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I would work the Great Western for Diamond Bar Guns & Security. He told me if I saw anything I liked to let him know and he would try and get a deal on it for me. I got some really good deals this way. Plus I made $100 a day for working, not bad money in 1986-89. After the show we would deliver the safes we sold at the show. I got free lunch and $50 a safe, we would usually sell about 25 safes there. I think he didn't mind paying me so well because he knew that most of that money woud be spent in his store.
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Yes you can have 2 C&R 03 FFL's; 1 in California and 1 in a different state.
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Leech's in Hawaiian Gardens and Thompson's in Long Beach. Mathew's. I bought some from Pony Express, B&B and B&E.Comment
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My wife used to say, "I see you got another $500.00 t-shirt". 😁 The folks at TDS were top notch. Mandy and Alex always treated my wife with respect and made her feel right at home. We miss that gun store. My shop chair still wears one of those shirts. thumbnail.jpg
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^^^I always enjoyed going there (almost all shops, but that's a topic for another discussion) friendly and helpful people there.Last edited by Grendel Guy; 06-07-2025, 8:02 AM.Comment
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A few shops that I used to frequent that are no longer with us:
- The Stockade in Westminster
- National Gun Sales in Lomita
- South Bay Armory in Carson
- B&E Guns in Hawaiian Gardens (?)
- and of course, B&B in WestminsterComment
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Originally posted by tony270Originally posted by repubconservOriginally posted by el chivoXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXOriginally posted by pjsig
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Yes you can have 2 C&R 03 FFL's; 1 in California and 1 in a different state.
Originally posted by Erion929Comment
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I was looking to have some work done on a couple of firearms this AM. Sadly, when I looked up Stockton Gun Exchange it showed that it is permanently closed.Comment
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In my neck of the woods, we lost a few,1 in Oakdale, 1 in Ripon, 2 in Modesto (one was an ATF gangbanger sting), & Stockton Gun Exchange recently. More importantly to me was my 01 home FFL bud, an enabler. He'd hold a 4473 form until I had 5 guns on it and only charge me $25 bucks to process, no receiving fee$. That's how you end up with 45 SKS from all over the country. Plus, I picked up 2 Romanian SKSs, an SVT40 (with spares), Winchester Garand (+ 300rds on clips in bandoleers), couple Marlin M60s and thousands of rounds of 9mm, .45, X39 and X51 from him for dirt. He was getting old and the regs were throwing him off, he was afraid he'd make a mistake, so he hung up his shingle.
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"A free people should be armed and disciplined" (George Washington),
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.~John Adams 1798Comment
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In my neck of the woods, we lost a few,1 in Oakdale, 1 in Ripon, 2 in Modesto (one was an ATF gangbanger sting), & Stockton Gun Exchange recently. More importantly to me was my 01 home FFL bud, an enabler. He'd hold a 4473 form until I had 5 guns on it and only charge me $25 bucks to process, no receiving fee$. That's how you end up with 45 SKS from all over the country. Plus, I picked up 2 Romanian SKSs, an SVT40 (with spares), Winchester Garand (+ 300rds on clips in bandoleers), couple Marlin M60s and thousands of rounds of 9mm, .45, X39 and X51 from him for dirt. He was getting old and the regs were throwing him off, he was afraid he'd make a mistake, so he hung up his shingle. PAX
You need a crew
"A free people should be armed and disciplined" (George Washington),
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.~John Adams 1798Comment
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In my neck of the woods, we lost a few,1 in Oakdale, 1 in Ripon, 2 in Modesto (one was an ATF gangbanger sting), & Stockton Gun Exchange recently. More importantly to me was my 01 home FFL bud, an enabler. He'd hold a 4473 form until I had 5 guns on it and only charge me $25 bucks to process, no receiving fee$. That's how you end up with 45 SKS from all over the country. Plus, I picked up 2 Romanian SKSs, an SVT40 (with spares), Winchester Garand (+ 300rds on clips in bandoleers), couple Marlin M60s and thousands of rounds of 9mm, .45, X39 and X51 from him for dirt. He was getting old and the regs were throwing him off, he was afraid he'd make a mistake, so he hung up his shingle. PAX
You need a crew
"A free people should be armed and disciplined" (George Washington),
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.~John Adams 1798Comment
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Now that I manage an apartment in NoHo, B&B is gone 🥺
their used gun section always had something good.
Also, armory of orange. If you were a c&r guy, they probably had something you wanted.
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