The problem

Shooting Industry, June, 1991 by Massad Ayoob

Pause for a moment and look at it from the other side. You pull into a parking space, and some guy you didn't see starts screaming that the space was his. You try to ignore him. He pulls open his coat and you see a gun in his belt. Would you feel that he had brandished a gun at you? Would you be threatened by that? It doesn't take a shark to prosecute such a case.

Of course, flashing a gun -- or pointing one at a person -- or even shooting that person can be justifiable under certain circumstances. In the next issue, we'll begin to lay that situation out, in a manner that will be geared for the dealer and his staff explaining these facts to the customer who expects the knowledge to come with the gun he or she is buying.