Sistema1927
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Just when I thought all was lost the Senate voted down HB51. Small consolation for a lousy session.
I went to a gun show this weekend.
So did another local.
He picked up 5 AKs, 2 ARs, a bunch of mags and ammo, and then tried to sneak them into Mexico.
Oops.
There is nothing someone can sell me at any price once I sniff out that it's an illegal deal. Also, there's no bribe anyone can offer me to make me sell something illegally. (Obviously in the selling case it would involve a firearm. I don't mind being behind barred windows and doors as long as I have the key to those doors, but I'm averse to being behind those things when I don't have a key so jail isn't someplace I want to be.How about the other side of that coin.I was a regular at the pawn shops. I walked in one day and was looking at a Ruger 9mm that was a little beat up and I started haggling on price. Salesman asked what I wanted to pay and I told him I wanted to pay $10 and walk away happy but didn’t expect that to work out. He went to a filing cabinet and opened up the drawer and called me over. Apparently this was his “off the books” inventory and said I had my choice at $50 straight up. I left, and that was a shame because I went in that day to buy a nice IH Garand that was in the rack. That illegal BS ran me off for good. That shop is a liquor store now, and the former owner is a prohibited person.
I found part of the story on what I described earlier. They ended up rolling over and pulling more people into this cluster. I may be wrong about state trooper, but for sure former law enforcement officials were involved. The mail fraud thing seems bogus in this case, but it was used to put pressure on them for a guilty plea for the rest of it. The guy owned multiple pawn shops and local lore is that he was essentially forced to sell them by the court system.There is nothing someone can sell me at any price once I sniff out that it's an illegal deal. Also, there's no bribe anyone can offer me to make me sell something illegally. (Obviously in the selling case it would involve a firearm. I don't mind being behind barred windows and doors as long as I have the key to those doors, but I'm averse to being behind those things when I don't have a key so jail isn't someplace I want to be.
The attached news story is over 15 years old but I know a couple of the businesses that were involved and one of the persons.
The owner replied in his somewhat gruff manner, with a steely look: "Pull that trigger again and you're buying it".
I told him so long. Never saw him or that dusty, filthy little shop again.....but the gun shops about two miles further west on Summer Ave. I visit about once every three months, and bought four guns.
I went to a shop with an indoor range a couple of times, near the Golden Glades in Miami. The front door was plastered with signs and stickers. Somewhere in the mess, there was a sign telling people not to enter with loaded firearms. I had a loaded Glock somewhere down in my bag. I didn't know any better.
It's a common trait in many rookie LEOs, and, even worse and somewhat more prevalent with some security guards many of which aren't even armed with more than a flashlight but suddenly they're Dirty Harry. Never tried 5.11 pants, but did have a pair of Levi 501 jeans. The button fly was just too much of a bother.It's strange, how many nasty, egotistical people there are in the firearms business. It's also weird how many of them seem to think they're LEO's or commandos, just because they wear 5.11 pants. A lot of these dudes never put on tactical gear, camo, or a uniform until they bought it themselves, but they have the mil spec haircuts and the mannerisms down anyway. The fact that an unaccomplished person filled out some papers and got an FFL doesn't make him Jack Reacher, my dad, or my probation officer. When I go to a doctor who studied for 10 years to get his credentials, I usually see more humility and receive more courtesy.
I'm a little at a loss to kn ow who was dressing in what manner of dress that you are saying I described? I was speaking of some security guards who imagine themselves some kind of LEO or newly minted badge heavy rookies (and let me be clear, most rookies cops aren't badge heavy and there are many veteran officers who are) who think they know it all.FISwampRat:
Having watched numerous "Stolen Valor" videos, mostly by the former SEAL Master Chief has me even more curious.
If none of those Hollywood-style "Army Surplus Store Commandos" which you described have ever implied in a bar, or to relatives that they had been with special forces and/or the CIA, it would surprise me.
The FBI has estimated that there easily could be-what-well over one hundred imposters (or is it Five hundred/one?) for every former and present active duty SEAL. This excludes Airborne, Delta, Marine pretenders.
Among those 100% civilian guys (or former military admin/support types) who dress the way you mentioned, are they actually humble enough to realize that they could make a serious safety mistake with a gun?