User Panel
User Panel
User Panel
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 9:49:40 AM EDT
[Last Edit: JaredGrey]
As most of you know, I work in a gun store outside of Milwaukee, WI. Also, as you know, I deal with a large number of wonderful customers, and a smaller number of more, shall we say, eccentric customers with a scattering of criminals and halfwits.
These are their stories.
I love the work of putting firearms in the hands of intelligent and good natured people. It may not be my life’s work, but it is SATISFYING. The other ones, I like sharing stories about. |
|
|
|
TX, USA
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 9:53:10 AM EDT
[#1]
I will admit I have crop dusted a gunstore before, but in my defense… it was hilarious
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 9:53:49 AM EDT
[#2]
Don’t treat us like your therapist. A grown man breaking down in tears at the gun counter because the border isn’t secure is demonstrating a worrying lack of restraint and also significant misunderstanding of my job description. Screen name? |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 9:54:41 AM EDT
[#3]
Lol why do so many want to kick your ass?
|
|
|
|
IN, USA
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 9:54:54 AM EDT
[Last Edit: RCRTR]
[#4]
Originally Posted By JaredGrey: As most of you know, I work in a gun store outside of Milwaukee, WI. Also, as you know, I deal with a large number of wonderful customers, and a smaller number of more, shall we say, eccentric customers with a scattering of criminals and halfwits. These are their stories.
I love the work of putting firearms in the hands of intelligent and good natured people. It may not be my life’s work, but it is SATISFYING. The other ones, I like sharing stories about. Why do you care so much about what someone smells like? AIRBORNE!!!!! Eta: I'm not talking about the farts. |
|
|
WI, USA
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 9:55:02 AM EDT
[Last Edit: diesel1]
[#5]
Making the rounds of gun shops just to observe could be a new form of entertainment for a retired guy. Not much going on at the boat launch yet.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 9:55:42 AM EDT
[#6]
My regular FFL has this on his door. Makes me chuckle every time I walk in.
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 9:55:42 AM EDT
[#7]
Don't come in the store and yell at every customer that 100 yards is "point blank"!!
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 9:55:47 AM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By chase45: Lol why do so many want to kick your ass? The ass-kicker was upset that he was not accorded the privilege of an employee, and was called out on trying to act like one. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 9:56:41 AM EDT
[#9]
I would buy a gun from you.
 |
|
|
|
FL, USA
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 9:58:18 AM EDT
[#10]
I like to go into random gun stores just to fondle the revolvers. I flick the cylinders shut over and over while saying my favorite quotes from movies. I also lightly drag them across the counter top so they scratch the glass and mess up the finish. Usually the sales men are happy about this because it gives the guns more character.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:01:43 AM EDT
[#11]
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:03:28 AM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By intheburbs: My regular FFL has this on his door. Makes me chuckle every time I walk in. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/145716/1000030844-3172661.jpg  |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:09:54 AM EDT
[#13]
I imagine entertainment of watching this stuff happen is why old dudes like to hang out in gun shops.
I sat in a shop in Suffolk VA for two hours waiting for a "proceed" on a Beretta 92 one time. It was a steady flow of entertainment. The chick working the counter was tweaked out going a mile a minute and there was a steady flow of urban dwellers. There was no shortage of shady stuff going on there. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:14:28 AM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RCRTR: Why do you care so much about what someone smells like? AIRBORNE!!!!! Eta: I'm not talking about the farts. Unlawful use of illegal substances is a disqualifier when buying a gun. Says right there on the form. If I ignore that, I get shut down, maybe prosecuted. Potheads are not welcome. Neither are sloshed 21yos. I discriminate against everyone who’s intoxicated in my store. |
|
|
|
USA
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:16:38 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Efl15]
[#15]
Don’t have your daughter help you fill out a federal form.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:18:29 AM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Efl15: Don’t have your daughter help you fill out federal paperwork. Ok, that's a new one on me. 
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:19:06 AM EDT
[#17]
Wilson?
