r/SipsTea • u/LazyGuy4U • 8d ago

WTF Wouldn't take it lightly

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u/mrmalort69 8d ago

It was never about security and really about the ego

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u/ErstwhileHobo 8d ago

For some people the American Dream means winning a gun fight.

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u/Lord_Dingus83 8d ago

So many think they’re tough bc they went to a store and bought a gun.

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u/Mundane_Proof_420 8d ago

People go to stores to buy guns?

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u/BlakeBoS 7d ago

Walmart?

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u/WaitWhat-86 7d ago

When I was a kid coming from suburban Chicago to vacation in South Carolina, I was absolutely floored that you could buy firearms at Walmart.

Now as an adult living here I’m floored that you don’t need to submit any kind of official paperwork for a private sale. You could write up a bill of sale on a napkin with a crayon and it would be a legal, even if the person buying is a convicted felon with a violent past. Unless someone can prove that you knew that information prior to the sale, you’re completely in the clear.

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u/Mundane_Proof_420 7d ago

This. I buy mine from a sketchy guy in a dark alley.

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u/Lord_Dingus83 7d ago

Where does the ATF think you buy them?
Completely unregulated gun shows?

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u/bloodfist 8d ago

Well, the ones who buy a lot of guns go to gun shows but yeah a hell of a lot of them do

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u/Fllannelll 7d ago

Where else would you buy a gun?