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Re: Question for the Americans (was Storage & Transportation)

From: "Geo-Hex" <geohex@t...>
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 10:46:31 -0400
Subject: Re: Question for the Americans (was Storage & Transportation)

> To:		 FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> From: 	 Samuel Penn <sam@bifrost.demon.co.uk>
> Subject:	 Question for the Americans (was Storage &
Transportation)
> Reply-to:	 FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Date: 	 Thu, 29 May 1997 19:46:50 +0100
> Organization:  Somewhere else in Aldershot

> > work *wonders*. I managed to pick up 2 of the larger handgun cases
(the
> > ones that have 2 levels to them) before K-Mart stopped carrying them
(they
> > were selling for $11 each).
> 
> Not wanting to sound judgemental (and definitely not wanting
> to start a moral crusade), but a little question for any
> Americans concerning something that scared me when I was in
> the States a few months ago.
> 
> I was in a k-mart (which is basically a supermarket selling
> food, clothes, toys etc), when I came across a section selling
> guns. Now, I don't consider myself particularly anti-gun or
> anything, but seeing them for sale in (what I presume is) a
> typical supermarket, scared the shit out of me. I think I
> suffered a bit too much culture shock, and I didn't pay
> too much attention to what sort of guns they were.
> 
> Is this common? Are they typically just low powered guns?
> I'm sort of morbidly curious.
> 
Nope, they're the real McCoy - but at Kmart you will find a lot of BB 
guns and target shooting equipment as well

KR

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