Funny story with Tax free day in MA....

[willbrink]

MA has a "tax free" weekend once per year now.

Decided to go to Police Supply in Waltham and grab a bunch of ammo and other stuff to save a few $$$. Got a bunch of 5.56 and .45 ACP.

One of the guys who works there is Waltham PD.

He volunteers to help me carry my ammo out to the car.

As we both come walking out there’s a little old lady looking up at the store front sign. Both hands on hips with clear look of disapproval on her face. She had to be in her 80s and approx 5’ tall.

She takes a look at me and says “are you boys in their buying guns?!”

I respond “no mam!”

She points to the large box on my shoulder and says

“Then what is that you are carrying on your shoulder?”

I respond “ammunition mam”

She figures she has me now and says

“young man* I don’t thing the police would appreciate you buying and having all that ammunition!”

Guy behind me says with big grin on his face and large box on his shoulder

“mam, I am the police and it’s perfectly legal and acceptable for a law abiding citizen such as him to purchase this ammunition”

Her face gets all bunched up, and she turns with a “humph!” and storms off (at a rather slow pace I might add, but it was clearly an attempt at storming off on her part..)

We looked at each other and had a good laugh at that. Of course we both showed the elderyly women all the respect she deserved and earned at her age but stood our respective ground as to not leave her with a negative impression of guns and or gun owners, which is always important in my view.

Anyway, if you have not been to that store in Waltham they are a great bunch of guys there and have a good, albeit police oriented, supply of stuff and decent prices.


*I’m 42 BTW

 

[SkiLune]

Wow. You encountered a Boston Bhramin class progressive, and even got the "humph" comment.

I encounter these phony elitists constantly. It is mucho fun to play into their inflated sense of importance and perceived intellectual superiority.

 

[Hoppy590]

HAHA. i had a similar event.

some event on the news and the suspect had "one hundred rounds of ammunition!" in a rather crowded room of 20 sumthings, in the south shore amid the "oh my's" and "why would anyone need that many bullets" i snickerd and let out a " thats (kitty) (poop) iv got 1,600 rounds in my trunk." i ment it to be a mutter to the kid who knew i was a shooter. but at that exact moment the room went quiet. and im standing there getting the stare down.

i just laughed it off. i mean, what can they do? shoot me?!

 

[willbrink]

It was all in good fun really, at least for the cop and I. Didn't want to come down to her level and get angry or defensive. We both had big smiles and treated it very relaxed so she didn't go away thinking we were a couple of "ruffians"

 

[ABTOMAT]

Maybe she was a believer in slow aimed fire and thought all that ammo would go to waste. You should have told her you had a magazine cutoff on your gun.

 

[adrock]

Decided to go to Police Supply in Waltham

Law Enforcement Equipment?

If so, I've probably met you if you're at all regular in there.

 

[SkiLune]

I also enjoy shocking the elitists, whenever they read a story that a "gunman" (why don't they say "car-man" or "knife-man" when those tools are misused??) has 100 rounds or so of ammo.

I work with some Brahim class elitists, and like to tell them I generally order about 1000 to 2000 rounds from Ammoman.com, and they ship it directly to my house via UPS.

To increase their horror, I tell them, yes, UPS delivers it with other goods -- not in an armored ammo carrier with swat team escort. The other day, I got a delivery of 9mm ammo and new safety collars for my cat by the very same UPS truck. ;-)

 

[BigG]

You'd think somebody that old would be old enough to know better.

 

[Standing Wolf]

i mean, what can they do? shoot me?!

Disapprove of you most seriously.

 

[Zoogster]

i mean, what can they do? shoot me?!

Disapprove of you most seriously.

The irony is that people who think guns are awful depend on people with guns to enforce the rules they come up with and vote for, even the anti gun ones.

 

[rritter]

SkiLune,

The other day, I got a delivery of 9mm ammo and new safety collars for my cat by the very same UPS truck. ;-)

And what is your cat going to do with 9mm ammo? Everybody knows that cats use mouseguns!

 

[gezzer]

Glad to here they are still there. My unit and myself bought all or carry holsters and body armor from them with plenty plenty of practice ammo.

They took a lot of bad press if I rember correctly for selling Carl Drega his ar-15. Like they were responsible for NICS letting him buy it.

 

[Devonai]

It's a bit of a haul for me now, but I used to stop in from time to time when I lived in Mass. I got my first Norinco 1911A1 there; it was the same price as a CZ-97 and I agonized for a good 30 minutes over that decision.

I didn't regret the Norinco, but I still wonder about the CZ-97. 'Course, now that I live in NH, finding one is a lot easier!

 

[Juna]

I, too, always crack up when they comment in news stories about how the person had 100 or 1000 rounds of ammo. I just tell people that it's just like buying anything else in bulk. I typically use a water analogy. If you buy one of those big packs of 32 bottles of water for yourself at Sam's Club, for example, it doesn't mean you're planning for the Armageddon. It just means you don't want to buy individual bottles from 7-11 at 10 times the price.

I try to put it in perspective by showing them the size of, say, a 100 round WWB valu-pak that fits in the palm of my hand. I tell them that 10 of those little boxes is 1000 rounds, and they're amazed. Then I tell them that a typical range session is one hour, and that if you were to shoot only 100 rounds (i.e. ONE box) in that range session (which sounds like a lot to them), you'd only fire once every 36 seconds! That kind of puts it in perspective for them.

 

[damien]

UPS Orders

When I mail order ammo, UPS leaves it on my porch. I am never home. I sent a Glock 20 back to the factory once, same deal, on the porch when I got home. Tell them that if you want to see them go into shock.

 

[ProguninTN]

Ammunition

That's hilarious. Speaking of ammunition and law enforcement, the last time I bought ammunition, the man who rang up my purchase was the former sheriff.