It’s a common refrain among politicians and celebrities who want to disarm the public that it is too easy for  regular people to buy mundane firearms with which to defend themselves. Every now a journalist will actually put that to the test… mostly to prove the claim correct and feed the narrative that America needs to make sure that civilians are disarmed in the face of the criminal element. But sometimes it doesn’t go according to plan:

I tried to buy a gun at Walmart twice, and roadblocks left me empty-handed both times

The short form of the story here is “gee whiz, WalMart *doesn’t* make buying a gun as simple as just picking one up off the shelf.”

There’s lots to chuckle at here for anyone who actually knows anything about the process of legally buying a firearm. but the thing that caught me off guard right up front: the journalist started the process by trying to find a nearby WalMart that sells firarms. Fair enough. But when she finally finds one, a mere thirty minutes drive away, she makes a point of discussing how she put the destination into her nav system in order to get there. Ummm… WalMarts aren’t that hard to find. It comes across like “I’ve never been to WalMart before,” which smacks of the sort of snootiness that makes regular folk laugh at these goobers who are ignorant about how the bulk of the nation actually lives.