This might get me laughed at, but anyone ever bought a firearm from a pawnshop? Regrets, advice, alternatives? I'm just curious
I don't think someone ever plans to purchase a gun at a pawn shop because you can't be sure of their stock.
They can be good for looking around and seeing if they've underpriced something because they're not familiar with it, but they wouldn't be a first choice.
> buying someone else's stolen gun
> buying a gun that has a history
I'm so conflicted
>>30637025
Is the idea that the guns are often used in crimes true? Or is it more an old stereotype?...also, are they any cheaper than going to an actual gun store or not enough to matter?
Bought this M500 for $175, came with this furniture, one of those magpul forends/black houge stock, and a short cylinder bore barrel.
Only downside was that whatever redneck owned this gun previously apparently never cleaned it once, and instead of putting a normal duck plug in, just glued a wooden dowel into the mag tube, so that took 4+ hours of cleaning and a new spring, but it runs like a dream now.
If you find a gun that looks good, ask them if you can inspect it first. Look for defects, cracks, pitting, all that jazz, you might even be able to hebrew them down a bit if you can haggle well.
>>30637625
And after cleaning in its other configuration.
>>30636999
I've been meaning to
For some reason every pawnshop near sells 16 gauge pump shotguns for $150
i got my first handgun from one. gun was fine but the goddamn waiting period fucked me.
>buy gun
>have to wait a few days
>go back to find the store closed
>call the owner.
>"we're close tuesdays come back tomorrow."
>what the fuck
>come back tomorrow
>i went home early not enough customers
>golly i wonder why
>next day i can schlep my ass down there is a tuesday
>FUCK
>>30637739
what ?
>>30638275
fuck, wrong photo
here's the one I meant to post
>>30638275
He's pissed about the pawnshop having shitty hours and the owner just kinda being a douche
>>30637045
I would imagine a reputable one would run the serial number to see about stolen, as for crime involvement, it isn't like the movies where guns can be traced.
>>30636999
Pawn shops here (ky) sell brand new guns along side used ones. I bought a Remington 1911 R1 new at a pawnshop for 550. Bought ammo there a few times also. One place had an unfired Jennings (lol) for 40 bucks so I bought it as a laugh, a box of bullets (.380) cost almost as much as the gun. Sometimes they have nicer guns people have sold, but they want new gun price on used guns.
>>30636999
Bought my VEPR 7.62x54r from one. They ordered it for a customer who never showed so I ended up buying it. Brand new never fired and got a little bit under MSRP. Did all the customization elsewhere of course, but the original gun did come from a pawn.
>>30636999
I bought my Remington 700 ADL in 30-06 for $225 from a pawn shop in Montrose, CO. Would do it again.
Got my shotgun at a pawn shop for $200
Its a Mossberg 500 branded and sold at coast to coast stores, so most people probably didnt know what it was
>>30637122
>stolen
Mostly an old stereotype. Most states have pretty strict rules about pawnshop documentation so trying to pawn high dollar serialized stolen items is a good way to get busted. In my state they have to document valuable items (serials, and copies of pawner ID, and provide a catalogue to the police before being able to sell it)
I know their is a conception that pawn brokers are shady, but fucking around with federal gun laws is a death sentence , at least for your dog.
Every pawn shop I have been to had total shit for guns. 90 percent of the inventory is 150 dollar sears shotguns and overpriced Milsurp. The few decent guns are pants-potato pricing. They know who they are selling to.
I'm sure this varies shop to shop, I am basing this on the 10 or so I have wandered into
>>30638312
The pawn shop is required to notify the police. However, the police aren't required to give a shit enough to bother checking the list of items reported stolen. They're too busy babysitting stop lights. And of course they aren't aware of any that are not yet discovered missing.
Most of the pawn shops in this area are filled with power tools. Addicts can't get a decent job, and end up doing contractor work. They'll then walk off the job with someone else's power tools and pawn them for cash to spend at the local sidewalk pharmacy.
bought a S&W .380 when I was 21. it was a horrible purchase, i knew nothing about guns at the time. didn't even google the price or inspect it. i offloaded it to someone on CL for $40 less than I paid and have never done it again. Why go to a pawn shop when I can get any Glock tax free for $430. slickguns gets you a 6920 delivered for 200-350 less than anywhere in town including pawn shops.
The internet is the only way to go. Find a place that does low price FFLs and fuck brick and mortar shops.
My pawn shop had a chink SKS with grenade launcher for $600.
