Complaint Review: Master at Arms

My fiancee and I came into Vegas, from VA. to visit with her 81 year old father and tour their old stomping grounds in Vegas, Alamo and Pahrump just to name a few. We are still dealing with the trauma of discovering her dad had died 8 days before our arrival, alone in his home.

As you can imagine our vacation and time with dad was turned upside down and regardless of our disbelief we needed to settle his affairs in less than a week, including sending back to Virginia his small gun collection.

On July 8, 2014 I entered the premises of Master at Arms in Pahrump, NV. The two owners (I presume a man and a woman in their 50s) greeted me. I explained to them that my fiancee's father had suddenly past away. We had found him deceased in his house. It's been a traumatic ordeal settling his affairs in days rather than months.

We needed to ship his gun collection out of state. Master at Arms came recommended as a good company to deal with...They gave us a hefty shipping charge. Not being a gun collector, I trusted their assessment of the weapons. In the whirlwind our minds were in we didn't catch some clues that we were being ripped off. For example, A Turkish-made Mauser issued prior to WWII by the Imperial Japanese army, in great firing condition, so said the man behind the counter, was only worth $100.

A Barretta 22 Cal. only worth $60.00 (The lady mentioned that her husband had all the Barrettas in the series but that one). It should have struck me as odd that someone collects inexpensive firearms - but it didn't...we're racing against time to settle the estate and make the plane back home.

The man then told me armor - piercing bullets were a big no - no with the government, but he would buy them and the cases of 45 caliber bullets for $15 AND "that there's no way to ship bullets cross state unless I owned an arms business" ...then they just stared at me...

So, trusting their judgment and business fairness I sold them the Barretta, a 12 gauge, double-barrel, single trigger shotgun for $60 and the box of bullets for $15. Since my arrival I have found out the Barretta was worth over $400 and the Shotgun over $300. No telling what I got taken on the 100 + rounds of bullets.

I called the lady on July 16, 2014 and asked to buy back the Barretta and shotgun and I would pay for the postage - she sternly refused and ended the call. Considering the very grim circumstances I trusted the arms dealer to be fair and honest - that's all anyone asks... In the end they stole from a dead man without remorse.

They said they recently moved from California...hmmmm.....

I hope that this fires you up, the reader, as much as it has us...to this date they have not sent us our shipment...when we called earlier last week the assistant clerk said, and I do not exaggerate ..." Holy F*** they charged you $160.00 to send two guns to Virginia???!!"

This came from their own employee! They have our money, scammed us out of two weapons and have yet to pack the other two that they said we'd have by last Wednesday... I feel these people scammed us - STAY WAY!