Dumbest thing you heard/saw in a Gun Store or at the range.

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The dumbest thing that I witnessed in a gun shop was me losing my grip on a glock 21 and it falling and banging on the counter top. Luckily for me, the glass top did not break. I couldn't find a rock to crawl under fast enough.
 
At one of the indoor ranges here a couple was shooting next to me. She fires one round from a 9mm pistol throwing her hand way back she then turns the gun around and looks down the barrel!!!!
 
While some of these are dumb, some are based on ignorance/lack of knowledge. I'm not stupid by any means, but I am inexperienced with firearms. Therefore its easy for someone like me to make mistakes. The smart guys do learn from from reading the mistakes.

My favorite is the guy who got his head busted by the scope and the advice by the RO given to the man's son to ask his mom for advice. That's a classic and should be on You Tube.
 
I only have one bit of hi-jynx to add.

A couple of weeks ago I stopped at Dick's to price ammo. I asked if they price matched and they do. The only rounds of interest to me to price match was .22WMR's. Nothing odd here yet. They agreed to the price I said I could get from Bass Pro. I was told that the man at the gun counter would call the checkout counter and let them in on my price match deal.

I walked to the checkout area and there was a man on the phone eyeballing around. I figured he was looking for me so I waved my two packs of CCI WMR's at him and he nodded. I got in a line. He then spoke loudly that my bullets were to be price matched at the amount I had told them.

Now it gets good. In front of me in the checkout line were two "well-to-do" looking ladies. I said something to the effect of " I have them here". These two ladies looked at me like I was fixing to go Ji-Had or something. I swear they moved four or five paces away from me as they paid for their purchase.
All the while staring at the two pack of cartridges. Their eyes were huge. They both looked at me over ther shoulders as they grabbed their bags and left.

Now I am always looking to be a "wise-a**" Don't know why but it is just me. I kind of spoke out "Allah Akbar" Don't know if this is the right phrase but they about ran towards the door. The checkout lady gave me a look rolling her eyes, I kind of chuckled.

As I walked out the door they were driving past the entrance doors heading for the parking lot exit, I swear she spun rubber getting out of the lot.

Oh well it was funny when it happened. Some people make it toooo easy.
 
ok i got one. i went to TURNERS. ya i know i really should not go there but i was in the area. I know i was low on powder so heck with it. I thought i dont have time to go to the normal spot i will just get a bottle hear. so i went in waited my turn. then the guy asked me if i needed any help. I told him i needed some Winchester 748. He then proceeds to look behind the counter at all fo the ammo. i started to almost laugh so i just let him look. After a while the guy next to me asked me what i was looking for. I said i need winchester 748 now he adds in. I never heard of that round what kind of gun is that. Now the clerk hears him say this. Now im almost rolling. did a quick caugh then Said WINCHESTER 748. Its gun powder. So the clerk looks over to someone else and says we dont carry that do we. The guy next to me says so what kind of bullet takes winchester 748 is that a rifle or a hand gun. so my laughing has stopped. Now i proceed to tell both him and the clerk that winchester 748 is gun powder that comes in one lbs bottles here. It is used for both hand gun and rifle in various calibers. For loading your own bullets. The guy then next to me says doesnt that cost like twice the amount of just buying a box of bullets. So then another guy from turners comes over and says what are you looking for. I again repeat winchester 748. He goes " ok i will be right back". then he comes out and gives it to me. As im walking to the cashiers booth. i hear the the customer saying wowwww you can blow up a pretty big hole with that stuff. You gotta be some kind of gun expert to buy that kind of stuff.
 
Nobody buys CZ's because if they break, and they break often, you have to personally take them back to the factory, in Czechoslovakia, by boat, to get them repaired. CZ's are junk. Buy a Glock, at least those are American made.

Serious. Was told that at a gun shop.
 
I'll cheat a little with my story as it didn't happen at a range or store, it happened at work. A co-worker comes up to me and said he just sold a gun to another co-worker. I perked right up because I collect and shoot. I asked what it was and he told me it was a customzed .380 with somebodys name engraved on it. He picked it up from somebody that needed quick cash for $100.00 and didn't want to keep it because of the guys name on it...Walter. He was happy though he made money onthe flip.

Sure enough I went to the guy he sold it to who was already bragging - he got a stainless Walther PPK/S new in the box for $200.00. The "Walther" logo was on the grips. I have "dibs" on the next gun he sells!
 
ok my friend had a gun shop quite a while back,he is quite a characture ok smarta**.I would frequently go there after work and just hang out.most of the time I carried A firestar 9mm.
cust: askes about star 9mms
owner: (to me) hey do you have your firestar on ya
me: yes( I clear it and hand it to owner who lets cust see it)
cust:why is he carrying
owner:he's a part time undercover agent for the DEA
cust: oh really
owner:ya why else
we still crack up every time we talk of this one
 
two stories one of a kid about 12(sadly me) shooting 22 longs into a rock wall with wrist rocket. no blood no foul but i did get slapped upside the head by my uncle

sadder we had a painter shot in the back while on a ladder. 3 us marshalls "playing" in a gravel pit. they claimed they were using semis but the shots i heard were full auto.
 
