Yet another reason Armslist sellers are bad

So my buddy is looking for a certain gun, he looks and he looks, and all of a sudden, Boom, he calls me, tells me about it and I am like, "cool, buy it". So he wants me to look at it and look at the ad, (he is new to our world, brought up very anti-gun, married anti-gun, then divorced anti-gun and went to the range with me and got hooked). I was thinking it was from here, its not, its from Armslist. So I am big boy to know all the ads on there are not bad, so I don't say anything and he sends me the link. So lets start off with LNIB and 500 rnd count should never be in the same sentence, I don't think there is anything wrong with a 500 rnd count, I do think that saying its LNIB is a little drastic. So I look at the ad, we determine that its a little on the steep price, but that's why you negotiate right? So he emails, and after a few, he decides he is at the desired number and he asked me to come along. I do, so we go and meet, the gun is there, a bit dirty, but what ever, we'll clean it... Then we asked to share ID's and then it goes south. He pulls his WA ODL out (We are in Oregon BTW). I look at him and ask him if he was doing a transfer, he says no, F2F, and I pull out the issue of why you now can not buy this. The seller went ape crap, telling me i was Full of crap and so on and so on, and how he drove all the way to Tualatin from Battle Ground....so thank goodness for smart phones and I got to educated him with facts. I went home and looked at the ad and it showed Portland and surrounding areas, so he is searching for a buyer. I am thinking that a lot of WA folks are dumping guns now...don't know but just a thought, I don't know if he did not know the law, was LE and doing stings (Put me tin foil hat on for a second) or if he just did not know. Anyways, we did the right thing and retreated.

 

I asked for an ID because I want to cover my butt and because I require a bill of sale I've seen way too often that the seller will not give a bill of sale and then he will claim that the gun was stolen although that doesn't happen very often I don't want to be the one called in the middle nor do I want any of my friends

 

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well here's the deal the anti-gun grabbing guys are trying to do everything they can to bring more laws on us our argument right now as there's enough laws, enforce the ones that are out there and the only way we can do that isn't too sure where policing ourselves

 

I had good dealings on Armslist, lately its been a horrific experience with the last 3 interactions, I actually walked away and did not sell to 2 folks looking to buy my Glock I had for sale. One was stated above, 2nd was we negotiated a price, met up and they conveniently only had 100 less than what we agreed on. Next one the guy would not show his ID to me and I denied the sell to him, i was not making a copy, i just wanted to verify he was an OR resident. This is the best place to sell or buy IMO, the feedback system is the best.

 

Speaking of weird, a guy just emailed my buddy over his gun he is trying to sell wanting him to trade him his Beretta 92FS (buddies gun) for a High Point C9 plus 500 dollars. He claims its a rare first year addition worth 3k................Unless I am missing something, I have never seen a High Point go for 3k.

 

Still only be 2500