Academy (Handgun) Sales?

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Dang it, I hate it when they obey the law too! Can you imagine that just because you screw up and can't put the correct info on the form the first time that they aren't willing to pay a huge fine and go to jail for you? I think that is crazy, I always expect my local firearms dealers to be willing to be someones jailhouse girlfreind for me. Sure glad you berated him like that, I bet it sure helped. ANd I am glad to see you took your buisness else where, But then again you really didn't have any choice did you?

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are you that greasy haired kid at academy AK's talking about???
 

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I buy ammo there - I like the Serbian stuff and it's priced right.

I bought their $190 shotgun (Maverick) is it's a good deal. No issues, but it is funny getting escorted out by the manager. I did get to carry mine from the register though :D

Aside from that, they are like any other big box retailer. Your service depends on who happens to wait on you. Sometimes, you get great help. Other times, you get... well... what we expect from big box retail help. My dad has got several pistols (4 at least) and a shotgun from there, and he's always lucked into good service.

There are a couple good guys working at the 41st store gun counter, and there are some bozos. If a bozo is working, I go check out something else. I will support the local guys if at all possible, unless the big box store has a deal they can't come close to.
 

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I've bought several rifles and handguns there with no problems. It does feel odd getting escorted to the front door by a manager, like you've done something bad...

The last handgun I bought was on a Saturday night, and wouldn't you know it, the Sunday newspaper advertisement the next morning had the same gun on sale for $30.00 less. I called the store and they said to just bring my receipt in and they would credit my account back the difference. So I went that afternoon and got it credited back without a hitch!
 

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Aside from that, they are like any other big box retailer. Your service depends on who happens to wait on you. Sometimes, you get great help. Other times, you get... well... what we expect from big box retail help.
So true, just like BestBuy, etc.

Gotta admit though, their service is much better than Dong's :bigeye:
 

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Just because I don't post much hardley make me a noob. YOu are appearntly the Noob at life and haven't realized that YOU are responsible for YOUR actions. And if the kid wants to stay compliant with the law he is required to not sell you the firearm. YOU get to fill out the form, YOU get to look over the form before handing it to the worker. When YOU fill it out wrong guess what its YOUR FAULT. And no I wasn't there but it hardly take me being there to see how this went down. You filled out the form, the clerk looked at the form, the clerk looked at your ID, informed you that he/she could not make the sale, you said you can fix that, clerk ifnformed you that wasn't possible, you got loud and berrated the clerk/demanded manager, manager told you same thing clerk did, you left while yelling back at manager making ass out of yourself to everyone else there. pretty close isn't it.

Usually when you make a mistake on 1 number on your zipcode on the 4473 you usually get a chance to fix your mistake. Thank you for being sarcastic and berating Mr Noob, you wernt there :finger::finger::finger:
 

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are you that greasy haired kid at academy AK's talking about???

Hardly, I have just seen crap like this often. Jerks thinking that because they get loud that it is okay for someone else to break the law pisses me off. I bet he wasn't willing to do the jail time or even pay the fine for that greasy haired kid when the ATF does an audit on all gun sales for the past 20 years is he?
 

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I went to the one off I-240 this week to buy some of their winchester pdx-1 ammo (40 cal is on sale) and decided to get 2 boxs of the 124 gr 9mm. The guy told me "Now you know you have to have a special 9mm to shoot this stuff right". I just told him ya mine was special.
 

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