Gun shop in Westerville?

Imagine leaving and being like "yeah!  7 rounds"

Trash

I walked into a lgs a few years back, and headed directly to the counter.

BOOOOOOM

I looked up.  A jackass incompetent store employee was staring at me with eyes as big as saucers, and holding an AR.

The store had low-hung acoustic tiles; the one directly above my head now had a hole in it.

One of the other employees comes over, ignoring the jackass still holding a loaded rifle.  He faces me, puts his hands on my shoulders, and loudly proclaims "GOD IS *WITH* YOU !!!!

The manager then arrives from her office, and asks me "How much to buy your silence?"

Well, shit.

Guys already getting raped by the shop.  Turnabout and all that.

I have a hard time getting my vagina sandy on this one.

A clerk told me the other day that there's no such thing as a midlength gas system for the AR15. Thought that was pretty wild.

There are some people in this world that dont get medical cards so they dont break this law.   Drunk going to his watering hole immediately after, fuck it.  Mama and her little helper, science man.

Well?

I'd rather hear about your idiot friend's negligent discharges with his own guns.

I wouldn't pull the trigger on a gun that didn't belong to me, in a shop, without permission, clearing it and using a snap cap. But that's me.

You should try selling auto parts at a parts store in the hood...

I heard a gunshot at a gun show once, as usual it was as dealer who pulled out his personal gun and dropped the mag, handed it to a potential buyer who pulled the trigger.

That's the most exciting thing I can think of.

Soooooo...how much?

I'm thinking the price for my silence on that case would be the cost of a suppressor at a minimum

I think I was there for that.

Obviously more than he was paid, or we would have never heard about it.

She didn't actually pay me anything.

It was the AR Bunker in Newnan.

What's now known as "SOCO" wasn't so hip back in the day. Hookers, bums and dope ruled the area. I remember when a state rep was busted down there while looking for a "date." The now-trendy hotels used to do business by the hour. LOL.

And yes, RIP Rob.

I think smoking pot is stupid and drugs in general are bad but a MJ card is no different than someone have a 'script for pain meds.  I've got a couple of bottles of Norco in the house, got 'scripts and never used it. That should not be a disqualifier.

I agree, but I actually looked up the ATF letter and read it.  If you've got a state issued MJ card:  no guns for you.

The Feds definitely need to join the 21st century.  My friend is in constant pain and I understand her desire to have medical MJ card.  She's not a stoner out of wanting to party.

Yeah, I remember the owner of our shop flat out not wanting to buy a gun a customer brought in (don't even remember what kind of gun it was, it was so long ago). Another customer who was a regular was standing there and made the guy an offer. Owner said something to the effect of, "Do the sale outside, and don't ever come back." That guy didn't play around.

some years ago at a small shop in Statesboro ga (long gone now) a fella walked in with a Redhawk.  the hammer was stuck in the cocked position & wouldn`t move.  he told the owner he had been shooting & it just stopped. and yes, it was loaded. everybody scattered.  when it locked up the guy handed it to his wife who held it pointed between her feet as he drove to the shop. he had not even thought to put something under the hammer, cause it already wasn`t working.

There were always the people who rented a pistol and when they were done shooting they would bring it back with a mag and a round or two still in the chamber and mag, safety off if it had one and lay it on the counter pointed at me. They thought the gun wasn't loaded.

Maybe require a CCW where they are issues would be a help for that type of thing.

Walked in to look at a new pistol. They had a surplus Sig M17. Asked to see it, and checked the chamber and promptly dropped the slide. Was absolutely berated by the boomer behind the counter for dropping the slide on an empty mag. Pissed me off enough I didn’t buy it. I’ve since been back because it’s the only game in town for decently priced stuff, but that left a bad taste in my mouth. Idiot. Bought another Glock somewhere else

Giggity

@t44e6

There is a chance I know him.  

While I was in the NRAHQ basement the other day looking for a new 1 piece cleaning rod, I have not shot there in a while.  I mostly go to Greg’s place out 66.

Customer comes in with his bright red TRUMP hat, and an AR with bumpstock....he didn't see the irony of his felonious possession and voting habits. "Muh Trump"

Today I overheard that green lasers are more accurate than red lasers.

Everyday it's more of the same bullshit. It gets so fucking old after awhile.

Or every fucking day: "Why don't you have X ammo; why has ammo gone up in price; why don't you have more guns/selection?"  Seriously, have you fucks been living under a rock for the last year???

If you know Atlanta then you know about Little Five Points, the neighborhood of hippies and counterculture copied out of the San Francisco playbook.  Twenty-five years ago, in between the nose ring parlors and tie-dye stands, stood a small pawn shop.  On a very busy Saturday back then I decide to visit the shop while other friends are outside people watching.  

Inside is the typical selection of beat up musical instruments and power tools, but lo and behold, one small case of firearms.  And would you know it, an M1 Carbine Enforcer pistol in said case.   The eager sales guy sees me peering at it, and says, “you know that’s an M2.”

“Really?” I said, “What else NFA you got?”

