Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire At one of the LGS today and heard this

The shops around here are full of em for sure.
Mostly the Nepotism hiring plan......

Had one 21 yr old type telling me a G17 gen5 was the same as any other glock.
Was adament about it all.
I just handed him back the pistol and smiled
I told the owner ( a fellow sqd ldr decades ago in the same platoon) his employees need ta google fu and educate themselves on their spare time .
Explained to Dave what employee of month was saying.
Dave was not happy
Just said " thanks man".

Shoulda got that 17
492 OTD GLOCK Blue label gun.

It's gone now.....

Well the LGS clerks around here are a lot more helpful than that they would have shown her how to rack the slide and activate the release to close it then sold her the gun if she past the background check and a box of trap loads to go with it. You know I wouldn't sh*t you. Mb

Babs is turning into Mel Brooks in drag.

Or a paintball gun with pepper balls.

Looks like Ryan O’Neil w man bun!

Well, I have another take on the topic, as a person who has worked behind a gun counter for 40hours a week for the last 4 years (after 30 in the Advertising field), and I make more than minimum wage. It gets tiring (especially in current times) to try to explain the function and use of a firearm. Do you expect car salesman to teach you how to drive? Most of us grew up with firearms, but if you are a “Barbara Streisand” type, you should seek out a firearms instructor. I work at one of the largest, privately owned LGS’s in my area, and we have lines forming outside the store, 1.5 hours before we open in the am, and it doesn’t stop until we close (hours 11am-7pm Mon-Fri). I am one of five salesman that work behind the counter. We have 2 gunsmiths on staff, and lately about 40% percent of the “broken firearms” that come to the counter lately (about the last 6months, but the buying insanity started March 2020) are OPERATOR ERROR.
Below, I’ll list a FEW of the conversations I’ve had lately:

Customer (walking in with a recently purchased Stoeger Coach gun): “I want to return this firearm, it’s not working right, and it’s too hard to open”

Me: “well, unless there’s some defect, all gun sales are final. How many times have you fired the gun?”

Customer: “oh, I haven’t shot it yet”

Me: smack forehead

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We had a doctor pull his car in the lot, get out with a Sig 320 (in hand pointed in the air), walk past 20-25 people on line, walk right up to the counter and DEMAND we install sight on his pistol right away, because “he had to get back to the hospital”.

..... we threw him out.

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My personal favorite over the past few months are the people that walk up to the counter and ask for a Mossberg 500, or Remington 870 with an 18” barrel, expecting there to be dozens in the shop. It’s like they’ve had their heads in the sand, or somewhere else for the last year. “Remingtons bankrupt”??? .......shocker!

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People that walk in and go from, I want to see a hunting rifle, now a shotgun, now a handgun........are usually a waste of our time.

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The 20 phone calls a day we get from customers asking “how long is the line?”. Our stock answer is 37’ 8”
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Now, don’t get me wrong, as I work at a gun shop, because I enjoy firrarms, and helping people, but you can’t turn Barbara Streisand into Jerry Miculek in 15 min at a gun counter. I’ve taken guns away from people that can’t follow the simplest instruction of “DON’T SWEEP PEOPLE WITH THE BARREL” and “KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER”. I get a lot of “Isn’t it unloaded?”...... again, smack forehead!

-the ravings of a gun shop guy.

LOL!!!

It has to be like Caligula,s circus this past year.

LOL!!!

Why it gotta be drama every where you go

California or Chicago refugee?

How were the cheeseburgers?

Good..
Had em with no mustard and extra pickles.


LOL!!!

Was at the best pawn shop I’ve every entered in my opinion. Guy came up to Dave (owner) as we were talking and asked if he had any shells to break his new gun in with? Dude says it’s a shotgun. Had no idea what gauge, make model or anything. Dave said he really couldn’t help him without knowing more information. Dude goes over to the ammo and comes back with a box of Black Aces buckshot. Dave explained the he wouldn’t be able to return if it didn’t work. Went so far over the Dude’s head.

Went to the Graf’s store in St Charles only to find it had been sold to one of the young employees. Found a couple boxes of 7mm TSX 120gr still with the old prices of $28/ box, 8mm ballistic tips for $23/box, 6mm ELD-X 108 $28/bag of 100, Varget (limit one lb) for $32 and MBC cast 158gr for my .38’s for $39 per 500.

I'm the social butterfly anywhere I go man.
You know that.

LOL!!!

Gawd knows ...
Up here around clarksville and Ft Campbell.
We got the broad spectrum of everything from the entire planet.

Question for TomT

In this day and recent age

Is any part of that line of people still the 425 lb lardasses that want to come in block out the view of the glass pistol cases and jaw-&-reminisce about “so and so and Ernie had this and Donnie had one of them and there was this one time me and Daddy” and on and on and on while you have folks in there wanting to spend money?

Is that still a thing?


And for anyone reading this are you “that person” ?

Why ya busting on too wide Trey or his side kick Colton????

Well damn, you finally made a decent contribution to the forum. 😁

Haha.

Yesterday i stopped in a LGS.

Older colored lady was asking about a gun to “put something on that ass” next time the got in her yard.

Had to be in her 70’s

#bigmommadontplay

And I did it without ridiculing some lout’s cornpile.