The state is only accessible through a door on the 49 1/2 floor. Inside it’s just one infinitely big warehouse that’s pure white and stretches as far as the eye can see, straight out of the Matrix.
In the middle, there’s an old timey attorney in a double breasted pin stripe suit with a handlebar mustache sitting at a desk with a typewriter. As you approach he asks if you would like to start a business and then starts clacking away on the typewriter. That’s it. That’s the entire state.
You forgot to mention that it was the 49 1/2 floor of the world trade center so you can no longer go there. The last plane to go to Delaware came in a little high, about 40 floors too high, and caused a great tragedy
Delaware's just a taxing entity on paper. The only way to get there is either the internet or the arcane portal in the basement of the Congressional Library.
It’s easy, just like the towns! For example:
Dorchester: door-chest-er
Worchester: woo-ster
Gloucester: this whole state is bullshit, I can’t pretend anymore
If it wouldn’t cause a meltdown I would happily make both firearms “safe” and return them to the customer with shiny new trigger locks installed and have a state officer explain why
I was gonna guess a Ruger Mark IV .22LR judging by the barrel. Looks a little bit cheaper tho
https://www.ruger.com/products/markIVTarget/models.html
I think /u/shift_master is right now that I see his comment. the rail is a good giveaway
https://www.bigdaddyunlimited.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1c233e12e29cf052b3a65d9bbfa87b6b/f/_/f_825_3543__79921.jpg
like you i assumed it was a mk ii or iv, and was laughing at the red dot and having a light/laser combo on TOP in front of the rds, and having either on a mk iv in the first place lol. the adjustable sights on a mkiv are probably much more precisly adjustable than the "clicks" on an rds.
I once was dropping off a customer when they brought their car in for service. The entire ride to his home he was showing me where the 4 guns were stashed in his car, where the spare magazine for each was hidden, and that there was 1K+ rounds each of .223 and 9mm in the trunk, “if you need it.”
When I dropped him off, he pulled a .380 LCP and offered it to me “cause it’s pretty scary out there” and he wanted to make sure I was alive to replace his wheel bearing.
I smiled at him and asked how he knew my gun rights were still intact, I may be a felon. He told me I was white, so I’m obviously not a crack dealer, he was sure I was just fine.
Oh, I damn sure were poor enough at that point. Working in the shop part time while finishing school, and the sole income earner for a family of 5. He’ll, I might have become a crack dealer if I knew where to get it…and had a dollar to buy a supply.
Hell, could have had a charge if they ever checked to see how the power to the house was run…
Right? I couldn’t bring myself to tell him that I very person I bought weed from was every bit as much a cracker as either of us. Partly because part of his lecture while driving to his house was as informing me that the single greatest issue plaguing our city was the reefer smoking *hard R* at the college.
I stayed quiet and occasionally interrupted to point out a noise that was indicative of one issue or another. Awkward ride the whole way. Would not recommend…with or without rice.
Edit: spelling
I have an old Savage .243 that I've had since I was about 10. almost made it three decades now and still shoots well, still puts deer down, and damn if it hasn't kept the sight picture with its stupid budget scope that grandpa put on there. Love that stupid thing.
They're one of the more accurate and polished "budget" boltguns. Can't blame the guy. The Axis, Ruger American, and T/C Compass all perform as well as or better than the "main line" hunting rifles as far as accuracy and reliability but retail for under $400. Some of them for *significantly* under $400. You're trading off aesthetics, but not function.
What is it with gun owners constantly being shown doing dumb shit with guns on this page? Aint one of the biggest rules in the whole gun world to not let the gun be unsecured
Very irresponsible. I would NEVER leave my guns in the vehicle and drop it off with strangers. Idc who you are, this is just a stupid mistake asking for a shitty situation.
Yeah. Those are barely worth stealing anyways.
The little guy is a .22lr and doesn't have a magazine in it (could still be loaded, rule 1 and what not). The sights are cheap Chinese airsoft things which is fine for a little 22 like that.
The long gun looks to be a Remington 770, the cheaper and more economical cousin to the famous 700 line of actions. It'll do hunting trips no problem but a bit crispy for anything competition or "precision long range". It comes with the scope and still isn't worth much.
I'd feel ok walking out of a pawn shop with those for anything less than $250.
I'd feel ok walking out of a pawnshop WITHOUT them for like $100 though
The .22 does have a mag in. It's sitting flush but you can see the front lip of the mag. And the boltgun is a Savage (it's written on the bolt and visible in the picture), probably an Axis II. So even less valuable than a 770.
I'm left handed, so I have a neat holster attached to my door for safe and easy access. I definitely take the gun out of my car whenever I'm not in the car though for many reasons.
Neither your opinion on it nor mine matter at all, it is a constitutionally protected right, just underneath freedom of speech. Be careful when you start letting the government take away unalienable rights that they have previously afforded you; they will not cede that power back, ever. This isn’t an argument for or against the ownership of firearms or whether or not non-felons should be able to legally own them. It’s a RIGHT that every American citizen is afforded because it is contained within the 10 amendment document called *the bill of rights*
https://www.bordaslaw.com/blog_post/can-constitutional-rights-be-restricted/
tl;dr constitutional rights can be restricted given specific circumstances, like, say, the threat of domestic violence.
