Gun conversation at work?

[Phaetos]

I don't talk guns at work ... seeing as I work for a school system , the peeping-listeners might get the wrong idea. Might? No, make that WILL get the wrong idea and say something. Not gonna lose this cushy job over a little hearsay.

 

[Cesiumsponge]

I do talk guns occasionally with the few people at work that own firearms.

However we have one guy that tells pure BS tales about everything no matter what. He makes up stories that always involve an uncle, brother, or friend.

Somehow he expects people to believe it...wether he makes up laws, makes up laws of physics, or whatnot. No one ever really calls him on it and we all just avoid the guy. Maybe someone should just blow up on him and tell him some choice words.

It's always some BS that isn't remotely believable. Whenever firearms comes up, he knows people that machine pure titanium rifles in their homes, or that Desert Eagles take a special .44 magnum, and his brother in the military can do NICS checks on people and can also take sections of Google Earth down with a 2 minute phone call.

 

[Notch]

If'n you're not ready to stand and speak up for what you believe in then ya dont deserve the iron. Hand them off to someone else.

 

[ZeSpectre]

Well that's a pretty sanctimonious post. I can think of a lot of situations where it's far wiser to lay low and "live to fight another day" rather than essentially commit (career or other) suicide. Everyone eventually comes to a point where they have to "stand and be counted" but the wise choose their battles.

 

[hso]

No problem with gun conversations. I'll bring them up with people I know also have an interest in firearms. If a discussion starts that has incorrect information I'll simply treat it as an opportunity to let people know the facts. After fifteen years I've never had anyone become offended even when I was pointing out the logical falacies around gun control, movies or firearms fantasies.

 

[Sindawe]

Not so much now, since the only other "gun person" in the office is mostly interested in hunting and hunting arms, no so much in politics and the like.

Previous position, gun conversations were frequent. They ranged from debating the guy who owned guns, but felt that everyone who had one should be required to get a license from the government and carry a $1,000,000.00 insurance policy BEFORE getting one; to discussions about hunts and "Watch this & hold my beer" moments.

Best one though occured in one of the cold rooms we used. I was training D1 on the finer points of prepping/loading/washing/eluting the 30 liter column we used to capture the product in Purification. D2 and V joined us for their tasks.

V = Typical half crazy, "Hold my beer..." fellow. Life long interest in guns.
D1 = Noob, just in from Massachusetts. Afraid of guns.
D2 = Big, LOUD scary looking dude out of nightmares, really a teddy-bear most of the time. Life long interest in guns.
Your's truely = average looking/sized, the groups volatile looose-cannon. Recent interest in guns at the time.

D2 starts tallking about his last hunting trip for wild boar and the rifle he used. I can see D1 getting nervous. V pipes in about one of his exploits that involved getting into a minor gun-fight with persons unknown (might have been fiction, but knowing V it was 'prolly true). D1 gets a little pale. I comment on the stupidity of gun laws in general and quote some Churchill in relation to confiscation talk that was running around the 'Net at the time. D1 gets REALLY pale and makes a remark about working with a bunch of serial killers. V laughs out loud and makes a caustic remark about hiding bodies while D2 and I start debating which is better for dissolving bodies, lye or sulfuric acid.

I thought D1 was gonna mess his pants at that point, since D2, V and I were all between him and the exit of the cold room. But the supervisor came by to take D1 away for his meth assay training (methhemoglobin, not methamphetamine) and spoiled our fun.

 

[edman79]

Sindawe, that is hilarious, I was definitely lol.

Eddie Ed

 

[peteinct]

voted most likely

I am my factory dept's gun nut. I think I've been voted most likely to come in shooting.

A couple guys at work got me into shooting but they are hunter types and I shoot a lot more than they do. I don't talk about it unless people ask me. I will tell people what the laws are, they don't believe how strict they actually are. I also offer to take any one interested to the range. I believe it is hard to be anti gun when you have a big smile on your face after shooting one.
pete

 

[ricci316]

I've taught several to shoot pistols and gotten several back into shooting after a long cooling off period. I've never seen a time or need to try hiding my pro gun attitude...but I do understand how that could be...considering the way people are today.

Very similar to my situation at work. I work at a school and frankly could care less as to what people might think about my view on guns. I would rather try to educate someone then hide my knowledge for fear of an anti.

 

[Igloodude]

However we have one guy that tells pure BS tales about everything no matter what. He makes up stories that always involve an uncle, brother, or friend.

Somehow he expects people to believe it...wether he makes up laws, makes up laws of physics, or whatnot. No one ever really calls him on it and we all just avoid the guy. Maybe someone should just blow up on him and tell him some choice words.

It's always some BS that isn't remotely believable. Whenever firearms comes up, he knows people that machine pure titanium rifles in their homes, or that Desert Eagles take a special .44 magnum, and his brother in the military can do NICS checks on people and can also take sections of Google Earth down with a 2 minute phone call.

He works with you now?

We had a similar fellow at a DoD facility I used to work at, one-upping everything and everyone. He had a dual-processor PC at home (this was in '98 or so), used to be a sniper and/or olympic-level pistol shooter, knew guys who could do this or that, etc etc.

I finally managed to get him to one of our local Bullseye matches. He did respectably with a .22 (for a beginner-to-intermediate level). No one was going to mistake his target for an Olympian's, though, past present or future.