Another Story of Gun Stores

[Declaration Day]

'm all for 2A, but if someone wants to protect themselves from break-ins, yet refuses to do the basic step of locking their doors at night, I am NOT going to trust them with a gun.

Agreed.

It seems like this guy was setting himself up to shoot the intruder, should he visit again. Anyone who wouldn't take simple rational precautions such as locking doors to avoid such confrontation, is insane in my book.

 

[kjeff50cal]

I sell guns every day and my boss give us the right of refusal. A gentleman came in to my store a couple of weeks ago obviously beaten and brused about the face and you guessed it wanted a gun. I asked why and it seemed that he was a landlord to some lowlifes who he tryed to evict..... He was very agitated talking about the incident (BTW what he did was not SOP around here which is a court order served by deputies).

I calmed him down and told him flat out that because of the incident and his current state I could not sell him a gun. I said maybe at a later date after he worked it out with the proper authorities maybe, but not now. He thanked me, left and I worried. Some weeks passed and he came in again..... to thank me for talking him out of a bad reasoning at the time. He let the deputies throw out the riff raff but now he did need a good HD shotgun "just in case."

 

[Mark Whiteman]

Nobody's ever tried the "You'll shoot your eye out, Bud" refusal?

Thanks, guys, those of you who declined to hand a moron with a stick of dynamite for brains a lit match. We all have a right to bear arms, but none of us has an obligation to hand a weapon to anyone demonstrably unsafe.

 

[Sawdust]

"Tae Kwon Do"

Translation: "Take One's Dough"

Sawdust

 

[Cliff47]

The last time I was in at my local purveyor of fine firearms, the place was swamped, yet the Main Man (I'll call him Stew) was going over the aspects of a number of firearms with one character who seemed very undecided as to whether he wanted a revolver, a semiauto, a shotgun or a handkerchief. In the end, Stew suggested a basic firearms class at a local range, and that the class introduced the students to a range of calibers (.22lr to .38Spl, to .357 Mag, 9 mm, .45 ACP). The fellow thanked Stew, and then left. The rest of us in the shop gave him a silent 'thumbs-up'.

 

[Zero_DgZ]

Ugh. My sister does the same thing. The door is always unlocked, day or night, if they're home or not.

She used to live in the yuppie townhouse section of West Chester. Now she lives in the not-far-removed-from-the-ghetto section of Kenett. Computers, TV's, jewelry all over the place isn't the half of it. My youngest niece started high school this year. She's just at "that age." She already has random thugs on the street making passes at her, and unfortunately she's the type that's utterly helpless and mostly naive...

My oldest nephew isn't. He just got his carry permit and bought an XD9. He keeps it on him; If someone breaks (or walks, in this case) in they won't get his gun.

My sister (his mother) is vehemently anti-gun. She doesn't even want "those things" in the house, much to my nephew and brother-in-law's chagrin. I had the argument with her more than once that she ought to at least lock her front door if she's going to pointedly make herself helpless to defend herself. That didn't fly. Too much logic. I asked her if her tune would change if some punk broke into her house and raped her daughter.

She said she'd borrow a gun from me. I told her she damn well wouldn't.

That's where we left it. She still doesn't know that her son is armed and would defend her and his sister given the chance. And hopefully she won't have to. But she's still an idiot.

 

[NickEllis]

i think it depends on the part of the country. Up in Nebraska, our entire family lives on a single piece of land, and noone keeps the doors locked. The cars all have keys in the ignitions. Its just annoying if someone needs the Chevy to hunt around for keys!

I lived in Philly for a bit, and of course its different. However, I don't think the same applies.

Nick

 

[statelineblues]

Many years ago when I worked in a gun store , we had a father and daughter come in. She was a freshman, going away to college, and Dad wanted to buy her a gun (read 'pistol) to protect herself. Any firearms training? Nope. Any knowledge of gun laws in that state or regs about guns on campus? Nope. The kicker was when Dad told me that he "didn't want her to shoot somebody with it, just scare them". I did my diplomatic best in steering them away from the guns and over to the pepper spray/mace.
She left the store with 2 small sprays, but no gun.