Just exactly what kind of “education” do you need at a gun shop to buy a gun? I don’t know of anything, other than how the gun feels in my hand, that I can’t learn about on the internet.If you want the RK types price you should live with their policies on gun handling and the staff that has little knowledge of guns.
If you want knowledge and education on the gun as well as time handling, you should buy from the LGS.
This ain’t my first rodeo on this topic and the whole shopping excuse is just that, an excuse. For all the blather on INGO about markets and using one’s money to speak to and teach the corporations here is a place it actually would work, don’t buy from sources that don’t have handling and education, they will either respond with change, ignore it because it is not enough to bother them, or get out. But no, they are the cheapest, and many equate that with best.
Also, why do you hate freedom and capitalism?