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rwilso wrote:I have been working part time in a Mom and Pop gun store for the past 5 months. I am 52 and have never worked retail in my life. It has given me a whole new respect all who work retail. It is not easy. I learn something new every time I work a shift and much of my learning does come from the customers. Especially when it comes to old military firearms. It would be very difficult to know everything about every gun in the store. The stock is always changing. There are many hard to get firearms that may be in the store 3 times a year and on the shelf for about an hour or less.
The most important thing about working in a gun store is checking in the firearms to AMI before they go on the shelf and the 4473 form. A mistake by an employee can cost the owner his FFL. Also, treat each person who walks in the door with respect and be helpful. No matter how much you think you know about every gun in the world there is always someone who knows more than you.

So what I am saying in a nut shell is: Unless you have worked retail, especially in a gun store, give them a break. It is a hard job and there is lots to do to keep up a store front. It can also get frustrating talking to 20 people a day why there is no 22 ammo and how you can drag an AK47 through the mud and it still shoots. But I still act like it is the first time to talk about it.lol

I do understand that you will run into clerks that so not seem to care about you or their job. If you run into that just go somewhere else. That is how I found the store I work in now.

texanjoker wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:The next sales clerk that tells you that....hand him a copy of the booklet and ask, "Please show me in the actual law where it says that."

Ask him if he A) has his own CHL, and B) who was the instructor who taught his class, so that you can steer people away from that instructor.

There is no printing law, but if a person can articulate it is a gun by the look and shape, they may call 911 about the man with the gun and cause you grief.