When i pointed out that the barrel was a rusty pile of shit and the action was scratched up from them trying to use steel wool to remove the rust and was STILL rusted shut he offered to come down to "$580 including tax!"
I go there to find decent tools crackheads steel and sell for crack money and they have movies for a buck a pop.
Though over the years i have found a gem or 2 of a gun in there that he dident know what he had.
>>30638394
>Every pawn shop I have been to had total shit for guns.
This.
>go into pawn shop that advertises they have guns
>go in to see what they have
>literally one mosin
>can tell from 20 feet away despite it being in a dark corner that it's rusted to shit
>how in the fuck, we live in southern CO, there's no such thing as moisture here
>guy also says it's sporterized
>sticker price is $200
>this was 2 years ago when they had JUST hit $120 average for a decent original condition one
>politely tell him no thank you and leave
>>30638564
It's been well over 2 years since Mosins were $120 idiot.
>>30638564
Oh and I just remembered, another store had a K31 when I was searching for one
>sticker price was like $650
>ask the lady at the counter if they're fucking serious
>another guy looks over and sees what I'm holding
>"Oh no, that's $350, I looked them up earlier."
>>30638585
No it hasn't. I keep seeing you guys posting that Mosin's haven't been $80 or whatever in like 8 years and it's just flat false, they were 80-100 until about 3.5 years ago and then they went to 120-140 about 2.5 years ago. It's only been the last like 18 months that they've been regularly $200+.
>>30637025
my local pawnshops have regular shipments of guns, glock, rock island, browning, ruger, mossberg, etc can be found new in box there.
pawn shop gun =/= stolen gun. its just like getting a gun at a sporting goods store, but cheaper.
my preferred ffl is a pawnshop.
I found a nice vz52 in 7.62x45mm at a pawn shop.
Bought a near-perfect M44 at one last year for $150. No regrets.
>>30638394
>>30638564
WA here, my experiences with pawnshops has roughly been the same. Anything remotely tacticool is marked way up. Any milsurp they have has probably been bubba'd and is marked up. Pistols are usually less then 10% off their MSRP if not being sold as the same price as new.
There might be good deal or two to be found among the walls of durr rifles and hunting shotguns, but I don't know enough about either to suss it out if it is there.
I still stop by from time to time, but I never get my hopes up.
>>30638798
Im jelly
I want to get ahold of a decent m44 or a chinese 53
but Im tight on cash at the moment and probably will be for a bit
Milsurp guy here, in my buying heyday I bought probably half of my collection from pawn shops. Like 2006-2011, before prices and awareness went up. If you went to enough shops enough times you found good deals, or a Finn Mosin priced as a 91/30 refurb. Or a g43 for $600. Or an sVT for $550. Or an arisaka with a stuck bolt for $50. Or a perfect gew98 for $170 with bayonet. Good times.
traded an lc9s pro and $220 for these (FN m1900 & 1910)
im on the fence about restoring them.
I've used pawn shops as an FFL for internet purchases before. I'd never use them in place of a gun shop though. They're too unreliable in terms of stock.
>>30638275
>>30638294
I bet you have a whole folder just dedicated to black guy reaction images don't you?
My house got burglarised and guns stolen. Took my list of serial numbers to every pawn shop in town the next day. Coming out of the biggest one run into the guy I'm 99% sure did my house going in. Fucker got busted later and I got my guns back. Probably prevented their sale by running into the faggot outside that store and telling him what I was doing.
Only other pawn shop story is trying to pawn my Russian army stamped SKS and getting told they'd only give me like $30 for it.
>>30636999
Prices usually are more expensive vs used items at gun store. First hand experience of buying a pistol with a cracked guide rod, cheap fix but annoying that I didn't inspect thoroughly enough. Onlt benefit of a pawnshop is you can trade misc crap for a gun but you'll always spemd/trade more than the actual thing is worth.
So avoid pawnshops. Use gunbroker, armslist, gunshow. Fuck a pawnshop unless you have a garage full of crap you want to get fleeced for in order to get a gun.
>>30638908
Trashcan in closet filled with milsurp is what I'm imagining. If so your /k/ as fuck hombre!
My first was from a pawn shop, a Mauser. I had done my research so it was just the matter of who was selling it.
my pawn shop is pretty great, the worst thing of the 4 or so guns I bought from them is one of two mags that came with my SA58
>>30639311
No trashcan, but the rest is accurate. Actually that was the exile location while I moved the safes to new house. Cheers!
