Thanks to Adam S. for sharing this.

A customer stopped into my store and said he had a gun that he was having some problems. I told him to bring it on in. He returns from his vehicle and opens a dirty, unassuming case and this was inside. My eyes immediately got huge!

He said that it was having some feeding issues and I had him try and explain further what was exactly happening and he wasn’t very good at elaborating on the problem. I told him it could something as simple as the magazine being worn since the gun is so old. I checked out the magazine and the mag lips were fine and it had good spring tension.

Then, he said he was thinking of possibly getting it re-blued or Cerakote-d to make the finish look better. At this point I hadn’t said anything about the value of the gun, but then I stopped him. I said that I would not work on his gun. I refused to. He should leave it as is.

He then told me that I was the 3rd stop he stopped at and everyone before me said the same thing.

Finally, I gave him the history and value of the gun. He was ecstatic since it was a hand-me-down gun and he didn’t know the full value or story.

Before he left I mentioned that we buy, sell, and trade and offered him $10 as a joke.