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

[HansGruber]

Arnzen Arms, a quality shop near me (largest retailer of JP Rifles in the country!), has a large jar of rounds they found in "unloaded" guns customers bring in. The last time I asked about it they had emptied it and refilled at least four times.

I like that shop. Try to stop by whenever I’m in the area; that and Gunstop, and Southwest Firearms.

 

[4rchangel]

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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A card to exercise a right???
No thank you...
I'd rather put up with some occasional idiots than deal with that.

 

[benstt]

I do like Gunstop. John is a solid guy and very knowledgeable. They have one guy, I don't know his name, who can be pretty surly. He mostly stays in the back, though. Southwest is far and away the friendliest but they seem like they've hit hard times. There's less and less stock since 2020. I think the shortages hit them hard.

 

[Shibadog]

I once saw a guy exclaim his gun was unloaded by putting it to his head and pulling the trigger. He was banned from the store.

you’d have to be a special kind of stupid to pull that nonsense. The difference between stupidity and genius is that there ARE limits to genius….

 

[yotehtr]

Local shop I visit regularly is gun friendly. But if you need to check a holster fit / or sight installation ect. A gun shop employee must take your firearm inside, & outside when your finished. I'm fine with that, they've told me stories that are hard to believe.