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:20:46 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Kwisak]
[#18]
Originally Posted By JaredGrey: As most of you know, I work in a gun store outside of Milwaukee, WI. Also, as you know, I deal with a large number of wonderful customers, and a smaller number of more, shall we say, eccentric customers with a scattering of criminals and halfwits. These are their stories.
I love the work of putting firearms in the hands of intelligent and good natured people. It may not be my life’s work, but it is SATISFYING. The other ones, I like sharing stories about. There is some irony between points 2 and 3. Might want to get some self awareness. Also will be crop dusting no matter what. Besides that good to go. |
|
|
|
KY, USA
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:23:40 AM EDT
[#19]
How about bringing in a brown paper bag and asking to see the gunsmith (not that uncommon), then proceeding to pull a Ruger Mk 2 out and point it directly in his face? After the elderly fellow recovered from the sight and sound of multiple guns being drawn and leveled at him (with safeties clicking off) accompanied by commands to put the gun down, he said, "I just need him to fix it". Stupidity knows no bounds.
There are so many more like that. Gun stores are just a magnet to craziness. |
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:29:42 AM EDT
[#20]
Any hint of violence and a gun sale would not be happening.
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:30:13 AM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Kwisak: There is some irony between points 2 and 3. Might want to get some self awareness. Also will be crop dusting no matter what. Besides that good to go. 2 and 3 were the same person. Customer threatened a coworker he was hilariously unprepared to take on, coworker wanted to take a swing at the little twit. Customer went around the store telling everyone he was going to beat up coworker. Everyone else knew he was talking out of an orifice not usually reserved for communication. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:31:00 AM EDT
[#22]
It works the other way, too. If I walk into your gun store, and you’re on the phone calling in a SALUTE report to your militia about the military helicopters that just flew over, I’m turning around and leaving.
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:37:15 AM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By a390st: How about bringing in a brown paper bag and asking to see the gunsmith (not that uncommon), then proceeding to pull a Ruger Mk 2 out and point it directly in his face? After the elderly fellow recovered from the sight and sound of multiple guns being drawn and leveled at him (with safeties clicking off) accompanied by commands to put the gun down, he said, "I just need him to fix it". Stupidity knows no bounds. There are so many more like that. Gun stores are just a magnet to craziness. To be honest, it WAS a MKII and it was probably in several pieces because he couldn't how to figure to put it back together. I have NEVER seen so many grown men having strokes about a pistol and getting it back together. It's not hard at all, it's a bit ''fiddly'' but hard? Oh lord no, you just have to hold it ''just so'' when you slide the hammer spring assy back in. It's easy as hell unless you are so non mechanical that you can't figure out which way a gas cap screws on the fill tube. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:37:28 AM EDT
[Last Edit: DK-Prof]
[#24]
[Deleted]
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:38:22 AM EDT
[#25]
a lot of nerve from customers in a GUN STORE
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:39:39 AM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SparticleBrane: Screen name? @Striker ? You didn't specify which border... 
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:40:19 AM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RHR_12: It works the other way, too. If I walk into your gun store, and you’re on the phone calling in a SALUTE report to your militia about the military helicopters that just flew over, I’m turning around and leaving. It does work the other way too. I had a cased unloaded rifle. I walked up to the counter guy prepared to hand over the cased rifle so that he could open the case and inspect the gun. The guy went nuts and went on and on about "red flags". I did not do anything unsafe and I no longer buy anything at that store. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:41:40 AM EDT
[Last Edit: buck19delta]
[#28]
Don’t ask to see a revolver then start loading it with bullets from your pocket when the clerk turns away, because you have a bunch of that ammo already and just wanted to make sure it would fit this gun your considering buying , people get really excited when you do that. .
 Saw that in a pawn shop. Grabbed the butt of my ccw wondering if I was going to be forced to shoot this dude in the back to prevent a robbery, clerk saw him at the same instant, resembled the scene from terminator. “ HEY, YOU CANT DO THAT ! “ Luckily the dude was just an idiot and not a wanna be armed robber, because his career would have ended seconds later with a mag dump into his back.
