Hoploholic
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LOL...classic, truely classic 
Accidently frightned a sheeple
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tommytrauma
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I've experienced worse. I work two jobs; I run as a paramedic, and I work in a cubicle environment. It's not uncommon for me to go straight to my office job in uniform after an overnight shift. When I'm working as a medic, I carry a pair of trauma shears in a little pouch sewn into the cargo pocket of my uniform pants. Most of you know what trauma shears are. We use them to cut pants legs and such. They're BLUNT TIPPED, and about as dangerous as the scissors they give preschoolers. I have been directed to lock them in my truck, and forbidden from bring them into my office. They could be used as a weapon after all!
Been there, done that...
I was moving out of the apartment we lived in while buying a house. Most of the stuff had been moved but I was waiting until dark to move my firearms out. About 10pm I walked out the door with two Mauser rifles and two teenage girls picked that time to walk out of the apartment across from mine. One of them screems "a gun" and proceeds to breakdown into tears and collapses on the floor and has a fit. The other girl looks at me and says she will be ok, she does that over different things she doesn't like. Sound familiar?.....chris3
I was moving out of the apartment we lived in while buying a house. Most of the stuff had been moved but I was waiting until dark to move my firearms out. About 10pm I walked out the door with two Mauser rifles and two teenage girls picked that time to walk out of the apartment across from mine. One of them screems "a gun" and proceeds to breakdown into tears and collapses on the floor and has a fit. The other girl looks at me and says she will be ok, she does that over different things she doesn't like. Sound familiar?.....chris3
Nanook
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Madam, these brass cases are as empty as your head.
Desert Dog
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I got a free box of .308 ammo this way...
I went into K-Mart, and I normally don't shop for ammo at K-Mart, but they had .308 150 gr. for $10 a box, So, I had some extra money in my pocket (not much, but enough for some toys) and went back to sporting goods.
When I FINALLY got someone back there with the case key, they were looking really nervous when I told them what I wanted. I also had a tackle box I was buying (the greatest gun cleaning kit box ever devised) and so he checked me out. He was so shaken PICKING UP THE BOX OF AMMO that he forgot to ring it up...
Nothing better than free ammo...
YMMV,
I went into K-Mart, and I normally don't shop for ammo at K-Mart, but they had .308 150 gr. for $10 a box, So, I had some extra money in my pocket (not much, but enough for some toys) and went back to sporting goods.
When I FINALLY got someone back there with the case key, they were looking really nervous when I told them what I wanted. I also had a tackle box I was buying (the greatest gun cleaning kit box ever devised) and so he checked me out. He was so shaken PICKING UP THE BOX OF AMMO that he forgot to ring it up...
Nothing better than free ammo...
YMMV,
Airwolf
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Thread triggered a long ago memory. As a Network Admin many moons ago I was in a exec's office to fix a problem (I think I needed to fab a Cat3 cable). I pulled out my Gerber from the pouch on my belt and snapped out the pliers (one handed as usual) in order to open the knife.
The exec who was watching over my shoulder jumped about 2 feet up and 4 feet backwards. I turned back with a "what in the H*** is wrong with you" look on my face. He's pointing at my Gerber practically panting "My God! I thought you had a switchblade!".
Baaaaa... Baaaaa..... BAH!
The exec who was watching over my shoulder jumped about 2 feet up and 4 feet backwards. I turned back with a "what in the H*** is wrong with you" look on my face. He's pointing at my Gerber practically panting "My God! I thought you had a switchblade!".
Baaaaa... Baaaaa..... BAH!
NJ3
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OMG, an auto (appearing at first glance) opening knife, that thing could go off and kill everyone in the room.
Sheeple :banghead:
have done the knife opening thing intentionally. Carry a Kershaw Blackout ("assisted" blade opening). There have been times when someone will ask if anyone has a knife. I say sure and pull it from my pocket and make it go 'snip' into the open position. Usually gets a reaction like "Is that legal?" 