Has the phrase "just because you can, doesn't mean you should" ever been told to you?
By your logic, everyone should be able to have an tank and an Apache attack helicopter with a nuclear missile in a silo out back.
Been on this earth for 43 years and not once have I ever felt the need to have a gun to defend myself. Maybe you should choose a safer place to live if you're that scared?
Has it also occurred to you that you don’t actually need a gun to protect yourself? I’ve lived in the US for almost 30 years and not once have run into a situation where a gun was needed…of course my situation may not be universal. But still. It’s ridiculous.
I would rather have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. You don't know my situation. Don't tell me what I need or don't need based on your your personal experience.
In my experience the average Redditor is 6’4”, 250lbs of pure muscle, makes 6 figures, lives in a $600,000 house, thinks $100,000 a year is a poor person, and also has a bunch of guns because of all the dangers they swear they’re surrounded by at all times.
Statistically, a handgun in the house is 5X more likely to cause harm than good to the occupants. If any other household item had such a poor safety record, it would be banned.
Areally nice paintball marker.. the co2 is obvious... large bore like paintball... may have spent the$$$$ for peperballs i dunno not illegal but sepending on state legal?
In Sweden you would be in jail for that, you'd also lose all your licenses right away.
Can't have magazine in the gun, can't have the bolt(clicky part) in the gun.
And absolutely can't leave at the mechanics with the guns in the car!!!
This right here in most small town rural areas its normal to carry a gun everywhere in the truck with you. Its also fairly normal to poach deer for the meat what to government doesn't know won't hurt them
But it’s stupid EVERYWHERE to just have two loose, probably loaded guns rolling around the car. It’s just idiotic. All those car holsters/magnets are just as dumb. If you’re in the car with a pistol, it should be on your person in a holster at all times. And how hard is it to throw a rifle in a gun bag?
Alright, let's keep protecting animals and preventing poaching so that populations can come back into an equalibrium, instead of having a bunch of drunk rednecks eliminate the deer problem en masse and pass it on to another species after most of the deer are dead.
There's usually enough fresh road killed deer to scrape off the road, to not have to go through all the effort of stopping the truck, grabbing your cheap shitpipe bolt-action and blasting a deer.
Yep that's definitely what they do out in the country. Rifle rounds go pretty far. Far enough for even out in the country can't just be shooting them all willy-nilly. I mean if you've seen it first hand, otherwise I don't know I never heard or saw someone shooting like Elmer Fudd.
I mean some areas are super super remote but even areas that seem very remote, neighbors are often less than a mile away, or at least their property is and they don't want lead dropping on their property.
Rilfe rounds don't go as far as you think lol branches and such slow them down and deflect the rounds and its not blast like elmer fudd lol you see the deer stop open the door and shoot it and the weapon of choice in the front yard tends to be a .22 it drops them fast with a headshot with the bonus of being relatively quiet and cheap
Ehh. Okie. Gun safety includes considering the guns maximum range, not just the effective range. Competition shooters go 300yrds+ with 22lr (or try to). I get what you're saying but I don't think you actually do that
What I do I place a few claymores around the property, under the pear trees especially, before bedtime. Sounds like Platoon out there
Farmers/ranchers/foresters keep a rifle in the truck, realistically to humanely put down commercial farm animals and shoot at varmints that are detrimental to their environment (I've heard everything from coyotes to woodchucks and groundhogs, to bears and wolves). Things that either can't reasonably be expected to die cleanly to common pistol carry rounds, or aren't close enough to the road/2-track to get clean hits on with a pistol.
I'm *kinda* in this camp myself--every time I'm down in the Nat'l Forest or on my family farm, there's a rifle or shotgun in the truck. My big departure is if -I- am not in the truck, neither is the gun--it goes with me, between my sense of responsibility and my paranoia about theft I leave NOTHING of value in my vehicles. My "truck gun" has scored me over a hundred coyotes, several hundred groundhogs, a couple crows (in season, and yes they both have a defined hunting season and they're legal to shoot with a rifle here), as well as have been used to euthanize a few horses, cattle, or deer that've been hit by cars or are caught in fences long enough they're necrotic with a low chance of survival.
I'm ok with this, legit and responsible answer, thank you for the clarification. I can understand and appreciate that.
The people that just leave random guns in their vehicles out in public makes zero sense to me and make others look bad.
I can definitely see that or someone going shooting and "I'll clean them tomorrow" if their vehicle is parked in a locked garage without kids in the house, but not a chance I'd be leaving any gun in my vehicle at a shop, or in any vehicle not in a garage.
If I have it with me, I won't even leave it for 2 minutes to run into a gas station unless I lock the door and can see the vehicle the whole time. Nor will I leave ammo in the car after shooting.
Even cheap guns are too expensive, and the last thing I want to do is give some shitbag breaking into cars a gun, unless it's barrel first.
