South Sound Gun Tour
News, Guns ·Saturday May 17, 2008 @ 18:55 EDT (link)
We slept 4 hours, got up at 0800, and went on the South (Puget) Sound Gun Tour, a drive down to the Puyallup fair and then to several gun stores near our route; at each location I priced a Glock 19 as comparator (no, it's definitely not statistically valid, why do you ask?) (prices are cash, new, with standard 2 x 15 round magazines and usual case components):
- WAC Puyallup Fair gun show (best price I saw was $480 from D & B Ventures, mailing address in Walla Walla)
- Mary's Pistols (Tacoma) ($500; 10-round California magazines, but said would swap 15s)
- Sportco Warehouse (Fife) ($500 I believe, perhaps more; didn't go here for guns, mainly carry gear)
- Federal Way Discount Guns (no website) (Federal Way) ($489.99)
- Ben's Loan, Inc. (Renton) ($500) (busy; anything good probably goes quickly)
- West Coast Armory (Issaquah) ($500; friendly clerks)
Until now, I thought $519.99 (Discount Gun Sales) was good (at least I was never fooled into thinking that $539.99 at Wade's was a good price). Low to high is $60, or about 12%; it pays to look around.
DVDs finished: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
