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A LGS allowed other people to handle a gun you had transferred to their shop before you picked it up? Regardless of any precautions taken, would you consider this professional behavior?

I am curious because, someone had mentioned that they had handled a firearm in this manner, and didn't seem to think it was an issue. Personally, I think otherwise, simply as a matter of principal and professionalism, even though the risk of something happening is pretty darned low.
 
Maybe poor manners on the part of the LGS, but I wouldn't bother getting upset unless it was a really expensive collectable. Or unless the customer dropped it and damaged it somehow and the LGS didn't get me a new one.
 
I think it would be unprofessional for an LGS owner/operator to allow someone else to handle my property without my permission.

There's a huge difference between the guns owned by the store which are waiting to be sold and a firearm which I have purchased (and therefore already own) and have had delivered to an LGS so that they can handle the official transfer.
 
sigcurious said:
A LGS allowed other people to handle a gun you had transferred to their shop before you picked it up? Regardless of any precautions taken, would you consider this professional behavior?
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1. Yes, it would bother me ... a lot.

2. No, this is NOT professional behavior. It's MY gun. If **I** haven't given permission for someone to handle it, the FFL shouldn't even be mentioning to people that he has it. It isn't any of their business, since it isn't stock for sale.
 
Something like that would really irritate me. The gun shop does not own the gun, they are a conduit to complete a transfer.

I would feel the same way if I was having work done on a rifle and dropped in un-announced and some person was "trying" out the gun for size. It is just wrong.
 
Umm.. Well... Yes, that would bug me.

It's not their stock. It's a privately owned firearm and they are just the middle man.

OTOH, if it was the LGS I usually deal with, and they called me and said "Hey, I've got this customer in here who really would like to see a <insert firearm here>, can I pull yours out of the box and show him?" I'd likely say "Go for it!"

It's more the principle of the thing, in most cases, then anything else.
 
Similar thing happened to me about 14-15 years ago. I had a custom gun built on a Remington 700 action. After 10 of the longest months of my life waiting for it to get built, I finally got a call from the shop that received it and would do the paper work on it. When I picked it up the shop owner laughed and said he had it for almost a week before calling me. He wanted to show all his friends my new gun. I was not a happy man.
 
:eek:

Mike38, I hope you explain to them clearly and with great emphisis that you would no longer do business with them, send business there way and why.

That's just not right!
 
I would have a BIG problem with them handing my firearm around. They have my deposit so the gun is mine and I wouldn't like having some ham handed bozo handling it with their greasy paws.
 
I got an idiot scratch on the slide of my TRP when an employee wanted to show off how fast he can strip and reassemble a 1911...

The shop told me it's no big deal and offered to Cerakote it at a discount.
 
Like Cabolco said, it would depend on what kind of gun it was.
If it was something ordinary, I wouldn't mind, as long as they didn't mistreat it.
Especially so if it was a used one.
But if it was something special, where even a slight scratch would be a major problem, then no way.
Common sense should rule.
 
JohnKSa said:
I think it would be unprofessional for an LGS owner/operator to allow someone else to handle my property without my permission.

There's a huge difference between the guns owned by the store which are waiting to be sold and a firearm which I have purchased (and therefore already own) and have had delivered to an LGS so that they can handle the official transfer.
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If I could have phrased it better than John did, I would. I cannot.
 
It would be totally inappropriate. The gun is not the stores' property and they should not be presenting it to anyone for any reason.
 
Yes, it bothers me !!!

Maybe poor manners on the part of the LGS
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Yes, It would bother me and let's take it to a different level.
Would it bother you if the LGS in question, manhandled your weapon? Case in point, one of my LGS opened the box when the description was clearly posted on the outside of the box. Then he looked the rifle over, opened the bolt, closed the bolt and dry-fired the rifle. Then, another customer asked to look at it, where I responded with a, NO. ... :mad:

Challenged him on this and he said that he had to verify the SN on the rifle. Okay, I accept that but on the dry-firing, he said that he does this all the time. ...... :rolleyes:

The strange part, is that this is the first time he had ever done to one of my guns. ... :confused:

Be Safe !!!
 
I ordered a M57 Mountain Gun at a gun shop that I had never bought a gun at. It was a nice shop and I had high hopes for the future.

Ordered a Weatherby Mark XXII (bolt) there too. They lost that order. That should have told me something. It was a brand new offering then and I thought perhaps they just simply couldn't find one.

Back to the M57.

Anyway... a month goes by and no calls.... I call and they didn't know anything about my order... A week or so later, I drop by and there is the M57 Mountain Gun I thought I had them order in the case... cylinder trace was very obvious. I was a bit bugged. Priced the gun and they told me exactly the same price as what they told me when I ordered it (or believed I had). Bought it as it was going to be a shooter anyway.

Last time I visited that gunshop. Now they're out of business and I say good riddin's.

To the question asked; If I know the handler I would allow them to pick up the gun and "look at it" (and I mean just look). No dry firing, working the action, or those kinds of activities. Otherwise, an absolute NO on allowing someone to handle a ordered gun.
 
I will also say that it would bother me less if the GS employees handled the gun, confirmed serial number, and maybe even worked the action or dry fired a little (just to confirm that the gun wasn't obviously defective). Allowing other customers to handle or dry fire the gun is a whole different ballgame. If the LGS wants a specimen to put in its case, it can order its own. I say these things as a general rule, doing an arms-length transaction. OTOH, if the LGS was a good friend of mine, and he wanted to allow a friend of his (not a walk-in stranger) the chance to handle the gun, that might be different.
 
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