January 23, 2011, 06:25 PM | #1 |
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Phone calls at a gun shop
As some of you know, my lil' retirement job is a p/t gig at a local fairly large gun shop. For the most part, I really enjoy it, and it offers a whole lot less stress than what I dealt with when I had a real job. It's nice knowing that a small mistake at work will not result in perhaps getting killed.
We have a great time with some of the incoming phone calls. And a strange coincidence is that the phone always seems to ring constantly as soon as the store begins to get busy with actual customers. BTW - I refuse to leave a customer to answer a blasted phone. Heres a sample of several recent phone calls : (remember - this is a gun shop..) : - "Do you sell trained hunting dogs?" - "I'm looking for used waders, do you sell them?" - "Do you sell non-firing replica guns?" - "I have a friend that saw such and such a gun at the SHOT show this week, announced new for 2011, do you have it? If not tell me exactly when you'll get it, I live an hour away." - "Does your gunsmith work on weedeaters?" - "I'm a convicted felon, but it happened way back, like in the '80's - will I get approved for a gun purchase?" - "I live on the far side of the county (same county shop is in) - will you ship a gun I purchase to a dealer near my home?" - A frequent one: "Do you make keys?" - Another frequent one: - in-depth questions and requested advice in regards to NC Wildlife Resources Commission laws and regulations. (wouldn't your first thought be to CALL NCWRC???) - "Do you sell guns for women?" (I didn't know they were gender-specific) ...There's a bunch more - these are just the highlights. __________________
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ya know the saying...
... there are no stupid questions ... only stupid people ... look at the bright side . its nearly free entertainment.
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What's scary is these folks buying guns they have zero knowledge of on how to operate, let alone clean..........
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January 23, 2011, 07:43 PM | #4 |
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i would ask do you make hunting dogs that make keys
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True, we can't - but we, as gun owners, don't need these types of losers being the "news" face of who we are and representative of what we believe and how we act
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Well, I don't work in a gun shop but I know what you mean. I work in a camera shop and I get weird questions and wrong numbers all of the time. My favorite so far has been:
Me: "Camera shop, may I help you?" Caller: "Yes, do you do pap smears and mammograms?"
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I see you are new to gun shops.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the gun culture, OldCorp.
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- "Do you sell non-firing replica guns?"
Some gun stores, all WalMarts and every gun show has them. You might make a ton o'$$$$ by carrying "alternatives". - "I have a friend that saw such and such a gun at the SHOT show this week, announced new for 2011, do you have it? If not tell me exactly when you'll get it, I live an hour away." Expect this for the next year.....until SHOT 2012 rolls around. - "Does your gunsmith work on weedeaters?" I've seen guns that looked like the 'smith would have been better at fixing weedeaters. - "I'm a convicted felon, but it happened way back, like in the '80's - will I get approved for a gun purchase?" Valid question. There is a member on this board who was able to get a CHL from his state, yet could not truthfully answer Que. 11.c on the Form 4473. - "I live on the far side of the county (same county shop is in) - will you ship a gun I purchase to a dealer near my home?" Fair question if you are in Texas, Alaska, or a few of the states where our counties are bigger than entire states. - A frequent one: "Do you make keys?" WalMart does, why don't you?
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My favorite happened at a Walmart gun counter. It was between Christmas and New Years of 2007. A customer called and asked the clerk if they had any 7mm-08 ammo. The clerk replied "We only have '07 ammo for now, but will be getting a new shipment of '08 ammo in right after the first of the year."
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Joe, you did say yes, right?
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I lose track of how many phone conversations end with me repeating, "you really need to be talking to a lawyer, not a gun shop" ad infinitum. A recent one:
"I've got a conviction from 1988, but I'm pretty sure it's off my record. What? No, it doesn't matter what it was for. Well, it was for manufacture of LSD. Yeah, but I got off parole, and I've got a driver's license. No, I don't want to call a lawyer. They're expensive. Huh? No, I'm not on LSD right now. Gremlins? There aren't any...hey, you're screwing with me, aren't you? I ought to come up there and...what? No, I don't have a gun. That's why I'm calling you! Hello? Hello?" I once put a guy on speaker-phone when he started telling me he carried a crossbow in Desert Storm, and that he was part of "Special Force." He claimed his MOS was "one shot one kill," and that he'd killed "thousands of people." He also denied seeing gremlins.
