Posted on 11/17/2015 6:44:37 AM PST by ZULU
There’s a guy about a half mile from me who regularly lets his customers step out the back door and fire into a gravel hill. I can count on one hand the number of days in the last 30 years I haven’t heard gunfire.
I like the sound of friendly guns and smell of gunpowder.
Would a kid love to live next to a Toys R Us ?
:) Me too!!
I grew up near one. Very near. In our basement.
My dad was a gunsmith and cutom reloader.
Oddly enough, I survived.
I would LOVE to have a good gunsmith/friend nearby. I might just become an apprentice.
especially if they had reloading supplies too.
Walk down the street and buy ammo? That’s almost as good as when I was a kid. We had Dutch folks who lived in our neighborhood. Every week in the afternoon on Wednesdays the ‘Dutchman’ would come down the block. He had this white van crammed full of stuff that was imported from Holland, Belgium, and France.
Things you couldn’t buy here in the US. The candy was the best. They had a version of Starburst that made Starburst seem trite. They had cola candies that actually tasted like Coca-Cola. The had stroepwaffels, little waffles sandwiches with honey in the middle that you normally ate with coffee.
We’d chip in and buy some of this stuff, because it was normally sold at a bit of a premium, since the Dutchman had to import it. It helped that he spoke Dutch too, since the folks on our block seldom heard Dutch in the US.
If I could go down the street, hear native gunspeak spoken in the mother tongue, and be able to buy a bucket of .22 rounds for my Scouts every once in a while, that would be 9th grade Summertime good.
I’d rather not live next door to any commercial facility - I’m all privileged dontchaknow?
If my next door neighbor was a gun shop I’d dig it. Would be friendly with the owner and try to weasel my way into great deals on guns and ammo. It would go something like this: “The Mrs. just baked this tray of cookies and we thought y’all might like some. Yeah, I know yesterday is was fresh bread. And, the other day my Son mowed your lawn, but think nothing of it. Oh, hey... is that Ruger on sale?”
If there is no problem with something free people do liberals will “fix” it until there is.
I wish every decent neighbor of mine (not the pansy liberals who wet their panties at the thought of a weapon, but all normal Americans) had a home-based gun shop.
My son had a class three in Alabama. The state requires a store front in a business district. Cannot keep the license without a storefront location.
My dream location requires a Gun Shop next door.
The few we have are run out of homes. But then our area is largely liberal (the towns anyway) so store front gun dealers don’t exist. A Walmart nearby (Pouslbo,WA) store carries ammo but no guns.
Does my pond count?
If the prices were decent and the selection good then yes.
“Yes, I’d feel safer”. I have in the past.
FReeped.
I noticed that one of the comments was from:
“CommonSenseProgressive”
Oxymoron anyone. LOL
a way for gun club enthusiasts to transfer guns to friends once every few months
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Should not need to “Transfer” your gun, via FFL and background check, to a friend to use for a couple of months.
But this is CA.
And all our ponds are drying up.
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