“I kind of like how it feels in my hand,” I tell him, lying. The gun’s entirely deactivated. It can’t even be switched to “fire” from the safe position. A thin yellow cable prevents anyone from holding the trigger down, and there’s a gaping hole where the magazine should be. But despite all these clearly necessary precautions for displaying a semiautomatic rifle in a place containing tens of thousands of people, my palms are slick with anxiety. I need to leave. Now. “
I got this far and had to stop reading. NOW. It was making me sick! What a panty waist A**hole, OH MY GOD a gun!! it’s going to kill someone.
It does. He was checking the chamber to make sure the weapon was not loaded. But of course some slack-jawed anti-gun hopolophone "reporter" would not know that.
"I kind of like how it feels in my hand," I tell him, lying.
Like I said, irrationally scared of guns...
“A thin yellow cable prevents anyone from holding the trigger down...But despite all these clearly necessary precautions for displaying a semiautomatic rifle...”
Once again, an idiot in the media fails to understand the difference between an automatic and semi-automatic weapon.
Being semi-automatic, holding the trigger down would’ve done absolutely..........
nothing.
He lost me after “I moved here for my wife’s work” :-)