Firearm Safety Question

[fatbaldguy]

Loudly start teaching your friend the 4 rules of gun safety.

I would start reciting them loudly enough for every one in the store to hear!  If that were to be a problem, I would make my dis-satisfaction known, loudly, to the store manager.  If it were a chain, to corporate.  If I got no satisfaction then, to the interwebs, and I wouldn't hesitate to let said store know.

[fightingquaker13]

Remember though, you don't want to get the fired in this economy, just get him educated. This was an act of ignorance not malice. It needs correction, not punishment (hey, its Christmas, even I can be nice).

[MikeBjerum]

Remember though, you don't want to get the fired in this economy, just get him educated. This was an act of ignorance not malice. It needs correction, not punishment (hey, its Christmas, even I can be nice).

Firearms safety is a zero tolerance game!

[tt11758]

Firearms safety is a zero tolerance game!

Firearms safety is zero tolerance, but hardly a game.

[kmitch200]

Mr. Professional looks over his shoulder and cooly states "It is hard to avoid in a gun shop."

Absolute, lazy, braindead BULLSH!T!!!
This guy needs an education sooner rather than later. If he won't take it from a customer, maybe he'd pay attention to his boss.

In my first CCW class the instructor made it perfectly clear that NO weapon will be allowed to be pointed at anyone at ANY time.
If we saw him muzzle someone - even with a plastic demo gun - we would immediately get our money back and the class was free.
That was enough motivation for the class of 30 or so people to watch very closely, and it never did happen in a room packed full of bodies.

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[Timothy]

I've had to remind folks very close to me (family) that I don't tolerate mishandling of a firearm even if I've unloaded it and rechecked it personally!  I've lived my entire life with the thought that it's always loaded and kept that mindset!  I expect no different from those around me.

I avoid Bass Pro gun counters for those reasons alone as I've found the people behind the counter to be inexperienced and inept in their handling of their guns.

[tt11758]

I had a similar situation a couple of years ago.  When I mentioned it to Mr. Salesman I was told that he was a PROFESSIONAL firearms handler, and as an expert he knew better than I when it came to firearms safety.  I told him to have a nice life, and left before I acquired any holes in my personage that hadn't been there when I entered the store.  Haven't been back since.

BTW, this guy was the store's owner.

[jaybet]

There's just no excuse, especially in a commercial situation.  I have made mistakes, but someone who points a product at a customer?   Fire his ass! As an owner how could you tolerate that? Just think of liability?

[JoeG]

i would start with the guy I was talking to and explain that he was dead wrong about how hard it is. If he gave me crap I would ask for the manager. I would show him my NRA RSO card and explain the 4 rules in order and ask why they felt that they did not need to train their staff in basic safety. I would raise the question if their gun knowledge was the equal of their safety knowledge. I would explain how I had trained hundreds of 11-17 year old scouts without ever being told safety was impossible. Depending on teh reception of this information I would start getting louder to make sure that all the customers understood how unprofessional the store staff was and how much more knowledgeable the gun store down the street was.

As a Safety Perfessional I know that it is more fun and effective if you can do this without loosing your temper but I suspect they would not want to listen and that would probably annoy me.

The easy answer for them is to hang a couple of targets on the safe walls and use them direct all gun handling.

joe

[Solus]

I had a similar situation a couple of years ago.  When I mentioned it to Mr. Salesman I was told that he was a PROFESSIONAL firearms handler, and as an expert he knew better than I when it came to firearms safety.  I told him to have a nice life, and left before I acquired any holes in my personage that hadn't been there when I entered the store.  Haven't been back since.

BTW, this guy was the store's owner.

Reminds me of the FBI agent who was to give a talk on the Glock 40 (I think it was) saying he was the PROFESSSIONAL and knew more about it than anyone....just before he shot himself with it...

There is a video of it around somewhere....I'd imagine we've all seen it a few times.