Whats the best lie you had a gun seller tell you

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I was told that you never have to clean a Glock. They were made to not require any cleaning.

1911's were not made to be carried with one in the chamber. You pull it out and rack the slide on the draw stroke.
 
Is it just me or do I not want some of the people on this thread working at my local Benelli dealer. They would just perpetuate the title of this thread.

I really, really, hate Benelli but I do know how they work.
 
I had a salesman at a local gun store tell me that I needed to slowly let the slide to return to battery on a Walther PPS instead of just punching the slide release and letting the springs take care of it "because it could damage the plastic rails."

Why wouldn't they be damaged by just firing the thing if this was the case?
 
heres a quote from a guy behind the counter while i looking at a mini 14; "you can kill a coyote at 600 yards" !...:rolleyes:
 
I always thought their revolvers were pretty good, but I'm not a revolver guy. IMHO their autos suck...
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Odd, I haven't had a problem with their PT1911 at all, other than the trouble of cleaning out the factory grease.
 
'Scandium' S&W revolver is "100% pure Scandium".

I've worked in a labs doing science with exotic metals... 99.9% purity Scandium costs about 300 U.S. dollars per _gram_ last time I checked.
 
Odd, I haven't had a problem with their PT1911 at all, other than the trouble of cleaning out the factory grease.
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Haven't shot one of their 1911s, but would not be surprised if it was good. If you screw up a 1911, there are hundreds of other manufacturers that are willing to take your place. A friend of mine recently bought a Taurus 145...last weekend he took it out with some blazer brass, and was complaining of bad ammo. I noticed the soft primer strikes and placed one of the cartridges in my HK USP45...bang. Still havent had a failure of any kind out of that gun (other than failure to line up the sights properly :neener: ) :D
 
Took my Mossberg TactiKool playtoy to a local Gunshop/Gunsmith several months ago to have the barrel ported. When I took it out of the case and placed it on the counter a salesman helping another customer, pointed to my shotgun and told his customer. "That is why there will be a assult rifle ban" or words to that effect
 
Not exactly lies, but I've heard the following from the local Sportsmans' Warehouse:

"If you're carrying concealed and somebody sees the bottom of your holster you could get arrested for brandishing"
(OK, I guess you can get *arrested* for anything, given a dumb enough cop, but it's certainly not illegal here)

They also tried to tell me there's no such thing as a convertible Ruger Blackhawk, and that Ruger never made a 5" GP100.
 
My top 3

#1 - Vendor at a local show referred too a KelTec as a "mini-Glock". He claimed Glock made all of the parts and sold them to KelTec. I never was sure if he really believed it or if he was just lying.

#2 - ALL FFLs and the military are going to .40 caliber becuase 9mm and anything blow 9mm has proven totally worthless.

#3 - My favorite - A gun show vendor told me the USED Rohrbaugh 9mm he was selling for OVER $1500.00 was made of the same material as the Space Shuttle. This guy was dead serious. I couldn't stop laughing when he said it.
 
ChuckUSARET, That would be time to find a new gunshop.

I have not been in a shop long enough to have heard what I think to be a lie yet. However I have heard much storytelling and .... embellishments from the Customers IN the said shops over the years.
 
#3 - My favorite - A gun show vendor told me the USED Rohrbaugh 9mm he was selling for OVER $1500.00 was made of the same material as the Space Shuttle. This guy was dead serious. I couldn't stop laughing when he said it.
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So what is wrong with that?

The gun is constructed of stainless steel and aircraft aluminum alloy, so what is the shuttle constructed of? Probably a lot of those same materials, and many others. (You know it is not just one hunk of ceramic wonder stuff they whittled it out of, don't you?)

Not so much a lie, but pretty excessive him wanting that much for a used one. $1k seems about what most are selling for. But if someone pays that for his, he wins.
 
Jennings 9mm stainless steel slide.

If only it were.
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Hmm, that's quite a conundrum, as to which is better. Is it better for a gun to jam 10,000 times consecutively before disintegrating (steel), or jam 1,000 times consecutively before disintegrating (status quo / pot metal)?? The latter would be a lot less irritating. :uhoh:
 
Let's see, my fave would be that "Universal Carbines was the fake name the CIA put on the Bay of Pigs guns..."

Or that AR-15 & AK47 use the same, completely interchangeable ammo. Or that Type 56 is a different caliber than the AK47.

Or that you had to stay away from an AKM--it's full auto you know.

Lots of bilge out there passing for potable.
 
Here's a recent one from an email correspondance:

"I'm sorry to inform you that I cannot offer you your asking price for your LE (Lee Enfield) because it is something that I'm not really looking for plus it is something that is just not made anymore and therefore not worth as much as recently made weapons."... It goes one like that for a little bit then..."but because I feel for you I can offer you $75 in cash. Have a nice day! :))"

Just made me shake my head...
 
I asked a seller on Gun Broker if the Steyr M40-A1 he had for sale at $550.00 was different than the one's CDNN sells for $349. She replied that that was the dealer price and that only dealers can buy from CDNN.
 
38-40 bisley

"So you got this old 38-40 Bisley colt with this short 4 1/2" barrel? Well I don't know. I guess I might be able to take it in on trade for this 4 power bushnel scope. "
I was young and dumb (50 years ago) and did it.:uhoh:
 
I might have mentioned this before, but I had a guy at a gunshow tell me that an old 1911 was stainless steel, when it was obviously a carbon steel gun which was missing nearly all of its finish.

It was actually pretty reasonably priced, but I didn't appreciate being lied to like that.

I also had one guy at a pawn shop tell me that a run-of-the-mill Arisaka was a "Japanese sniper rifle," but he might have actually thought that. I suppose that any full-sized rifle is a "sniper rifle" to some people.
 
I always thought their revolvers were pretty good, but I'm not a revolver guy. IMHO their autos suck...
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I have several taurus guns, all of which can shoot shot for shot as well or better than my springfields and smiths....this includes their semi-autos.
 
"So you got this old 38-40 Bisley colt with this short 4 1/2" barrel? Well I don't know. I guess I might be able to take it in on trade for this 4 power bushnel scope. "
I was young and dumb (50 years ago) and did it.
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Wow.. this is bad. I feel for you. I hope 50years were enough to forgive.. ;)
 
I have several taurus guns, all of which can shoot shot for shot as well or better than my springfields and smiths....this includes their semi-autos.
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Glad you had a good experience with em'...
 
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