When I worked part time in a gun shop while going to school we kept a started pistol by the phone. When a call game in asking a really stupid gun question the person taking the call then pickup the starter pistol and fire it into the phone. The shot would be a cue for another employee to grab the phone....Asking "What did you ask him"...he shot himself. As always they believed the employee did shoot himself and hung up.
The most common question was " Where do you put the gas in a Rem model 1100 since they read the gun was gas operated!
Doc
We used to keep a single cock air pistol on the counter for shooting flies. You get right up behind them and shoot. It totally vaporizes them-doesn't even leave a skid mark. Another story from the shop. We had a customer come in with a SXS double barrel shotgun to get the barrels shortened. We had the chunk of barrels sitting on a counter behind the service desk peaking through a curtain that hid all the stuff sitting on that shelf. 'Looked for all the world like a gun deployed there to take care of business. Man, did we get some funny looks at that stub sitting there!