“Well we have a really nice HK-21.   Want to see it?”

Hell yes.  Sales guy goes in the back, and out comes the owner with an as-new HK-21 in all its glory, sets it on the counter on its bipod.   Every hippie in the store stops dead in their tracks.  You could hear a pin drop.

Owner looks at me and says “Here it is.  25 grand.”

I look it over and thank him, as a crowd starts to form at the counter right before I leave.  To this day it’s the only time I’ve seen an HK GPMG up close and in the damndest location.

Not me but my sister when she goes to buy ammo. She asks for .38 Super. They hand her .38 Special. Every single time.

Walked in and was looking at a mint black and stainless Springfield Loaded Target 1911. Guy at the counter said to make an offer. The tag said $750, I jokingly told him $550 was the best I could do. He chuckled and shook his head and said there was no way but he would go run it by the owner. He goes to her office and a couple minutes later he walks out and she pops her head out and winks at me, says it doesn’t take a howitzer to kill a deer, and told him to sell it to me for $500.

Driving home with my new to me 1911 it took a while for me to remember several years prior I had been in a different shop before deer season picking up some .243 ammo. The lady working the counter at the time asked if I was buying it for deer season. She laughed and said all that had been selling was .300 win mag and the other short magnums that were super popular at the time. I remembered then I told her “Ma’am, it doesn’t take a howitzer to kill a deer”

Saw what I believe was a straw purchase at cabelas a year or two ago. Pulled a number and was waiting for it to be called, I was buying some poverty pony lowers. This deathly skinny, wide eyed, middle aged white lady was fondling a robins egg blue Glock 19. Not in a ghetto area at all, she looked out of place. She decided on it and filled out her 4473. They’re waiting for the background to come back and two black guys in hooded black sweatshirts come up behind her, talked for a couple seconds, and wandered off. Seemed a little suspicious. Not sure she ever got the handgun or not, seemed like the background was taking a while to come back.

Large indoor range north of me gets a suicide with a rental gun every now and then. Good thing the state police barracks are right behind it

When I was working weekends at a store in Florida, a guy came in asking for some 7.62 (so, a fair few steps ahead of those other guys) but didn't know anything beyond that.  I wanted to be thorough, and we figured it out, and as we were bullshitting afterwords, I went and grabbed a box of every 7.62 ammo we had, and lined up a single cartridge from each.  He thought it was pretty cool, grasped the importance of it, and was a little boggled by the variety and the vast differences.  We had 7.62x54R, 7.62x51, 7.62x39, and 7.63x25 Tokarev.

On the other end of things...yeah, I've dealt with the guy who wants a "clip for a 9mm," and that's all he knows.

I remember the python going off at the Lewisville show it was 13. I went to that show and that was the first time I had been to a GS at Lewisville, also the last time.

Bullseye or surplus ammo & arms?

This was probably 20 years ago or so. Stopped by the LGS one day just to kill time. BSing the guy behind the counter, and a man walks in asking if they buy guns. Sure do, so he heads back out to his vehicle, and brings back a shotgun. Side by side, with maybe 12" of barrels, and the stock cut off behind the grip. Classic sawed-off. Other than that, he didn't look out of the ordinary by any means. Before he gets halfway between the front door and the counter, the employee tells him "you take that, get it the fuck out of this shop, and don't ever darken that doorstep again, understand?" Smart move on his part.

A couple minutes later, a man walks in, right up to the counter, shows some form of I.D., and tells the employee "Congratulations, you just passed your pop quiz. You get to stay in business." A surprise visit by A-fucking-TF.

It's still open

Reason #2 for getting my FFL was to never have to step inside a gun store again...

Some years back I read a book that had a couple of chapters on 'failure analysis'. It sparked an interest in the subject. Turns out that failure analysis is a very useful thing to do. It keeps pilots and other can't-make-a-mistake professionals from killing themselves or their clients. It keeps me from doing dumb stuff more than once, and, perhaps more importantly, has taught me to look at every awkward interaction or happening in a business transaction as a potential step in a failure. This spurs me to push hard to end the series of steps that leads to cascading failures BEFORE they become failures. This allows me to do better work and sleep better at night.

My point in telling you that is that the LGS guy who put the gun where it was accessible to the public made a big first step in this failure, and then he loaded the thing up with blanks (better than real ammo, but still dumb) and then he failed to restrict access to the gun, then your buddy came in and  had the nerve to actually pull the trigger without checking to see if it was loaded. In short, he stomped all over the entire list of 4 rules of gun safety.

Your buddy didn't cause the entire accident, nor did the LGS guy. But the two of them together were a perfect storm of idiocy and negligence and I'd avoid both of them in the future. YMMV.

