Another "Silly Things You Hear In Gunshops" Thread

Wonder if that Florida trooper caught portions of two separate conversations? Armalite did make a neat lil AR-180 that I always wanted to take a look at.
 
In Walmart between Christmas and New Years 2007. Some guy got a new 7mm-08 rifle for Christmas and asked if they had any 7mm-08 ammo. The clerk said all they had was 2007 ammo in stock, but would get some 2008 ammo in next week.

Another guy walked into a gunstore asking if they had 357 Sig ammo. Clerk walks to the ammo and asks "how much you need?" Customer replies, " I have one 13 round magazine and one 10 round magazine, I'll take 23 rounds", as he hands the clerk the magazines to fill up.

Had a gunshop employee once tell me that Winchester Silvertips started to expand as soon as they left the barrel.

A young mother was in Walmart telling the gun salesman her son wanted a 22 automatic for Christmas. Clerk tells her they don't sell such a thing, they are illegal. Technically he was at least partially right, but both ended up very confused. I couldn't stand back and ignore this one. I stepped in and explained the sematics to both of them and explained that either the Ruger 10-22 or Marlin 60 in the display would do just fine.
 
Tom, that's ONE day?!
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Things like the awe-inspiring sound of the pump, the fake war stories, and the caliber hyperbole are pretty much daily occurrences in some form or another. Then there's the inane politics...the constant barrage of that is another story.

Then there are the weird things I hope aren't true, like the claims that Joe Bob loads primers into the hollowpoint cavities of his carry ammunition for shock and awe or the guy who said he built an automated flamethrower for home-defense.
 
Then there are the weird things I hope aren't true, like the claims that Joe Bob loads primers into the hollowpoint cavities of his carry ammunition for shock and awe or the guy who said he built an automated flamethrower for home-defense.
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Lmbo!
 
I don't know if I would classify this as silly, but years ago when I worked in a pawn shop, a nice looking lady came in and asked to see a .32 that we had in the case. I could overhear the conversation between her and the other employee and she asked something like: "will this kill a grown man?" He responded, "sure, any gun will".

She went home and unloaded it into her husband. He lived but my co-worker had to go to court to testify, etc.
 
I could overhear the conversation between her and the other employee and she asked something like: "will this kill a grown man?"
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I've put the brakes on a few conversations like that over the years. In one case, an older gentleman was looking for a pistol under $300. He didn't know anything about guns, and he just wanted to know how to load and fire it. That's the point at which the conversation got hinky.

Then he started griping about some "Puerto Rican or something kids" who he was certain were vandalizing cars in his neighborhood. He said "something needed to be done," at which point the gun went back on the shelf and he was instructed to perhaps delegate that responsibility to the lawful authorities.

And who's the bad guy here? Oh, me. I was keeping him from defending his neighborhood from the scourge of automobile vandalism, and I should have been ashamed of myself. Yeesh.

Then there was the lady who insisted on speaking to me out of earshot of other customers. She wanted us to conduct a transaction with "utter discretion" because being seen buying a gun would place her in a "compromising position." I was in a snarky mood, so I said "OPSEC, right?" I may have even winked in a conspiratorial manner.

She beamed and replied that she didn't know what OPSEC was, but her paymasters insisted that she run silent and deep. I told her that I did in fact work for OPSEC, and that they were very disappointed in her inability to maintain cover. She blew a gasket, told me she was (I kid you not) a "two-delta undercover musician" and that there would be consequences.

A few hours later, her husband called in a tizzy. When I informed him that we hand't sold her a gun, he was relieved. Turns out she was off her meds.
 
I actually knew a fellow that made his handgun h.p. ammo with #10 percussion caps and a nib of black powder in the hollow point.
WOW!
 
Anyone besides me ever run into a "contract" sniper in a gun store? They can really wow you with stories. I never knew there were so many of them. . . .:rolleyes:
 
One of the ways I justified dropping coin on AR accessories to myself was that I could hang the guns on the wall at work and use them as "display models" for various stocks, VFGs, sights, lights, lasers, phasers, and windspeed indicators.

From a tale elsewhere...

