Oh no, don't get me wrong Skeet. When my friend was telling me this, that's the same thing I told him. I don't think that's true at all. But he offered to do a side by side comparrison of a Remington 870 for him. I'm going to go up and look his shop over, and I think I will just let him show me. I've in the past bought guns from Wal-Mart and dealers and couldn't tell any difference, and truthfully don't think there is.
I just don't like buying guns at Wal-Mart, or K-mart, or any other Mart. I don't like the way K-Mart buckled to the anti-gunners a few years back with handguns and handgun ammo. My feeling is they are driving the small gun shops out of business and then, when they buckle to the anti-gun crowd and stop selling guns, where are gun customers going to go then? I also don't like being escorted not only from the store, but completely out through the parking lot to my vehicle. I know it's only for safety, blah blah blah, but I don't like it.
I understand their buying in volume discounts and all that. I had a small engine repair shop. Wal-Mart sells mowers cheaper than I could buy engines.
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