There was a very well known purveyor of custom 1911s in Glendale called King's Gun Works back then. I still have a recoil buffer in my old Ithaca 1911 that I bought there. It sold in 2008, and now it is called American Gun Works, but still in the same location.ELB wrote:When I lived in LA in the mid-90s, I knew all the real gun stores by heart, it wasn't exactly over run with them., altho I have forgotten some of the names now. There probably were a lot of pawn shops with FFLs, but in terms of full-up LGS, there were less than 10 in the whole LA metropolitan area. Pony Express was pretty good, it was a big place, bought my first Glock there. LAX gun range was pretty good, and I believe it is still in operation and going strong, I noticed some ads and shooting leagues info on the internet last year. There was a small place out in the valley that seemed corner the market on reloading stuff, so I went there a lot for powder and bullets. It was about the size of two of my living rooms in a strip mall, but floor to ceiling in reloading equipment and supplies. There was an old one in... Culver City, I think... that had been there forever, was fair sized, I had read about it in gun magazines when I was kid, but only went there once -- they were not what you call customer oriented, at least on my visit, kinda surly when I asked questions, never went back.JALLEN wrote:
Actually, there are not many real gun stores anywhere in CA. .
Nagel's gun shop on San Pedro in San Antonio probably has more guns in it than all the LA stores I visited put together. Dury's on Hot Wells Blvd too.
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- Tue May 17, 2016 5:44 pm
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- Tue May 17, 2016 5:32 pm
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Re: CA: 2A protects right to sell & buy firearms
I'm driving back to CA next Monday for a 2 week visit with my mom. I'm actually looking forward to walking into the gunstore I used to frequent in Pasadena (Turner's Outdoorsman) and start bragging a little bit about my ARs, 33-round Glock magazines, suppressors, SBRs, no bullet buttons, LTC, etc., etc., just to bask in their admiration and envy...........JALLEN wrote:No gun stores within 500' of residences, other gun stores, schools, bars, liquor stores, churches, etc.ELB wrote:
As I understand it, Alameda County wrote an ordinance concerning where gun stores could exist that it essentially banned them from the county.
Pretty much no gun stores.
Actually, there are not many real gun stores anywhere in CA. I was staggered when I walked in to Cabelas north of Ft. Worth the first time. They may have a bigger inventory of guns and accessories and ammo in one Cabelas than all the LGSs in San Diego put together.
The LGSs in San Diego, as good as they are, are cheap imitations of a real gun store here. Given what an ordeal it is to buy a gun, one every thirty days, ten day DROS, etc., it's no wonder.
