Posted on 04/09/2016 7:28:40 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
Another list of "thing not to do", this time in a gun store. Feel free to add your own "nos-nos" to the list...
If you don’t enjoy being swept muzzles, don’t go to Cabelas!
Exactly!
‘swept by muzzles’, damn iPad.
You’ll know you’ve talked too much politics if the sales lady starts buffing her nails and the shop hound rolls over and plays dead.
>>> I always ask where I can point any gun I want to look at.
Yeah, me too. Only seems polite. And ask permission before pulling the trigger. Seems presumptuous not to.
When it comes to political opining, it is my favorite dealer who is most outspoken. And probably to the detriment of his bottom line in some cases. I respect & agree with him most of the time, tho the naughty words he uses on his business’s social media accounts do not serve him well, IMO.
I may talk that way IRL, but somehow it’s so much more permanent & offensive in writing.
The below is my cell ringtone (”Hello Infidel”, length 25 seconds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ebV6X3e9E
and while it provokes amusement in shall we say conservative venues, I thought it wise to turn the volume way down (well okay, completely off) in a crowded hospital waiting room.
Poeple tend toward nervousness when they hear such, then suddenly realize how vulnerable and ideal a soft target they have made of themselves. I didn’t want the more reflexive individuals turning on me.
Incidentally, once my friend had made it out of surgery & was assigned a room at the end of a hallway, we noticed that an armed security guard was loitering about in the vicinity of another patient’s room. To our inquiry, the nurse gave much more answer than expected: that suicidal patients could be assigned to her floor so long as they had a baby-sitter, which was what the lurking-about armed guard was for.
She opined on how stupid it was for the particular patient to have shot himself in the gut rather than OD on meds, as she knew a veterinarian who killed himself in that sort of civilized manner. I observed that so long as one’s tool is a firearm, why not aim for the grey matter, knowwhutimean? I mean - a gut shot? Ouchies!
Later, my better half & I marveled that the guy had been assigned a minder with a gun. So you’re standing by with your gun on your hip & your patient threatens to off himself. What is it you are supposed to do...?
I have this one from ‘24’, and it still makes people look around and wonder where Jack Bauer is. lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTpea38QtC4
Heh, you’re right. We were avid fans.
Another bright one decided to rob a gun store in Baton Rouge. The counter was at the back of the store. The yute went in, walked to the counter, produced a 9mm and pointed it at the man behind the counter. He soon found himself surrounded by about 10 armed guys with their weapons drawn. Didn’t quite think that one through.
Take pics.
That’s a definite no-no.
BTW the local Sportsman’s Warehouse has employees with excellent gun handling skills.
A decade or two back there was a break in of a store adjacent to a gun shop, the burglar figuring it was easier to go through the non-alarmed windows of the first store rather than deal with the electronics fitted to the doors and windows of the gun shop. Surprise! The gun shop owner was inside with not one, but two H&K submachineguns, each with a full magazine, on the not entirely unreasonable thought process that it's quicker to transition to the second weapon from the first once it runs empty than to reload, and two, in the event of a cartridge jam or malfunction, the backup plan is immediately at hand. And when the noisy burglar finally crashed to the floor after wriggling through the ceiling heating ducts, he still had the knife in his hand that he'd used to separate the ductwork sections.
BRRRRRRRRRP! Result: 30 misses, at about 15 feet distance, but with no light or hearing protection. Happily, the second buzzgun was an MP5SD, the suppressed/silenced version of the MP5. The now-terrified burglar made it to the front door, cleared the deadbolt and FoxLock bar blocking his exit, and hit the panic bar emergency exit door handle. But he STILL had the knife in his hand. (poppoppoppoppoppoppoppoppoppop): One neat 10-round burst, fired in the vicinity of his knees/lower legs on his way out the door. He still had the knife: (poppoppoppoppoppoppoppoppoppop) Ten more. Ten more MISSES. He still had the knife.(poppoppoppoppoppoppoppoppoppop) [again!] This time he scored one- in the back of the perp's head. NOW he drops his knife.
It took the Indy Grand Jury less than two hours to offer a *no bill* on the shooting, after it was pointed out that the now-deceased [juvenile] unofficial heating & cooling duct inspector had more felony convictions in his fifteen years than the gunshop owner had misses that night. I think he might have been better served with a shotgun, but I wasn't there.
Archy——the SMG owner sounds as if he needed more range time back then. Hope he got them back from the evidence locker eventually. Bet he was hip shooting instead of aiming.
IIRC, a half dozen Manson gang members robbed a-—Western Auto ??——in California in the 70s and stole @ 150 rifles and were going to kill the employees and customers when the police showed up and shot it out with the gang.
Alas, all the rodent scum survived.
An uncle of mine was involved as an investigator with the 1975 Squeaky Fromme assassination attempt on President Ford. And one of the former tank commander sergeants in my old outfit left the Army to become a San Francisco cop, where he was working as SFPD uniformed security at the Sara Jane Moore try. Mr. Ford might have done well to have avoided my family members and friends, but then again, perhaps the association brought him luck.
Vanity. It's common for gunshot suicides to not wish to disfigure their faces/heads so that they can be viewed at the funeral services by those they're trying to teach a lesson by depreiving the world of their splendid precesnce in it.
And too, some just can't stand the thought of pulling the *delete* lever on all their hopes, memories and dreams. The fella who filled a large-caliber centerfire rifle barrel with water, placed his mouth around the muzzle, and tripped the trigger with his toe as he was stretched out on a couch/recliner was an exception; virtually everything above the occipital process was removed by the hydrostatic force and painted the ceiling.
Yep, I checked. It's still loaded.
I've got one from *24* as well.
Many moons back in this area a doctor killed himself with a shotgun. He was stage 4 terminal cancer and decided to check out but why he did not just prescribe himself some potent drug and be less messy only he knew.
You’re right. And I get it with vanity or not being fully committed - but dang, you might wanna figure that out before putting yer bugger hook on the bang switch.
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