Dope behind the counter at gun store

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Phaetos

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I was looking around the local huge gunshop and saw what appeared to be some Beretta CX4's. They were in 9, 40 and 45. I asked to see one, played with it abit, showed it to the wife, she liked it, handed it back and commented on it being a nice rifle with little recoil for the 9mm. He said "yeh, that's a great thing to have in an assault rifle" !!! Would expect more from someone that sells the guns. Ugh.
 
Gander Mtn. takes the cake for gun salesmen/women. I read a post on rangemonkey about a clerk pushing a walther p22 for a CCW weapon. Personally, I had a guy tell me, and I'm not making this up that the 99 in P99 meant that it was the 99th version of that particular handgun. Hmmmmm.....
 
Oh. My. Gosh.
Don't even get me started about dopes behind the counter at gun shops!
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My story would be too long, and I'd just rather forget about my experience at a place that will never again get my business, so I'll just say: I feel for you!
 
Gander Mtn. takes the cake for gun salesmen/women. I read a post on rangemonkey about a clerk pushing a walther p22 for a CCW weapon. Personally, I had a guy tell me, and I'm not making this up that the 99 in P99 meant that it was the 99th version of that particular handgun. Hmmmmm.....
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I have heard this same thing twice now, once from a gun store clerk.
 
Yeah, I have stories about this sort of thing too. I buy my guns where they act like neighbors. I buy my ammo wherever I can get the best deal. Sometimes those are in the same place.
 
I see you've never tried to get a part for your car from a large auto parts store
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Shudders...

Usually, there is ONE person there who knows what is going on. The rest are Century rejects...
 
I buy my guns where they act like neighbors. I buy my ammo wherever I can get the best deal.
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Slim's first rule of gun buying "Better to give $100 to a friend than $10 to a stranger or $1 to an enemy" but yes, I am a sucker for cheap ammo.
 
LOL, thats what I thought, as well. Then I read that it was just some idiot and though: "Well that's not so bad."

I was expecting it to be some news story that would have given antis fodder for years. *phew*
 
Actually I wouldn't be to surprised with the looks I've seen on the faces of the guys behind the counter sometimes... not to mention that I walked in there yesterday and thought I had missed the memo that it was national Hawaiin Shirt day. EVERYONE had one on, they didn't look real happy about it, said the boss made them. I wonder what the boss was smoking that morning. And my first thought upon seeing the shirts was "Look at all the tourists trying to conceal their guns." LOL
 
oh man.... this thread just got me looking into carbines to buy. Didn't know about the CX4.... it comes in .40...... oh boy. There goes more money. :banghead:
 
Speer - glad I ain't the only one that thought that at first! :what:

ADKWOODSMAN - or, as my boss would say it: "If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with BS!" :evil:

I think I've been quite lucky in regard to folks like that, though I don't actually chat a lot with them. My main places are either one place where they're so busy with other customers (that are actually there to BUY not just look), I don't strike up talk. The other one is a place with slower gun sales but BUSY gas/general merchandise sales! So I don't pull someone away from another job, unless there's something specific I want or want to know.

I guess working in "service" myself makes me that way! :D
 
Not unusual. I have a feeling we could right a harry potter sized book with our misadventures with uneducated gunstore clerks.

And for the dope behind the counter, had a friend who caught a clerk at a sportinggoods store that sells sports equipement (hockey, baseball, etc) as well rifles/shotguns and the occaisional handgun smoking a joint.
 
What a dope, everyone knows the CX4 is a submachine gun, not an assault rifle. The RX4 is the assault rifle.
 
i hate going places where i cannot get any help. i don't care if i can get cheap ammo or not i am not going to wait 20 minutes for help. i am speaking of gander mountain. i had to call the store while standing back at the gun department and have a cashier come back to give me some ammo. i had been passed up by several associates who thought because i was just buying ammo i wasn't important. now thats great customer service. :cuss:
 
I had a gun shop dope tell me to load my concealed weapon so that the first two or three rounds are snakeloads! He said if I only injure the bad guy first, it is kind of like a warning shot, therefore there is less chance of a lawsuit!
 
Gander Mtn. takes the cake for gun salesmen/women. I read a post on rangemonkey about a clerk pushing a walther p22 for a CCW weapon. Personally, I had a guy tell me, and I'm not making this up that the 99 in P99 meant that it was the 99th version of that particular handgun. Hmmmmm.....
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Was he one of gunkids disciples?
 
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