Was in a Shop about 10 years ago and they had a used Benelli behind the counter.
Asked the owners wife who was running the shop at the time to see it, she handed it to me with a closed chamber and started to walk away. First thing I did was start to open the action to see if unloaded and sure enough there was a shell in the chamber.
I sat the butt on the counter and told her, Maam this gun is loaded, she turned around, noticed it was pointed towards the ceiling, got a sigh of relief on her face, walked over and proceeded to empty the chamber and mag tube cussing her husband the whole time.
I have a hunch when I told her the gun was loaded and she had already turned her back to me that she was possibly being held up.
It appears he had traded for the gun just a day or 2 before and had never even bothered to check it out at all.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
