gamestalker
member
I remember back in 1970 in the sleepy little town of Alamogordo, New Mexico our new TG&Y had recently opened. They had a pretty decent sporting goods dept and gun selection wasn't to shabby either. But one day a young man, I believe 16 years old came in and asked to look at a 30-06. The Clerk, who I knew, handed it to him, to which the young man asked to see a box of 30-06 ammunition, and the clerk handed that to him as well. Without any warning, the young man began loading the rifle and then began shooting, first the clerk, and then wildly through the store, killing multiple innocent shoppers.
My point is, that like many of us here, I frequent local gun shops and have noticed many will have firearms accessible to anyone who walks in the door. What bothers me about this is that in many of these shop the firearms are not made to be inoperable, no trigger locks or other such devices to prevent such an event as described above. I also don't think ammunition should be sold with a firearm purchase.
Now days I do see some good preventive policy in this respect, but there are still quite a few shops that don't consider this as dangerous and risky. Maybe it's just me, but when a gun shop displays and hands firearms to people they don't know, those weapons should be secured to the extent that they can't be easily loaded or fired. And I also don't think ammunition should be sold in the same transaction, or at the same time.
GS
My point is, that like many of us here, I frequent local gun shops and have noticed many will have firearms accessible to anyone who walks in the door. What bothers me about this is that in many of these shop the firearms are not made to be inoperable, no trigger locks or other such devices to prevent such an event as described above. I also don't think ammunition should be sold with a firearm purchase.
Now days I do see some good preventive policy in this respect, but there are still quite a few shops that don't consider this as dangerous and risky. Maybe it's just me, but when a gun shop displays and hands firearms to people they don't know, those weapons should be secured to the extent that they can't be easily loaded or fired. And I also don't think ammunition should be sold in the same transaction, or at the same time.
GS