I’m not a vet, still no need to ask me to thank you every 5 seconds. The real high speed operators and team guys never said shit to anyone about it and the one who talked about it the most was a supply sergeant, weird shit. Don’t recall anyone telling me how they protected me thankfully. I do go out of my way to say stuff to Vietnam Vets since they got treated so shitty coming home.
Obviously you volunteer to go to war I appreciate it, but no need to remind me to try and get more discounts on already low prices constantly. I know one guy with a FFL that requires you to be active duty for a discount and he’s a vet. Always an awkward moment when guys hear “active duty only” and it’s only something like 3%. He also grills them about their MOS and where they deployed It’s hard to watch when I’ve stopped in.
The best way to get discounts is be cool when you show up, spend money, and don’t ask for shit theyll remember you.
Edit: I do love hearing the stories of retarded shit, and fuck fuck games from vets though. Tell me all the stupid funny stories
I don't give discounts, for any group,
and in my business, if you want something and say I'll take it, you bought it at list price,
once we get paperwork going, negotiations and discount don't happen,
kinda related, I'm set up at a gunshow in NOVA, busy day, selling well,
get a guy, says he wants to buy a firearm,
has mil ID, and PCS paperwork
paperwork is 3 yrs out of date,
so I ask for a recent set,
he gives me grief about that, but I calmly tell him (he was in the Army IIRC, and an officer, don't recall rank,)
tell him he has a choice, provide paperwork or move on,
so he gets on the phone with his wife, talks to her like an ass, embarrassingly so,
after maybe 30 minutes she sends him a pic of the paperwork,,, same as when he already had
another phone call and more berating over the phone, and he gets his current Orders,,
to DC,
I am a FFL,, in VA, at that time there were no gunshops to do transfers in DC,
so he proceeds to rant at me about how he had PCS papers in DC but worked in VA,
sorry, says I,
then he called me anti Vet,,
my helper, who is a VET, with some disability on paperwork, was about to go apeshit on this guy , but luckily , for the dude, looked at me first and I told the dude that as a non veteran, who owned a company started by my father,, a Vet, and employing Vets, and have a brother from another mother that is(at that time) employed by USAR as a civilian and a Vet, that accusation did not really fly,
he shut up and left,
came back an hour later, and said his buddy wanted to buy that gun now,, (buddy had proper paperwork)
he got a quick lesson on what a straw purchase was and asked if I needed to reach out to the ATF, the VSP or his commanding officer.
he stfu and left
and before anyone says I could have used his DL to sell him a rifle, nope, he stated he lived here in VA, and his PCS was expired, so that would not fly,