any time you are in business and run off a customer you are one less customer closer to going out of business . Gun shops stay in business by a return and loyal customer base. Most just can't afford to lose a customer over one rifle deal . This gun shop owner lost more on this deal than he would have made in profit from buying this rifle. You wouldn't believe the guys who started gun business around here who didn't last a years because of their chittie attitudes toward potential customers
Yep, I've seen lotsa gun shops go under because the owners were dipschits in my lifetime. If I'd had the gunshop owner in the OP get pissed at me as described I'd have told him to his face to go get [bleep] and then I'd have told every hunter/shooter in three counties to stay away from the uppity asswhole.
