Dumbest thing youve heard in a gun shop

NOT SO! My wife has taught me almost everything I know.

My wife taught me that no matter what I do, it's going to be wrong.

Like the time we ran out of laundry detergent and I bought some more EXACTLY like what she had been buying the previous few months...same brand, same scent, same container, same size.

WIFE: Did you buy this laundry soap?

ME: Yep, couple days ago.

WIFE: Why did you get the lavender scented one? I can't stand the smell!

ME: That's what you've been buying the last several months.

WIFE: No I haven't.

ME: *grrrr...*


Or the last time we took the family to Disney World and the kids wanted pizza our last evening there.

WIFE: Are we going out or eating it in the room?

ME: We're eating it in the room.

WIFE: Why are we eating in the room? The place is a mess and the table isn't even cleaned off enough to eat at!

ME: *grrrr..." If eating in the room was not an acceptable option, then WHY did you give me the choice?


FORTUNATELY...when it came to choices in guns for her, I'm three for three. Nothing dumb there!
 
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True story. I was working part time in a LGS and a guy came in and asked, "What gun you got that will kill somebody?" Stunned a bit, I said, "all of them." Then he said, "I need one right now!" I pressed the panic button and 3 minutes later the police removed him from the shop.
 
True story. I was working part time in a LGS and a guy came in and asked, "What gun you got that will kill somebody?" Stunned a bit, I said, "all of them." Then he said, "I need one right now!" I pressed the panic button and 3 minutes later the police removed him from the shop.

Welcome Newt, love the story, but...

We have a thread to introduce yourself and we'd all like to meet ya!
 
Walked into a very reputable custom gunshop last week to see about getting an action for a barrel chambered in 6.5 CM. The guy said no problem you will need a "long action". Huh...I don't think so? "YES! 6.5 Creedmoor is a "long action" just like the .308."

o_O
 
I pressed the panic button and 3 minutes later the police removed him from the shop.
but, muh waitin peeriud!

"YES! 6.5 Creedmoor is a "long action" just like the .308."
I don't even shoot bolt guns, and I know...
never mind. some stupid can't be reasoned with.
 

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I used to shoot at PDHSC outside downtown Raleigh when I first got into shooting.

Me and my then (now ex) wife had a lane together. she was shooting her Smith 686. Another couple was in the lane to our left, the fellow apparently "teaching" his lady how to shoot so it seemed.

At some point he comes into our lane, taps us on the shoulder & says we need to watch how we're ejecting our rounds.

Excuse me?

He proceeds to tell my then (now ex) wife that she needs to be more careful how she's ejecting her rounds cos one just hit him in the face.

Excuse me?

He seriously believed that a spent casing out of a 686 somehow was ejected with such force that it bounced off SOMETHING, defied the laws of physics & hit him in the face in the next lane.

I then tried as kindly as I possibly could tell someone that stupid that what hit him was a piece of a bullet jacket & could have come from literally any bullet fired. And he should probably continue on with his lesson.

He had to have the last word & told us to be more careful. We immediately left, told the shop guys why we were leaving & never went back.
 
I also had a guy also warn us that our brass was hitting him at an indoor range - he said it brass was flying over the divider and coming down on him.
Totally possible, and it does happen sometimes. I figure that's just part of the game, but I tried to be nice about it. He yelled at me next time it happened. By that point I had already been tracking my brass and seeing that it was not possibly our brass. In fact, I knew it wasn't us, so I told my friends to put down their guns and step back out of their booths.
Turns out I got to watch HIS brass was bouncing off the divider on his right, bouncing off the left divider, then coming back down on him.
At this point he was super irate with me and jumped into my lane with his finger a-pointing and ready to start a fight... Only all of us were standing against the back wall 5 feet behind the booths laughing and making some neck-breaking shrugs when he turned and looked at us.
He was P-O'd
So in his infinite roid-rage induced wisdom, he stepped back into his own lane and started rapid firing wildly down range - at a slow-fire only establishment.
I told my friends to stay back and make it CLEAR we were not shooting, and a few seconds later a shop employee came haling butt into the range and running down to our end. I simply pointed a finger towards mr unhappy and said "that's your guy".
He left without incident once the RO put hands on both his shoulders and directed him to pack up and GTFO.
 
