I work the counter and the firing line. These are the five guns I would buy in each category, and the popular ones I walk past.
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You are standing in front of somebody who handles guns all day, so you ask. It sounds like the smart thing to do. But a gun counter is a business with its own math, and that question lets the store's math answer for you.
There is almost no money in a new gun. A pistol with a price tag in the mid five hundreds leaves the shop fifty to eighty dollars. The living is made on the used case, the wall of holsters and cleaning kits behind you, and the plans sold at the register. So something has to get attached to your purchase between "I'll take it" and the door.
And some guns come with money behind them. A sales rep comes through and for the next sixty or ninety days every one of a certain model sold puts a few dollars in the clerk's pocket. Those incentives go on the guns that need help selling.
None of that makes the person behind the glass a crook. It means that if you do not know the math, you cannot tell good advice from a sales pitch. They sound identical.
I am Hailey Maddox. I spend half my day selling guns and the other half on the firing line watching what those same guns do when people shoot them. I see what runs, what chokes on the second magazine, and what comes back across the counter in a box with a note taped to it. This book is the list I give people when nobody is listening.
The tag is only the start of what a wrong gun costs. Here it is the way it really happens.
One wrong gun avoided pays for the book many times over.
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Do not ask whether a gun is reliable. Everything is reliable according to the tag. Ask what comes back across this counter for warranty work, what gets traded in two months after it was bought, and what the range staff see jam on the line.
Every shop knows this list by heart. It is the most valuable information in the building, and almost nobody asks for it.
If the answer is "nothing, they're all good," you are being handled. Every shop has a list.
That is one question. The book has four more, and 122 pages.
Every gun by name, every price in dollars, every one I walk past with the reason.
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I am Hailey Maddox. I work the counter and the firing line at a gun shop and range.
That means I see both ends of every sale: what the customer was told at the glass, and what the gun did on the line a week later. A gun earns a place on my list by what comes back and what does not.
Where I name a gun to walk past, I tell you why.
You know how to shoot. This book is about the other side of the glass: where the store makes its money, which models have an incentive on them, and what actually comes back for warranty work. Forty years of shooting does not show you that.
Then use it to check your next one. The used chapter gives you a ten-minute inspection you can run on any gun, including the ones already in your safe, and the price chapter tells you what a fair trade looks like.
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Say the names. Say your ceiling. Ask the five questions. The list does the rest.
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