FFL "situations"

[MrBuzzard]

This goes out to the shop owners and employees, just curious what are the top situations you have been in, in regards to a customer? No specifics or shop names unless you want just out of curiosity.

We've had the opportunity of kicking a guy out trying to buy 2 guns while clearly intoxicated even after he admitted he was tanked. as well as a kid asking if his cannabis card will work as a 2nd form of residency.


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[Condorguns]

I have a list longer than I can type. Some of the outstanding ones:

1. Had a lady that insisted that she had a prescription for a silencer.

2. Had a guy who was very mad we wouldn't wave the 10 day on his word he was "undercover secret service". He promised to have the President call to straighten us out. President Bush #1 has yet to call me.

3. Had a guy come in asked to look at a gun. He promptly put it to his head. That one was not funny. We got him out fast and made sure the authority's were notified.

Multi very intoxicated people. A few who we had to call the cops on and one lady who dang near took out an entire glass counter with her head when she passed out.

[MrBuzzard]

#2 had me rolling hahaha


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[Condorguns]

The gunsmithing side of the biz gets even better. I have taken the strangest things out of guns, and seen even stranger things done to guns.

[rolomac]

It was a number of years ago. Had a lady doing a purchase who died during the 10 day waiting period. Her husband wanted to pick up the gun but we told him no - unfortunately everything was in her name. He asked if then he could do the purchase - do the dros and background check and take the gun. We told him ok and proceeded but he failed the background check. DOJ phoned us and said under no conditions let that man buy a gun - something was obviously very wrong. When we informed him that we could not sell him a gun he said - "Hey man, I really need a gun is there any way we could work a deal?" We quickly informed him that we would not go there so he left - but on his way out of the store had one of my employees show him our selection of hunting knives. Fortunately he left and we never saw him again.

rolomac

[MrBuzzard]

It was a number of years ago. Had a lady doing a purchase who died during the 10 day waiting period. Her husband wanted to pick up the gun but we told him no - unfortunately everything was in her name. He asked if then he could do the purchase - do the dros and background check and take the gun. We told him ok and proceeded but he failed the background check. DOJ phoned us and said under no conditions let that man buy a gun - something was obviously very wrong. When we informed him that we could not sell him a gun he said - "Hey man, I really need a gun is there any way we could work a deal?" We quickly informed him that we would not go there so he left - but on his way out of the store had one of my employees show him our selection of hunting knives. Fortunately he left and we never saw him again.



rolomac

That's weird man, I had a buddy of mine that worked at a local FFL, an older lady walk in and asked what gun would scare off a bear. Apparently after picking out a 6" .357 mag, she became irate about the 10 day wait because the "bear" she was talking about just happened to be her husband that she wanted to wax. Needless to say, she was escorted out and the police called according to my buddy haha.


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[acespawnshop]

as well as a kid asking if his cannabis card will work as a 2nd form of residency.


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Careful with this one. I remember back when hearing that this was an ATF sting designed to catch FFL's who sell firearms to 'unlawful users'. They would have somebody go in to buy a gun, fill out 4473 and produce their pot card as a secondary form of ID. Then if the dealer still when through with the transfer they busted the dealer.

[MrBuzzard]

Careful with this one. I remember back when hearing that this was an ATF sting designed to catch FFL's who sell firearms to 'unlawful users'. They would have somebody go in to buy a gun, fill out 4473 and produce their pot card as a secondary form of ID. Then if the dealer still when through with the transfer they busted the dealer.

We kicked him out lol


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[acespawnshop]

I hate to be the player hater on here but the gun store stories have NOTHING on what we see on a daily basis at the pawn shops!

TOP 5 Things that I have seen at the shops in the last 10 years.

5. This one goes back to 2002, Guy comes in looking to buy a pack of guitar strings while smoking one of the cheap liquor store cigars. We tell him he cant smoke in here, he apologizes and takes the cigar out of his mouth inverts it in his hand and puts it backwards into his mouth to extinguish the cigar. All the while shouting "GOD DOESN'T TAKE AMERICAN EXPRESS"

4. THE SUNFLOWER SEED SNORTER- Dude comes up to the front counter with an almost empty large bag of David's sunflower seeds. The bag has all the salt and pieces of seeds and shells in the bottom. He's acting normal just talking to one of the tellers then abruptly stops his sentence, pours the remains of the bag onto our granite countertop. The teller says "DUDE WHAT ARE YOU DOING". He sais oh sorry Ill clean it up, and make a line of salt and seed remains on the counter, bends down with his nose and snorts the line as if he is Tony Montana in the final scene of Scarface.

