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After reading about the decision to fire their store manager for stopping a low life thief just gives me another reason not to shop there.

Just read the article, that’s a shame. I agree, will buy my good service from another store.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/ ... 772900002/

I witnessed an individual stealing a bunch of GoPro's from West Marine in Stuart FL. Employee tackled the guy, he was arrested by the police and for his services was immediately fired from West Marine. We live in a litigious society where doing the right thing results in the wrong action sometimes. Sad and unfortunate.

A C A D E M Y

I read the story and do not know the complete facts. If this man was doing his job I will not patronize this store for at least 1 year. There are plenty of other stores like this one.

This one is a toughie for companies. If an employee gets it wrong, they get sued. Also high risk for employee to get hurt. Myself, if I saw someone stealing a firearm, I would have done the samething. Seems like a staunch warning would be enough, but don't know if this guy had been warned before. Suspect he will get another job where they appreciate heroic acts by employees.

Still can't imagine how this person got a hold of a weapon in the first place. Seems some employee made a mistake to let him have access. Of course, he may have posed as a shopper and then walked off after being handed the gun. Suck!

MudDucker wrote:This one is a toughie for companies. If an employee gets it wrong, they get sued. Also high risk for employee to get hurt. Myself, if I saw someone stealing a firearm, I would have done the samething. Seems like a staunch warning would be enough, but don't know if this guy had been warned before. Suspect he will get another job where they appreciate heroic acts by employees.

Still can't imagine how this person got a hold of a weapon in the first place. Seems some employee made a mistake to let him have access. Of course, he may have posed as a shopper and then walked off after being handed the gun. Suck!

I’m sure you have been to gun stores, you know how it works

Salty Gator wrote:

MudDucker wrote:This one is a toughie for companies. If an employee gets it wrong, they get sued. Also high risk for employee to get hurt. Myself, if I saw someone stealing a firearm, I would have done the samething. Seems like a staunch warning would be enough, but don't know if this guy had been warned before. Suspect he will get another job where they appreciate heroic acts by employees.

Still can't imagine how this person got a hold of a weapon in the first place. Seems some employee made a mistake to let him have access. Of course, he may have posed as a shopper and then walked off after being handed the gun. Suck!

I’m sure you have been to gun stores, you know how it works

I have and I've seen them refuse to just hand over a weapon as well to shady looking customers. I've had them hold the weapon up and display it instead.

MudDucker wrote:

Salty Gator wrote:

MudDucker wrote:This one is a toughie for companies. If an employee gets it wrong, they get sued. Also high risk for employee to get hurt. Myself, if I saw someone stealing a firearm, I would have done the samething. Seems like a staunch warning would be enough, but don't know if this guy had been warned before. Suspect he will get another job where they appreciate heroic acts by employees.

Still can't imagine how this person got a hold of a weapon in the first place. Seems some employee made a mistake to let him have access. Of course, he may have posed as a shopper and then walked off after being handed the gun. Suck!

I’m sure you have been to gun stores, you know how it works

I have and I've seen them refuse to just hand over a weapon as well to shady looking customers. I've had them hold the weapon up and display it instead.

I’ve never seen that. I’m sure it isn’t legal not let someone hold a gun over the way he looks. Lawsuit city

The big problem is now everyone knows they can ask to see a gun and run out the store with it and no one will try and stop them. Only thing stopping them will be video footage. Don’t know how well that works to catch someone. Seems to me that to allow someone to look and handle a firearm they should ask for and hold on to their drivers license.

In an effort to prevent lawsuits and save $$$, Academy Sports has basically let all thugs know we will not stop you from stealing firearms and ammunition from our stores! As a result they are endangering their employees and customers by increasing the odds that thugs and guns will be in play at their stores. They also appear not to care that this philosophy will create more illegal guns on the streets in our community. The manager of this store reacted correctly to this situation and should not have been fired. Academy caved to the almighty $$. I called their corporate headquarters and left a message with this feedback.

Glad the manager got his job back, hope they gave the man a raise!

MudDucker wrote:

Salty Gator wrote:

MudDucker wrote:This one is a toughie for companies. If an employee gets it wrong, they get sued. Also high risk for employee to get hurt. Myself, if I saw someone stealing a firearm, I would have done the samething. Seems like a staunch warning would be enough, but don't know if this guy had been warned before. Suspect he will get another job where they appreciate heroic acts by employees.

Still can't imagine how this person got a hold of a weapon in the first place. Seems some employee made a mistake to let him have access. Of course, he may have posed as a shopper and then walked off after being handed the gun. Suck!

I’m sure you have been to gun stores, you know how it works

I have and I've seen them refuse to just hand over a weapon as well to shady looking customers. I've had them hold the weapon up and display it instead.

I’ve never had someone show me a gun by holding it up. You may want to clean up if the gun store employees won’t let you hold a gun

BillytheKid wrote:http://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Academy ... 13981.html

Beat me to it. Reports are that they got inundated by angry customers who suggested that a bonus was more in order than a firing.