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Gun Stores inSacramento, California???

C10VetC10Vet Member Posts: 16 ✭✭
edited June 2003 in Ask the Experts
Does anyone out there know of a good Gun/Sporting Goods store in Sacrmento, California? Even the outlying areas would be fine. Thanks.

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  • Talking HeadTalking Head Member Posts: 108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The best one I can think of is:

    Wild Sports
    9396 Greenback Ln.
    Orangevale,Ca.
    Phn.no. 916 988 5375

    This is right next to the town of Folsom.
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  • SilverBoxSilverBox Member Posts: 2,347 ✭
    edited November -1
    Theres a pile of them.

    I frequent:

    Old sacramento Armoury on like J and 22nd streets. Its a smaller shop with alot of used and surplus stuff and decent surplus ammo prices. I bought a Cali legal SKS their

    J&G in Roseville is a small shop that has alot of used stuff to, Jerry is a good guy. He has some rarer stuff around, I bought a Grizzly Mark I .357 8" off him and a Ruger Mark II 6 7/8 target.

    Wildesports has decent prices on hanguns, but their rifles are a little overpriced in my opinion and they aren't all that friendly. I get a weird feeling when I go in their, they are not willing to go the extra mile at all, you pay the price they have on their stuff and they aren't willing to wheel or deal much at all and they aren't very helpful about getting in something thats not on their wall. I bought a Mini-14 their years ago and recently I bought a Beretta 96 Vertec their.

    There is a small shop that lost their FFL and now only sells ammo and blackpowder stuff, they have the best prices on shotgun shells durinig duckseason of anyplace in town, they move like 2000 cases of shotgun shells during duck season. I don't remember the name.. But they are a couple blocks from I-80 Watt intersection. I buy all my Duck hunting ammo their.

    Theres a small shop in Rio Linda that has more fishing stuff then gun stuff and their prices are way to high on the gun shop.. Its name is sumpin like Rio Linda Bait and Tackle. I don't buy much here..

    There is always walmart. They dont' have guns but they have some decent ammo prices.

    Big 5 has a few locations around town they sell long guns. They have good prices on shotguns and sometimes they put surplus Mosin Nagants on sale for cheap. I bought Mossberg 835 at one of their stores.

    Sports Authority is up by costco in roseville, by the new mall, they have long guns and decent prices on ammo.

    River City Guns is in south sac, I don't remember the address their another pretty small shop. They are pretty friendly there, but the stickered prices are a bit high, they will move a lil on the price thu.

    Badger Johns is a new shop that just opened up about 6-8 months ago that is in East Sac they are willing to move a little bit on their prices also. Its a bigger store almost the size of Wildsports, but the atmosphere is much friendlier, John is a pretty good guy. I bought a USP Expert off him awhile back. http://www.badgerjohnshuntinstuff.com/location.php

    There are a few more then those around town, but those are the ones that I go to with any regularity, you can find them all + others in the yellow pages ...
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  • Talking HeadTalking Head Member Posts: 108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    SilverBox,

    I think the store at I-80 and Watt is called Gun Stuff, it used to be called Great Guns. Do you know how they lost their license? I was very dissapointed the last few times I went there and no guns, they kept saying they were going to get it back, but so far no dice. I like them a lot better than Wild Sports because of the attitudes there that you alluded to.
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  • SilverBoxSilverBox Member Posts: 2,347 ✭
    edited November -1
    Theres actually 2 stores right by that intersection. The one on the west side is Guns n Stuff and has pretty short hours, I went there once but they were closed. My buddy has been there a few times and he says that got pretty decent prices on firestorm pistols..

    The one I was talking about is on the east side, it used to be Great Guns, but now its like "Guns and Gear". Last few times I been in their the ammo prices were too high. They only have decent deals on ammo and shotgun shells during Duck season when they make their bulk purchases. I've heard several stories about how they lost their FFL license. IMO the stories I've heard are far too speculative and hearsay'ish to repost in a public forum.
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  • rick_renorick_reno Member Posts: 186 ✭
    edited November -1
    Avoid Wild Sport, unless you can't find what you want anywhere else. It's own and run by crooks.
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  • artvlsartvls Member Posts: 163 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Silverbox wrote,
    "I've heard several stories about how they lost their FFL license. IMO the stories I've heard are far too speculative and hearsay'ish to repost in a public forum."

    I believe they displayed a Ruger 10/22 for sale with a butler creek folding stock and pistol grip after the ban had been enacted, (Let's see if this sets off some negative CA. comments).

    Dennis
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  • rick_renorick_reno Member Posts: 186 ✭
    edited November -1
    Newswatch: Gun store admits violating law

    (Published Feb. 12, 2000)

    Sacramento

    An Auburn Boulevard gun store pleaded guilty Friday in Sacramento federal court to possession of illegal semiautomatic assault weapons.

    The plea was entered on behalf of Great Guns by one of its attorneys, Richard Pachter. Sentencing was set for April 28.

    The company faces a maximum fine of $500,000; the company's federal firearms licence will become invalid 60 days after sentencing.

    Charges against the store's owner, Sterling G. Fligge, previously were dismissed.

    Pachter admitted that the store displayed two .22-caliber Ruger semiautomatic rifles that had been converted to assault weapons with detachable magazines, pistol grips and folding stocks.

    Rifles in that configuration are more easily concealed and fired from the hip.
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  • nitrouznitrouz Member Posts: 1,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Shooter's Paradise in Yuba City has a .50 Cal. Prices are high to me but he's one of the few in the area still selling firearms and they are nice folk to deal with.
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  • Talking HeadTalking Head Member Posts: 108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    rick reno/artvis,

    Thanks for the info, I've been curious about what the deal was with them. That's just sad, a bunch of B.S.


    Here's another place I've been wanting to check out. It's up 1-80 near Loomis.

    http://www.sportsmansaccess.com/


    I've never been there, you guys know anything about it? ( been meaning to check out Badger Johns also, can't seem to get there )
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  • rick_renorick_reno Member Posts: 186 ✭
    edited November -1
    That place is in Penryn - I'd forgotten about them. I used to live in Penryn. I've been in there a few times, prices seemed fair when I was there but they didn't have much inventory. Most of their business was gun shows then and they were hard to find in the shop. They're one exit past the Loomis exit if you're going toward Reno, it's marked Penryn. Go off, turn left and go over the freeway and when I was last there they were the first right (kind of behind the gas station on your right).
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