robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Sunsets = very good, sunrise = I am allergic to them, so if I moved to Florida I would have to live on the West Coast.

This is from my last several years teaching when I had to get up at 4:30 to make it to East LA in time to sign-in by 7:20, get coffee etc. from the faculty cafeteria and make it to my room for the 7:40 passing bell and the start of 1st period at 7:50. The campus was 2x2 blocks, a big school with at one time over 5,000 students.

AlisonT Loc: Louisa, Virginia

I prefer sunrises because then I don't get stuck in the woods in the dark.

GEL Loc: South Carolina

Seem that most new construction has back yard decks and no front porches. Privacy is now higher priority.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Nah, it makes it harder for the drive-bys to get you.

KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia

Drive buys not as much of a problem here in the south east… where you might be sitting next to your belt-fed machine -gun… on the front porch 😆 😂🤪😁

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Once while I was working in my friend's gun shop on a Saturday someone called and asked if we buy old guns. They had found one in their Grandfather's attic. We told them sure, bring it on over so we could see it. We expected a Colt revolver or a Winchester lever action.
A pickup pulled up and a guy walked in and said he was the one who called and the gun was in his truck.
We went out to see what was too big to bring in.
He jerked the tarp off the bed of his truck and there sitting on its tripod was a WW1 water cooled Maxim. While the boss talked to him and put on a show of inspecting the Maxim one of us (plus only God knows how many people who could see our parking lot) called the local PD and the nearest ATF office.

Well the PD rolled up and by magic an ATF agent just happened to appear.

It turned out it was an ATF sting to test us, since they had heard rumors that a gun shop in our area was buying and selling illegal weapons.
Well, we had heard a lot of those same stories and knew which shop it was. We told them and a few months later the place was closed.

The Maxim was in such beautiful shape it got us curious. They told us they had borrowed it from one of the Hollywood suppliers of guns for the movies. Those places have so many licenses they need a full time clerk to keep track and a reinforced armored warehouse with vault type doors for storage.
Actually, it would have been legal for my friend to buy the Maxim if it was licensed because he had a Class 3 license for his contracts to supply and repair guns for several Police Departments in the county.
We used to get some interesting toys to play with before we delivered them to some PD.
He also used to sell/auction off confiscated guns for several departments. If necessary, our gunsmith also "Unconverted" ones that had been made into illegal machine guns so they could be sold. One of those was a long barreled .22 short match pistol that half the cops in town came by to play with before it was repaired. Thanks to the long heavyweight barrel it was very quiet for a gun without a suppressor and on full auto it sort of purred, vibrated a little in your hand and had empty brass bouncing all over the floor around the bullet trap in the back room. It cycled so fast it was nearly impossible to release the trigger before the 10 round magazine was empty. FUN!

KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia