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I have had very expensive stuff sitting on my gunshow table surrounded by signs that say "do not handle without permission" and some idiot will come along and pick it up. I ask if he saw the sign and one stupid bastard actually said to me "...aw, they don't mean nothing..." so I told him if it don't mean nothing, bring it over here and I'll shove it up your azz to see if it don't feel like nothing. He walked away muttering and I ended up the ornery bastard. Go figger!
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Perhaps both of you could have behaved better.
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I absolutely HATE people that can not keep their hands to them selves. I always ask and wait for it to be handed to me, taught my kids to keep their hands in their pockets in stores, gun shows, flea markets, yard sales Et Al.
Always stressed as my grandfather did to me, "If it ain't yours, leave it be."
Picking up especially a gun of mine unbidden may get you hurt!
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
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I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me
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JK, I never had a table at a show... but it amazes me the casualness and carelessness with which people will pick up other peoples stuff!
I was raised 'Is it yours'? NO! 'then put it down'
I always ask to pick up firearms.
If he said that he didn't see the sign, maybe SOME slack is allowed... but since he indicated that he did...
he just said 'phouc ewe'....
Sadly, at most gun shows the poeple that walk the aisles that know what they are doing and what they are looking at don't often 'expose' themselves.... the idiots??? Well they rarely need a sign!
IMHO
"...A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box..." Frederick Douglass, 1867
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No I wouldn't. On the other-hand from the guys comments it sounds like he thought it was a gun from the store. Saying that, a little awareness on his part would have caused him to realize it was being worked on and should be left alone.
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Firearms in a rack outside the gun counter yes I will pick them up. Anywhere else including the range I ask. And 99% of the time if I am at the range all it takes is a simple comment like "nice_______," and the owner usually asks if I want to shoot it. Simple etiquette really.
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Perhaps both of you could have behaved better. Glad you are so tolerant. I'm not. I don't suffer ignorant fools easily. When someone crosses those lines, the time for manners is over.
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no one should ever assume permission to touch another's stuff.
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The guy was probably not there to buy a gun in the first place. It never ceases to amaze me the hanger-outer's at gun shops. Seldom do I go into a shop that there aren't people just hanging out. No intention to buy, just looking and b-sing.
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no one should ever assume permission to touch another's stuff. My wife not only can, but does............
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I was getting a scope mounted at my local gun shop tonight.
I was in a crappy mood. It has been a bad day.
My rifle was sitting on the glass counter resting in it's open gun case along with a scope and some mounting hardware.
The tech who was servicing the gun was rummaging for some parts behind the counter and I was standing a few feet away looking at stuff for sale.
A fat 50ish looking guy picks up my rifle. A valuable rifle to me (maybe not to some of the deep pockets guys here) and he starts fiddling with the bolt and trigger.
I could not contain myself.
I said in a voice loud enough for the whole store to hear, "You're pretty nosey."
He asked, "Are you selling that?"
"No!"
"Well then are you buying it?"
I said (again in a loud voice), "You really ARE nosey aren't you?"
He schlepped away muttering something like 'this IS a gun shop - you know'.
I said nothing more but I thought, a gun shop is not the same as gun show. He may have thought it was the gun store's rifle that was for sale.
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Ha. It would have been funny if you had asked him if you could play with his wife. Plus, you coulda got lucky.
Ecc 10:2
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
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Perhaps both of you could have behaved better. Glad you are so tolerant. I'm not. I don't suffer ignorant fools easily. When someone crosses those lines, the time for manners is over. Careful there, Barry,....Miss Manners demands your complete attention and respect. GTC
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Should have followed him out to his car and jumped in the drivers seat, adjust the mirrors, check the glove box, pop the hood and look over the engine. Then ask him if he is selling it! That is funny right there. I don't care what you say. That made me chuckle . . . 
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Ha. It would have been funny if you had asked him if you could play with his wife. Plus, you coulda got lucky. You're a dirty old man! 
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He may have thought it was the gun store's rifle that was for sale. Even so, I always ask permission. Even on a gunshow table. You just don't coonfinger a man's rifle unless he says you can.
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Firearms in a rack outside the gun counter yes I will pick them up. Anywhere else including the range I ask. And 99% of the time if I am at the range all it takes is a simple comment like "nice_______," and the owner usually asks if I want to shoot it. Simple etiquette really. Ah ha! So you're one of those pests that bother people at the range with friendly greetings and complimentary observations about their firearms. 
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Kind of like touching some one else's children. You just don't do it!
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I've never understood the indirect approach to solving a problem. Women do it all the time though.
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I would say that on average, I can't go a single month without confrontation.
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