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:42:18 AM EDT
[Last Edit: BoRdErBaCoN]
[#29]
I was in the shop helping with some armorer stuff the other day and this kid walked in with a full size Springfield XD-M jammed into his pants with no holster.
He had a cool flat brimmed hat though. He asked to hold one of the Nighthawks and we politely declined.
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:43:40 AM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By StillGonnaSendIt: Horseshit. You just like to feel in control. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By StillGonnaSendIt: Originally Posted By JaredGrey: Unlawful use of illegal substances is a disqualifier when buying a gun. Says right there on the form. If I ignore that, I get shut down, maybe prosecuted. Potheads are not welcome. Neither are sloshed 21yos. I discriminate against everyone who’s intoxicated in my store. Horseshit. You just like to feel in control. OK bud. You open up a gun store and see how long you stay in business selling to prohibited persons, especially those in or on the edges of criminal activity. You can be a good example for me. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:45:06 AM EDT
[#31]
I went once with my 6-8 year old step daughter. Told her to not touch anything, while I was looking for some reloading components 5’ away.
30 seconds in she accidentally knocks over several plastic boxes of reloading bullets, which explode on the concrete floor loudly, sending hundreds of 55g bullets flying under shelves, across the concrete floor, into corners, between cases of ammo, etc. |
|
|
|
MI, USA
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:45:36 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Vague: I imagine entertainment of watching this stuff happen is why old dudes like to hang out in gun shops. A relative owned a gun shop. I would go in there and see these old guys just hanging around and talking to the owner or workers like they had nothing else better to do in their lives. Talk, talk, talk. And I'm old (67) so I'm not picking on their age. |
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:46:38 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FluffyTheCat: It does work the other way too. I had a cased unloaded rifle. I walked up to the counter guy prepared to hand over the cased rifle so that he could open the case and inspect the gun. The guy went nuts and went on and on about "red flags". I did not do anything unsafe and I no longer buy anything at that store. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FluffyTheCat: Originally Posted By RHR_12: It works the other way, too. If I walk into your gun store, and you’re on the phone calling in a SALUTE report to your militia about the military helicopters that just flew over, I’m turning around and leaving. It does work the other way too. I had a cased unloaded rifle. I walked up to the counter guy prepared to hand over the cased rifle so that he could open the case and inspect the gun. The guy went nuts and went on and on about "red flags". I did not do anything unsafe and I no longer buy anything at that store. Stuff like this bugs me. I don't stay in business, I don't make a decent salary, I don't meet amazingly cool people if I am rude to customers. It's in my best interest to be cool to you until you're not cool to me. I don't get why some don't understand that. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:47:42 AM EDT
[Last Edit: buck19delta]
[#34]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fxntime: To be honest, it WAS a MKII and it was probably in several pieces because he couldn't how to figure to put it back together. I have NEVER seen so many grown men having strokes about a pistol and getting it back together. It's not hard at all, it's a bit ''fiddly'' but hard? Oh lord no, you just have to hold it ''just so'' when you slide the hammer spring assy back in. It's easy as hell unless you are so non mechanical that you can't figure out which way a gas cap screws on the fill tube. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fxntime: Originally Posted By a390st: How about bringing in a brown paper bag and asking to see the gunsmith (not that uncommon), then proceeding to pull a Ruger Mk 2 out and point it directly in his face? After the elderly fellow recovered from the sight and sound of multiple guns being drawn and leveled at him (with safeties clicking off) accompanied by commands to put the gun down, he said, "I just need him to fix it". Stupidity knows no bounds. There are so many more like that. Gun stores are just a magnet to craziness. To be honest, it WAS a MKII and it was probably in several pieces because he couldn't how to figure to put it back together. I have NEVER seen so many grown men having strokes about a pistol and getting it back together. It's not hard at all, it's a bit ''fiddly'' but hard? Oh lord no, you just have to hold it ''just so'' when you slide the hammer spring assy back in. It's easy as hell unless you are so non mechanical that you can't figure out which way a gas cap screws on the fill tube. I got a mkII for $50.00 once. Guy took it completely apart, down to the last pin, then couldn’t figure out how to reassemble it, sold me a box of loose parts. I used the exploded gun diagram in the manual to reassemble it a few days later, every part was there, and after 4 hours of swearing I was outside plinking away.  