Tell us about your gun-related jobs!

[kjeff50cal]

I worked the gun counter at Acad part time (once a week). Run NICS,
stock ammo, and general gun BSing. The rest of the week was spent
unloading trucks.

Hey Working Man,
Hi fellow Associate I work full time (for now) in store 19. Working seven years at a supermarket a milliena ago prepared me for Acad..... spotting stock and dealing with the public. Running NICS and being on the "wrong end" of a 4473 form is all in a days work. The bunch I work with are cool and we have a least one bonified hunting/fishing guide on the payroll (part time and he makes way more dinero off the clock then on ).

 

[Working Man]

Hi kjeff50cal,

store 19

Is that by the home office?

It was a lot of fun working there and I would even do it again if I had the
time (even if only once a week). The best part was the discount on top of
the clearance price. Charter 2000 Bull Dog Pug .44s for $192 out the door.

 

[Correia]

www.fbmginc.com

I love my job. But then again, I'm one of the owners.

However there is always piles of paperwork, regulations, ATF inspections, paying taxes, and all that stuff.

But on the bright side, I like to associate myself with gun people. Regular people just aren't as interesting.

 

[nomadboi]

Hey Correia, the 'request our demo disk' link on your website isn't working for me...

I have a desk job at a hippie pacifist university, but have a side business doing fight choreography, gun wrangling, stuntwork and prop weapons rentals for indie films, local theatre, etc.

www.fightdesigner.com

Mostly I deal with cheaper fake gun replicas, since that's what the market around here can afford, but hey, that's fine.

 

[Correia]

Whoops. Thanks.

 

[nomadboi]

...by which you can also guess that I'd love to check one out sometime. Every now and again people come asking about things that are way beyond my means and budget, or in other parts of the country, and I'm always happy to be able to refer them to someone who can help. Any info you guys have, send it my way! Always happy to talk shop as well.

action at fightdesigner dot com.

Last Friday I did a quickie gun wrangler gig for a film company wanting to show off their new ultra-high-resolution, tons-of-frames-per-second digital camera package. One of the clips they wanted was a woman in a bikini, hair blowing in the (artificial) wind, firing a full-auto machine gun. We used one of the MGC M4s- looks pretty close to the real thing, full trademarks, spits out brass casings and a bit of smoke/sparks, and it's quiet (just 7mm caps going off) and not legally a firearm, so easier to buy/transport/rent. Jams regularly, since often the caps end up being duds, but hey, when it works, it's great.

On their footage it was like Matrix bullet-time; super crisp images, no jerkiness or motion blurr or anything when going very slow, casings turning gracefully in the air... all pulled from full speed footage. Awesome.

They tried using a rig to simulate recoil, thinking the jiggling of the model would be a good payoff, but in that much slow motion it didn't really show anyway.

So yeah- not real guns, but gun-related. Sadly I haven't been able to go to the range in months, between the money and the time constraints.

 

[CajunBass]

I make Kevlar. Does that count?

 

[kjeff50cal]

Working Man-

Is that by the home office?

Near enough for the head guy to come in to visit almost daily, so we have the DM and the CEO to keep us on our toes.... You know Acad is in Missouri (Joplin) now?

 

[Working Man]

You know Acad is in Missouri (Joplin) now?

I just hope they don't grow too fast, get bought out, and go all corporate.
They have the best (worst for the store) return policy anywhere.

 

[symr00]

I work for the Border Patrol. Aside from the issued handgun, we're issued M4's, pepperball launchers(glorified paintball gun) and shotguns. We have details that ride horses, ATVs, dirtbikes, boats, bikes and when we have to work in rock-chucking territory, we drive vehicles pretected by a cage. Aside from catching regular Joes coming to America for work, we apprehend tons of Marijuana and now a lot of meth. Unfortunately the drug smugglers are more violent than they were 10 years ago and shoot BP agents to get their loads across. The down side is most of us are stationed in small towns that hate us but the pay is fantastic and yes, they are hiring.

 

[High_Cap]

I work in a small gun shop.
Sell guns, work on them.
Kinda of a do it all there.

We also have a range.


And no, I am not a know it all. Customers always can teach me something.

 

[Molon Labe]

I'm a senior engineer at an R&D lab. We operate one of the largest "impact physics" labs in the US. The labs are indoors, and huge... each lab is the size of a gymnasium. We shoot chickens at jet fighter canopies, test concrete bunkers for the army, and bullet-resistant windows for armored cars, just to name a few. We also test shielding for satellites using two-stage gas guns, which require velocities on the order of 9 km/second.

I don't work in the lab fulltime. But I do a lot of support work for them, e.g. designing interface boxes for the high speed cameras, designing light boxes, data acquisition systems, etc.

It's a lot of fun.

 

[romma]

I work

in the trucking business as a freightbroker. This past May, we flew a customer from Phoenix,Az to Texas, and we flew to Texas from Connecticut to meet him and go hunting. We are doing that again in December. So, while not directly related, the indirect connection has it's plus side. I for sure would rather be sitting in the woods with a rifle in my hands getting paid, then sitting here at work...