More years ago than I want to think about, I was visiting/browsing/swapping lies in a...fairly local shop when a guy bops in and checks out the pistol cases. Points to a Smith model 10 and says:

"Lemme see that automatic."

The rest of the conversation went as follows.

"That's not an automatic. It's a revolver."

"Oh. Well, lemme see it."

"Nice safety."

That's not the safety. That's the cylinder latch."

"Oh. Where's the safety?"

"There isn't one. It's all internal."

"How do I put it on?" (Safe, I assumed)

"You can't. It's automatic."

"I thought you said it wasn't an automatic."

"It's not. The safety is."

"But I can't put it on?"

"Nope. It's automatic. Comes off when you pull the trigger."

"Well, that's dumb! What if I shoot myself?"

"Well, you don't wanna do that."

Highly agitated, he announced loudly as he turned to walk out: "Y'all are stupid!"

And stormed toward the door...yanked it open and smacked himself solidly in the head with it...stumbled back two steps and yanked it again...hitting his knee this time...limped toward his car cursing as he went and peeled out of the parking lot.

The guy at the counter was classic. His expression never changed. As the guy made it through the door, he slowly cut his eyes at me and raised his eyebrows. At that point, I came completely unwrapped.

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"Don't worry, it's not loaded"

Dang, that one brings back memories. On the rare occasion I worked behind the counter it was a daily occurrence to hear that line (while the firearm is pointed directly at me) and when I check for myself a round pops out and hits the glass counter. I always had trouble holding back my "f*** you" face.
 
Dang, that one brings back memories. On the rare occasion I worked behind the counter it was a daily occurrence to hear that line (while the firearm is pointed directly at me) and when I check for myself a round pops out and hits the glass counter. I always had trouble holding back my "f*** you" face.

The worst part for me was that I got so used to being swept it stopped worrying me as much as it used to. You can't smack the idjit like you should and they're just going to do it again in a minute so I got in the habit of just asking for the firearm, clearing it and handing it back. I'd usually keep the mag.
 
I used to shoot at PDHSC outside downtown Raleigh when I first got into shooting.

Me and my then (now ex) wife had a lane together. she was shooting her Smith 686. Another couple was in the lane to our left, the fellow apparently "teaching" his lady how to shoot so it seemed.

At some point he comes into our lane, taps us on the shoulder & says we need to watch how we're ejecting our rounds.

Excuse me?

He proceeds to tell my then (now ex) wife that she needs to be more careful how she's ejecting her rounds cos one just hit him in the face.

Excuse me?

He seriously believed that a spent casing out of a 686 somehow was ejected with such force that it bounced off SOMETHING, defied the laws of physics & hit him in the face in the next lane.

I then tried as kindly as I possibly could tell someone that stupid that what hit him was a piece of a bullet jacket & could have come from literally any bullet fired. And he should probably continue on with his lesson.

He had to have the last word & told us to be more careful. We immediately left, told the shop guys why we were leaving & never went back.


I’ve had the “watch your brass” conversation at an indoor range a couple of years ago, my wife was just starting to shoot semi autos and the person next to us made a stink about the brass flying over the barrier a few times, me being me picked up hand fulls of brass off the floor and every time my wife shot I’d toss a hand full over the barrier at him, my wife was embarrassed, I laughed and Mr Huffy packed up and left.

I have really calmed down the past few years, but I used to troll people being dicks for whatever reason pretty bad.
 
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I used to shoot at PDHSC outside downtown Raleigh when I first got into shooting.

