Thread: Discount Gun Sales - Seattle

Discount Gun Sales
11306 Lake City Way NE
Seattle, WA 98125
(206) 417-1625

http://www.discountgunsales.com

Very friendly, staff knowledge can be hit-or-miss, prices have crept up lately, sometimes they have a good selection (sometimes not), clean store.

They are good people. You just can't go in acting snobbish or like a know-it-all. Then again, who likes a know-it-all snob?

We tried to buy 2 50-round boxes of ammo from Discount Gun Sales in Seattle recently (for cash). They asked for our name/s and phone number. They absolutely refused to sell them to us without that info, and when we declined, they wouldn't even let us keep the free catalog we had picked up. They appeared to be outraged at our refusal to give that information. The sales people were dressed in dark suits, sort of like FBI agents.

I vote "poor."

I purchased a Ruger pistol from the Kirkland store a while back. Nice people; knowledgable. I was in again recently looking at a Sig. Very helpful and courteous. I stop in periodically; they are worth putting on your list of places to check out.

Nice people. Young. Willing to ask for help when they don't know. Good selection including some HKs and Sig X5 which are hard to find. Prices are steep, more than Wades with no room for negotiation.

Very clean store.

Nice displays for the firearms but a bit dimly lit.

Much nicer than there other stores, but needs more parking.

Selection is good and they are starting to carry some reloading equipment.

It's one of the nicest stores as far as displays.

Was looking for an AR a while back and put 100$ down to hold a Rock River for 2 days. I found a wonderful deal on a LMT
that I could not turn down.
When I went back, and told them to put it back on the shelf, they refused to give me my money back.
what they gave me was a store credit and 24 hours to spend it.

bought two guns prior to that, will never go back again

Prices are way too high for the NW market. They prey on the not-so-knowledgable customers. It's the attitude towards customers that rub people the wrong way. Sure prices are high, but you don't have to rub our noses in it.

My advice is to shop somewhere else.

Walked right in and told the guy what gun I wanted and to grab it off the wall and I had cash...acted like I was making his life hard by wanting to buy it. I didn't want to haggle, look at a bunch of other crap, or bs with him, just buy a gun. Bad experience recently with the Tukwila location. See my thread.

http://www.northwestfirearms.com/for...t=24861&page=2

High prices. +3% charge for credit cards. Good selection.
Friendly and knowledgeable staff... but had one guy tell me that I didn't need snap caps because my Kel-Tec was perfectly fine to dry fire, like all center-fire guns...
Bit of dicking around going on; one staff member dry fired a gun at the window, apparently without checking the chamber first, which bugged me a bit.
One of the better Seattle stores, sadly enough.

Went there a few years ago and bought a Sig CPO from them. Very good condition, prices were fair and the staff were very helpful and kind. Must have just been a good day. Thinking back, there wasn't much stock on the walls. I remember the place being kind of empty. Anyway, worth a "very good" vote to me. Maybe they have changed though.

The Everett store staff are usually rude in my experience. I refuse to go back to any of them. There ARE other places to purchase whether they realize or not.

Bought a 17 from them only because they were the only ones that had it in stock & I wanted to get it then -- whilethe folks are nice the prices aren't.

Never had a problem with the service (Irish, I think yours and others here are the only ones I've heard of having bad experiences, and that sucks) but the prices are absolutely gouging. They are MSRP+, and seem unapologetic about it. I'd say about six or so years ago prices were still fair, about four years ago they were creeping up into the MSRP+ category, and now they're just silly/stupid.

I walked into their range yesterday to get some ammo for today's firearm therapy session at Kenmore, but ended up leaving due to the lines. The lines were solely for the range; no one was in their gun shop.