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Gun Shop Patrons, What is the worst thing you have seen other customers do?

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gfan1984

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So, in 2013 I was at a small gun shop about 15 miles from where I live, nice and quiet, the guys that work there are hilarious and really helpful. So I went in one day to buy some MREs and I had just bought my first rifle (a Henry Lever Action 22LR) a week earlier and was going to talk to the guys about some shooting tips. I get there and they were waiting on a customer finishing up their background check. So I look around at other things and picked up some MREs and some ammo. When I was approaching the counter they were still processing the paperwork and the one man behind the counter was chit chatting with the man like how he always does. However something felt different, the other man at the counter had a blank stare the whole time, and just was watching the conversation not joining in at all. I took a few steps toward the counter and the man behind the counter wave his hand at me to move back. Before I could understand what he was doing, the door opened and two police officers walked in. They then both approached the man at the counter. Here he had a warrant for his arrest. At first the guy was calm and it seemed like he was complying. Suddenly when they go to the door, he turns around and starts kicking over the shelves and screaming at the top of his lungs. The police tackled him, cuffed him, then dragged him literally kicking and screaming to their vehicle. After that, I asked if they needed help cleaning up, but they said not to worry about it. After a few minutes the one police officer came back into the store to check up on us, and took a statement. The one guy behind the counter gave the officer a little piece of paper, the police officer asked, "What's this?" Without skipping a beat the man said, "Oh give this to that gentleman in your car." It was a "Rate Your Customer Experience" form! Hahaha.
 
gfan1984 said:
So, in 2013 I was at a small gun shop about 15 miles from where I live, nice and quiet, the guys that work there are hilarious and really helpful. So I went in one day to buy some MREs and I had just bought my first rifle (a Henry Lever Action 22LR) a week earlier and was going to talk to the guys about some shooting tips. I get there and they were waiting on a customer finishing up their background check. So I look around at other things and picked up some MREs and some ammo. When I was approaching the counter they were still processing the paperwork and the one man behind the counter was chit chatting with the man like how he always does. However something felt different, the other man at the counter had a blank stare the whole time, and just was watching the conversation not joining in at all. I took a few steps toward the counter and the man behind the counter wave his hand at me to move back. Before I could understand what he was doing, the door opened and two police officers walked in. They then both approached the man at the counter. Here he had a warrant for his arrest. At first the guy was calm and it seemed like he was complying. Suddenly when they go to the door, he turns around and starts kicking over the shelves and screaming at the top of his lungs. The police tackled him, cuffed him, then dragged him literally kicking and screaming to their vehicle. After that, I asked if they needed help cleaning up, but they said not to worry about it. After a few minutes the one police officer came back into the store to check up on us, and took a statement. The one guy behind the counter gave the officer a little piece of paper, the police officer asked, "What's this?" Without skipping a beat the man said, "Oh give this to that gentleman in your car." It was a "Rate Your Customer Experience" form! Hahaha.
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i have only been buying guns/ammo/accessories since well, 5 years this month....

1) i try to never buy a gun from the display case, and always ask if they have another in the stock room.

reason being is, dumbasses drop the slides on an empty chamber, especially a 1911.....way too many very good videos on why this should not be done...so i'd rather not have a new gun, that's (to me) been abused.

2) dumbass customers trying to trade or sell their used guns, and not "clearing them" before handing them to the owner of the store, or his help.

i even took a couple of steps back myself that one time, it happened right next to me.

3) dumbass customers, first timers or seasoned, holding a gun, the salesman just handed them after HE cleared it, and they just grab it (and NOT clearing it again), and start pointing it, level to the other store customers......or salesman.

