Many moons ago I ran a large west Texas gun store during the height of the Brady Bill pre-buying panic, so we were super busy.
Couple of nerds come in one day all dressed up in new suits and new shiny shoes and one of them is carrying a AR-15 with a mag inserted in the mag well. I moved quickly towards the door to grab the rifle and both nerds flip out their BATF ID's. So I ask dufus #1 if it was loaded, and he said he "forgot" to check. Said they had just confiscated it in a " raid" and they wanted to know if our gunsmith could take a look at it and tell them if it was a "machine gun" or not.??? I took the rifle and pulled the mag, racked the charging handle. at which time a live round hit the floor! Handed it back to him and told him no it's not!
He said "How can you tell" ? I said it has no selector switch & he said "What's That" ?
I motioned for him to follow me to the gunsmith shop in the back of the store, replaced the mag, charged a round, stuck the barrel in our discharge tank, and said "watch this! " I then flipped the safety off and asked him to step back and let two rounds go in the tank.
I then removed the mag, cleared the rifle and told him next time he should just fire the rifle & see for yourself. I pitched the loaded mag into our trash can, handed him the rifle and showed him the door. Funny thing though is that we had a big BATF audit at the Store the very next week! Never saw dufus one or dufus two again though.
Last edited by chlinstructor; 08/30/16.
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