3. The bronze medalist: Dude comes in with a 50lb dirty boulder he dug up out of somebody's yard. And wants to pawn it. We were slow so we figured, heck why not entertain ourselves for a while at this guys expense. So we ask him, so how much do you want to pawn your rock for? He says he will take no less than $10,000 for it. So we play along with him and ask where did you get this rock that's worth $10K? He said, well I cant tell you where I got it but all I can say is there are PLENTY more where this one came from!

2. Second place: Girl gets her weave knocked out in the parking lot: While walking to my truck to go get my lunch I see this car tear into the parking lot, being the alert person I am I hang back to see whats going on. There were two, ahem, ladies in the car and they screech into the parking lot just as this other 'lady' is getting out of her car. Well apparently these three knew one another from when they were locked up in county. They start brawling in the parking lot, the whole while Im thinking oh please let there be camera coverage on this because Im going to want to watch this scene over and over! The whole fight took about 20 seconds, and then the two took off in their car and the other girl took off in the opposite direction like nothing happened! I'm still standing there still soaking in what I had just witnessed. I look at the empty parking spaces where they had just been scrapping and all that is left is the hair extensions from one of the pugilists.

1. The all time winner goes to the customer who broke into one of the managers cars outside and stole his gym bag. Well stupid rifles through the bag and finds the iPod he listens to at the gym and figures "hey, there's a pawn shop right here let me get some quick cash" We'll he comes in carrying the managers stolen gym bag and comes to the counter to sell the iPod. Well, the manager didn't know at the time his car had just been burglarized, but recognizes his bag and iPod. So he tells this guy, "sure we'll buy your iPod" and gets his ID from him. Well I cant name this manager but he's a pretty burly dude and has a tendency to revert back to his days growing up in the hood. So what does the manager do? Call the police and wait for them to come take a report? No, of course not, he walked to the back got his shop keys and went and locked the front door and proceeded to give this dredge of society a beating like no other. **Disclaimer, this wasn't at the shop I own, but where I worked before, and while I don't condone the behavior of the MOD, its a true story and happened just the same.


OK I know these weren't gun related stories but they all happened and it sort of flows with the discussion above so I hope you all have fun reading these. Remember pawn stars on TV is like antiques roadshow and has nothing to do with what actually happens in here!

[MrBuzzard]

FFL "situations"

I hate to be the player hater on here but the gun store stories have NOTHING on what we see on a daily basis at the pawn shops!

I don't doubt that man haha, I couldn't deal with people coming in trying to off load the shiza they ripped off from someone the hour prior.


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[radgokart]

I hate to be the player hater on here but the gun store stories have NOTHING on what we see on a daily basis at the pawn shops!

Stories or it didnt happen!

[acespawnshop]

Stories or it didnt happen!

Just edited to include a top five, go enjoy!

[MrBuzzard]

I hate to be the player hater on here but the gun store stories have NOTHING on what we see on a daily basis at the pawn shops!



TOP 5 Things that I have seen at the shops in the last 10 years.



5. This one goes back to 2002, Guy comes in looking to buy a pack of guitar strings while smoking one of the cheap liquor store cigars. We tell him he cant smoke in here, he apologizes and takes the cigar out of his mouth inverts it in his hand and puts it backwards into his mouth to extinguish the cigar. All the while shouting "GOD DOESN'T TAKE AMERICAN EXPRESS"



4. THE SUNFLOWER SEED SNORTER- Dude comes up to the front counter with an almost empty large bag of David's sunflower seeds. The bag has all the salt and pieces of seeds and shells in the bottom. He's acting normal just talking to one of the tellers then abruptly stops his sentence, pours the remains of the bag onto our granite countertop. The teller says "DUDE WHAT ARE YOU DOING". He sais oh sorry Ill clean it up, and make a line of salt and seed remains on the counter, bends down with his nose and snorts the line as if he is Tony Montana in the final scene of Scarface.



3. The bronze medalist: Dude comes in with a 50lb dirty boulder he dug up out of somebody's yard. And wants to pawn it. We were slow so we figured, heck why not entertain ourselves for a while at this guys expense. So we ask him, so how much do you want to pawn your rock for? He says he will take no less than $10,000 for it. So we play along with him and ask where did you get this rock that's worth $10K? He said, well I cant tell you where I got it but all I can say is there are PLENTY more where this one came from!



