I was in Newington yesterday so I stopped in Hoffmans and they had plenty of new Glocks but I was looking at other stuff. A new salesman came over who was cordial but asked to see my pistol permit before showing me anything. Never had that before. Is that another new part of the law? Nobody else asked me to do that. Anyway, I told him what I was looking for and he showed me guns well out of that price range and proceeded to tell me all about how he wanted the guns he was showing me. Great, good for you buddy but I don't really care what you want, I'm the customer. Then we went to the other side of the counter to look at revolvers, again, not what I was looking for but I guess he liked revolvers.
I asked him if I could see some used guns and pointed me to that section. I was surprised to see he didn't come with me. He had gone back to wait on new people who were standing by the expensive guns he wanted. I waited at least 15 minutes before an older guy finally reluctantly came over and showed me the used guns with about as much interest and enthusiasm as a three towed sloth coming down from a tree but at least he didn't ask to see my permit.
I had been over to Newington Gun Exchange first, so much better there. They had Bersa, SCCY, Taurus, etc. as well as the bigger names and a much, much better selection of used guns. I did see something I liked but the state had closed so I could not buy anything. I had time to kill and figured I'd check out Hoffmans for the heck of it. I hope to be able to get back to Newington Gun-ex this week if what I liked is still there.
Don, it bothered me a tad that you said I had "whored myself out with a Buds purchase". I respect your knowledge and value your opinion but when nobody has the gun in the same configuration as Buds I fail to see how that's whoring myself out. If I bought the same gun from Buds that local shops had to save a lousy $10, yes that would be whoring myself out but that's not how it was. I called Hoffmans, Newington Gun-ex and Brooklyn Trading Post before ordering from Buds. None of them had it and they didn't think it was something they could even get in that configuration so I simply went with the one place that did have what I wanted.