22 at the hardware store?

Kman · Dec 4, 2011

2.5 miles from my house is a locally owned convenience store/pizza and sub joint that sells hunting ammo (including 22's).
Also sells fishing licenses and bait.

It's kind of nice throw back.

fivepointstar · Dec 4, 2011

the local ma & pa hardward store has .22 and shotgun shell in their store. not that I buy it but its there

davsco · Dec 4, 2011

when i was a young teen (so mid to late 70s) visiting my grandfather's town, glen lyon, PA, used to walk down the street to the hardware store and buy a brick of .22 which i then shot at cans and the like up at the abandoned strip mines.

i think they stopped recently, but loudoun lumber in purcellville, va used to sell guns and ammo.

powder in the air · Dec 4, 2011

My favorite place to go to get food ammo all is in the same trip is this ma and pa shop called crawfords in boontown

joppaj · Dec 4, 2011

Anderson's Hardware on Rt .40 in Joppa has most common calibers behind the counter. It's pricey, but they have it.

browning guy · Dec 4, 2011

joppaj said:
Anderson's Hardware on Rt .40 in Joppa has most common calibers behind the counter. It's pricey, but they have it.

ya beat me to it!

grb · Dec 4, 2011

Being a kid from the mid-west, this is still much the norm where I'm from. Last summer when I was back in Missouri, I stopped in a gas station and saw they had ammo. I asked if they happened to have any .35 cal Remington. It has gotten so expensive (+/- $30 a box) I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask. The guy digs around and comes out with 5 boxes. I asked him how much and he says Oh, it has been here a while, how about $12 a box...I bought all 5 in a heartbeat. :party29:

mbz300sdl · Dec 4, 2011

powder in the air said:
My favorite place to go to get food ammo all is in the same trip is this ma and pa shop called crawfords in boontown

Funny thing is I grew up in boontown (Boonsboro) and was only ever in there once and just about a year ago I drove by and saw guns and ammo on the sign.

august1410 · Dec 4, 2011

rseymorejr said:
those little country stores in Alabama usually have a good selecton of ammo.

When I was a kid the Montgomery Ward store in Eudowood had a handgun counter. I saw my first in person SS revolver there.

I remember handguns in the MW at Harford Mall. Where the shoe department is in Sears right now is where the gun counter was.

Mike511 · Dec 4, 2011

Anderson hardware rt 40 in Joppa sells ammo.

Pale Ryder · Dec 4, 2011

I remember a hardware store on Rt 175 in Odenton used to have Marlin 30/30's and Stevens shotguns for sale, and some ammo. It's nostalgia now, cause that was in the late 80's. Before Comrade Glendenings reign.

Biggfoot44 · Dec 5, 2011

As far as ammo sales , it wasn't the State as much as the increasing price of FFLs getting to where they had to either get serious or get out.

Used to be that at least .22s were a standard item in vertually every Hardware store , and at least half of Country stores.

Until they closed in the early '80s , College Park Hardware had a Gun Counter that could have been a well stocked Gun Store by itself.

SOMDSHOOT · Dec 5, 2011

There's a couple mom/pop shops here in Charles County that carry small selections of the basic stuff like .22, 12 & 20 gauge shot and slugs, and some rifle cartridges, but, no big deals or bulk buys. Mostly the common hunter stuff. One liquor store even sells some ammo up the road from here. A lot of smaller places stopped selling ammo when the state stopped the whole certified check in station practice. The only reason most places stocked ammo was due to the fact they were the check in station and the ammo was simply residual sales, but, since we check them in on the phone/computer now, there is no check in stations anymore.

Half-cocked · Dec 5, 2011

The Montgomery Ward in Laurel used to have a gun counter when I was a kid. Also, I bought my first firearm ever, a Winchester 12 gauge, in Greenbelt at one of the big catalog stores... I think it might have been Best?

Forest · Dec 7, 2011

krashmania said:
I always hear people say that 22 is so available, you can pick it up at the local harware store.

Is this a case of nostalgia meets wishful thinking, or a case of me not experiencing it because I live in a communist state?

I've found in Kendall's hardware store in Clarksville MD. (IIRC they also had 12 gauge and a box of .30-06).

Inigoes · Dec 7, 2011

Down here at the end of the earth, you can buy ammo at the hardware stores and gas stations.

Even got a gas station that sales guns

krashmania · Dec 7, 2011

I hate harford county...

joppaj · Dec 7, 2011

krashmania said:
I hate harford county...

Why?

shaddydan · Dec 7, 2011

You just shop at the wrong hardware stores!

o4twinpeaks · Dec 17, 2011

I used to walk through the woods after school down to anderson's and put a box of 22 on grand dads account and they would be gone by the time I got back to the house. Think they were like $.50 a box back then. Albert Dwight and Virgina were some great people!!!!

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