Me and my then (now ex) wife had a lane together. she was shooting her Smith 686. Another couple was in the lane to our left, the fellow apparently "teaching" his lady how to shoot so it seemed.

At some point he comes into our lane, taps us on the shoulder & says we need to watch how we're ejecting our rounds.

Excuse me?

He proceeds to tell my then (now ex) wife that she needs to be more careful how she's ejecting her rounds cos one just hit him in the face.

Excuse me?

He seriously believed that a spent casing out of a 686 somehow was ejected with such force that it bounced off SOMETHING, defied the laws of physics & hit him in the face in the next lane.

I then tried as kindly as I possibly could tell someone that stupid that what hit him was a piece of a bullet jacket & could have come from literally any bullet fired. And he should probably continue on with his lesson.

He had to have the last word & told us to be more careful. We immediately left, told the shop guys why we were leaving & never went back.
Haw haw, that's rich. Gives me an idea...wonder how many revolver-mounted brass catchers I could sell to folks like that? :D
 
Something a little different of who believes the crap ... I stopped by a local shop to buy some Ballistol. I use it for more than just firearms ... think WD-40 home use. I grabbed two 16oz bottles (non-aerosol) and was heading to check out but the used gun counter needed to be checked on. I put them to the side of the counter and did the normal scanning. A man asked if I like Ballistol to which I jokingly said “Yep, it’s a great antiseptic and kills germs like Coronavirus”. Damn if I he did walk back and get two bottles and start to the register. I managed to catch him and tell him I was joking ...

Side note ... many people, especially frontline soldiers, believe Ballistol does have somewhat of an antiseptic effect on cuts and scrapes and I just took it to a crazy level.
 
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Something a little different of who believes the crap ... I stopped by a local shop to buy some Ballistol. I use it for more than just firearms ... think WD-40 home use. I grabbed two 16oz bottles (non-aerosol) and was heading to check out but the used gun counter needed to be checked on. I put them to the side of the counter and did the normal scanning. A man asked if I like Ballistol to which I jokingly said “Yep, it’s a great antiseptic and kills germs like Coronavirus”. Damn if I he did walk back and get two bottles and start to the register. I managed to catch him and tell him I was joking ...

Side note ... many people, especially frontline soldiers, believe Ballistol does have somewhat of an antiseptic effect on cuts and scrapes and I just took it to a crazy level.

It'll deworm horses. I'll have to find the link, but it has been used for intestinal parasites.
 
??? Please explain your logic.

Last time I checked, 37 statrs allow civilian ownership of full auto. Unless you have a felony background, you're eligible.
True, but how many new Class 3 licenses are being approved? I pass strict regulations to have a Concealed carry permit and have held an FFL, but I do not qualify for a class 3. Are full auto licenses still being issued?

A friend of mine had an FFL to manufacture full auto arms and explosives, but not to own them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act
 
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True, but how many new Class 3 licenses are being approved? I pass strict regulations to have a Concealed carry permit and have held an FFL, but I do not qualify for a class 3. Are full auto licenses still being issued?

A friend of mine had an FFL to manufacture full auto arms and explosives, but not to own them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act
But I don’t need an FFL of any kind to buy a Machinegun. It’s the exact same steps I’ve been through 40+ times so far without a denial.
 
Prove it.

Newt, based upon your comment above - you’re a jerk, and ignorant of the law as well. BigWaylon is a well respected and long standing member of this forum, and he does not need to “prove” anything. He is a very generous individual, quick to share knowledge and has helped myriads of people with joining the ranks of owning machine guns and suppressors.

For starters, what is a “full auto license”? A “class 3 license” is an SOT FFL” which is a license to “sell” machine guns. You do not have to have an FFL in order to legally own / possess a machine gun or suppressor. What you do have to do is live in a state that allows civilian ownership of full autos and pay a $200.00 tax. And, there are quite a few of those applications being accepted and approved by the ATF.

