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TomsTXCHL wrote:Dunno the Bullet Trap but can imagine that owning a retail establishment and dealing with the Unwashed Masses first of all is no walk-in-the-park, but to do so with a business dealing with firearms (and we must all admit here that we are-or-can-be opinionated-and-difficult) has to be a challenge indeed.

Not to mention that there are "outsiders" (unhappy neighbors, legions of gun-grabbers) on one's case constantly.

Our local LGS has some extraordinarily nice people who own-and-operate it, and I wonder myself how they Stay so nice...

I want to first be clear that I was not trying to pick on bullet trap. It just happened to be a place I experienced a change that I was not comfortable with. From what I hear, that is all a thing of the past.

With that said, I can only imagine the frustration these places go through dealing with everything from new gun owners to the absolute "know it all". I try real hard to be pleasant and not make their lives harder than it already is.

Every place I have ever shot has their own set of rules, some made sense to me and some didn't. I either went along or went somewhere else. I respect the fact that it is their business to run as they please.

gringo pistolero wrote: Everybody agrees business owners have a right to be jack-wagons.

Yep... And we get the last laugh on the ones who do by taking our money elsewhere.

I had quit going to a place called Bullet Trap a year and a half ago because the folks working there were getting a bit belligerent, to put it kindly. I just joined a place in Frisco that is owned by a guy who purchased Bullet trap a year or so ago. He is putting serious effort into correcting the customer service issues. So far I am happy with the Frisco Gun Club but if the "bullet trap mentality" starts showing up, I am out of there.

MasterOfNone wrote:So would this be like running a parking garage and requiring everyone to show a bill of sale for their cars?

A better analogy would be running a parking garage and requiring anyone driving a lotus show their bill of sale.

But yeah... It is the right of any business owner to run their business how they see fit. That over rides our right to demand they run their business how we see fit.

In return, customers can choose to do business with businesses that do things agreeable to them. It's called free market principals and has nothing to do with the RKBA.

Yep. It's their business and they have the right to make the rules for shooting there. It doesn't mean they are ignorant.