Question? Gun Show etiquette

[Whistler]

It's not Walmart and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to show a bit of common courtesy. If it doesn't belong to you ask before you touch it, how hard is that? Some think "cash is king" and having money in their pocket exempts them from being polite or showing the least courtesy - maybe it's just me but disrespect my stuff or my person and you can stick your cash where the sun doesn't shine, I don't need your money that badly.

[funkymonkey1111]

It's not Walmart and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to show a bit of common courtesy. If it doesn't belong to you ask before you touch it, how hard is that? Some think "cash is king" and having money in their pocket exempts them from being polite or showing the least courtesy - maybe it's just me but disrespect my stuff or my person and you can stick your cash where the sun doesn't shine, I don't need your money that badly.

You're right about that, buddy--it isn't wal-mart--because if it was, you'd be making a sale--just like wal-mart does. But don't worry, the guy down the row will take my cash--and you can spend your need for "respect" on your mortgage all day long.

[BlasterBob]

It's not Walmart and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to show a bit of common courtesy. If it doesn't belong to you ask before you touch it, how hard is that? Some think "cash is king" and having money in their pocket exempts them from being polite or showing the least courtesy - maybe it's just me but disrespect my stuff or my person and you can stick your cash where the sun doesn't shine, I don't need your money that badly.

+1 whistler...On the rare occasion when I DO have a gun show table, I'm not there to make bucks, merely trying to retrieve at least a little of what I paid for the items. I am paying big bucks for a table to sell off something that I don't really need any longer so that someone else may have the opportunity to enjoy it like I did. So, if I have to take the items back home with me, no big deal at all and at least I got to visit with some good acquaintances while at the show......
Here's to ya

[Whistler]

You're right about that, buddy--it isn't wal-mart--because if it was, you'd be making a sale--just like wal-mart does. But don't worry, the guy down the row will take my cash--and you can spend your need for "respect" on your mortgage all day long.

Peace

Wasn't calling you out directly, you're entitled to your point of view. It's just my point of view money is not the beginning and the end, you have to live on this planet with other people and treating them and their belongings with respect/courtesy goes a long way in that regard. In fact some folks (like myself) demand it and choose not to do business with those who can't or won't. My principals are what they are and certainly not for sale. Yeah I know I'll die poor, I'm good with that.

[funkymonkey1111]

Peace

Wasn't calling you out directly, you're entitled to your point of view. It's just my point of view money is not the beginning and the end, you have to live on this planet with other people and treating them and their belongings with respect/courtesy goes a long way in that regard. In fact some folks (like myself) demand it and choose not to do business with those who can't or won't. My principals are what they are and certainly not for sale. Yeah I know I'll die poor, I'm good with that.

Peace accord--to be clear--I do respect the signs--if it says "don't touch," well, I don't touch, but I don't stop and look, either.

Good luck on the sales.

[Great-Kazoo]

You're right about that, buddy--it isn't wal-mart--because if it was, you'd be making a sale--just like wal-mart does. But don't worry, the guy down the row will take my cash--and you can spend your need for "respect" on your mortgage all day long.

If you're serious buyer step up, if not keep you hands off anything that has a sign mentioning to ASK BEFORE HANDLING. The serious buyers will ask prior to racking the slide.
Oddly enough walmart had locked display cases that say.
PLEASE ask a customer service rep for assistance.
CD's, Computers. Guess they lost your business too. Oh well target's down the road.

[alxone]

i guess funkmonkey only buys pistols from gun shows or private sales . i have never been to a gun store where they keep pistols out for anybody to touch . maybe he does not realize how frustrating it is to have teenagers grab your pistols and having to stop talking to paying costumers to tell someones brat kid to put that down .also considering that 80% of people that go to show pick up a gun and dry fire it , i don't know about you but that gets under my skin . i have had people break antique's and cost me more than i made that day . so if me protecting my items by keeping them under glass thwarts your sale then so be it . there are plenty of people willing to be social enough to ask to see a pistol they might want .

[TFOGGER]

i guess funkmonkey only buys pistols from gun shows or private sales . i have never been to a gun store where they keep pistols out for anybody to touch . maybe he does not realize how frustrating it is to have teenagers grab your pistols and having to stop talking to paying costumers to tell someones brat kid to put that down .also considering that 80% of people that go to show pick up a gun and dry fire it , i don't know about you but that gets under my skin . i have had people break antique's and cost me more than i made that day . so if me protecting my items by keeping them under glass thwarts your sale then so be it . there are plenty of people willing to be social enough to ask to see a pistol they might want .

Add to that the idiots that dry fire .22 rimfires(at best tearing up the firing pin, at worst ruining the chamber), muzzle sweep themselves and everyone around them, and you arrive at the reason I hardly ever go to gunshgows. I always ask before handling anything (including knives, bags of bullets, jars of beef jerky, whatever), as a common courtesy. Until I pay for it, it belongs to someone else, and I'm going to respect that.

[alxone]

muzzle sweep themselves and everyone around them.

reminds of the fella who got but hurt that i gave him the finger . he was looking at an ar with scope and green lazer a few tables away . i then notice a green dot on my chest and look over at some fuck tard pointing a rifle at me . so i gave him the finger . he came over and started acting all offended . so i informed him it it had been outside of the show id have at best taken his gun and slapped the shit out of him and at worst he would be dead by lead . the pointing of firearms at gun shows really pisses me off .

[irishmtnmn]

Peace accord--to be clear--I do respect the signs--if it says "don't touch," well, I don't touch, but I don't stop and look, either.

Good luck on the sales.

I have a VERY simple solution to the gap in understanding here.

Funkymonkey......take 30 or 40 of your PRIME guns....the nice stuff.....rent a table....and put them out there.

I honestly think that within 30 minutes.....you will have a much different perspective.

EVEN VENDORS......ask each other if they can handle a gun before they do.

Its common courtesy....and after a 9 year old kid picks up your vintage Colt 1911....and drops the mag on the floor..or bounces it off another of your guns...you'll want to put it in a glass case too.