I worked at Barrett for 15 years. I was head of assembly and test fire. I had sent 3 guys to the range to fire some rifles that were going to the Air Force for EOD use. The guys come back and are unloading rifles out of the van into a few racks.
A few rifles are sitting up on a work table. One of the guys from the machine shop comes wandering in the assembly area and is finger fucking the rifles on the work tables.  At the same time an AF  Brig Gen is in the shop getting the tour. Machine shop guy pulls the trigger on one rifle that is facing away and out towards one of the exterior walls. He pulls the trigger and "BOOM!" sets a round off. AF General is standing about 15-20' away. He doesn't flinch a bit. Just turns around and walks away.
3 guys that went to the range and didn't clear the rifles got 3 days off.  We found another rifle with a round in it.

Quite a few years later, I was shooting some M107's on the 100m indoor range next to the shop. I'm knocking out 100m targets pretty quickly on rifles.
I pull the trigger on one and "BOOM!" the barrel spilts in 4 pieces from the barrel extension to the muzzle brake.  I feel like I got a punch to the head by a heavy weight prize fighter. When I come to, the other guy in the range with me is standing over me wide eyed and asking if I'm alive.
Takes about 10 seconds for Ronnie to coming running into the range from the front offices. Sees me on the floor flat on my back and just says "Oh shit"
I told them I'm pretty much okay, but I should probably go the hospital because I think my right shoulder was dislocated.  It wasn't,  but damn, it and my right jaw hurt like a bitch.

Damn, that sounds really bad.

Right after Obama was elected I was in town doing a few things. Had a few so I stopped in and walked around Gander Mountain. Just walking around wasn't looking and wasn't buying. A guy was knocking guns off the rack in the back yelling about how Gander Mountain was price gouging by raising prices on ARs. I was way back but watching. Gunsmith leaned out of the little window they had with a short double barreled shotgun I guess he was working on and pointed it right at the guy "Find a new place to complain". I left lol.

BATFE guys love to be fucksticks.  I had one guy come to the counter looking like a druggy.  Hadn't shaved in a few days, dirty hoodie, jeans, etc, lean up to me and go 'I need to see your books.'  Fuck no.  Get the hell out of here you idiot.  Went back and forth swearing he was ATF but refusing to show a badge while demanding to look at the A&D.  Eventually I got the owner to come down.  Turns out it was a real ATF agent, but what a freaking jackass.

I worked at one shop for 8 years, and ended up taking a year out of state to deal with family stuff.  A week or two after I moved, I got a text from coworkers saying that the owner's brother was stabbed to death in the parking lot.  Apparently almost every employee went outside with their personal firearms or grabbed something off the shelf and loaded it in the effort to go help/stop the guy.  Police showed up just before the perp would have been a smear in the parking lot too.  RIP Tim.

I was at the sister store and got a call that the main store was robbed.  Apparently my boss (old AF CMSgt) had the shit pistol whipped out of him and they cleared out the safe.  That's when they started encouraging employees to carry to work.  (note this was prior to the above by several years)

A drunk broke into the store by cutting through the loading dock door.  Wandered around in hardware section until he found a ballpeen hammer, then decided to chip a hole through the 1" thick acrylic for the pistol cases.  (Hint: they have a regular mirrored glass back) Got a hole big enough to force his hand through and turn it into confetti, and loaded a big duffle bag full of stuff.  Then he wandered around for a bit, trying to find his way out, and ended up sitting by the locked front doors crying when the police showed up.

The building is old as fuck and has all sorts of creaks and groans when you turn off stuff for the night.  For a while, you'd have this whole 'someone is watching me' feeling going on.  Food and water would go missing from the shelves and occasionally the motion alarms would go off, getting the police to show up with dogs, etc.  It kept happening to the point that the police threatened to bill the owner for call outs if the alarm kept going off.  So the owner watched the feeds one night and found out what was happening.  Homeless dude was sleeping upright in the sleeping bag display and coming out at night to do whatever.  Zero freaking idea how the k9 units or SWAT missed the guy on 2-3 callouts.

Some random jackass was setting up leg hold traps all over the store.  We couldn't catch them in the act, but throughout the day we'd find set traps from the (obviously) trapping aisle set throughout the store.  For 3-4 days my job was to patrol the store and trigger the traps with a broomstick.  We couldn't pull them from the shelves because it was peak season for trapping, so orders were in every other day almost.  After a few days it just stopped.  Still confuses me, but whatever.  I'm just happy some kid didn't get their hand broken or something.

Plenty of funny stories from it too, but those are the most wtf.

It’s worse when people do that themselves, though. Like buying and shooting .40 through a .45 1911. At least your sister reads the label and corrects them, I bet.

Always carry baby wipes.

I don’t even make the discount comment entirely jokingly. Local gun/pawn a few years back had some guy ask to see a 12ga(seems like maybe a Benelli). Pulls a round out, loads, and suck starts it. When I saw the owner about a week after the event, i asked what kind of deal he’d make after it was out of evidence. Guy I use to work with had a Llama 1911 knockoff he acquired dirt cheap after a guy bought it at a gun show in Florida. He bought it, a box of Gold Dots, went to his truck and checked out. I’m guessing the family ended up with it after the investigation and didn’t want it anywhere near them. I don’t blame them, only because of the manufacturer.

That gun was stolen from the used gun display from what I understand.