Idiot in gun shop.

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Ok, maybe idiot is a little harsh. Nah, he was an idiot.

I'm standing there at the glass counter, waiting to be waited on by the employee. The guy standing next to me is holding a compact XD9, waving it around, finger on trigger, pointing it in many unsafe directions(including at my head several times). He asked the employee "do you have anything less bulky for concealed carry?". Mind you, this is Illinois where we don't even HAVE carry laws. I assumed he was from Illinois because of the FOID card resting on the glass counter in front of him.

And then it gets weird. I suggest to him a glock 26. He says "I don't like glocks because they don't have a safety." Can you believe the audacity of this guy! Like he's one to talk about safety as he's swinging that XD9 around like a freaking mad man.

Rant over. I didn't want to start any crap with him because he probably had about 40 years on me and my advice probably would have fallen on deaf ears. Plus he was wearing a vietnam hat and I respect our military greatly. He's still an idiot though.
 
You did good, if you have to tell someone who thinks a glock by definition has no safety (you know this KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER!) attaboy You did good....
 
If only there could have been a safety conscious gun owner around to politely remind him of the rules...
 
military or not, an idiot that doesn't understand muzzle discipline, is an idiot regardless. the guy selling the gun should have yanked it out of his hands for sweeping everyone.
 
"If only there could have been a safety conscious gun owner around to politely remind him of the rules..."

Like I said, I've learned my lesson on several occasions when trying to tell an elder about gun safety. It never turns out pleasant. I was observant of his demeanor as well and could tell he wouldn't have been receptive towards my advice.

However, I do kind of regret not saying anything.
 
"...wearing a Vietnam hat..."

A lot of guys I have seen wearing various "military" hats and pieces of uniforms have never been closer to actual service than watching the Military Channel.

One guy who parades around gun shows in cammies and a Marine cap was actually a draft dodger whose daddy pulled political strings to keep him out of the service.

Jim
 
Yeah. A, "Wow, I've seen the end of the barrel of that pistol more than I'd like," might be good.

Then again, it's hard to hold a gun in a gun store at times.
 
I was a gun noob just a few months ago and I knew enough to make sure I was pointing the barrel at the ground or at the ceiling. Whats so hard about this?
 
"Like I said, I've learned my lesson on several occasions when trying to tell an elder about gun safety."

I hear what you're saying, but at some point in the discussion you should get the opportunity to mention that you're young and strong enough that if he points the gun at you again, he's going to need a proctologist to retrieve it.

Tim
 
The best thing I learned at my handgun defense course was what the instructor said about the safeties between a 1911 and a Glock: "Those with 1911s, put your safety on! Those with Glocks, keep your finger off the trigger!!!" LOL!
 
Whatever else he may have been lacking, his taste in pistols is more to my liking than not.

Years ago, I am embarrassed to admit, I sometimes carried a box of "snap caps" -- not the orange dummy rounds; those little explosive white twisties you throw at the ground to make a bang -- into shops. When I got muzzle swept, I'd toss a snap cap at the feet of the violator when he wasn't looking. BANG.

Immature? Sure. But the guy was too shocked to be offended on the small handful of occasions I actually did that, and the general laughter taught the lesson without my having to open my mouth.
 
If someone is waving a gun at me, I'll instantly ask him politely to stop pointing it at me.

If he continues, or becomes a smart mouth about it, I'll just leave.

Ain't gonna get into a fight over the idiocy of some feces-for-brains who is a danger to me, or others. (If he kills himself, I could not care less. Unfortunately, people who wave guns around carelessly, kill others, usually, instead of themselves.)

L.W.
 
This is a common problem in gun stores. I was in my local shop on Monday when a rather urban looking gentleman swept the sales clerk with his finger on the trigger. That gun was out of his hands so fast it made his head spin.
 
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technically drawing on them is within your right due to you not knowing if it is a loaded weapon. Probably not the best strategy, but.......
 
I don't think these gun clerks at the store i was at even care.

They did care when I dry fired a ruger redhawk...but it even says in the ruger manual it's perfectly fine to do so.
 
phish,

You mean you dry fired my SPH???? I'm going to have to send it back.


















LOL, j/k. I'm sure I'll sit here in a couple of days and do it myself a few times. ;)

And yes, that guy was an idiot. I would have politely told him that if that barrel swept me again I might possibly break his trigger finger.
 
Q...haha, no i was checking out a 9.5" model :) They wouldn't care if I had done it to my own gun.

seriously though, rugers firing mechanism is seemingly impossible to break just by dry firing. It even says in the manual it's perfectly ok.

Can't wait for the glock!
 
I know man, I am just jacking with you. I have to find me a good holster for the SRH. I am going to use it in for my bear hunt this year. Should be fun.



OK, sorry for the thread hijack. Back to topic.
 
dude you better take pics of that dead bear. and post them on here.
 
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