For those who don’t know about it, Cabela’s advertises itself as the Worlds Largest Outfitter, and their store in Grand Junction (an anchor store at Mesa Mall, located at the site of an abandoned Mervyn’s department store) is filled with hiking, camping, fishing and hunting equipment. Including firearms and a huge selection of ammunition…much of which, oddly enough, comes from Russia. When you enter the store, a large sign announces the greeter is there to check any firearms the customers may be carrying.
I went there yesterday to buy some gifts, and noticed that the man in front of me, who was about my age and looked perfectly normal, bought three boxes of.38 caliber bullets. He grumbled to the the cashier that he wished there wasn’t a limit of only 3 boxes. The total cost was over $200, although he had a Cabela’s loyalty card so I’m sure someone was tracking his purchases. I wonder what he planned to do with his purchase.
The nice middle aged lady behind me in the line, who was there with her teenage daughter, had stopped at Cabela’s folksy homemade fudge shop, and bought a box of fudge, and a box of shotgun shells.
Surreal.