Robbery at a gunshow FAIL!!!

[Duke of Doubt]

One of the more formative moments of my young adulthood was watching the great scene in the classic if campy Chuck Norris film "Code of Silence" where the robbers attempted to hold up a cop bar (inspired by actual events at the late, much-lamented "Zum Deutschen Eck" in the Southport neighborhood of Chicago).

See, that stuff didn't happen (all that much) in the particular neighborhood where my father elected to raise his sons, and that scene where like a dozen men (and women) turned the tables on the robbers with their drawn handguns colored my entire understanding and approach to those sort of things ever afterward. Fortunately.

 

[Italian Motorcycles]

I was recently at a very busy gun show and I watched two youths pick up and set down an FN Herstal F2000 maybe 5 times, each time moving a little further away from the table and all the while looking around. It was suspicious as heck. I told the dealer what was up and he shrugged his shoulders and said "I can't watch everyone". The boys walked away when they saw the dealer looking at them. Most rifle displays had no security cable.

10 minutes later I saw the youths again, and this time they were walking away from a table and the dealer was looking a little upset. I asked the dealer what was up and he said one of them tried to buy a shotgun but the background check came back Declined. He said the buyer didn't even know how to spell his last name without looking at the drivers license.

Later that afternoon I saw them leave the show empty handed. They almost got away with that F2000 if I hadn't been watching.