Airwolf
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I'll open my Kershaw Scallion in my vest pocket before taking it out for the reason that I don't want to get into the "is that a switchblade" discussion with possible sheep. I keep in alone the outermost strong-side pocket for easy deployment in a defensive situation rather on the belt or pants pocket.
Reference the 'evil brass' scenario ...
I would have handled it the same way. The lady demonstrated by her remark that she is not capable of rational thought process. Engaging someone of that predisposition by presenting a logic based argument is futile. It's like trying to beat someone at a game of checkers when they're playing 'Dungeons and Dragons'. You will never win a dispute by plying reason against emotion. You've lost before you started, so suck it up and walk away ...
I would have handled it the same way. The lady demonstrated by her remark that she is not capable of rational thought process. Engaging someone of that predisposition by presenting a logic based argument is futile. It's like trying to beat someone at a game of checkers when they're playing 'Dungeons and Dragons'. You will never win a dispute by plying reason against emotion. You've lost before you started, so suck it up and walk away ...
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rick458
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I brought a dummy round (No primer, empty case, seated bullet).
to work to show one of my buds what the finished rounds for my .458 win mag would look like, also some .45 230 gr Hydrashoks made for a key chain, and one of the other fellas there started talking about how I shouldn't have it here as it was "Dangerous " and could "Hurt People" I told him yes it could ,If I threw it really hard at someone.:banghead:
to work to show one of my buds what the finished rounds for my .458 win mag would look like, also some .45 230 gr Hydrashoks made for a key chain, and one of the other fellas there started talking about how I shouldn't have it here as it was "Dangerous " and could "Hurt People" I told him yes it could ,If I threw it really hard at someone.:banghead:
StuporDave
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---She yelled "Put that down! It's dangerous!!"---
That empty brass IS dangerous! Ever stepped on a .45acp case, facing up, in bare feet? Needed a pair of pliers to pull it out of my heel. Hurt like hell, too!
Dave
That empty brass IS dangerous! Ever stepped on a .45acp case, facing up, in bare feet? Needed a pair of pliers to pull it out of my heel. Hurt like hell, too!
Dave
sctman800
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Reminds me of something I read and always try to remember. "Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." Jim.
been there done that
There'd been a coyote pup showin up around the farm during the day, looked sick. I saw it sittin out in the field across from my house, an loaded up the old 12 gauge (1897 winchester) and started that way. It just sat there an looked at me till I was just outside of the range of the old scattergun an then it up and ran under a big bush in the fence row at my neighbors. I just went ahead over thinkin it might be hidin there. It had kept right on movin an I couldn't find it, so I walked out to their pasture an told the neighbor what was going on since he was out running a bush hog, he thanked me an said he'd keep an eye out for it too. Walking back home, I stopped to check around the bush again (something had been rooting around underneath it) and looked up to see the neighbors daughter's boyfriend about to pull into the driveway. I'm standin there right in front of him, lookin right at him with a 12 gauge slung over my shoulder
His eyes went
, an the tires were squeelin as he jerked the wheel back from turnin towards the driveway an hauled *** down the road. Unfriendly sumbitch didn't even wave...
I laughed an walked home. Saw him coming back down the road about 10 minutes later talkin on a cell phone, and he pulled in at the neighbors.
Talked to the daughter an him later. She was mad at him for calling me "some guy with a gun" and not understanding why I would want to go over there and shoot a coyote. He was able to laugh about it afterwards too.
I always carry a pigsticker (knife to you city boys ) so I've had all kinds of incidents with them. Actually carry a gerber multi tool and at least one knife all the time. I make knives so its always changing, but generally when I'm out working I'll carry the benchmade pinnacle my parents gave me (3.5" half serrated blade) you can really make people's eys pop if you flick it open. Actually has gotten more bad reactions than carrying a fixed blade on my belt.
The best was when I was helping some people move some bundles of scrap wood and stuff, and the woman said she was going to go get some wirecutters.
redneck: "I've got a pair"
woman:"you do?"
redneck: "yep...FLICK" (you can flick the gerber pliars open with your wrist, its great)
woman: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! MY GOD!
redneck: "what the hell is that all about?"
woman: Uh oh....um its pliars, thanks.
