Gun Deal at chinese man theater

[glennski]

Went to sell my Bolt action Remington 700 today, we made arrangements to Meet on the South East side away from the door and main area(we've met there before). I had the gun in the back of my Denali, we looked at it for 30 seconds then he put it in the back of his quad cab. We then proceeded to talk guns, reloading excreta and about 35 min later 4 cop cars showed up asking us to put our hands in the air!....We both cooperated with the officers, they wanted to see the rifle, run our drivers license's and answer questions as to why we where doing the deal there and blah blah blah.

So, I'm wondering what everyone thinks about this situation?


I think its a scary reality of what peoples views on guns are right now(after all the crazy in the last 4 months), and it could mean new gun laws I don't want to see...

[Bailey Guns]

I think you should've used a little more discretion. Do the deal and go somewhere else to BS while you have a cup of coffee or a soda. I don't know the area...but obviously you attracted a lot of unwanted attention.

[Ashton]

Given the current events recently I don't think I would be doing gun deals in any parking lot with lots of people around, let alone a theater.

Personally, I think you exercised poor judgement.

[ray1970]

corroborated? Do you mean cooperated?

[Bailey Guns]

corroborated? Do you mean cooperated?

I was curious about the "reloading excreta"? Sounds nasty.

[ray1970]

I was curious about the "reloading excreta"? Sounds nasty.

[dwalker460]

Telling you, Hardware stores- Lowes, Home Depot, etc... Or Sporting goods stores- Sportsmans Warehouse, Bass Pro, etc.

I did a deal at Target one night, and there was a patrol car in the parking lot obviously looking for someone, and he never paid attention to us at all, which probably has more to do with the fact I examined the pistol he traded me with it held inside his Jeep, and he examined the AR I traded him ducked out behind my trunk. Discretion is the better part of valor.

[UrbanWolf]

Some one passing by must have reported you. People are very on edge about guns now, should have been more careful of not showing them out right, even though there is nothing wrong about them in the law.

[BuffCyclist]

I used to meet in Walmart or Sporting Goods store parking lots for firearm or other sales, but that seems to be getting sketchy now even with everyone being so on edge. In all honesty, once the deal is done, if you want to chat, you already have each others' contact information.

I definitely wouldn't have sat around for another 35min talking after having a weapon in plain sight, unless it was at a gun range.

eta: Not saying it was your fault, just that people fear guns now and the TSA has won with their "See something, say something" ad... Is that still going on even?

[SideShow Bob]

Gun case, at least to transfer from your vehicle to the buyers, and yes, a more firearms friendly location would have been better.
Remember, theaters run movies during the day on the weekends.
Were you CCing at the time ? And how did the police handle that if you were ?