Part 2, How I got into the gun business.

Im not sure why he did not open a Mexican restaurant. I believe my Dad was a Mexican in a red man's body. His life was cooking with Mexicans, going to Mexico, and learning to cook from the locals, and even his employees were primarily Mexican immigrants.

My mother worked at an Escrow company. My grandmother did too. Going to my Mom's work was like a party. Grandma gave me candy, and I went into the back coffee room. At some point, the owner of the company wanted to retire at the Lorance Welk retirement park. My Mom and Dad did what they could and bought it.

She owned it for years until the housing crash in 90. It was a significant blow and led to drinking and sadness. I learned businesses attached to housing will always be feast or famine.

What is it like to have a gun business?

What a loaded question. I am not sure what it is like as I enjoy dealing with people and guns most of the time. But, since this is my story, I will start from the beginning and bounce all over like joe Biden does when talking.

At the early age of around 27, I started to buy guns online. The website was named "For the hunt . com". It is now called Gunbroker. Back when they first opened, it was like going to a flea market. They were almost all used Arms. It was not a dealer site like it is now. You could pick up a good used rifle for 35.00. People were a bit scared to buy arms online as it was so new, and how can you trust people? We had to send money orders and hope the people would ship them to you or a dealer, depending on what you bought. I found a rifle that was about $100.00. It was almost like a one of a kind as I could not find another one on the net. I told my Dad about the rifle, so he logged onto his AOL "dial-up" computer to look. Then the price started going up. I wanted this rifle, so I kept bidding. Finally, he called me back to let me know he would buy it if only the other person would stop bidding against him. We were the only two people wanting it. I told him I was bidding on it. He said I know, now stop.

He won that rifle for a whopping 265.00 when I could have sold it to him for an easy 150.00. LOL, We were both hooked on this gun auction thing.

Ok, I am blogging on a most likely anti-gun site. I will say Arm, or I may substitute the word for something else. not to lose my account.

My father and I started buying all kinds of arms. My loving wife, Rachael, was so caring. She never said anything "that I can remember" against this new drug. One day we were visiting my parents, and my Dad showed me a new black power 50 cal rifle. It had custom wood and checkering and a deep blue finish. I wanted on too! Dad said we could go to the shop and look at a few other arms like this one, so we went on a trip. It was about a 4-hour drive. I don't remember where we went, except it was out in the boondocks. When we arrived, we were in a housing area. I asked him, why are we here?

Dad explained to me the arms dealer was inside the home. I had never heard of this or even seen one before. The garage was custom built with a glass door entry, and inside was a lovely shop, unlike my shop that is cluttered up and always a mess. When I finally got over the idea of a gun shop, I focused on the new $800.00 rifle with tigerstripe wood. On the trip back to his house, we talked about how having the gun shop at home would make it easy to start a gun business. We had three things standing in the way. First, my Dad did not have a garage; I lived in an apartment, and we lived in Democrat-run counties. Second, California had just passed laws that prohibited Dealers from locating within 1 mile of a school. Like that was a good idea. If they said within 500 yards, it would have been hard to say much about it, except how many shootings happen at a gun store? Not that it matters, but how many mini-marts that sell alcohol and tobacco are within that 1-mile radius of the school? If you're not from CA, let me inform you. They are on the same block as many schools, and in the areas I visited, they were on the corners or within 100 yards. How many mini-marts get robbed?