I miss this site like you wouldn't believe. Prior to covid I could get a new (used) gun for next to nothing and could keep the hobby going to another gun.

its still there its just shittier.

>>63958695 (OP)
There's only like 3 people on it now

Went bust when ya mudda left.

Me too anon, I scored a D-Technik VZ-57 sporter off of a recent widow who was selling her husband's collection.

>>63958695 (OP)
I miss scrolling through Armslist for hours back in the 2010s and texting some random guy to meet in a random parking lot and both of you doing everything with your left hand because you both had your right hands on your pistols. Over half of my guns came from that blessed site.

I don't get the hype about old Armslist. Literally every time I tried to buy or sell something there the only communication was with scammers. I gave up after enough of that.

>>63958826
>tfw you left your crystal pepsi at home so now you aren't caffeinated enough to wait for the other guy at 0200 in the back Buc-ees parking lot to buy three mosins and a pair of esapi plates fresh from the local army base in 2006.

>>63958849
The gems available were truly unique. Among the best for me was some retard selling a SAR4800 for 600 bucks that he obviously took from his dead dad because he didn't know anything about the rifle, a .300BLK AR pistol with a trijicon rx34 for 400 bucks that i entirely got back when I sold the AR meaning the optic was free, and a non-parts matching luger for 650 bucks in damn near unfired condition

Site was so based. Why does everything have to become zogged

>>63959047
Liability, armslist kinda created private gun sale meetups.

Any stories of armslist stuff going south person-to-person?

>>63958914
I had a million times better luck on Gunbroker or local shooting forums.

>>63959150
there used to be a lot of greentexts about this. i fondly remember one where anon went to go meet up another seller 3 hours away, thinks he got ghosted and sends a racist tirade only for the seller to reply that he was with his grandson or someshit. made me kek

>>63959163
damn. Any more... kinetic encounters? Sooner or later I'd expect an anon to have done the dumb and bought something from someone he shouldn't have.

>>63958695 (OP)
Theres tons of pawn shops in my state that list stuff on armslist, i just browse that occasionally and dont bother fishing in pawn shops on a whim anymore

>>63959560
I noticed my LGS lists a ton of stuff there that's not on the shelf. In your experience do they sell it to you if you come in person and ask about it?

>>63959583
Idk ive only actually bought one once, a ruger LCR for super super cheap, no problems at all with it was like new. Really just browsing is cathartic enough, unless theres a super crazy deal thats all it will be for me. But yeah they sold it to me no problem

>>63959587
Fair enough lol I enjoy browsing too. They still list the email and name of the store and shit so I figure it's easy enough to call and reserve it without actually gping through armslist, who dosen't even see any money from the transaction anyways.

>>63959591
Yeah i didnt go through armslist, i just called and asked if they still had it, didnt even ask to reserve just drove over right away and got it

I sold a Chinese guy 500 rounds of American eagle xm193 in a Walmart parking lot at the start of covid for $1 per round. He pulled up in an amg Mercedes so I knew he didn’t care about getting fleeced

>>63959150
I was gonna trade a 1911 for a MAK-90 at the time. Slightly lopsided trade in my favor but at the time similarish values within $200 or so.

>tried to meet 3 times
>got many excuses
>his last try was "i'm at golden corral with my wife and kids but text me and the gun's in the truck" (or some other buffet, this was at least 2018 or so)

I believe he was never serious

Is the site still alive?

>>63958695 (OP)
Well guys you see, you having generational wealth is bad for the rothschilds and it's offensive to their immigration policies.
Politicians are working very hard to remove you from your homes arbitrarily.

>>63958822
Anon, could you by chance post a picture of the inside of your receiver for me? for the sake of an FRT I'm developing as I only have a Century vz58

>>63962227
Sure, let me know what specifically you need pics of

>>63962227
Forgot the pic

>>63958826
lol, I never had an experience like that. I met a guy with a dog where I accidentally left my short cash with him while I went to the ATM for a CZ82. Another was a guy and his young son in a pickup truck when I was getting a S&W 629 .357 revolver. Another one did seem like a drug deal, he was a college kid who didn't even want to do the drivers license exchange or paperwork for a Colt Vest Pocket. We got lost in different parking lots and had to meet up at the nearby hospital (with no guns allowed posted). And another one who kept wanting to talk about black powder when I was trying to get out of his cat-piss smelling car (probably just the BP) when I got a Colt Walker in a grocery store parking lot.
Honestly it was more chill than a gun store. What's taken its place now?

>>63962331
Damn, looks like the D-technik ones have the same issue as the cz USA ones
i'll have to sell new bolts to go with the FRT

>>63959200
I was going to meet up with someone to sell a couple of stripped lowers but the only other car in the lot was clearly full of nogs so I dipped out. Every other deal I’ve done has been super chill.

>>63958695 (OP)
>>63959150
similar but floridaguntrader is extremely sketchy, I will only meet someone if they text like a human being and have a cwp

>>63962354
>Damn, looks like the D-technik ones have the same issue as the cz USA ones
What issue?

>>63961820
it's alive but paywalled. everyone moved to floridaguntrader or texasguntrader (run by the same person) and as far as I know other states typically have far less volumes to support a standalone site so you would have to use arfcom EE or some other local yokel forums

>>63962375
its missing a space in front of the trigger, makes it inconvenient to design without it