HILLBILLYDELUXE
Regular Member
First,
My wife and I flew out to TN for a few days in the middle of the month for a little get away. I checked one handgun. After filling out the notification form, I was told, everything was done.
"Don't you need to look at it?"
"Oh yeah, its been a while"
I demonstrated it was unloaded, that my ammo was secure, then locked my case up.
On the return trip the ticket agent told me to put the notification slip INSIDE MY LOCKED GUN CASE, inside my suitcase. I told her that it needed to go on top, so that if my LOCKED gun case was found in my luggage, the screeners would know that it had been declared and inspected. We went a couple of rounds, very calmly, but we were burning valuable time, and we still had to opt out of the body scanners, so I asked for a second slip to put on top of my case. She asked her supervisor in the back, sure enough, the slip goes on top of the locked case.
I read several years ago, always fly with a firearm to preserve this right, if we don't use it we lose it. Judging from my experiences, not many are using it lately.
Second,
I gave the most liberal person I know a pistol for Christmas, my father. I love him, but he is seriously infected with hope, change, and socialism juice. I grew up in a good clean gunfree home. He has told me in the past that my conservatism concerns him, and that he worries about me and my radical ideas. He was visually uncomfortable when he opened the box to see that the gift inside the Hi-Point box was indeed a .45 and not a hackey sack collection. What he said next really shocked me,
"well I guess I need to learn to use this"
I'd taken him shooting several times, and he enjoyed shooting my glocks. He then mentioned that a few nights earlier he had heard a noise at night an wondered what he would do if someone tried to break into his house.
I gave him a quick refresher on gun saftey, and a quick do's and don'ts of local laws.
Two days later he called me and told me that it was really loud, that he hit a water jug with 4 out of 5 shots, and the last one cut his hand. Crazy SOB took it out and shot it! I thought it would never get loaded or leave the box it came in. If I'd have known that I'd have given him something a little better, guess I'll have to take him out more, and trade him up next year.
Third,
We are expecting another child, and went to the birth and womens center for our first appointment, fill out the forms, listen to heartbeat, etc. (Now this is a pretty liberal setting, when seeking hormone free meat, or natural drug free childbirth, we seem to wind up in odd company, like extra piercings, patchouli, and sexually confused company) While asking my wife the 10,000 questions, the nurse/midwife asked if we had firearms in our home.
I elected to answer this one
"Of course" She was a bit shaken by this, or possibly that I was proud rather than ashamed
"Well, are they locked up and secured"
"We teach our children to not handle firearms without supervision" A bit more shaken.
Then my wife asked her why that question was even on there.
She stumbled through a reply about childrens health, and saftey, and a baby, then hurried into the next question.
Funny, more children drown in swimming pools in my town than from gunshots, she never asked if we had a pool, or stairs, or dogs.
My wife and I flew out to TN for a few days in the middle of the month for a little get away. I checked one handgun. After filling out the notification form, I was told, everything was done.
"Don't you need to look at it?"
"Oh yeah, its been a while"
I demonstrated it was unloaded, that my ammo was secure, then locked my case up.
On the return trip the ticket agent told me to put the notification slip INSIDE MY LOCKED GUN CASE, inside my suitcase. I told her that it needed to go on top, so that if my LOCKED gun case was found in my luggage, the screeners would know that it had been declared and inspected. We went a couple of rounds, very calmly, but we were burning valuable time, and we still had to opt out of the body scanners, so I asked for a second slip to put on top of my case. She asked her supervisor in the back, sure enough, the slip goes on top of the locked case.
I read several years ago, always fly with a firearm to preserve this right, if we don't use it we lose it. Judging from my experiences, not many are using it lately.
Second,
I gave the most liberal person I know a pistol for Christmas, my father. I love him, but he is seriously infected with hope, change, and socialism juice. I grew up in a good clean gunfree home. He has told me in the past that my conservatism concerns him, and that he worries about me and my radical ideas. He was visually uncomfortable when he opened the box to see that the gift inside the Hi-Point box was indeed a .45 and not a hackey sack collection. What he said next really shocked me,
"well I guess I need to learn to use this"
I'd taken him shooting several times, and he enjoyed shooting my glocks. He then mentioned that a few nights earlier he had heard a noise at night an wondered what he would do if someone tried to break into his house.
I gave him a quick refresher on gun saftey, and a quick do's and don'ts of local laws.
Two days later he called me and told me that it was really loud, that he hit a water jug with 4 out of 5 shots, and the last one cut his hand. Crazy SOB took it out and shot it! I thought it would never get loaded or leave the box it came in. If I'd have known that I'd have given him something a little better, guess I'll have to take him out more, and trade him up next year.
Third,
We are expecting another child, and went to the birth and womens center for our first appointment, fill out the forms, listen to heartbeat, etc. (Now this is a pretty liberal setting, when seeking hormone free meat, or natural drug free childbirth, we seem to wind up in odd company, like extra piercings, patchouli, and sexually confused company) While asking my wife the 10,000 questions, the nurse/midwife asked if we had firearms in our home.
I elected to answer this one
"Of course" She was a bit shaken by this, or possibly that I was proud rather than ashamed
"Well, are they locked up and secured"
"We teach our children to not handle firearms without supervision" A bit more shaken.
Then my wife asked her why that question was even on there.
She stumbled through a reply about childrens health, and saftey, and a baby, then hurried into the next question.
Funny, more children drown in swimming pools in my town than from gunshots, she never asked if we had a pool, or stairs, or dogs.