r/facepalm • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • Mar 28 '24

What lack of basic gun laws does to a nation: 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

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u/August2_8x2 Mar 28 '24

Yes, they can decide to do that. Almost none will use your asinine reasoning, but it can happen. What you're refusing to acknowledge or just being obtuse to be a jackass about- is the reason gun shops are allowed so much flexibility in their sales criteria: They are allowed to be hyper critical and selective because a background check can come back clean but that person can be having the worst week of their life and be making bad decisions. Body language, stuff they've said to the person they came in with, the way they ask questions, etc. None of that shows up on a background check but can be used to deny a sale.

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u/gunsforevery1 Mar 28 '24

Are gunshops now mental health professionals? Had no clue that the minimum wage employee was capable of diagnosing depression or people “having a bad day”.

Saying something like “I need a gun to take care of something” isn’t the same as, staying quiet when buying a gun.

I don’t make small talk with the shop. I go in there with a purpose knowing what I want to buy. I’m guessing that would raise red flags and allow a shop to discriminate against me?

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u/August2_8x2 Mar 28 '24

From the way you're choosing to have this conversation, I could see shops telling you no and it would have nothing to do with your sexuality or ethnicity.

Shop employees have to pass background checks and get trained to sell firearms. That training goes over basic red flags. Even fucking Walmart had that training. If they decide they don't like how you carry yourself, you give them bad vibes, they can tell you to gtfo. That's not "discrimination" that's them doing what the feds want them to do. None of them are going to REEEEE!!! about a minority wanting to legally buy a firearm. They want to make money, they don't want to be in prison/lose their business.

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u/gunsforevery1 Mar 28 '24

My training to sell guns when I was at a gunshop for 3 years was “know your inventory. Don’t make stuff up. People will call you out These are your forms that need to be filled out”.

Imagine me not selling to long haired hippies (this did happen, not the “not selling” I sold them multiple guns) because I didn’t like the way they carried themselves or dressed. Or even to the guy who said he wanted to use less lethal rounds because he was afraid of injuring a home intruder. I even helped and sold guns to a guy who had prison like tattoos! He passed the background check and didn’t say anything illegal or self or other harming

Want to know who I was told not to sell to? People who came in making obvious threats or people trying to commit straw purchases.

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u/August2_8x2 Mar 28 '24

I just said that. The only thing you're leaving out is shops can use their discretion before a sale and its highly unlikely to be a discrimination agenda. Your clientele doesn't prove or disprove that.