What to do?

[Vanilla Gorilla]

So I went into a gun shop today that I had never gone to I was walking around looking at the stuff they had when I overheard a conversation between a coustomer and an employee of the gun shop they were talking about the legality of ARs and how you have to have a bullet button and what not the customer was obviously new to guns or at least new to the black rifle scene then I overheard the customer ask "so if I have 30 rounds mags from my time in the military is it leagal for me to use them in this gun" to which the employee replyed "yes you just push this button and slide them in and your good to go" then the employee also said while holding up one of those magnetic button things "also if you get one of these then you can put this on your gun and it will act like a "tool" and you are good to go also" now I know what the employee just suggested doing is not leagal and in fact is a big no no but I chose not to say anything and just left the shop because I have learned that gun shop employees think they know everything about guns and gun laws (not saying they all think this way by from experience a good majority of them do)
was it wrong of me to walk out and not correct the employe?

I will as always not state the shop name because I do not want to slam a shop for having one employee who is uneducated on gun laws in Ca so please don't ask

[SocomM4]

Shoulda said something bro. **** the clerk and his ego, save a brother some prison time! :lol:

It's not always a undereducation thing, it's also a desire to sell guns and let the consumer educate himself.
Seems like most of the time,the clerk tells the buyer whatever he wants to hear as long as the weapon sells and leaves the shop legal.

[USMC 82-86]

The customer was probably ATF and part of a sting, just getting the goods.

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Shoulda said something bro. **** the clerk and his ego, save a brother some prison time! :lol:

It's not always a undereducation thing, it's also a desire to sell guns and let the consumer educate himself.
Seems like most of the time,the clerk tells the buyer whatever he wants to hear as long as the weapon sells and leaves the shop legal.

I feel like I should have said something too but I didn't want the argument that would have come with it also I have to ask myself who is this guy (the customer) going to believe me or the employee also I realize that some of the time it isn't uneducation but instead it is greedy shop owners desperate to make sales but I also like to give everyone the bennifit of doubt and just think it is uneducation
All in all I guess it is true and doing the right thing is never easy

[zinfull]

You need to get the CG business cards. Hand him one and mention that he should check out the info. Short and sweet and you might save him his gun rights. I would have talked to him and at least tell him about the incorrect information he had received.

jerry

[Madpyro]

Maybe hand him a CG flo-chart that you conveniently have in your wallet?

[prob]

It's better to just mind your own business. The potential customer will always view the gun store employee as being more knowledgeable than some guy off the street. After all, he is working in a gun store and knows everything about guns, right? I know this to be true because it's happened to me and I've since vowed to keep my trap shut.

[bsg]

It's better to just mind your own business. The potential customer will always view the gun store employee as being more knowledgeable than some guy off the street. After all, he is working in a gun store and knows everything about guns, right? I know this to be true because it's happened to me and I've since vowed to keep my trap shut.

i have seen knowledgeable, concerned persons be viewed upon like an airborne disease... when attempting to correct misinformation.

[Vanilla Gorilla]

It's better to just mind your own business. The potential customer will always view the gun store employee as being more knowledgeable than some guy off the street. After all, he is working in a gun store and knows everything about guns, right? I know this to be true because it's happened to me and I've since vowed to keep my trap shut.

This is what I was thinking too but at the same time I feel bad for not doing/ saying something

[repubconserv]

This is what I was thinking too but at the same time I feel bad for not doing/ saying something

you could have at least tried to do something, if the guy chose not to believe you, then that is his problem. If I were the customer (speaking from experience) it would have created enough doubt in the employees words to at least check the laws.

[toby]

Just walk away.