I am gonna weigh-in on “gun
control.” I know it will solve nothing,
but the stress I am suffering from watching the right and left act like idiots
may be somewhat relieved.
When I read about “open carry”
laws. I wince because I did not know it could be illegal to openly carry a gun
you legally own. It never occurred to me
that it was anything but childish nonsense to walk around with a gun strapped
to my hip or sling over my shoulder unless I was hunting or target
shooting. I gave up walking around with
toy guns very early in life. Real guns
were for shooting not prancing.
I found out that my grandfather, a
former law enforcement officer, had carried an S&W pistol concealed in his
pocket for many years. And oh yes, we
used to have a KKK poobah come into the grocery store where I worked with a gun
strapped around his belly so he could intimidate the black kids.
Much of my life has been spent
with a gun of one type or another only a step away. We were a family of occasional hunters, and
you need a gun to hunt. My grandfather
was former law enforcement and an avid hunter.
Guns and more guns. In my early
twenties, I started trapshooting. Most
of MY guns have been shotguns with a couple of rifles and pistols thrown in.
During most of my early years of being a “gun
nut,” I actively read various NRA publications as well as others because I was
“studying” about guns. It was a pseudo
academic exercise that was a cover for my love of guns. Joining the NRA never felt like a good thing
to do because of the even then paranoid ranting that “they” were determine to
take away our guns. They meant the g’ment. Then in 1968, the GUN CONTROL ACT OF 1968 became law. That pretty much put an end to my buying or
selling guns from the trunk of a car. I needed a federal firearms license even as an amateur arms
dealer. http://www.saf.org/lawreviews/zimring68.htm is an interesting site regarding a real legal treatise on the actual state of the law in 1975. I am not sure about the law since because I neither buy nor sell arms for personal use or otherwise.
Deep down inside I am to some extent controlled by my prior life being close to firearms and the NRA hysteria. I gave up all the "gun fun" when I sold my beautiful Model 12 Winchester Pigeon Grade trap gun http://www.gunsinternational.com/Winchester-Model-12-Shotguns.cfm?cat_id=698 to finance a divorce in 1974 and tried to never look back.
Stay tuned…more to come.
And oh yes, have a nice Day?
Wjc
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