Someone musta needed to top off their P32 at Bass Pro..

[MedWheeler]

nearly 4.9 billion rounds of .22LR are now on back-order.

Including a paltry 825 rounds of mine!

 

[gym]

I get more concerned at gun shows. It's so easy for someone to drop a live round in a gun sitting on a table. Some guns are hard to tell if not tied up, and lately I have seen many guns that the salespeople were too last to tie off each time, so they would leave one out for people to try. This is especially dangerous when they are having a sale on a certain model, or leave an older person who isn't rally a gun person in charge, and go to lunch. I have seen many older and female, people who knew nothing about the guns, left alone while the man in charge took a break or went to lunch.

 

[medalguy]

A buddy of mine worked at a retail LGS many years ago and I recall his telling me several times that some guy would walk in, buy a pistol, usually a revolver, then ask for 5 or 6 rounds of ammo for it.

 

[Owen]

nothing irritates me more than going to a store and noticing that every single box of ammo has been opened, apparently by people with no skill or thumbs. It should all be behind the counter or in locked case to prevent the potential for spiked rounds, low grade pilferage, and the factthat its impossible to sell open boxes.

When I worked in a gun store, we had a guy that would come in, open a box of ammo, while tearing the crap out of it, and then take a different box to buy, "because the other one was opened," or "the box is damaged!"

We eventually convinced the manager to ban him. He was a really odd duck. He'd also come into the store 10 minutes before closing. We'd announce the store was closed, turnoff most of the lights, and while we were counting out our drawers, and z-ing out the registers, he'd want to buy something.

Pet peeve.

 

[Gun Master]

Count 'Em, Boys

I bought some 9mm Largo recently at my local gun shop for $.35. They were loose in an old G.I. ammo box. I noticed there was 9mm Luger and 9 x 18 close by, in the same manner.

I lined them all up on the counter in rows of ten. That's when I found some 9mm Luger and 9 x 18, by the different lengths, mixed in. Price difference wasn't the object. Saftey was .

I returned the offenders to their respective boxes.

 

[JohnKSa]

CCI blazer 9mm ammo one of the boxes contained a single .380 round...claimed it came from a sealed 2000 round case.

Strange. It is my understanding that most of the time, .380ACP and 9mm are loaded on the same equipment, but not at the same time since the equipment must be reconfigured to change calibers.

 

[texgunner]

Several years ago I found a box of 9mm at Bass Pro Shops that had 10 rounds missing. That was no accident. I turned the box in to an employee at the gun counter.

 

[Skylerbone]

He'd also come into the store 10 minutes before closing. We'd announce the store was closed, turnoff most of the lights, and while we were counting out our drawers, and z-ing out the registers, he'd want to buy something.

I would swear Owen worked with me at K's Merchandise but he's in IN not IA! Oh how many is the strange duck, even worse when you run in to them at your local club and they make you the complaint department for what they bought. Given the choice between working retail again and starving...I've got a few extra pounds to shed.

 

[Panzerschwein]

I sometimes wonder what happens to the mauled ammo boxes at the local stores where people have pulled them open and torn the paper, setting them back down afterwards.

Really grinds my gears!

 

[LAGS]

Back when I was a Kid, Many of the local hardware stores sold ammo by the round as did the military surplus store.
It wasnt uncommon for someone to but 5- 30/30's for deer season or two 22 mag shells to kill a hog for butchering.
and it would have been unheard of for someone to buy a brick of 500 - 22 LR's.
Most guys wouldn't shoot up 50 - 22's in a year rabbit hunting.
Heck, guys would even split a box of 12 ga for a duck hunt.
I guess they were better shots back them.