2. Second place: Girl gets her weave knocked out in the parking lot: While walking to my truck to go get my lunch I see this car tear into the parking lot, being the alert person I am I hang back to see whats going on. There were two, ahem, ladies in the car and they screech into the parking lot just as this other 'lady' is getting out of her car. Well apparently these three knew one another from when they were locked up in county. They start brawling in the parking lot, the whole while Im thinking oh please let there be camera coverage on this because Im going to want to watch this scene over and over! The whole fight took about 20 seconds, and then the two took off in their car and the other girl took off in the opposite direction like nothing happened! I'm still standing there still soaking in what I had just witnessed. I look at the empty parking spaces where they had just been scrapping and all that is left is the hair extensions from one of the pugilists.



1. The all time winner goes to the customer who broke into one of the managers cars outside and stole his gym bag. Well stupid rifles through the bag and finds the iPod he listens to at the gym and figures "hey, there's a pawn shop right here let me get some quick cash" We'll he comes in carrying the managers stolen gym bag and comes to the counter to sell the iPod. Well, the manager didn't know at the time his car had just been burglarized, but recognizes his bag and iPod. So he tells this guy, "sure we'll buy your iPod" and gets his ID from him. Well I cant name this manager but he's a pretty burly dude and has a tendency to revert back to his days growing up in the hood. So what does the manager do? Call the police and wait for them to come take a report? No, of course not, he walked to the back got his shop keys and went and locked the front door and proceeded to give this dredge of society a beating like no other. **Disclaimer, this wasn't at the shop I own, but where I worked before, and while I don't condone the behavior of the MOD, its a true story and happened just the same.





OK I know these weren't gun related stories but they all happened and it sort of flows with the discussion above so I hope you all have fun reading these. Remember pawn stars on TV is like antiques roadshow and has nothing to do with what actually happens in here!

Hahaha, that's awesome. People never fail to amaze me with stupidity.


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[acespawnshop]

The only gun related story was a lady who I almost shot while working in Fontana. That store didn't not deal with firearms at the time I worked here.

Most of the guys here at the shops are packing.

So this shop is BUSY, all the time there is a line of people waiting to do their thing. So we had a line and after I finished with my customer I called the next person in line. It happened to be this 40-50ish year old looking lady. She didn't say anything as she approached just came to the counter. I asked how I could help her and she still stayed silent just reached in her purse pulled out what to me looked like a .38 spl revolver and pointed it right at me with her finger on the trigger. I had my glock 27 in a behind the back waistband holster. As I jumped to the right and almost landed in a trash can she now decides to say as Im pulling my gun on her "oh im sorry I just want to pawn this" I was pulling my gun out to engage the threat.

Well it turned out that this was a BB gun and some fool had painted the orange tip black.

Stupid woman almost got shot because she pointed a BB gun in my face that looked like a Saturday night special. Had I not had the behind the back holster on that day and my typical Blackhawk holster on we would have had a whole different story. Headlines would have read "pawnshop teller shoots granny who wanted to pawn a BB gun"

[efillc]

All of my customers make me smile, some when they arrive, others when they leave.

And then there are the ones who get fired before we do any work for them...

We run as a home-based custom builder and gunsmith. So, a guy whose rifle "doesn't work" shows up with an AR15. He and the hubby go into the office and hubby starts taking the gun apart. Usually when someone has an AR15 that works, gets taken apart for cleaning, put back together, and then doesn't work, it's not hard to diagnose and correct the issue.

About the time hubby has removed the upper from the lower he hears the customer say "Snakes are the devil's spawn!"

Now, we have exactly one snake in the office, a beautiful male albino boa constrictor imperator about 18 months old. He's a very nice snake, laid back, never ever has threatened to bite. He's not one to hide all day, so he's in a Boaphile arboreal enclosure for display, and even our customers who aren't herpers like the little guy.

Dear hubby (DH), knowing that he has bad hearing and thinking that he misunderstood what the guy said, goes "Excuse me?"

"Snakes are from the devil and people who keep them are Satan worshipers!"

DH, thinking that the guy is simply a snake-fearing pansy, tells the guy that we have 36 snakes and quite a few belong to our eight year old daughter.

"I don't care if your whore daughter owns snakes! No Christian can own snakes. Snakes are from the devil."

By now DH has had more than enough. The dude is promptly fired as a customer, physically ejected from the house, and the pieces of his rifle thrown out onto the front lawn.

GOOD RIDDANCE!