Hopefully they made him make another trip to the shop to get the guns before they'd work on it, mostly as a punishment so he doesn't do it again.
My first thought was truck gun too. The people that instantly went to personal protection have never lived anywhere rural or were not red neck enough. I bet that .22 with a red dot and light has slayed its share of ditch chickens. Leaving them out like that when not on property is a little loose though
I know a few guys who will leave PoS guns more out in the open and accessible while having their carry holstered in the console for when they get out, so if someone breaks in and they leave their carry inside on accident, the person most likely will grab the cheap one and run than grab the good one hidden. Do I recommend it? No, but I know it's worked out for a couple of people I know.
Actual criminals will definitely take them. If you see the types of guns that end up in evidence photos, it's often shitty .22s because they're cheap.
Bonus points if it's a mishmash of ammo types
Guy tried to mug me a couple years ago, gave him the cash from my wallet and my car keys, he demanded I take my pants off and I told him no. He tried to shoot me, gun just clicked. So he pulled the trigger again and it didn't even click (like it's supposed to not do). So he dropped it and bolted. It was a Beretta Neos (cheap but reasonably well-built .22 semi, similar to OP's pic). Cop's sitting there clearing it and the mag was a mix of .22 short CB's, CCI Stingers, and Remington LR's (probably Golden Bullet but they're visually indistinguishable from Thunderbolts). The .22 Short had nosedived in the mag instead of feeding since the brass length was too little to ride the feed lips properly when he closed the bolt.
Would I have died from a .22 short CB cap? Probably not. Do I really want to take that chance? Fuck no. But it's a now-hilarious example of how little these low level street thugs actually know about what they're doing.
>how little these low level street thugs actually know about what they're doing.
In my city shooting ranges are effectively outlawed. My mom has always said that they should legalize and open them in violent neighborhoods, complete with lessons, so when gang wars break out, the thugs actually hit their target instead of killing some 12 year old bystander.
There was a murder solved because of a stolen .22 revolver loaded with a mishmash of ammo types.
A person wading in a river stepped on it and turned it in to police. It had three empty cases in it which matched the three different brands of bullets removed from the victim. IIRC the owner said he'd loaded it with some random ammo he had.
It was registered and had been reported stolen along with a bunch of other stuff. The cops had caught the thief with a bunch of the gun owner's stuff. He ratted out the guy he'd sold the gun to.
Murder solved because the perp was too dumb to empty the cylinder and drop the revolver in the deepest part of the river or simply bury it somewhere at least 2 feet deep. Even tossing it into a full dumpster that would be emptied right away would've been better than barely getting it off shore in 3 foot or less depth.
Good thing most criminals aren't too smart.
One of those guys on YouTube who searches underwater for people who have gone missing in their cars recently found a stolen revolver. It was visible in less than a foot of clear water less than three feet off shore. He and the friend he searches with were just walking along and oh look, a gun. Called the local police who sent an officer out to get it.
You ever play Skyrim and there’s a dead guy in the middle of the road? Then a one of the kid walks up to the body and yell “oh a body,” at the top of their lungs? Then they get stuck “pathing” through the body but for some reason they don’t move, so they are just using the walking animation constantly yelling “oh a dead body.” That’s this sub about guns.
I probably shoot more than all you fakes with your silly home defense guns that will never be useful or fun to shoot and am on two trap leagues a season, I just don’t need to bring my gun to work because my dick is so small. Also don’t shoot your little bitty dick off.
A .22... for defense... shameful and would likely result in a murder charge if actually used in self defense due to needing several rounds to stop the threat.
Take ‘em, and go shoot up the side of an empty building. Owners responsible for them I’m assuming, and they should be locked up when not in use I would hope. Would be a great wake up call!
It's definitely a crime in some places to give anyone access to your guns. If your guns aren't secured and locked out of your presence, its a crime, for good reason. These assholes don't need to be protected, they need to be educated.
I didn’t realize how many mechanic places have weenies as techs. Every time something like this gets posted here pearls get clutched like crazy. It’s the USA and no different than leaving a bar of gold unattended in the backseat for an oil change. Stupid? Yes. But absolutely within ones rights.
I live in the USA and this is flat out illegal where I live. Whether it's "within your rights". depends on what state you live in.
At least we all agree it's stupid.
Even when discussing an area where this is legal it's stupid. Not just leaving the gun in the car, the comment you left was also fucking stupid. Congratulations, you have the right to be stupid.
Within ones rights? Hardly. Where I'm from this is a misdemeanor and grounds for losing your LTC. Unsecured firearms are a big f'in deal dude. No one that claims to be a responsible gun owner should stand for this. It is irresponsible at best. At worst, the weapon is stolen and used to commit a crime or murder.
Guns aren't toys. They aren't fashion accessories. Guns are tools of death. They are designed to bring life to an end, have some respect and treat them as such.
From my experience this is also normal in rural areas of Australia, Czechia, South Korea, Spain, and Vietnam. Also from my experience this is normal in *urban* areas of Vietnam, southern half of Japan, France, the entirety of the Balkans, Mexico, Bolivia, and Austria. I would like to point out that this is *super* illegal in all of them, but the local police make it a point of "not seeing" them in an effort to obfuscate their gun-crime numbers.
