I know. I could actually see the tactical advantage. I was just joshing more than anything.
I figured so, but I'll tell that old New york detective impressed me that night, I've been around a little and I'm not aware of being under such successful monitoring as he did during my short visit to his apartment.
I hadn't known who he was, I had found his phone number and had only dropped by to buy a minor little invention of his that had been advertised in a magazine. I went over there in rough clothes at night, after a few beers, which may have reinforced his natural security concerns, he clearly warmed to me after a while though and that is when he let me in on the secret and let me handle the knife/gun and told me how he had earned it so many years before. He was an interesting guy with old New York city detective stories.