A gun nut is born
Maybe.
The wife has hit it off with some lady from daycare. And we went to their place for dinner the other night. Talking to the hubby, he told me he was going to the gun show the next day. I told him I’d like to go with. He said Oh, you know guns? I said A little bit. So, we talked a bit. He said he had never been into guns but, in 1994 just prior to the assault weapons ban going into effect, he bought a Glock 17 and a few regular capacity mags because he thought they’d be banned. He still has it. He’s only shot it a handful of times and wasn’t really a gun guy. He just knew he had to have something that politicians were wanting to ban him having.
He was going to the gun show because of the election. He wants to buy more of those things politicians were wanting to ban him having and if Barack Yabba-Dabba-Doo Obama was elected, a ban would be more likely, he said. So, it seems the endorsement by the American Hunters and Shooters Association isn’t really resonating here in the Heartland.
We went to the show where he bought more Glock mags. And I’ve very probably convinced him that he should build an AR-15.
One at a time!
June 9th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Will he ever discover that he spend the day with the prince of gunbloggers? …the lord of chaos? …an armed minion of the VRWC?
…The guy who gives Barry O’ middle names that get stolen by Jon Stewart?
June 9th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Wish I had been invited.
June 9th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Dammit. I shoulda called but it was last minute.
June 9th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Barack Obama IS Buford Pussy in “Walking Both Sides of the Street…”
June 9th, 2008 at 11:43 am
We don’t have gun owners like that ’round here. We have avid gun-nuts, and we have avid hunters. Anything less enthusiastic than that gives up before investing all the time any money into our permit process. And of course buying somthing because the govenment doesn’t want you to have it is also foolish here because all your guns are registered with the state so they know right where they are if they decide to confiscate.
This, free-staters, is why you need to fight.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
See, that’s the meat of the thing right there. If we can nurture that, keep that alive, we’ll be unbeatable.
Doesn’t matter if it’s full-capacity magazines, radar detectors, radio scanners, nitrous injection, Absinthe, browser proxies, pink handguns, or pr0n.
Preferably all of the above.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Way to go! win one for the good guys!!
June 9th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Cool. That’s exactly what got me to guy my first guns– the Brady Bill was coming down the pike. I bought a Glock at about the same time and for exactly the same reason.
I think this is what is referred to as “backlash”– “You want to ban it? Well then, I’m going to start doing it. Though I was never all that interested before, this may be my last chance…”
There are more people in this category than you’ll ever know. Ask any gun dealer who was in business before and during the Clinton administration. They’ll tell you the same thing. There was even a push to name Old Willy “Salesman of the Year”.
Those years were the genesis of both Boomershoot and UltiMAK to name just two that I personally know, plus several of my co workers and employees at the time went out and bought their first guns in the ’90s.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Further, I submit that the following argument could be made credibly:
The Clinton “gun ban” efforts actually did, in a blind, blundering, round about way, serve to reduce crime through unintended consequences. Since they brought so many new gun owners into the fold (NRA membership skyrocketed at the same time, by the way) that could have been a factor in the flood of concealed carry shall issue laws around the country, resulting in more armed citizens deterring or stopping more crimes.
June 9th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
So, did you mention that you occasionally posted on a blog called SayUncle?
June 9th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Good Job Uncle!