4) to me here in this state all one has to do to buy a gun, is pass a true/false test after reading a book, to obtain a "Blue Card", informing the salesman, he/she passed the test...with out that card, or a CCW, no gun sale, not even an ammo sale.

included in that book test, one should have to watch a mandatory "safe gun handling" video, on "gun store etiquette" , then pass a true/false test on that as well........my state does not however demand that.........i think it should..

too many dumbasses go to a gun store, maybe alone, or with his girlfriend or wife, and "show -off", that HE is holding a gun...."showing-off", and handling it like an A-Hole.........this needs to be admonished, on the spot, and Blue Card seized. geez, i wonder if the dumbass will now be embarrassed.???


pics of my states "Blue Card" (maybe like a FOID Card in other states..??) to be able to buy a gun/ammo

(the date shows when i got into the sport/hobby of guns and ammo...almost 5 years now......)

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Old_Me said:
i have only been buying guns/ammo/accessories since well, 5 years this month....

1) i try to never buy a gun from the display case, and always ask if they have another in the stock room.

reason being is, dumbasses drop the slides on an empty chamber, especially a 1911.....way too many very good videos on why this should not be done...so i'd rather not have a new gun, that's (to me) been abused.

2) dumbass customers trying to trade or sell their used guns, and not "clearing them" before handing them to the owner of the store, or his help.

i even took a couple of steps back myself that one time, it happened right next to me.

3) dumbass customers, first timers or seasoned, holding a gun, the salesman just handed them after HE cleared it, and they just grab it (and NOT clearing it again), and start pointing it, level to the other store customers......or salesman.

4) to me here in this state all one has to do to buy a gun, is pass a true/false test after reading a book, to obtain a "Blue Card", informing the salesman, he/she passed the test...with out that card, or a CCW, no gun sale, not even an ammo sale.

included in that book test, one should have to watch a mandatory "safe gun handling" video, on "gun store etiquette" , then pass a true/false test on that as well........my state does not however demand that.........i think it should..

too many dumbasses go to a gun store, maybe alone, or with his girlfriend or wife, and "show -off", that HE is holding a gun...."showing-off", and handling it like an A-Hole.........this needs to be admonished, on the spot, and Blue Card seized. geez, i wonder if the dumbass will now be embarrassed.???


pics of my states "Blue Card" (maybe like a FOID Card in other states..??) to be able to buy a gun/ammo

(the date shows when i got into the sport/hobby of guns and ammo...almost 5 years now......)

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No. We don't need that "card cancer" stuff spreading to free states. Keep that stuff in your own slave state.
 
Several things come to mind. but one is when the customer starts to pull their holstered gun out and the employee starts to say keep it holstered and the customer interrupts with “but it’s not loaded”
Despite the song a in the door and everywhere that say “Keep all guns holstered” and go to the range if you need to download for a holster for.

Everyone thinks they are the exception to the 4 rules of firearms safety
 
Had a kid at the range showing his friends the finer points of the 1911, only the gun would fire the first round, cycle, then not fire the second unless he pointed the muzzle up.........

He comes up to me and asks if I minded looking at his gun to see if there's something wrong with it.

So I oblige, gun looks good, ammo looks good, it loads and cycles by hand as it should.

So I start my walk back to the bench I sit on as RSO, and about half way there I stop dead in my tracks, turn around and go back to look at the ammo again.

The pistol is marked .45ACP, I shuck a round out of the magazine and look at the case headstamp, it's marked 40SW......

I show the kid, and he gets really embarrassed, and says he didn't look very close at the ammo he just saw it had a "4" in the box markings, and just grabbed it. Then he asked me not to tell his friends lol
 
I took a gun to a shop here in Colorado Springs to have some night sights put on it.

I don't know I might have been the one that was wrong here but I don't think so.

My gun had a chamber flag in it. I don't remember where I got it but the chamber flag was actually so long that the end of it stuck out the barrel and the chamber end, of course, stuck out of the chamber

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Similar to this.

So I open the case and I showed the guy there's no magazine and you can see it has a chamber flag in it.

He looked at me like I was crazy then he locked the slide to the rear, removed the chamber flag and stuck his finger in the chamber to verify that there wasn't a cartridge in it.

I mean, I'm all for safety but that's a little extreme.

Other than that I've seen the same idiots that other people see in gun stores
 
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