Gun show morons

[zonker5]

Went to a show this past weekend and was once again amazed at the number of people who pick up a gun from a table and immediately try to pull the trigger. I half expect them to say "bang-bang".

I am also puzzled by people who bring their dogs.

Rant mode off.

-Z-

 

[Chuck24]

People in scooters and those with baby strollers that use them for battering rams and people that shoot the breeze with their friends in the middle of the aisle, or in front of the table you're trying to see. I wish you could rent a cattle prod at the door.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

As far as bringing dogs in strollers, there is some bad emotional issue happening there.

Standing in the middle of the isle talking, so so shallow. At the end of a hockey game I simply walked right through the middle of them. I got some lip but I told them to them to wake up and get out of the isle. No, I didn't get a beer bottle thrown at me (although it cross my mind).

 

[6518John]

If I see ANY gun I want to look at and talk to the dealer about making a deal, the table is always clear of people, no one around, the mass of humanity in the aisle parted like the Red Sea. Within seconds of picking the gun up and starting a private conversation with the dealer, I am ALWAYS surrounded by the mass of humanity to ogle, interrupt, interject their thoughts or otherwise mind my business rather than their own. I use to think it was dealer shills, but no one dealer could hire the numbers.

 

[carpriver]

When some one is shooting the breeze in the aisle I use my outdoor voice and say EXCUSE ME, and the baby buggy people I will tell them they need to be more careful, their child could get hurt from things falling off of tables. Park the buggy plant the kid on your hip and walk .

 

[sheepdawg]

the baby buggy people I will tell them they need to be more careful, their child could get hurt from things falling off of tables. Park the buggy plant the kid on your hip and walk .

I understand beef jerky makes a pretty good dent in babies.

 

[rburg]

I once saw a spectacular event happen in an aisle. A woman apparently got tired of the slow moving mass and just pushed her way along. Took the feet out from under an old guy minding his own business. Guess it never occurred to her that the line moves at the rate of the slowest person up front. Anyway, the old guy ended up sitting on her kid. Her hubby saw what happened and really couldn't blame the guy she hit. It all sorted itself out and she ended up leaving. Its all she really wanted anyway, her husband to leave without spending her shoe money.

Bringing along the GF or spouse is nice, I guess. Unless she really doesn't want to be there and is prone to being impolite when bored. If she can't behave, leave her at home. If she insists, you've got bigger problems.

 

[bushmaster1313]

plant the kid on your hip and walk .

Check first with your lawyer
Open baby carry might not be legal all jurisdictions

 

[Longhorn1986]

Check first with your lawyer
Open baby carry might not be legal all jurisdictions

That and IWB is how the little bugger was made in the first place.....

 

[SW MP15]

It use be bad when there were 90% blue guns on a table! You wouldn't believe the fools that would pick up a revolver and look at and open the cylinder and spin the cylinder and snap/slam it shut with their wrist. With no regard to a marred cylinder or cause a fresh deep cylinder ring. And of course it would be a almost pristine model 27. And it would happen when you trying to help another customer and you couldn't get to the other end of the table before the idiot would do it.

Finally we started tying them off with plastic wire ties before the gun shows started making everyone do it. Sometimes the customer would ask for us to take it off. To check the action. We'd say only if your a serious buyer. 60% would just lay it back down and walk off. We figured they just wanted to play with it? We wouldn't care if they walked off, if they wasn't serious they wasn't a buyer.

We wasn't trying to be mean but trying to protect our $650 or more investment.

And, I had to stop a table buddy one time from going over the table after a guy. He picked up a very early 2 1/2" nickel Python and proceeded to dry fire it about ten times in a row, to me its only common curtesy to ask "may I handle this" or ask "do you mind if I look at this"? I really was afraid he was going to hurt that dude. Back then, it had a price tag of $1200 on it. So from then on, we tied them off. I always ask before touching or handling someone's gun.

You could see the 5 year old kid come out in a 40 year old man! Pow Pow! Bang Bang!

 

[Faulkner]

People in scooters and those with baby strollers that use them for battering rams and people that shoot the breeze with their friends in the middle of the aisle, or in front of the table you're trying to see. I wish you could rent a cattle prod at the door.

