FREERANGETIME!
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Idiocy at its finest
I was in the firearms department of an Academy Sports and overheard a young sales guy talking with a gentleman and his daughter, the young lady was going off to college and dad wanted her to have a gun, they settled on a Taurus TCP .380, the young lady says to the salesman "what about ammunition?" without skipping a beat he immediately replies "oh, you can't get ammunition, the military is getting it all because it's what they practice with" it is true that they didn't have any .380 ammo in stock at that time but the statement he made would have set off alarm bells in the mind of an experienced gun owner. Thats the problem with the big box sporting goods stores, they rotate the staff between whatever departments happen to need them the most on any given day. Cabelas, Bass Pro and Gander Mountain at least have dedicated gun counter staff, not saying they are all experts but a test of ones gun knowledge is part of their hiring criteria.
I was in the firearms department of an Academy Sports and overheard a young sales guy talking with a gentleman and his daughter, the young lady was going off to college and dad wanted her to have a gun, they settled on a Taurus TCP .380, the young lady says to the salesman "what about ammunition?" without skipping a beat he immediately replies "oh, you can't get ammunition, the military is getting it all because it's what they practice with" it is true that they didn't have any .380 ammo in stock at that time but the statement he made would have set off alarm bells in the mind of an experienced gun owner. Thats the problem with the big box sporting goods stores, they rotate the staff between whatever departments happen to need them the most on any given day. Cabelas, Bass Pro and Gander Mountain at least have dedicated gun counter staff, not saying they are all experts but a test of ones gun knowledge is part of their hiring criteria.