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WOW, it feels really good to make (what I feel to be) a decent post here on Calguns. It's been a while, so here I go.
This gun show was rather unique in the fact that I worked for both the Calguns booth as well as Parallax Tactical, being that both tables were right next to each other. It was also quite fun and I hope to do something similar in the future.
That said, I got to meet (or apparently get re-introduced to) quite a few people. Among them were...
1) Various people that I apparently knew, do know or at least acted like they knew me. Like, calling me by my first name and starting congenial conversations with me. Quite interesting to say the least.
2) The cop that 12031'd me during the Reader photoshoot. I didn't recognize him at all and he had to tell me who he was before it registered. Ironically, he just got gone writing a paper on how the government is using the 2nd amendment to take away our rights (or something to that general effect.) How he uses his 1st to write about the 2nd while willfully violating my 2nd, 4th and 14th is a little bit weird...
3) A young SD Deputy that commented on how the laws are crap and he wants the real AR-15s to come back and he wondered when it was going to happen. That was a really good convo and kind of opened my eyes on how convoluted the laws REALLY are and how confuzzled people can get.
4) A hunter that bought his first black rifle. This guy must have not bought a gun since the late 80s because he had no idea how much paperwork was involved or what he was supposed to do. I spent a good 15-20 minutes with him near the CWS booth, detailing transport of his rifle, ammo to use, his 4/5 amendment rights, places to go, etc. In the end, I congratulated him on his transition
5) The SDPD Firearms Expert. He seems to come to every show and just on Saturdays. He is an interesting fellow and has apparently offered his services for the Marksmanship Club @ UCSD's events. This could prove to be interesting, as I really would love to have hands-on safety demonstrations at school. I know that I am relatively anti-talking-to-cops, but this seems to be a good occasion for a break in the rules.
6) Several people with potentially or patently illegal stuff. No names or specifics, but let us just say that there is just a lot of general confusion from out-of-staters.
Walking away from this show, I have come to the conclusion that there are a few things that I feel are worth pursuing.
1) I want to start recording, transcribing and possibly re-transcribing (into video) all the questions and answers fielded at the Calguns booth by the other volunteers or at least by myself. Each volunteer spends a great deal of time in repetitious rhetoric in explaining the asinine nuances of the law to the ill-informed and I think it would be beneficial to utilize these responses in a more permanent medium. Perhaps a Calguns YouTube channel is in order?
2) There HAS to be a better way to better coordinate logistics amongst show coordinators throughout the state, even as transient as some of these show coordinators may be. I am no efficiency expert but I think that a better level of communication can be attained and exercised. I will talk with the various "right people" about this though there may be work afoot on this sort of operation.
That is pretty much all I got. Gotta go clean the ammo, guns and crap out of my car now.
This gun show was rather unique in the fact that I worked for both the Calguns booth as well as Parallax Tactical, being that both tables were right next to each other. It was also quite fun and I hope to do something similar in the future.
That said, I got to meet (or apparently get re-introduced to) quite a few people. Among them were...
1) Various people that I apparently knew, do know or at least acted like they knew me. Like, calling me by my first name and starting congenial conversations with me. Quite interesting to say the least.
2) The cop that 12031'd me during the Reader photoshoot. I didn't recognize him at all and he had to tell me who he was before it registered. Ironically, he just got gone writing a paper on how the government is using the 2nd amendment to take away our rights (or something to that general effect.) How he uses his 1st to write about the 2nd while willfully violating my 2nd, 4th and 14th is a little bit weird...
3) A young SD Deputy that commented on how the laws are crap and he wants the real AR-15s to come back and he wondered when it was going to happen. That was a really good convo and kind of opened my eyes on how convoluted the laws REALLY are and how confuzzled people can get.
4) A hunter that bought his first black rifle. This guy must have not bought a gun since the late 80s because he had no idea how much paperwork was involved or what he was supposed to do. I spent a good 15-20 minutes with him near the CWS booth, detailing transport of his rifle, ammo to use, his 4/5 amendment rights, places to go, etc. In the end, I congratulated him on his transition
5) The SDPD Firearms Expert. He seems to come to every show and just on Saturdays. He is an interesting fellow and has apparently offered his services for the Marksmanship Club @ UCSD's events. This could prove to be interesting, as I really would love to have hands-on safety demonstrations at school. I know that I am relatively anti-talking-to-cops, but this seems to be a good occasion for a break in the rules.
6) Several people with potentially or patently illegal stuff. No names or specifics, but let us just say that there is just a lot of general confusion from out-of-staters.
Walking away from this show, I have come to the conclusion that there are a few things that I feel are worth pursuing.
1) I want to start recording, transcribing and possibly re-transcribing (into video) all the questions and answers fielded at the Calguns booth by the other volunteers or at least by myself. Each volunteer spends a great deal of time in repetitious rhetoric in explaining the asinine nuances of the law to the ill-informed and I think it would be beneficial to utilize these responses in a more permanent medium. Perhaps a Calguns YouTube channel is in order?
2) There HAS to be a better way to better coordinate logistics amongst show coordinators throughout the state, even as transient as some of these show coordinators may be. I am no efficiency expert but I think that a better level of communication can be attained and exercised. I will talk with the various "right people" about this though there may be work afoot on this sort of operation.
That is pretty much all I got. Gotta go clean the ammo, guns and crap out of my car now.
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