Whyyyyy do people pester me whhhhhy (While buying a gun)

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springmom, This is just me being me, but I think you just nailed it. My three local dealers are a lot like the shop you described... lean on the counter, look at guns, maybe buy one, and visit while you're at it. I think what you said about the guns being a uniting factor is about right... it somehow brings out the neighbor in a good many of us who wouldn't otherwise be so neighborly.
 
After the caffiene wore off and a nap I realized what the cops were so concerned about. They saw a super hyper college student looking at AKs about a week after Virginia Tech. I felt kinda dumb.
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Why would you feel dumb about that? You did nothing wrong or anything to warrant suspicion. I'd hate to have cops looking over my shoulder at gun stores because I'm a college aged kid eying black toys but I wouldn't feel guilty or bad about it.
 
My gun store story from today that doesn't quite fit here but it also doesn't warrant its own thread:

I just moved to Minneapolis and decided to visit a local store I've heard good things about. I was shopping for a CC piece and wanted to see what they had in stock.

Now I will admit that this place had very good prices on their merchandise but everything else was terrible. There were 3 employees, two of whom were BSing with a group of apparent regulars and the other one was busying about doing various things. While I kneeled down to check out a Springfield 1911 a bit closer, I looked up to see one of the employees wiping down a large caliber Taurus revolver with his finger on the trigger and the muzzle pointed directly at my forehead. I shrugged it off as he stopped very soon after that but when I kneeled down again at a different counter, he decided once again to level the revolvers at my head. This time he also had one in the other hand and was apparently comparing the two's sight pictures with my forehead as the target.

Those aforementioned regulars were camping in front of a substantial portion of the gun cases, blocking them completely from view. They made no attempt to move when they saw that I was looking at the various pistols and the group, including the employees they were conversing with, seemed somewhat disdainful that I was actually looking for a gun instead of gabbing it up.

Ah well, I just felt the need to rant. I'm off again tomorrow to search for a more hospitable store.
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Hmm. I curious to know what shop you were at? Doesn't sound like any shops I frequent in the area. Just like anywhere, some are better than others. I've dealt with about all of them in the area over the last decade, most know me by first name basis. Maybe I can help lead you in the right direction. PM me.

Would like to help.

:)
 
Way back when my father and I were out near a lake, that had some birds swimming in it. I said "Dad, what are those birds?" He said "Well, they're ducks of course." I said "why do you think they are ducks?" his reply "Well, if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and acts like a duck....it's probably a duck."

That's a valuable life lesson I learned that day, and it applies to people. Sometimes, it's erroneous, but better safe than sorry. Just to give an example: If you were driving in downtown Detroit (or east L.A., or some other god-forsaken place) at 10pm and were lost, would you stop and ask for directions from a group of gentlemen (any race) who were dressed "thugish"?
 
One of the first times I was at the Indy 1500 I saw a table with a few Desert Eagles on it. I started handling one because I think they're silly and I wanted to know just how heavy they really were. The kid behind the counter comes up to me and asks me if I like it. He seriously looked to be about 15. I said, "Nah, Its kind of a brick, isn't it?" His ingenious reply:

"It'll sure make somebody do what you want if you put it to their head, though"

I just put the gun back down and melted away into the crowd.
 
Wish I would have read this thread before going to Wal Mart yesterday

Because I would have had some snappy comebacks for this situation, but all's well that ends well...

I go to the ammo counter to get a bunch of different cals.
100 box of 45, 100 box of 40, 100 box of .38, 200 value pak of .223, 2 boxes of 550 .22, and 100 of 7.62x39.

The employee is a nice guy who usually is there to help me. But there's a "customer" there, fat slobby guy dishelved look, etc.

Slob (noticing all the ammo I'm buying): You mad at your wife?
Me: ignore slob
Slob: How many guns you got?
Me: ignore slob
Employee: man, I wish I had time to go out and shoot as much as you do, I love shooting.
Me: yeah, but now that it's been raining I have to start going to the indoor range.
Slob: You should go over to the Forest Service office and shoot them guys.
(apparently he was just there and they didn't have a map he wanted)
Me: ignore slob
Slob: (noticing my open carry 1911) You got a gun! What is that? Lemme see that.
Me: Sir, you're making it very hard for me to ignore you. I'm not showing you my pistol and please stop talking to me.
Slob: (to employee) I don't trust no one that needs that many bullets. He shouldn't have a gun in here anyway.

I walk away, purchase my stuff, and see this guy outside asking people for spare change. I called the cops and told them a bum asked me to kill some people at the Forest Service office and he's outside the Wal Mart. The cops were there before I even hung up with dispatch. I give my statement, they question slob -- WHO HAD STOLEN MERCH. STUFFED IN HIS NASTY SWEATPANTS!
 
I walk away, purchase my stuff, and see this guy outside asking people for spare change. I called the cops and told them a bum asked me to kill some people at the Forest Service office and he's outside the Wal Mart. The cops were there before I even hung up with dispatch. I give my statement, they question slob -- WHO HAD STOLEN MERCH. STUFFED IN HIS NASTY SWEATPANTS!
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Hahahaha that's great!
 
who would have thought a bum could smell like victory :D

on another occasion recently, I took my girlfriend to the Sportsman's Warehouse in Coeur d'Alene so she could check out BUG's.

we were looking at a Beretta and I asked if a .380 is good for personal defense. "F*** yeah" he says.

Now, this kid doesn't know me, doesn't know my girlfriend and to drop the f-bomb in front of us wasn't cool - and I tell him as much. He says sorry and she asks to see a Glock. He says, "I can't hit sh*t with blocks". I spoke to his manager before I left.
 
hrm, typically I'm the let it be type of person.. and I never could understand (and usually get offended myself) when people want to find words offenseive (if your eyes and ears offend you, rip'em out). But that is a place of business and a professional stand needs to be taken.. I wouldn't have done that, but the man did need an attitude adjustment. It's good you were polite about it.

I never had any real bad experiences buying guns and ammo.. I did have one guy at wallmart though that refused, to sell me ammo. Refused, called guns stupid. "I'd like some 7.62x39's"

him: Uh no I won't sell you ammo, I hate guns I think their stupid.. I don't know what they are, I'm not touching it.
My eyes of course turning red, I look to the man stanidng next to him for ammo. I diddn't say anything about it though.. I should have. I figured his opinion is his own, but he shouldn't be in sporting goods with that opinion lol
 
I stopped in Arlington Gun Supply to buy some ammo. When a thug walked in asking if they have sawed off shotguns or if they have to saw it at home.
 
When a thug walked in asking if they have sawed off shotguns or if they have to saw it at home.
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There's an interesting question [/sarcasm]... ummm, no, he'd have to saw it at home and, depending on how short he wanted it, hope the cops didn't hear him ask because you just know he's not gonna jump through the hoops for the Class 3 AOW tax stamp. What they'll most likely have in the store will be a 20" SxS coach gun which isn't sawed off, but rather just shorter to begin with while still not being near as short as he probably had in mind. I don't care whether I'm a customer or counter help, I'd say that kind bears watching.
 
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