Stupid things people do with firearms

Dayum! He's lucky the woman didn't beat the hell out of him before he was hauled off...I would have.

I remember that one-someone asked me what happened across the way and all I said was "I don't know but that was a .38 I believe". I didn't see the shot but knew where it come from as I turned. Several made the usual 'must have been a customer' comments but nooo it was someone who should know much better...but you know what they say about complacency with guns.

I once had a guy bring me a 1911 Swiss 7.5x55mm rifle to my shop. He had been firing .44 magnum 240 gr SP ammo in it. That is quite a squeeze on the bullet. He had to pound the bolt closed with a 2x4. The only reason he stopped shooting .44 ammo in the rifle was, he broke the extractor. The fool killer took a vacation.

Doug

At the Jackson Gun Show about 8 years ago, I had a Mauser-Vergurio 8x57mm Rifle. On the front of the bolt, there are 2 extra lugs that look like locking lugs. What they really are is a baffle to stop gas from coming down the action raceways, if a cartridge fails. Something like the Savage 110. When you twist the baffle lugs the firing pin and bolt sleeve are violently expelled from the bolt. One day at the show a customer took the bolt out of the Vergurio rifle and twisted the baffle lugs as he was looking at the back of the bolt. When he twisted the baffle lugs the firing mechanism was ejected from the bolt and struck him square between his eyes. BONK!!!!!! The bolt continued it's flight for about 15 feet and struck a lady in the top of her foot. So we had one guy sitting on the floor, holding his head and a very irritated young lady needing a chair. The Vergurio bolt is very hard to re-assemble and it took me about 45 minutes to get it back together. I hope the guy has learned not to take apart firearms that he has no knowledge of. This story got into the Shotgun News in Paul Scarlatta's military rifle column.

Doug Bowser

Now that's a good story of when to leave things alone...

At another show I was set up and a guy brought over an old Luger looking to make a trade on a Ruger Redhawk. (This was before Lugers prices went thru the roof.) He pulled the Luger out and was flashing it around swinging the arrel at everyone with his finger on the trigger. He finally handed it to me and I pulled a fully loaded mag out of it. I opened the chamber and one was in there. One of the cops being used for security was close by and I waved him over. I gave him the gun and mag and asked him to escort this fool out of there. The cop chewed on this loser all the way outside!

Good stories… mine don’t really compare, but I like to see guys walk up to the gun counter with their girlfriends and ask to see an AR. I usually know whats coming next. They are gonna field strip it. Most guys will stop when they get the bolt out, reassemble and walk off talking about how they miss doing that from the military…

But there was this one guy. He was looking at an Remington R-25. when he cracked it open and slid the bolt out, he proceeded to disassemble the bolt and could barely get it back together. He struggled with the thing for 5 minutes before remembering how to get it (or figuring it out) back together… his girl was laughing and rolling her eyes. As he was walking away he was mumbling something about how different they are from the military models… I don’t know personally as I was never in the military… maybe they are. But it would make sense that they are different seeing as how this was a remington and not a M16/ AR15. so it would make sense that if you don’t know for sure, don’t try in front of someone you don’t want to get embarrassed in front of. Lol he also had trouble closing the gun back up after getting the front pin back in.

Man it was classic.

Or the other guy who was cruising thru and cracked open that same rifle and something goes clunk, and hits the floor… he looks down, says here hold this, and proceeds to bend over and pick up his .45/410 derringer off the floor. His cross draw riding holster had come upsnapped and when he twisted to break the rifle open, it gave the gun all the slack it needed to come on out. Thank GOD for transfer bars…

Or the guys that come in and they want to buy a "9"… ok, what kind of "9" do you want? A "9"… you know, a pistol… um, ok, well here is a (glock, sig, or whatever I am standing near at the time)… yea, like that. Does this have a clip?

Or similar story…
Shopper: yall have glocks?
Me: Yep.
Shopper: Lemme see one.
Me: Here ya go. This one is 9mm, and its $599…
Shopper: my buddy bought one that was only $350.
Me: new?
Shopper: Yep.
Me: Your buddy bought a new Glock for $350?
Shopper: Yeah, it’s a Taurus Glock

Ahhhh….

And then finally the older teenager…
Him: WHOOOAAAAAA!!!! Is that a 1911??
Me: Yep.
Him: Man that’s a great gun!
Me: Yea they are.
Him: They kick real bad tho!
Me: they arent that bad. Lot of guns kick worse.
Him: man they kick real hard. It’s the worst kicking gun on my video game!
Me (thinking): get out of my store!

Me: Your buddy bought a new Glock for $350?
Shopper: Yeah, it’s a Taurus Glock

Damn Joe, too bad they don't let ya'll shoot the dumb ones so they can't breed. That's both funny and pitiful at the same time.

At a shop my friend owned in Mobile they had a guy walk in and ask to see a pump shotgun. They handed him an 870 and the guy proceds to load it. This moron looked up at the sounds of 3 clicks and found himself staring down the barrels of 3 Colt 45's. He stammered... I was just making sure I had the right caliber!

I was a few feet away when the gun went off in Jackson Gun Show, was complete silence after, they escorted him out very quickly. It was a miracle no one was injured, I thought the guy was pulling the gun out of his pocket when it fired I saw the hole in his pants.. Same show a year later I was in there in a storm and power went off, lots of very nervous dealers without flashlights..

Joe S. wrote:

Or similar story…
Shopper: yall have glocks?
Me: Yep.
Shopper: Lemme see one.
Me: Here ya go. This one is 9mm, and its $599…
Shopper: my buddy bought one that was only $350.
Me: new?
Shopper: Yep.
Me: Your buddy bought a new Glock for $350?
Shopper: Yeah, it’s a Taurus Glock

Ahhhh….

OH MY!!!

I was installing a new lean to stand in the middle of nowhere and realized my buddy drilled the holes wrong. .a. 40 makes a decent drill in a pinch..worked perfectly. .
.....don't try this at home...