Don't do these 8 things at a gun store...!

Video Statistics and Information

Video

Captions Word Cloud

Captions

hello and welcome to farm freedom this is going to be another episode of gun floor questions in today's episode we're gonna talk about what not to do as a customer in a gun store so before all you guys start hating on other things that employees should not do behind a gun counter don't worry I will be making another video in the series coming up soon on what gun floor associates should not do at a gun floor so as you guys know if you've been following my channel at all I do work behind a gun counter so that is my only job that I have currently along with being a full-time student and I've been in the firearm industry now for about two years actually working in the industry itself so I have seen a lot I've worked at a couple of different gun stores let's start our list off with the number one thing you should not do as a customer in a gun store unholster your current concealed carry weapon because you want the employee to take a look at it or see if you could sell it or get worked on or anything like that so don't be that guy who says hey can you take a look at this you know real quick and pull out the gun I'm wearing sweat pants right now so the holster comes right out with it but you get the point don't don't reach around pull your gun out main reason it's kind of a no-brainer to me but I guess not to a lot of customers we don't know if that kind of chambered if it's loaded not loaded and honestly not to kind of judge that person but I don't know your skill level I don't know if you just got that gun yesterday and you have no idea how to operate it and all of a sudden I get shot for some stupid reason but on top of that you have to realize that you're in a gun store and maybe not in a less free State but in a state like Pennsylvania I would say that probably 80% of the customers and the employees more like 99% of the employees are currently carrying themselves so I don't know and a lot of customers don't know around them that you know they can't hear the conversation if all of a sudden I'm I'm being held up and it's some sort of a robbery it's really just not a good idea at all to unholster your weapon the best thing that you can do is simply go out to your vehicle unload the weapon bring it back in in a box or if you don't have a box that's fine but check it in up at the front counter generally at any gun store you go to they'll want you to check it in somewhere before you bring it to the gun Connor but if all else fails guys just ask what to do before you just go ahead and pull it out so that's that's the number one thing you should not do and I can't tell you how many times that's happened to me the second thing on our list is going to be I'll point the muzzle of the gun towards me it's just it's a really really frustrating thing on the gun counter that I see way way too much and that's gonna simply be obviously you're gonna look at the gun you know you don't know you you've never really looked at gun before the first thing you do is finger on the trigger point the gun directly at my face and this is a really frustrating thing guys and I think it's really more just misinformation a lot of people just think oh you know they checked it obviously it's unloaded it shouldn't matter but again guys that just shows us that you have no idea about the fundamental safety rules of firearms and and the fact that you take any sort of a firearm and plant at somebody's face really really disconcerning and it makes me as a gun floor associate not really want to sell you a gun that you're just flashing me and everybody else in the store with the muzzle so that's that's a huge thing guys and if you're if you're going to get a firearm you're gonna look at it and take it out of the case just be courteous know the firearm rules before and that is just don't ever point a gun loaded or unloaded to anything you don't want to destroy that's one of the commandments so simply just either take it out of the case and point it at the floor or point it at the wall behind the gun store associate without you know getting anywhere near him you know if the gun floor associates here just simply point the gun over you know to the right a little bit or to the left a little bit not at anybody and that's gonna be the best way that you can do that the third thing here this is going to be don't interrupt a gun floor associate while he's talking to the customer that he's talking to this is a really big one guys this really kind of gets on my nerves and how a scenario that that you know has having multiple times as I'll be telling a customer about something I'll be showing them a gun telling them you know kind of opinions behind it what they should look at with what they shouldn't look at and all of a sudden you know some random customer will kind of butt into the conversation say oh no no no no you need this gun and it's generally something that's super opinionated and probably eight times out of ten a completely wrong statement and what tends to happen is the the customer will kind of look at them and be like oh okay and think you know think that that's right and it creates a really awkward situation because I have to tell them the the accurate information and this person just told them something completely wrong completely opinionated and and I have to wait till they kind of go away and say well you know that's not accurate and hope that they don't hear it and come back and start an argument it's just it's a really frustrating situation the only time ever that I would recommend doing this is if you're very very knowledgeable yourself and you go into a gun store and you hear wrong information getting put out by an employee and you know it's wrong information and then just simply kind of excuse yourself into the conversation J and just you know voice your opinion really nicely but honestly most the time guys unless you absolutely know it's wrong information don't don't put it into the conversation just don't do it so the fourth thing that we're gonna talk about is skipping in line this a lot of times isn't the customers fault sometimes I've worked at gun stores before where there's no really formal like like line like everybody just kind of walks up to the counter and you get served when you get served this system is awful and most the time people get jumped over in line all the time accidentally because they simply don't know if somebody was ahead of them but at the gun store that I work at now on many others out there we actually have a system that you just you put in your name and a tablet and it'll come up on a TV screen the exact you know list of people when you're next who's being served currently and it's an awesome system so whenever you go into a into a gun store look for something like that you know look for some sort of number system taking a number and if all else fails just kind of ask at some you know kind of low-key mom-and-pop gun shops they might not have anything but just simply asking where you first were you ahead of me and so on and just really be polite and courteous and again at the end of the day just don't cut in line know that if you're going to a gun store especially during the holidays we're getting closer to an election here it's gonna be busy guys so so be prepared to wait a pretty long time I mean they're at a busy gun store you could be waiting you know an hour to you know 45 minutes to an hour at the least so don't be the person you know that if it all else you know you're just you're waiting in line your numbers waiting to be called and just butt in line and