Whats the best lie you had a gun seller tell you

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....Every time I found a collectible Winchester at a wily old dealer, there was "some guy from New York who was driving over to buy it at that very moment...but It's first come, first serve.."
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And that's why they call them wily old dealers. ;)
 
A gun dealer tells me that I will not be happy with a .357 Sig because
an autoloader will not reliably feed a bottleneck cartridge. So as not
to be left out of the liars club I said "I wasn't aware a .357 Sig was a
bottleneck cartridge.".LOL.
 
I just deleted thirty eight posts because they either failed to be topical to the thread or failed the THR attitude test.

Let's try to keep from getting the thread completely locked, OK?
 
1. "S&W Sigma is every bit as good as Glock, it's a direct copy but much cheaper. You'd be essentially buying the same gun." (what about trigger pull ?)

2. "The gun you're looking for won't sell for less than $700 anywhere. I can have it ordered for $620+tax, though, just to get a new customer". CZ75B, internet price from a reputable vendor well below $500. This was a highly recommended small local store, too. Ended up buying a Glock anyway because most everyone was out of stock on CZs.

3. "You need this Walther PPK. Bersa's are notoriously unreliable and break easily. You have to constantly clean them to keep them working. Walthers don't require nearly as much maintenance". Actually back then I was unprepared enough and almost got the PPK, but luckily postponed the decision by another year.
 
In a fit of madness was comtemplating trading my Combat Commander off. It is one of those ones that were released with the 80BSxxxxxx serial numbers. The gunshop owner had a shop hanger onger look at the gun and prophetically state that even though there was NO firing pin block, it was a series 80 gun and as such wasn't worth that much to them.

I am glad for me as the values on those old Commanders keep going up (especially for ones in pristine shape).

See as the deal fell apart, he was stuck with the rifle he ordered in.

I subsequently found out he got in trouble for not collecting sales tax and was shut down.

I guess it is especially bad to lie to the tax man.
 
I wrote a post on here sometime last year about my friend and I going to a gunshow. I went with him because he didn't know too much about guns. He was 18 and was looking to buy a handgun from a private seller. While we were there he spotted a gun he liked, and I then asked the seller if he was a private seller or FFL dealer. The man stated that he was an FFL dealer. When I said "Oh okay, never mind, thank you." and started to walk away the man said "What do you have against purchasing from an FFL dealer?". I then explained the situation about my buddy not being old enough to purchase from a licensed dealer. The dealer then started saying stuff in a very rude tone like "Oh, he can't buy a handgun from anybody, not even a private seller. You have to be 21 to own a handgun, there are no exceptions.". After going back and forth with this incredibly incompetent and rude man, who would not even listen to what I had to say, I noticed that he had the "FLORIDA FIREARMS Law, Use & Ownership" book for sale on his table. I told him to "look up the law in that book", and walked away. I was too frustrated to listen to anything else he had to say.

Now I know why the 3 day wait period was put into place! :D
 
I was at the local range shooting some silver bear (steel case .223).

The manager said I can only shoot brass ammo because steel case ammo was bad (he failed to elaborate at all, I know steel aint great for your gun but what does this guy care?). He tried to sell me pmc bronze for $15 a box of 20, I already paid an outrageous fee (non refundable) to use to the range so like a sucker I bought a box. When my time was up I began policing my brass and this guy had the nerve to tell me I cannot take home the brass: from the ammo I paid for because it could be hazardous to reload and since there was other mixed brass on the ground it was range property and dangerous and blah blah blah blah blah.

Needless to say I grabbed as much brass as I could, told the guy he was full of sh*t, and never went back.

I'm sure he was making mad money from all that "dangerous" brass all over the ground... I don't get why some people just have to be asses.
 
Let's call him "Eberhard." AR parts -- hands me a cheap, thin, stamped, clearly made off-angle Disconnector. I ask to see others. They're all the same he says over and over. When I insist he humor me he digs out another from a different part of the tool chest: it is thicker, hardened, and accurately machined. "Since they're all the same I'll take this one," and I turned and left. Alchy POS -- and I know him. Check that: KNEW him!
 
This guy at a gun show on Sunday tried to sell me a PPs-43 sling as a sling for a Mosin M44. Not too crazy a lie, I guess, but he kept insisting even after I pointed out the proper sling on his table and told him why the PPs sling wouldn't fit.
 
