DON'T OPEN MY BOX!!!!!

[mcisniper]

"Oh but none of the other FFLs I use open the box!???"

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Had a customer rip me on the phone for the same thing. I gave him the same reasons and he was still pissed. It is amazing how fast the tone changes when they hear the pack tape in the background and you tell them it will be going back to where it came from as soon as you hang up.

[AK4me]

Here is what I don't do with it.-
1. Show it to all my buddies that come in.-Wouldnt want to steal your thunder. (see #3 below)



Years ago I was at Oak Tree and they had a Keltec KSG, it was when they first came out. Guy behind the counter said it took almost a year to get in for the customer that ordered it. They let it get passed around the shop for all the customers to pump, dry fire, fondle etc. The owner of it wasn't even there. I would have been pissed if I walked in to find a bunch of people I don't know playing with my gun.

[Rusty_Shackleferd]

Retail is dealing with the public, and the public is hell. Good stories everyone. I got lectured by at least half of what walked through the door. Only two times I openly objected to a customer's behavior: when one pointed his CCW at me to "show me how fast he could draw," and one time when a customer felt the need to tell me how "those guys" deserved to be shot (context: ferguson protests). I kicked both guys out of the shop and told them we didn't want their business.

[kemasa]

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Years ago I was at Oak Tree and they had a Keltec KSG, it was when they first came out. Guy behind the counter said it took almost a year to get in for the customer that ordered it. They let it get passed around the shop for all the customers to pump, dry fire, fondle etc. The owner of it wasn't even there. I would have been pissed if I walked in to find a bunch of people I don't know playing with my gun.

I don't get why they would ever do that. If there is so much as a scratch on it, then they can have a problem. Only a fool would want to risk having a problem. New firearms can be replaced, but older used firearms can not and the expense if something should happen could be a real problem, not to mention getting a bad reputation.

Then again there was a FFL (I think he is out of business now) who said that he "test fired" firearms and asked the question what the difference was between him shooting it and the factory. He didn't get it and he didn't tell people what he did either.

[PMACA_MFG]

Just tell them, "Its ok I got permission from Fred" who's Fred? "Fred is the guy that boxed it"

I mean, the only thing I can think of, is, that you let a whiff of "factory air" go.