Guns displayed during a backoff

[Katweezel]

Holster guys

You could easily have gone apeshit, but you kept your cool AutoMonk. BTW do you recall if any of the guys that were showing you looked like Chuck Norris? :cat:

 

[Automatic Monkey]

I have to disagree with this. I can't imagine a casino employing anyone to stand around with an empty gun. Nor can I imagine many people would be willing to do it.
In an auction situation, the armed guards are just one layer of security, although the most obvious. almost anyplace that employees armed guards will have a second layer of armed guards in civilian clothes.
Imagine the liability a casino would have if someone they hired to carry a gun was wounded because he wasn't allowed to put bullets in it. Only person I know that would go along with that would be Barney Fife.

The problem is you are responding like an intelligent and sane person. Believe me, I've worked with security guards back in college, and worked supervising them, and most of them would jump at the opportunity to display a gun loaded or unloaded, handcuffs, nightsticks, any symbol of power or authority even if they had no authority or training to use them. I had a guy working for me who displayed handcuffs for intimidation even though it would have been a felony for him to put them on anyone for any reason in that state. He got into trouble one night and almost had them put on him.

Liability for a guard getting hurt is covered by workman's comp, but for a patron getting hurt it's a different story and a lawsuit could easily get out of hand. Also very bad for business if a patron was shot with a gun carried by an employee, regardless of who fired it. Not to say that they can't put bullets in their guns and that they wouldn't have some available, but you really don't want a gun displayed openly in a crowded area with a loaded clip in it or a bullet in the chamber.

 

[Tarzan]

Can you elaborate on this?

Can you go into details about this? What prompted this, etc.

 

[Slick Vic]

The problem is you are responding like an intelligent and sane person. Believe me, I've worked with security guards back in college, and worked supervising them, and most of them would jump at the opportunity to display a gun loaded or unloaded, handcuffs, nightsticks, any symbol of power or authority even if they had no authority or training to use them. I had a guy working for me who displayed handcuffs for intimidation even though it would have been a felony for him to put them on anyone for any reason in that state. He got into trouble one night and almost had them put on him.

It sounds like those guys were just upset they couldn't make it as real cops...

 

[GeorgeD]

It sounds like those guys were just upset they couldn't make it as real cops...

Maybe they heard about the monkey that ripped that lady to shreds and were afraid AM would go berserk.