However, Bubba, taking the worst of your customers, and treating them ALL that way, isn't any more fair than the assumption the local shop is a riopoff joint. The customer has a choice of where he does busioness, the shop doesn't have the luxery of choosing their customers. What you are complaining about isn't exclusiove to gun dealers by a long shot. Bad customers are part of the territory in the retail business, and encoutnering them shouldn't be a surpirse to anyone. What sometimes DOES come as a surpirse is upon entering an establishment being treated like a complete idiot. When I ask for a box of "Federal Fusion 100 gr in .243 Winchester" and instead I get a sales pitch about how the .243 isn't a suitable rifle (without my ever mentioning what I intended to use the ammo FOR even) and that if I REALLY knew what was up, I'd be buying the lastest Remchester, becasue its "mil-spec" and can "shoot the legs off a fly at 500 yards" and they're REALLY popluar, so you should get it before a) its sold b)banned or c) discontinued.......and I got this pitch for askiong for a single box of ammo? You've basically already told me that I'm clueless because I have an inferior rifle (without knowing its intended use) and that if I KNEW what I was talking about, I'd have the gun you were trying to sell me ALREADY. As I stated previously, I don't consider myself an expert in firearms, but I'm 33, and have had a gun in my hands since I could safely look down the sights. I know what I want, what I need, and what works for me. Yet, unless I'm known in the shop, I get treated like a buffoon with a 3rd grade education and no experience with firearms. I don't care that the customer before was an idiot, or the one after me might be....I'm not, and would appreciate not being treated like one, at least until you've had some time to gauge my level of awareness or knowledge. Treating me like I rode there on the short bus without knowing anything about me tends to rub me the wrong way