There was one guy, that nobody liked, asking around for a .22 Mag and a silencer for it on Sunday when I wasn’t there. On Monday he returned, asking around for a .357 magnum off the books, complained that “the feds” shut the event down because he really wanted a gun the government didn’t know about. He then told my buddy and I how he brandished a pistol twice to scare off some black guys in Chicago (putting it on the dashboard of his car) and started to explain how only the Neo-Nazi and KKK groups publish information about blacks kiling white men, turning their wives into whores in 3 days, and selling their kids into the sex-slave trade.

The guy wasn’t dumb.

The guy wasn’t crazy.

He was clean shaven. His hair was cut nice and short. He brought no information to the table, only questions. He even had qustions about laws in IL, his home state, that were so targeted only a serious gun nut would have any idea how they worked. That was his lead-in question, actually, and I just played dumb because I could tell right away what this guy was up to.

First he checked to see what we knew about mundane state laws regarding firearms ownership where we don’t live. We played dumb.

Then he checked to see what we thought about “the feds.” We made no comment.

Then he checked to see how much we knew about inter-state transfers after mentioning he’s not an MT resident and wants to buy a pistol “off the record.” All I said to that one was, “Nope, don’t know anybody selling one. Besides, we’re from Michigan, the government already knows about all our pistols.”

Then he checked to see if we support any white supremacy groups. No comment from us on that one too.

Can you guess where this guy gets his paycheck from? If you answered “The ATF” you deserve a cookie.

I must be confused.