10 Things NOT to do in a Gun Store.

The Firearms Blog ^ | March 22, 2016 | Adam Scepaniak

[Jack Hammer]

Surprisingly, sales people do now always adhere to this rule.

It always shocks and flabbergasts me, but I try to keep my mouth shut.

Oh, well.

[Jack Hammer]

Loading a firearm while in the store is grounds for defensive firearm use.

That customer should have very promptly been taken down.

[mylife]

No one saw it done.

The weapons were checked before going on the shelf.

Perhaps the proprietor missed one in the chamber on a used gun he bought but swears they cleared it

[Jack Hammer]

Sh*t happens.

All the more reason to be careful.

[Larry Lucido]

Or ask, “May I have a jar of gun jam?”

[Geronimo]

Don’t be an ass and interupt another customer’s interaction with a salesman with your 2 cents’ worthless opinion.

Yes the Ruger 22/45 pistol may be ‘toy’ to you dickhead but if you were involved in the transaction 5 minutes earlier you may have learned it was for my 12 year old son...

[tumblindice]

I wanted a bayonet for my 16” barrel AR-15 and was surprised to learn that although it has a bayonet lug, the standard Ontario blade won’t fit—unless the handle is about 10” long, which it isn’t. The manufacturer’s rep said the M9 would work until I asked him if anyone made such a bayonet.

For the lurkers:
1. Always keep your firearm pointed in a safe direction.
2. Treat ALL firearms as if they were loaded.
3. Keep your trigger finger outside the trigger guard and off of the trigger until you are ready to fire.
4. Be certain of your target, your line of fire, and what lies beyond your target.
5. Always wear appropriate eye and ear protection when shooting and maintaining your firearm.

Also, a good safety test if you have Kalashnikovs ... check to make sure its unloaded, remove the receiver cover, pull out the bolt carrier/piston assembly.
It’s not loaded, right?
OK, cock the hammer back with your powerful fingers ... then pull the safety lever straight up.
If the hammer trips you might better get out your Dremel and do some trimming on the lobe that locks your sear mechanism.

The dust cover usually blocks the safety from going that way but there are dum chits you shoot with, or maybe at the range who might disassemble with a live round in the chamber with the piece pointed at you, and next comes the ever popular accidental discharge excuse, “I didn’t know it was loaded. I swear.”

So rule 6. Never underestimate the stupidity of others, and see rule 3. above.
While watching `Walking Dead’, where they make head shots while running, looking in a hand mirror and shooting over their shoulders, I tell my wife I would probably be more concerned during the Apocalypse about armed people around me than the `Biters’.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I’ll take .40 thank you, but you appear to be out of stock.

[archy]

Don’t go in and say, “This is a holdup...Gimme the money!!!”....

That happened in the old Jensen's Gun Shop in Tucson in the early 1970s a few hours before I happened to wander in looking for a Remington 870 stock. Three bad guys, one driver and two inside [as I recall] trying to take down the store, in which, by the way all employees were armed. There were three employees behind the counters I believe, plus the manager in a back office. Oh, and several armed customers as well. And most everybody participated. The hard part was matching the multiple wounds to the many, many empty cases; the easy part was the coroner's job: *They're dead, Jim!*

I got there a bit after lunch. The bodies had been carted off and the crime scene tape taken down, but interior bullet damage was still to be seen and there were bloodstains on the floor with obvious body-outline chalk marks around them.

We didn't know as much about bloodborne pathogens then as we do now, but it did lend a certain quaint charm to the place. And the stock I was after was indeed in stock. I paid for it, said my thanks and left. Nice place to be doing business.

[JBW1949]

I heard a few years back that two “Amish” teems went into a police precinct in NYC and demanded money from the clerk behind a bullet-proof window in the entrance...

That didn’t go over very well either...LOL

[JBW1949]

BTW, I love my 870 for dove shooting...The action of sliding the pump has saved me shells when birds are flying fast...It stops me from firing that next round...

[Carriage Hill]

We have several nice ones in the consignment display cases. Have you seen them yet?

[Carriage Hill]

Oh sorry, you meant ‘CK’ ammo.

[Rockpile]

Don’t go into a gunstore and expect to have handguns tagged with labels you can actually read.

Don’t go into a gunstore and expect the long guns to have labels you can read either from in front of the counter either.

Don’t expect the counter to have a piece of carpet sample to lay a gun or other stuff on instead of sitting it on the glass.

Don’t expect the gun store to have even one section of handgun counter be a tall section where they aren’t all down by your shins.

Don’t expect the employees to have heard of what you are trying to find.-——this varies greatly by store and employee of course since firearms are such a huge field—— I have been doing a purple unicorn search for 218 Bee and 219 Donaldson Wasp. Get blank stares sometimes. I just missed some Bee in a little Texas Hill Country shop, the owner had sold three boxes shortly before. Actually talked to a guy in an East Texas store who owned a Wasp. He was an old time benchrester.

[Carriage Hill]

It’s available:
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=551038206#PIC
&
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/2900687539/winchester-super-x-ammunition-218-bee-46-grain-jacketed-hollow-point

It rare and pricey, as are the Model 43s & 65s.

[litehaus]

1 Thing NOT to do in a Gun Store.
ASK:
Do you report the fifty bucks I just paid you in cash for taking delivery of these guns I ordered from Buds ???

[litehaus]

1 Thing NOT to do in a Gun Store.
ASK:
Do you report the fifty bucks I just paid you in cash for taking delivery of these guns I ordered from Buds ???

[smokingfrog]

They’re green?

[Carriage Hill]

Teflon-coated tips.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Do you have to be a LEO to buy green tip ammo?