Banana Man

No it does feel ridiculous and you are 100% right about the players just placing the stands and giant text signs down and standing in some random corner. It just fuels the random RDM fests the moment that last staff member hops off for the night too, obviously people can still buy the guns from a vendor and pocket them, but I've seen it a dozen times where someone runs up to that stands, buys a gun and just immediately starts gunning people down on main street.