It only makes sense...
A "no loaded guns" policy is a reasonable and responsible one.
The gun shop owner has no way of knowing which customers know how to safely handle a gun and which ones don't. I was in one gun shop in the Florida Panhandle where a customer was holding a Glock at waist level and pulling the trigger over and over as he swept it across everyone in the store, the whole time commenting on how smooth he thought the trigger was. Another time, at a pawn shop in Niceville, a customer was twirling a Makarov like a Hollywood cowboy, then holding it to his belly, upside-down, fingers unterlaced behind the grip, pulling the trigger over and over with his thumb.
Given the chance that some numb-nut will walk through the door, gun shop operators really have no choice but to ask people to enter unloaded.
The same holds true for gun shows. Wasn't it just a few years ago that someone brought a loaded pistol into an Atlanta gun show, and he put the gun down on a table for a moment, and someone thouhght it was for sale and picked it up to try the trigger? Didn't that result in some kid taking a hit?
Lighten up. If it were your gun shop, you'd feel the same way, and you'd enforce the same policy.
- - - Yoda
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