I am one of the currently 10.73% that said guns are thier jobs, I sell guns at a gun store for a living, the boss sometimes buys us movie tickets for movies that contain alot of firearms so when those customers come in wanting the "sweet pistol thing" that Tom Cruise's character "Vincent" has in the movie Collateral we're supposed to go "oh yea the H&K USP right over here".
I know more about guns than my job. I often write programs for the DNC and CNC machinery at work using a calulator, pencil, and paper, because the programs wrote with CAD software dont work...
I know it sounds impressive, but programming is easy.
customers come in wanting the "sweet pistol thing" that Tom Cruise's character "Vincent" has in the movie Collateral we're supposed to go "oh yea the H&K USP right over here"
As my profession entailed working on machinery (I'm a retired millwright) the firearm becomes nothing more than another machine in design so I rate them the same.
Well, I know how to make 'em go BANG when they weren't able to before I worked on 'em. But it's only a part-time gig. And like you, Tamara, I too come home from fixing and occasionally selling them, and talk about them on THR and the russian Mosin Nagant Forum; (Or Parallax Bill's Forum, or the CETME forum, KTRange, gunboards, etc.) Or I talk guns with my boss at my other job..
I am employed at a firearms wholesale company for quite a few years now.
I have always liked guns and when I was accepted as a new co-worker I was an unbelievable happy fella. Firearms and relating items are a daily thing for me. Unfortunately, when you have them around at your job (and at home!) they naturally loose a bit of attraction. Nowadays, it's getting difficult to impress me with anything "new". Make no mistake, firearms are a passion of mine. I love them and I can hardly think of purchasing and selling anything else. It gives me a great deal of satisfaction to know that each and every day we ship out quite a few firearms onto the market. Anti-gunners might rationalize the "viciousness" of firearms every waking hour, but I still know that the continuous flow of firearms hasn't stopped yet. Each day, the quantity of guns in civilian hands is getting larger and larger
Back to the original question: Although I am exposed to a "daily learning process" I am an absolute lightweight when it comes to in-deep knowledge of firearms. There are guys on this forum which are absolutely amazing when it comes to thorough knowledge in arms. I always try to keep an open mind, though, in order to learn as much as possible.
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