Wopasaurus
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- Joined
- Nov 12, 2007
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- 248
Let me first start by saying, I don't look like a lot of people in the gun community. I have tons of tattoos, shaggier hair (I need to cut it, I know, don't remind me ), and I wasn't dressed up, just in shorts and a t-shirt, because I wasn't going to work.
I stopped by a local gun store that I have only visited once or twice on the way home from a friend's house today.
On to the story: I walked into the gun shop (they also do gunsmithing), and asked the owner, I'm assuming he's the owner, he was older and the only one there, if he has any spare parts for a mauser, because I need a new ejector and bolt stop. He says that he doesn't, and I ask him if he can order parts and install them for me if I bring in the gun. He just says, "I don't know"..... and just stares at me. Granted, if I'm talking to him about mauser's, I don't think I qualify with some punk kid looking for a tec-9 or hi-point (please don't flame me on this, you know what I mean).
Then I try to talk to him about the M4 that I'm building, and try to turn around the awkward tone around. Maybe striking the conversation into some sort of common ground, where I can get the time of day, maybe?
I ask him to see a snubbie 38, because that is on my list of summer carry guns. He opens the cylinder on it and hands it to me. And I (while pointing it at the floor), slam the cylinder shut, not super forceful, but forceful enough that it'll lock into place, and not be half out of battery. I'd say I slammed it as hard as I would slam magazines into a semi-auto pistol.
He flips out, and he's like, "Don't do that, you'll throw the weight off of the crane arm, and that's a $35 dollar repair! That's like taking a brand new knife and throwing it into the ground to see if it'll stick" He just starts rambling about how that's such a dumb thing to do. I reply with (very politely, I'm a retail manager, so I know how to deal w/ a-holes), "well, I was always shown that that kind of force is necessary to help prevent any malfunctions". He shoots back with, "well, whoever told you that is a stupid idiot (yes, he really said that), and doesn't know the first thing about guns". I said, "yeah, I guess county sheriffs don't know too much about handguns, oh well... have a nice day" and walked out.
It took so much for me to not just yell at him, and tell him what an old stereotyping curmudgeonly raisin-cake he was being. But I guess I'll just make sure everyone I am acquainted with knows not to do business with him.
Has anyone else really ever had to deal with this, am I in the wrong here? Or should I have known better and worn long sleeves and pants before going into an old timey mom n pop gun shop?
I stopped by a local gun store that I have only visited once or twice on the way home from a friend's house today.
On to the story: I walked into the gun shop (they also do gunsmithing), and asked the owner, I'm assuming he's the owner, he was older and the only one there, if he has any spare parts for a mauser, because I need a new ejector and bolt stop. He says that he doesn't, and I ask him if he can order parts and install them for me if I bring in the gun. He just says, "I don't know"..... and just stares at me. Granted, if I'm talking to him about mauser's, I don't think I qualify with some punk kid looking for a tec-9 or hi-point (please don't flame me on this, you know what I mean).
Then I try to talk to him about the M4 that I'm building, and try to turn around the awkward tone around. Maybe striking the conversation into some sort of common ground, where I can get the time of day, maybe?
I ask him to see a snubbie 38, because that is on my list of summer carry guns. He opens the cylinder on it and hands it to me. And I (while pointing it at the floor), slam the cylinder shut, not super forceful, but forceful enough that it'll lock into place, and not be half out of battery. I'd say I slammed it as hard as I would slam magazines into a semi-auto pistol.
He flips out, and he's like, "Don't do that, you'll throw the weight off of the crane arm, and that's a $35 dollar repair! That's like taking a brand new knife and throwing it into the ground to see if it'll stick" He just starts rambling about how that's such a dumb thing to do. I reply with (very politely, I'm a retail manager, so I know how to deal w/ a-holes), "well, I was always shown that that kind of force is necessary to help prevent any malfunctions". He shoots back with, "well, whoever told you that is a stupid idiot (yes, he really said that), and doesn't know the first thing about guns". I said, "yeah, I guess county sheriffs don't know too much about handguns, oh well... have a nice day" and walked out.
It took so much for me to not just yell at him, and tell him what an old stereotyping curmudgeonly raisin-cake he was being. But I guess I'll just make sure everyone I am acquainted with knows not to do business with him.
Has anyone else really ever had to deal with this, am I in the wrong here? Or should I have known better and worn long sleeves and pants before going into an old timey mom n pop gun shop?