Seen a wanted ad.....

[skinnyguy]

on one of my local media outlet's website that really angers me. I want to reply to the poster's email address, but I'm afraid anything I say would be very low road, and I don't want to do that.

Mods, I will be glad to give the link to any of you, but I don't want to post it publically, to avoid any replys or calls to the person of the same style I really want to give this person, and I have removed any identifiers to the location or contact info for this person. Also, if this is the wrong forum, please feel free to move.

Now, the text of the ad;

guns for trade

I'm trading an old sks in great condition comes with bayonet and a hard plastic stock that can be switched out for the wood one. It folds in on itself (looks like a terrorist weapon with this on). I am also trading an old sears and roebuck pump shotgun and an old school single shot bolt action remingtion .30-6. I am looking for a 1911 .45. or anything else interesting. Could use a sprinkler system for my parents.

 

[Henry Bowman]

It's possible the comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek (a la Zumbo).

 

[joab]

Could also be that he thinks it looks like a terrorist weapon with the stock installed

I know quite a few people that think that cheap old com-blok style weapons with folding stocks look like terrorist weapons
Mostly because most pictures of armed terrorist show them using cheap old style com-blok weapons with folding stocks

The McCarthy witch hunt mentality will do us no good

 

[skinnyguy]

I understand that it might well have been tongue-in-cheek, but I did not take it that way, and I figure it's a safe bet that many other people won't take it that way, either.

His wording choice is just WRONG. Hell, I'd take "assault weapon" over terrorist weapon. That is another phrase I really dislike, but that's another story.

 

[igpoobah]

I know quite a few people that think that cheap old com-blok style weapons with folding stocks look like terrorist weapons
Mostly because most pictures of armed terrorist show them using cheap old style com-blok weapons with folding stocks

+1, call a spade a spade!