bokchoi
Member
Just a rant...
I was at the shop, putting money down on my new Sig Pro SP2009 with a factory threaded barrel. As the gun is sitting in front of me on the mat while I chat with my friend across the counter, some, er, gentleman trundles across the store and sees this gun in front of me.
"Hey, a Sig!" He exclaims, snatching up the pistol right from under my nose.
To my horror and before I can even anything, he racks, the slide, sights in the pistol, and before I know it, I hear the horrible sound of a slide being dropped on an empty chamber. Dry firing the pistol once, he none too gently plops the pistol down on the mat, and trundles off.
My friend and I are speechless, not really over the potential damage to my pistol (Sig Pros are pretty well built), but just the speed with which this guy managed to basically break every rule of gun shop etiquitte there is in less than 5 seconds. If that was a custom 1911 with a fine trigger job or a revolver which he felt would be nice to flick closed, I would have made a very special note for the guy to never come near a handgun again.
Just my little rant. I'm still apologizing to the gun, as I haven't dropped a slide on an empty chamber in any of my guns since I owned them.
I was at the shop, putting money down on my new Sig Pro SP2009 with a factory threaded barrel. As the gun is sitting in front of me on the mat while I chat with my friend across the counter, some, er, gentleman trundles across the store and sees this gun in front of me.
"Hey, a Sig!" He exclaims, snatching up the pistol right from under my nose.
To my horror and before I can even anything, he racks, the slide, sights in the pistol, and before I know it, I hear the horrible sound of a slide being dropped on an empty chamber. Dry firing the pistol once, he none too gently plops the pistol down on the mat, and trundles off.
My friend and I are speechless, not really over the potential damage to my pistol (Sig Pros are pretty well built), but just the speed with which this guy managed to basically break every rule of gun shop etiquitte there is in less than 5 seconds. If that was a custom 1911 with a fine trigger job or a revolver which he felt would be nice to flick closed, I would have made a very special note for the guy to never come near a handgun again.
Just my little rant. I'm still apologizing to the gun, as I haven't dropped a slide on an empty chamber in any of my guns since I owned them.