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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3814 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An interesting pro-gun argument

Dude.

At the ripe old age of 16 I responded to a Craigslist ad, drove to a trailer park, handed over $39 and purchased a new-in-cosmoline Norinco SKS.

$60 and a quick drive to the surplus store later and I had a 30-round mag and 1400 rounds of armor-piercing ammunition.

Sixteen.

Somewhere in a safe in a trailer park in a cul-de-sac in the middle of the desert of northern New Mexico, there's a form where I lied about my age to a dude selling assault rifles through the little nickel.

Shibolleth my ass.