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Gremilns, I see em all the time, that's why I spend so much time at the range shooting super velocity dum-dums at watermelon targets wearing wigs. Some guy at my local gun store mentioned I might also want to use coconuts as targets...
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That's all pretty good. I have a small list of the idiot stuff gun store clerks have said to me over the years. It seems that you don't have to know anything about guns to sell them. But that is a topic for a different thread.
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I've told this one before, but it bears repeating:
I got a phone call at the shop from a customer asking about rifle scopes. HIM: What does it mean if a rifle scope is a 4x-32? ME: That means it's a four power scope with a 32 mm front lens. HIM: What does 4 power mean? ME: That means if your target is 100 yards away, it appears to be only 25 yards away. HIM: Does the bullet still have to go the whole 100 yards? Long pause. ME: Yes, sir, the bullet still has to go the entire 100 yards. The scope does not warp the space-time continuum. It merely makes the target look like it's only 25 yards away. Somehow I managed to hang up without laughing out loud. |
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Now you've started something
I'm in the exact position as the OP. Yesterday, a question I had regarding "Pink Guns". I always thought that the Pink Gun phase was silly. Then yesterday I learned who the Pink Guns were directed towards. It went like this.
Guy: "Here Honey, how do you like this pretty pink one?" Girl: "It's Pink! It's not even a pretty pink. If you want to see pink go to Victoria's Secret. It's a gun what difference does the color make?" ( I didn't realize that Victoria's Secret had 3X sizes) Guy: "It's designed for Women" Girl: "Didn't you hear me....it's a Gun!" He was looking at a CA, she was looking at a CZ PCR. She bought the PCR! Pink Guns were never developed to attract the Female Market. They were developed to access the Chocolate and Perfume male buyer, sort of like the stuff they market at Nordstrom's at the door during the Holidays. |
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I just wouldn't be able to handle the stupid questions anymore. I was a police dispatcher for 27 years and realized over time that there are no limits to dumb!
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If we were to go OT with a WalMart bent -
I was in my local WM some months ago and enjoyed seeing this exchange in the Sporting Goods Dept. : 2 employees, an older seasoned Sporting Goods guy and his younger 'first few- days-on job' assistant: Phone /ring-ring/ young clerk : 'Hello, Sporting Goods' 'One moment please' (holds receiver to chest) and asks older guy ''The caller wants to know if we sell .22 MAGNUM ammo'. Older clerk - (with exasperated look and tone): 'Tell'em OF COURSE we do, do they want shorts or longs?' it was great..........
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When I was working the fun side of the counter years ago we used to get some real doozies.
My favorites were always the ones asking for directions. "How do I get there?" "Where are you coming from?" "Northern Virginia" (recognizing that NoVa is huge and multidirectional) "OK, see that tree at the end of your street? Hang a left at it and keep driving. You'll get here eventually." I was at the gunshop on Saturday picking up my new revolver. Guy next to me was also picking up a gun. With the check system Virginia has, it's not uncommon for someone to get hung up and have to wait a few days, so they always ask for a phone number where you can be reached. Guy next to me, older, got REAL twitchy and pretty much refused to give a phone number, but he had already, voluntarily, given his social security number on the form....
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First the funniest thing on this thread is the crossbow in desert storm that is freaking great. I actually laughed out loud when reading.
I was recently in a dicks and had this conversation with one of their star employees. Me: "hi how are you do you have .38 hollowpoints?" Clerk: "We have hollowpoints but they come in boxes of 50" Me: "I don't mean the number of bullets I mean the caliber" Clerk: "I think most of ours are of good quality" I was able to ascertain that he was not a sporting goods employee thank god! Vermonter |
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re: guns for women
Don't they come with a built-in air deodorizer and a scented candle in one of six flavors? This is a gun store: www.badgirlsguns.com "Most gun manufacturers do not cater to the average size shooting woman." |
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