When I was just starting to shoot, 30+ years ago, I didn't seem to run into the "What? You want to see it? What? You don't know how to .....?" guys as I do now. But the "Hey, those ________ are totally junk!" guys have always been numerous, on both sides of the counter, as are the fanbois of one brand or another, one type of gun or another. I was out of town not too long ago, and there was a gun I was interested in the used case, a Dan Wesson Model 715 .357, and as soon as I said I wanted to see it, the old guy who appears to be one of the permanent residents of the place (He's been there every time I or a friend of mine has been there) blurts out, "I don't know why you would want one of those, they're junk!". I've owned seven of them over the years, I know how to put one together from a pile of parts, and so I ignored him. Well, he continued on about it, and I continued to ignore him. There was nothing mechanically wrong with it, I passed on it, as I had already spent my limit somewhere else, but my friend made an offer on it, and the owner of the store took it, making the comment, "I'm glad to see it go, just to shut up Mr. Colt Fanatic here(looking at the guy who was bad mouthing it) who has tried to get anyone who looked at to pass on it and buy a Python or whatever!". I made the comment, "I've had seven of them, and magically, all of them were great, so I must have magical powers that make me somehow get the only good ones, time after time!". He grumbled while my friend filled out the paperwork, etc, and I decided to really get him going by telling him I've had seven Astra 9mm's and all of them have been great too! As I expected, he totally went off the deep end with the comment, "Only good auto is a genuine Colt 1911!". I told him my one colt 1911 was one of the worst disasters I've ever owned, terrible QC issues, a Star a co worker had that rattled like something was broken inside made it look terrible, as it actually shot great. I thought he was going to have a stroke!