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August 27, 2014
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mrcvs said
So, who is responsible when a gun falls off a table at a gun show? I was looking at a rifle one on a table on which a vendor had too many rifles piled in it and, you guessed it, one modern rifle clattered to the floor. Somehow, no damage, but I wasn’t exactly going to reimburse him if their was as his table was not neatly organized. Even if it was, I think that’s a risk you, as a vendor, takes.
I would think the actual circumstances go a long way in assigning potential responsibility…
If a prospective buyer was just ‘looking’ at a gun (never touched it) and it fell to the floor how can he be held responsible? If the prospective buyer is/was actually handling the gun that is a different story if it winds up on the floor, not sure if the person can be held responsible for the actual damages, but they more than likely are responsible for the fall itself
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September 22, 2011
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Tedk said
mrcvs said
So, who is responsible when a gun falls off a table at a gun show? I was looking at a rifle one on a table on which a vendor had too many rifles piled in it and, you guessed it, one modern rifle clattered to the floor. Somehow, no damage, but I wasn’t exactly going to reimburse him if their was as his table was not neatly organized. Even if it was, I think that’s a risk you, as a vendor, takes.
I would think the actual circumstances go a long way in assigning potential responsibility…
If a prospective buyer was just ‘looking’ at a gun (never touched it) and it fell to the floor how can he be held responsible? If the prospective buyer is/was actually handling the gun that is a different story if it winds up on the floor, not sure if the person can be held responsible for the actual damages, but they more than likely are responsible for the fall itself
The circumstances were that the vendor had way too many rifles on a table, and a rack C-clamped to the back of the table. On that rack was an overpriced Model 1894 rifle that I was only interested in to get information for Bert’s survey. I asked to see it. The vendor gestured that I could pick it up. I should have had him hand it to me. But I picked it up off the rack and leaning over the table I knocked that modern rifle to the floor. I don’t know what it was but something recent/modern.
September 19, 2014
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FWIW, I have expounded in past about folks with way too many firearms on the table. One day the table will collapse and more than a few will hit the floor. Or what about the one lining up a goodly number that poke out into the aisle? Whose fault when a passerby snags a firearms a couple of feet into the aisle??
Tim
September 22, 2011
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tim tomlinson said
FWIW, I have expounded in past about folks with way too many firearms on the table. One day the table will collapse and more than a few will hit the floor. Or what about the one lining up a goodly number that poke out into the aisle? Whose fault when a passerby snags a firearms a couple of feet into the aisle??
Tim
I have a problem with firearms sticking considerably beyond the end of the table. Who’s responsibility is it when a passerby who may not be interested in a firearm knocks it off the table because of way too many longarms sticking out way beyond the edge of the table?
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