You just can't fix stupid

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Very possible. The only thing that makes me think it wasn't the case was that he mentioned that he can buy it at Outdoor World (another line I failed to mention).... so with Outdoor World over here only existing for a few years, that would rule it out too.

My best guess thus far is that he has a Smith and Wesson M&P in .40S&W, assumes that all black pistols are called Glocks just like how most of us call all plastic bandages bandaids, or facial tissue kleenex. The number 16 comes from the number of rounds that the gun will accept (15+1 = 16).... and assumes that all handgun ammunition is a manufacturer specific version of 9mm.
 
I ran into a guy at Rampart Range in Co Springs, once that was having a devil of a time trying to load .308s in the magazine for his M-1 carbine, I think he gave me the box when I showed him my model 94
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I was an OPFOR instructor in Korea. There was always a genius in the class who "knew" that you could shoot 7.62x51mm NATO in an AK-47. We used to give them a Kalashnikov magazine and a .308 round and let them have at it.
 
Usually in order to be that invincibly ignorant, a person has to be discussing computers, or the Holocaust, Hiroshima, or 9/11, or...
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asking their attorney why they can't bail out after a violation of probation.......
 
Not at all. Guy was in his 40's or 50's and was dead serious.
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Most dangerous type. They don't know, and no one's going to change their mind.
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There's a guy pretty active in usenet (and FidoNet before it) who's heavily into the "father's rights movement". The guy's a pure-d whacko, Walter Mitty type and a pathetic, misogynistic bully.

One day in FidoNet he went on a rant about how we need gun control to protect us from "AK47s with 500 magazines". I dared him to find ANY reference, ANYWHERE to a 500 round magazine for the Kalashnikov. He started blowing smoke about how he'd been in "Air Force Special Forces in Vietnam" when "all of the Special Forces were together". Being a Kurt Vonnegut fan, I posited that it was far more likely that he'd been in the "Parachute Ski Marines". It stuck.

Then he got into an argument over how many B-46 bombers were produced. Those of us with actual KNOWLEDGE said "nothing but prototypes". The blowhard couldn't leave well enough alone, and insisted that the skies of '50s America were practically black with squadrons of B-46s that blotted out the sun. A friend of mine in rural Oregon drove ONE HUNDRED MILES to a library to confirm his source, the Rand-MacNally(sp?) atlas of aircraft. Turns out that's he'd quoted the first edition of the book... which had a misprint, citing the B-46 instead of the B-45 Tornado. My friend rubbed his nose in it for weeks. From then on, in addition to being a hero of the "Parachute Ski Marines", he was "B-46 Kenny".
 
Ah, how I miss my comrades of the Parachute Ski Marines, they were great men. You should've seen it, one time there were 3 of us against 3,000 chinese at Bunker Hill, we got them all when those big B-46's came in and bombed them, then the Cobra's came in and picked us all up and took us back across the river to Cu Chi for some R&R with the Playboy bunnies. :D

Those were the days!
 
This is exactly why I limit my conversations to the employee ONLY while at the sporting goods counter at Wal-Mart///:cuss::banghead::eek:
 
I had one of those guns years ago but sold it because it was hard to find ammo for.
I sold it and got me a ZC IMAR in M.M.9
I also got a REGUR 59-P for home defence
 
"I am the only one in here qualified , that I know of to carry this 9mm S&W Glock.... even fitty cent aint got of these "
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somewhere there is a village , with its idiot all over the side of expired milk cartons...and he was right there all along , shopping in WalMart ( could have been the gun counter manager off duty ).

:)
 
I was asked to get a box of grid squares once. It took me awhile, but I came back in about an hour, and handed my platoon sgt a box of grid squares. I found a map and a pair of scissors, cut it into the little squares, put them in a box, (not the whole map), and handed it to him. He stood there for several minutes slack jawed, looking in the box. He closed the box, put it under his arm, and never screwed with me again.
 
What no one else thinks the guy has a Sigma? You know the S&W COPY of a Glock.
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another possibility. 16 round capacity in 9mm too.

Was it produced around the same time as S&W having their own brand of ammo? If so, that would totally explain the confusion.
 
you would think the guy at the gun counter (yes...even at wal*mart) would have been able to tell him there was no such caliber as 9mm S&W. maybe he would have taken his word for it since he's the "expert".
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The guy at the gun counter is probably trying to "Special order" the ammo as we type.
 
Even Better Story

REminds me of when i used to work in an auto parts store. One time we had a lady coming in asking for the cap that goes on the top of the engine. Apparently she lost hers. her old had 710 on it. So she wanted one that had 710 on it. After i went and cleaned my shorts i explained to the lady if you flipped the cap the other way it says OIL
 
Ah, how I miss my comrades of the Parachute Ski Marines, they were great men. You should've seen it, one time there were 3 of us against 3,000 chinese at Bunker Hill, we got them all when those big B-46's came in and bombed them, then the Cobra's came in and picked us all up and took us back across the river to Cu Chi for some R&R with the Playboy bunnies.

Those were the days!
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:D Ahhh yes.... Sam Bam, Ding Dong, I was all over that place; Agent Orange, that's me - Agent Orange. (Question: What movie was that line from?)
 
I can see this guy now, talking to the coroner's inquest, " I thought it was my Winchester Cattle Prod, honestly!"
 
It's interesting how men act in pursuits like guns and cars. Often, someone who is definitely wondering and looking for information will pick a "story" and stick to it in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Face, of course, is the key here.

The same skills that will help you guide someone who is advancing a line of ignorance or BS (often with full knowledge of what it is) seem to be useful in de-escalating physical confrontations.
 
This reminds me of the time I was waiting to get into a parking garage behind some woman who kept trying to shove a dollar bill into the machine that spits out the tickets. The attendant finally had to come over and push the button for her, hand her the ticket, and told her she could pay when she left.

Or the lady in Taco Bell that asked for her tacos without mayonaisse.
 
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