Would you be mad? Employee playing with your gun.....

[Cowboybebop]

I was at Cabelas and purchased an FNX-45 Tactical in FDE. The background check is done and they are finishing the paperwork.

One of the employees, a man in his 50s proceeds to do the third serial number check. He picks up (my) new $1,300 gun and:

Racks and drops the slide multiple times on an empty chamber
Releases and slams the magazine home several times
Dry fires in double action 3 times, racks to the rear and dry fires in single action 3 times

I'm standing there watching this and it made me very upset actually. There was no reason for him to do that and I felt like it was very disrespectful.


Would you be upset too?

 

[ColtPythonElite]

no

 

[Starter52]

Yes.

 

[RainDodger]

You could have said, "Please don't drop MY slide on an empty chamber or dry fire my new pistol."

.... and yes. That was very rude of him in my opinion.

 

[Waveski]

I would have intervened verbally and firmly.

Terribly unprofessional.

 

[JeffG]

Yes, that was rude. You should say something. It will make you feel better, and give the store feedback on their employee.

 

[Hasaf]

If you are already in the check-out and paperwork process I can see a quick safety and function check. However, they should ask first.

Just to play with someones new gun, I would also see it as being a bit rude.

 

[Walkalong]

They should not be paying with your new purchase.

multiple times

Which gave to a chance to say, hey bud, mind not doing that? Politely of course.

 

[Hokie_PhD]

Just a function check. If you didn't like it you should have spoken up then, instead of being cowed down.
Complaining about it now accomplishes nothing.
I think you're outraged for the sake of having something to be outraged about.
Don't act like a 2nd Amendment Snowflake/SJW.

I agree OP should have spoken up then. But I also see someone being shocked and in disbelief and not speaking up. Calling OP names though is just as rude and wrong as that guy playing with his new gun.

When I was in my early PTSD recovery, I probably wouldn’t have said anything and I’m far from a snowflake. Now, I’m getting back to my old self. I’d probably have ripped the guy a new one, and demanded that the manager come over. Believe me, that guy would have known he did wrong. Now don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t have yelled obscenities, but I would have gone off on him 8n a controlled way.

OP can’t undo what they did, or do something they didn’t. What they can do is if they go back to that store, seek out a manager and explain the situation. Tell them they’re not after anything and that the point is they thought about this and wanted to be sure others don’t have the same experience. Don’t name names but make it clear that the gun handling was unprepofessional and something that needs to be addressed or they’ll go someplace else.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

It would have ticked me off a bit too.

I would have asked the employee to stop. If the response wasn't what I wanted, the manager would have been asked for.

Cabela's isn't known for hiring from the big brained portion of the workforce.

 

[Eugen]

I would have been mildly upset and would have asked the guy, in a very polite manner, to stop playing with my gun.

I would not thought it to be such a big deal as to come on to this forum to whine about it after the fact. Do you really feel that guy playing with your gun was such a problem that you needed to seek the opinion and support from all us? You had a right to speak up at the time, which is now long past. Just forget about it and enjoy your nice new gun!

 

[drk1]

A little ticked off? No... a lot ticked off. I would have simply walked out. If that guy wanted to play with it that bad, he should be the one paying for it. I also understand the shock -- honor -- surprise of seeing someone do something so stupid, careless, and potentially damaging, that it leaves a person speechless. The moral here is that this is just one more example of why NOT TO BUY ANYTHING AT CABELA's. Anyplace is better that that place!

 

[RA40]

Not very mannerly. So long as he didn't do a tac reload and miss mag insertion dinging the well in the process, I make mental note of that employee. Let management know and it's done. The weapon can take it and if it had failed following that then you have a great excuse to have them source another new one.

Back when I picked up the special order Marlin 60 from my LGS with stainless barrel and laminant stock, the guy doing the serial # safety check handed it around to the other staff behind the counter. "Look what came in!" I was amused because the shop only stocks the base version. That show-tell attracts attention and following one of the employees and a passer by said they would like to get one too. LOL. Before I had it home about 9 people had their paws on it. Thankfully none of them dry fired.

 

[bannockburn]

Cowboybebop

Yeah that was definitely way over the top for an employee to "play" like that with your new gun. I would have said something like: "Hey buddy you want to take it easy there with my new gun". If that didn't make him cease and desist I would have asked to see a manager and explained to them what just happened and requested a new, non-abused gun out of the back.

 

[dogtown tom]

I was at Cabelas and purchased an FNX-45 Tactical in FDE. The background check is done and they are finishing the paperwork.

One of the employees, a man in his 50s proceeds to do the third serial number check. He picks up (my) new $1,300 gun and..................Would you be upset too?

I would be more upset by paying $1300 for that gun.......easily found online for under $1000 delivered.

 

[Varminterror]

Watching him pick it up and start canoodling it, loudly: "Hey, how's your wife, been a long time since we've all been together, we should get together soon..."

When he replies with some form of: "WTH are you talking about?"

"Seems like we'd be old, dear friends, the way you casually picked up my gun without checking with me first..."

In fairness, none of the actions described are going to cause any excess wear or damage to the pistol. But not just anybody gets to pet my dog without asking...

 

[edwardware]

The way you describe the FNX-45 Tactical sounds like me describing a nicely-made 1911. If a counterman dropped the slide on a 1911 I was buying, I would probably make them cancel and refund the sale.

Rude, thoughtless, careless, childish: yes. Damaging: no, not unless you were going to keep it NIB for your grandchildren.

Also: Cabelas is to outdoors gear as WalMart is to household goods; be surprised when the customers and help aren't dopes.

 

[Varminterror]

If you are already in the check-out and paperwork process I can see a quick safety and function check.

The jackwagon behind the counter at a box store isn't the person to perform a "function check."

 

[GBExpat]

Would you be upset too?

Ab-so-lute-ly! I can only reliably attest to what the first work out of my mouth would be ...

 

[strangelittleman]

I wonder how much "outrage" there would be if the guy behind the counter had been one of many celebrity trainers or gun celebrity writers, that soooo many suck up to and name drop, who had performed the very same actions with the pistol.

Not much I bet...Man crushing would abound and most on this, or any forum, would have been floating to the exit, near orgasmic.

You guys are entertaining. The Spike and Chester show for sure...

 

[GBExpat]

I wonder how much "outrage" there would be if the guy behind the counter had been one of many celebrity trainers or gun celebrity writers, that soooo many suck up to and name drop, who had performed the very same actions with the pistol. ...

If that were the case I can reliably say what my last 4 words would be ... "You should know better!"

 

[strangelittleman]

Before or after you handed him a Sharpie to autograph your new purchase....HAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[Doc7]

I would be upset too.

However, I would also caution you to realize that probably 500 other people who probably handled it worse than the employee have racked the slide on that pistol and dry fired it, in the weeks before you got it out the display case and bought it.

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

I can understand being annoyed buy the actions of the employee. I am also not surprised.
It's Cabela's, overpriced items and employees that lacking in knowledge of products and common courtesy are the norm.

 

[cfullgraf]

Racks and drops the slide multiple times on an empty chamber

After the first slide drop on the empty chamber, I would have asked him to "not do that" getting louder and more forceful with each additional drop.

The gun may be able to handle it but dropping the slide on an empty chamber rubs me the wrong way.

I'd not be pleased but a few occurrences of poor handling is not going to destroy the gun.

I'd probably blow a head gasket if he flipped the cylinder closed on a revolver.