After Christmas, the local Gander Mountain marked up just about everything in the store by 10% to 20%. I guess Holiday sales failed to meet expectations and they figured to get what they could from the remaining inventory. After they announced their bankruptcy/self-auction, I started getting 15% and 20% off storewide one-time-use coupons from them. So, each time I get one of these coupons, I go to my local Gander Mountain and see what powder and primers they have.
I went to Gander Mountain after Good Friday services at church to see if they had any powder I could use (they did, but that's another story) and when I arrived there was a pair of men standing at the open trunk of a car. They had what appeared to be several cases of ammunition spread throughout the trunk as well as sitting on the ground behind the car and they had dozens of magazines that they were loading for the pistols they were openly carrying on shoulder holsters (Texas is now an open-carry state - with appropriate license - so the guns didn't concern me).
What did concern me was that when though I drove up and parked three spaces away, these two men were so focused on loading their ammunition they didn't notice me arriving, parking or walking down the same aisle in the parking lot until I was nearly on top of them. I always load my ammunition into magazines at home where I can focus on the task at hand and not spend my time worrying about who is walking through my surroundings.
Does it seem to anyone else that these two men were taking a chance of something bad happening by having so much ammunition on public display?
I went to Gander Mountain after Good Friday services at church to see if they had any powder I could use (they did, but that's another story) and when I arrived there was a pair of men standing at the open trunk of a car. They had what appeared to be several cases of ammunition spread throughout the trunk as well as sitting on the ground behind the car and they had dozens of magazines that they were loading for the pistols they were openly carrying on shoulder holsters (Texas is now an open-carry state - with appropriate license - so the guns didn't concern me).
What did concern me was that when though I drove up and parked three spaces away, these two men were so focused on loading their ammunition they didn't notice me arriving, parking or walking down the same aisle in the parking lot until I was nearly on top of them. I always load my ammunition into magazines at home where I can focus on the task at hand and not spend my time worrying about who is walking through my surroundings.
Does it seem to anyone else that these two men were taking a chance of something bad happening by having so much ammunition on public display?