I Have An Idea - Cut The Political Commentary And Just Sell Me A Gun!

[Phydeaux642]

I get more frustrated everytime I walk into a gun shop. The rumors and lies being told to nudge, if not downright push, someone into buying a gun or ammo would be amusing if it wasn't so appalling.

I went into a large sporting goods store this evening to get a touch-up marker for an SKS I'm fiddling with. As I walk by the gun counter I hear one of the nimrods behind the counter telling a customer "Obama said he wouldn't take our guns and he won't, but he is going to take our ammo." That's funny, I didn't know I had such a plugged in guy working in the local gun shop. And, it must be a burden to have such knowledge and insight at such a young age (probably 21 or so).

When I walk into a shop I want to look at guns. I want to BS about guns. We can even BS about the political climate. I enjoy all of these things. What I don't want to see or hear is an ill informed knucklehead putting forth rumor as fact in order to make a sale. Tell the customer that Glock or Taurus or whatever other gun you like is the best lead slinger that man has ever been blessed with. Just cut the political commentary. That, as much as anything, has fueled the current panic.

I was so agitated that I didn't even get my touch-up marker. Dang it.

 

[Hungry Seagull]

You should have heard and seen the local gunshops after one of our Channel 7 Anchors were killed and again after the election was completed.

We learned to visit the shop on quiet days when only a few are around and we can concentrate on the business at hand without talking TOO much if ANY political crap.

But always someone somewhere going to open mouth and start talking.

*Shrugs... what can you do? Just stay focused on why you are there and do the best you can.

 

[rbernie]

Good thing that you have online places to call home that try to remain relatively free from the hyperbole, eh?

 

[SCKimberFan]

Yup. No hyperbole here. Never. Not ever. Not once.

 

[Phydeaux642]

Good thing that you have online places to call home that try to remain relatively free from the hyperbole, eh?

No, the TFH Army is alive and well everywhere you go.

 

[JImbothefiveth]

cut the political commentary. That, as much as anything, has fueled the current panic.

More people buying firearms is good. More people who vote.

 

[Kind of Blued]

Sounds like exactly what I would do if I worked in a gunshop for the purpose of making money... Given the political climate, a good car salesman would probably do the same thing when trying to sell an F350. If it annoys you, you are free to ignore things that you overhear.

Assuming you're dealing with a salesman, I'd bet that if you pointed at a gun and said "I want to buy that", they would sell it to you without much babbling about the political climate.

 

[Phydeaux642]

Sounds like exactly what I would do if I worked in a gunshop for the purpose of making money...

Whatever happened with just being straight with people. I'm in sales and that's what I do. It's been working for me so far.

 

[mbpautz762]

I just got a job at a large local sporting goods store gun counter, and I was told that I would be fired if I tried to talk politics with customers!

I even signed paperwork that said I wouldn't!

 

[Kind of Blued]

Whatever happened with just being straight with people. I'm in sales and that's what I do. It's been working for me so far.

As in just hand them guns, answer questions, and ring them up for the one they want? It doesn't make customers want the product any more badly than they did before you started doing your job selling your product.

I just got a job at a large local sporting goods store gun counter, and I was told that I would be fired if I tried to talk politics with customers!

Sounds good to me! Fear-mongering annoys me too, just like Phydeaux, but it's pretty easy to ignore.

 

[hso]

Things are too busy at the local gunshops for them to need to use scare tactics to sell firearms. Every shop in the area is usually crawling with people and the staff are doing all they can to serve the customers and restock the shelves.

 

[bonza]

More people buying firearms is good. More people who vote.

Sadly, the two don't always go hand in hand. If all the gun-owners in this country voted for pro-gun politicians we wouldn't be in the fix we are!

 

[searcher451]

There's a local gun shop that I've stopped visiting because of this very issue. Truth be told, I just don't want to hear it -- not while I'm browsing, anyway.

Of course, you could say the exact same thing on a daily basis about some of the posts on this forum.

 

[Pizzagunner]

I don't mind political chitchat at the gun shop. The nearly fifty-three percent who made a huge mistake last November just might though.

 

[K-DUB]

Oh the high pressure sale........................I hate it.

I sale for a living and have found out, if you let people make up their mind on their own with all of the truthful information, they quite possibly will buy what your selling (works for me).

