Name: A Gun Man | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #273
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'A Gun Man | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #273' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-04-13. Transcript available.

A Gun Man | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #273

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Today's guest is a man that I met at the gun store. And I went in there
recently, I'm going to be very honest with you, and I didn't know what I was
doing, but I did know that I wanted to get a gun.
And this man had so much information and just knew so much in that realm, in
the bulletry.
And he's also a gunsmith. He's an outdoorsman. And he is a bona fide gunman.
My new friend, Nico Furlon.
If you kill me, I'll fucking drink you a blood, bro.
Speaking of drinking, man.
So Nico, yeah, I appreciate you coming in today, man.
Of course.
And, you know, because you sold me two guns recently.
I did, yeah.
You know, and I was just thinking about it whenever I was at the gun store.
Yeah.
And what gun store do you work at?
Turner's Outdoorsman. We're on Hawthorne Boulevard, North Torrance.
And they got everything in there.
Everything. We got handguns, revolvers, rifles, shotguns for all your needs.
Everything you need.
And I noticed, yeah, they have everything. If you want to be a murderer, if you
want to be a fisherman, if you want to.
They have the full spectrum. You know, you can go out like North Hollywood, you
know, the North Hollywood shootout.
You can do just like that. You can shoot deer. You know what I mean?
You can put your dog down. Whatever you're into.
Yeah, you guys can do all of that. Yeah, we had a guy by us, actually, that
when I was growing up, that would put people's, he was kind of the guy if you
had to put your dog down.
Really?
Yeah.
You would just call him up?
Oh, you would call him or you'd just go not.
Yeah. Would you expect compensation for that or he would just do it?
No, he would just do it.
Oh, he just liked it, yeah.
Well, no, he was just the kind of guy, he had done it enough. I think a lot of
people were scared, you know, I don't want to put my dog down.
I don't know how to do it. What if I shoot him in the wrong place?
You know, what if I fucking, or what if some people would try to strangle their
dog or something like, oh, I can't, I can't get him to go down.
My brother, my brother put our dog down.
Really?
Yeah, he didn't even mean to, but he did it.
On accident?
Kind of. My dog was sick. I had a little chihuahua, you know?
Oh, yeah.
And he was old and getting sick.
Dog, a frisbee would put that fucking thing down.
Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, you can drop a biscuit on the floor. He'll hit him in
the head. He's done.
Yeah, he's done, dude. Like Reginald Denny, man. Back of the head, just gone.
Just like that, yeah. But no, he was like, he was sick, you know, and he's a
little chihuahua, so he wants to sleep in the bed.
He goes under the covers, you know?
I think he was too weak, and he's sleeping with my brother in his bed.
I don't think he could get out. I think he suffocated, man.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Yeah, my brother was not happy.
Yeah, it almost reminds me of that movie. I'm trying to think of that movie. Twins,
maybe have you seen that movie?
Nah, man.
It was before your time, I think. Can you bring up that?
Twins?
Can you bring up something?
Twins?
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
It was a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, though.
Oh, shit.
I think so. Who was in it?
Maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I think when I was born, he was a governor.
Yeah, he was. Before that, he was sleeping with his brother.
So, yeah, there they are.
Damn, man.
But, yeah, dude, you sleep with your brother, bro. Anything could die, you know?
It's a fucking risky game, man.
Oh, yeah. Well, he's like a, you know, he's a hairy Italian guy, you know?
Yeah.
There's death under there.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's gross, man.
One of the reasons I wanted to talk to you was just because of, like, I ended
up buying some guns, you know?
Yeah, you sure did.
And I didn't know if I even wanted any guns, but once the pandemic hit, once
the COVID came in, I was like, I think I need to get some guns.
Yeah.
And so I came over there to you guys, and, yeah, just the whole experience,
like, what has the experience been for you, like, working at a gun store?
What has it been like since this pandemic hit?
Well, I mean, it's completely unprecedented what's going on.
I worked there with a lot of guys that have been working in the firearms
industry for a long time, real experienced guys, you know?
And they've been selling guns for longer than I've been alive.
Oh, dang, man.
And they tell me the same thing, man.
They tell me it's unprecedented.
The month of March had more background checks done than any other month in the
history of the United States.
March of 2020.
When the first kind of panic started going on, we had over, you know, nearly
200 people outside the store waiting to get in before we opened.
Four to five-hour lines just for service because we were just full of people.
And if you know, you know, if you're around L.A., you know there's not that
many gun stores.
There's a few, a handful just around, especially West L.A.
And where we are, you know, kind of like in the epicenter of a bunch of
different neighborhoods.
So we're by Torrance, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, you know, on the way to Gardena.
So we're kind of like in that, right in the middle of all that.
Right.
So kind of white, getting Mexican-y.
Oh, it's, I'm going to be honest, man.
It's mostly Latino.
Yeah.
Mostly, our clientele is mostly Latino.
But you get, I mean, I was surprised when I started working there.
The diversity of people purchasing firearms.
It's all types.
And so when you say like, like how soon after kind of the pandemic hit or after
like, did you notice there was a certain thing that brought people in?
And it's like, oh, now we got to go get the guns.
Like now.
A hundred percent.
The vast majority of people in there buying guns as of recent have been brand
new gun buyers.
