CAJUNLAWYER
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After reading CCantu357's thread about buying a closeout Ruger Scout rifle,I called the Lafayette Academy this morning to see if they had some, AND THEY DID!!!
Kid on the phone even told me it was the stainless model for $599.00.
Well, I get there and of course it is the blued model with the laminate stock but at that price I didn't quibble. Kid hands it to me, takes the trigger lock off, I inspect it and tell him to get the paperwork started. Now I can fill out the 4473 in my sleep and one of the things is that I have no middle name just an initial. Well I fill out the form like I always do and when I get to the middle name block I do what I always do " F (initial only)". Kid asks me about it and I tell him NO MIDDLE NAME JUST AN INITIAL. Well-he hands me off to another who does the input and HE gets stumped by the initial only(in the mean time he has stopped 6 times-I counted-to do other things as he is inputting the data). I'm starting to get a little steamed. I get approved and then it's time to get the box-again he stops twice to do something else. Get the box and I say put it up on the counter so I can make sure everything is in there. He doesn't and proceeds to try to put the gun in the box without removing the bolt. I tell him he has to remove the bolt to get in in properly and he can't do it!!.He is straining to get the bolt out and I finally say "Here give it to me". I remove the bolt and give it back to him. He packs it all in the box and I ask again to put the box up on the counter so I can inspect and make sure everything that is supposed to be there is there. I take the bolt that he placed loose in the box and put it where it is supposed to be, check everything out and close up the box. By now I want my DL back and I want to pay for my gun and leave. By now I'm really getting pissed.
So now they call over the big manager to go over the paperwork for a third time and he gets hung up on the no middle initial thing and I point blank tell him I ain't splaining again especially in light of the fact that a piece of paper from ATF is on the counter next to the 4473 with my name on it and the word "Proceed" below my name. He goes through everything AGAIN and picks up the box and I said pay here or at the front? Now bear in mind that all this time I have laid out 7 crisp 100 dollar bills on the counter to pay for this thing. I pick up the money and he asks me if I'm finished shopping and I tell him I've been finished shopping for 30 minutes-I'm just waiting for them to do their job and sell me the gun. Well he looks at me and asks if there is a problem, that the law requires a background check and I go off. I tell him I know what the law requires and what you have been doing for the past 30 minutes ain't it. I told him I should have been out of there 20 minutes ago (insta check took the usual 2 minutes for me as it usually does). I started walking to the front and told him, "Get my gun and lets go". Well he then says "I'm tempted to decline you." That's when I told him to stick the gun and left.
I think what really set me off was that middle kid turning away from me 8 times without even the courtesy of asking or excusing himself. So as it went, I walked into the store pointed to what I wanted filled out the 4473, laid out the money and sat back and watched them loose a sale.
So anyone in Lafayette Louisiana there is a nice Scout rifle at the Louisiana Ave, Academy for sale if you can put up with that kind of nonsense.
Jeeze I am pissed!!!!
Kid on the phone even told me it was the stainless model for $599.00.Well, I get there and of course it is the blued model with the laminate stock but at that price I didn't quibble. Kid hands it to me, takes the trigger lock off, I inspect it and tell him to get the paperwork started. Now I can fill out the 4473 in my sleep and one of the things is that I have no middle name just an initial. Well I fill out the form like I always do and when I get to the middle name block I do what I always do " F (initial only)". Kid asks me about it and I tell him NO MIDDLE NAME JUST AN INITIAL. Well-he hands me off to another who does the input and HE gets stumped by the initial only(in the mean time he has stopped 6 times-I counted-to do other things as he is inputting the data). I'm starting to get a little steamed. I get approved and then it's time to get the box-again he stops twice to do something else. Get the box and I say put it up on the counter so I can make sure everything is in there. He doesn't and proceeds to try to put the gun in the box without removing the bolt. I tell him he has to remove the bolt to get in in properly and he can't do it!!.He is straining to get the bolt out and I finally say "Here give it to me". I remove the bolt and give it back to him. He packs it all in the box and I ask again to put the box up on the counter so I can inspect and make sure everything that is supposed to be there is there. I take the bolt that he placed loose in the box and put it where it is supposed to be, check everything out and close up the box. By now I want my DL back and I want to pay for my gun and leave. By now I'm really getting pissed.
So now they call over the big manager to go over the paperwork for a third time and he gets hung up on the no middle initial thing and I point blank tell him I ain't splaining again especially in light of the fact that a piece of paper from ATF is on the counter next to the 4473 with my name on it and the word "Proceed" below my name. He goes through everything AGAIN and picks up the box and I said pay here or at the front? Now bear in mind that all this time I have laid out 7 crisp 100 dollar bills on the counter to pay for this thing. I pick up the money and he asks me if I'm finished shopping and I tell him I've been finished shopping for 30 minutes-I'm just waiting for them to do their job and sell me the gun. Well he looks at me and asks if there is a problem, that the law requires a background check and I go off. I tell him I know what the law requires and what you have been doing for the past 30 minutes ain't it. I told him I should have been out of there 20 minutes ago (insta check took the usual 2 minutes for me as it usually does). I started walking to the front and told him, "Get my gun and lets go". Well he then says "I'm tempted to decline you." That's when I told him to stick the gun and left.
I think what really set me off was that middle kid turning away from me 8 times without even the courtesy of asking or excusing himself. So as it went, I walked into the store pointed to what I wanted filled out the 4473, laid out the money and sat back and watched them loose a sale.
So anyone in Lafayette Louisiana there is a nice Scout rifle at the Louisiana Ave, Academy for sale if you can put up with that kind of nonsense.
Jeeze I am pissed!!!!
Out in just 30 minutes? 
At our Mini-Cabela's that would have taken at least half a day (no, I am not joking). 
And with the exact same result (customer ultimately walking out disgusted) very, very likely! 