There'd been a coyote pup showin up around the farm during the day, looked sick. I saw it sittin out in the field across from my house, an loaded up the old 12 gauge (1897 winchester) and started that way. It just sat there an looked at me till I was just outside of the range of the old scattergun an then it up and ran under a big bush in the fence row at my neighbors. I just went ahead over thinkin it might be hidin there. It had kept right on movin an I couldn't find it, so I walked out to their pasture an told the neighbor what was going on since he was out running a bush hog, he thanked me an said he'd keep an eye out for it too. Walking back home, I stopped to check around the bush again (something had been rooting around underneath it) and looked up to see the neighbors daughter's boyfriend about to pull into the driveway. I'm standin there right in front of him, lookin right at him with a 12 gauge slung over my shoulder
His eyes went
, an the tires were squeelin as he jerked the wheel back from turnin towards the driveway an hauled *** down the road. Unfriendly sumbitch didn't even wave...I laughed an walked home. Saw him coming back down the road about 10 minutes later talkin on a cell phone, and he pulled in at the neighbors.
Talked to the daughter an him later. She was mad at him for calling me "some guy with a gun" and not understanding why I would want to go over there and shoot a coyote. He was able to laugh about it afterwards too.
I always carry a pigsticker (knife to you city boys
) so I've had all kinds of incidents with them. Actually carry a gerber multi tool and at least one knife all the time. I make knives so its always changing, but generally when I'm out working I'll carry the benchmade pinnacle my parents gave me (3.5" half serrated blade) you can really make people's eys pop if you flick it open. Actually has gotten more bad reactions than carrying a fixed blade on my belt.The best was when I was helping some people move some bundles of scrap wood and stuff, and the woman said she was going to go get some wirecutters.
redneck: "I've got a pair"
woman:"you do?"
redneck: "yep...FLICK" (you can flick the gerber pliars open with your wrist, its great)
woman: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! MY GOD!
redneck: "what the hell is that all about?"
woman: Uh oh....um its pliars, thanks.
BerettaNut92
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Interesting, the people I ran across who knew I had a gun weren't afraid..
A guy in the elevator who saw my BENELLI bag asked if I was on a team..
The Fedex girl said "I'm not afraid of guns..I have a Sig but I haven't shot it forever."
I ditched that Benelli bag (actually, gonna sell it) and throw it in my guitar gig bag.
A guy in the elevator who saw my BENELLI bag asked if I was on a team..
The Fedex girl said "I'm not afraid of guns..I have a Sig but I haven't shot it forever."
I ditched that Benelli bag (actually, gonna sell it) and throw it in my guitar gig bag.
Elmer Snerd
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I had a close call with an airport security guy who thought that the Multi-Plier I carried at the time was some sort of butterfly knife. He was reassured when I told him how to extend the pliers. This was back in the good old days when you could walk someone to their departure gate, and you could carry legal sharp bits in an airport.
When a Leatherman Tool loosens up with age and use, the pliers can be unfolded with one hand in a sort of clumsy butterfly-knife-style flip. I felt that it was prudent to stop doing this after I got some strange looks, it would be my luck to start a panic and/or get shot by mistake. The fact that I suck at flipping open butterfly knives and dropped my Leatherman several times trying this had nothing to do with my decision, of course.
When a Leatherman Tool loosens up with age and use, the pliers can be unfolded with one hand in a sort of clumsy butterfly-knife-style flip. I felt that it was prudent to stop doing this after I got some strange looks, it would be my luck to start a panic and/or get shot by mistake. The fact that I suck at flipping open butterfly knives and dropped my Leatherman several times trying this had nothing to do with my decision, of course.
Zundfolge
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Okay, I was born in Wichita Kansas on August 9th, 1969 and lived there until August 17th, 2002 so I can speak with some authority on this.
Kansans are by and large good people and somewhat conservative in their daily lives and views but politically the place is just screwy ... The Democrats are liberals, the Republicans are liberals the Libertarians are communists ... its all a giant mess.
