What is the dumbest thing you've seen/heard in a gun shop?

[Hasselhoss]

Watched a guy buy two targets to shoot on the range. He was given a strip of cardboard to tape "a" target to and when the second strip of cardboard was being looked for to tape the second target to, the guy flips over the first target (the one taped to the cardboard) and proceeds to tape the second target to the back of the first.

We just looked at him saying nothing, he looked up at us and asks "What, I'll just flip it around when I need a new target." I laughed out loud and said "OK, see how that works out for ya." The shooter walks to the door to the range, turns the door knob and stops, slowly turns around, walks back to the counter with his head down and says "You guys think I'm stupid right know don't you? I will need that other piece of cardboard."

We all had a huge laugh and he walked in the range and had a good time with his two separate targets.

Saw a guy looking down the barrel of an old 22LR while pulling the trigger! Click, Click, I asked him what he was doing and he says, "It won't fire." I say well if it does you'll never hear it if you keep pointing it at your face. I pull the wheel out and there are 5 duds with hammer strikes on the rim. Turns out, the ammo was found in his dad's barn with no idea if how old it was. I explained how wrong his actions were and told him he might want to take the basic pistol class at the range.
And he should thank his maker that he's still here to feel dumb after he says "I feel so dumb right now".

Had a guy ask if I could help him "knock out" a stuck case from his 7MM mag. I heard him fire it so I put a 22 jag on the rod and bumped out the 270 case!

Had a cop taking a class only to find a dumb dumb sucker stuck in his barrel when he asked to be shown how to take his Glock apart.

Watched a group of guys work for minutes trying to put a mag into a ruger only to notice that the rnds were in backward too.

Saw a guy shoot a can on an AR with a can on it, It made a loud funny sound, looked over at a split can with some sort of Never Dull looking material hanging out of it. I asked what kind of can is that? He tells me that it came on his Airsolf AR and wanted to see if it would work on his dad's real AR. He was asked to leave the range and his father was placed on probation for letting his son bring guests to the range with the father's membership badge.

I could go on for a while on this thread and don't even have to talk about when in the Army!

These are awesome. Being on the "front line", so to speak, I'm sure you see crazy crap every day.

Again, at Stockbridge Army Navy, one of the employees told me (so this is second hand) that one of the very first shooters at the shop when it opened said he didn't need any targets and proceeded to shoot at the metal hanger.

 

[Mission Operator]

unfortunately i always hear something stupid in the gun store. Most often from the people working there.........I stopped going to that store and found anther FFL. As much as they check a criminal history before issuing a FFL they should at least screen for idiots first....Thank the lord for all the good FFL dealers out there!

 

[Inbonuscivis]

Yeah. Gun store counter workers though........uhhhhh. Although I'll drive the 40 miles to go to Cherokee Gun and Pawn. Good people there.

I like to cruise the "Off Beat" Pawn shops because those are the places you will find a gem....but I like Cherokee G&P as well

 

[signal24]

I overheard a guy in a gun store telling a lady not to take her Glock 19 with a broken recoil spring up to Glock in Smyrna because they charged too much. He told her they would fix it for much cheaper....... I waited until he walked off for a min and told her the truth. I wont be returning to that shop anytime soon.

 

[Teefman]

This was about a year and a half ago at a gun/pawn shop. A guy was looking to purchase a AR-15 and asked the guy at the counter if he could look at the one he had his eye on. The customer was doing the usual inspection of a used AR-15 to make sure everything looks right. The person at the counter said “Really, are you going to do that here?”. The customer looked at him with confusion, as did I, and said I put these together for a living (not sure if he meant he puts them together and sells them or that he is in the military…he did look like he was in the military though). He did not buy the rifle and then left…I don’t blame him. I haven’t seen that guy at the counter since. It’s too bad that that guy worked there because the owner and the gun/pawn shop are great (glad that guy is no longer there).

I used to shoot at one of the GSSF competitions every month and there was this old military vet that would always shoot as well. You could tell he was a very big Glock guy because of all the custom Glocks he would bring and show off to everyone. Well, he sure didn’t know gun safety and liked swinging his guns all over the place before, during (between stops), and after the completion (maybe it was because he of his old age…but that’s no excuse) . One time the owner of the gun range had to tell him to put his gun away because he had it point at him.

 

[19 Kilo]

I overheard a guy in a gun store telling a lady not to take her Glock 19 with a broken recoil spring up to Glock in Smyrna because they charged too much. He told her they would fix it for much cheaper....... I waited until he walked off for a min and told her the truth. I wont be returning to that shop anytime soon.

Now that's just sorry!
I do say that sometimes the gas will cost more than the fix, but that's a different reason not to go to Smyrna.

 

[Hasselhoss]

This was about a year and a half ago at a gun/pawn shop. A guy was looking to purchase a AR-15 and asked the guy at the counter if he could look at the one he had his eye on. The customer was doing the usual inspection of a used AR-15 to make sure everything looks right. The person at the counter said “Really, are you going to do that here?”. .

Yeah, AO won't even let you pull the slide on a used gun to inspect it. I walked away from a deal last year because they wouldn't let me take the slide off of a used 3rd gen Smith to check the "innards". I asked if I could have their smith do it and was told that they don't do that sort of thing.

 

[jwc0305]

Had a young man ask me while in a gunstore 3 weeks ago, "What magazine would I recommend to allow his 12 Gauge shotgun to shoot .556 ?" DUH?

 

[jloneill17]

We all seem to get around the various gun shops to check out the new toys. What are some of the dumbest things you've heard from either a shop employee or a customer?

I was at the Army Navy Store in Stockbridge. A guy came out of the range holding his Bersa. He held it in his hand casually on its side and was looking down at it. He reached it out to Russ, the manager and said " it won't fire" and pulls the trigger while pointed at Russ. Russ snatched it away and pulled the slide back and ejected a live round.

I would have pistol whipped him with it i think.

 

[Hasselhoss]

I would have pistol whipped him with it i think.

Magazine safety initiated the problem and saved his life in the same instance.