I'll see what my buddy has to say after he gets back from the SHOT show. He's in the same position I'm in.
Listening to all the flap about the Newster saying kids should get jobs, even if it's as a janitor. My first paying job was in the summer before I started college. I sold guns in the firearms department of a major department store. Every big store, and gas station, had at a least a few guns for sale, along with fishing and camping gear, etc.
On the first day, the manager took me through the camera department, where he discovered that I could read manuals, and figure out how the stuff worked. Then he tried to school me in the gun department. I visibly flinched when he swept me with the muzzle of a .22, and politely pointed out customers would appreciate more courtesy when showing them merchandise. And that if he discounted the guns that had been gathering dust for ten years, he'd have room for the newer stuff that was coming out, and draw more traffic.
We wound up with an unwritten rule that I would not stray from the gun department unless I was the only one on the floor, and the other guys, who probably all had families (or drinking habits) to feed would stay off my turf, or risk making fools of themselves with their own BS. BS may sell TVs and washing machines, but I felt it had no place in selling firearms. My BS detector still goes off far too often in too many of the few remaining gun stores.
Still, I had a great "how I spent my summer vacation" story for my freshman English teacher, Joyce Carole Oates. However, she objected to the subject matter, so I had to write fiction, instead. I think I said I worked on the serving line of a soup kitchen. :)
Morning Win-mag : First non-grass cutting job was stringing tennis rackets at a little sporting goods store, sorta migrated to the gun rack and actually did reloading and minor gunsmithing. That was a good job in that I could take some of my pittance in .22 ammo at cost; Winchester .22 std velocity Super X. Still have one box of it.
Shot Show postings on GunBlast and the various gun forums are pretty cool again.
so... how about a .45 that is the size of your PPS?
I soooo need one of these.