who was GUNKID?

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As I recall, gunkid was certifiable, really. Gecko... funny guy. I wish I knew for sure if that was some guy putting everyone on or not. Either way, I still get tears from reading Gecko's stuff, laughing.
 
If you talk to gun forum mods (not just here, but everywhere on the net), you will find that for every time GK had a thread going with a bunch of replies, several of his usernames and threads were found and whacked before anyone else saw him. He'd hammer at one board for a while, and eventually give up and go elsewhere for a few weeks or months, and then come back for another go-around.
 
Info on Gunkids big arrest:

http://www.texasminutemen.org/forum/archive/index.php?t-9549.html

It has been confirmed, this is the real GunKid, the man most of us love to hate.
http://newsok.com/article/1881634

A convicted felon suspected of stashing stolen weapons and almost 11,000 bullets in a Norman storage locker is being held in the Oklahoma County jail on a federal complaint, officials said.

John Melvin Davis, 53, was arrested June 19 outside a trailer home at 12101 Village Dr. in Noble.

He is being held without bail and faces a complaint of possession of ammunition after a prior felony conviction. According to a federal detention order, Davis has past convictions on eight federal offenses and received five separate sentences totaling more than 20 years in prison.

Bob Troester, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Oklahoma City, said Davis is likely to face more than the ammunition complaint. He said his office will seek an indictment within 30 days.

According to a search warrant return filed Wednesday in Cleveland County District Court:

June 16, Davis’ estranged wife told the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms that Davis had broken into her Colorado storage unit and stolen “several assault rifles, hand guns, some gold, silver and other ... items.” She said Davis, who has at least eight aliases, stored most of the loot in Norman.

An Oklahoma woman told agents that she let Davis stay with her until he found the Noble trailer home and a storage unit at Summit Storage, 2100 24th Ave. SE, in Norman. She said Davis made “numerous comments” about not going back to prison, claiming he would “disrupt the economy by poisoning the water supply and knocking out the communication system.”

The woman also said Davis, who has lived in Oklahoma for only a few months, had begun having packages shipped to her address, including a box of incomplete firearms frames that he planned to sell with directions on how to convert them into functioning weapons.

June 19, agents searched Davis’ trailer home. Davis was detained after entering a van, and a .22 caliber pistol and several rounds of ammunition were recovered from a canvas bag he’d been carrying.

Agents later searched the Norman storage unit and seized a 9 millimeter pistol, a .22 caliber pistol, a .45 caliber pistol, a .223 caliber rifle, a Colt pistol, possible silencers, gun parts and more than 10,900 bullets of various calibers. Neighbor Tim “Tiny” Walters watched June 19 as federal agents swarmed Davis’ trailer home, one of about 30 in a rural park just north of Maguire Road on 120th Avenue NE..

“I counted five unmarked cars pull up before it was over,” Walters said. “They dragged him (Davis) out and arrested him.”

Agents searched the trailer home “from top to bottom for two days,” Walters said.

Ron Berry, the park’s assistant manager, said Davis moved in a few months ago.

“He was quiet and kept to himself,” Berry said. “He always waved when I walked by, but never said much.”
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Good summation of who Gunkid was:

http://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/2006/07/target-is-dismounted-troll-in-open.html

"Target is dismounted troll in the open. Will adjust."

Splash, OUT!

06/19/2006 was a truly Red Letter Day among the Internet Gun Forums.

The Internet troll known as Gunkid a/k/a/ Hardin a/k/a Jamboree a/k/a Swetn a/k/a Lawrenceof Reason a/k/a Brule a/k/a ... you get the picture, got nicked by Oklahoma deputies and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for multiple State and Federal violations.

For those Gentle Readers who are not familiar with the metaphorical whiff of methane and hydrogen sulfide that was the cyberspace presence of Gunkid, allow me to shed some light on why there are Internet Gun Board Staff People dancing in the streets right now:

Gunkid was an idiot.

In actuality, he was more than that: he was a compulsive liar, a thief, a convicted felon, a Walter Mitty wannabe and a dedicated pain-in-the-arse.

His dream was for the World To End As We Know It -- preferably in a nuclear holocaust -- so that he could float down the Mississippi river on a raft and sell his services as an assassin to the warlords that he was sure would pop-up like fungi.

He opined at great length about blowing up Federal buildings, office buildings and any building belonging to anyone he didn't like.

When asked about the possibility of the Feds not much taking to people spouting off about blowing up their buildings, Gunkid would reply that if he got any whiff of a Fed, he was going to cause civil disorder by poisoning the local water supply and escaping in the panic. If that didn't work, of course he was not going to be taken alive, hail of bullets, dead agents in the street, napalm, explosions, terror, special CNN music, yack, yack, yack.

He was fond of a ten-inch barrelled upper receiver chambered for .22LR on his AR-15 with a attached silencer, and claimed it was the be-all, end-all survival weapon and was good to 300 meters. He vociferously defended this combination to anyone who would ask, especially tyros to the world of guns.

He would always neglect to mention that a 10-inch barrel on a rifle without the proper -- extra -- paperwork violates several Federal and State laws. As does the attached silencer sans proper paperwork.

He was also an obnoxious believer in the famed Assault Wheelbarrow. When the Balloon Went Up, Gunkid advised anyone who would listen not to bother with backpacks or such-like. No, the only useful carrying mode would be a light-weight wheelbarrow.

He frequently claimed to be a top IPSC shooter, and his name has been found on an IPSC list or two, but never anywhere near the top.

His encyclopedic knowledge extended to the world of attack- and guard-dog training, and he was a vociferous fan of the de-barked Chiahuahua for guard dog work.

Don't get me started on that one.

