Ted:
What sort of gun are predominating at Joe's Sporting Goods? Pumps? autoloaders? doubles? I'm assuming the vast majority are 12 bore. That hasn't seemed to have happened here quite yet. There are good selections of used guns here if you look for them, but most are very pedestrian. Nicer stuff simply isn't for sale in the big boxes or the smaller gunshops that I know about. Folks still seem to be hanging on to the more well-made stuff.
You want a 12 gauge A5 or a model 12 in the same gauge, you might have a dozen of each to choose from. Plenty of 1100s, too.
The metro area here is not really a gun snob zone. Working mans stuff. to a very large degree.
Best,
Ted
