Quoted: So I head out at lunch to scoop up some ammo for my carry weapon. I wanted to get some white box for the range, and a few boxes of golden sabers for CCW. I go to a local place, ask about the ammo....dont have it....so I ask about the next best thing - Federal Hydrashok...after a kinda glare i get a "umm yeah, we do have those". No big deal, I see three boxes and ask for all three. Got whitebox in bulk packs? (the 100 rnd box)...."Nope".   Here is the one that got me.....I asked if they had sillouttes ( I need targets, right?) Guy said something about not carrying law enforcement products...and that was it. It occurred to me later that I remember asking for silloutte targets in the past and being asked if I was a cop....WTF? If I am buying .40S&W Hydrashok's...did he think I was going hunting? Perhaps sighting in a new scope? Its a damn defense round...its only purpose is to stop a human from breathing. Obviously, if I want to practice with my CCW, a life size silloutte is the most realistic target I can use (without being stupid - IE. clothing store manequines would be cool - I gotta look into that) Anyway...why are some gun stores so anti 2A ? Of all the places, I would think a gun shop would understand my desire to shoot at life size sillouttes. As it was, I got a dirty look for buying hollow points. Oh well....they lost my business on that. I will go to a store where they fully understand what its all about.....and dont refuse sale of paper target to civilians. Honestly.....I need to be a cop to buy a fkn target? Like its wrong that a citizen should practice shooting at the likely target they would encounter if they needed to deploy a weapon in self defense....fk it, time for beer # 5 of the night!

They are anti second for the same reason that most hunters are. As long as they (the government) are after the ugly black banana clip guns, and accesories they will leave the pretty walnut stocked bird shooters and deer slayers alone. The guns store owners think that we gice them a bad name, a gun shop owner who refuses to carry deffensive ammo and human shaped targets more or less agrees witht the Brady bunch and the Milion Mom March in that Americans should only have "good" guns, and that the evil guns should be banned.

Next time inform them that you prefer to support a store that supports rights of all gun responsible gun owners, not just hunters.

My standard policy is that if a gun store shows a negative attitude toward ANY PART of the shooting sports, they get NO PART of my money.

A good gun store, to me, caters equally to all of these crowds:

Blued steel and walnut lovers
Hunters of four-legged game
Hunters of winged game
Skeet and trap shooters
Black rifle and "practical/tactical" lovers.
Cowboy wannabes.
Defense advocates (CCW holders)
Any other group I might have missed,  except for criminals.

Support ALL shooting activities if you want my money.  It doesn't matter that I have no
interest in some of these activities myself.   All shooters are brothers in arms and must be
treated as such.

My personal shooting activities are primarily standard range shooting (not practical, just targets)
with my ARs, my .22 Marlin,  and a few handguns,   and on occasion,  a few rounds of skeet, which I admit I probably love more than any other single kind of shooting,  but locally it's pretty expensive at some six bucks per round. (25 shots per round)  And that's just what they charge for the clays and the range.   Ammo is extra, but I reload my own shotshells.  

I used to shoot skeet every weekend, back in the days when I could shoot a round for two measly bucks.   I'd shoot four rounds,  100 shots, with my Browning Auto 5 (full choke!) and come away with a very mildly sore shoulder but damn, I had a good time.   Got pretty good pretty fast, too!

Cowboy action shooting is the single kind of shooting I have the least interest in....but even then, it must be a lot of fun or it wouldn't be so popular.

Shooting is fun.  What kind of shooting is just details.  It's ALL fun and every one of us and every gun store should have a positive attitude about all of it.


If every gun owner "got it" like I have,  we'd have a much stronger force for our gun rights.  But too many of them don't like what they don't shoot.    I have a word for them:   IDIOTS.

CJ