Does anybody remember when it was that we first started losing control?
A story of modern gun control…
For my birthday my wife decided to buy me the revolver I’ve been wanting to add to my collection. A gun store that has treated me well in the past had a good deal on a used Ruger GP100 stainless with the 4” barrel. This shop is 50 miles from our place in Saint Helens, but like I said, they’ve treated me right in the past so we decided to combine this with a trip to Home Depot and a nice lunch. The wife just had knee replacement surgery about a month ago so is still getting around with a cane. I planned kind of a quick round trip that would have us home pretty early and her off the knee by early afternoon.
The Ruger was in great shape and the price was right. While I was filling out the paperwork the wife was talking to the lady clerk about some of the little carry autos they had on display. She asked to see a couple and fell in love with the Kel-Tec P-32. I decided, what the hell, if we didn’t get it now it may be a while before we’re back and sure enough they won’t have it any more. I’ve carried the P-11 for a few years and I’m sold on Kel-Tec. The clerk tells me I can do both the pistols on the same yellow sheet and NICS check . She ran my credit card and completed the paperwork. I did my thumbprints and she made the OSP call for my NICS backround check. After a couple of minutes she tells me that there’s a hold on my check and I WON’T BE ABLE TO TAKE MY GUNS AT THIS TIME. This is a pisser!
Although I have no legal reason to be flagged by the Oregon State Police or NICS my record with this check is running about 50%. It has taken anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple of hours to get through this “INSTANT F*%KIN’ CHECK” and take my purchases home!!
No problem I think, I’ve got to run a couple of errands while we’re in the big city and we’re going by Buster’s Bar-b-que for some Texas lunch. Might as well drop into Bi-Mart and buy a couple boxes of ammo for the new pets while we’re at it and that ought to give them plenty of time to wade through the B.S. I call the store back after a couple of hours only to be told they still hadn’t heard anything, but things were slow today. Said they were waiting on some more data on me before they can OK my check?????????
Called the store before closing to hear I still was in NICS HELL!
It’s nine hours after I paid for my new pieces. All I’ve got in my hand is a receipt for over $600.00 on my credit card and it doesn’t feel nearly as good in the hand as that GP100 did. Oh yea, my bill included the $9. NICS fee.
They open at 10 AM. They said they would call when it comes through. Looks like another 100 mile round trip tomorrow. Maybe.
This sh%t has gotten out of hand.
Hope I get a birthday cake.
Hoppy