It's not a gun show thing . . . they pick up this behavior at Walmart and it carries over to everything they do. Even their driving habits.

 

[wbraswell]

People in scooters and those with baby strollers that use them for battering rams and people that shoot the breeze with their friends in the middle of the aisle, or in front of the table you're trying to see. I wish you could rent a cattle prod at the door.

You know the instrument you need is readily available at gun shows. A stun gun. Carry one of those and when nobody wants to move, just push the button on that thing. The loud snap crackle pop those things make always gets attention.

 

[model70hunter]

Lack of manners and courtesy. I don't like the guy that once shot his great uncles bolt action Revelation 410 and has his unholy spawn with him while he explains everything he doesnt know. And the little buggars lean on the table right in front of something you really do want to see.

I know they are bonding and the kids are not playing with an electronic game.
Just teach your kids to move on the 2nd or 3rd request by someone. It just came to me, no one in the trailer park knows how to count to 3.

 

[vytoland]

the "special" people are everywhere and have a right to be there.....just ask them ..........

 

[rwsmith]

Sorry, I stopped reading this thread......

.....after a few posts. I don't need the irritation. My own experiences are plenty aggravating enough.

 

[Wise_A]

And, I had to stop a table buddy one time from going over the table after a guy. He picked up a very early 2 1/2" nickel Python and proceeded to dry fire it about ten times in a row, to me its only common curtesy to ask "may I handle this" or ask "do you mind if I look at this"? I really was afraid he was going to hurt that dude. Back then, it had a price tag of $1200 on it. So from then on, we tied them off. I always ask before touching or handling someone's gun.

I always ask again after a shop owner hands me one over the counter. And there are some guns I simply refuse to touch because there's no way I'm going to buy them, so why make the guy wipe it down again?

But yeah, I've seen some pretty bad stuff in shops. Makes me cry. Cuts both ways, too.

I was picking up a revolver once from an shop. Guy actually sold me my first pistol, I must've been in there half a dozen times, known him for years. I filled out the last of the paperwork, and then picked it up to give it a quick once-over.

Guy proceeds to give me a three-minute lecture on the importance of not snapping the cylinder shut, or dry firing the thing with the sideplate off, and so-on and so-on.

It was embarrassing as hell at the time. Since then I've seen plenty of gun-type guys do exactly the things he curled my ear warning me about, so I can see why he felt the need, but still. Dude...who do you think I am?

 

[sbowenjr]

My biggest concern at them is the gun check in table. My dad and I went to one a couple of years back. A guy brought in a lever action marlin 22. The lay asked if it was loaded. He turned the barrel towards me started working the lever and proceeded to throw out about ten 22 shells. After that I only approach the check in table when there is not anyone at it. If. You do not believe me ask them. It happens all the time. So this is actually a warning to be aware off. Just because people are at a gun show does not mean they know anything about guns or gun safety. Some people are just there to sell some old family gun that they do not know the first thing about.

 

[UncleEd]

So what this thread tells me is that a lot of gun owners and would-be gun owners are boobs, total boobs and even, maybe morons.

Go to a public indoor range on a weekend and you will probably
find the same people as at a gun show.

That should be frightening to even the staunchest. no
compromise Second Amendment proponent.

Which leads me to the open carry issue.....how's that for thread drift?

 

[OLDSTER]

How about the clown that picks up a scoped rifle and swings it about head-high to check out other folks at the show. The last ( and I mean last) show I attended, I got in the face of both the kid and the vender for such reckless behavior

 

[Faulkner]

So what this thread tells me is that a lot of gun owners and would-be gun owners are boobs, total boobs and even, maybe morons.

Go to a public indoor range on a weekend and you will probably
find the same people as at a gun show.

That should be frightening to even the staunchest. no
compromise Second Amendment proponent.

Which leads me to the open carry issue.....how's that for thread drift?

Hmmm . . . sounds like maybe all the leftist need to do is attend a few gun shows and they'd get plenty of fodder to support their "common sense" gun control agenda.