Whats the stupidest thing you've heard at gun store/range?

[Ark]

Was at atterbury range on sat.

Whole family of people of India decent get a lane 6 down from us, and proceed to walk past the line to hang a target during live fire.

I didn’t notice until my son yelled at the dude. R/O was there in a flash and spent some time with them. Didn’t help…

Son said he saw husband put his hand over the muzzle to help point wife towards the target. She pulled the trigger a split second as his hand just cleared the muzzle


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Atterbury RSOs gotta keep their heads on straight. The vast majority of people there know the drill and aren't a problem, but you get those groups of noguns wanting their "experience" who just don't know the rules and didn't bring enough babysitters with them.

It's a great place for new shooters but they gotta be paired with people who know and can explain the rules.

 

[dekeshooter]

During the five years I spent selling guns, I learned I could accurately name a person’s place of birth if they called a small two barrel handgun a Dillinger or if they referred to the gun maker based in Springfield, MA as Smith & Western. Without fail the people who did this were born in Paintsville, KY.

 

[Flingarrows]

Atterbury RSOs gotta keep their heads on straight. The vast majority of people there know the drill and aren't a problem, but you get those groups of noguns wanting their "experience" who just don't know the rules and didn't bring enough babysitters with them.

It's a great place for new shooters but they gotta be paired with people who know and can explain the rules.

100%


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[1nderbeard]

Was at atterbury range on sat.

Whole family of people of India decent get a lane 6 down from us, and proceed to walk past the line to hang a target during live fire.

I didn’t notice until my son yelled at the dude. R/O was there in a flash and spent some time with them. Didn’t help…

Son said he saw husband put his hand over the muzzle to help point wife towards the target. She pulled the trigger a split second as his hand just cleared the muzzle


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this is just wild to me. How did the RSO not kick these people out?

 

[Flingarrows]

this is just wild to me. How did the RSO not kick these people out?

Good question, I would have bounced them


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[SheepDog4Life]

The headline puts the narrative as they were jailed for speaking Arabic... reading the story, they attempted to purchase a firearm while reeking of weed and lied on the 4473.

MSN

And, yes, I've had persons reeking of weed attempt to view/purchase firearms... just NOPE.

Ditto smelling of alcohol.

 

[Dentoro]

Not at the range, on the news…but STUPID none the less "9mm blows the lung out of the body."

 

[OurDee]

"You need a Glock."

 

[flatlander]

Heard yesterday that "the military is going to adopt the FNX-45. They're going back to the .45"
"They've already ordered 60,000"

 

[bgcatty]

Oh, Don’t worry Mr. Jones, ammo prices will return to normal soon.
Seriously, what’s normal you fool?

 

[Lodge]

Off duty deputy working the counter at a local gun store... "just point a shotgun, don't even need to aim. It'll devastate anything in an 8' circle at 10 yds. You can't miss!"

 

[Frosty]

Off duty deputy working the counter at a local gun store... "just point a shotgun, don't even need to aim. It'll devastate anything in an 8' circle at 10 yds. You can't miss!"

Probably recommend birdshot for home defense to

 

[KARP]

A gunshop employee told my 74 year old sister in law "this 38special round will blow a man's arm clean off".

 

[tcecil88]

A gunshop employee told my 74 year old sister in law "this 38special round will blow a man's arm clean off".

Well, it's longer than a 9mm, so it has to be more powerful.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Well, it's longer than a 9mm, so it has to be more powerful.

You have to use them cop killer bullets!

 

[Lpherr]

Probably recommend birdshot for home defense to

Rock salt.

 

[tcecil88]

Rock salt hurts!

 

[Squid556]

During the five years I spent selling guns, I learned I could accurately name a person’s place of birth if they called a small two barrel handgun a Dillinger or if they referred to the gun maker based in Springfield, MA as Smith & Western. Without fail the people who did this were born in Paintsville, KY.

After working in a shop near Wabash…… I can confirm hearing BOTH of these things! Man that hit home for me. For some reason wabash was where a lot of people from Paintsville moved to. I worked with two different people in wabash who came from there.

 

[Kernelkrink]

Dunno if true or not but sounds legit. Lots of folks in Marion just South of Wabash have relatives from Maysville, KY. Story dad always told (he was from Maysville) was that during WWII a factory here was short on workers. Now, women took up a lot of the slack but ya still needed big strong guys for some jobs. One of the guys working there was from Maysville and he knew a lot of guys there were unemployed. So one Friday night he grabs a bus and heads down there along with one of the management guys. They stop at a bar and buy everybody drinks on the company dime until they are falling down drunk and then offer them a ride home. Next morning they wake up in beautiful Marion, Indiana with a choice: Go to work for the plant or find their own way home with the $3.27 they have in their pocket. Extra perk, your first month's rent would be paid by the plant so you would have someplace to live until your first few paychecks. Most stayed.

With the large amount of transplanted Kentuckians in the Wabash area I would bet a lot of them came there for jobs during WWII. Hopefully of their own free will, but ya know how quickly a new "management technique" will spread once it becomes known how successful it can be!

 

[Hawkeye]

Dunno if true or not but sounds legit. Lots of folks in Marion just South of Wabash have relatives from Maysville, KY. Story dad always told (he was from Maysville) was that during WWII a factory here was short on workers. Now, women took up a lot of the slack but ya still needed big strong guys for some jobs. One of the guys working there was from Maysville and he knew a lot of guys there were unemployed. So one Friday night he grabs a bus and heads down there along with one of the management guys. They stop at a bar and buy everybody drinks on the company dime until they are falling down drunk and then offer them a ride home. Next morning they wake up in beautiful Marion, Indiana with a choice: Go to work for the plant or find their own way home with the $3.27 they have in their pocket. Extra perk, your first month's rent would be paid by the plant so you would have someplace to live until your first few paychecks. Most stayed.

With the large amount of transplanted Kentuckians in the Wabash area I would bet a lot of them came there for jobs during WWII. Hopefully of their own free will, but ya know how quickly a new "management technique" will spread once it becomes known how successful it can be!

I've heard similar stories in the Warsaw area with some of the poultry farms. Bussed workers in from various counties in KY.