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I’m feeling reckless
Anybody else had a dad that had his mates round cleaning guns on the table.
Step dad cleaning guns.
Real dad died long before
Just sounding it out
I’m saying I hate the fact that he put the guns in front of me and cleaned them as if it was a normal thing
I’m saying I hate the fact that he put the guns in front of me and cleaned them as if it was a normal thing
They are all dead now anyway
It’s a bit weird to say the least...
I once had a friendly chat when I was a younger with my girlfriends Dad while he was polishing his shotgun on his kitchen table.
He seemed to be very concerned I would not respect his daughter and wanted to make it ‘clear’ that no ‘disrespect’ would take place.
The chat happened a bit late for that 😉
Yes, that should definitely go in the ‘bad parenting’ column.
Was he alright otherwise to you or a dick?
Not sure what was wrong with that. My kids used to help me clean my guns.
They learned how to handle them and I drummed the basics in.
But then I got my first gun at 9 when I lived in the bush in Africa.
Yeah but like Epicyclo I’d usually be helping too. It meant whe I got my first gun I was a dab hand at cleaning them by then so they were very well looked after.
No guns in our house . I did many years ago on our way back from a trip up the north of Scotland in October see my dad stop and check a particular shallow pool near the road then wade in and catch a salmon by throwing his jersey over it.
He was also skilled in guddling trout from our local stream - feeling about under rocks and finding fish hiding and grabbing them. Do it regularly and you found the trout used the same stones and there was less time wasted trying stones with nothing under them.
How old were you at the time?
what guns and for what purpose?
Pheasant hunting or for robbing a bank for eg.
If the latter then maybe a bit careless. Was he generally loving and supportive of you in other ways?
the timeline is important
Were they planning to rob a bank with scrupulously clean guns?
Where they surrounded by holdalls full of used notes and cleaning the blood and fingerprints off?
Grandad passed away recently and his house was full of guns. Some real, some replica, some real that had been 'deactivated'. Enjoyed handing them over at the Police station. Never got the gun thing tbh. RIP Grandad, sorry about the guns.
My dad used to clean his gun in front of me, but only about once a year (if that) cos that's how often he used it. The only thing I can think that was bad about it was getting oil on the carpet 🙂
My wife’s dad tried the “want to see my gun” line on me when Mrs F and I first started dating. It backfired on him (the idea, not the gun) when I got all giddy and said yes. You can’t intimidate a fool is the lesson he learned that day.
I worked for Barclays; so I had a bank job.
A mate’s dad who was one of the most pleasantly bonkers individuals i’ve ever met, had a house full of guns and guitars. He used to keep a Browning pistol in the drawer by his bed ‘just in case’
😳
If you own guns, then cleaning them is perfectly normal. Robbing banks isn't, but all good artisans look after the tools of their trade...
Late 80's, post Hungerford massacre and resulting firearms legislation, I went to my aunts place for a cup of coffee.
She was the archetypal little old lady, kept a big sweet jar of sachets of sugar that had been collected from all the places she'd met friends for coffee, presumably in case sugar was ever rationed again.
"What do you think of this?" she asked, pulling a 6-shot semi-auto shotgun out of the hall cupboard.
"About 5 years"
A mate’s dad who was one of the most pleasantly bonkers individuals i’ve ever met, had a house full of guns and guitars. He used to keep a Browning pistol in the drawer by his bed ‘just in case’
What if he had a sudden need to strum a song in the middle of the night? Admittedly it's somewhat more tricky keeping a guitar in the bedside drawer.
My old boss from my student days used to leave his Beretta pistol soaking in petrol in the pub kitchen.
He also had a bullet press under the stairs.
If anyone should not have been allowed firearms it was him.
In a bizarre twist, my son's girlfriend turned up at the house last weekend and asked to borrow my gun cleaning kit.
</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">My old boss from my student days used to leave his Beretta pistol soaking in petrol in the pub kitchen
Seems like a great idea, especially if you pull it out and fire it
