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I will stopping in L.A for couple of days in May,are there any really big and/or must see gun shops in L.A?? I want to stock up on Partitions and BarnesX to bring home. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill | ||
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There used to be some great gun shopes in LA. Last time I was in LA earlier this year I was advised by my buddy that there were no gunshopes in LA.... NONE. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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Head shops, sex shops,gay shops, but no gun shops in L.A.!  | |||
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Top Predator, There are still several left. But LA is a big place. I grew up there...the City of LA is almost 50 miles wide at some points. Additionally, there are many smaller cities adjacent to LA where the boundary is the middle of a major street. see look here Bain & Davis Gun Shop (626) 573-4241 307 E Valley Blvd, San Gabriel, CA 7.64 mi Gun Gallery (818) 244-9800 1125 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA 5.10 mi Turner's Outdoorsman (626) 578-0155 835 S Arroyo Pkwy, Pasadena, CA 6.90 mi Map | Directions | Send to Phone | Save to Mathews & Son (562) 928-2129 10224 Paramount Blvd, Downey, CA 8.39 mi Map | Directions | Send to Phone | Save to Collection See all: Weapons Gun Runners (626) 358-7711 2160 Huntington Dr, Duarte, CA Gunslinger Gun Shop (626) 914-7010 757 E Arrow Hwy, Glendora, CA 20.45 mi (Sharpshooter Incorporated (310) 618-9971 1827 W 208th St, Torrance, CA See all: Other Sports - Weapons Stevenson Gun Country (818) 845-6015 1313 W Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA all of the above are suburbs of LA. Where are you staying? Also if you want, tel me what you are looking for I'll order before you get here an have it sent to your hotel. Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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These comments and reactions about CA are pretty silly I don't know if it's poor assumptions or ignorance. This isn't the best state for guns or gunshops but too many people jump to the conclusion that we're a completely foreign country. I live in a small town and we have two dedicated gun shops and several others that carry guns. The next two small towns on either side of me have at least the same. An 800 member trap, skeet, rifle and pistol range is 3 miles from my house. When you get a little way out of the towns here some of the smaller ranches in this area are 4,000 to 6,000 acres, with many over 20,000 acres. I grew up halfway between SF and LA in a town of 17 people and went to a one room school. That town is still mostly cattle ranchers and is still the same size. CA isn't all skyscrapers, smog and liberals. CA does start more than it's share of stupid gun laws and messed up politicians but we don't have a monopoly on it. It starts from both coasts and a little from the middle. You folks in the center that assume it will never get to you and spending all your effort making fun of the coasts while assuming your fully insulated need to educate yourselves. I went to a shop a couple months ago in LA that was wall to wall Kreighoffs. Mostly shotguns but there were rifles as well. There are two gunshops within a mile of that one. There are still tons of gunshops down there, maybe not many great ones but to say there are none is simply ignorant. There are 11+ million people, I've personally had 1,000+ hunting clients over the last 19 years from the LA area. They hunt with some great equipment... you think they drove to TX and smuggled it back???? I usually attend several shooting events down there per year. 100-300 people per event is not uncommon. Pacific Sporting Arms, Ivory Beads, Bolsa Gunsmithing, Turners Outdoorsman (11 stores in that chain alone the last time I heard) and I'm sure tons I'm not aware of in the LA area. There should be a huge Bass Pro Outdoor World opening this year. Hopefully someone living there will chime in with more names and addresses. The LA gunshop situation is not what it used to be but those folks make a ridiculous amount of money. If some of them want to spend it on guns you can bet someone will supply them. Kyler | |||
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Try this shop: Gretas Guns 1224 Los Angeles Drive Simi Valley, Ca. 93065 805-520-4867 toll free ebiller@gretasgun.com I know one of the gun salesmen there. He is very knowledgeable and has hunted SA several times, once with me. Ask for Jason Parr. He is a good guy. They sell a lot of guns too, just as Kyler stated. Woody | |||
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I used to live in Simi, Greta is the dog sleeping behind the counter.  Jim "Bwana Umfundi" NRA | |||
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Amen Kyler! I grew up in the greater Los Angeles area and agree with your assessment completely. Perfect? Hardly! I have purchased a rifle from Ivory Beads in Covina (I believe),and they are a fist class operation. You can also check out my childhood gun shop in Temple City, called The Lock, Stock 'N Barrel -- 626/287-0051 "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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I used to drop by The Stockade and Turners back when I was in the service. Turners was more of a chain of stores while The Stockade was a regular gunshop with reloading suppies. The best was B & B Guns. Unfortunetly, they helped out the police by supplying rifles to them during the bank shootout a few years ago. Not that supplying guns to the police was a bad thing, but some anti-gun beuracrat sued them for releasing the rifles without the required waiting period. They are now out of business to the best of my knowledge. They were hands down the best on in L.A. that I ever found. Nate | |||
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AS a former Angeleno, I liked the Pony Express gun shop in the San Fernando Valley (Chatsworth I think), but it's been about 10 years since I've been there. | |||
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Pony express used to be in Van Nuys just North of the Van Nuys Airport but sadly they closed their doors about 3 or 4 years ago. The price of knowledge is great but the price of ignorance is even greater. | |||
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James, Like I said, order bullets off the internet and have them delivered to my house. Then just come up to Bakersfield and we'll get in a day of ground squirrel shooting. That'll beat the hell out of Disneyland and West Hollywood. Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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Kyler--I live in a smallish town (about 20,000) in Tx and we have WalMart, and two gun shops, one of which is closing and in the process of selling out. I can drive 20 miles and visit 2 stores, or 30 miles to San Antonio where I am limited only by time. Or, I can drive about 40 miles to Cabela's or 50 to Austin, and again, have scads of places to go. California is no different for the most part, but you just gotta know the places to go and how to get there. Just a lot more traffic and congestion. Fjold--that's a generous offer. You might have 500-1000 armed guys and gals show up. An old pilot, not a bold pilot, aka "the pig murdering fool" | |||
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A couple of years ago when I was working in New Zealand, James invited me down and we shot feral goats for a day. This gives me a chance to payback his gracious hospitality. Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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LOL! Yeah, tell me about it. I'm from MA, and if what I hear on here and other sites about my home state is true, I'm not allowed to hunt here, not allowed to own any firearms and absolutely can't carry concealed. Oh, and I'm a lesbian.  Well, this 'lesbian' hunts here, is 100% legal to own firearms, and carries concealed a Sig P220 in .45 ACP most times. Those that don't live, and never have even been, sure think they know a whole bunch about other people's home states, eh? ______________________ Hunting: I'd kill to participate. | |||
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You can imagine how those of us who live in other countries feel when we see total ignorance stated as fact. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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I've been biting my tongue about making that post for a while, fully expecting to get completely flamed. The agreement by many of you is appreciated and I must say unexpected. Thanks, Kyler | |||
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