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MDShooter20850
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This was in Maine, Aroostook County. I left the job in 73 or 74, and don’t really know how much longer they kept doing this. They went out of business shortly afterwards and the parent company, Ames, came in for a few years.
MDShooter20850
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TheOriginalMexicanBob
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I remember when ammunition sales had to be logged in...not sure about .22 rimfire...that might have been exempt.
Rockzilla
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Woolco's, Two Guys, Sears, had barrels of surplus guns. Lee's Outdoors, Joe the Motorists Friend sold em,
get you car parts, tires changed, picked up a Mossberg 385 in 20ga.. Monkey Ward, many hardware stores,
Farmers Co-op, etc.
-Rock
get you car parts, tires changed, picked up a Mossberg 385 in 20ga.. Monkey Ward, many hardware stores,
Farmers Co-op, etc.
-Rock
TheOriginalMexicanBob
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Back then flea markets had tables of guns, parts and ammunition...and real fleas most likely as well.
- Feb 4, 2013
- 28,175
For .22 they asked if it was for handgun or rifle use.
If you said handgun, they had to log.
So I only bought .22 rifle ammo.
- Feb 4, 2013
- 28,175
Yep. We had CRATES of them in the back.
Where was the Woolworths in Bel Air?
I don't even remember one.
2701Jim
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Harford Mall
For .22 they asked if it was for handgun or rifle use.
If you said handgun, they had to log.
So I only bought .22 rifle ammo.
It got to the point where some stores logged all ammunition sales. Some pushed the idea that they couldn't know what type of firearm it could or would be chambered in, so they'd log anything and everything. Another law where the stupid was strong, and that accomplished absolutely nothing of any value.
We used to buy our milsurps (some from the Spanish American War) from the barrels in the Kresge and Woolworth 5 and 10 cent stores. Roses on the Eastern Shore still sold Mosins and Mausers till sometime in the '90's.
Yep. Harford Mall. I got fired for shooting balloons from the stockroom with a returned BB gun.
Amazing what kids will do when unattended. I got canned working for a corner deli when the owner caught me boxing with some hanging cheeses in the basement.
Huck Hound
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- Mar 8, 2020
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Yep. We had CRATES of them in the back.
Keep in mind this was only 35 or 40 years after the war. In the 60s there was a hardware store near me that sold a sh!tload of WW1 surplus from helmets, uniforms, knives and guns. That was about 45 or 50 years after WW1 ended.
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Amazing what kids will do when unattended. I got canned working for a corner deli when the owner caught me boxing with some hanging cheeses in the basement.
Yeah. I was 15. The balloons were being carried by kids through the store. 1 shot, 1 kill. LOL.
Huck Hound
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- Mar 8, 2020
- 84
I begged my father for a 12 gauge shotgun. He got it foe me for Xmas in the mid 70s. It was an H&R Topper 158. He got it from Zayres. I think it was about $30.00 Still have it today.
That was awesome.
No, the manager said:
“That’s the funniest thing I’ve had happen. I have to fire you, but it was funny”.
He told me if I needed a recommendation for my next job, he’d still write me a good one.
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