Latest word on Gunstop

View · by **Seismic Sam** on Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:30 am

Just called up Gunstop, got John-Boy's assistant, and found out that while the gun half of the store IS empty right now, Larry plans on taking over and starting up business on December 1st.

View · by **EJSG19** on Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:57 am

Seismic Sam wrote:Just called up Gunstop, got John-Boy's assistant, and found out that while the gun half of the store IS empty right now, Larry plans on taking over and starting up business on December 1st.

Excellent. I don't even live in the state, but I do the majority of my reloading business there still. (of course John was never going anywhere)

That shop just isn't the same having one side and not the other. There will be many times where shipping and an FFL transfer from GS will be worth a look even for me.

View · by **rtk** on Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:04 pm

Good news!

View · by **grousemaster** on Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:52 pm

Glad to hear it, many nice purchases and great service over the years at Gunstop. Bought my first deer rifle there....

View · by **Dutch** on Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:07 pm

Awesome! My favorite grocery store (both counters).

View · by **BBsteel** on Thu Oct 18, 2012 2:24 pm

Nice. Maybe I'll sign my little girl up for dance next door after all!

View · by **EJSG19** on Thu Oct 18, 2012 2:42 pm

BBsteel wrote:Nice. Maybe I'll sign my little girl up for dance next door after all!

Often thought it'd almost be worth doing that if i had a girl at the time. 2 hours of ballet would be easy, if done in a gun shop.

View · by **Grandpa Rex** on Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:58 pm

Gunstop guns going to auction October 27.

http://www.midwestauctions.com/lampi/la ... ber_27.htm
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Ammo online only October 30

http://www.lampionline.com/cgi-bin/mndetails.cgi?lampi2

View · by **Rotary12** on Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:32 pm

I haven't been to Gunstop in a while, so are you guys saying that it's closing? The gun side, the reloading side or the whole thing?

View · by **TH3180** on Sat Oct 20, 2012 10:15 pm

Rotary12 wrote:I haven't been to Gunstop in a while, so are you guys saying that it's closing? The gun side, the reloading side or the whole thing?

The gun side closed September 15th. The reloading side is still there.

View · by **Rotary12** on Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:20 am

TH3180 wrote:The gun side closed September 15th. The reloading side is still there.

Glad to hear that. I need to get some dies and supplies.

View · by **adoptedson** on Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:15 am

Woah, the inventory is going to auction?? I wonder how overpriced stuff will get?

View · by **Sorcerer** on Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:03 am

Well by looking at the auctions web, 10% buyers prem., 7% MN sales tax, and if you use a credit card 3% fee = 20% :shock:

. You better know your pricing and TRY to stay on track. Thank goodness I'm on call and can not go. It would be some good entertainment to just go and watch.

View · by **Seismic Sam** on Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:04 am

Well, the 7% MN sales tax is inescapable, so it's added on no matter what, and you can choose whether you want to pay the 3% for a credit card or not. So it's really a 10% premium to bid online, and considering that what you're paying for is to bid while you're at home drinking coffee or beer, (or if you're bidding on a cheap .25, Night Train!!) rather than driving to Annandale and standing around for 4 hours waiting for the gun you want to come up, it's not bad. It's also industry standard for the high buck car auctions down in Arizona that they televise, so this is nothing new or different. Plus you can see how the bidding goes over a period of days, instead of one minute flat, where you could make a bad decision and wind up paying Gander Mountain USED prices for a NEW gun!!

View · by **adoptedson** on Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:02 am

Alright then, you guys made me think twice about taking a ride out there. Especially since the items I would be interested in are probably NIB, they'll probably go pretty high. Still might consider going for entertainment purposes.