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Interview. Good guy with the gun...

If you accept that premise, you've already accepted liberal ideology gun control and the end will always be the same.

I sell guns at the Walmart I work at, here in Vegas. (pro tem) We are required to charge $25 for a background check They have to have a valid state issue picture ID from NV or one of our neighoring states, excepting California. (Hey, we tried.) Still have to run them through filling out a 4473. We have to call BATFE Carson City for the background check. IF the buyer has in hand an up to date and valid NV CCW card, no background check charged, no background check executed, as NV already did a far more extensive one giving the guy his CCW. Here we have three different immediate outcomes: -Proceed. Finish the sale, put the item back in its original package, tape it up, and management walks the customer out the door with it. -Delay. Either NV of the Feds can issue a three business day delay for further investigation. -Deny. No sale. If he has a CCW, it's an automatic Proceed. Where we are at, we can put a rifle or shotgun into the customer's hand, if all goes well, within 2-3 hours. Less if they have a CCW card. To my best knowledge, WM does NOT sell pistols, except in the state of Alaska. If the perp in this terrible thing had filed a 4473 with us, I am uncertain as to how things would have proceeded, given that the USAF apparently dropped the ball updating his data. Had he survived, a copy of a 4473 showing its having lied about felonies, dishonorable discharge, and mental institutionalizing would have been each good for up to 10 years in a Federal jail and up to $250,000 in fine. Sort of icing on the cake. We are allowed, those of us at the pointy end, to use our own judgement and deny a sale at any time, and only be accountable to our store manager for it, and that as an accountability courtesy. In eight years, I have had to do that twice, and ALWAYS got in front of the matter with Store within the half-hour. I've had to stop sales because boyfriend/girlfriend/whatever was assisting them filling the 4473 out, beyond not not knowing how to use a keyboard or translation problems, and have gotten called every several name one can think of for it. Before we were required to ask for and take picture ID before handling the weapons, I stopped would-be sales because the non-purchasing party was handling the weapons, and the purchaser wasn't. I have, had, and will stand behind my conduct. Not all of us who sell firearms are complete idiots, and as stated above, I do not know all the details on this perp's transactions. I will NOT be like the ijit in Massachusetts some months back that sold ammo -without asking for ID -to someone obviously drunk -at 3AM... which ammo got used in a drive-by shooting, after the drunk MINOR supposedly handed the ammo off to another party. I apologize for the topic drift.

What bothers me through the whole thing is how existing process failed. He was guilty of a crime that he spent more than a year in prison for (a felony.) He was guilty of domestic assault. He had been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. And subsequently escaped. He had been charged in a case of animal cruelty, later dropped as part of a plea bargain. He was denied a carry permit... This is a person that never should have been able to purchase a gun for MULTIPLE reasons. Yet still be bought one. This is not a call for more laws, but a reason to re-evaluate the existing. I am not a proponent of 'let's call them all mentally ill,' because that is a very slippery slope, but this is a glaring example of someone that should have been watched, identified and prevented. It baffles me, given the steps I have had to go through due to NICs and Brady delays to clear my name, with a mostly perfect record (I am not an angel,) that someone so glaringly 'off' made it through. For the record I have cleared my name and obtained a KY CCDW. However half of my last dozen purchases have come at a Brady Delay.

I really like the Russell’s. It definitely going in the rotation.

My whole family.

I used to hunt a mile from West Virginia. Yeah I've seen some a hung out with some. They are scary...in a sense of unpredictable.

You will be hard pressed to find what you are looking for in that price range most anywhere in this state. You aren't going to find a track of land line that in East TN and not have hillbillies for neighbors. And they don't like outsiders, and by outsiders I mean anyone that did not grow up right there. $300k in middle TN week get you a quarter acre and a 3 bed 2 bath. West TN may be your best bet, but you won't be close to anything.

Last I heard, he was wearing a plate, front only.

It doesn’t appear (to me) that anyone is trying to hide anything. No one (other than the good guy and witnesses) is going to speculate on what happened. The good guy needs no protection.

I know that my situation was different the gun stores but back when I operated my auto repair center back years ago. They broke into my shop 4 times in 2 months. 1st time they got some high end tools and second time they got some high end testing equipment. I was lucky enough to have the testing equipment located in a pawn shop by police and returned to me. 3rd time this got that same equipment plus a few other pieces of equipment. All the tool boxes where chained to the walls and locked up so they weren't able to get any hand tools but I got tired of getting broke into and I had a few metro police officers that raded with me and I got one of them that wanted to make a few extra bucks to baby sit my shop a couple nights a week and he would sit up in a hill in a parking lot watching the shop. Well the 4th night he was there they showed up and he called for back up and he would down with a shotgun and when back up arrived he already had the 3 bad guys sitting on their hands in the parking lot of my shop. After that night I posted a sign that read Off Duty Police officer is security 3 nights a week, You pick the nights!! Never got broken into again. Ended up costing me $350.00 bucks paying him but ended my problems.

...nor easy to come by.

Sadly, truth isn't popular.

Make some tactical kitchen knives, in case you're attacked by Antifa while your're chopping your tomater.

I use some Tetra gun grease on the barrel nut. Nothing else except normal maintenance lube points. Little dab of Geissele grease on the sear if I think of it.