Last birthday:
A gun store clerk can refuse to sell to someone if he/she feels that something isn't right. It's a "gut" call sometimes but the idea is to prevent someone who can't legally possess a firearm from doing so. Some are obviously whacky. One time I refused to sell to a guy who came in with a buddy. The buddy handled several pistols and finally showed one to the other guy who said, "I'll take this one." It was so obviously wrong that I still wonder if it wasn't a couple ATF guys checking us out. Another time a man and woman came in and the woman asked to see a couple different 1911 style pistols. The man acted kind of disinterested and pretended to look at accessories. The woman asked a couple times, "Honey, what do you think of this one?" He came over and shrugged his shoulders at several of them then pointed at one and said, "That one looks nice." I took it out of the case, racked it to check it then handed it to her. I asked her to also rack the slide. She couldn't do it but said, "I'll take it." I told her that I didn't think the gun was for her and I refused to sell it. They both walked out pretty quickly and that confirmed my suspicion that they were "dirty." So, don't get your shorts in a knot when something like that happens to you. Just be glad that there are some clerks that are maybe erring on the side of caution.
If a clerk refuses to sell to someone who is gay because they are gay the clerk should lose his job and the couple would have every right to be upset. However, being gay doesn't confer on anyone the right to bum rush a clerk into a questionable sale. If someone threw the gay card at me I'd respond, "Your sexual orientation, gender, religion or color doesn't matter to me. I'm refusing this sale because your partner looked at the gun, held it, and made the decision but now you say you're buying it. You can pay for it if you want but I'll run your partner's name through on the 4473."Okay, I just had an interesting sequence of thoughts. The idea that a business owner can refuse business to someone is a-okay in my book. But it made me think of the situations where some people don't think it is okay. Then it made me think what would happen if a couple that happened to be gay presented the same straw purchase red flags for a firearm and the clerk refused to sell. Then the couple claims it's because they are gay. Would the left actually throw a fit to force the gun store to make the sale? What kind of conversation would they have to have amongst themselves to justify it?
Someone missed the point.
Okay. Good point. The Left would probably go off on the clerk.Someone missed the point.
I didn't think you were that old