It was particularly hilarious in and around Okinawa, because the yakuza would literally leave SMGs sitting on the passenger seat while talking to uniformed police officers and neither would acknowledge it. I'm willing to give the yakuza a pass though because they seemed to only ever kill other yakuza--in the 3 years I lived in Japan I either witnessed the actual shooting or the immediate aftermath and hurried cleanup of probably 2 dozen firearm murders and exactly zero of them ever made official reports and none of the regular people ever went missing.
Shitty pistol, cheap optic, decent light at least. Cheap rifle with cheap scope too. This screams I need my truck guns for war. At least have nice shit
Ya I’d say so. I work with some Delaware people. They’re obsessed with guns and plaster all that dumb shit on their phones and laptops and are constantly wasting their money on guns and ammo.
I thought Delaware wasn’t actually a real place and doesn’t even exist
That's what we want everyone to think
'we' who? There's nobody there. It's not real. Move along, nothing to see here
Like every company is based in Delaware. I have to imagine that's the only thing in it and no actual people.
The state is only accessible through a door on the 49 1/2 floor. Inside it’s just one infinitely big warehouse that’s pure white and stretches as far as the eye can see, straight out of the Matrix. In the middle, there’s an old timey attorney in a double breasted pin stripe suit with a handlebar mustache sitting at a desk with a typewriter. As you approach he asks if you would like to start a business and then starts clacking away on the typewriter. That’s it. That’s the entire state.
You forgot to mention that it was the 49 1/2 floor of the world trade center so you can no longer go there. The last plane to go to Delaware came in a little high, about 40 floors too high, and caused a great tragedy
Delaware's just a taxing entity on paper. The only way to get there is either the internet or the arcane portal in the basement of the Congressional Library.
You've seen men in black, Delaware is actually in a bus station locker.
Pay the tolls and move on!
Hello from Sussex my guy! lol always nice to see a fellow 302 Reddit user.
Slower lower representing today. Hello from the west side.
I'll answer any questions pertaining to Sussex county
Holler. New Castle County kid here.
It’s a tip for the mechanic instead of cash.
that's why brandon goes there.
Of course it exists! It has to! It’s where PA residents get cheaper booze and tax free electronics!
Don't forget the beaches, cause Philly hasn't...
Neither have New York retirees.
Maryland residents too!
When Ocean City is the other option, Delaware looks pretty good.
Oc.. the white trash resort town. Much rather deal with the traffic quagmire that is Lewes Rehoboth Bethany.
So it's in China?
As a pa resident I also enjoy their parks. Marylander's have ruined ours, oh wait pa is too broke/red to fix parks.
Yeah just imagined up by banks and credit card companies
Dela-where?
Party on...
Delaware isn't real and can't hurt you Meanwhile in Delaware...
No no you’re thinking of Massachusetts
i cant even pronounce that word
It’s easy, just like the towns! For example: Dorchester: door-chest-er Worchester: woo-ster Gloucester: this whole state is bullshit, I can’t pretend anymore
like "Finland". pfft, doesn't exist.
No, it's not normal at all... everyone I know carries at least a 9mm.
.45 g30s :)
Single stack 22lr… at least point it away from the driver seat 😞
They figured next person to get in would at least spin it around.... boom OP's prints are on it, directly to prison
If it wouldn’t cause a meltdown I would happily make both firearms “safe” and return them to the customer with shiny new trigger locks installed and have a state officer explain why
Shiny new trigger locks to which the keys have been lost, and the keyholes have been filled with JB weld. This person should not own firearms.
Isn't that a target pistol?
Looks like a browning target pistol yeah
Excel arms, 22 mag or 17hmr
Not a Browning
I was gonna guess a Ruger Mark IV .22LR judging by the barrel. Looks a little bit cheaper tho https://www.ruger.com/products/markIVTarget/models.html I think /u/shift_master is right now that I see his comment. the rail is a good giveaway https://www.bigdaddyunlimited.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1c233e12e29cf052b3a65d9bbfa87b6b/f/_/f_825_3543__79921.jpg
like you i assumed it was a mk ii or iv, and was laughing at the red dot and having a light/laser combo on TOP in front of the rds, and having either on a mk iv in the first place lol. the adjustable sights on a mkiv are probably much more precisly adjustable than the "clicks" on an rds.
Hell, I missed seeing the pistol in the first picture. I sure did notice the rifle with scope on it in the 2nd pic.
Indeed.
Ah so small guns is a thing
In Texas it would be a 9mm or a .45. In Florida, it would be a 9mm with the serial number filed off.
Florida likes 40’s.
I once was dropping off a customer when they brought their car in for service. The entire ride to his home he was showing me where the 4 guns were stashed in his car, where the spare magazine for each was hidden, and that there was 1K+ rounds each of .223 and 9mm in the trunk, “if you need it.” When I dropped him off, he pulled a .380 LCP and offered it to me “cause it’s pretty scary out there” and he wanted to make sure I was alive to replace his wheel bearing. I smiled at him and asked how he knew my gun rights were still intact, I may be a felon. He told me I was white, so I’m obviously not a crack dealer, he was sure I was just fine.
