Green Top Sporting Goods - Virginia

[tom tutwiler]

Originally Posted by Jerry Harlow

Greentop is twenty times bigger than the store that started out as a service station trading guns. The Hopkins boys were from down the road a few miles from my family, and my dad knew them for the whole community got drafted during WWII. One day we went into the old location and he saw them for the first time probably since the war. They started another small gun shop in Mechanicsville with the Hopkins name which is now out of business per the web, but the current Greentop was opened by investors. They rely on buying a lot of collections when old codgers die and their widows don't know what they have and want them out of the house.

Friend of mine who has health issues sold almost every gun he had to Green Top a few years ago. He had sent them an inventory of his guns with types and condition. They sent a buyer and a gunsmith to his house and went over his entire list and made him and offer on everything. He had done some internets searches and was fairly confident of the worth of each piece and said while some were a bit low in his mind a few were actually above what he thought they were worth. Bottom line is he sold them everything and they packed them up and wrote him a check on the spot. There are worse ways to get rid of a collection.