Idiot in gun shop.

An idiot? In a gun shop?? Get out!!!

After many "idiot" encounters, meaning encounters with people who do unsafe things with firearms, I've learned that the secret to doing the right thing and not fuming about it, and not piling up regrets is SPEED! You say something IMMEDIATELY. In these situations, delay only causes us to feel powerless and resentful. When this older guy pointed a gun at you, you should have immediately but calmly said "don't point that at me." End of issue. You didn't, and thus you got angrier, you fumed, and now you regret that you did nothing.

No worries man. There will be plenty of pics.

Pics of the dead idiot, or the bear??

Sweep your gun is a most dangerous activity, nothing locks my attention on someone who is being unsafe in a shop. I cannot even continue to conduct normal shopping until the sweeper is out of there or gun is removed none-too-gently from that person's fingers.

Like I said, I've learned my lesson on several occasions when trying to tell an elder about gun safety. It never turns out pleasant. I was observant of his demeanor as well and could tell he wouldn't have been receptive towards my advice.

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I guess I haven't learned mine, because I'd have told the dumb SOB to quit waving it around. I don't care who he is, his age, or what hat he has on. It's entirely probable I will never learn my lesson on that, as my desire to avoid being shot by a knucklehead outweighs my ability to keep my comments to myself.

*shrug*

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That pic is hilarious. It looks like moron #1 is about to shoot moron #2 right
in his, ahem, yeah...

As to the gun store idiot - once you identify an idiot, stay away!!

"Those with 1911s, put your safety on! Those with Glocks, keep your finger off the trigger!!!"

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Priceless, just priceless Count Glockula!

Freezebyte:

I don't recall saying I'd whoop him or anything like that. Do you?

I said I'd tell him to quit waving it around. Didn't even say I'd call him a dumb SOB. Just pointed out that he was one.

Hardly an e-thug, wouldn't you say?

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You seem to have no problem doing exactly what you're picture implies. Posting it is an example of such, no?

You outta get a job as a gun store clerk! You get swept with guns from the glass case and guns NOT from the glass case that you have no idea if they are loaded. You get loaded guns in that you are told are not loaded.

There is a lot of BS in any gun store both ways.

I rode a motorcycle to work, and often times I would find customers twiddling with the controlls on my bike and sitting on it as well!

Men have strayed from things that use levers cams and springs, to work them and are press buttons to get a task done these days.

No more do men even work on their own cars like they once did.

I know a man who claims he knows every nut and bolt on his 1968 Mustang, but for some reason to get it fixed he brings it me.

Jeez, those guys need to put on some weight ! They'd need that gun 'cause without it "SQUISH!"
Everytime I see a twisted hat I TREMBLE with fear..................

I think poor gun handling must be considered normal because correctly handling one is rarely observed........................

It is easy to tell when your in good company but you never know what you'll see at the gunstore/ show.........

Not taking the man's gun away from him the first time he pointed it in your direction shows immense restraint. Congrats.

It is reported that Abraham Lincoln once said " The surest way to destroy my enemy is to make him my friend"

Similarly, the easiest way to get rid of the "gunstore idiots" is to politely turn them into knowledgable gun owners"

Ten to one Yogi beats the punk.

"Let's keep that weapon pointed at the floor, if you don't mind".

Always works for me.

I generally try to humorously deflect the aim point. If that doesn't work, I can become pretty hostile pretty quick - but normally, the shop folks will intervene before it gets to that point.

A friend of mine in the 70s worked at Grant Boys gun room in CA. when a customer came in and was looking at S&W revolvers in glass counter and asked when the new S&W model ? would be in, my friend told him in 2 weeks so the customer went to another counter about 15 ft away so my friend replaced the rubber pad back on the glass counter, as he did this the customer rushed back over to tha counter and flung the pad on the floor and said to my friend that he wasn't done looking in the counter, so my friend asked him nicely if he was a police officer and he said yes, my friend just looked at him and said Oh, Rookie Huh ?

"Let's keep that weapon pointed at the floor, if you don't mind".

Always works for me.

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OR the gun store clerk should've referred to a safe area to point at. That's what my rental range does when a patron wants to take a look at a firearm.

Of course it does sometimes go the other way. I had a friend in a gun shop once tell a guy that thought it prudent to be a jerk and the owner suggested that he was being a jerk to wrong guy as one never knew what guns I had on under my jacket, or how many.

I have to ask, We're talking about a known unloaded weapon right? I can understand being safety concious but to threatening a complete stranger over (need I say it again?) a weapon you know isn't loaded? Seems a little extreme to me.

Rockwell, unless I have *personally* checked a gun, I don't trust it. Having checked it and handed it to another person, I now consider it to be loaded, and them waving it about in my direction is *not* something I accept.
I trust NO weapon in ANYone else's hands when it's pointed towards me - period. It's simply not good manners where I'm from - and for da** sure, it's potentially deadly.
Why so adament? Because I've heard "But it wasn't loaded!!" at the scene of too many accidental shootings.
Never. Not once. EVER.

Folks like that are everywhere. Once while working a gun show with a friend that owned a gun shop, I got tired of a seller on the other side of the room demonstrating laser sites, but pointing it and the gun it was mounted on, on my chest, that I got up and went over and told him firmly that if I saw that laser on me again, he was going to eat it.

I've been in a gun shop and a gun show where AD's happened, and nobody got hit, but it will teach you just how fast you can hit the floor!

As I said earlier, I understand being safety concious. My objection is to the " You'll need a proctologist to remove it. " comments. Oddly enough, I don't see how escalating the confrontation promotes firearms safety.

I remember when I was much smaller (11 or 12) and my Gramps took me to place to get ammunition where a customer was doing much the same thing. My Gramps grabbed the guys wrist & pulled him forward and politely said- 'you ever point a weapon at me or my grandchild again, file the front sight off so it doesn't hurt as bad when I ram it up your ...'

Your restraint was remarkably uncommon.

Selena