On rare occasions, I’ve seen unsafe firearms handling in stores. I leave if it’s not immediately corrected.
Everyone working in a gun store should have a loaded personal firearm within reach, but the items for sale should be unloaded when stored on the shelf, checked unloaded every time a clerk picks them up, and checked unloaded again every time a customer takes possession of a firearm from the clerk. Even after checking that a firearm is unloaded, it takes carelessness to point one at your own hand. It takes a special kind of stupid to point one at your hand without checking.
During my training to be an NRA certified Range Safety Officer, the Instructor told us that anti gun anti freedom useful idiots were going to gun shows and when no one was looking sneaked live rounds into guns they were “looking at” hoping to cause just such an accident in order to advance their agenda.
I have very little doubt but what they prowl around gun shops as well.
Don’t put anything past these shills, and counter them with obsessive compulsive SAFETY procedures at all times!
The left has an Army of highly motivated shills out there, to include most of the “Students” in the academic gulags. If you are ever in a Gun Shop and see someone of college age hanging around, keep a close eye on them!