Police respond to man with a rifle

[Connal]

Outside of a gun store.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i...9/post_38.html

Snippet:

"The police response was appropriate," Simpson said. "If you thought someone was robbing a gun shop, you're going to show up with guns."

If you thought someone was robbing a gun shop, you might want to bring a coroner instead.

[NikeBauer21]

A passerby outside the Gun Room Inc., 5537 S.E. Foster Rd., called 9-1-1 about 6 p.m. to report that a man standing outside was holding a gun and looked "nervous and sweaty," said Sgt. Pete Simpson, a Portland Police Bureau spokesman.

Area residents reported seeing officers surround the shop and set up a perimeter with assault rifles drawn. But police quickly realized the "suspicious" man was there to sell a gun. They left without issuing any citations, Simpson said.

Maybe the guy was nervous because the rifle held sentimental value and he didn't really want to sell it? Maybe he was constipated? Maybe it's his wife's and he knows he's going to get ripped when he comes home with a new Savage .308? Maybe he wasn't even sweating at all, and he just came from the car wash where he forgot to close his windows??

People are seriously idiots. In all honesty, who is stupid enough to rob a gunshop? Burglarize, maybe some would try it. But rob? Most gun shop personnel, that I have seen anyway, carry in the shop. Your chances of survival are slim to none.

People see a gun and freak out. They ASSume way more than they should.

[Connal]

Maybe the guy was nervous because the rifle held sentimental value and he didn't really want to sell it? Maybe he was constipated? Maybe it's his wife's and he knows he's going to get ripped when he comes home with a new Savage .308? Maybe he wasn't even sweating at all, and he just came from the car wash where he forgot to close his windows??

People are seriously idiots. In all honesty, who is stupid enough to rob a gunshop? Burglarize, maybe some would try it. But rob? Most gun shop personnel, that I have seen anyway, carry in the shop. Your chances of survival are slim to none.

People see a gun and freak out. They ASSume way more than they should.

Exactly my thoughts. I'm a very fuzzy individual. Once the temperature reaches 80, I'm sweaty all the time. Does that mean I am nervous? Jeeze, maybe I am going out to dinner with the inlaws later.

Not to mention, I think a citation should have been given. To whoever called in that "There is a man with a gun, my god he is in front of a gun store."

[NikeBauer21]

Not to mention, I think a citation should have been given. To whoever called in that "There is a man with a gun, my god he is in front of a gun store."

Definitely should, but most likely will not. The taxpayers will pay because of a sheep's fear of guns, and they get to continue being an idiot. Nothing new here...

I know, personally, if I'm planning on throwing down $1000+ on a new gun, or planning on selling/trading a gun sentimental to me, it's a big deal, and I get a little nervous. I fight inside myself on whether I really need to do the transaction or not, since it involves a lot of money or a special gun. (the answer is always yes.. yes I do. ) But how is it right for someone else to judge a person, and submit them to a bunch of heartache because of it? What if the guy got really scared then and made a move that the police interpreted as threatening? That poor guy would be laying face down in a puddle of blood...

[Kramer]

People are seriously idiots. In all honesty, who is stupid enough to rob a gunshop? Burglarize, maybe some would try it. But rob?

There was a gun shop in Tannersville, A&A, about four or five years ago they were robbed during the day at gun point. The owner had the pooh beat out of him but he survived.

Back in the mid to late 1990s there were some daylight gunshop robberies in the region, gang initiation from what the owner of one gun shop told me. He was worried about getting hit and had the place set up with some surprizes.

I also know a gun shop in Huntington, Long Island that was hit a number of times back in the early 1990s. All of the regulars knew where the loaded firearms were located in case of an attack!

[DonM55]

MWAG in front of a gun store. Go Figure

[son of the revolution]

My Dad worked for Colesimo's (sic) in the late '60's and early 70's and he told me they had holsters nailed to the underside of the counter every 4 to 5 feet with a ready to go pistol in them in case of any funny business.

I also distinctly remember a case from just a few years ago from out west where an idiot tried to rob a gun shop in broad daylight, after walking right past the patrol car parked out front to enter the store. Needless to say a gunfight ensued that he lost badly. I might have read about it in one of those "It happened to me " sections of Combat Handguns or " Guns and Weapons for Law Enforcement" magazines. But I do remember verifying the story by Googling the news account of it

[jcabin]

It would take the most ignorant piece of shit in existence to make a robbery in progress call because they saw some guy walking into a gun shop with a rifle.

[Connal]

It would take the most ignorant piece of shit in existence to make a robbery in progress call because they saw some guy walking into a gun shop with a rifle.

Well, think of it this way. If I walk out of a gun store, with a rifle. . .did I steal it?

You always hear the story that guns shouldn't be in parks/hospitals/the zoo/etc. However, these same people that think a gun doesn't belong in these places, think they don't belong in front of a store, that specializes, in selling them.

[benc4liberty]

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. -- Sigmund Freud

Since one of the reasons we come here is to learn:

This quote is actually not from Sigmund Freud.

Wikiquote says it best:
This has been sourced to General Introduction to Psychoanalysis due to a misreading of a 1990 essay by Don B. Kates. The quote is Kates' own characterization of a passage in Freud and Oppenheim, Dreams in Folklore, and not Freud's words.

Here's some light reading for you, by Don Kates:
http://www.calgunlaws.com/index.php/che-talk/692.html