>>30636999
I have a friend who's parents own a pawn shop. He told me one day some druggie came in with a Arisaka Type 38 and a box of ammo. Forgot how much he sold it to the for, and his parents gave him the rifle. Unfortunately I don;t have pics, or remember any major details other than it had a partially defaced Imperial Chrysanthemum (Half of it was covered by some metal piece that was melted onto the rifle.)
He also got a .22 Henry rifle, though that was in much shitty condition.
Literally just last week. My dad got this sweet bitch
>>30636999
>Got my shotgun at a pawn shop for $200
>Its a Mossberg 500 branded and sold at coast to coast stores, so most people probably didnt know what it was
>Coast to Coast
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time, where do you live /k/omrade?
>>30639753
>>30639772
>>30639753
He got it out the door for 600
>>30638275
knew I recognized that guy.
>be me living in Austin, TX
>browsing local pawnshop for a Mosin
>ask to see a what looks like a RAS 47
>fork over I'd
>"Can't let anyone younger than 21 have an assault weapon bro"
Holy fuck I've never been so pissed, were in Texas for fucks sake
>>30636999
I've had pawn shops go either way. Ironically, the shadiest one I can think of had the highest prices, and I'm pretty sure that had to do with an occasional waiving of the 4473 requirement.
There are lots of legit shops out there, though, that will do things like $10 transfers, and that often have crazy good deals on things they neither fully appreciate nor care about (Performance Center S&Ws priced the same as regulars), but that they accepted for pawn/consignment.
>>30637640
>mismatched furniture
>mismatched finish on barrel
>"hotness"
You can do better anon
>>30639843
>Austin
What else did you expect?
>>30639843
Why are you living in Austin? Are you a Californian migrant?
>>30639753
>>30639772
>tfw your family is casual as fuck when it comes to firearms
At least I managed to convince my dad to buy a crusader rather than a Ruger 556. Not saying the Ruger 556 isn't a great gun, but its fucking embarrassing for a grown ass adult to have a budget AR at the range when his 21 year manchild son had a DDM4V1
>1980s Wingmaster
>$325 purchased like a month ago
>>30639092
...you dont?
>>30637045
pawn shop i went into had a Tavor for like $1200 and a Kriss Vector for $14000
i doubt either weapon was used in a crime beyond one of bad taste
>>30638492
Where are the best places to buy online? Only ones I can find are Gunbroker, which I'm not a fan of and rando sites with shit selection
>>30639925
I wasn't surprised but then again I kinda was, ya know? I understand it's his stores policy, but for why? You're a local business that restricts something that major retailers like academy don't even consider
>>30639948
No I was born here
>>30639843
You should have told him the State of Texas does not recognize the term "Assault Rifle"
>>30638798
Is that a daewoo im looking at in that counter
>>30640081
I considered that but then I actually thought for a second and came to the conclusion of: it was the owners discretion, and the young Hispanic man was just adhering to his stores own policy.
>>30640059
>No I was born here
Sorry for your loss.
>>30639843
Same experience, here in Arizona.
>Go into pawn shop
>Finger fuck a few guns
>LOL i can't afford any of this shit
>Leave
>Repeat 1 more time a couple weeks later, different guy there
>Go in again couple weeks later, different guy from previous 2 times'
>Ask to look at a rifle they had on the wall
>"I need to see some ID"
>hand it over
>"You need to be 21 to buy a gun here or hold one, store policy"
Jokes on them, i was actually gonna buy a wasr they had that time.
>>30639882
not him but its a MiB quote refference.
Bought a Mauser C96 Broomhandle for about US$100 in mid nineties from a pawn shop. Store owner didn't know what it was and thought it had been deactivated. It hadn't and shoots great to this day.
>>30640153
You have my jealousy.
went to a pawn shop he wanted $900 for a K-31
Yes.
But my friend owned it.
He bought it to specifically sell guns.
>>30640153
You lucky son of a bitch
>>30640128
>>30639843
That's gay as fuck
I hope you told them you're taking your money somewhere else
I've found some great deals in pawn shops. My best over the past five or so years have been:
>HK P7 for $650, kept it
>Near mint Polytech Type 56 spiker with original box and all of its accessories for $800, kept it
>Deagle brand Deagle for $1000, promptly flipped it for $1600
>Russian military Makarov with no import marks in fantastic shape for $200, kept it for a bit then eventually sold it for $1300
99% of the time it's garbage but the thrill of the tiny chance for a diamond in the rough keeps me checking out all my local pawn shops
>>30639843
Be thankful he prevented you from buying a tRASh 47 piece of shit
>>30640471
>then eventually sold it for $1300
What the actual fuck. Whas it gorbachev's personal gold plated makarov signed by stalin?