say hey man you need to help me right now everybody waits just be courteous be polite and just just take a number and wait in line but the fifth thing we're gonna talk about is dry-firing so dry firing at a gun stores is kind of hit or miss here's what I'm gonna say and here's what I've seen at kind of every gun store it's perfectly generally fine the gun store is going to allow you to drive fire any sort of you know centerfire firearm at all whether that's a long gun handgun if it's a centerfire you're they're probably gonna be fine with you dry firing it practicing the trigger because this that's a huge selling point on a gun for the customer is gonna be how the trigger feels the only thing like at the gun store that I work at that we don't have your dry fire is rimfire and although most modern rimfire guns are probably fine to be dry fired once or twice it's just a little bit more of a gray area with rim Fire's if you should dry firearm earthy if you shouldn't so again what all else fails before you just start going and you know dry firing the gun just ask if it's alright if you dry fire it the sixth thing that we're going to talk about is going to be walk being away or turning around with the gun that you're looking at again this one was always a no-brainer to me before I started working in the industry but I guess it's not a lot of people so whenever you're looking at a gun you have to realize that most the guns are not going to have any sort of trigger safety on them at the moment it's just gonna be a live firearm and if you put a round in the chamber you very well could shoot the gun so this is something that we're all trained on behind the gun counter and something were really cautious over so it really becomes uncomfortable if somebody you know kind of turns around like this and you know they're looking at the gun because just simply I don't know if you're if you're putting around in the chamber or doing something weird with it or getting ready to you know run with the gun or so it's just it's a very stress inducing way to look at a firearm and also you know if you start walking away to go show your friends and you start doing anything like that behind the gun counter us as associates take that as kind of like a sketchy activity going on and we start trying to kind of keep tabs on that really quickly so just just stay face-to-face with a person try not to move around the counter the only time you know that you would move is if you're pointing the firearm on the floor but just don't turn around whenever we can't see although the chances are low that you're gonna be loading a loaded round in the chamber we don't know that and it becomes again a really sketchy situation the seventh thing that we're gonna talk about is asking us as associates to answer your legal advice so this is something that I think a lot of customers just simply don't know but us as gun associates although we may know a lot about firearms laws and legislation we cannot give out legal advice and this is kind of obvious again because if we were to give out legal advice you know and it was wrong or not factual Don you were to go out and a crime were to happen or something obviously that could lead back to us so we do not give out any legal advice how I kind of run it myself is if somebody asked me a question I'll give them as much as I and without you know actually giving legal advice but then I'll just simply refer them to a firearm specific attorney or refer them to you know a.gov website where they could find these laws and legislation to read over themselves but just just try not to ask too much I will say that a lot of the times I get asked hey I've done this crime you know in my past hey I've had a DUI will this count should I not get a gun can I not get a gun what's the deal we can't answer that guy's the best thing I can say is if you ever at all have any crime on your record before you even walk into a gun store make sure you contact a firearms attorney and a lot of the times it's something simple like that they'll literally just tell you right over the phone hey don't fill out the paperwork or do fill out the paperwork we can't at all answer anything so it's kind of a rough area there so just kind of you know be aware of that the final eight thing that we're going to talk about so that a thing on this list is going to be coming in to look at a gun for your significant other so a lot of people I don't think realize the issue today you know what we worry about the most in our gun stores is straw purchasing so we are trained to specifically ask questions and look for if we are concerned about a straw purchase you know what that looks like and to try to uncover one so a straw purchase is obviously to those of you who don't know is if you're buying a gun for somebody else so in the state of Pennsylvania my understanding of the law is that you can gift a firearm to your immediate relatives and that is your spouse or your son or daughter so that is going to be the only people that you can actually gift a firearm to so if I wanted to gift a handgun to say if I had a son I could gift that to him if if he was of age and he could own that that firearm specifically and there's not a problem with that anybody else you know girlfriend aunt uncle cousin grandma grandpa you can't do it it's a straw purchase so when you come in you know and you start asking questions saying hey want to buy a gun for my wife or or for my girlfriend or for my mom or whatever it already starts kind of ringing bells in our head on why are they not here getting the gun themselves so we very much understand that some your significant other might not want to come into the gun store that could be very afraid of guns or what-have-you but the best thing to do is to get your significant other to just come into the gun store with you it's a really sketchy situation whenever we're talking about you know not buying the gun for you specifically so the other thing on that is that to be honest with you buying a gun is like buying a pair of shoes if it doesn't fit you right you're not gonna like the gun so you really need to have that person into the gun store anyways so again just kind of bring that person in with you we can kind of help you out but but be prepared for almost every gun store associate to be very wary and skeptical and probably ask you some more kind of questions seeing the deal here because it can be a very odd situation and just know that they're honestly they're probably going to deny you the sale until that person comes back or they'll say hey we can put this on layaway or something until your significant other actually comes in and picks it up and that's just covering our end guys a lot of people don't know that if I were to fill out paperwork you know on a straw purchase and I didn't know you know there was a straw purchase and a crime was committed I would have to go to court and I could get in trouble so that's something that we really really trained on and trained and know about so these were my list of eight things on what not to do as a customer in a gun store I hope you guys enjoyed it I'll be putting out a new video here in a little bit on what guns store associates should not do in a gun store so I hope you guys enjoy that as well but thank you so much for watching and stay tuned for the next video to come

Info

Channel: FirearmFreedom

Views: 501,519

Rating: 4.604136 out of 5

Keywords: iMovie, gun store, what not to do, firearms, second amendment, freedom

Id: mpiPWHzOn2U

Channel Id: undefined

Length: 14min 47sec (887 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 04 2016

Reddit Comments