RE: Can someone tell me where in the 2nd amendment it says you can carry machine guns?
May 11, 2017 at 3:37 pm
(This post was last modified: May 11, 2017 at 3:41 pm by Brian37.)
(May 11, 2017 at 2:43 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Brian: "Didn't you also say in another post that you keep them locked up at a gun range and no longer keep them at home? "
When I couldn't face buying another gun safe I sent the collectible ones to the Smithsonian. They only wanted one of them, the rest were in the "tradeable" collection, to swap with other museums. The last guns I kept at home were in a safe, I donated the other safes to my more sensible relatives. Now that we live near a range we have a safe there. Gun stores don't get robbed too much.
The .50 is long-term loan to a certain state agency that might have to shoot an engine block in half some day. We "fam. fire" it once a year, I get free ammo.
More than you think or want to realize, I have heard 3 stories in the past year of local gun stores being robbed. You can wait till it closes, get a strong enough pick up, chain to the door pull it open, or simply smash the window with that pick up, take a hammer with you, smash the cases, when you get in, load up and run, depending on how far the police are, you could get away even with the alarms going off. You can rob any store of any product that way, happens all the time, even to gun shops. I would never do that because I am not a criminal but I do see those smash and grabs on the news all the time.
One of the robberies an armed man went in, store owner had a gun aimed at them, they were smart enough not to go for theirs, he took what he wanted and left. Having a gun does not insure safety, not even in a gun shop.
Glad you have a safe too, good for you, glass cases are a joke. But even then, if your firearms are rightfully locked up in your home safe, and someone breaks in, it would take you time to open the safe. I bet you could chase someone off without a gun if they didn't know you were there, if you had a very loud noise horn leaned out the window and blew it and shouted at the intruder, "the police are on their way".
Again, it is a lie that most gun interactions between two armed people are between a good guy and a complete stranger. MOST gun use that results in injury or death happens with the user in the home or between them and someone they are familiar with.