3 GD's (gang) in full colors shopping at the store I used to work at. Handguns manager looks at me and laughs, I laugh back. They didn't even ask to handle any, but still it amazes me.
 
ok i got one. i went to TURNERS. ya i know i really should not go there but i was in the area. I know i was low on powder so heck with it. I thought i dont have time to go to the normal spot i will just get a bottle hear. so i went in waited my turn. then the guy asked me if i needed any help. I told him i needed some Winchester 748. He then proceeds to look behind the counter at all fo the ammo. i started to almost laugh so i just let him look. After a while the guy next to me asked me what i was looking for. I said i need winchester 748 now he adds in. I never heard of that round what kind of gun is that. Now the clerk hears him say this. Now im almost rolling. did a quick caugh then Said WINCHESTER 748. Its gun powder. So the clerk looks over to someone else and says we dont carry that do we. The guy next to me says so what kind of bullet takes winchester 748 is that a rifle or a hand gun. so my laughing has stopped. Now i proceed to tell both him and the clerk that winchester 748 is gun powder that comes in one lbs bottles here. It is used for both hand gun and rifle in various calibers. For loading your own bullets. The guy then next to me says doesnt that cost like twice the amount of just buying a box of bullets. So then another guy from turners comes over and says what are you looking for. I again repeat winchester 748. He goes " ok i will be right back". then he comes out and gives it to me. As im walking to the cashiers booth. i hear the the customer saying wowwww you can blow up a pretty big hole with that stuff. You gotta be some kind of gun expert to buy that kind of stuff.
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Amazing, which one did you go to?
 
Three I saw/heard on Saturday while my wife was shooting her Mother's Day present, a Buck Mark pistol, at a local range/store.

1) From the store clerk, "Ignore the gun magazines. No one carries a 1911." What made this funny was that two other people within earshot, besides me, were packing 1911s.

2) While my wife was shooting at two-inch targets (orange stickers on construction paper) at fifty feet with her new pistol, a fellow shooter, who was making shotgun targets with a Beretta 92 or 96, commented, "That is a small target. Bet she does not hit it."

3) The above Beretta shooter saying, "There must be something wrong with this gun. I usually shoot quarter-inch groups." My daughter's response, "I would bet it was something wrong with you."
 
Local gun shop. Whilst enjoying the looks of some old vaqueros, makarovs and old Cz's, a thug walks in briskly, pulls a Walther P22 out of his waist band, drops a FULLY LOADED mag, pops one out of the chamber and immediately asks clerk how much they will give him. :what:. I think about 6 of us standing around had hands on guns or knives and watched this guy till he left. Didn't get to sell his gang banger piece. For the price they should have just bought it to keep it away from him. Hell, if I would have had the money I would have funded it for the shop.
 
If even half of these stories are true there are way to many stupid people running around.
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Well, consider the intelligence of the average person. And then consider that half the people out there are dumber than that.
 
The dumbest thing that I witnessed in a gun shop was me losing my grip on a glock 21 and it falling and banging on the counter top. Luckily for me, the glass top did not break. I couldn't find a rock to crawl under fast enough.
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I did the same thing with a Beretta that had a tight slide. What bothers me about this is that I was trying to check to make sure it was clear, when the salesmen routinely do not. They seldom, if ever check a gun before handing it to someone. Because of this, not only was I embarrased to drop their gun, but I was mad because they did not "clear it" before handing it to me! The gunsmith down the road has had AD's while handling the shops "empty guns"
 
No such thing as an "Accidental Discharge", plenty of Negligent Discharges though...:D

*Disclaimer: I know mechanical failure of the weapon causing discharge is an AD, but trying to remove loaded weapon from holster with finger on the trigger and shooting a hole in the floor is not an AD*
 
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I have way too many but most of them come from crap I heard from people at Big Box Retailers like Gander Mtn and such. Lets just say that the people working those places are not always Rocket Surgeons. There are some good ones but there are some doozies too.
My you are too stupid to bread winner is a bait shop encounter. I actually had to ask for water in my minnow bucket after the kid put the minnows into the bucket. I kid you not this guy scooped up some fat heads, put them in the bucket and handed me the bucket. Then looked surprised as could be when I asked for water!!!!!
You can go to rehab for drugs and alcohol but there aint no rehab for stupid.
 
Not at the range, but too good not to share.

I am a CA Guardsman (Army National Guard), and as everyone remembers we were providing security at the airports.

One day a fresh faced Lieutenant was coming in during shift change and stopped at the clearing barrel, he then tried to pull the sidearm from its holster with his finger on the trigger.

The top of the crappy standard issue cloth holster disengaged the safety and the pistol became tangled, his answer was to put his finger on the trigger and give the weapon a good, hard tug up and away from his body.

He shot himself in the *ss!

We were in the ready room waiting for shift change and upon hearing the shot, formed a four man stack alongside the door then burst through to clear the room.

All we saw through our sights was a 22 year old Lt. with a gunshot in the butt and tears in his eyes.
 
My club has about 1800 members. I, personally, have seen people walk down range to change a target while others are shooting several times.

I also saw a man send his son downrange to put up a target, pull his rifle out of the case, and scope on on the kid. I challanged him to put the gun down, and he assured me that the rifle was unloaded and proved it by pulling the tirgger. I am on the board, and I went to get some more members from the club house and we threw the guy out.

My personal fave, which I didn't see but showed up afterwards, was a guy with a 270. We have range officers on the rifle range starting a month before deer season because a lot of people do stupid things. The guy shoots, can't get the bolt open, takes a block of wood, beats it open. Before the RO gets down there to stop him he shoots again.

He was shooting 308 ammo. Turns out he thought it was all okay because they fit.

Oddly, except for the bolt being locked the rifle wasn't broken.
 
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