Dumb Gunstore Questions You've Heard?

[nomadboi]

I've been on the wrong end of an MP5 before... was rehearsing a fight scene for a play in a parking garage outside a community college, and one of the security guys musta seen us and flipped out. Had SWAT called on us.

They got a good chuckle out of it, once they figured out what was going on.

 

[whm1974]

Try walking the aisle at a gun show, and getting a creepy feeling, and then looking up and realizing that someone looking at a milsurp one aisle over not only has it trained on you, but has been tracking you with it.

One of the reasons I don't like going to gun shows. It is quite common for people to bring in loaded guns they inherited from relations to sell and since they don't any thing about guns...

Gives me the shivers...

-Bill

 

[mfree]

it was a beat up Winchester 1200. he took it off the rack with my permission, and instead of playing with it like most people do, he stuck it under his t-shirt to see how concealable it was.

never mind the printing issue of a 12 ga. under your white fruit of the loom t-shirt...but that was quite an interesting way to see if you want to purchase something by how it fits under your shirt.

Someone comes into our store and grabs something off the shelf and proceeds to *hide* it, without one of us present, is likely not to be treated as "customer" for long.

No common sense these days.... unless the punk was *actually* attempting to see if he could hide the thing well enough to walk out with it.

 

[Halffast]

Funniest one I heard at my favorite store was that a guy brought back the deer rifle and scope he had bought the week before complaining that there was something wrong with the scope. The owner asked him what it was doing and he said that it wouldn't stay on target when he shot offhand. If he rested it on the bench, it shot fine, but when he just threw it up and shot it wouldn't hit. He thought it might be him, so he had his buddy try. Same thing. Shot great off the bench, but wouldn't hit the broad side of a barn offhand.

David

 

[wolf_from_wv]

i had a gold toothed youth ask me at the Belton (TX) Gun Show for a "Stack On Stack." Another asked me for "a gauge with the round thing."

what they meant was:
"Stack on Stack" - a side-by-side shotgun
"a gauge with the round thing" - a Mossberg 500 shotgun modified with the Knoxx Sidewinder Conversion Kit (had a 10 round drum magazine...the "round thing").
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I'd have tried to sell him a set of dial calipers...

We have this set here from Midway, they are fairly cheap, and are more tactical because they have a cannon on the case. If you want something better, we can order you a set of Starretts or Mitutoyos, bet they will cost a lot more...

 

[akviper]

Turning it around a bit, I was attempting to purchase a box of 41 mag ammo at a gun store. The young lady behind the counter brought down the box, opened it, and asked, "how many do you want?" I was tempted to tell her I only wanted two rounds but patiently explained to her that people usually buy the whole box. She was amazed.

 

[Logistics]

hmm

Dumbest thing ever I suppose was a guy walking in to the store I work for with a Ruger M77 in .270 and said he wanted it "fixed" as he accidentally put 6 rounds of .308 down range through it! The gun held together, however I could not help myself from laughing outloud in front of the customer! "Are you SURE you can't fix this???" He retorted, I said "no sir". He said he noticed something was wrong when the bolt "got a little stiff and then stopped moving almost altogether".

Needless to say I still get a huge chuckle out of that one.....

Story #2 was about a week ago when little johnny mouthbreather was in the literature section of the store staring endlessly and mindlessly flipping through pages in several gun value type books we had for sale. After ignoring him because we are NOT A LIBRARY, he finally approches me and in typical mouth breather tone says, "Sir could you make me a copy of these three pages?", I replied, "For 24.95 I'll give you every page in that book", he stared in amazement and I walked away.

Still however, for a part time job it has some great benefits.

 

[Mark8252]

Arrogant salesman in gun shops

For some reason gun shops get more than their share of arrogant employees.
I believe its called macho stupidity.

 

[wolf_from_wv]

I was in a gun store a couple weeks ago... There were two guys at the counter having a heated discussion with the employee about a gun bash. I guess someone's name was called, but that person wasn't there. Once the name was called, that was it. They moved on to the next gun.

The guys were saying that that wasn't fair. Since the person didn't pick it up right away, they should have put it back in the drawing again. Or, they said people should have got their money back because they didn't have a chance on each thing...

It is amazing what kind of "logic" people can come up with, and try to convince other people of...


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I work in a college library... I have been asked...

"What makes a condominium, a condominium?"

Ummmmm...

"How do I know what year to use for the catalog?"

It is the first year that you had class...