Not really a lie, but some of the worst opinion/advice I got years ago (around 1996?) from a dealer was that those "Russkie Makarov" pistols were plain junk, not accurate, just not worth dealing with (and at the price back then of around $125). And, being a younger man, new to collecting firearms, I actually listened.

Now, 15-16 years later, I've finally been been by the Makarov bug.
 
I was at a gun show when a friend pointed out a wakizashi (short samurai sword) blade on one of the tables.

The seller had taken coarse-grit sandpaper (or a grinder) to the entire blade, including the tang (which should never be polished or cleaned in any way even if there is no signature), leaving none of the original surface. :cuss:

I told my friend I wasn't interested as the ruined blade would be almost impossible to get properly polished and even if it were possible, the cost would likely be far more than the blade was worth anyway. (This was decades ago when the only qualified sword polishers were in Japan and the Japanese laws were stricter on importation of blades. The process takes weeks for a master craftsman and costs like it.)

The seller said, "Oh, I have a buddy who can buff it right up good as new!" :banghead:

I said sadly, "No, that blade is ruined and worthless."

He then said, "Well, would you take it for free?"

Not taking the bait, I answered, "No. It would just irritate me to have something so ruined and worthless that I can't get fixed."
 
I had a dealer offer me $250 for a NIB S&W M29 no dash four screw. He said since it was so old, it wasn't worth as much. He didn't even crack a smile when he said it. Quite the poker face.
 
A guy at a pawn show told me yesterday that the trigger lock had to be installed on the gun before it could leave the store. I told him i had never heard that before and asked if it was a special law just for pawn shops. He said, No, every FFL is required by law. Since when says I..... It's been in place at lease 2 years.......:scrutiny:
 
Uh...........that isn't a lie.

newbuckeye A guy at a pawn show told me yesterday that the trigger lock had to be installed on the gun before it could leave the store. I told him i had never heard that before and asked if it was a special law just for pawn shops. He said, No, every FFL is required by law. Since when says I..... It's been in place at lease 2 years.......
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He's nearly correct.
Child Safety Lock Act of 2005 has been in effect since April 2006:
http://www.atf.gov/press/releases/2006/04/042106-openletter-ffl-child-safety-locks.html
The law doesn't require the lock or secure storage device to be installed, but provided.
 
When I was gun-shopping, a gun seller looked at me and pointed me over to a pink .22 pistol (I'm a woman), he said, "this is what ALL women should carry." I laughed, and bought a 9mm somewhere else instead.
 
Biggest lie I ever told a DEALER was 'thanks but I don't need any more rifles.' HAHA boy was I young and naive. Nowadays there's not much I don't look at and think 'boy I could really use one of those.' :)
 
Was at a gunshow this weekend with the ladyfriend. Vendor had a number of M1 Garands for sale, and a number of the new plastic cases that they ship in for sale as well (good price $20 each). Two of the guns were well above average in appearance and were marked over $1,200. Herself wanted to look at the nicer one and asked how his compare to CMP Garands, specifically the "Special" grade she has been looking at. His reply was that the CMP guns were all used parts, and did not have new barrels. She asked again about the rebuilt ones that had new stocks, etc. Again he said that none of them had new barrels, and because his did they were far superior. She looked at me, grunted, and walked off. It was obvious that the guy was extremely familiar with the CMP, and was trying to profit off using them as his supplier. She was well aware that the $995 guns that are in the "Special" grade all have new finishes, new stocks and new barrels, but wanted to see if the guy was being honest with her. (He would have had a sale on both the cases if he had been truthful with us.)
 
*Auctioneer holds up No1mkIII* "British Lee-Enfield, real nice shape. It's got that Mauser action on it. Deer season's coming up; make a great deer rifle."

-The rifle in question was badly bubba'd, the bore was blocked with rust, and the action was so rusty it wouldn't close.

Another auction, I had several people tell me that a nicely sporterized No4mk2 was "broken" because the bolt wouldn't turn.

-The cocking piece was at half-cock.
 
"only safe way to carry a 1911 is hammer down" saying this about the gun on his hip
"claiming a 22 romanian trainer was a surplus USMC scout sniper precision target training rifle"
 
Wow VERY entertaining and funny thread. What I find even funnier is some of the poster's who think they are "calling out" a gun shop on something they believe is wrong are actually the one's who are wrong on the specific story. C'mon guys, do your homework before you try to bash on someone else. :)
 
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