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On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:27:47 +0000, scott wrote:
>>>> In Utah, I remember there being an issue with someone from outside
>>>> the US (maybe it was someone from the UK) trying to buy alcohol with
>>>> their regular ID - which didn't include a photo. Utah requires (or
>>>> at least required at one time) a photo ID for purchase.
>>>
>>> That's easy to solve, you walk round the block, buy a gun, then go
>>> back and ask again for a drink :-)
>>>
>>>
>> hem... don't need the same ID to buy a gun? ;-)
>
> Nope, no mention in 2nd amendment about requiring photo ID to buy a gun
> ;-) Seriously though, it seems in Utah to buy from a "dealer" they need
> to run a criminal background check (which I assume means they'll want to
> see ID?), but private sales are legal and subject to no such
> requirement, so it shouldn't be too hard to come into possession of a
> gun without ID.
Heh, that's certainly true.
Jim
--
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
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On 26-2-2016 2:29, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:27:47 +0000, scott wrote:
>
>>>>> In Utah, I remember there being an issue with someone from outside
>>>>> the US (maybe it was someone from the UK) trying to buy alcohol with
>>>>> their regular ID - which didn't include a photo. Utah requires (or
>>>>> at least required at one time) a photo ID for purchase.
>>>>
>>>> That's easy to solve, you walk round the block, buy a gun, then go
>>>> back and ask again for a drink :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> hem... don't need the same ID to buy a gun? ;-)
>>
>> Nope, no mention in 2nd amendment about requiring photo ID to buy a gun
>> ;-) Seriously though, it seems in Utah to buy from a "dealer" they need
>> to run a criminal background check (which I assume means they'll want to
>> see ID?), but private sales are legal and subject to no such
>> requirement, so it shouldn't be too hard to come into possession of a
>> gun without ID.
>
> Heh, that's certainly true.
>
So, you have the interesting situation where it is easier to buy a gun
than a bottle of booze; where there is a policeman standing inside the
booze store but not in the gun store...
Weird country. Maybe a topic for the brothers Coen.
--
Thomas
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> So, you have the interesting situation where it is easier to buy a gun
> than a bottle of booze; where there is a policeman standing inside the
> booze store but not in the gun store...
That was the original point I was trying to make - maybe it didn't come
across too well ;-)
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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: A Matter of Political Incorrectness
Date: 26 Feb 2016 03:01:06
Message: <56d00642@news.povray.org>
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On 26-2-2016 8:56, scott wrote:
>> So, you have the interesting situation where it is easier to buy a gun
>> than a bottle of booze; where there is a policeman standing inside the
>> booze store but not in the gun store...
>
> That was the original point I was trying to make - maybe it didn't come
> across too well ;-)
>
>
I needed a bit of booze to get the point and then I needed a gun to get
the booze and so I ran up against the policeman who tazered me and I
just woke up in a padded place with a door without a door handle and
bars in front of the small window.
--
Thomas
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>>> In Utah, I remember there being an issue with someone from outside the
>>> US (maybe it was someone from the UK) trying to buy alcohol with their
>>> regular ID - which didn't include a photo. Utah requires (or at least
>>> required at one time) a photo ID for purchase.
>>
>> That's easy to solve, you walk round the block, buy a gun, then go back
>> and ask again for a drink :-)
>
> The liquor stores in Utah typically have a police officer on duty.
Crazy.
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On 2/26/2016 8:00 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> I needed a bit of booze to get the point and then I needed a gun to get
> the booze and so I ran up against the policeman who tazered me and I
> just woke up in a padded place with a door without a door handle and
> bars in front of the small window.
Ah! The days of our youth. ;-)
--
Regards
Stephen
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On 26-2-2016 10:13, Stephen wrote:
> On 2/26/2016 8:00 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> I needed a bit of booze to get the point and then I needed a gun to get
>> the booze and so I ran up against the policeman who tazered me and I
>> just woke up in a padded place with a door without a door handle and
>> bars in front of the small window.
>
>
> Ah! The days of our youth. ;-)
>
Yeah... climbing up along drain pipes because the key was lost... :-)
or
getting kicked out of a police station because we wanted to stay
inside... (I swear to the truth of this story) ;-)
--
Thomas
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On 2/25/2016 2:00 AM, Sherry K. Shaw wrote:
> Shortly after my 30th birthday, I stopped off at a liquor store on the
> way home from work to pick up six-pack of something fermented. The
> little pimply-faced ferret behind the counter immediately demanded my ID.
>
> I was absolutely tickled spitless. I was giggling and grinning as I
> pulled out my driver's license and handed it over.
>
> "Thank you," I said, in the sexiest voice I could manage (given his
> complexion). "You've made my day."
>
> "Well," he snarled snarkily, "we have to card EVERYBODY."
>
> There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that the little pimply-faced
> ferret is STILL a virgin.
>
> --Sherry Shaw
>
You really do have to card everyone, though.
Mike
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From: dick balaska
Subject: Re: A Matter of Political Incorrectness
Date: 26 Feb 2016 21:52:44
Message: <56d10f7c@news.povray.org>
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On 2/26/2016 2:50 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
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> You really do have to card everyone, though.
Now, yes. 30 years ago, no. I've been carded more in my 50s than I
ever was in my 20s.
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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: A Matter of Political Incorrectness
Date: 8 Mar 2016 20:17:41
Message: <56df79b5@news.povray.org>
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On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 08:45:54 +0100, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 26-2-2016 2:29, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:27:47 +0000, scott wrote:
>>
>>>>>> In Utah, I remember there being an issue with someone from outside
>>>>>> the US (maybe it was someone from the UK) trying to buy alcohol
>>>>>> with their regular ID - which didn't include a photo. Utah
>>>>>> requires (or at least required at one time) a photo ID for
>>>>>> purchase.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's easy to solve, you walk round the block, buy a gun, then go
>>>>> back and ask again for a drink :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> hem... don't need the same ID to buy a gun? ;-)
>>>
>>> Nope, no mention in 2nd amendment about requiring photo ID to buy a
>>> gun ;-) Seriously though, it seems in Utah to buy from a "dealer" they
>>> need to run a criminal background check (which I assume means they'll
>>> want to see ID?), but private sales are legal and subject to no such
>>> requirement, so it shouldn't be too hard to come into possession of a
>>> gun without ID.
>>
>> Heh, that's certainly true.
>>
>>
> So, you have the interesting situation where it is easier to buy a gun
> than a bottle of booze; where there is a policeman standing inside the
> booze store but not in the gun store...
>
> Weird country. Maybe a topic for the brothers Coen.
Yep.
But here where I live, weed is also legal, so I suspect we don't have
high crime. Or maybe we do, depending on the meaning of 'high' you
apply. ;)
Jim
--
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
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