So your friend bought a semi-automatic rifle? At high-school age? At a yard sale? I'm pretty sure two or three illegal things happened there. And he didn't even know what rifle he was buying? If the looks confused him then it must have been a Springfield Armory M1A or some other M14 clone, but those are expensive. There's also the possibility he bought a cheap but shitty Auto-Ordnance M1 Carbine, which shares the M1 designation but is radically different. Both of those guns use detachable clips.
I'll refer you to the photos I used in the previous post. Did the rifle look more like this...
...or like this?
Isfahan, April 30, 2013, 03:32:26 am
Fucking brace for it; my friend got held back I think twice, and this was right around when we graduated, so he was probably of legal age.
The bottom one more than the top, but my recollection's not great because this was, good God, a decade ago. You'll also enjoy this; he didn't get a clip with the rifle, and he didn't test-fire it before he bought it, so he didn't even know if it worked or was safe to fire at all. I think whoever he bought that rifle from just had an old rifle laying around, and when he saw that fucking brain surgeon walk up, he figured he had cash in hand.
Oh, God, I remember his SKS, too. He had an SKS that he bolted all kinds of shit to. It had a flashlight, a scope, a bipod and a bayonet. All on it at the same time. And I seem to recall that he handed it too me with the barrel pointed at me.
That guy was amazing. He also bought out storage-units that where past-due. Sometimes they had guns in 'em, so he got him a stack of pistols that way. He stored them
loaded (in the cases he found them in, but unlocked) in a stack of shit he shoved in his closet. I went shooting with him once; once was all it took, without going into the gory details, this was not a guy who practiced great range safety.
The people you meet growing up in rural Georgia.
