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Long story short, I had a newer owner of a pawn shop point a cocked handgun at my stomach, and pull the trigger, gun went snap. I did speak to him some in a rather loud tone.
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I work p/t at the local LGS. Ive seen several rifles come in loaded with a round in the chamber wanting it bore sighted, new scope or trade it in.
Some people are dangerous to be around. Same with people wanting a holster and bring the pistol in loaded with hot chambers.
Although we have a few that leave it in their vehicle and ask if its OK to bring in. I always tell them to make sure its unloaded
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Not a gun shop story, but still mind boggling. A fellow I know had a call from someone who wanted to surrender a luger their father had brought back from WW2. Apparently the gentleman who was calling used to play army with it when he was a child,and his children played with it too. Since it was an unregistered firearm,he thought he should get rid of it. I'm sure you can see where this is going. When he dropped it off, my friend removed a full magazine from it and ejected a live round from the chamber. Fellow was shocked, only thing preventing a discharge was the safety. Makes you wonder how much this fellows dad really cared for them to give them a loaded gun to play with. You know what is really bad about this is that a man that served in hells gate brought back a trophy of his service and the disconnect to people from that point on until it was played with and became an unregistered firearm oh my God is just shame full so that reflects what Australia as a country has become, Let's hope that the US does not slip to this level
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Long story short, I had a newer owner of a pawn shop point a cocked handgun at my stomach, and pull the trigger, gun went snap. I did speak to him some in a rather loud tone. Do you still stop by there often?
The first time I shot myself in the head...
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never under estimate what stupid people are capable of. There are a lot more dangerous things that can happen to you than being shot
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never under estimate what stupid people are capable of. There are a lot more dangerous things that can happen to you than being shot . Name three!! I'm curious.😙
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you all are nubbies, wait until someone brings you Dad's war trophy all loaded up My neighbor from across the street had a chest of war stuff he inherited from his uncle. He was going through it one day and realized it had a false bottom in it. Under the false bottom he found a Schmeisser machine pistol, brand new still in the cosmoline and several brand new magazines.
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I agree.
Time was you could go to a gun store, ask questions and get real help. Today you had better know exactly what you want or stay home until you do. I think in this day and age one can do pretty good research online to at least get some idea of what to expect when they start asking questions at the shop.
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My best story from my time working in a LGS. It's the weekend before deer season. We've got 'em lined up from one end of the store to the other getting deer tags. It's a small shop-the retail area is long and narrow, ending at the back counter where we were furiously writing deer tags trying to keep up. 4 lines of guys, all the way out to the door. This Indian (India Indian) guy walks past the lines, and comes up to the counter proclaiming he needs his handgun serviced. Needless to say, the guys waiting in line were about ready to lynch him right off the bat for blowing past them in line. As he's walking to the counter, he's pointing his uncased gun at everyone standing at the counter. Strike 2. Parts are literally falling off the old semi-auto. It was a Star 1911 clone. He sets it on the counter, and of course I quickly discern (after he pointed it at about half the customers in there) that the gun is fully loaded. We have an alert button under the counter, which I immediately triggered. The owner comes hustling up from the back of the shop with his .45 pulled and down behind his right hip. When he saw we had the gun secured away from the customers and the nimrod that brought it in, he escorted him out of the building and told him never to come back. He then went back in, dumped what was left of the pistol (it was missing both grips, the sights, and by this time, the magazine) in a bag and took it out to the guy, admonishing him in some very colorful language to never show up there again. As a sidenote, it was a .45 auto and he somehow had a magazine full of .38 Super in the mag well.
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In WalMart the other day. Woman clerk working the ammo counter. Another woman asks clerk, "My husband asked me to get a box of ammo for his 45 auto. Will this box of Winchester ammo marked 45 ACP be what he needs?
Clerk replies, "No. You will need to find some that says "45 Auto".
JEEZ! It made my head hurt. I appreciated that the nice lady was trying to help her husband out, so I stepped in and settled the matter for them. Now the clerk knows what ACP stands for.
At least she didn't try to send the customer off with the wrong ammo.
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I embarrassed myself at Buds.
Every gun shop I've ever been to that has had guns on racks that were accessible, you picked up the gun and brought it to the counter.
Buds does so much volume, I guess you get a tag for the gun and the gun in the rack is the "display" model. Hell I didn't know - they have new guns and used ones out on the display floor.
So I grab the gun from the rack and bring it to the counter. They looked at me like I was a damned fool and I heard the guy who had to get the gun from the back cursing me under his breath as he brought the boxed one up.
I guess I should have known better but I didn't particularly care for my experience there that day.
Buds has some great prices but its busier than a Wal-Mart on welfare check day.
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Anyone one buying any thing should know precisely what they are buying and what it is worth. If not, they deserve to be hosed. Well yeah, if the seller has no character.
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On more than one occasion I have had someone bring in a disassembled gun with the parts in a shoebox. After getting everything back in its proper place I find more parts(screws,springs,etc.) still in the box. Thinking I may have missed something, I take it apart again and then reassemble. I finally give up and call the customer. He tells me that he wasn't sure if all those springs,screws,etc. went with that gun so he just put them in th box to be sure.
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I get this more often than not: Customer gun in a bag (GIB) took it apart, can't get it together, so I give him the price "if all the parts are there" He replies"YUp it's all there" so I start looking/inventorying and "Where'd this spring/pin/screw"??
"Oh, that must be what I dropped and couldn't find....." LOL
I think we're the only shop around that deals in used guns..
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Cowards CANNOT be free. Nor should they be.
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never under estimate what stupid people are capable of. There are a lot more dangerous things that can happen to you than being shot . Name three!! I'm curious.😙 1. Vote
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this guy keeps coming to me at the fleamarket wanting to know if i have a single shot h&r rifles. he says he'll buy all i get because they are rare and are becoming collector guns.he comes every week,if i happen to have one he never buys it or says anything. he then comes back the next week looking for one again.
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Anybody who has ever worked in a gun shop knows you see/hear some wild sh*t on a regular basis. In my 22+ years I've seen some doozies. Yesterday a black fellow came in and asked for a box of ".41 bullets". ".41 Magnum?" I asked, to which he replied "Yeah." I handed him a box of 210 gr Gold Dots and sent him on his way. He came back today and said "Them bullets was too big." "What kind of gun is it?" I asked, thinking there was a remote chance he had a .41 Colt of some sort. He said "It looks like one of them cowboy guns." So I'm thinking, "Yeah, it must be an old SAA." "Bring it in so I can see what you have because if it's a .41 Long Colt, ammo is about $75 a box." He reluctantly went out to his car and came back a minute later with a 6 1/2" barreled Ruger Blackhawk that was clearly stamped .41 Magnum, but with, get this, a 9mm cylinder in it. I said, "You do realize this is a 9mm cylinder in a .41 frame don't you?" He looked at me cockeyed and said "Ok, give me a box of 9s." Trying to make him understand the situation was like trying to explain advanced calculus to me. I'm quite sure the gun was as hot as a firecracker and when he was distracted I jotted the serial number down and later gave it to a cop buddy to check out, along with his tag number. I figured somewhere out there, there is a .357/9mm convertible Blackhawk with a .41 cylinder in it... Engineers, jeez.....
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Anyone one buying any thing should know precisely what they are buying and what it is worth. If not, they deserve to be hosed. Maybe.... Some folks will look for any chance to cheat someone and let them remain ignorant. Some folks will treat people fairly and educate them. Nothing wrong with a profit, but I'll short myself a little before I'll cheat someone.
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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!
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what I see behind the gun counters around here, are girls and boys that don't know as much as I do. Sad.
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