the 22 junkie
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On the topic of straw purchases, is it considered a straw purchase if my dad bought a rifle for me (under legal buying age for long guns)?
The guy obviously had something about him. Some thug comes in with a pistol in his pants that are probably barely hanging on his thighs. Its a case by case thing. I can just picture some "gangster" come in, whips a gun out of his baggy jeans, hold it sideways, etc. He probably doesnt have it for the right reasions. And he was just out of prison so the guy was obviously right to do what he did. Sure you wouldnt do that to some regular guy who obviously was new to shooting and innocent.Most of the ranges here strongly prefer that your weapon is cased and unloaded when you enter, CCW bearer or not. It was certainly not the polite thing to do, but perhaps it's his first time at a range and he doesn't know better. Why not politely explain the rules to him, he might have apologized, agreed to the rules and become a regular.
As for not being allowed a gun- says who exactly ? That could be me, popping out to get a pint of milk. I often will just pop my pistol in my waistband behind my hip for short trips. I'm not trying to look bad-arsed either, I just have an unfortunate, uncheery looking face with an assortment of characterful scars, I wear baggy jeans, sneakers and an old army jacket. So should my appearance disqualify me from owning a gun ? I should bloody well hope not.
At my last purchase, I think I observed a "straw" purchase. Two individuals were looking at a S&W 45 semi-auto (not sure which one), one with a permit one without. The funny thing was is the guy without the permit was doing ALL the fondling of the pistol. I found this out as they were checking out, the guy with the permit (you have to have a permit in CT ro purchase a pistol) puts the pistol on layaway with the non-permit guy STILL fondling the pistol! They leave and hear the two clerks talking back and forth about being nervous that only one guy had a permit and the other guy was holding it all the time. The clerks really could not do too much since they figure the guy who put the pistol on layaway will probably not pick it up. Scary part is that these two individuals live less than 5 miles from me!
well that's mighty descriptive Foxtrot, but , basically as you said, that's how you would imagine it.... Whether or not he had a criminal record was at the time of the event, unknown.
Now my trousers are as close to my waist as my belly will reasonably allow, but can I ask you, do you think that a person should be denied the right to own firearms because you don't like the way they look ?
About a year and a half ago I was at a local range and there was a black gentleman was shooting a few lanes down from me. Oversized jeans, expensive sneakers, athletic basketball vest lots of jewellery and tattoos. Perhaps you would call him a "gang banger" type. I couldn't see if he was shooting "gangsta" style, but he was doing quite well.
I was shooting my 4" S&W 29, making some rather impressive noise, and after I'd shoot a couple of cylinders, the guy came over to ask what I was shooting. We struck up a conversation, turns out he works at the same company as I do, as a creative director, (6000 employees so we hadn't met before), so clearly another dangerous thug that you would do well to disarm, before his "urban" appearance causes some unspeakable crime
Delmar said:A good friend of mine owns a gunshop in suburban Dallas, and has been targeted more than once by people of ill repute. Mainly, they're trying to rob him or worse.
One summer's evening, he had closed up the shop and was walking out with his grade school aged daughter-some jerk tried to grab his kid. Bad guy got a real close up look at the wrong end of a 45, and the police hauled him away.
What was it about him having his gun in the waistband that got him asked to leave by the clerk at the range?
I'm gonna restate: the problem with the guy Monkeyleg mentioned is that it happened in Wisconsin, where there IS no legal CCW...