Some of the “Customers” strips will be from things I’ve witnessed at gun shops. Some will be from stories told to me by friends who work in gun shops. Some will be my own experiences in retail, transcribed to the gun shop setting. Whatever the case, expect these to happen every so often.
I can’t help but wonder from this strip if a 2nd Amendment/gun control thread is ever going to pop up.
It will. Give it some time. The Halloween strip is likely going to cause some…. uproar… *evil laugh*
It doesn’t matter what the field customer service always sucks. I think we can all sympathise with the panels here.
Testing
I get the “machinegun” one at work, all the time. But then, I work in a building full of lefties.
Banger: “Hey man, I need some bullets fo’ mah nine-gun.”
Me: “Sorry, don’t have ’em.”
What’s bad is when the gun store sells other related stuff, like knives, and someone who should know better, like a cop, comes in to tell them that some of those knives are “illegal daggers” (which are still legal to sell in Texas, just not carry around), and the counter guy repeats it, when the knife in question doesn’t even fit any definition for a dagger, much less the “illegal” part of it. (The knives in question were Cold Steel’s modernized versions of Sgian Dhus, Scottish sheath knives, single-edged only, not over 5 1/2″ blade length, which are parts of the Texas limits on legal knives.)
Range story time children
*Grabs a stump and sit’s*
Young… white gentlemen, in his late teens wearing low baggy pants (No I’m not hating on the fashion style, they literally fell down once while he was getting up to use the ranges spotting scope) Comes up to the firing line and proceeds to pull his AK-47 out of a pillow case. WASR manufacture if I remember right. After giving him his first warning for sweeping the muzzle along the firing line and transporting his firearm with a magazine inserted (Small miracles, no rounds were in said magazine) we set him down on a bench a little bit away from everyone. We went over the safety rules and basics after he told us he had never fired a gun “for reals” but “plenty of times in video games” and tried to stress the point that this was not a game and to take it seriously
I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, we all have to start somewhere and wherever that is I’m a firm believer that the right guidance from that point forward will do wonders. So he lines up pretty well, stock in the proper position, good sight picture. Squeezes off his first round. He’s in the black, 9 ring 12:00. He does that a few more times making a pretty respectable grouping for a first time shooter.
I’m in the office doing the log times when he knocks and comes up to me, asking if he can load a magazine to check to make sure the feeding of his gun works properly. I nodded and walked to his station, telling him that he’d have to slow fire but shouldn’t be a problem.
I should have known when he gave me a puzzled look before shrugging and loading his magazine and slapping it into the rifle. I watched to make sure he was still in the right position when the first round went off. And he just kind of sat there for a second before turning the gun on it’s side and looking it over. Pulled the trigger again, next round fired with no issue and again he sat there for a minute before looking it over again. He laid it down on the bench, stood and came over to me
“Yo man, can you fix my gun, it ain’t acting right”
“Looks like it works OK from here, what’s wrong?”
“I hold down the trigger but it doesn’t keep shooting, did I buy bad ammo or something?”
He later sold it to a guy at the range because “One round at a time wasn’t fun”
*headdesk*
Ow. Just OW.
You could do “customers” strips almost exclusively, and I’d laugh.
The more I hang around my local range, the more I wonder how some of these people don’t forget to breathe regularly.