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While working the VCDL table at the gun show today, I had the chance to greet a lady who had just made her first gun purchase - and it was a toofer! :celebrate She had a nice stainless J-frame in some sort of generic nylon clip-on holster with a thumb break, and a rifle wrapped up in a nylon case. The rifle was to be for targert practice, and the revolver for self defense. She told us about the "absolute fun" she had at her last trip to the range, and about how she used to shoot her brother's BB gun back home in Jersey.
This woman stopped to look at the VCDL info (are YOU a member yet?) and within seconds of arriving at the table we (me & grapeshot, who had dropped by to pass some time) found out about her purchase and a bit about her background. She grew up in NJ, in a family that votes the straight Democrat ticket, and she said she had even voter for Jimmy Carter herself. She said she had votes straight DEmocrat ticket until the last election, but had changed her mind since then about a lot of things, including her politics.
More gabbing back and forth and we come to find out that she had not bought any ammo to go with her to gun purchases. She said she was not going to buy any ammo until her friends taught her how to clean the two guns, as she did not want to leave them "all dirty and messed up."
Well, grapeshot and I at just about the same time began discussing the merits of a holstered paperweight, and how althougfh it was good that she was going to be receiving more instruction from her friend, her handgun was going to be of little use to her if a need to defend herself arose between now and when her friend taught her how to clean it.
She mulled that over for about 4 seconds, said "You know, you are right!" and started back inside to pick up some ammo. Sue (the other VCDL table volunteer) had come back to the table just about that time, and offered to go in with her to help pick out ammo if she was not sure what to get. The lady said one of her friends was a dealer inside and would know what to buy.
Not 5 minutes later a smiling new gun owner came back to the table, held up her plastic bag, and told us she had gotten ammo for the rifle and the revolver. We chatted a bit more, she repeated that she had not thought before that a gun without ammo was pretty much useless, and thanked us for our assistance in making her day complete.
Made her day complete? I had a
from ear to ear for the rest of the afternoon, and still have it plastered on my face.
The only thing to add was the "dream" I had - that she went out to her car, opened up the box of ammo, and loaded her revolver and took it home that way.
Yep! All that happened at the gun show today. Oh, yeah. I got some beef jerky, too.
stay safe.
skidmark
While working the VCDL table at the gun show today, I had the chance to greet a lady who had just made her first gun purchase - and it was a toofer! :celebrate She had a nice stainless J-frame in some sort of generic nylon clip-on holster with a thumb break, and a rifle wrapped up in a nylon case. The rifle was to be for targert practice, and the revolver for self defense. She told us about the "absolute fun" she had at her last trip to the range, and about how she used to shoot her brother's BB gun back home in Jersey.
This woman stopped to look at the VCDL info (are YOU a member yet?) and within seconds of arriving at the table we (me & grapeshot, who had dropped by to pass some time) found out about her purchase and a bit about her background. She grew up in NJ, in a family that votes the straight Democrat ticket, and she said she had even voter for Jimmy Carter herself. She said she had votes straight DEmocrat ticket until the last election, but had changed her mind since then about a lot of things, including her politics.
More gabbing back and forth and we come to find out that she had not bought any ammo to go with her to gun purchases. She said she was not going to buy any ammo until her friends taught her how to clean the two guns, as she did not want to leave them "all dirty and messed up."
Well, grapeshot and I at just about the same time began discussing the merits of a holstered paperweight, and how althougfh it was good that she was going to be receiving more instruction from her friend, her handgun was going to be of little use to her if a need to defend herself arose between now and when her friend taught her how to clean it.
She mulled that over for about 4 seconds, said "You know, you are right!" and started back inside to pick up some ammo. Sue (the other VCDL table volunteer) had come back to the table just about that time, and offered to go in with her to help pick out ammo if she was not sure what to get. The lady said one of her friends was a dealer inside and would know what to buy.
Not 5 minutes later a smiling new gun owner came back to the table, held up her plastic bag, and told us she had gotten ammo for the rifle and the revolver. We chatted a bit more, she repeated that she had not thought before that a gun without ammo was pretty much useless, and thanked us for our assistance in making her day complete.
Made her day complete? I had a
from ear to ear for the rest of the afternoon, and still have it plastered on my face.The only thing to add was the "dream" I had - that she went out to her car, opened up the box of ammo, and loaded her revolver and took it home that way.
Yep! All that happened at the gun show today. Oh, yeah. I got some beef jerky, too.
stay safe.
skidmark