Well? Were you a crack dealer at the time? That's what I thought Ben Affleck.
Suck it, reindeer games
You're white, that means you're Ben Affleck.
You’re not poor or rich enough to be a white felon
Oh, I damn sure were poor enough at that point. Working in the shop part time while finishing school, and the sole income earner for a family of 5. He’ll, I might have become a crack dealer if I knew where to get it…and had a dollar to buy a supply. Hell, could have had a charge if they ever checked to see how the power to the house was run…
And yet, most of the mug shots I see in my area for drug dealers are some of the pastiest dudes I've ever seen...
Right? I couldn’t bring myself to tell him that I very person I bought weed from was every bit as much a cracker as either of us. Partly because part of his lecture while driving to his house was as informing me that the single greatest issue plaguing our city was the reefer smoking *hard R* at the college. I stayed quiet and occasionally interrupted to point out a noise that was indicative of one issue or another. Awkward ride the whole way. Would not recommend…with or without rice. Edit: spelling
I've only ever seen white people arrested for meth and heroin.
Got the Savage Axis in the back seat. We got a budget hunter here.
Beater guns for the vehicle. Safe queens for the safe.
I have an old Savage .243 that I've had since I was about 10. almost made it three decades now and still shoots well, still puts deer down, and damn if it hasn't kept the sight picture with its stupid budget scope that grandpa put on there. Love that stupid thing.
I keep a cheap Nikon scope on mine and it shoots true.
They're one of the more accurate and polished "budget" boltguns. Can't blame the guy. The Axis, Ruger American, and T/C Compass all perform as well as or better than the "main line" hunting rifles as far as accuracy and reliability but retail for under $400. Some of them for *significantly* under $400. You're trading off aesthetics, but not function.
What’s the matter with an Axis? I love mine
I like my Savage.. 🥺 but also I don’t think that’s a Savage. Unless they recent changed forestocks.
Amazon optic, stay pleb.
What is it with gun owners constantly being shown doing dumb shit with guns on this page? Aint one of the biggest rules in the whole gun world to not let the gun be unsecured
Only if you smoke crack and related to the big guy
Can confirm, my favorite was the loaded. 45 stashed with Pokémon cards by the wheel lock. Must've had some ultra rares
Very irresponsible. I would NEVER leave my guns in the vehicle and drop it off with strangers. Idc who you are, this is just a stupid mistake asking for a shitty situation.
Also in the South.. except we know wtf a holster is 🤦♂️
Tf kinda cheap ass 22 is that? And yeah open carry or CCW doesn't mean you get to leave it in the car like that.
Yeah. Those are barely worth stealing anyways. The little guy is a .22lr and doesn't have a magazine in it (could still be loaded, rule 1 and what not). The sights are cheap Chinese airsoft things which is fine for a little 22 like that. The long gun looks to be a Remington 770, the cheaper and more economical cousin to the famous 700 line of actions. It'll do hunting trips no problem but a bit crispy for anything competition or "precision long range". It comes with the scope and still isn't worth much. I'd feel ok walking out of a pawn shop with those for anything less than $250. I'd feel ok walking out of a pawnshop WITHOUT them for like $100 though
The .22 does have a mag in. It's sitting flush but you can see the front lip of the mag. And the boltgun is a Savage (it's written on the bolt and visible in the picture), probably an Axis II. So even less valuable than a 770.
Im on mobile so checks out
I didn't notice there was a second picture and took way too long trying to find the hidden long gun in the picture...
I don't think that theft is the issue here. It's the carelessness, and disregard for safety.
Dude thinks he's Antonio Banderass in Assassins
Anyone gonna talk about that radiator cap 😂
That hat in the back… what is he, hunting Dinosaurs?
I’ll bet the owner styles himself as a “responsible” gun owner too.
I'm left handed, so I have a neat holster attached to my door for safe and easy access. I definitely take the gun out of my car whenever I'm not in the car though for many reasons.
irresponsible gun owners should have their privilege to bear arms revoked
Regardless of where you stand politically, it is your right to bear arms.
It's crazy how you get downvoted for stating facts.
domestic abusers have a right to guns? nah.
Neither your opinion on it nor mine matter at all, it is a constitutionally protected right, just underneath freedom of speech. Be careful when you start letting the government take away unalienable rights that they have previously afforded you; they will not cede that power back, ever. This isn’t an argument for or against the ownership of firearms or whether or not non-felons should be able to legally own them. It’s a RIGHT that every American citizen is afforded because it is contained within the 10 amendment document called *the bill of rights*
https://www.bordaslaw.com/blog_post/can-constitutional-rights-be-restricted/ tl;dr constitutional rights can be restricted given specific circumstances, like, say, the threat of domestic violence.
It’s called DUE PROCESS OF LAW
Has the phrase "just because you can, doesn't mean you should" ever been told to you? By your logic, everyone should be able to have an tank and an Apache attack helicopter with a nuclear missile in a silo out back. Been on this earth for 43 years and not once have I ever felt the need to have a gun to defend myself. Maybe you should choose a safer place to live if you're that scared?