>>30640492
Russian military Makarovs are expensive. You can get Bulgarian "sneaks" which are Russian but imported from Bulgaria but they're like $600. Russian military Maks can go staggeringly high depending on condition and if they're import marked or not.
>>30637625
>just glued a wooden dowel into the mag tube
That's how they sell them stock, minus the glue
>>30640506
I've always thought of them as cheap as fuck, never realized there was that much of a premium for the russian ones. My guess is they are still in service and therefore not exported, correct?
>>30636999
Im tempted to by a Springfield Range Officer at a local pawn shop.
>>30637640
Looks like utter shit now. Looked 100 times better before
>>30640560
the us doesnt import any guns direct from russia since at least the clinton ban. all recent slavsurp has been bulgarian, romanian, and ukranian. thus why svt's and non yugo sks' are "dried up" despite them being cheap as shit sub $100 guns in canada.
>>30640714
I almost feel like i should start smuggling this shit across the border and make a living off of it/ expand my collection.
>>30636999
>tfw the only way I can get guns locally is through pawnshops.
>tfw I'm in hell
>>30640831
>what is buying online
>>30640831
Dude. Just find a local FFL who will receive for you. They don't necessarily have to be a store. I would contact them first and make sure they are cool with it. Many online gun dealers (like classicfirearms) have directories of people who they have shipped to with a list of prices and such.
Then, you can buy online. I have bought 2 guns from stores ever in my whole life. The rest have been from online dealers. Classic at one point was the best place to get good deals, but they have a relatively normal inventory these days.
>>30640831
see
>>30638647
pawnshops are ffls, have things sent there from online, theyll probably charge you a $20-30 transfer fee, but thats normal.
I tend to find like-new 15+ year old guns at pawnshops; got an immaculate H&R 929, a Norinco SKS-D that'd never been shot as far as I could tell (got it with a 40 round mag, during the Sandy Hook panic buying, at that), and a really well cared for Winchester 1300 Defender
>>30639772
>clip
also teach your dad what white elephant means ffs
>>30641055
There's a pawnshop that's a regular gun shop too. But they charge 170 for transfer and 50 for a release fee.
They work a deal with you if you buy something there, but won't give discounts to military or law enforcement.
>>30640001
My dad was super into guns when he was my age (mid-20s). He sold them all off when I was a kid (including a pre-ban M16; we don't talk about that though).
Now that I'm at an age where I can pretty much buy whatever I want, I've convinced him to buy a bunch of stuff he wants too. It's pretty great.
>>30640036
>Kriss Vector for $14000
I believe it.
>>30641228
>But they charge 170 for transfer and 50 for a release fee.
No fucking way. Maybe it's just their way of deterring you from doing it.
>>30641228
this has to be bait
>>30639772
>clip
>>30640788
I would buy smuggled guns from you, anon. I'm not even that far from the great white north (state that rhymes with Minnesnowta)
>>30641408
You guys realize, that unless you tell someone you have something or it gives off a special scent (read: drugs or explosives, guns smell like guns) nobody will know you have it.
>>30641432
Im not sure theres any way to tell if a canuk gun made it into the US since we (US) dont track guns like that.
Got myself a black snw .44 magnum (great condition, almost never fired) for 500 bucks. I think it's a steal for that price
I cruise ith closest pawn shop about once a month. All ive ever gotten was an old .22.
My buddy on the other hand walked in just as they were putting a mossberg 590 out. Lucky bastard.
I buy silver there too.
>>30640788
You should do this. Im ready for a canuck svt!
>>30636999
>Regrets, advice, alternatives?
I bought the Glock 19 I have carried for the last 4 years at a pawn shop.
The nice part about pawn shops is if you come up short on something they are far more willing to take things on trade.
When I got my Glock I had only 400 bucks, but I also traded a 26" flat screen TV that I had found and repaired to get to the 525 I needed. Also every now and then you find shit you just want.
>wow-ie a socket set for 10 bucks!??!
>7 rolls of electrical tape for 2 dollars?
>used GI M16 mags for only 5 bucks a piece in a massive bin you dig through
Pawn shops are fun shops
>>30636999
Got this last month for 250 out the door in a small pawn shop. Like new condition in with the original early 80-90s era S&W box.
