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They should have never said they had Lay-Away!

Bushy ARBushy AR Member Posts: 564 ✭✭✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
Well...my visit to the newest gun shop in the area got expensive.I just put a down payment on a new Kimber Ultra CDP...there should be a law against lay-away at gun stores.Gun addicts like myself will only hurt their wallets.They said it should arrive in about 3 weeks.I can't wait...been wanting a good carry 45 for a long time.I think it will be the start of a beautiful friendship.Does anyone know if there is such a thing as "Gun Buyers Anonymous" meetings? I think I need help...or another job!

Little people talk about people,regular people talk about things,and big people talk about ideas.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I once bought an unfired Uzi Type A carbine (in the box) on layaway and was delighted they'd let me have a few weeks to pay it off. Talk about pride of ownership. Too bad I had to let her go a few years later.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bushy AR: This is it. Will the meeting now come to order. Do we have any new persons that would like to speak?

    "If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gun Buyers Anonymous has been around for years. It's called marriage. Meetings consist of yourself, the wife and her mother. I had to enroll shortly after I opened a charge account at a gun shop years ago.

    **I love the smell of Hoppes #9 in the morning**
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No such luck but that new kimber will hold you over for at least 30 days thanks to our one handgun every 30 days.Or thats the way it is in VA. I wonder is that a federal thing or State? That thought never occured to me before. Does any one know? Congratulations on your new purchase.

    Rugster
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ...yes, I have fallen victum to the same devilish sales tactic you speak of.....once for a Performance Center Smith and again for a high grade Belgium shotgun. So far this year my gun buying addiction has gone over the $2700 mark....but I can stop at any time I choose...
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  • treedawgtreedawg Member Posts: 321 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    made a deal on full auto uzi carbine and mac 10 this week. my wallet is still hurting but i can't wait for the paper work to through and have them in my posession. anybody got a few thousand rounds of 9mm that needs a good home.
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    30 days is a state thing, I buy as many as I want a day in MO.

    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rembrandt: Only $2700? Common you can give up just one of those frivilous unneeded things like food, and come up with more to buy another gun. Clothes, now there is something you can do without, to put more in the guns needed kitty.
    I'm up to $6500.00
    Let's see I can sell some plasma, take a 2nd out on the house....

    "If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Last year my favorite dealer retired. He had awesome lay away terms. $5.00 down minimum of $5.00 every 2 weeks pay it off withing six months. In the 22 years I did business there, I don't think there was six months total that I didn't have something on lay away. About 10 years ago when I spent a year living in a boarding house and couldn't securely keep firearms I bought Remington knives, all on lay away. My guns are worth alot more than my 401k lately so I have no regets at all.

    Woods
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Alpine,
    $6500?....thank you, now I don't feel so guilty. If I used tobacco it would all be up in smoke, if I drank, it would all go down the drain...this isn't really an addiction, it's an investment for the future!...yeah, that's it..an investment! I'll become a firearm investment broker.....anyone have any money they would like me to invest?

    Edited by - Rembrandt on 07/13/2002 17:22:45
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