Yup. Easy. Trick is to hold it upside down so the locking lever / lock hook falls into the right spot. ( been 15 years since I touched one, but that’s how I remember it ) wasn’t hard though, just had to get it just right. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:47:53 AM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FluffyTheCat: It does work the other way too. I had a cased unloaded rifle. I walked up to the counter guy prepared to hand over the cased rifle so that he could open the case and inspect the gun. The guy went nuts and went on and on about "red flags". I did not do anything unsafe and I no longer buy anything at that store. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FluffyTheCat: Originally Posted By RHR_12: It works the other way, too. If I walk into your gun store, and you’re on the phone calling in a SALUTE report to your militia about the military helicopters that just flew over, I’m turning around and leaving. It does work the other way too. I had a cased unloaded rifle. I walked up to the counter guy prepared to hand over the cased rifle so that he could open the case and inspect the gun. The guy went nuts and went on and on about "red flags". I did not do anything unsafe and I no longer buy anything at that store. Thankfully there’s a lot of gun stores in my town. I refuse to use another store in town because I’ve seen the owners talk shit on other customers loudly in front of me the second the other customer leaves. Save it for when there’s no customers in the store. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 10:53:40 AM EDT
[#36]
Originally Posted By JaredGrey:
Ah, that brings back a specific memory. I loved refusing this asshole a sale when he tried to buy drunk. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:00:13 AM EDT
[Last Edit: buck19delta]
[#37]
Here’s one for the gun shop people….
When a customer of 20 years / tens of thousands in previous purchases asks you to order a $1000.00 sig pistol for him, then refuse too and claim you already ordered that gun already, to check back next week, then refuse to order a cz scorpion , then repeat the same each week for 2 months refusing to order one each time and acting annoyed each time and said preordered guns never show up for sale. He will say fuck it, go to gunbroker, order two of the sig pistols himself and ship to the other FFL in town, then ask the other much smaller gun shop in town to order the cz scorpions , which they immediately, and happily do for him and said customer never returns to your gun shop, and goes on to spend LOTS and LOTS of cash on various guns / ammo / accessories at other local gun stores year after year. That , and other lazy, don’t give a fuck behavior, is a Total mystery why Whittaker guns went out of business. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:06:54 AM EDT
[#38]
Here's a pro tip:
don't argue with the NFA armorer for 25 minutes about how "the principle of the matter is what's wrong" when you're trying to get around a mandated 3-day waiting period. It doesn't work like that, if he could hand you the silencer right now he would (and I presume he also wouldn't require a form 4 in the first place) but you arguing with him is just pissing everybody in the store off. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:07:01 AM EDT
[Last Edit: scuba_steve]
[#39]
[Deleted]
|
|
|
|
VA, USA
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:11:22 AM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Vague: I imagine entertainment of watching this stuff happen is why old dudes like to hang out in gun shops. I sat in a shop in Suffolk VA for two hours waiting for a "proceed" on a Beretta 92 one time. It was a steady flow of entertainment. The chick working the counter was tweaked out going a mile a minute and there was a steady flow of urban dwellers. There was no shortage of shady stuff going on there. Not CE tactical was it? They are usually squared away |
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:12:54 AM EDT
[Last Edit: scuba_steve]
[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By StillGonnaSendIt: Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By StillGonnaSendIt: Originally Posted By JaredGrey: [Deleted] I imagine though you can find plenty of gun stores that were shut down because their Time To Crime on audits kept being short, which is what you get when you sell to people who are blatant about criminal behavior. I have an app on my phone specifically for translating for my Hispanic customers. How much jazz cabbage do you smoke a week, sparky? |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:13:48 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By StillGonnaSendIt: That is a really broad, inappropriate, and downright stupid statement to make. I would suggest editing and deleting that comment, then removing yourself from this thread. If someone saying that they're not going to sell a weapon to someone that smells like a federally banned substance, or intoxicated on a legal substance, bothers you SO much that you're willing to say shit like this, log off this site and go find somewhere else to be offended. |
