Are CA gunowners smarter?

[killmime1234]

I just watched a couple episodes of "Sons of Guns" (set in Louisiana) on Discovery channel last night and it got me thinking. In one of the episodes, local SWAT is requesting a door breaching solution and the owner of the shop decides to make a master key system for the team. To my surprise, neither the SWAT consultant nor any of the the shop owner's gunsmiths knew what a master key is! Then, later in the episode, when they are trying to design it, the owner suggests looking at an M203 for mounting ideas, and the gunsmith he's talking to doesn't even know what that is!

This got the ol' hamster wheel spinnin' and it made me think that the intensively restrictive state we live in has forced us to educate ourselves about firearms simply as a recourse to fight the oppression. If this specific shop on the show is indicative of the level of gun knowledge in the free states, I think Californian gun owners (or at least calgunners) seem to be a cut above the rest in terms of knowledge.

Any thoughts? Any personal experience suggest otherwise, or simply further confirm my suspicions?

[scroman]

Dunno but the cannon was pretty freakin kewl.

[Milsurp Collector]

Are CA gunowners smarter?

If this specific shop on the show is indicative of the level of gun knowledge in the free states, I think Californian gun owners (or at least calgunners) seem to be a cut above the rest in terms of knowledge.

Any thoughts? Any personal experience suggest otherwise, or simply further confirm my suspicions?

Oh brother. You forgot to mention that California gun owners are also better shots, taller, better looking, more fit, richer, more well-endowed, and more humble.

If you are going to make judgments based on the level of gun knowledge demonstrated by gun store employees, why don't you do a search for threads with "gun store FUD" as keywords, read about the level of expertise prevalent in California gun stores, and see if you come to the same conclusion.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=387597

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=378737

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=324319

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=267056

etc. etc. etc.

[1lostinspace]

I is smarter then youz alls!

[-hanko]

Any thoughts? Any personal experience suggest otherwise, or simply further confirm my suspicions?

Re-read post 3.

Try and fathom just why the same questions are posted here over and over and over...

My answer? No.

-hanko

[xenophobe]

We may just be more educated.

[GWbiker]

We may just be more educated.

Um, not so when it comes to your state elections.

Zonies may not be the sharpest kids in class, but we know when to kick the *****holes out of office.

[Rekrab]

How many times does it need to be said that most California gunnies don't vote for those morons?

[chris]

We may just be more educated.

^^^ agree. we have to be with the laws as confusing as they are we have to know them IMO the laws are this way by design.

[Bruce]

It maybe the producer's way of explaining to the non-gun owning audience what is going on. You see that in movies and TV a lot where one character explains something to another character, coincidentally the audience.

[dustoff31]

If this specific shop on the show is indicative of the level of gun knowledge in the free states, I think Californian gun owners (or at least calgunners) seem to be a cut above the rest in terms of knowledge.

Any thoughts? Any personal experience suggest otherwise, or simply further confirm my suspicions?

You formed that opinion on the basis of one guy in one incident on TV? That alone kinda blows your theory I'd say.

If I know something about guns that you don't, does that make AZ gunnies smarter than those in CA?

[killmime1234]

Oh brother. You forgot to mention that California gun owners are also better shots, taller, better looking, more fit, richer, more well-endowed, and more humble.

If you are going to make judgments based on the level of gun knowledge demonstrated by gun store employees, why don't you do a search for threads with "gun store FUD" as keywords, read about the level of expertise prevalent in California gun stores, and see if you come to the same conclusion.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=387597

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=378737

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=324319

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=267056

etc. etc. etc.

That right there is a very good point.

You formed that opinion on the basis of one guy in one incident on TV? That alone kinda blows your theory I'd say.

If I know something about guns that you don't, does that make AZ gunnies smarter than those in CA?

No, I didn't form any opinion. I asked for others' opinions about something unusual I saw and the suspicions that it promoted.

[GUNFREAK]

I think it is just the producers staging certain conversations for "reality" tv. They do cool stuff with Saiga shotguns though.

[bruceflinch]

We may just be more educated.

& snobby & full of ourselves. We shouldn't be. Look at all the jerk Politicians we keep electing...

[PhantomII]

If we're so smart, why are we still in California?