Firearm Shop Rules and Edicate
By Gregory Kielma
How do gun shops prevent customers from threatening staff with firearms? What precautions are in place?
How do gun shops prevent customers from threatening staff with firearms? What precautions are in place?
Gregg Kielma
Tactical K Training and Firearms
Gun stores, my location, have strict safety rules: clients are never allowed access to both guns and ammunition simultaneously. If someone wants to test a firearm's action, only inert snap caps are used. Ammo and guns remain physically separated at all times. Any attempt to load a gun inside the store is met with immediate intervention, and persistent unsafe behavior can result in my staff drawing their own weapons.
Visitors to my gunsmith shop and location are required to ask permission to bring an unloaded and cased, firearm into my property. Any personal firearm coming into the shop must be unloaded and secured in a case or box.
Drawing or presenting a loaded or holstered weapon without warning can result in being confronted.
At my location I generally permit responsible carrying but prohibit reckless actions such as waving barrels or handling unloaded guns unsafely. Florida law requires specific signage if stores wish to ban carry, but responsible behavior is always expected for service or fitting firearms. Every action should be handled very over carefully.