This will upset a few libs.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a...e-ahead-of-holidays/

Dambn I wished I had worked for a place like that!!!!

Over the years I have always given my sons guns for Christmas + birthday presents. Some might find it odd for Christmas presents but I don't.

Sounds like a great place to work.

A gift is just a gift. Hard to believe why anyone would get upset, either giving or receiving a legal firearm. Back in the day (80s) we used to have a shotgun as a gift option for achieving certain safety criteria on a rig. Later, in Venezuela, we awarded engraved Leatherman knives as rig safety awards.....until a presentation ceremony resulted in two men cutting their hands within minutes of receiving their award. (Nothing like mishandling a firearm or knife to kill a long-standing tradition.)

As for libs, one must remember you can't let their blood pressure get too low or they may perish. Packy

Some may recall that back in the early 80's one young banking entropinieur (sp) from Colorado started a trend that if you would invest your money into his bank on a loan,your interest would be paid up front to you in the form of a new Weatherby rifle. Clever merchandising move;he made a pot full + so did the copy cats.Every one was happy + as the elderly Jewish man told me "+That's what we call GOOD business,"

I recall the rifle for interest the banks made out on that one.

I think the interest was based on the full retail value of the firearm offered.

I remember doing the math and saying why not just go cut the best detail you can for the rifle and invest the rest.

Or even better yet by a used one.

That, just like the lottery are for people who don't understand math.

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Originally posted by NormanConquest:
That, just like the lottery are for people who don't understand math.

Especially when the math comes to destroying old wife's tales.

Greed, as the implication occurs is that damn near everybody wants to get as much as they can with the least expenditure of labor. Human nature. The old adage about the person in a room full of gold could carry all the gold he could carry over a line only 1 time;he would never cross that line. I must admit to the same in one sense. In the early 70's I had a friend that was a teck. @ T.I. here in Austin. He took me on a tour of the plant. They had a vault containing ingots of gold that they used for semiconductors. Armed guards outside the barred room (understandable).But the oddest thing was the effect that the sight of all that gold had on me.I have never been a miser or collector or any kind of other savant but the sight of that room full of ingots did something inside of me all beyond my control.

Back to the point of this posting. I think that the presentation of a pistol or revolver makes a wonderful, appreciated gift.Remember the golden rule by this context;would you like to get one?