Never, never bought a gun in their life.
Never even expected to buy guns.
That's for a lot of them.
And it was the first time.
And I was talking to a lot of my coworkers.
It was the first time that people really started talking about openly in the
store.
Buying these guns and using them in the defense of their property from people
willing to take it from them.
Wow.
A lot of people were like, oh, hey, I want, you know, I want to get a tactical
shotgun.
And it's like, oh, if you ever ask them, oh, what do you plan on doing with it?
Oh, you know, I'll just shoot out the range.
I like it.
And, you know, it's a good thing for home defense.
Okay.
Granted.
That was common.
But now it's like, oh, I need to get this because what if someone breaks in and
they're trying to take my stuff and they were just going off about it.
They're talking about, you know, they're kind of reminded them of the riots in
L.A. 92.
Some of the old timers talking about the Watts riots back in, I believe, the 70s.
Yeah.
Yeah, especially living in this area.
That's another thing I thought about.
I was like, wow, well, I live in an area that has a history of unrest, you know,
of civil unrest if things get, you know, if things get squirreled out, really.
Oh, yeah.
Because it's funny because I was even thinking to myself, like, why am I buying
a gun?
You know, what am I?
I mean, I think I'd always kind of wanted to get a gun, but I'd never acted on
it.
And then suddenly it was like, okay, I'm going to get this gun.
Yeah.
And I think it was just, yeah, I want to be able to take care of myself.
I want to be able to, like, if things get real heated, you know, and somebody's
coming over, somebody's stealing diapers from me or stealing water or stealing
whatever, you know, like.
They're coming for that TP, brother.
They want that toilet paper, man.
They want, yeah.
They're coming for your colored shirt.
Yeah, people walking in.
But I guess it's funny because I think my first instinct would be if somebody,
like, really needed help would be to help them.
Right.
But then if somebody's coming in with the intent not looking for help.
Right.
They're there for your stuff.
Yeah.
They're for your life, man.
Yeah.
What were some of the, have you gotten some wild questions from people during
this time?
Oh, my God.
You have no idea, man.
All types.
I mean, you get, you get some, you get all types of weirdos in there, man.
I remember one dude was coming in.
He was, like, an older white guy.
And he was coming in.
He was, like, he was, like, I'm looking for a .45-70 lever action rifle.
And .45-70s used to be the standard military cartridge for the U.S. pretty much
right after the Civil War.
Just pretty much until right before World War I.
And it's a very powerful, large, big bore cartridge.
They use it for buffalo hunting, stuff like that.
It's just a very powerful cartridge.
And the gentleman I was talking to was, like, oh, yeah, why are you looking for
something like that, you know?
And he was, like, well, I read that this is a good gun for a riot.
I was, like, what does that mean?
Like, a good gun for a riot?
Like, what are you going to do with it?
You're going to riot.
And he's just, like, oh, you know, like, it's a heavy bullet, so it'll just
sail through crowds.
I was, like, god damn, all right.
Like, it's a good riot cartridge.
It's a way to get to the front of the line.
Yeah, hell yeah, man.
And all types.
I mean, a lot of people looking for really cheap guns.
I need something under $200.
It was like, dude, I'm going to sell you a knife, man.
I can't get it.
Like, there's not too many guns.
Yeah, I'm going to sell you a fast knife.
You can throw it, man.
Yeah.
There's your range.
And so, but you've gotten a lot of new users in for the first time.
Yeah.
And so, what's a gun that you usually recommend for those types of people?
First, I've got to ask them, are you looking for a rifle?
Are you looking for a shotgun?
Are you looking for a handgun?
Most people can at least answer, though, that question.
Like, what out of those three major categories are you looking for?
Right.
And if they're looking for a handgun, I recommend just most polymer frame, striker-fired
pistols, really easy to use, like a Glock, for an example, Springfield XDs,
because we're limited on what we can get here in California.
Smith & Wesson, you know, Shield, Smith & Wesson SD9s, that kind of thing.
Those guns are really popular for new gun buyers because they're really, really
simple to use, and they're just effective.
They just do the job.
That's it.
And when you say that, so California has, like, different laws.
Like, they have different – we can't get certain types of guns here, you mean?
Or we can't?
Oh, yeah.
Well, okay.
Well, long guns, rifles and shotguns, you're not really limited on the exact
specific guns you can get.
They have to be California compliant, which means they have to have a list of
features that are not on the gun.
It's really stupid and convoluted.
And then for handguns, there's something called the California Handgun Roster,
where there's an actual list of designated models that you can buy here in
California.
So what that pretty much entails, as far as I understand it, is that they
pretty much need to pay a lot of money and pass all these safety requirements
to get on the roster.
Okay.
And then for semi-automatic handguns, like one of the guns that you purchase, a
semi-automatic handgun, they pretty much need to be made after the year 2013.
Not the actual make, but the design of the gun needs to be from 2013 or before
that.
The reason for that is the California, pretty much, I believe it was Department
of Justice, they dictated that if you're going to bring a new gun on the roster,
a new semi-automatic handgun on the roster, it needs to have micro-stamping
technology.
I believe those are the words they used.
Micro-stamping technology would entail where if you fired the bullet, it would
leave an imprint on 