Annie Get Yer Gun

What a weekend!  Yes, I know, I haven't blogged in a while.  Sorry for that.  But, man I've been crazy busy!  From work, to working out, eating healthy, looking for a gun....whoa, what?  Yes, that last piece is correct. (heh, heh, I said "piece")  I have been gun shopping and I'm proud to say I am an owner of a Smith and Wesson Bodyguard 380.  So several folks have asked me "why are you buying a gun?"  Well, we have had several break-ins in the neighborhood over the past year, a recent murder in the subdivision a mile away and then the home invasion that made National news a few weeks back where the woman was in the attic and ended up shooting the robber in the face while her husband was on the phone with 911 was also a few miles away.  Since I am working from home now 3 days a week, Fred and I felt I needed a little more protection than a 5 iron.  (smile). Plus, when I go on long rides on my Harley with my girlfriend Christy, Fred wants me to have this on me for protection as well. 

But, let me tell you, getting a gun was CRAY-ZEE!  Gun shops all over Atlanta are BARE!  Everyone is buying everything they can get their hands on.  We went into a shop last week, just to look and do a bit of research and this lady in front of us walked up to the counter and said, "I like this pink one; I'll take it!"  WTH?   The same thing happened this Saturday.  Well, let me back up.  Fred and I were totally stoked and rednecked out on Saturday- we were going to our first GUN SHOW!  I had on my flannel and boots ready to rock it.  Hell, I really looked like I was headed to an Indigo Girls concert, but what the hell.  Well, no sooner did we get in the parking lot, but turn right back around.  It was almost 1500 people deep just to get in the FRONT DOOR!  Are you kidding me?  Just for a frickin gun show?  This is how crazy it is.  So, hmmmm....if everyone in Gwinnett County is here, why not go to a gun shop?  Well, off we went to a gun store where Fred had found the "perfect gun" for me.  No sooner did we walk in the door and a couple asked for the BodyGuard 380, but she cocked it, looked at and said "I'll take it!".  Holy shit balls!  Are you fricking kidding me?  (Note: several other swear words came out of my mouth, but I will save you the censorship).  Unbelievable!!!  So we were "0-fer" for the day at it wasn't even 11:00am.

This didn't deter the Fredmaster.  He called every gun shop from here to Columbus. And low and behold, Shooters in Columbus just got a shipment of the 380's in and he had 10 of them.  Well, that was all we needed- an excuse to see the Grandkids and get a couple guns- we hope.  And we hope is just the thing; Columbus is two hours from our house.  From the time we left our driveway to the parking lot of Shooters, they frickin sold 6 OF THEM!!!   I would have been SO PISSED.   Fred said later if they would have sold out after driving down, he would have bought another gun and then pistol-whipped the shit of the sales guy that wouldn't take our credit card over the phone to hold them for us.  Thank goodness, Mr. Short Fuse didn't have to go Ex-Marine on them. 

Well, this is just the beginning of owning a firearm.  Today, on MY DAY OFF, Fred got me up at the ass crack of dawn to go to the Gwinnett Co Courthouse to get my conceal license.  I was not a happy camper, but oh well, nothing a pair of sweat pants and ball cap wouldn't cover up.  Well, NOT SO FAST.  I didn't know that they had to TAKE YOUR PICTURE!  Great.  I have bed head and now the entire probate court has to see my crazy ass hair.  Note pictures below- it was quite the site- I looked like a cross between Nick Nolte and Randy Travis' mugshots.  And I think the whole line heard me say "Dammit, Fred!  I have hat head for my photo opt".  Glad I can be humor for everyone in Gwinnett County.  Well after an hour for paperwork and fingerprints, it will be 60-90 days before I get my conceal license.  I overhead one of the gals "behind the bars" say they have processed over 1500 licenses in January alone.  WOW.  Well, make it 1501.  This bitch is packin heat!!!


(See pictures below....)

  What I felt like I looked like for my photo opt












What I really looked like- Ugh.






Thank GOD I didn't look like this.  But how badass would that be??  (smile)