Notes from the gun shop...

While we did a tolerable amount of business and did several background checks today, things seemed to be a bit slow. Oh, we talked about yesterday's silhouette match. We worked on a couple of guns. We wished our co-worker Lewis well. We re-arranged things and cleaned a bit. But not much happened. The best gun we saw today was a Smith and Wesson .22 Magnum Rimfire revolver with 8-3/8" barrel. The man who brought it in had just paid $250 for it. Finish was in excellent condition. Bore looked good. The problem? The ejector rod had backed out and tied up the gun. A bit of surreptitious and carefully applied "force" and the gun was open and the ejector rod properly secured. One other thing of note happened. We had more than a couple of people come in to buy ammo for guns and allowed as they had better get it now before the government tried to take it or economic circumstances made acquisition otherwise difficult. A word to the wise...