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Riana wrote:
Neplusultra wrote:
My preferred conceal carry handgun, with 30 rnd magazine
:what:Good grief! Pray tell, just how big is the tent you have to wear to conceal that???
Ha! Have yet, and will probably never CC it. I invited what I thought was a friend out to shoot it not too long after the Tech shooting. He got all excited and called the police. I in fact coincendentally just read the email in which I invited him a few minutes ago. NOTHING but grace, and of course my avatar photo :^).
Anyway two FBI agents, an ATF agent and a Blacksburg Homicide Detective came out to visit me the next day. We chatted for three hours and their conclusion was that the guy overreacted. They told me the only reason they came out was because it was only a few weeks after the shooting. I joked with them how much fun it was to shoot the gun due to the concussion from the muzzle blast (REALLY loud!) and that it was technically a pistol so could be CCed. One of the FBI agents joked back that you could carry it under a black trenchcoat. Everyone, including myself, noted the similarity to Columbine so no one said anything in reply :^)
Still one of my favorite photos. It was taken by a UK Mirror photographer a few weeks after the shooting at the Blacksburg range. I burned through an entire 30rd magazine so he could get this one photo which appeared in the Mirror a few days later. They called me a firearms "expert"!! Ha! My reply to the reporter by email was that I took it that anyone with more than one gun was an expert in the UK. No reponse from him......
BTW: The muzzle flash is half out in this photo, it's actually much bigger overall :^). Since it only lasts for a millisecond or so it was hard for the photographer to "catch" it. This was the best one. When I saw it as he panned through all 40 shots I said, "That's the one!" and it was :^).