Completely Digressive
Posted by TFG on April 7th, 2008
I think it would be pretty cool to be able to carry my handgun in the open.
Good God, it’s within my lifespan that my father and both of my grandfathers didn’t fear John Law throwing down on them because they were carrying sidearms. I can name each one of their preferred choices right now and even see them in their evening resting places, not to mention where they were carried on their persons. My mama never didn’t have a weapon close to hand, and I simply can’t imagine either one of my grandmothers not being able to knock down the random chucklehead. That’s the way it was.
But, in my lifetime, we’ve allowed the state to tell us when and where and how we can carry an equalizer. You’re going to tell me that’s progress? That my mama can’t pull a gun out of her purse to put down a nut? Without having the governor giving her license to do so? Wrong. Plain wrong.
Of the three, I’ve got my one granddad’s 32-20 Colt Police Positive. I hope to pass it on to my grandson(s). I wish I had my other granddad’s long-barreled S&W. My dad, a very utilitarian man, traded guns for booze or other guns till he died, and mostly liked the Smith or Colt snub-nose. Being in a wheelchair, he figured on letting ‘em get close. I can still picture that taped-up handle he preferred. I guess I’m the first of the family to fall for the new-fangled semi, though I’ve got one cheap-ass .25 of my dad’s. It’s not worth the caliber on the market, but I do love it.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Don’t vote for Barry if you want to carry one at all. The change he’s talking about has no hope in it for gun owners.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I like to tell folks that I got my first shotgun for my birthday when I was 10 years old. Still have it. Lots of city folks, foreigners, and even a neighbor or two originally from Texas are appalled, both that I got a gun then and that I still have it now. Different worlds.
April 8th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I got my .22 at 10, my 20ga at 11 or 12. I wish I still had that shotgun. I was a trader, like my old man, till I realized I was giving pieces of myself away. A fool, in other words. Still got my .22, though.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Mine’s a Mossberg 183T .410 with full choke. You want to impress somebody, shoot trap with it.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
still got my first shotgun also,its a H&R folding 410,think they made the last of them in the late 30s.my grandpa gave it to me when I was a little fart early 50s I think.it has a 22in. barrel & breaks all the way with the trigger guard fitting in the fore piece.the oldtimers called them saddlebag guns,down here in the fl flatwoods they used em to pepper the ass of scrub bulls that holed up in the thickets to get em to hunt the herd so they could be penned & dipped.I got to use it for boobwhite quail & dove, since you had a single shot,and they would give you only a 1/2 box of shells you learned how to shoot pretty well.got it on my office wall and it brings back lots of memorys every time I take it down & clean it.