What Working at a Gun Store Taught Me About Gun Ownership in America

The good, the bad, the ugly

Dillon Melet
GEN
Published in
10 min readSep 17, 2021

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Photo by Arnav Singhal on Unsplash

As a 21-year-old college student, I worked for a year at a gun store in Southern California from 2013–2014. Full transparency, I’d never once considered working at a gun store, in fact, I knew pretty much nothing about guns or any gun-related topics at the time.

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Dillon Melet
GEN
Writer for

American-Israeli nincompoop who loves to write. Amateur historian, high-tech worker, husband, father, and co-host of the podcast: From Guns to Keyboards.