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5/31/2006 3:14:16 PM EDT
You walk into or onto your local gun shop/gun range and the employees are wearing concealment body armor under their shirts.   If you could tell they were wearing one at all, would you perceive the shop/range to be unsafe or would it make perfect sense that people working with firearms all day would wear a vest? Thanks for your feedback.
5/31/2006 3:15:41 PM EDT
[#1]
I'd just think they were ARFCOM members and ask what their screen names are.
5/31/2006 3:17:44 PM EDT
[#2]
I don't see it as a problem.  Probably a smart thing to do.  Some dip shit could pull his gun out to show off and have a ND.
5/31/2006 3:20:12 PM EDT
[#3]
Every gun store around here they all openly carry, so body armor would not phase me one bit, probably smart to do so.
5/31/2006 3:21:11 PM EDT
[#4]
I were Body Armor to the range.
My wife thinks I am weird.
5/31/2006 3:21:22 PM EDT
[#5]
Quoted:
You walk into or onto your local gun shop/gun range and the employees are wearing concealment body armor under their shirts.   If you could tell they were wearing one at all, would you perceive the shop/range to be unsafe or would it make perfect sense that people working with firearms all day would wear a vest? Thanks for your feedback.



to me, anyway
5/31/2006 3:24:35 PM EDT
[#6]
No biggie. Just watch your ass.
5/31/2006 3:26:23 PM EDT
[#7]
IBTP.

I personally could care less if they're wearing it or not.  If I didn't feel safe in there, I would avoid going in the first place.
5/31/2006 3:27:15 PM EDT
[#8]
Sounds smart to me.
5/31/2006 3:38:46 PM EDT
[#9]
Seems reasonable.

Is there a catch?
5/31/2006 3:52:59 PM EDT
[#10]
Quoted:
Seems reasonable.

Is there a catch?


No, no catch.  It's a brewing controversy-one side says it may/will give customers negative perception, but; it makes more than good sense to me.  No really worries about getting shot by a would-be assailant. The concern is getting shot by a careless goof that takes his gun out to show someone and he has "forgotten the one in the chamber".  
5/31/2006 4:12:55 PM EDT
[#11]
I would be much less worried about the person behind the counter wearing body armor (employee/business owner) than the stranger who walks into the shop unnanounced w/ a firearm of unknown safety and proceeds to wave it around while discussing the "trigger pull" problem he's been having lately!

JM2CW
5/31/2006 4:23:27 PM EDT
[#12]
Phhtt!  This is OUR local rangemaster...
6/1/2006 3:11:56 AM EDT
[#13]
Depends on what level. If it's anything below IIIa I'd think they were pikers and take my bidness to a real gun shop.
6/1/2006 3:19:26 AM EDT
[#14]
Considering the idiots out there,You'd be a fool not to wear it,IMO
6/1/2006 3:29:22 AM EDT
[#15]
Quoted:
I were Body Armor to the range.
My wife thinks I am weird.


If I wear going, I probably would also.
6/1/2006 3:33:33 AM EDT
[#16]
You have to figure that if someone is going to rob a gun store, you'd expect lots of shots fired.  Wearing a vest isn't a bad idea and doesn't imply that the store is unsafe.  I've never seen it before, but to each their own.  Plus.....ACCIDENTS HAPPEN.
6/1/2006 3:35:37 AM EDT
[#17]
One of my local shops, the owner was shot before.

Guns do bring criminals around.

I would wear one....Even if I had a shop in the Hamptons.
6/1/2006 4:12:59 AM EDT
[#18]
Was the gimp wearing one also?
6/1/2006 4:18:10 AM EDT
[#19]
Jenn it wouldn't bother me.  I would think they were not only being safe with the unknown traffic that they were modeling what was available too.
6/1/2006 4:22:21 AM EDT
[#20]
I wear body armor to the mall........you know in case a sniper tries to put multiple .308 rounds into my back.



No I wouldn't think they were weird.....unless they were selling jerky and talking about their classified past as a SEAL.
6/1/2006 4:53:07 AM EDT
[#21]
Makes perfect sense to me
6/1/2006 4:58:56 AM EDT
[#22]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Seems reasonable.

Is there a catch?


No, no catch.  It's a brewing controversy-one side says it may/will give customers negative perception, but; it makes more than good sense to me.  No really worries about getting shot by a would-be assailant. The concern is getting shot by a careless goof that takes his gun out to show someone and he has "forgotten the one in the chamber".  



Yes same here - BUT my wife not being a "gun" person WOULD think there was a PROBLEM, IF she KNEW that what she was seeing was in FACT BODY ARMOUR. If we (she and I) visited that store and I identified the ARMOUR, she would definitely ask me WHY, her hair would be up and she'd be tugging at my arm to leave. If I got the chance to 'splain it - I believe she'd be OK with it. Then she would probably ask me to buy ARMOUR for my range visits.
6/1/2006 3:06:11 PM EDT
[#23]
Quoted:
Depends on what level. If it's anything below IIIa I'd think they were pikers and take my bidness to a real gun shop.


No one here is "bringing a knife to a gun  fight" IIIa is the ONLY consideration.
6/1/2006 3:24:42 PM EDT
[#24]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Seems reasonable.

Is there a catch?


No, no catch.  It's a brewing controversy-one side says it may/will give customers negative perception, but; it makes more than good sense to me.  No really worries about getting shot by a would-be assailant. The concern is getting shot by a careless goof that takes his gun out to show someone and he has "forgotten the one in the chamber".  


It wouldn't give me a negative perception. I think more places should sell body armor.
6/1/2006 3:26:05 PM EDT
[#25]
Seems smart to me.  The bulletholes in the overhang are proof of some of the idiots that go to firing ranges.
6/1/2006 3:43:19 PM EDT
[#26]
makes sence, if you got into a cab and the cabbie had his seat belt on would you refuse to ride with him because he was expecting an accident.  Lots of idiots come into ranges/gun shops, thwe way most of the shops around here work you could buy a mag and ammo for a gun they have in the counter, go out to your car and load.  Then walk back in a ask to see the gun your mag fits, instant loaded firearm.    Range/gunstore employees without sit awaresness are probably more of a porblem than the smart ones wearing armor.
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