SHOCKING! Rude behavior observed at gun shop.

[VictorFranko]

OP, did you say anything to the shop owner?
If not, why not?

First you say "Honestly, I never really felt obligated to ask".
That being the case, why do you think he should feel obligated to ask?

*Find solace that you are more courteous the he.....

Second, you say "store (identity withheld, because this isn't a big deal)"
Since this happened a week before creation of this thread, it must be a big to you for it to still be on your mind.

*Find solace that a guy who owns a gun store and has handled thousand and thousands of guns and has probably has been shooting his entire life thinks YOUR gun is so cool he just couldn't contain his excitement upon seeing it.....

Just to set your mind at ease about him touching your gun without your express permission to do so, you're still somewhere in the middle of your ten day waiting period, right?
Keep in mind that every shop employee is handling your "cool" gun multiple times daily, each dry-firing it at will, showing it to their buddies and the shops regular customers in the back room, out of sight.

*Find solace that I am just kidding about the above

[00Medic]

OP, you have more restraint than I do. If it were I, I would have told the manager.... "Now that you fondled and dry fired my firearm I get to fondle and dry fire your wife/girlfriend right?"

Really shouldn't do any damage to the gun but dang, what a total lack of respect.

[Mayor McRifle]

I know this is absolutely stunning...but I recently observed less-than-courteous behavior at a gun store.

Or at least that's how I felt.

Look, I'm not that experienced. I only first caught the pistol bug early this year.

From your thread title and the first sentence of your post, it seems that you have a bit of an antagonistic attitude towards gun shops. If you feel that way about the gun shops you're patronizing, you need to find some new gun shops. Once you develop a relationship with a good gun shop, the behavior you described either won't happen, or it won't bother you. And whether or not it would bother a bunch of people on an internet forum won't matter to you.

[damon1272]

I must say by reading everyones responses to this thread there is a lot of butt hurt going on. OP it just was not even that big of a deal. Should he had asked, sure. Is it something to get upset about, no. Have i had it done to me, yes.

[nickel plate]

pick out his most expensive 1911 and dry fire the crap out of it.

That too would be my first inclination but it really wouldn't affect the shop owner or the employee as much as it would the innocent unsuspecting future owner so there needs to be another way.

[Steve G]

I would ask to see a nice 1911. Do a 1 handed rack on his show case then hold it up and go pew pew pew.

[G-Man WC]

Not...cool of mr boss man.
He must have been looking to get a reaction out of you.
The next time your in see if he likes you racking, dropping the slide, and
dry firing $1k plus pistols, exclaiming COOL!
-g

[guns4life]

I lock by cases/boxes once the paperwork is started and the firearm is ready to sit.

[Oceanbob]

Wouldn't bother me much. Dry firing and racking the slide is something I'am gonna do quite often when I get it home...

If some gets Anal about an expensive purchase, or turn marks on a wheel gun, just bring a nylon tye-wrap and strap the slide or thread it thru the cylinder during the 10 day wait.

Hopefully......hopefully, when the 10 day weight goes away next year, we can walk out and take her home.

[calebgold]

That is like rubbing the feet of your best friends girl.. Just not right!

[erik_26]

I have a very good relationship with my FFL. It is like talking to and hanging out with a friend.

Wouldn't bother me, then again, I don't think it would have happen either.


If I was at a store I don't normally frequent I would be concerned.


I bet they are shooting it during your 10-day wait. You will probably pick it up all scratched to heck and full of unburnt powder.

[Go Navy]

There are three firearms shops in my area that I've done business with over the years. I've never had any employee at any of them behave that way. You got some jerk, in my opinion.

In fact, every time I've purchased a firearm, I've watched them put it back in its case/box and walk it back to their secure storage area. That doesn't necessary mean that some jerk employee won't mess with it later, but it does give me some peace of mind.

I also agree with others that you don't touch someone else's belongings, esp. something as sensitive/valuable as a firearm, without permission. But that would include tools, vehicles, knives, whatever. I played in a jazz band for years, and we had the same rule....NEVER touch anyone's musical instrument, period, without their permission. The only exception was the acoustic piano because the keyboard guy didn't own it; but if he brought his own electronic keys, hands off.

In other words, we're talking about common courtesy here, which modern parents do not teach and enforce upon their kids. Last couple of decades, I've seen a lot of brats out there and still do.

[Tovarish]

Thanks for the feedback, guys.

I do have a couple of go-to shops where common courtesy is observed. I used this particular one because they were willing to handle a type of transfer that nobody else would do. It's cool of them, and I have to say I'm really happy overall with the service I got from the shop.

I think I will politely mention it to the shop owner. I don't believe it was the owner himself who was molesting my pistol. But he should probably know the story and correct it. If that happens, I will be happy to continue giving them my business and will review them positively here.

Thanks again for all the feedback.

[Tovarish]

I bet they are shooting it during your 10-day wait. You will probably pick it up all scratched to heck and full of unburnt powder.

Yeah, funny story there. I bought it from a seller with a perfect record on Gunbroker, and he swears up and down he never fired it.

He took it to his FFL for shipping. When it arrived at the middleman FFL who did the SSE, he emailed me and said the shipping FFL put the gun in a box "about 3 times larger than it needed to be" with hardly any packing material. The case just barely remained closed enough that the gun did not slide around the box and get messed up.

I ask him to inspect it for condition and let me know if there's anything I need to take issue with. He does, and comes back and says there's no damage but "I thought this was supposed to be NIB, but it's clearly been fired as there is some wear on the internals and discoloration from a cleaning fluid."

This ****bag FFL in North Carolina must have taken it out and fired it before they shipped it.

One guy here says I should be flattered that the gun is getting so much attention. I am! (It's a Sphinx, by the way.) But that makes it especially disturbing that they can't treat it and its owner with respect.

FFLs: Keep your friggin' hands off other people's property!!!

[TMB 1]

I don't know if I'd like it much that the guy did that. It would make me wonder how much he or anyone else was playing with it during the 10 day wait.