Cabelas / Bass Pro Gun Counter Rant / PSA

[BAKPAKR]

I always thought that all of the guns on the shelf at a Cabelas semi-close to me looked banged up. One day, I stopped by just before closing time and they were removing all of the firearms from the display and taking them into a room behind the counter. I don’t know if they did that every day but that could explain the condition of the guns.

 

[JCMCUBIC]

The only reason I ever bought a firearm from those stores is because Tikka forced me to. Only way I could get a superlite.

Same. Purchased online a recently. The time for for the "ship to store" was pretty long. The paperwork/checkout took a while but the guy behind the counter was pretty good. I could tell the process of waiting on someone else to verify/double check was irksome for him as well.

I much prefer the simplicity of my local FFL and prefer for my business to go to them. Sometimes, like with the superlite, there's only one option through a big box store.

 

[Caseknife]

I bought a gun last year from BP that was on sale, and had it shipped to the local store. It took about a week to arrive and then I went and did all the paperwork. Then had to wait 3 days to pick it up because of the ***clown liberals in our state government. So already waited about 10 days from the date of order/purchase online. So I show up three days later to pick it up, and they tell me that "BP has a 4-day wait period policy"......."to make things consistent for all states". What? Are there other states where you have to wait 4 days to pick up a gun that you purchased?

Washington for one, 10 day waiting period, 10 business days, could easily be two weeks with how weekends fall or holidays. If you have a firearm on consignment and you want to go get it back, have to go through all that BS in order to get YOUR OWN firearm back in possession. Privately selling a firearm is a joke if you are not in the same general area. Have to go through nics check and pass and then wait the 10 days or more. Glad I have enough.