Dealers treating you like a "KID" ????

I am 26 and look about 20. I have made it my mission to get as much involved as I can. I don't really have a choice in gun shops since my work scheduleis rough. I wear a baseball hat, t-shirt and blue jeans, EVERYDAY. I buy a gun almost every 2 or 3 months ( I have to stop its addicting) but the only shop I go to is run a real A**hole. He has great deals, and that is the only reason I go to him. I don't waste his time which he likes and I buy what I want. He likes it and I get in and out in 5 minutes with my purhcase.

If guys want to be a**holes then don't shop there. I put up with it and get what I want for a good price.

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"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."

--Ayn Rand, in "The Nature of Government"

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On my 21st birthday I went into a local shop and picked up a Mark 23 (they had one in stock). They've always been nice to me after that, no crap about my age :)
 
I'm 25, and I bought the M1A that day, but from someone else...the guy didn't really ignore me, but gave me as little time as possible compared to the guy standing next to me buying a custom $900 .22 LR. I'm still working on a good dealer. I have one, but he's selling more military relics these days than anything, and getting info on his pricing on stuff is like pulling teeth. There's another in town isn't bad, lots of inventory, pretty good prices, too. The guys there have an "expert" persona that I just don't like. I really like the store, but a couple of guys in there really make it lousy (too bad one of them is a co-owner). Then there's the one I would like to use more, only the prices are too high, and the clerk never returns my calls or price checks. The owner does an awful lot of things to help the shooting community, but I don't tink the clerk takes me seriously. Even if I had to spen a little more, I'd use that shop just to help them out, but that guy doesn't help me spend my money at all. Coinneach, are you listening? (No, everyone, it's not Coinneach)
 
I am 35, wear a real Rolex, and drive a $50,000 BMW some days and a Nissan Pathfinder on others. I shop wearing a suit sometimes, and other times in shorts and sandals. I have been in unshowered and unshaved. I have been in with my two year-old daughter. I have shopped with friends.
I have spent thousands of dollars there and have had many polite conversations with salespeople there. I am an all-around easy-going guy with money to spend. They still treat me like crap. Like I was at the DMV. They talk to you like you are a civilian and they are ******* cops.

My only satisfaction came from betting a couple of them that .223 and 5.56mm are not "exactly the same" when they claimed that they were in their typical condescending way.

I wish shopping at a gun store was like shopping at REI. I guess a certain type is attracted to the job, though.
 
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