SW Shooters was at Virgina & Linwood Blvd. I loved going there and spent too much money there. But it was money well spent.
Y'all are making me feel old. Bought my first pistol, SIG sp2022 from Mashburn, actually found the original receipt when we cleaned Dad's house, and bought my first first Lee anniversary kit reloading setup from southwest
They did more than that.
A guy walked in and asked to see an AR. The salesman handed him the rifle and the guy pulled a magazine out of his pocket and shot the salesman and I’m not 100% sure, but I think a couple of others in the store.
OCPD chased him down and killed him in a shootout. The news said the shooter was going through a divorce at the time and it all went downhill from there.
Oh yeah. Miss Mashburn's and SW Shooters.
Bought very few guns from either of them but lots of reloading supplies.
Bought very few guns from either of them but lots of reloading supplies.
Yes same here, tons of supplies from SWSS
No, this is 10th and Penn. The street sign is in the pic. :-)
My brother took me to Charlies too. Ate my first MRE from there.
I miss Charlie's Surplus. The last I heard of them they had moved to Ada, but that was years ago.
Charlie has to be dead by now.
That is the building at 12th and Penn if I remember. That was their second location. They were originally at 6th and Western. The Penn location is where my friend Mark Stokesbury, long time employee, was shot with an AR 15 that an Army deserter grabbed off the rack and loaded his own full magazine. When Mark followed him out the door, he turned and shot Mark in the side. Luckily it was not life threatening. Two OCPD officers were eating in the restaurant two doors south, came outside. A citizen pulled up in a pickup and told the officers to get in because he saw where the suspect went after firing a shot at a beer truck driver. The citizen with the two officers in the bed of the truck confronted the suspect a couple of blocks east on 12th street. A gun battle ensued and the suspect went down. At least one of his rounds went through the windshield and back cab window right between the two officers in the bed of the truck. As it turned out the suspect shot himself under his chin as the pattern of burn marks from the slots of the flash suppressor on his throat were apparent. As the Firearms Examiner, I had to investigate the officer involved shooting. Late 80s-early 90s.
I spent tons of money at Mashburns back in the day and still have most of the guns I bought there.
Art Mashburn’s nephew Arnold Beck took over the store and ran it into the ground.
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