Hand_Rifle_Guy
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One day I walk into this local gunstore not two days before my birthday. Wandering around looking in the cases I espy with my little eye a gun beginning with the letter "S". Aha! says I, an old top-break Smith! Priced a mere $85! But no, I was fooled! It's camoflage worked at first, but on closer inspection, it let me down.
What I'd found was a "Secret Service Special" as rolled on the side of the barrel, no identified maker, 5-shot top-break revolver chambered for "38 SMITH & WESSON Ctg" as marked on top of the barrel in LARGE letters. the grips have 'SSS' at the top in a blatant rip-off of the S&W script logo, which is initialy what caught my eye in the first place. As hoped by the builder, I suppose. This little gun has deep, shiny blue finish, locks up tight, and is dead-to-rights accurate if you can see the tiny little sights. This little guy wants to be a Smith so bad, you can smell it. It downright OOZES wishful thinking!
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Due to it's unknown heritage, I initially passed it up. I almost never surreneder to impulse buys, but this revolver stuck in my head, and it was my birthday, after all, so four days later I was back, and plunked down $107, with tax and backround check included, so I could take it home.
I walk in ten days later to discover the damn PRK DOJ has BOUNCED my friggin backround check because, get this, my driver's license expired two days before I tried to buy this gun! Those a-holes won't let you buy a gun unless you have valid, up-to-date I.D.! This is, like, handgun #17 for me, but no, I'm the same as a felon according to Awsome Bill Klinton and Sarah Brainless-lady! If that's not an infringement of my 2nd Ammendment rights, I don't know what is!
:barf:
Fine. I go down the street to the D.M.V., pay the ten bucks, pass the silly written test, get my license renewed, and head back to the gunstore the next day. Gotta fork out another 15 bucks for another backround check, GRRRR!!! But NO!! The blasted gunstore won't even run the check until I can show them the actual-factual new license with the right date on it ! AAAARRGH!!! My holographic expired picture I.D., all of three days outta date, along with my temporary license, is insufficient for these clowns! Telling them that DOJ couldn't see it, and that now it would clear the computer, wasn't good enough for them. Jeezum Crow, I was like to have an apoplectic fit!
SO, two weeks later, steaming new license in hand, I shell out another 15 bucks to re-run my check, and go away for ten days so I won't shoot the guys behind the counter. I come back, pick up my neat little birthday gun, and tell the idiots that never again will I darken their door, nor line their pockets with my hard-earned cash, for such piss-poor customer service. I'm a friggin gun-owner. It's not in my interest to turn these bozos in to the ATF. But some days, you just see red, I didn't turn them in, as they really hadn't done anything wrong, per se. It's more on the idiocies associated with the misery that is the PRK.
Now isn't that the stupidest story you've read in a while?
But I digress...
There's no name on this little gun, so who made it? It looks just like an Iver-Johnson, but lacks the "hammer the hammer" safety rig. And it's by no means a piece of crap. It's really well built! And amazingly accurate. Elmer Kieth was right when he said the .38 S&W was a good round. It's relative weakness didn't bother him in the face of good performance.
The mystery remains: Who made my birthday gun? We had to leave the manufacturer space on the form blank. Ooooh, scary...
What I'd found was a "Secret Service Special" as rolled on the side of the barrel, no identified maker, 5-shot top-break revolver chambered for "38 SMITH & WESSON Ctg" as marked on top of the barrel in LARGE letters. the grips have 'SSS' at the top in a blatant rip-off of the S&W script logo, which is initialy what caught my eye in the first place. As hoped by the builder, I suppose. This little gun has deep, shiny blue finish, locks up tight, and is dead-to-rights accurate if you can see the tiny little sights. This little guy wants to be a Smith so bad, you can smell it. It downright OOZES wishful thinking!
.
Due to it's unknown heritage, I initially passed it up. I almost never surreneder to impulse buys, but this revolver stuck in my head, and it was my birthday, after all, so four days later I was back, and plunked down $107, with tax and backround check included, so I could take it home.
I walk in ten days later to discover the damn PRK DOJ has BOUNCED my friggin backround check because, get this, my driver's license expired two days before I tried to buy this gun! Those a-holes won't let you buy a gun unless you have valid, up-to-date I.D.! This is, like, handgun #17 for me, but no, I'm the same as a felon according to Awsome Bill Klinton and Sarah Brainless-lady! If that's not an infringement of my 2nd Ammendment rights, I don't know what is!
:barf: Fine. I go down the street to the D.M.V., pay the ten bucks, pass the silly written test, get my license renewed, and head back to the gunstore the next day. Gotta fork out another 15 bucks for another backround check, GRRRR!!! But NO!! The blasted gunstore won't even run the check until I can show them the actual-factual new license with the right date on it ! AAAARRGH!!! My holographic expired picture I.D., all of three days outta date, along with my temporary license, is insufficient for these clowns! Telling them that DOJ couldn't see it, and that now it would clear the computer, wasn't good enough for them. Jeezum Crow, I was like to have an apoplectic fit!
SO, two weeks later, steaming new license in hand, I shell out another 15 bucks to re-run my check, and go away for ten days so I won't shoot the guys behind the counter. I come back, pick up my neat little birthday gun, and tell the idiots that never again will I darken their door, nor line their pockets with my hard-earned cash, for such piss-poor customer service. I'm a friggin gun-owner. It's not in my interest to turn these bozos in to the ATF. But some days, you just see red, I didn't turn them in, as they really hadn't done anything wrong, per se. It's more on the idiocies associated with the misery that is the PRK.
Now isn't that the stupidest story you've read in a while?
But I digress...
There's no name on this little gun, so who made it? It looks just like an Iver-Johnson, but lacks the "hammer the hammer" safety rig. And it's by no means a piece of crap. It's really well built! And amazingly accurate. Elmer Kieth was right when he said the .38 S&W was a good round. It's relative weakness didn't bother him in the face of good performance.
The mystery remains: Who made my birthday gun? We had to leave the manufacturer space on the form blank. Ooooh, scary...