I was up on the stepladder, hauling down my 9mm AR carbine to show a friend, when a voice below and behind me declared loudly "That's exactly the one I wanted to see!" I shrugged apologetically to my friend, and handed the weapon to the newcomer. He grasped it in his fingerless gloves and, squinting one-eyed through the EOtech, started taking sightings on the AC vents in the ceiling, the doorknob to the storage room, and (for all I know) the north star.
"This is just like the ones we used in The Teams." He poked a digit at the gun's optic. "How do you turn this on?"
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My sniper experience was taking the TX CHL test. It is child's play. While scoring a perfect one - a guy comes up to me and says that I shoot too well. I should miss some as if I go to trial, I will be asked why I didn't Annie Oakley the guy in the knees.

He knew this because he was a sniper.
 
He knew this because he was a sniper.
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Well, yeah. According to what I hear, there are 2 Marine snipers for every 5 Americans. The special ones have training in ninjutsu. Their hands are registered lethal weapons.

I know this because that's what they tell me when I'm so disrespectful as to reprimand them for pointing a gun at my crotch and dry-firing it. Apparently, real operators get a pass on gun safety.

I find it strange that I have to explain the difference between .223 and 5.56 to a real operator. Man, if those guys operated any harder, they'd be working at the phone company.
 
The one that has always ticked me off, and always will is:

The little lady needs a little gun
 
In an upscale but good ol' boy TX store for a guy looking at a J frame.

From the clerk - If you need more than one shot, you ain't doing your job.
 
NHSHOOTER said:
My brother had a friend that swore that a 410 slug gained velocity after midrange since it was now traveling downhill.
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I've heard several folks says that you shouldn't shoot from too close because the bullet needs time to speed up.

Also heard the opposite, but strangely related, idea that you shouldn't shoot bullets too fast if you want them to expand because they don't "have time to expand" in the target if they're going too fast.
 
Being a police officer (retired) we hung out in gun shops a lot.
I wasn't there when this happened but:
Fellow came in and wanted to buy a handgun and TWO bullets.
The shop owner sent him on his way.
Pronto.
A fellow, some years later came into the same shop and asks for a s.g & FIVE rounds.
The shop keep sent him on his way. The guy smelled of booze.
An hour later the guy goes into a local Sears, buys a single shot 12 bore but the clerk won't sell him the ammo as he'd been drinking.
(but she sold the gun????)
The guy goes to a buddy & bumbs five rounds so the buddy GIVES him 5 slugs.
The guy shoots his estranged in the chest ( I watched that happen:eek:-long story)
The gun won't break open saving her 3 girls. We force our way inside and physically take him down before he can do more damage.
The gun, a Brizilian import, sprung & wouldn't open.
Ya just never, never, know.
I have several sickening stories similar.:(:(
 
I try to avoid gun shops, but one I've heard quite a bit:

"Oh... no problem! I'll just buy it, then," says the friend/lover/spouse of someone who just got a NICS denial or who wants to buy a handgun with an out of state license. For what it's worth, the employee/owner always explains to the person why they can't sell it to them.
 
I was looking for a SIG P220 and noticed a SIG sign on a LGS. When I went in and inquired about SIGs the guy went on to tell me they were overpriced crap and he didn’t carry them anymore. He tried to talk me into a CZ, but I wasn’t real familiar with the brand. I left and got a P220 at another shop.

So, a few months later after a little research I decided to stop back in the original shop and take a look at the CZs. When I went in and inquired about them he told me they were crap and he didn’t carry them anymore. He then went on to tell me if I wanted a really nice all metal gun I should look at the – wait for it - SIGs. :rolleyes:
 
I talked to a guy who said he was a 'contract sniper' last year at a show, he was waxing eloquent at a table with a .50 caliber on display.

Asked him how the contract worked, was it Lump Sum, Actual Quantities, or maybe Progress Payments, that kind of thing. I could see the gears turning in his head while he thought about it. Turns out they are an Indefinite Quantities contract with payment upon inspection of the completed work, he calls it in and 'they' collect the bodies and pay him. 'They' also pay in cash. I said that was probably due to the Prompt Payment Act requirements of 30 days and he agreed with that.

I really, really wanted to tell him I just got a job administering contracts like his, wanting to know all about it, 'they' had hired me but told me nothing for security reasons, but I didn't have the heart for it right then.
 
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