Wichita's RINO Republican mayor (Bob Knight) is quite proud of his gun control bovine scat ... Kansas is not a conceal carry state, but open carry is legal, but thanks to ole Bob, not in Wichita
However, to be honest I didn't assume Sisco was in Wichita because you're average liberal Wichitan is either too stupid to recognize spent brass or if they did they are such bliss-ninnies that they would have just fainted dead away instead of yelling at him.
For the record, I didn't leave the house unarmed but maybe a dozen times after the Carr brothers went on their hate crime homicide binge
(hell, carrying concealed is just a misdemeanor in Kansas anyway )
Jeebus ... why did it take me 33 years to get the hell out of that place :banghead:
Kansans are by and large good people and somewhat conservative in their daily lives and views but politically the place is just screwy ... The Democrats are liberals, the Republicans are liberals the Libertarians are communists ... its all a giant mess.
Wichita's RINO Republican mayor (Bob Knight) is quite proud of his gun control bovine scat ... Kansas is not a conceal carry state, but open carry is legal, but thanks to ole Bob, not in Wichita
However, to be honest I didn't assume Sisco was in Wichita because you're average liberal Wichitan is either too stupid to recognize spent brass or if they did they are such bliss-ninnies that they would have just fainted dead away instead of yelling at him.
For the record, I didn't leave the house unarmed but maybe a dozen times after the Carr brothers went on their hate crime homicide binge
(hell, carrying concealed is just a misdemeanor in Kansas anyway
) Jeebus ... why did it take me 33 years to get the hell out of that place :banghead:
I live in Western KS, Garden City. 200 miles West of Wichita.
Carr Brothers: My father-in-law suffered a stroke right after the killings, before the brothers were arrested. He was life watched to Wichita, we followed in the car. Not knowing where we would be staying and for how long we'd be staying there I brought my .45 along on the trip. Unpacking in the motel room that evening I put it in the drawer beside the bed and my wife about had a cow. After I reminded her that a mass murder had just taken place and the people who did it were still on the loose she calmed down. "Rather have it and not need it than to need it and not have it".
For those not familiar with the Carr Bros. case, you can find out more here:
http://www.kccall.com/News/2002/1108/KCK_Community/073.html
Carr Brothers: My father-in-law suffered a stroke right after the killings, before the brothers were arrested. He was life watched to Wichita, we followed in the car. Not knowing where we would be staying and for how long we'd be staying there I brought my .45 along on the trip. Unpacking in the motel room that evening I put it in the drawer beside the bed and my wife about had a cow. After I reminded her that a mass murder had just taken place and the people who did it were still on the loose she calmed down. "Rather have it and not need it than to need it and not have it".
For those not familiar with the Carr Bros. case, you can find out more here:
http://www.kccall.com/News/2002/1108/KCK_Community/073.html
Difranco
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This Thread Amazes me!
I carry my rifles, shooting bags out in broad daylight, anytime I go to the range and I live across the street from a elementary school. Not doing anything illegal, nothing nobody can do about it. It's good for people to see firearms handled by responsible citizens frequently, that way they will become more accustomed to them. Helps to de-mystify them.
I carry my rifles, shooting bags out in broad daylight, anytime I go to the range and I live across the street from a elementary school. Not doing anything illegal, nothing nobody can do about it. It's good for people to see firearms handled by responsible citizens frequently, that way they will become more accustomed to them. Helps to de-mystify them.
Calamity Jane
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*sob*
:banghead:
I must be truly terrifying, then. I'm a little pipsqueak gal, but I wear black combat boots most of the time (most comfy footwear I've ever had, and you'd be surprised how many sorts of slacks, outfits, and such they look nice with!) and I carry an Israeli paratrooper's bag as a purse (lots of room!).
I have an inert .223 round on my keychain, and in my purse, I have a Columbia River knife clipped in the side pocket, a butterfly knife in the big compartment, and a little Leatherman tool, also kept on my keychain, which I use frequently for life's little conundrums.
I'm a... I'm a... **gasp** ARMED, TOOL USING HUMAN!!!
And yes, one of my jackets frequently has brass jingling in its pockets.
I'm glad folks at work are used to me.
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