Yep, I've been to GAT. Great for looking and getting ideas and then going to your FFL! ;-) I LOVE the guys that work behind the counter. No offense to any GAT employees that may read this forum, but GEEZ are they know-it-alls! I get that from so many places. I'm not even a newbie and I get the newbie attitude from almost every shoppe. I went into Riverside Sports in Geneva and the know-it-all in the ammo section actually told me I couldn't shoot .223 through my Colt .223 AR-15! He said only 5.56! I played dumb and listened to him for a while and left laughing. If I was the owner, I'd have fired him on the SPOT!
OK, I'll get off my soap box now!
I see Peppers Sports is out of biz, huh? Wild. I thought they were pretty fair. Maybe too fair. I've tried the Gun Doc in Roselle for some shot gun sights before but forgot about them for this. I just sent my 1911 to "Rock River Arms". I called them and they said they were slow while waiting for a shipment of frames so that now was a great time to get the weapon to them. Their prices seem very fair, too.
Sorry for the long, multi-tangent post.
-Ed in Chicagoland