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Ramtough I wish I could help you because I feel your pain here. I for instance would like to go handle a Glock 36 just to see if I'd like it or not.
The only real gun store in a 40 mile radius would be happy to order me one of course.
My local FFL would love to order one for me too of course, cash up front please.
Thank God for the internet (sometimes).
As for knives, do you have Academy stores in your neck of the woods? Academy has a very respectable selection of Kershaw folders at least. They have some other good stuff too but this is the brand they really represent best I feel.
Do you know where a real gun store is? The ones in my home town have lots of Benchmades, Bokers and even some semi-custom type pieces I haven't seen anywhere else. A well stocked gun store usually has some kind of high end cutlery to go with it.
The thing I lament is that even good gun stores severely limit their handgun selection. The one I think about all the time carries Kimber, Springfield, and occassionally Colt 1911s, Smith and Wesson revolvers (The high end ones), and a few token Glock 17s and 19s. Basically if you don't want to handle a 1911, you aren't dying to see an expensive revolver, and you've shot every 9mm service pistol in existence, you're out of luck.
Sometimes I tell myself that when I'm eligible for retirement here in 28 years I should open a store that sells at least the most popular models for every real gun and knife manufacturer in existence and ammunition in every caliber imaginable from white boxes to sealed tins. Imagine it, Kimbers and Remingtons and Glocks and Smiths and Savages all under one roof with Cold Steels Benchmades Sypdercos Bucks...
Then I think about how much of a pain the ass it would be and remember that I hated working in retail with a deep passion. Let someone else pursue that dream. It won't be me.
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