Shops no longer with us

[splithoof]

Now that I manage an apartment in NoHo, B&B is gone 🥺
their used gun section always had something good.


-Dave

I found them to be quite rude.

[Dee_Dub]

you can add Warrior one in Riverside to the list. I saw on IG that they were having everything must go sale. I guess they moved out of state and are closing the CA location. Great shop hate to see them go.

[Bakerloo]

Longs Drugstore in Visalia. Bought my 1st handgun there. A Colt Trooper MKV, 6" barrel in beautiful blue.

[yoteassasin]

Bought my first rifle at contra costa collectibles I miss the old Castro valley gun store the tactical homos that bought it suck
wish traders, doms and hogans was back

[UPSMike]

Leech's in Hawaiian Gardens and Thompson's in Long Beach. Mathew's. I bought some from Pony Express, B&B and B&E.

I remember going to Leech’s with y dad in the 60s…They had that display case full of Weatherby rifles!

[saki302]

I found them to be quite rude.

You had to talk to the Filipino guy, Renee. He was nice. Some of the other guys warmed up to us over time since we'd always go browse the used rack, but Renee was always nice.

-Dave

[Heatseeker]

Originally a SF guy. I remember High Bridge, Markell's, SF Gun Exchange. And there were a few down the peninsula that I can't remember. All gone.

[splithoof]

You had to talk to the Filipino guy, Renee. He was nice. Some of the other guys warmed up to us over time since we'd always go browse the used rack, but Renee was always nice.

-Dave

I never met that salesman, but I distinctly remembered when one particularly curt individual proceeded to unload a pile of FUDD, and after I simply said “just sell me the case of ammo”, he whips out a Mickey Mouse calculator that he must have gotten from his grandchild. Standing there in his little vest, I got the distinct feeling he was a disgruntled old traffic cop who would have been better off working in one of the Valley’s ubiquitous shopping malls. This was around 1984~
Screw them. They were the definition of “the gun shop with the attitude”.