Originally Posted by 79S
Originally Posted by Eric308
I wrote this in another post in regard to Busse, but it bears repeating:

Anyone over 50 and with half a brain knows this guy is absolutely spot on. Want to know about the modern "gun culture?"

The gun owner of the past went to the back 40 with Dad or later his son with the Model 12, or later the 870 in tow. He might have had a 70 or 700 for that yearly trip out west, a .22 rifle for whatever and maybe a .22 pistol for coon hunting. He realized that needing a gun for two-legged varmints was a once in several lifetimes event, so he didn't much think about it. If he did, maybe he had a Smith or Colt .38 or if he was a real hombre, a 1911.

Today the back 40 is a subdivision or leased up tight, either way the quail were gone long before. Dad's gone on to his reward while the son lives a good life in the city, realizing there are no good Thai places in Schittsville, let alone good paying jobs.

Meanwhile back in Schittsville, Cletus is just about ready to buy his tenth AR and ten-thousandth round of 5.56 to get ready for the collapse/apocalypse/race war that Alex Jones says is just around the corner. Cletus just hopes he can stay awake on the drive to the gun store after working two doubles at the pork processing plant.

And that my friends is the modern firearms industry and culture in a nutshell.


^^^^ retired airforce lives in Illinois. and Voted for Biden..

Please dont call me Master Sergeant it is just too military and draconian.
Call me Eric please and think of me as your friend and informal mentor.
We all have to wear these uniforms, but I like to think of it as more of a business requirement.
Now what is your 1st name Airman Jones, so I can call you that and we can become friends and get past all this military formality stuff here at the office.

Please just remember in front of others that outrank us outside of the office we need to use that miitary rank structure term stuff so neither of us gets in trouble and are made to feel uncomfortable....

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Last edited by renegade50; 02/11/22.