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I had to think about this, and how it applies to friends, relatives.... My dad's guns, I would pick up, but not get out of a cabinet. Anyone else, ask.
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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.  I have this one friend that whenever I see him at the range I just ask him what he has bought lately. I have test fired 3 or 4 Ruger semi autos a bunch of revolvers and 3 or 4 rifles. It's like a free test drive.
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If you can't bother asking, then just keep your hands off. Not a hard rule to remember but some people just about need to have it shoved down their throat.
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I'm off to range safety officer duty this morning.
Even as RSOs, we don't touch a shooter's firearm without asking permission, unless it's an emergency.
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Might try the direct approach by informing the person that it's your rifle. Comments on his character might not be well received and will not convey the desired message.
That's probably the best way.....but we're going to have to revoke your man-card for having the gun shop mount your scope. 
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I'd say you were more than decent about it. I don't pick up any gun that doesn't belong to me at a gunshop or otherwise unless it is sitting out on top of a case clearly marked FOR SALE, and even then I would ask if it's ok to check it out.
The gun was sitting in a gun case. To me, that screams it's someone's personal gun. In my mind, anyone picking that one up could potentially expect at least one walnut appearing on the side of their head.
And.. I've seen people in gun shops pick up FOR SALE guns and drop them.
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I bet he'll touch a stranger's Harley too.
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While I heartily agree with the hands-off approach, I fear that the much larger question that needs to be addressed is whether or not the perpetrator had removed his hat/cap prior to this whole episode taking place.
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Who the hell takes their their rifle to a gun shop to have a scope mounted?
Did you have them sight it in, too?
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While I heartily agree with the hands-off approach, I fear that the much larger question that needs to be addressed is whether or not the perpetrator had removed his hat/cap prior to this whole episode taking place. made me spit coffee!
the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee
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So funny answers, but I like Joe's the best... RoadRunner65s...
All I can add to this thread, is if you hate that kind of person... avoid any gunshop in Grants Pass Oregon...
Those type of idiots are a dime a dozen here....
all too often, at our local range...
you turn on the light, leave your bolt open, go down range to check or change your targets, turn around to come back, and some yoyo is fiddling with your rifle...
add that to no one is supposed to be touching their own firearm while someone is down range... kinda like rule number one at our range...
and then these clowns get all pissy, if you say anything to them about it...
half the time they are from California... but the other half the time, they are the local nimrods...
and if they aren't playing with your firearm, they will be standing there and fondling your ammo...
doesn't happen "all the time" but way more often than it should be occurring...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
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While I heartily agree with the hands-off approach, I fear that the much larger question that needs to be addressed is whether or not the perpetrator had removed his hat/cap prior to this whole episode taking place. made me spit coffee! TFF. Clark
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Thank you for giving THOSE Californians a place to live cant stand them here either, I think a closed box of rattle snake eggs that says caution do not open may be a funny treat for them, well maybe me
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you turn on the light, leave your bolt open, go down range to check or change your targets, turn around to come back, and some yoyo is fiddling with your rifle...
That would make me homicidal. Dave
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The local gun shop has some rifles on a rack out where you can look at them.
Anything on the counter is: 1; being looked at by someone else, 2; being sold to the shop, or 3; just not put back yet.
So 1; it almost belongs to someone else. 2; it does belong to someone else. 3; it is courteous and prudent to ask the shop to handle, they usually want to size me up and check the chamber again.
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"Excuse me, but that is my rifle."
He likely would have apologized.
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So funny answers, but I like Joe's the best... RoadRunner65s...
All I can add to this thread, is if you hate that kind of person... avoid any gunshop in Grants Pass Oregon...
Those type of idiots are a dime a dozen here....
all too often, at our local range...
you turn on the light, leave your bolt open, go down range to check or change your targets, turn around to come back, and some yoyo is fiddling with your rifle...
add that to no one is supposed to be touching their own firearm while someone is down range... kinda like rule number one at our range...
and then these clowns get all pissy, if you say anything to them about it...
half the time they are from California... but the other half the time, they are the local nimrods...
and if they aren't playing with your firearm, they will be standing there and fondling your ammo...
doesn't happen "all the time" but way more often than it should be occurring... The RO would need to call for an ambulance for whoever did that w/my gear.
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"Excuse me, but that is my rifle."
He likely would have apologized. Maybe. I suspect he'd just keep finger blasting it. Dave
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Anything on the counter is: 1; being looked at by someone else, 2; being sold to the shop, or 3; just not put back yet.
So 1; it almost belongs to someone else. 2; it does belong to someone else. 3; it is courteous and prudent to ask the shop to handle, they usually want to size me up and check the chamber again.
Exactly. Dave
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Answer to the OP's question; No. Never. I do not touch anyone else's firearm without asking.
Even if a firearm is in a rack "outside" the gun counter I would still ask the attendant for permission to handle it.
There are some simple protocols that should never be over-stepped.
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