Nice Pawn shop finds today.

When I was young and naïve, I would hit the pawn shops around here regularly and come up with all kinds of great deals. Then my home was burglarized and I was educated about pawn shops. I'm not buying the spoils from some crack-head's mission to finance his next hit.
 
MT_Pokt said:
When I was young and naïve, I would hit the pawn shops around here regularly and come up with all kinds of great deals. Then my home was burglarized and I was educated about pawn shops. I'm not buying the spoils from some crack-head's mission to finance his next hit.
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not to derail the thread but would ya mind Sir educating us on how they got ya. followed ya home or....? you simply mean everything ya got was stolen and sold to pawn shops?

sorry that happened to ya as well. sad to see what drugs do to people and their family and the other innocents they harm as well.
 
If they would have followed me home, you would have read about me in the "Armed Citizen" in the NRA magazines and they would be on the wrong side of the grass. No... they waited until our first day back to work after a holiday break. It was extended family... I won't go into too much detail here, but it really is a fascinating tale.
 
Those are nice finds.

I am also conflicted about pawn shops. I know that the police know the locations and regularly check them for stolen goods. That said they are a conduit for stolen property.
 
Well in this case an employee pawned these knives off and could not pay the bill to pick them up so they were sold in the counter. This is sad that around Christmas time people need some money for gifts. Maybe their kids or close relatives. The only option for some people is pawn shops.
The Ruana's I bought were brought in by the owner. An old guy dumping his collection a couple years ago. The 2 I picked up had been for sale for awhile.

Buck is in North Idaho, makes sense to visit pawn shop in and around Couer D Alene and Spokane.

My Grandfather gave my Dad a sword he acquired in Japan during WWII while in the Navy. When we lived in Hermiston OR, My father needed to pawn certain items now and again for the money. Well the last time he pawned the sword he couldnt quite get the money together to get it back so it was sold.
 
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I suppose buying something on Blade Forums has just as much of a chance to be stolen property as a pawn shop. Knives aren't serialized or anything.

A lunchbox knife is definitely stolen property and they pop up on here now and again.
 
Makael said:
I suppose buying something on Blade Forums has just as much of a chance to be stolen property as a pawn shop. Knives aren't serialized or anything.

A lunchbox knife is definitely stolen property and they pop up on here now and again.
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what is a lunchbox knife
 
Wow, great score.
That 119 is amazing.
1912er said:
what is a lunchbox knife
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It's usually when an employee assembles a knife from different parts and sneaks it home in their lunch box, using different parts keeps it under the radar.

The other kind of lunchbox knife is just another name for the " hobo knife " with the fork knife and spoon.
 
Everybody knows my name in the local pawn shop..... :rolleyes:

Where everybody knows your name
And they're always glad you came
You want to go where people know, people are all the same
You want to go where everybody knows your name
 
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