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A second story, to follow on the one above. This one doesn't really fall into the category of women being harassed or intimidated, but it still follows my earlier example of how men occasionally (and most incorrectly) assume the fairer sex is less knowledgeable about guns.

My daughter (6 years old at the time) and I were out in west Houston visiting the Army-Navy store near Westheimer and Eldridge. As she and I were looking at some things in the back of the store, she asked me, "Daddy, can I ask him if he has one?"

I doubted he would have one, but told her, "Yes", and stood back to watch as she approached the front counter.

There were no other customers in the store. The young man behind the counter looked down at her as she walked up and said, "Excuse me sir..."

In his kindest voice, after getting a nod from me, he asked her, "Do you want a lollipop?" His mistake...assuming her intentions like that.

"No sir, I wanted to know if you have an auto-loader for a Ruger 10-22 magazine. I shoot too fast for my Daddy to reload them, so he needs one to keep up."

He was almost speechless to have a six-year old girl in a Hello Kitty dress ask him that. He told me, "Oh my God, that's awesome. I don't have one, but if I did, I'd probably give it to you for free because I never expected that question from her."

We should never underestimate anyone - not our foes, not the liberals in government, and certainly not the ladies in our life!

Now, hopefully someone can answer the OP's question with a story like the ones he is expecting to see.

Harassed? No, not that I know of - but some assumptions were made about my wife in a gun store more than once.

The most recent one: just before Christmas, she was visiting our favorite LGS to find out if I'd been looking at anything in particular. The owner pulled down a home defense shotgun that I'd been checking for a few weeks, and showed it to her. She said no, not that...and he pulled another I'd been looking at.

Finally, she said, "No, he's not looking at that for himself - he's looking at that for ME! I'm the one who wants the shotgun. Now...are there any OTHER things he's been looking at lately?"

The owner (who knows my wife's love of guns also) chuckled to himself and apologized. I'd not shared that bit of info with him, so he was just showing her what I had been looking at. But the customer in the store was clearly surprised. The store owner then explained to the customer about how most of the guns in my home have been bought by my wife, rather than by me.