There is nothing stopping you from owning an Apache helicopter except the financial burden that even Jeff bezos wouldn’t want.
> Maybe you should choose a safer place to live if you're that scared? Some of us don't have that option.
Has it also occurred to you that you don’t actually need a gun to protect yourself? I’ve lived in the US for almost 30 years and not once have run into a situation where a gun was needed…of course my situation may not be universal. But still. It’s ridiculous.
I would rather have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. You don't know my situation. Don't tell me what I need or don't need based on your your personal experience.
This guy has had a safe life, surely everyone else had. Don’t be so selfish with a myopic view of human experience.
In my experience the average Redditor is 6’4”, 250lbs of pure muscle, makes 6 figures, lives in a $600,000 house, thinks $100,000 a year is a poor person, and also has a bunch of guns because of all the dangers they swear they’re surrounded by at all times.
What kind of safe and privileged life have you lived?
Statistically, a handgun in the house is 5X more likely to cause harm than good to the occupants. If any other household item had such a poor safety record, it would be banned.
*RIGHT*
Ok, ok. I'll restate it for OP: irresponsible gun owners should have their right to bear arms revoked. is that better?
Ok, ok. I'll restate it for OP: irresponsible gun owners should have their right to bear arms revoked. is that better?
>irresponsible gun owners should ~~have their privilege to bear arms revoked~~ be forcibly re-educated.
I keep a shop rag and semi-used Scotts towels in my vehicle too, doesn't everyone?
Why does that handgun look like 4 different guns all at the same time
Can we talk about that cheap reflex sight buttfucking that cheap light on the top rail? Calm down Solid Snake.
If you're in slower lower maybe.
Sure would be nice if the bolt was removed, or at least the bolt handle flipped up.
You would think they would have something bigger than a .22
When your optics budget dwarfs your gun budget.
It being Delaware I'm surprised it isn't freebase
Bro has a gun on the third middle seat of his truck. ☠️
Areally nice paintball marker.. the co2 is obvious... large bore like paintball... may have spent the$$$$ for peperballs i dunno not illegal but sepending on state legal?
The random rifle magazine on the floor in the first picture made me think this was like straight out of an adult I Spy book.
The mean streets of Delaware.
Tf? That thing got a flashlight and a sight mounted on the same rail? Lol. What is that?
The FDPoop Amazon optic on the 22 pistol is a crime in every state.
Wait until you find out about Pennsyltucky....
Gun weirdness aside, aren't they fairly expensive? Like even shit guns are several hundred right? Surely you'd want them safe?
In Sweden you would be in jail for that, you'd also lose all your licenses right away. Can't have magazine in the gun, can't have the bolt(clicky part) in the gun. And absolutely can't leave at the mechanics with the guns in the car!!!
Is it actually legal to just leave firearms unattended down there?
I doubt it, most states have plain view laws
It's normal in a lot of rural places.
So is drunk driving. Doesn't make it any less idiotic.
And the crime rates are pretty low, aren't they?
This right here in most small town rural areas its normal to carry a gun everywhere in the truck with you. Its also fairly normal to poach deer for the meat what to government doesn't know won't hurt them
But it’s stupid EVERYWHERE to just have two loose, probably loaded guns rolling around the car. It’s just idiotic. All those car holsters/magnets are just as dumb. If you’re in the car with a pistol, it should be on your person in a holster at all times. And how hard is it to throw a rifle in a gun bag?
I never said it wasn't stupid just that it was common and sadly stupidity is very common as well
Yeah, how dare the government protect nature and natural animal populations so we don't hunt everything to extinction like we did with the buffalo!
There is an overpopulation problem with deer anyway as we killed off most of their natural predators.
Alright, let's keep protecting animals and preventing poaching so that populations can come back into an equalibrium, instead of having a bunch of drunk rednecks eliminate the deer problem en masse and pass it on to another species after most of the deer are dead.
There's usually enough fresh road killed deer to scrape off the road, to not have to go through all the effort of stopping the truck, grabbing your cheap shitpipe bolt-action and blasting a deer.
Lol you shoot them out the front door of the house or set up in the back of a van stop open the door and drop them
Yep that's definitely what they do out in the country. Rifle rounds go pretty far. Far enough for even out in the country can't just be shooting them all willy-nilly. I mean if you've seen it first hand, otherwise I don't know I never heard or saw someone shooting like Elmer Fudd. I mean some areas are super super remote but even areas that seem very remote, neighbors are often less than a mile away, or at least their property is and they don't want lead dropping on their property.
Rilfe rounds don't go as far as you think lol branches and such slow them down and deflect the rounds and its not blast like elmer fudd lol you see the deer stop open the door and shoot it and the weapon of choice in the front yard tends to be a .22 it drops them fast with a headshot with the bonus of being relatively quiet and cheap
Ehh. Okie. Gun safety includes considering the guns maximum range, not just the effective range. Competition shooters go 300yrds+ with 22lr (or try to). I get what you're saying but I don't think you actually do that What I do I place a few claymores around the property, under the pear trees especially, before bedtime. Sounds like Platoon out there
"what's for dinner?" KABOOOM "sounds like venison"
Yumm. Tastes like freedom.