All of this -- and more -- does not garner Gunkid such an exalted place on the Internet List Of Those Who Should Go Play In Traffic. There are thousands of other people exactly like this on gun-boards right now.

No, what got GunKid his special place in our hearts was the fact that:

a) The schmuck could not take a bloody hint. Not even the gentle, "Don't do that **** anymore" caused him to pause and reflect upon his behaviour.

b) The numpty was prolific. We can deal with bushwa, but when the bushwa is coming at the rate of 20 posts per minute for two hours, keeping up becomes a full-time job.

c) The bonehead was sodding incapable of having a reasoned discourse. By Goddess, if you disagreed with him, then **** you, you ****ing ****** son of a ***** and your *****ing dog, too, ******! Now, see bullet 'b' above.

He apparently believed that what he was dishing out was handed down to him from the Temple Mount, that we should be grateful for receiving these crumbs of Truth, and that anyone who disagreed with The Truth was a Sinner, who should be verbally chastized before being cast out of his Presence.

d) The critter was the anthropomorphic version of cat whizz. To explain, if you've ever had a cat mark his territory inside your house, you know it's jolly well impossible to get the smell out. You bust your butt, and you think the nasty funk is finally gone, but something happens and 'BAM' -- your house stinks of cat whizz again. No matter what you do, no matter what you try, the stench always comes back.

He was exactly like that. He'd show up on a forum, stink up the place, he'd get banned and next thing you knew, he was reeking up the place again under a new name.

He got kicked off of TFL and THR hundreds -- if not thousands -- of times, and never, ever got the damned hint. I will guarantee that other firearms forums thumped him a similar number of times.

For further enlightenment, enter 'gunkid' in the search engine of your choice.

I'm seriously considering sending a case of micro-brew up to that department out of sheer gratitude.

LawDog
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And like somebody said recently, it's just gotta burn him up knowing the authorities only consider him a low risk inmate.
 
I used to exchange emails with John/Gunkid sporadically. His emails were entirely unlike his on-line posts. He mainly seemed interested in things like non-hybridized seeds and medicinal herbs. He did send me a free .pdf file of a book about silencers he was in the process of getting published. I've read some of it, but I don't know anything about designing suppressors, so I can't comment on the worth of his designs.
As for the assault wheelbarrow, that took place at Hard Core Talk in one of its early incarnations. The thread, alas, seems to have been lost in one of their many crashes. Basically, you had John and a bunch of riot-nerds (who were only microscopically more knowledgeable or honest than John) railing at each other over bugging out v. bugging in. One of the riot-nerds was explaining how from his impregnable stone house, high atop a hill with no cover or concealment for attackers for hundreds of yards surrounding [Note: all riot-nerds claim to live in a house like this, but in my whole life I can't say for sure I ever saw one like it] he would rain death upon the attacking SHM's with his Wrath o' God® M1A. There was a brief flurry of point-counterpoint involving things like
I'll come when it's dark!
Nuh-uh!!!! I have night vision goggles!
Batteries don't last for ever!
Mine are solar powered!!!!
At this point John stated that with scrap metal and a wheelbarrow, or other stuff commonly found around farms, he could weld up a mobile piece of cover that would allow him to approach the house even under fire. Thus, the assault wheelbarrow was born. Pretty much everything else you hear about the assault wheelbarrow is stuff other people have attributed to John but that he never actually claimed.
As he originally proposed it, it isn't even that absurd. During medieval times, things not too different were used during siege warfare to approach a fortress under fire from archers. Also, lest we get too cocky, the idea of moving thousands of tons of supplies through the jungle by fastening them to bicycles sounds absurd too.
Since I'm not a board moderator or administrator, John was never the PIA for me that he was for so many of them. He has some goofy ideas, but IME the people who fought the loudest and longest with him tended to only be defending their own personal goofy ideas. Frankly, I quite often found it amusing to watch John and a squawling pack of riot-nerds ninny-slap each other for 10 pages over whether or not you could dig a cat-hole with a skatchet.
 
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Gunkid was a mentally ill criminal ... he made Mall Ninja's look downright cuddly.
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You could say that he is the new Desperado,or from da hood but instead of a Spanish guitar,a wheelbarrow instead.A driveby at the allotments,in Compton.All he needs to do is to pimp his wheelbarrow and his clothing,then he can look like a South Central or Compton hood.

All he needs to do is to go up against,a dangerous nutcase,who is as ruthless and brutal as Mike Myers and real-life psychos Micheal Ryan and Emil Matasareanu,who were both heavily-armed.Then you could watch the cowardly-fantasist run,because his wheelbarrow wouldn't have been strong enough to stop 7.62mm rounds.I know it might sound like weird humor,but for a crank like him who would hurt people for fun,it's time that he got his comeuppance.I don't think that he could return fire in time to save his pitiful little life.By the way,that was serious black comedy,which is the sort that comes from the UK,but I think that Tarentino uses a similar style and he would laugh at it.

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"So you think you're a tough crank,do ya gunkid?".We'll see now!
 
I was doing fine, until this thread came back up. Now, I have to go eat breakfast AGAIN. :barf:

I got the pleasure of poofing him a time or two, over where I am a mod. After that, it was no longer a pleasure. Just a never-ending task involving a large rock and a steep hill. :cuss::banghead::cuss:

Pops
 
I just saw on another thread that he'll be released 10/26/10!!!
Will we see the return of Gunkid???
 
Every mod on here has banned Gunkid seven or eight times. It is kind of like a right of passage. When you first become a moderator, you had to hunt down a Gunkid and take him out with a suppressed, 10 inch .22 AR.

Now that we don't have Gunkid, we'll have to find a new right of passage. Justin had a great idea, but I really don't know if it is legal to do that kind of thing with mollusks, even if they are tame.
 
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