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SimplyMichael -> End of An Era (9/19/2007 7:02:07 PM)
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ATF after spending decades promoting gun violence by manipulating the law and creating vast grey areas because it served their buearacratic ends has now discovered a new way of fucking up. Instead of cracking down on gun stores that constantly skirt the not only the letter of the aw but the spirit of the law, are now going after legitimate dealers and shutting them down.
Twenty five years ago my first job was working for a gun store in downtown Sacramento and today was their last day. I threw caution to the wind and bought a small pile of guns, the highlight of which was a clean Savage 99 and a Spanish 9mm Largo bolt action carbine. I met the woman who took my virginity there, I learned a lot about sales and human pyschology from Ed Royer, I learned how to manipulate banks and financial records from someone else, I met many many authors of authoritative gun works through there, got to play with some very rare guns and do things with guns few can imagine. Stripping brand new commercial factory Browning FNs for recievers to build up with the then rare German G1 kits. I got to strip and force match hundreds of German Lugers, thousands of German Mauser pistols. I rebuilt every US military semi auto and almost every machinegun. I cut up enough Sten guns to equip half the Israeli Army, where in fact many of them came from.
It was a great time in my life, enough money I had paychecks lying around I hadn't had time to cash. I didn't know anything about woman, spent god knows how much wining and dining them and still didn't get laid but my god we had a blast. Almost got in a shootout with the local SWAT team, poor bastards wouldn't have known what hit them (we had a belt fed 1919a4). Almost shot or got shot by my father a number of times, not by accident but because we had knock down drag out fights in the the 110+ degree heat.
24 years...amazing it has come to an end. Sad
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