ZeSpectre
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I swung by one of my favorite toy stores last night and had something really weird happened.
Standing around with the owner and a couple of other regulars when this youngish lady comes in and starts timidly looking around. We all look at each other and you know we're all thinking "oh, first timer, let's help". So the two of us back off and the owner (a super friendly and pleasant guy) goes into his whole "make the customer feel welcome and comfortable" routine (which he's very good at).
So the woman says she's interested in a gun and eventually she points to a nice pistol in the case and says "can you tell me about that one"?
So he starts telling her about the CZ line and so forth and the question comes up "so do you have a specific purpose in mind, target shooting or...." and this woman cuts in with "well I really need something in case I have to shoot my husband".
WHAT!
She wasn't making a poor joke, she was serious as a heart attack.
The owner kinda stumbles and says "I'm sorry, what?" and this lady says "well, my husbands getting kinda rough and I think I'm going to have to shoot him".
So the owner kinda stops for a minute and then says, very quietly, "Miss, you just basically told me you are planning to shoot someone. I can't sell you a gun."
(as you can imagine, we're all in HIGH ALERT mode by now)
She gets this weird about-to-cry look in her face and says "but I NEED one and soon".
The owner says "hey lady, I tell you what, I can call the police and you can wait here and when the arrive you can tell them what is going on". Well the lady FREAKS and yells some obscenities at the owner and storms out the door (leaving her purse behind).
So we're all kinda standing there in shock for a few minutes and then the owner says "the hell with this, I'm calling the cops". We agreed that was probably a good idea.
So he phones and tells them the story and that he still has the ladies purse with her ID. The cops say they'll be right over.
AND NOW IT GETS WEIRD!
No sooner does a uniformed officer arrive and start taking notes then this big ANGRY man storms in to the store DEMANDING to see the owner and raising six kinds of hell about how some SOB at THIS STORE refused to sell guns to his wife because she's a woman and that it was her GOD GIVEN RIGHT to be able to buy a gun and somebody better damn well obey the law or they were going to get SUED!
Yup, the woman had gone back to her husband (the one she wants to shoot) and told him some BS story about being turned away for being a female, etc.
So the cop takes this guy aside and gets him calmed down and sets the record straight. Then the guy basically says "Oh, I wonder if she's stopped taking her meds again".
WAIT, WHAT?!?
So this guy was coming in to demand that the owner sell a gun to a person undergoing psychiatric treatment who had expressed a desire to kill him?!? Oh man I can just guess what that household is like!
Standing around with the owner and a couple of other regulars when this youngish lady comes in and starts timidly looking around. We all look at each other and you know we're all thinking "oh, first timer, let's help". So the two of us back off and the owner (a super friendly and pleasant guy) goes into his whole "make the customer feel welcome and comfortable" routine (which he's very good at).
So the woman says she's interested in a gun and eventually she points to a nice pistol in the case and says "can you tell me about that one"?
So he starts telling her about the CZ line and so forth and the question comes up "so do you have a specific purpose in mind, target shooting or...." and this woman cuts in with "well I really need something in case I have to shoot my husband".
WHAT!
She wasn't making a poor joke, she was serious as a heart attack.
The owner kinda stumbles and says "I'm sorry, what?" and this lady says "well, my husbands getting kinda rough and I think I'm going to have to shoot him".
So the owner kinda stops for a minute and then says, very quietly, "Miss, you just basically told me you are planning to shoot someone. I can't sell you a gun."
(as you can imagine, we're all in HIGH ALERT mode by now)
She gets this weird about-to-cry look in her face and says "but I NEED one and soon".
The owner says "hey lady, I tell you what, I can call the police and you can wait here and when the arrive you can tell them what is going on". Well the lady FREAKS and yells some obscenities at the owner and storms out the door (leaving her purse behind).
So we're all kinda standing there in shock for a few minutes and then the owner says "the hell with this, I'm calling the cops". We agreed that was probably a good idea.
So he phones and tells them the story and that he still has the ladies purse with her ID. The cops say they'll be right over.
AND NOW IT GETS WEIRD!
No sooner does a uniformed officer arrive and start taking notes then this big ANGRY man storms in to the store DEMANDING to see the owner and raising six kinds of hell about how some SOB at THIS STORE refused to sell guns to his wife because she's a woman and that it was her GOD GIVEN RIGHT to be able to buy a gun and somebody better damn well obey the law or they were going to get SUED!
Yup, the woman had gone back to her husband (the one she wants to shoot) and told him some BS story about being turned away for being a female, etc.
So the cop takes this guy aside and gets him calmed down and sets the record straight. Then the guy basically says "Oh, I wonder if she's stopped taking her meds again".
WAIT, WHAT?!?
So this guy was coming in to demand that the owner sell a gun to a person undergoing psychiatric treatment who had expressed a desire to kill him?!? Oh man I can just guess what that household is like!