Obnoxious “Kid” Carrying In/At Waldmartan

[4T5GUY]

I was entering our local Walmart today, (yep I'm a deplorable,) and was totally blown away with all the boisterous loud noise /antics from a punk butt strutting kid. He was all most "tweeking" but maybe he was? Doesn't matter it's Oregon. He was rubbing his exposed side arm, taking his time and was being obnoxiously loud.

Looked like he had a full size 1911 type pistol but it wasn't cocked and locked. He had it in a OWB holster and obviously meant to be seen.

I hope that this is just a an anomaly and not a normal trend. Peacock "kids" with firearms is not a good thing. My first thought was to just beat him with it but that could be a bad thing.

Jim

 

[waffles]

I was entering our local Walmart today, (yep I'm a deplorable,) and was totally blown away with all the boisterous loud noise /antics from a punk butt strutting kid. He was all most "tweeking" but maybe he was? Doesn't matter it's Oregon. He was rubbing his exposed side arm, taking his time and was being obnoxiously loud.

Looked like he had a full size 1911 type pistol but it wasn't cocked and locked. He had it in a OWB holster and obviously meant to be seen.

I hope that this is just a an anomaly and not a normal trend. Peacock "kids" with firearms is not a good thing. My first thought was to just beat him with it but that could be a bad thing.

Jim

I remember it used to be common in OC threads to talk about how likely the OCer was to have their pistol taken and used against them. Just didn't know the call was coming from inside the house.

 

[LVSteve]

Small beer. There's a Walmart not far from me where before COVID they were walking in with ARs over their backs.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My local Walmart only has women in PJ's, fuzzy slippers, and hair curlers at lunchtime. I prefer being a little behind the times!

Ivan

 

[arjay]

I've given up on my local Walmarts lol.Too many crazies in both of em so I just use Amazon

 

[OLDSTER]

Just another of too many incidents that confirm my opposition to "open" carry. S'pose that punk would hide behind the 2nd ? I doubt he has any idea what the 2nd is.

 

[NFrameFred]

Freedoms not handled responsibly are freedoms in danger of being curtailed.

 

[quikdraw67]

Yeah, no.

I have a CCW for a reason.

The only time I ever did OC was during deer season.

 

[OFT II]

My local Walmart only has women in PJ's, fuzzy slippers, and hair curlers at lunchtime. I prefer being a little behind the times!

Ivan

We must live in the same neighborhood.

 

[ColbyBruce]

"My first thought was to just beat him with it but that could be a bad thing."

If you ever wind up in metro Atlanta I have some friends, both in their seventies, you might enjoy hanging out with. Rocky and Lloyd used spray foam to fill exhaust and intake systems on trespasser's four wheelers and a battery powered impact wrench to remove the lug nuts from a golf cart.

 

[SmithNut]

My local Walmart only has women in PJ's, fuzzy slippers, and hair curlers at lunchtime. I prefer being a little behind the times!

Ivan

Don't forget that they are all tatted up and paying with EBT cards....

 

[quikdraw67]

Don't forget that they are all tatted up and paying with EBT cards....

Your tax dollars at work.

 

[biku324]

Opposite end of the OC spectrum...in our small NM town, the Post Office is where everyone goes, as rural mail delivery mostly doesn't exist. There's a slow, painfully moving octogenarian who comes in most days at the same time OCing a small chrome something or other in an ancient holster worn brown and fuzzy. He can't hear well, and it takes him a few minutes to find his PO box key, and nearly as long to actually get it inserted into the lock. He then carries his mail to a shelf, sorts it very slowly with both hands while his back is to the foot traffic behind him; if someone greets him, it takes him time to look around to see where and who they are.

Just because you CAN do something doesn't make it a good idea.

 

[martyd]

4T5Guy,
You are not alone.

Arizona has its fair share of 20 somethings with open carry. They tend to be thin build sloppy dressed with pants sagging and do strut like John Wayne.

These kids are a walking timebomb.

Almost every day or two the local news has a young person who got upset with something or someone and the shooting begins.

I better stop while I am still ahead before I say what I really think.

 

[30-30remchester]

Wanna Be's, about every place has them and every profession.

 

[LVSteve]

Opposite end of the OC spectrum...in our small NM town, the Post Office is where everyone goes, as rural mail delivery mostly doesn't exist. There's a slow, painfully moving octogenarian who comes in most days at the same time OCing a small chrome something or other in an ancient holster worn brown and fuzzy. He can't hear well, and it takes him a few minutes to find his PO box key, and nearly as long to actually get it inserted into the lock. He then carries his mail to a shelf, sorts it very slowly with both hands while his back is to the foot traffic behind him; if someone greets him, it takes him time to look around to see where and who they are.

Just because you CAN do something doesn't make it a good idea.

Isn't there the small matter of it being a federal offense to carry in a post office?

 

[LDM]

Every time I drive by the local Wally World, there's a police presence. Definitely on my "do not stop" list.

 

[LVSteve]

4T5Guy,
You are not alone.

Arizona has its fair share of 20 somethings with open carry. They tend to be thin build sloppy dressed with pants sagging and do strut like John Wayne.

These kids are a walking timebomb.

It comes it fits and bursts here. I was getting a windshield chip fixed at a Safelite and it seemed like every other customer met the above description except we have a greater age spread for these types, 20-50. Couple of other older gents were in the waiting area and I noted that they were also paying attention to this dumb parade. After the third guy left I quipped, "Wish somebody had told it was Open Carry Day, I'd have dug out my Enfield revolver", which with my accent is entirely appropriate. I thought the one chap waiting was going to lose his teeth laughing.

 

[biku324]

Isn't there the small matter of it being a federal offense to carry in a post office?

It's widely ignored there. Small town...

 

[Golddollar]

It comes it fits and bursts here. I was getting a windshield chip fixed at a Safelite and it seemed like every other customer met the above description except we have a greater age spread for these types, 20-50. Couple of other older gents were in the waiting area and I noted that they were also paying attention to this dumb parade. After the third guy left I quipped, "Wish somebody had told it was Open Carry Day, I'd have dug out my Enfield revolver", which with my accent is entirely appropriate. I thought the one chap waiting was going to lose his teeth laughing.

If I ever decide to open carry my Russian Nagant revolver I'll have to imitate Boris Badinov.