What a day today.  So I'm traveling back to the airport so I can fly home and I'm about an hour ahead of schedule.  I see a billboard on the interstate promoting a local gun shop at the next exit so I decide to drop in and check it out and grab lunch at the exit.

I enter the shop and it looks really nice.  A sales guy greeted me very quickly and I tell him that I'm just browsing.  I look at two cases of pistols and then turn a corner and look at another case.  They have a HK VP40 for $749 in the case.  I'm looking at it through the glass and trying to remember what the going rate is when I look up at the wall behind the counter.  There is a red dot on the wall about a foot above my left shoulder that just appears moving right to left.  I turn around and there is another sales guy (mid 20s) talking to a customer and has a pistol pointed right at me.  I hear him say "that's how easy it is to use."  He then sees me staring at him and holds up his hands with the pistol in his palm and says "don't worry it's on safe and empty".  He was basically laughing when he said it.  I immediately head for the exit and tell the closest sales guy to teach the idiot how to handle guns.  There's another sales guy sitting behind the counter closer to the door and I tell him that they need to train that guy on safety before he kills somebody.  Both of the sales guys give me a look like its out of their control and they can't do anything.

Later I get to the airport and look up the store trying to find a contact.  I pull their FFL information and find the owners name.  I call the store and a guy answers and I ask for XXX.  He asks "who is this and what do you want"  So I tell him my first name and that I wanted to share my store experience with him.  He puts me on hold and comes back and asks for my last name and puts me back on hold.  When he returns "XXX is on the phone but said he will call you as soon as he's done."  Seven hours later no return call or message.

What's the hive think?  Call this store until the owner talks to me?  Request that they fire this idiot?  The lack of safety obviously bothers me but it makes it worse that he was showing a customer his poor safety.

Update:  I called this morning shortly after they opened.  A guy answered the phone and didn't want to transfer me to the owner.  He rudely asked what the nature of my call was for and I responded "one of your employees pointed a gun at me yesterday" and his attitude changed really quick.  He put me on hold and another guy picks up.  The second guy was the sales guy that pointed at me!  He told me that he didn't see me until it was too late and he apologized several times.  He did sound sincere in his apologies.  I asked to talk to the owner and he also was very apologetic and invited me to come by and meet him in a future visit.  He listened to what happened very carefully and said he would address it with the sales guy.  Overall he seemed like a nice guy so I will let him address it and I will never return.

In all fairness to the retailer, he had a Glock pistol in a corner display that had an American flag finish on it with the Stars and Stripes.  It looked like it was nicely done.  No, I'm not affiliated with this place and had never been there prior to yesterday and will never return.

LGS

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Out the store . If you want the same experience go to any Gander Mountain

In a busy store it's impossible to avoid being a target sometimes.

You should have bladed at 45 as soon as you saw the red dot.

That's why I'm getting sick of gun stores, at least the ones with other customers in there. I get so sick of having guns pointed at me by retards.

I would be pissed, but I would chalk it up to "not my problem." Once I was safely out of the store, I would t bother to keep calling but that's just me.

Name of the shop?

They don't give a flying fuck about what you have to say.

Store name?

 
Unfortunately this was a work trip so that wasn't an option.

Ain't that the truth - ten salesmen where I work, seven on one side , three on the other. You have a gun pointed at you from somewhere all day. Add in the customers handling them and its a circus.

Ever consider that the idiot was the owner?

You're thumping your chest and demanding to chat up the owner but won't warn others to stay away from that store. Thanks, buddy.

Dumbass with the red dot was probably the owner.

What gun shop?

It's also not fun when you're the gun shop worker and people unholster their firearm and muzzle you to show you something. If I wasn't already sure of their good intentions, I probably could have drawn and shot about 7 people by now and be completely justified.

This guy was 20-25 feet away so he could easily see me.  As far as customers, it was me and the other customer in the store with three sales guys. Never saw anybody else.

4 fucking rules.  He only had to remember 4 fucking rules.

You know that's a ridiculous statement.  Four Golden Rules, no exceptions.

ETA:  Haha, I was beat by 6 seconds.

Why should we care if your not going to tell us the name of the store, and if you really cared you should have told the world via here and social media
what douches they were at this store.

That's only because retards don't know what a ceiling is.

... while I never condone bad behavior, the four rules ALWAYS apply. Shit happens. I never like being swept, but in this business - it can happen

I would say one fucking rule, he only had to remember one...

This.  It's not hard and I don't care how busy the store is.

Name of the shop?

I'd rip into anyone's ass that did that in the shop I work at.

Ill bet a shiny new quarter that the asshole sales guy was the owner

Owners kid

Unacceptable behavior should have knocked the snot out of the little Enfoiré (pardon my French)

You are absolutely correct....he will get someone killed sooner or later with his lack of concern for the safety of others especially store customers...imagine him on range day...

NAME OF THE SHOP?

I'm thinking owners son.  I'm going to try and call him again tomorrow.

Let me call the owner tomorrow and see what he says.  Stay tuned.

OP won't give the store name - I'm calling this........

 

If you weren't flying (as I presume you weren't carrying) you could have drawn your gun and exclaimed "Well mine is full, so lets see who wins?"

Safe thread??

Safe thread!

Day 1

So people walk on ceilings?

 

One minute, bastard

ZING!

so worried about letting the owner know but not us. even though he started a tread.

I had some dumbass point a rifle at my head while I was in Cabela's once.

I proceeded to educate him about gun safety, and made it plain to him that the next lesson wasn't going to be free, and would come at a very high price for him.

Who cares about the owner?  You are content to let others have this same treatment?  This response makes no sense at all.  

 

You feel enough bitterness to post about your experience, expect others to agree with you?  Yet you are not compelled to let others know what to expect should they enter this store?

This.

 

5 bucks says he is the store owner...
WHAT A TWIST!

I agree.
OP has a duty to warn fellow gun owners in my opinion.
Not the kind of place I'd want to visit.

I had a similar encounter last summer at a lgs on the outskirts of Atlanta--

Walked in, and was standing at the end of the gun counter, and then..... BOOOOOOM!!!!

It was a bit disorienting, so it took a full two seconds or so to notice that one of the employees behind the counter had a AR SBR in his hands, still pointed in my general direction, and his eyes were as big as saucers.

Found the bullet hole right above my head.

The manager came out, and asked me "How much to buy your silence?", while another employee grabs me by the shoulders and proclaims "GOD IS WITH YOU!!!".

I just turned around and left.  Dunno if they fired the moron who was playing with a loaded rifle, but I suspect not.

My ears are still ringing from the experience.  A permanent gift they gave me.

You're missing the point. If you shop at a busy gun store regularly, it is inevitable that someone will point a gun at you.