8mm Mauser revolver pistol

[Bubba613]

So about 45 minutes before close we get a call, do you have 8mm ammo? Yes, we have some in stock.
Guy walks in and asks about the ammo, he had just called. We show him the box, give him a price and he buys it and walks out.
OK.
I wonder what a 20-something black guy wearing baggy clothes etc is doing with an 8mm Mauser but you never know.
A few minutes later he walks back in. It isnt the right ammo.
We refund his money and ask what kind of gun it is.
It's an 8mm revolver.
Wow, must be a real old gun, from 1910 or earlier. Ammo exists but hard to find. He leaves.
Comes back a few minutes later with his friend. Tells us the gun is an 8mm pistol, like a Glock.
Hmm.
I ask, are you sure? I wrack my brain thinking of old obsolete 8mm semi auto pistol rounds.
Yeah, it says on it, A75 8mm.
Aha.
No. I bet it's an Astra A75 in 9mm. The European script will make the 9 look like an 8. Especially if you can't read well and are stoned half the time.
We sell him 9mm luger and I mention I have a clip for the gun if he wants to bring it in.
But I wondered, how do you look at 8mm Mauser rounds and figure they'll fit into a pistol the size of an Astra A75.?

 

[CoastieShep]

Wow. Just wow.

 

[Zombiphobia]

Racial profiling?

I dunno, the rest you posted certainly makes him seem like less than an intellectual.
I can't think of any handguns that require any ammo the size of 8mm Mauser. Other than a T/C Encore, maybe..and I don't tink they make those for 8mm of any variety.

 

[armoredman]

Always wanted an A-75. Seriously. Loved the A-70 I had years ago, l but I had no difficulty telling it was a 9mm.

 

[Murphy4570]

Some people are just plain stupid. That's all there is to it.

 

[mustang_steve]

Yeah, you get this from time to time. I had someone at a range actually try to tell me they had a a Glock rifle, when asked to elaborate, the amusement continued as they described it as being "like an AK". When called out on his shens (could we see it, please), it turned out it was some plastic stocked Romanian WASR.

Some people are simply confused.

 

[Meta]

Average IQ of 85 might explain the confusion. I would have liked to see the look on his face when trying to fit the 8mm in the 'clip'.

 

[Kentucky_Rifleman]

Racial profiling?

Lol. Not unless stupid has become an ethnicity.

KR

 

[griff383]

You mean the DEA doesnt issue "Glock 40" as standard issue with a rigorous training regimen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFiXuw7LnBQ

 

[Dunkelheit]

Nice

 

[Zombiphobia]

Not unless stupid has become an ethnicity

it's getting there

 

[therewolf]

Oh sure, THE 8mm Mauser pistol, A.K.A. "The Manly Gun"...

Hey, any pistol round that has over 2500 FPS muzzle velocity gets my vote...

 

[Otony]

"Oh sure, THE 8mm Mauser pistol, A.K.A. "The Manly Gun"..."

Now how can a .32 be considered manly?

 

[therewolf]

Ah, I don't know, how?

We were discussing the 8MM Mauser, a large, full size rifle round, which could hardly be confused with a .32 pistol bullet(with average velocity of 800-900 FPS), even though Mauser did manufacture both...

 

[Zundfolge]

HA! I wonder if Pfeifer ever considered making one.

 

[Otony]

therewolf,

It is a joke man, I even included the obligatory smiling face to indicate it as such.

 

[5.7Man]

Nambu!

 

[Safjac]

Har, har, har!

I was browsing the shiny crap in Walmart's Sporting section when this lady corners this clerk. "Do you have 308 ammo?" she says. The clerk looks. "Sorry. No 308. BUT We have .380." Woman says "all right, give me a box."

I butt in, and tell her that it ain't going to work. She looks at me like I'm stuck to her shoe, turns around and tells the clerk, "Make that TWO boxes."

 

[jerkface11]

You had my hopes up with the title.

 

[Aren't we all]

A clerk in Walmart once asked me if my .30-06 was for a pistol.... I said yes sarcastically and he asked to see my pistol permit :banghead::banghead:

 

[BHP FAN]

it's a sad old world, isn't it?

 

[CZguy]

I was browsing the shiny crap in Walmart's Sporting section when this lady corners this clerk. "Do you have 308 ammo?" she says. The clerk looks. "Sorry. No 308. BUT We have .380." Woman says "all right, give me a box."

I butt in, and tell her that it ain't going to work. She looks at me like I'm stuck to her shoe, turns around and tells the clerk, "Make that TWO boxes."

It could be worse...............I think that I was married to her.

 

[9mmepiphany]

While this may be a commentary on the need for increased handgun knowledge when purchasing ammo, it isn't related to firearms except tangentially

I think this one is done

 

[rbernie]

And I will add - making fun of other folk is NOT keeping things on The High Road at all, and ought not be done here again.