Just piggybacking on the NY Bikeshop thread in the main Forum:
Not so long ago I went to visit a company in Brooklyn to collect on $200K past due invoices. Me and my sales guy are walking with the owner to his office. We sit down and I pull out a stack of invoices and place them on the guy’s desk. Then the guy pulls out a gun and places it on top of my stack of past due invoices and does that intimidating glare/awkward silence thing. I look at my sales guy and say “That looks like an unloaded Glock 19.” I grab my cell phone and call one of my people, hit the speakerphone function and say “Mr. Asshole is thinking about not paying us our money if he does not write that check right now I want you to cut off all shipments” I told the dude “Put that gun back in its holster and write me a check, now.”
Obviously, he wrote the check
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Then, he takes me and my sales guy out to lunch at some Brooklyn Deli with his crew of 4 or 5. We’re sitting there and the guy next to me says to his buddy “Do you remember the last time these California faggots came out here and we sent them to the bottom of the Hudson?”
Mojo noted the hidden threat and said to the guy: “Let’s stop talking shit. Let’s clear the table and you and me arm wrestle right here, right now………I will destroy you and all of your mates, let’s party.”
Obviously, Mojo collected the money, got a free lunch, never actually arm-wrestled anyone, but he sure did get the fuck out of Brooklyn as fast as possible!!
Thats what I’m talking about!! If the dude would have pulled out a loaded .44 Magnum Ruger he would have found himself in a far better negotiating position. I might have given him a discount, but a 9mm ; Puh-leeeeze!!
There’s your problem, you’re selling organic food grown with loving care in family farms to people that usually get their product when it “falls from the back of a truck”.
I’ve found then when trying to shoot someone sitting across from your desk it really doesn’t matter much.
Ha! 9mm is for pussies! Glock 23 if you want to go compact, although I find The Glock 22 a lot easier to use if I want to maintain a tight grouping.
Yeah, but you aren’t going to stay sitting when you decide to go for your weapon. You should be pushing the chair back as you reach for the weapon and stepping back as you draw, thus increasing the distance between you and the bad guy (since bad guys rarely practice with their weapons, distance is your friend.) As you fire the first two COM, you then are still backing to the door for concealment (unless the door is steel in which case it may qualify as cover) while you determine whether to let loose with a final shot to the occipital-cranial cavity.
And since I’ve always believed to go with the greatest stopping power that you can control, it’s gotta be the .40 cal for me! But I’m a chica with skinny arms… you macho guys feel free to choose the .45
I’ve actually been through a shooting house with popup targets with an LA swat team member and it’s surprising how hard it is to control your shots when the adreneline starts pumping.
Thats what I’m talking about!! If the dude would have pulled out a loaded .44 Magnum Ruger he would have found himself in a far better negotiating position. I might have given him a discount, but a 9mm ; Puh-leeeeze!!
Glad to hear my BFF has a bigger set than the girlie-men in Brooklyn!