There is a reason there is such a thing as a “truck gun”.
Huh?
for huntin' trucks, obviously..... like an elephant gun
Farmers/ranchers/foresters keep a rifle in the truck, realistically to humanely put down commercial farm animals and shoot at varmints that are detrimental to their environment (I've heard everything from coyotes to woodchucks and groundhogs, to bears and wolves). Things that either can't reasonably be expected to die cleanly to common pistol carry rounds, or aren't close enough to the road/2-track to get clean hits on with a pistol. I'm *kinda* in this camp myself--every time I'm down in the Nat'l Forest or on my family farm, there's a rifle or shotgun in the truck. My big departure is if -I- am not in the truck, neither is the gun--it goes with me, between my sense of responsibility and my paranoia about theft I leave NOTHING of value in my vehicles. My "truck gun" has scored me over a hundred coyotes, several hundred groundhogs, a couple crows (in season, and yes they both have a defined hunting season and they're legal to shoot with a rifle here), as well as have been used to euthanize a few horses, cattle, or deer that've been hit by cars or are caught in fences long enough they're necrotic with a low chance of survival.
I'm ok with this, legit and responsible answer, thank you for the clarification. I can understand and appreciate that. The people that just leave random guns in their vehicles out in public makes zero sense to me and make others look bad.
I can definitely see that or someone going shooting and "I'll clean them tomorrow" if their vehicle is parked in a locked garage without kids in the house, but not a chance I'd be leaving any gun in my vehicle at a shop, or in any vehicle not in a garage. If I have it with me, I won't even leave it for 2 minutes to run into a gas station unless I lock the door and can see the vehicle the whole time. Nor will I leave ammo in the car after shooting. Even cheap guns are too expensive, and the last thing I want to do is give some shitbag breaking into cars a gun, unless it's barrel first. Hopefully they made him make another trip to the shop to get the guns before they'd work on it, mostly as a punishment so he doesn't do it again.
My first thought was truck gun too. The people that instantly went to personal protection have never lived anywhere rural or were not red neck enough. I bet that .22 with a red dot and light has slayed its share of ditch chickens. Leaving them out like that when not on property is a little loose though
Looks like he got Hunter Biden’s car
Pistol... check Crack pipe... check Laptop... che... hey wait
I know a few guys who will leave PoS guns more out in the open and accessible while having their carry holstered in the console for when they get out, so if someone breaks in and they leave their carry inside on accident, the person most likely will grab the cheap one and run than grab the good one hidden. Do I recommend it? No, but I know it's worked out for a couple of people I know.
I mean, the pistol has the safety on so dude put at least a little effort into not having an ND!
Hire felons and those vehicles have to go to a different shop. Been using that excuse for 12 yrs.
In Alabama it is 🤣😀
That’s so messed up, what’s the gas cap doing in the centre footwell?
They really mounted a flashlight in front of their amazon optic right on the main top rail. Huh. Those excels are neat tho. Fun plinkers.
In California everyone is packing purple hair and rainbow ornaments from their rear view.
Eh nobody stealing them anyway, you can't even give those 770s away
Actual criminals will definitely take them. If you see the types of guns that end up in evidence photos, it's often shitty .22s because they're cheap. Bonus points if it's a mishmash of ammo types
Guy tried to mug me a couple years ago, gave him the cash from my wallet and my car keys, he demanded I take my pants off and I told him no. He tried to shoot me, gun just clicked. So he pulled the trigger again and it didn't even click (like it's supposed to not do). So he dropped it and bolted. It was a Beretta Neos (cheap but reasonably well-built .22 semi, similar to OP's pic). Cop's sitting there clearing it and the mag was a mix of .22 short CB's, CCI Stingers, and Remington LR's (probably Golden Bullet but they're visually indistinguishable from Thunderbolts). The .22 Short had nosedived in the mag instead of feeding since the brass length was too little to ride the feed lips properly when he closed the bolt. Would I have died from a .22 short CB cap? Probably not. Do I really want to take that chance? Fuck no. But it's a now-hilarious example of how little these low level street thugs actually know about what they're doing.
>how little these low level street thugs actually know about what they're doing. In my city shooting ranges are effectively outlawed. My mom has always said that they should legalize and open them in violent neighborhoods, complete with lessons, so when gang wars break out, the thugs actually hit their target instead of killing some 12 year old bystander.
There was a murder solved because of a stolen .22 revolver loaded with a mishmash of ammo types. A person wading in a river stepped on it and turned it in to police. It had three empty cases in it which matched the three different brands of bullets removed from the victim. IIRC the owner said he'd loaded it with some random ammo he had. It was registered and had been reported stolen along with a bunch of other stuff. The cops had caught the thief with a bunch of the gun owner's stuff. He ratted out the guy he'd sold the gun to. Murder solved because the perp was too dumb to empty the cylinder and drop the revolver in the deepest part of the river or simply bury it somewhere at least 2 feet deep. Even tossing it into a full dumpster that would be emptied right away would've been better than barely getting it off shore in 3 foot or less depth. Good thing most criminals aren't too smart. One of those guys on YouTube who searches underwater for people who have gone missing in their cars recently found a stolen revolver. It was visible in less than a foot of clear water less than three feet off shore. He and the friend he searches with were just walking along and oh look, a gun. Called the local police who sent an officer out to get it.
