Funny scene in the gun store today...

[John Wayne]

I went down to my local gun store to pick up my P3AT which had just come in from repair, and to check the ammo selection. Said store is also an outfitters store with outdoor clothing, optics, fishing lures, etc.

When I walked in, I saw a detective, wearing a white shirt and black trousers, with his badge displayed on his belt next to his Glock 22. He was examining a Kimber SIS--slide open, visibly empty, and pointed in a safe direction. A woman standing next to him was purchasing a pair of Nikon binoculars for birdwatching, and shaking like a leaf. The debit card machine takes a while to ring up sales, and she grew noticably more tense every second. As she picked up her purchase and rushed out the door, I heard her say to the detective, "Be careful with that, sir!"


Oh, the irony. She was telling an on-duty, uniformed police officer carrying a loaded, holstered firearm on his hip to be careful with the empty gun in his hand. I wonder if she goes around and tells all cops to be careful? We all got a good laugh out of that one...maybe she thought he would drop it and scratch the finish?

 

[cyclopsshooter]

haha!

 

[beltjones]

No doubt she was headed over to Home Depot to admonish the carpenters checking out nail guns and circular saws, then to the gardening center to offer her advice to gardeners buying fertilizer and weed whackers.

 

[Winston_Smith]

I went down to my local gun store to pick up my P3AT which had just come in from repair

I thought you could have firearms shipped back to you directly if they were sent out for repair?

 

[lanternlad1]

Sounds like she was letting her mind run away with her and imagining all sorts of bad things happening. Good thing the cop had the gun and not her, then.

These are the kind of people who believe that if everyone had guns, there would be blood running in the streets. Psychologists call it Projection.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

These are the kind of people who believe that if everyone had guns, there would be blood running in the streets. Psychologists call it Projection.

And that guns "just go off", regardless of condition 1-4 or the whole human interface aspect. I think it's more sad than funny. I feel bad for her. Nothing a little education on the subject couldn't fix though.

 

[2RCO]

Maybe she was a hardcore Kimber fan and didn't wanna see that SIS get any scratches or idiot marks...

 

[John Wayne]

I thought you could have firearms shipped back to you directly if they were sent out for repair?

You can. But rather than me finding out what hoops to jump through to ship it, call Kel-Tec, package it up and pay postage, it was much easier to return it to the gun store and have them do it for free.

 

[catspa]

beltjones:No doubt she was headed over to Home Depot to admonish the carpenters checking out nail guns and circular saws...

Thanks for the warning - she doesn't get on to my jobsite without a hard hat and safety glasses.

Parker

 

[chute2thrill]

hahaha 2RCO!!!!

 

[BHP FAN]

She had probably just seen that you tube video of the DEA Agent shooting himself with an ''unloaded'' Glock,that he was the ''only one'' qualified enough to have...

 

[RandKL]

Funny....

I once saw a semi-uniformed police officer explaining "gun safety" to a classroom full of third graders. He was using an "empty" semi-auto du jour gun and he was really moving on....right up to the point that the "empty" gun discharged, hitting himself in the leg and ricocheting a round across the room.

*ANYONE* can have a brain fart moment. Even you and me. When you stop believing that, bad things happen.

The cop in the classroom? You can watch it on youtube. Sounds like you've seen the same one, BHP.

rich

 

[230RN]

...and they call "us" paranoid...

Terry, 230RN

 

[Elvishead]

BHP FAN:

She had probably just seen that you tube video of the DEA Agent shooting himself with an ''unloaded'' Glock,that he was the ''only one'' qualified enough to have...

You can never be to careful! You saw it, it happened, and..... "he was a professional!

Funny? Yes, maybe, but, "you can't be to careful with a handgun."

Now, everybody that thought she was wrong, type "You can't be to careful with a handgun" 10 times, and call it a day.

And leave the bird watchers alone, and I bet there is much more cynical police officers than there are bird watchers.

 

[DocCas]

Now, everybody that thought she was wrong, type "You can't be to careful with a handgun" 10 times, and call it a day.

You can't be too careful with spelling either.

 

[zoom6zoom]

No doubt she was headed over to the gardening center to offer her advice to gardeners buying fertilizer

. That wouldn't work... she obviously doesn't know her sh*t!

 

[CoRoMo]

In her mind, she probably thinks she just saved several lives by admonishing the LEO.

 

[USAFNoDAk]

This is like some store such as Walmart where they have their "hunting style" knives locked up in a glass case, but you can grab some kitchen knives and walk right out to the check out counter with no questions asked. How's that for "emotionally" driven decision making? I guess hunting knives are more "dangerous" than kitchen knives. That's the only thing I can come up with.

 

[eye5600]

where they have their "hunting style" knives locked up in a glass case

I'm sure that folding, quick open, "sport" knives are much more likely to be shoplifted than the pink Rachael Ray chef's knife.

 

[woof]

She'll probably never go to another gun store for binoculars or anything else.

 

[JohnBT]

I would bet she was scared because she thought it was a concealed carry badge on his belt. Just giving her the benfit of the doubt.

John

 

[birdshot8's]

actually after a little checking, it turns out she taught highschool english and the cop hap been one of her students. the one who had caused her to have the nervous twitch.

 

[Hungry Seagull]

Hah.

Love it. I was beginning to think she needed Xanax or something until I got to the teacher/student history.

No wonder.

 

[Jmurman]

Funny...

A few years back I bought a very nice pair of Nikon Binos. Now these bino's were for "birdwatching" but my intent was to use them for hunting.

The gal at the counter smiled and cooed when I bought them...until I told her I was using for elk hunting. HA! The color in her face drained visibly

 

[USAFNoDAk]

Hey I had people shaking in their boots the last time I bought an AX! The Lowe's guy had to carry it out of the store for me (as if that wasn't weird enough) and people stared at me like I was about to screm, "Here's Johnny" at any second.

There's no way a kid could go to a halloween party at a public school dressed as Paul Bunyan, even if he had a cardboard axe.

I remember being in a school play when I was a kid and we had cardboard axes. I was one of the knights. You couldn't get away with that play anymore. Sheesh. We've really gone backwards as a society, haven't we?