Taking a friend to the shop

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westend456

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Hey Guys, a bit of newbie question here......

So back in the day when I use to go to the gun store to look at some new firearms and a friend came with me, staff in those shops never had a problem letting my friends also look and touch the guns since I was the license holder....now that was quite some time ago, and I am not totally sure if laws/culture around that has changed....In your guys experience, is this the norm? would stores object if friends of mine also held and touched guns I was thinking of buying?

Thanks alot!!
 
It's all situational. I've seen store employees pull the "Sorry, I can't let you see it without your license." line, and then five minutes later let someone else do it. Some people are just sketchy, and you wouldn't want them handling guns anyways.
 
totally dependant on the shop. target sports on london is super friendly ,and they let me handle w/e i wanted without asking me to see my pal. my other buddy tried to show them his card, but they waved it off and were not interested in seeing it.

lake huron rod and gun however would not let me handle any guns at all. (back before i had my pal)

each shop handles this differently. personally if i worked there, i'd ask to see a pal before i handed anyone a gun.
 
No law says you must have a licence to shop. You're not acquiring anything. However, some shops think you do need a licence to fondle. Refusing to allow an unlicenced shopper to handle a firearm weeds out the guy who cannot buy and take his new property home that day. Doing so is a good way of ensuring the guy buys elsewhere.
 
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