Opportunity Turned Down~!

[Ala Dan]

Hello My Fellow HighRoaders-

Well, I just wanted everyone too know that I'm not the "GUN HOG" that some folk's on this forum think that I am~! For example, yesterday I turned down an opportunity to purchase a used, factory nickel Smith & Wesson model 39-2 (my personal favorite) 9mm for one C- Note; but without box or doc's. I let a co-worker who needed a 9mm carry gun, make this purchase instead. The main reason I turned this transaction down, was the fact that the original owner decided too have his name engraved on the side of the slide; and the cost to have it removed and re-nickeled would have been far too great~!

 

[M2 Carbine]

Opportunity Turned Down~!

Willpower, Willpower, I need such Willpower as that.


I have to send the Feds a big check for taxes. I said I'm not going to buy any more guns until I pay those taxes.
So two weeks ago I buy a Colt Cobra that comes in to the store. Then Friday I'm in the store when FedEx delivers two Ruger LC9 pistols.


Well, at least I only bought one.

 

[gordy]

I would change my name.

Well for a 100$ 39-2 I think I would change my name.

 

[Holo]

Unfortunately for me, but fortunately for my wallet, VA has a mandatory 30 day wait period between firearms purchases.

 

[Bush Pilot]

VA one gun every 30 days?

To the OP, you should have purchased the gun. Your co-worker is going to get canned in a couple of months and you'll never see him again. Who cares about the name on the gun? You shoot a Smith and Wesson and I doubt your real name is Smith or Wesson.

 

[rellascout]

Ala Dan I have lost all respect for you..... LOL

 

[rellascout]

Unfortunately for me, but fortunately for my wallet, VA has a mandatory 30 day wait period between firearms purchases.

Get a Conceal Carry Permit and you are exempt.

 

[mgmorden]

Unfortunately for me, but fortunately for my wallet, VA has a mandatory 30 day wait period between firearms purchases.

South Carolina had that (for handguns only) until a few years back when it was repealed. One of those rare cases where "gun control" laws actually get LESS strict. Don't say Sanford never gave us anything .

As to the gun in question here though, at $100 for a S&W, I'd be more than willing to overlook the name engraving - particularly if it had been professionaly done. Heck that's part of the appeal of owning used guns. A new gun when you hold it you know that it came straight from a factory to you. A used gun - particularly the really old ones - you know has some history behind it. Long before it came to you it was being shot, carried, and depended on by someone else. About like the old saying "If walls could talk", even though there are technically no walls involved .