Aside from the firearm research on the item itself, for safety and legality purposes, what steps do YOU always take before even contacting someone who posts a gun classified ad?
Those of us who have done this forever always employ a few common sense considerations before even contacting someone with an item we might be interested in, regardless of whether they are a member or not. These might apply to anywhere else ads are posted as well.
This is one good part about a social media style site. Instead of just an obfuscated email from sites like Craigslist, at social media marketplace sites like this, you can check the directory and profile your buyers or seller first before even contacting them. You could even go so far before even contacting them to run a free Montana background check using the CONWEB if you wanted to and then just verify it’s them before transacting.
Please find and leave your comments, tips, tricks and suggestions for other members and visitors in the comments below.
Randy
A born and raised in SE Montana firearms friendly website developer. I create and maintain independent localized online tools to help law abiding gun owners and gun industry businesses promote, protect, exercise and reclaim lost firearms freedoms. In my previous life I was a 20 year operator and trainer in the emergency roadside service industry. Starting with a childhood and teen years spent in school, farming and family construction in Miles City, MT. Then beyond to Reno, Las Vegas and Northern California. After having a child, my wife and I moved from Tracy, California back to Montana to raise him here. My health has restricted me from working outside of my home now. This is now my service to fellow Montanans. VOTE to help keep Montana pro-gun and I'll keep building and maintaining tools for us to exercise our RTKBA. Feature ads or donate to help keep the lights on and keep me motivated.
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A born and raised in SE Montana firearms friendly website developer. I create and maintain independent localized online tools to help law abiding gun owners and gun industry businesses promote, protect, exercise and reclaim lost firearms freedoms. In my previous life I was a 20 year operator and trainer in the emergency roadside service industry. Starting with a childhood and teen years spent in school, farming and family construction in Miles City, MT. Then beyond to Reno, Las Vegas and Northern California. After having a child, my wife and I moved from Tracy, California back to Montana to raise him here. My health has restricted me from working outside of my home now. This is now my service to fellow Montanans. VOTE to help keep Montana pro-gun and I'll keep building and maintaining tools for us to exercise our RTKBA. Feature ads or donate to help keep the lights on and keep me motivated.
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Tenuous describes an argument, claim, connection, or evidence that is extremely weak, flimsy, speculative, and lacking a sound or substantial basis. That's not a word anyone should be betting anything on, especially ones freedom and livelihood.
Clearly we all have seen, evidence, warrants, and guidance be damned, if they want to arrest someone they just do it and qualified immunity protects the racket, especially here where we are all riding the rails of the kangaroo express of the 9th circus...
There is no penalty or even a slight inconvenience for subjecting anyone in Montana to process for any of this.
Given the political degradation of default to state power rather than the authority of the citizens, there obviously never will be.
Knowing that the process is the punishment, you can certainly look forward to arrests in Montana. Once again accountability is completely absent on the official side.
Monetary punishments and fines are always the burden of the taxpayers not the official. Just a fair warning of opinion.
Services will degrade in quality and soar in costs the quickest. Ownership of things like cars, appliances, machinery, and finally hobby centric items will become increasingly enshitified and burdensome. It's a stratigized scheme to convince westerners to demand the demise of their own industries. You will demand that cars and appliances and machinery are better made but they will ignore the will of the people because they no longer care about your worthless money. This was already becoming clear when they started referring to us as consumers instead of customers and associates instead of employees.
Oh yes, you will boycott...vote with your wallet..so on and so forth. And in turn, these companies will suffer and lose profit, in turn causing layoffs and firings, in turn causing an inability to continue to conduct business at scale, in turn causing a loss to private equity shareholders, in turn causing forced bankruptcy, in turn causing you to have finally no where to buy anything , in turn causing self fulfillment of their plan. It's codified into law already. There will be no re-industrialization of the west. Offshore infrastructure is never coming back, it's not possible. All industry except militarized complexes and surveillance endeavors will collapse. Education and healthcare are already major contributions to the surveillance apparatus so I include this in the MI Complex as well.
What they have been telling us for years is now is finally completely possible. They need only a small fraction of the current population to serve them and since westerners are not conducive to this plan they are replacingthem with a servant class that, having been born into shit and having only ever seen suppression and strife, are already accepting of the squalor they will create out of the ashes of western civilization.