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June 1, 2013, 10:54 PM | #151 |
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I doesn't surprise me... I went through firearms qual with a guy who put .380 in a glock 19. It even stumped the instructors... "Why wont this Glock work like its supposed to?" They seemed to have forgot human error when it comes to Glock "perfection".... |
June 1, 2013, 11:26 PM | #152 |
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This close to a gun shop story. It just didn't happen in one.
When I was on the CERT team the Deputy Director called a team response. Upon arrival we had to pull out all of our eqipment including weapons. We pulled out our Glock's, The shotguns and rifles. Our rifles were either mini 14's or colt ar-15's. Well the Deputy Director asked why we had those black guns. We told him they were standard issue for the team. He says we can't have them. We ask why. He says they are too powerful. They will shoot clear through any building made. We tried to tell him that the both rifles shot the exact same round but he wouldn't believe it. We pulled out a box of ammo and loaded 2 rounds in ar mag. Then we removed the rounds and put the same two rounds in a mini mag. Even after being shown he still would not believe it. Anyways he tried til the day he retired to get the EBR's removed from the Dept. Never happened.
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June 2, 2013, 02:22 PM | #155 |
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I had a customer ask if we carried blanks. He said a cop had told him the best gun for his wife was a revolver with a blank loaded as the first shot and the rest normal ammo; that way she'd be less afraid to pull the trigger in a self-defense situation.
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Boy, did I get a ration of grief for refusing that one.
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June 2, 2013, 09:45 PM | #159 | |
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We had (probably still have, actually) a similar situation with my 93 year old, schizophrenic, WW2 vet grandad. I don't know all the details of his condition but he talks about seeing things that aren't there, supposedly he's seen utility workers at the edge of his property and mistaken them for Japs attacking, etc. My dad's entire family family is laid back and non confrontational so no one is willing to just take the guns away and deal with his reaction. I told them to sneak the guns out and have a smith remove the firing pins, but they hemmed and hawed and never actually did it. It didn't cross my mind but blanks would be not complete solution, but an improvement to the situation... Last edited by Merad; June 2, 2013 at 09:59 PM. |
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Best case is that I'm simply not meddling in someone else's family drama.
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June 3, 2013, 02:04 PM | #163 |
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i was just browsing one store when an older customer walked in and started talking to the clerk, a guy in his early 20s. The old guy wanted to see a "real" employee, It is just me here the guy answered and said that he would take a look at the rifle, and said loud and clear that they don't buy rifles but cosign (correct word?) and only take a fee for selling them for the customer
but the old guy just wouldn't let up, call your boss, really rude I've am gonna spend tons of money here (which eh wasn't he was "just" going to buy a tikka. the real comment just bugged me like hell. he wouldn't work there if he didn't know his stuff |
June 3, 2013, 02:47 PM | #164 |
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jon erik hexum....
If you want to learn more about how dangerous handgun blanks can be, read about actor; Jon Erik Hexum. He was an actor on a CBS tv series. Hexum fooled around with a S&W model 29 revolver on a set. The .44 had blanks. Hexum put the model 29 to the side of his head & pulled the trigger. The blank round caused major damage & he died in a ICU a few days later.
Id add that I once saw a young security class student load 9mm rounds backwards into a Glock on the range. I explained how to load a pistol correctly. The guy scored 240/240 too. CF |
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Had a different kind of situation last week:
A couple came in together. The man walked up to my coworker, and politely asked if we had any .380. My buddy went back and grabbed a box for him. As they were ringing the transaction, the woman loudly declared that firearms were a waste of time, because they require ammunition. As Dom and I exchanged puzzled looks, the man turned and said, "Not now, please." She apparently took this as a challenge. She said, "Just give me a knife and a (toma)hawk, and drop me off in the woods! I can hunt and kill a man with a 'hawk! I don't need no gun!" She looked like she last exercised some time in the 80s, but this woman was very confident in her physical prowess. Of course, this woman may have a cannon growing out of her shoulder, and the hand-eye coordination of a ping pong champion. Maybe the joke is on me.
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Just point your finger at them and go "Bang! Mr. No Skills just shot you."
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June 3, 2013, 04:39 PM | #168 |
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Some people just don't get the 'never bring a knife to a gunfight' thing.
I don't really understand why. It's a pretty simple concept.
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One gun shop employee's verbal reaction, too what alot of ignorant "goofy" gun shop patron's do:
"If I had a dollar for every time I had a muzzle of gun pointed in my direction...I'd be a rich man."
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What's slightly amusing is folks who will just walk right in front of you when you've shouldered a long gun in what *was* a safe direction. You just kinda wonder as to the amount of oblivous that takes...
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June 3, 2013, 04:55 PM | #172 |
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Tom,
There is actually one store and it's the last time I ever went in there where I would have done that. She was dressed like a mall ninja's wet dream. The GS I usually go in, all the employees dress in jeans that fit, and polo's that are tucked in, including the ladies. That I find professional and have no issue dealing with either gender.
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I once had a conversation with a person who had a good deal of experience with deer hunting but not with handguns. He had shot a friend's "9mm" Walther PPK and was thinking about buying a Glock 19. To this day, I don't think he fully comprehended my explanation that the PPK did NOT fire the same cartridge as the Glock. "It's a 380, but the 380 cartridge is also known as 9mm Short, which is why your friend's PPK said 9mm on it." "But it said 9mm." "PPK's are normally marked 9mm Kurz, which means 9mm Short in German. It's not the same." "Curt who? It was a Walther and it said 9mm."
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Bluestarlizzard - I know how you feel...and I feel the same way. Since I'm a gun shop patron...I especially don't like gun shop patrons, who are at the display case, pointing a muzzle of a gun at anybody, including vehicular traffic outside a plate glass window. I like to handle guns at gun shops/gun shows, in a more elevated direction, with the muzzle pointed upwards.
I was browsing around in a gun shop a couple of years ago...when two guys walk-in, an uncase a muzzleloading inline rifle --- while asking for percussion caps to buy; that would fit it's nipple. While the employee went looking for the proper size cap...I ask the gun toting patron whether the gun was loaded with a charge? He said "it was loaded with powder an ball, but {without previously telling anybody in the gun shop that it was loaded with powder an ball} thought it was "safe enough" to bring the rifle into the gunshop. I did a double-take --- then gave them a verbal warning --- and I left the gunshop in a hurry.
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