gun shops that sell milsurp?

[troy_mclure]

how many gun shops in your area sell milsurp guns?

when i lived up north(ky, wa, oh, nd) gun and pawn shops almost always had a goodly stock of milsurp guns and ammo.


down here in the deep south ive seen nary a mosin, let alone anything more exotic like a cz/tt.

is this now nation wide or just here in the south?

 

[EdInk]

I live down south and don't seem them much either. When I was a kid there was Military Surplus store sold some but IIRC they are no longer in business. Also, the prices weren't so great anyway.

 

[sixgun67]

Most shops in my area of NC keep maybe 10 or so milsurps of different flavors. One shop that I really like is in a dealer's basement--rack after rack of mosins, mausers, springfields, enfields, and swiss rifles. I love his shop.

 

[knight0334]

There's a gunshop about 40 miles south of me that specializes in milsurp stuff. His mainstays are Mosin's for $69-$89(depending on condition) and Makarov pistols(mostly Polish and other Eastern Com-block). He has cases of Mosin's sitting along a wall, then 2 or 3 racks of "prepped" ones ready for sale.

He carries a lot of AK47 and AR15 guns & gear too, but they are all recent production items. He might have maybe 5 "hunting" guns, the rest being milsurp and AR/AK items. For this area its rather strange, because every other shop is just the opposite - all hunting/target guns and only a couple milsurp/AK/AR guns.

He runs his shop out of his basement back a long country road where you have to slow down or stop most of the time to avoid hitting his neighbor's chickens and ducks that like to sit in the road.

 

[ISC]

Milsurps are quite common in the gunshops I frequent, always have been. It's more common in the rural areas I thinik than the big cities though. The few city gun shops I've visited seem to focus more on hand guns, dedicated hunting guns, and "tacticool" stuff.

 

[grymster2007]

Lot's of 'em sell milsurps in Cali.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Most around here have one or two overpriced and bubba'd Mausers or Enfields, and occasionally get in a crate of Mosins.

It's a matter of what sells, around here if it isn't black with a collapsible stock and the word "Colt" on it somewhere, not many folks want it...