"I need to find information about American Wars in the Midwest involving the American Indians, the Vatican, Guam, Vietnam, ----and several other things that I can't remember now..."

:banghead: He was looking for information about the Melungeons...

"Can I buy my books here?"

No, the bookstore is down the hallway, beside the door that you came in...

Answered the phone:
_______ ________ Library, ______ speaking...

"Is this the library?"

:banghead:

 

[ckyllo]

not a dumb question but a dumb act. was at a sporting goods store and a fellow had a beretta CX4 storm, I like the rifle but... He was having it fitted with a bipod and a scope that looked like about a strait 10 power bushnell 3200. and than asked for a box of ammo, somthing that hits hard at 25 yards. a 10 power scope and bipod and shooting at 25 yards.

I also saw a guy at the same store that traded a glock 23 for a ruger 22/45. the 23 was his carry gun and he could not shoot it and hit anything. so since he could shoot a 22 good he decided to carry that instead of the 40. I think he would of been better off keeping the glock and getting some training or maybe consider trading to a 9mm or 38 with some range time. the kicker was that he transported gems and gold for a living.

 

[Bopleo]

I find it funny that most gun store employees think they are gun experts, when they are just your basic retail salesman.

 

[Zach S]

...the gangsters call it a "pistolgrip pump" - yes there is a rap song called that).

By Volume 10. IIRC it was on the hip-hopera album...

 

[cowboybobb693]

Many years ago I was working in a gun store in Las Vegas. A young man came in and asked to see a particular weapon. I made sure that the weapon was unloaded, magazine out, slide back etc... and this duffus asked me why I did all of that!!! I explained that it was for his and my safety to insure that the weapon was unloaded and safe to be handled. He then proceeded to point this weapon at me, saying that since it was unloaded he could point it at me !!! I moved away from him and explained that even though it was unloaded you should NEVER point a weapon at something you did not wish to shoot. This jerk-off pointed the gun at me AGAIN !!!! at this point in time I walked from behind the counter grabbed his "cluster" with one hand and stuck my LOADED Gold Cup in his nose and explained to him very softly that he had been warned once and now was the time to get out of the store before someone got hurt, namely him
It bugs me that people are so stupid.

 

[Spreadfire Arms]

Jesus Bobb i thought you were a friendly gent

now im skurred!

 

[mack69]

Cowboybob...I had just the opposite of your story....I was shopping for a new handgun and asked the clerk behind the counter to see the CZ97B, CZ's 1911 double stack. The clerk opens the case grabs the gun with his finger through the trigger guard, flips it around on his finger and hands me the gun muzzle first. I quickly open palmed the muzzle to my left and down and he looks at me like *** are you doing? I told him I don't much care for someone pointing a gun at me...he says it's unloaded...I asked how do you know that... to which he responds we don't keep loaded guns in the case. He was also amazed at just how fast I dropped the mag cycled the slide a few times, checked the gun and handed it back to him butt first and walked away. He seemed quite offended on all counts...This is the same guy I find out later that got nailed by his manager for twirling of all things a 1911 like he was a gun slinger....Go figure.....Even my kids know the proper way to handle a firearm...and my daughter is only 5. Always impresses folk when they hand a weapon to one of them and the first thing they do is drop the mag and cycle the slide a few times or pop the cylinder on a wheel gun before handling....mack

 

[cowboybobb693]

Aw Steve, You KNOW I'm a mellow guy. I mean just look at they way I dress.
Cheap Wally World straight legged jeans, baggy old shirts, Johnson and Murphy tassled slip ons, soft spoken( LARGE caliber handgun).
I look so whimpy that even UGLY chicks won't give me the time of day. Maybe it's my "mall ninja" watch that scares them off
I guess that after having a couple of extra holes placed in my body I'm kinda paranoid about such things.

 

[mfree]

Some of the muzzle pointing, "It's not loaded" peeps could use some judicious prestidigitation...

What I mean is, plan ahead, and palm a round that fits the gun. When you get handed a closed-action gun muzzle first, flip it around, rack the slide, and drop the round on the table like it spit out the ejection port.

Then hold your nose, because someone's going to need a clean pair.

 

[MikeIsaj]

Am I the only person in the world who wants the magazine on the table when handed a weapon? I've only seen the mag dropped one time in a gunshop, and that was by another Marine. We were told that further reduces the chance of a magic bullet making it's way into that chamber.

And when I'm told "you don't want THAT gun", my response is "if it's no good, why do you sell it?"