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We had a professional development class in the conference room at Cabelas in Lacy, Wa today. (Ain't that tough to take? ) Anyway, after class, how could I not go shopping for awhile. In the gun section, I was looking at a rack of used levers, when I heard a semi-auto shotgun bolt slam shut very close. I looked in the direction of the sound and a Cabelas Employee, Chuck, had a shotgun pointed right at my head about 3 feet away. I resisted saying anything.....I would not have stopped until I got in trouble, probably. What a moron.
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Let the manager know there are serious issues and training is required!
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Rusty wrote:I think if that had happened to me he would want to quit when I got done.
Agreed. We all must demand absolute safety around firearms - of ourselves and everyone else. Any incident of unsafe handling has to be immediately and severely addressed. 100% of the time. You can't take back a bullet (or shot) - this is not one of those "I'll do better next time" type of issues. First rules of gun handling are NEVER point a gun at something you are not willing to kill or destroy and that ALL guns are loaded always - even when you know they are not. Follow these two rules (and a few others) and accidents won't happen.
That fella needed "dressed down" hard and on the spot. Manager needed to be called over as well. He might have lost his job - but it would be better than living with accidently blowing a man's head off the next time...
I would definitely contact the store manager, and in particular the GUN department manager. I dislike the phrase, but I have "zero tolerance" for that kind of thing - my kids knew better than that when they were eight years old.
Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws "first do no harm" - gun control LAWS lead to far more deaths than 'easy access' ever could.
My NCO voice takes over in such situations... I've had a loaded gun pointed at me on a range many times. It "irritates" me, too. Speak up, what's the worst that can happen?
BTW, did you get any goodies?
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Hobie
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Hobie wrote:My NCO voice takes over in such situations... I've had a loaded gun pointed at me on a range many times. It "irritates" me, too. Speak up, what's the worst that can happen?
I don't have an NCO voice, but I do have a loud attention getting one when I want to use it. And I would have in "that" situation.
There has been more than one occasion where live ammo has gotten into guns on the dealers shelves.
I'd rather make a scene with my comments than a scene with my brains spattered all over the show room.
Joe
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It was best to step away. I'm still more NCO than civilian and I would have got carried away as..um..irritated as I was.... It put a damnper on my shopping attitude
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Good thread. I worked my last shift as a newspaper copy editor last night after 25 years of it, and start in the hunting department at Sportsman's Warehouse Tuesday. Huge change (and pay cut!). I've been handling firearms for nearly 50 years (I'm 55), and the one AD I had 30 years ago -- thumb slipped on the hammer of a Model 97 12-gauge -- the barrel was pointed in the right direction. But I will do my best to keep safe handling procedures foremost in my mind as I clear and hand all manner of hand and long guns back and forth over the counter to complete strangers, many of them likely even bigger idiots.
Well maybe if you didn't want to cause a scene you could have told the gun dept. mgr that you were intending to buy that ... [ insert name of the most expensive gun in the dept. here] but you were so upset by the behavior you'll need to wait until you can find it somewhere else.
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I've seen it happen a bunch of times at gun shows. Most recently
this 'tard with a Camp Perry t shirt (obviously just there for the t shirt)
is looking at a Smith revolver and as I'm walking around the end of the table I see him begin to point the thing at eye level at a guy a couple feet in front of me and pull the trigger!
Now I don't have an NCO voice but I can be pretty loud when I want to be. As he's
thumbing back the hammer to do it yet again I VERY loudly asked if he was done yet.
Startled the stuff out of everybody except this pin head. The dealer was kinda dumb struck and as I'm turning around to explain the error of his ways my Dad grabbed me by the shirt and redirected my attention.
I've set up at a ton of shows over the years and am always amazed at the morons out there.
jb
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I was working as RO one day at the range and we went to a 'cold' line...in other words, all firearms unloaded, magazines out, actions open, and all guns laying on the front bench...with all shooters up and behind the safety line away from the benches, no gun handling allowed.
We verified all the guns were clear and then okayed everyone to go downrange and check their targets. needless to say, when people are downrange there is NO handling of any firearms or activity allowed around the benches.
So I am standing there chatting with another RO...and all of a sudden his 'war face' comes on. I look around and a bench or two away from us is a man, sitting at his bench. The man picks up his Beretta 92 and starts dry firing the gun...aiming at the people downrange working on their targets!
My friend literally launches himself across the bench and rips the gun out of this guys' hand, loudly screaming "No handling of firearms while the line is cold".
Now, I'm speechless at this idiot's reply. I expected him to apologise or mumble somehing about "he didn't know" or something like that.
No, his answer:
"What's the big deal ? I'm not actually shooting them !" (By 'them' he meant the people downrange. He said he was 'practising' since this was the only time he could aim at real pople and pull the trigger.)
Gritting my teeth I politely reiterated the four rules of gun safety and then informed him that he was done shooting for the day.
The guy went ballistic (no pun intended) and started screaming that we had no right to eject him from the range.
At about this time the other shooters were drifting back from the targets and coming back to the firing line. I told him I could let the guy he was 'practising' his aiming on decide weither or not he could stay. At that, he had an about-face in attitude and decided to pack up and leave.
CaptainFinn wrote:"What's the big deal ? I'm not actually shooting them !" (By 'them' he meant the people downrange. He said he was 'practising' since this was the only time he could aim at real pople and pull the trigger.)
Wow.
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I was the class clown and have always joked around--still do but.............if someone plays with a gun that could hurt me or anyone else, well, they possibly might get a verticle buttstroke -------------------Sixgun
CaptainFinn wrote:"What's the big deal ? I'm not actually shooting them !" (By 'them' he meant the people downrange. He said he was 'practicing' since this was the only time he could aim at real people and pull the trigger.)
Double wow.
I'd say to him, "You're right. I won't kick you off the range until you go retrieve your target ...while the rest of us wait right here."
Texican
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Had a middle aged lady put a dbl barrel muzzle right in my chest while her husband and the saleman were trying to impress each other with their respective gun knowledge/ignorance. I said nothing. It would never happen again and I didn't want to deal with any of the three of them.
Same kinda stuff happened to me when I was a cop only other cops should have known better. I did cuss them out but it didn't do any good.
) Anyway, after class, how could I not go shopping for awhile. In the gun section, I was looking at a rack of used levers, when I heard a semi-auto shotgun bolt slam shut very close. I looked in the direction of the sound and a Cabelas Employee, Chuck, had a shotgun pointed right at my head about 3 feet away. I resisted saying anything.....I would not have stopped until I got in trouble, probably. What a moron. 
