T Dubya
Campaign Veteran
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First off this is not a slam on Greentop. They are very friendly to me and are always helpful even when they are super busy.
So here is the story. I went to Greentop last night about 30 minutes before closing. I was just going to get some targets and some accessories when I saw it! The new Delta Elite. I was on the list to get one so I put a deposit on it and I mentioned to the sales rep that the Delta Elite would be my open carry piece for lobby day next year.
Would you believe that the sales rep thought that open carrying at the capitol was a terrible idea? He said something about how he would not go anywhere near that place with a gun! I said something about how I did it twice last year and mentioned the VCDLand what lobby day is all about. I could tell he wasn't hearing it. I know that gun counter-sales people hear so much bravo sierra from customers and looky-loo'sthat they probably have a tough time deciphering fact from nonsense.
The point of the story is this; we still have a long way to go. When you have a sales rep at one of the East Coast's largest stores for firearms make comments like that we have a communication gap somewhere.Last year I talked to a sales rep about how we could get the word out about lobby day to their customers and staff, to say I had a luke warm response would be putting it nicely.
The VCDL, well-informed open-carriers, and lobby day participants are their friends and I don't think they know it. How do we bridge that gap? Talking to them about open-carrying and VCDL seems to fall on deaf ears.
First off this is not a slam on Greentop. They are very friendly to me and are always helpful even when they are super busy.
So here is the story. I went to Greentop last night about 30 minutes before closing. I was just going to get some targets and some accessories when I saw it! The new Delta Elite. I was on the list to get one so I put a deposit on it and I mentioned to the sales rep that the Delta Elite would be my open carry piece for lobby day next year.
Would you believe that the sales rep thought that open carrying at the capitol was a terrible idea? He said something about how he would not go anywhere near that place with a gun! I said something about how I did it twice last year and mentioned the VCDLand what lobby day is all about. I could tell he wasn't hearing it. I know that gun counter-sales people hear so much bravo sierra from customers and looky-loo'sthat they probably have a tough time deciphering fact from nonsense.
The point of the story is this; we still have a long way to go. When you have a sales rep at one of the East Coast's largest stores for firearms make comments like that we have a communication gap somewhere.Last year I talked to a sales rep about how we could get the word out about lobby day to their customers and staff, to say I had a luke warm response would be putting it nicely.
The VCDL, well-informed open-carriers, and lobby day participants are their friends and I don't think they know it. How do we bridge that gap? Talking to them about open-carrying and VCDL seems to fall on deaf ears.