I may buy a gun from Wally-World if the price were exceptional, as in 15% or more lower than all the other gun/sporting goods stores in town. I do shop around before I buy a gun, because for me a new gun is a large investment and I don't want to pay too much more than the gun is worth.

I am very blessed that I do have a very good small, privately owned/operated gun store across town from where I live (called Cedar Valley Outfitters). What's even better is that his price is always +- $25 or so of the current market price of any gun you're looking for, and all the guys working there are very knowledgeable about their trade. I once asked a teen-aged Wal-Mart employee working in sporting goods if I could look at a Baretta (semi-auto) shotgun that had caught my eye, and he started to pull a Weatherby Vangard out of the case! And when I told him that that wasn't even a shotgun he just had a clueless look.

CVO is also very fair about things like trades. Try trading a gun at Wal-Mart and see what happens, and the big chain gun stores like Scheels will try to rip you off if you try to trade a gun with them. As a case in point, I used to have a H&K USP 45 stainless that was in 98% condition that was worth at least $450-500, especially since H&K no longer makes the full-sized USP 45 in stainless. But the gun didn't fit me very well and I couldn't shoot it as well as I thought I should be able too, so I decided to trade it off for a more suitable pistol. I took it to Scheels and they only wanted to give me $300 for it in trade, which is a minimum of $150 less than what they would turn around and sell it for.

So would I buy at Wal-Mart if the price were outstanding, and in fact I have bought a couple guns from them, but not before I've given CVO a fair look.

Mike