If you’re a civilian, you must purchase a MG that was on the NFA registry prior to 1986 when the FOPA act was passed with the Hughes amendment that eliminated further manufacture for civilian ownership.

As per the ATF, two years ago there was a backlog of approximately 90,000 Form 4 applications for transfer of legally owned machine guns and suppressors (but the bulk of that was for a suppressor). A 90,000 application backlog is hardly what I’d consider to

Also as of two years ago, your local chief law enforcement officer no longer has standing to deny your Form 4 application by not signing it. ATF eliminated that requirement when they increased the background check provisions on trusts.

Although I don’t own as many NFA devices as BigWaylon, I do own several machine guns and suppressors and have for almost 30 years.
 
Although I don’t own as many NFA devices as BigWaylon, I do own several machine guns and suppressors and have for almost 30 years.
...and to add to that.

You could take any one of those MGs, sell it to me, and it would transfer on a $200 Form 4 without any dealer/FFL involved on either end. :D
 
Newt, based upon your comment above - you’re a jerk, and ignorant of the law as well. BigWaylon is a well respected and long standing member of this forum, and he does not need to “prove” anything. He is a very generous individual, quick to share knowledge and has helped myriads of people with joining the ranks of owning machine guns and suppressors.

For starters, what is a “full auto license”? A “class 3 license” is an SOT FFL” which is a license to “sell” machine guns. You do not have to have an FFL in order to legally own / possess a machine gun or suppressor. What you do have to do is live in a state that allows civilian ownership of full autos and pay a $200.00 tax. And, there are quite a few of those applications being accepted and approved by the ATF.

If you’re a civilian, you must purchase a MG that was on the NFA registry prior to 1986 when the FOPA act was passed with the Hughes amendment that eliminated further manufacture for civilian ownership.

As per the ATF, two years ago there was a backlog of approximately 90,000 Form 4 applications for transfer of legally owned machine guns and suppressors (but the bulk of that was for a suppressor). A 90,000 application backlog is hardly what I’d consider to

Also as of two years ago, your local chief law enforcement officer no longer has standing to deny your Form 4 application by not signing it. ATF eliminated that requirement when they increased the background check provisions on trusts.

Although I don’t own as many NFA devices as BigWaylon, I do own several machine guns and suppressors and have for almost 30 years.

All I know is what I have experienced. Maybe it was because I didn't have the money to buy a qualified licence, permit, etc. to own a MG. Isn't that $200 fee an anual fee? It is extremely difficult for the average citizen to purchase and possess a MG. I just wanted him to prove how an every day legal citizen can obtain and own a MG. That's the proof aside from my knowledge and research I seek.

Title II of the Gun Control Act of 1968 is a revision of the National Firearms Act of 1934, and pertains to machine guns, short or "sawed-off" shotguns and rifles, and so-called "destructive devices" (including grenades, mortars, rocket launchers, large projectiles, and other heavy ordnance). Acquisition of these weapons is subject to prior approval of the Attorney General, and federal registration is required for possession. Generally, a $200 tax is imposed upon each transfer or making of any Title II weapon.

I probably will be leaving this site as I have in the past because when I question someone's integrity, I am hit with extreme negativism and never a straight answer to my questions. OK, I'll admit they are not "illegal" to most people, but out of the means of most people. But one thing for sure, they are extremely regulated and registered by the government.
 
True, but how many new Class 3 licenses are being approved? I pass strict regulations to have a Concealed carry permit and have held an FFL, but I do not qualify for a class 3. Are full auto licenses still being issued?

A friend of mine had an FFL to manufacture full auto arms and explosives, but not to own them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act

If this was said in a gun shop, it would win the category....

Just sayin...
 
OK, I'll admit they are not "illegal" to most people, but out of the means of most people. But one thing for sure, they are extremely regulated and registered by the government.
Absolutely.

“Legal” and “affordable” are completely different things.

But getting one is not any more regulated than buying a silencer or asking permission to cut down a rifle/shotgun barrel.
 
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