 

[bigfatdave]

I don't mind political chitchat at the gun shop. The nearly fifty-three percent who made a huge mistake last November just might though.

More than 53% made a mistake - giving up and picking the perceived lesser of two lousy candidates. There were more than two choices, you know.

I am tired of the politics at the gun shops as well, and the assumption that I am a member of GOP, just because I am a firearms owner. As long as the GOP tries to sell itself as "the moral majority" or a "values voter party" (both skewed attempts to suck up a particular segment of the population) I won't be playing along. Perhaps if the republican party actually made an attempt to maintain small government, civil rights for all citizens, and a free market* I would consider them a valid choice ... until then I'll be voting Libertarian and choosing candidates based on voting record and how well they represent the people who elect them.

Why every gun shop owner/employee and retail counter clerk wants to drag me into a political debate I can't imagine, aren't they tired of it yet?



*(rather than trying to sell me on some evangelical agenda, bigotry, and "homeland security" fear-based campaigning)

 

[CajunBass]

I Have An Idea - Cut The Political Commentary And Just Sell Me A Gun!

As I walk by the gun counter I hear one of the nimrods behind the counter telling a customer "Obama said he wouldn't take our guns and he won't, but he is going to take our ammo."

Well, if the salesman was talking to YOU, you'd be quite in your rights to make your first comment. However, since he was talking to someone else, who may have wanted to hear the political commentary, what difference does it make to you?

 

[chuckusaret]

I don't frequent the local gun shops anymore because of their BS and outrageous prices. I have a problem with finding just one of the 53% that voted for the Obamanation. I can't find anyone who will admit to having voted for him...

 

[SCKimberFan]

I can't find anyone who will admit to having voted for him...

Come to the Carolinas. I'll take you to visit a few of them.

 

[SIRVEYR666]

Bigfatdave

Quote:
I don't mind political chitchat at the gun shop. The nearly fifty-three percent who made a huge mistake last November just might though.
More than 53% made a mistake - giving up and picking the perceived lesser of two lousy candidates. There were more than two choices, you know.

I am tired of the politics at the gun shops as well, and the assumption that I am a member of GOP, just because I am a firearms owner. As long as the GOP tries to sell itself as "the moral majority" or a "values voter party" (both skewed attempts to suck up a particular segment of the population) I won't be playing along. Perhaps if the republican party actually made an attempt to maintain small government, civil rights for all citizens, and a free market* I would consider them a valid choice ... until then I'll be voting Libertarian and choosing candidates based on voting record and how well they represent the people who elect them.

Why every gun shop owner/employee and retail counter clerk wants to drag me into a political debate I can't imagine, aren't they tired of it yet?



*(rather than trying to sell me on some evangelical agenda, bigotry, and "homeland security" fear-based campaigning)

+1 my good man.

 

[janedoedad]

There is a gun shop, two towns over, with a lighted billboard: "Gun Ban is Coming! Get your guns now." Also advertising Saiga SG's ". . while you still can."

I guess it is effective advertising, always see cars in parking lot.

 

[Just Jim]

I bet there are alot of gun owners who voted for Obama who don't don't like the price they are paying in more ways than one. Who wants to go into a gunshop and be told how stupid they were for voting for Obama??

jj

 

[The Deer Hunter]

More people buying firearms is good. More people who vote.

It seems to me that it's not more people buying firearms, but the same people buying more firearms. Most of the guys I shoot with can't find any guns (well, semi autos). We don't know who's buying them but they just seem to get eaten up by guys who don't actually shoot.

It's like, some sort of groovy, you know what I mean?

 

[wrs840]

cut the political commentary. That, as much as anything, has fueled the current panic.

More people buying firearms is good. More people who vote.

Buying firearms is good. Voting is great. Being politically engaged is essential. People who don't want to participate in or even hear political views/debate/discussion are the reason that we've become a nation where the majority apparently now believe government exists to give them gifts taken their neighbor. We need more, not less political engagement.


Don't forget on July third, 1776, of the British Subjects living in the colonies, about a third wanted very much to declare independence, another third thought it was a horrible idea, and about a third really didn't care to pay attention to other people's political rantings...

Les

 

[Just Jim]

Don't bother people with politics, they are still licking their wounds after voting for Obama. Not only are they haveing to pay high prices for guns and ammo but now their kids are stuck with trillions in debt to change the USA to Obama's socialism. People don't need to be reminded it's their fault

jj