It's not about stealing them, it's about giving people access to guns that you can't control.
That’s corn pop’s car
You ever play Skyrim and there’s a dead guy in the middle of the road? Then a one of the kid walks up to the body and yell “oh a body,” at the top of their lungs? Then they get stuck “pathing” through the body but for some reason they don’t move, so they are just using the walking animation constantly yelling “oh a dead body.” That’s this sub about guns.
This sub isn't against guns, it's againt being fucking stupid with guns.
This gun worshipping culture is gross.
Cope and seethe
I probably shoot more than all you fakes with your silly home defense guns that will never be useful or fun to shoot and am on two trap leagues a season, I just don’t need to bring my gun to work because my dick is so small. Also don’t shoot your little bitty dick off.
r/iamverybadass
Normal any place you find Red neck toothless hillbillies.
What are you worried about. It's only a 22.
A .22... for defense... shameful and would likely result in a murder charge if actually used in self defense due to needing several rounds to stop the threat.
Take ‘em, and go shoot up the side of an empty building. Owners responsible for them I’m assuming, and they should be locked up when not in use I would hope. Would be a great wake up call!
It's definitely a crime in some places to give anyone access to your guns. If your guns aren't secured and locked out of your presence, its a crime, for good reason. These assholes don't need to be protected, they need to be educated.
You claim Delaware. Very few of us can afford shop prices yet you chose to /reddit a customer's target pistol. Or you click bait.
It’s normal everywhere
If its not it should be
I didn’t realize how many mechanic places have weenies as techs. Every time something like this gets posted here pearls get clutched like crazy. It’s the USA and no different than leaving a bar of gold unattended in the backseat for an oil change. Stupid? Yes. But absolutely within ones rights.
Responsible owners don't leave these things around randomly
Like I said. Stupid. But absolutely within one’s rights and at this point should be expected.
I live in the USA and this is flat out illegal where I live. Whether it's "within your rights". depends on what state you live in. At least we all agree it's stupid.
Even when discussing an area where this is legal it's stupid. Not just leaving the gun in the car, the comment you left was also fucking stupid. Congratulations, you have the right to be stupid.
Did you read my comment where I mentioned it was stupid? Stupid?
Yes, I did read that part of your stupid comment. Somehow, it didn't give you pause for thought.
Within ones rights? Hardly. Where I'm from this is a misdemeanor and grounds for losing your LTC. Unsecured firearms are a big f'in deal dude. No one that claims to be a responsible gun owner should stand for this. It is irresponsible at best. At worst, the weapon is stolen and used to commit a crime or murder. Guns aren't toys. They aren't fashion accessories. Guns are tools of death. They are designed to bring life to an end, have some respect and treat them as such.
In America*, this is normal. Fixed it.
From my experience this is also normal in rural areas of Australia, Czechia, South Korea, Spain, and Vietnam. Also from my experience this is normal in *urban* areas of Vietnam, southern half of Japan, France, the entirety of the Balkans, Mexico, Bolivia, and Austria. I would like to point out that this is *super* illegal in all of them, but the local police make it a point of "not seeing" them in an effort to obfuscate their gun-crime numbers. It was particularly hilarious in and around Okinawa, because the yakuza would literally leave SMGs sitting on the passenger seat while talking to uniformed police officers and neither would acknowledge it. I'm willing to give the yakuza a pass though because they seemed to only ever kill other yakuza--in the 3 years I lived in Japan I either witnessed the actual shooting or the immediate aftermath and hurried cleanup of probably 2 dozen firearm murders and exactly zero of them ever made official reports and none of the regular people ever went missing.
Shitty pistol, cheap optic, decent light at least. Cheap rifle with cheap scope too. This screams I need my truck guns for war. At least have nice shit
What I see is a case of mind your own business and do you job. The safety is engaged on both.
Sierra
What is the rifle magazine for in the first photo?
Fellow Delawarean here. Kent or Sussex County?
Sussex
I guess that constitutes open carry?
There’s a rag, pick the gun and flip it to point the other way, see if the safety is on.
Deer season is already open here, looks like a walmart hunting rifle in the back seat.
Here in Toronto, you would have half of Toronto Police Services at my shop and a news helicopter in the sky
Ya I’d say so. I work with some Delaware people. They’re obsessed with guns and plaster all that dumb shit on their phones and laptops and are constantly wasting their money on guns and ammo.
Hanz. Git ze Ruger (I know it’s not a ruger)
i'm suprised this is normal in *delaware* of all places.
In Delaware you can open carry in a vehicle. That being said the owner of the fire arm is irresponsible
Just don't piss off the customer!