|
|
|
WI, USA
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:23:38 AM EDT
[Last Edit: scuba_steve]
[#43]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By StillGonnaSendIt: [Deleted] So you gonna lie on the 4473 about not being a drug user? OP needs one of those “If you smell like weed, do not proceed” signs on his door. |
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:27:38 AM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JimEb: So you gonna lie on the 4473 about not being a drug user? OP needs one of those “If you smell like weed, do not proceed” signs on his door. The fact that he immediately brought up language and race, should tell you everything you need to know about Mr. SendIt. He should go back to reddit, where emotional appeals and personal attacks are embraced. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:29:16 AM EDT
[Last Edit: scuba_steve]
[#45]
[Deleted]
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:30:32 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By pestilence12: The fact that he immediately brought up language and race, should tell you everything you need to know about Mr. SendIt. He should go back to reddit, where emotional appeals and personal attacks are embraced. lol. No. In November 2023 Mr.Grey literally made a pt whatever of what not to do and this was explicitly stated. This is an ongoing disagreement. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:31:39 AM EDT
[Last Edit: scuba_steve]
[#47]
Don’t ask us to place and position a holster inside your pants while you hold up your greasy heaviness out of the way. I don’t get paid enough.  Originally Posted By StillGonnaSendIt: [Deleted] |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:34:17 AM EDT
[Last Edit: scuba_steve]
[#48]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By StillGonnaSendIt: [Deleted] I call bs, sure you may not be able to find an instance because its probably not front page news. I was in a store and guy was filling out a 4473 for a rifle, when they asked for his DL he pulled out his wallet and a baggy of what could have been weed. He promptly had the 4473 yanked away from him and was told to leave. I have also seen several people walk in to gun stores and smell like weed and be told to leave. So while the stores may not have been shut down, its probably because they refused the sale in the first place. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:37:00 AM EDT
[Last Edit: scuba_steve]
[#49]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By StillGonnaSendIt: [Deleted] Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By StillGonnaSendIt: Originally Posted By JaredGrey: OK bud. You open up a gun store and see how long you stay in business selling to prohibited persons, especially those in or on the edges of criminal activity. You can be a good example for me. [Deleted] Government will legalize weed everywhere soon, and probably other drugs as they love drugs and especially sweet, sweet drug taxes, especially since they killed their tobacco cash cow, future, ever increasing weed taxes will rake in hundreds of billions a year for government big and small. However , they hate guns, so you can be a drug user,and buy weed, or buy / own guns, but not both, 4473 will always exclude purchase, weed cards will always result in ccw denial, weed use will probably be grounds for red flag confiscation soon. |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/29/2024 11:38:48 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By StaccatoC2: I call bs, sure you may not be able to find an instance because its probably not front page news. I was in a store and guy was filling out a 4473 for a rifle, when they asked for his DL he pulled out his wallet and a baggy of what could have been weed. He promptly had the 4473 yanked away from him and was told to leave. I have also seen several people walk in to gun stores and smell like weed and be told to leave. So while the stores may not have been shut down, its probably because they refused the sale in the first place. I can 100% see denying the sale after physically seeing it. But smelling like it IDGAF and it’s on others to prove there was an odor to begin with. |
|
|
|
Win a FREE Membership!
Sign up for the ARFCOM weekly newsletter and be entered to win a free ARFCOM membership. One new winner* is announced every week!
You will receive an email every Friday morning featuring the latest chatter from the hottest topics, breaking news surrounding legislation, as well as exclusive deals only available to ARFCOM email subscribers.
AR15.COM is the world's largest firearm community and is a gathering place for firearm enthusiasts of all types.
From hunters and military members, to competition shooters and general firearm enthusiasts, we welcome anyone who values and respects the way of the firearm.
Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more.
Copyright © 1996-2024 AR15.COM LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Any use of this content without express written consent is prohibited.
AR15.Com reserves the right to overwrite or replace any affiliate, commercial, or monetizable links, posted by users, with our own.
