the gun shop, or any other well known gun store. The fact of the matter is a "whistle blower" would be more likely to witness a FTF transaction in any other parking lot vs a gun store. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 11:06:19 AM EDT
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The simple fact of the matter is it's THEIR parking lot. If they don't want someone doing something in it, then I figure they have every justification to tell them to stop doing what they are doing or asking them to leave. I have no love for Hoffman's, but I harbor them no ill will either. In my book, they did nothing wrong by asking the OP not to do a firearms transfer in the parking lot of their firearms business. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 1:40:26 PM EDT
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I think the only way to come to a resolution here is to know what kind of rifle it was. That way we can all make our assesments. Fair?
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Posted: 9/12/2017 1:43:21 PM EDT
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There isn't an argument here.
Hoffman's parking lot. Hoffman's Business. Hoffman's rules. You don't like Hoffman's rules, either abide by them or don't go there. Even I was kicked off the property for selling an AR15. I came back 30 minutes later and bought a stripped up. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 1:53:27 PM EDT
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Hartford Public Safety complex has a safe space for transfers! I prefer Cabelas.
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Posted: 9/12/2017 2:24:47 PM EDT
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What?! If I was eating a sandwich in the drive through at BK, and when I got to the window for my milkshake, you think they wouldn't serve it to me? Lol. This is going to blow some minds in here I guess. I work construction and I always bring a lunch. Most of the young guys don't. So when it's lunch time they drive to wherever to eat. I have actually brought my sandwich into Subway and ate it with them, while they all ordered from there. Do you think they said I can't eat that sandwich in there? Hahaha Nobody cares. This is more comparable to a movie theater taking away a Nalgene bottle of water on the way in. No, wait, its more like the movie theater saying you have to leave because you brought your own water and they sell it. The only way I'd side with Hoffmann here was if the two guys were at the counter and one of them was looking at a rifle Hoffmans had for sale, and then the other guy said, "I have one in my trunk I'll sell you for less". They performed a perfectly legal transaction. If I'm at BK selling a guy a rifle and I take it out of my trunk and put it in someone else's there's like a 50% chance someone calls the cops. I always thought a gun store is a "no brainer" place to do FTF transactions. They are gun friendly, and the people that would witness the sale would likely be, too. Hoffmans is retarded. It would have been one thing to say we don't appreciate it, it's another to make their own clients feel unwelcome. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 2:27:31 PM EDT
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I agree, I'm not arguing that. I'm not saying they were wrong, I'm saying they're retarded. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 7:51:15 PM EDT
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There isn't an argument here. Hoffman's parking lot. Hoffman's Business. Hoffman's rules. You don't like Hoffman's rules, either abide by them or don't go there. Even I was kicked off the property for selling an AR15. I came back 30 minutes later and bought a stripped up. |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 8:24:29 PM EDT
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Next time go to exit 21 off 91 and do a transfer in the state police parking lot.
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Posted: 9/12/2017 8:29:20 PM EDT
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VIP parking lot
Why?............because dildos Just like this fucking thread |
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Posted: 9/12/2017 9:13:14 PM EDT
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VIP parking lot Why?............because dildos Just like this fucking thread 
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Posted: 9/12/2017 9:26:03 PM EDT
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Would you two just double anal and get it over with ?
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Posted: 9/13/2017 6:32:39 AM EDT
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I honestly thought a gun store would be a perfectly acceptable place to do this. |
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Posted: 9/13/2017 5:31:24 PM EDT
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On a scale of 1-10
I would rate this thread as ......... DILDOS 
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Posted: 9/13/2017 8:06:17 PM EDT
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On a scale of 1-10 I would rate this thread as ......... DILDOS |
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