Most embarassing firearm purchase, experience, etc.

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I was stripping a Kimber Custom (to educate a customer) when I worked behind the counter at Gander Mountain. I wanted to keep the presentation going, but I didn't have my bushing wrench handy...

... long story short, I sent the FLGR recoil plug into orbit, and later has a fishing associate find it 30 yards from the gun counter.
 
I was buying my first rifle. I had never handled a handgun before. I asked to see a 1911. The guy handed it to me with the slide locked back and I didn't know how to put it forward or if it was even proper etiquette to do so. I felt like a doofus and I had already asked him enough stupid questions that day, so I just stared at it for a few seconds and handed it back.
 
was my first year in college out-of-state and went to a gun show. I was looking for a hi cap magazine for a rifle my father gave to me when i was 9. Nobody seemed to have anything for a "Remington Papoose".

Eventually one kind old man behind the counter said, "that's Marlin son"

Ok, thanks, where's the exit.
 
Bought a W. German made Gercuda revolver in .32 S&W Long. Paid $2.00 at a police auction. The FFL doing the transfers laughed at me because the transfer was 5X the purchase price.
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Was it a POS or did you luck out and get a good weapon?
 
buying a Marlin M60 at Walmart....

took about an hour to get through the hoops and hastle...

then was walked out of the store like a criminal with the manager carrying the rifle.

With "customer service" like that it's no wonder they weren't making enough $$ on their firearms floorspace and threw in the towel.
 
Boy, you guys are going to give me the most stupid award. I like Colt revolvers. Went to a fun show and spied a Colt King Cobra. The dealer was known for ripping off his customers (Shoot Straight in Orlando). I must have worked on the owner for a half an hour and come back three or four times before I got a 'reasonable' deal out of him. I was so proud that I could get him down to a reasonable price - not a super price. Come to find out that when I took it home I already had one of the same

:banghead:

Took it back to the fun show and sold it for a beating. Should have kept it because it would have doubled in price by now.

:banghead:

You know I am a gun nut now because I carry a list of what I have in my wallet so I (hopefully) won't repeat this.
 
This is gonna hurt to say....Back in the early 80's when I was a poor newlywed, and still pretty wet behind the ears I got bitten pretty hard by the urge to go slaughter Bambi. I needed a deer rifle and all I had to trade was an 85-90% 1873 Trapdoor Springfield. The gentleman at the local shop traded even for a Mauser 98k and 100 rounds of surplus ammo. It still makes me feel like puking every time I remember it. I hadn't gotten all the way home when the regret kicked in. I wanted to go back, but one thing Pop taught me was that integrity mattered, and I had agreed to the deal. I did learn a lesson from it, even if it was a costly one. (Yeah, I KNOW that that 45-70 would have worked just fine, don't even ask what thought process led me to that decision)
 
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SSN Vet, Walmart still actually carries long arms out here, but for some reason don't carry handguns. I never bought a firearm at Wally World, but at this chain sporting goods store 'Joes' they pulled the same BS of walking a manager to the front carrying my rifle purchase. All they needed to do was put a register at the shooting dept. counter
 
The first time I went into a gun store a friend was looking at a pistol handed it to me and I had no idea what to do with the slide.

Cabelas in PA does the same thing you buy it at the gun department cash register but someone else carries it out for then you can put it in the car and come back I suppose.
 
Actually, that "being walked to the door by a manager" is pretty common. One place I buy a lot of guns at, that's their standard policy. It's so some wacko doesn't buy a gun, then load it up and start shooting, or try to rob the registers up front on his way out. (gun counter in the back has its own register).

I said once, "but what's to keep somebody from loading it up at his car and coming back in?" The manager just shrugged and said "I know. Stupid policy".
 
I was at a friend's house and her dad and I started talking guns. We were both pleased to find out we were both into shooting. He said, "Let me go get my 9mm to show you, I'll be right back!" He hustled away then returned with an old Browning High Power and handed it to me. I kept it pointed in a safe direction, finger off trigger, and pulled the slide back carefully to check chamber status. A round popped up from the mag and slid halfway into the chamber! His response was, "What are you doing!? It's loaded!" And he took it out of my hands. And my response was, "Why would you hand me a loaded gun?!" Proper procedure on my part would have been to remove mag first, then check the chamber, but MY GOD! Who hands someone a loaded handgun? I don't know who was more embarassed.
 
rondog, that makes no sense. they can just go to the parking lot and return and just shoot the hell out of people and take the money, so it really doesn't make any sense.
 
When in the biz we had a Colt/Winchester shoot up a Markem Park. Colt was showing the Delta 10mm and their new 9mm AR based sub. Winchester was just rolling out the "White Box" lineup. MWG had just came out with their 90 rounder mag. I had just emptied 2 90 rounders when "Mr. Know It All" picks up the M16 A2 I had benched to show a client where you should NOT touch an AR/M16, the gas tube... The charred skin came off bit the fingerprint is still on the tube for all I know.
 
9 years old, hunter's safety course.... 1984...

Fella holds up a snubbie and says "any of you kids know how to see if it's loaded?"

I thought it was like my cap guns, you know, pull on the ejector rod and the cylinder swings out. When that didn't work I pointed it at...

my face...

then rolled my eyes back and handed back the gun, thinking I was funny.

Fella asks a rhetorical question, then answers it.

"Was that the right thing to do? No, in fact it was pretty stupid. Here's how you check..."

I was so embarrassed I cannot even describe it.

gp911
 
How about every time i go to the gunstore and i can't hold a pistol because i'm not 21 but i can hold a ak-47 with a drum magazine. Maybe it was when i got my bersa 9 hi cap and the guy a the gunstore said to my mother why are you paying for it! thank god i got rid of my kel-tec s2k 9mm because they would not sell me ammo for it but they sold me the gun!
 
#1 *sigh* I once went to a gun show and bought a new Phoenix .22, I paid like $145, and had talked the guy down a slight bit :eek: Oh, and I asked the dealer if they were good and reputation, problems.

I learned not to purchase equipment that 1) you've never heard of the brand 2) you didn't expect to get. But hey I guess it was sized so similar to that Bersa 380CC or the PPK\s. Still have it, just didn't understand necessity of research and nature of sns.

#2 The first pistol I ever bought (used) I never checked\inspected the bore or closely looked at chamber area :eek:

#3 On earlier occasions when window shopping for first gun I was handed a pistol or two and I had no clue how to operate the slide, or lock ect., newbie was I. I guess I was too embarrassed, foolish or prideful to just ask?
 
Was at the range with a friend trying out my then "new" Charles Daley 1911, I slapped the magazine in and noticed that it didn't latch and about an 1/8th inch was still out of the well. I Pushed it in again till I heard the "click" of the mag catch and raised the weapon to cycle the slide, as I griped the slide the magazine fell out and went skidding down the isle...That gun is a constant pain in my hide...dang thing is lucky it was a gift or I'd have melted it down into a manhole looking paper weight
 
I once looked at a Kimber pro-carry in my local shop.

I asked why the safety didn't seat into the slide correctly. The expert behind the counter told me it didn't have to. You can guess my reply. :rolleyes:


I've never taken a Kimber seriously again. :)
 
I bought one of those bandoleers that goes across your upper body and holds shotgun rounds. It's totally useless because (1) there's no practical use for me and (2) the shells fall out if I jog or walk briskly. I bought it because I had a fantasy about strapping it on during a home invasion "just in case" I needed extra ammo - like 50 extra rounds...LOL

(I hope I didn't jinx myself by making this post...yikes!)
 
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