Road trip

"whoarder is tellurium" (whoarder) 01/22/2017 at 23:14 • Filed to: roadtrip, Winter, Gunlopnik

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Saturday, I took a road trip to Iowa and met up with some long time friends. After that, I stopped by the relatively new Brownells retail store in Grinnell. Meanwhile, my car got some nice January thaw/rainy winter road build up. I also encountered very thick (read: dangerous) fog leaving and returning to MN.

All total, I drove around 500 mi this weekend.

Brownells was glorious. Here are just a couple quick pics...:

Retail area entrance

Entrance into the store

Bonus fog:

CB > whoarder is tellurium 01/23/2017 at 00:14

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So did you pick anything up at Brownell’s, or just checking it out?

Seeing a store for firearms that large is kind of confusing to me as a Canadian.

E90M3 > CB 01/23/2017 at 01:15

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There are a decent amount of places like that in the US.

I was in Tulsa for training and 10/12 people in the class were from outside of the US. I was explaining to them how easy it was to get a gun here. I even brought the Australian to Bass Pro Shops to show him some American culture.

V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches > whoarder is tellurium 01/23/2017 at 01:49

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Wasn’t that fog just ridiculous? I couldn’t hardly see anything last night.

whoarder is tellurium > CB 01/23/2017 at 03:32

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CB, I did not purchase anything from the store. However, I have purchased items from Brownells in the past.

Brownells is generally internet or mail order parts/supplies/etc. and having an actual retail store is new territory for the company. The grand opening was 2016.

To add:

I just want to note that any person wishing to legally purchase or sell a firearm in the U.S. is subject to and must qualify under Federal law. On top of that, each State may have their own specific purchasing/selling regulations in addition to Federal regulation and this varies greatly by State.

A store like this may be “big” with lots of selection, but you still have to follow the law if you want to legally purchase a firearm. The store won’t sell you a firearm unless you pass a Federal background check and follow any other State regs.

CB > whoarder is tellurium 01/23/2017 at 08:40

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Well, I figured that the store wouldn’t sell things illegally. Just seems very different, culture-wise.