One in a row....

This past Saturday I attended the Crossroads of the West gunshow in Phoenix. As always, watching the people was almost as much fun as looking at the items for sale. All the usual folks were there: cowboys, wanna-be cowboys, gang bangers, wanna-be gang bangers, skin heads, rednecks, trophy wives, military history fanatics, some people who actually are interested in shooting, and the TACTICAL people. The TACTICAL people are usually the most fun to watch. They dress up in their KMart camo's (usually blue and white or lately reddish-rust and white), hang every firearm and knife that they own on themselves with cheap nylon web gear, and parade around the show telling everyone who will listen that all the serious 'operators' dress just like they do.

I saw one very TACTICAL person, wearing red and white camo pants with a matching jacket that had no less then 5 handguns strapped all over his body, in cheap nylon web gear, of course. No spare magazines were anywhere to be seen, but with that many guns he may have thought that he would never have to reload. He was engaged in an earnest conversation with a seller about what kind of rifles are carried by "the special forces." I left when he started explaining that all special forces people have Class 3 licenses so that they can carry their automatic weapons wherever they go.

I don't really have anything against cheap nylon web gear (I even own some), but please, if you're going to wear it, at least shorten the adjusting straps after you set up the gear. That way you don't look like so much like an octopus.

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