Chapter 010: Buying a Gun in California (Part II)
Joanna accompanied An Feng to learn again, mainly legal knowledge. State law requires that the buyer must be a citizen (or have a green card), and the minimum age to legally buy a gun is 18 and 21 for a handgun. In addition, gun buyers cannot get their guns right away and will have to wait an additional 10 days.
There is also a magazine capacity of no more than 10 rounds, you must use a gun lock to carry it out, you can't buy more than 500 rounds of ammunition at a time, you can't hold a gun openly, you can't hold a gun in concealment, you can only carefully lock it at home...... Automatic weapons are strictly prohibited, offensive weapons are strictly prohibited, and so on.
For people living in countries where guns are banned, An Feng doesn't think this law is too strict, but Joanna said that in some states with lax management, such as Texas, buying a gun is really the same as buying cabbage.
An Feng instantly felt that the Texas cowboy had exploded, and made up a picture in his mind: the student teacher was communicating in class with a book in his hand and a pistol pinned to his waist...... Can you not be so fierce? It is said that the people of Texas are fierce, and he has never been there, but it can be seen from their attitude of owning guns.
An Feng asked: "There is no limit to the magazine in the hometown of the cowboy, and it can also be fully automatic?" ”
Joanna replied, "Of course, it's all about preventing Mexico in straw hats!" ”
Then there is the HSC exam, which is generally presided over by an instructor in the gun shop, even if there is only one person, you can take the exam by paying the money. Joanna told him that there were thirty questions, true/false or multiple-choice questions, and at least twenty-three questions should be answered correctly.
The results of An Feng's exam came out quickly, he was worthy of the name of a scholar who came from China, and he got twenty-nine questions right, the only thing that was wrong was that he understood the words in it wrongly, and then he went to fill out a DROS audit registration form and recorded one of his fingerprints.
The clerk told him, "If you don't notice in 10 days, you can come and pick up the gun." ”
"Congratulations!" Joanna said with a smile.
"There are still ten days, maybe I didn't make it." An Feng said modestly.
"It doesn't matter, as long as there is no criminal or mental illness record, these ten days are used by the store to hang your appetite." Joanna said nonchalantly.
"You're wrong, ma'am!"
A serious voice came from behind Joanna, An Feng turned her head, she turned around, and saw a pot-bellied policeman in a police uniform walking over, he was wearing a denim round-brimmed hat and a pistol pinned to his waist. An Feng was surprised, with his size, whether he could run when catching a thief was a question.
"Hi, Mr. Johnson." Joanna smiled and said hello.
The seriousness on the fat policeman's face suddenly disappeared, he pressed his hat and nodded at Joanna, and then looked at An Feng: "Your boyfriend?" ”
“NO!” Joanna shook her head, "My friend, Ann." I brought him here to study law. ”
"Hello, I'm the sheriff of Paso Robele, call me James." The fat policeman stretched out his hand towards An Feng, and An Feng held it.
"Hello, sir!"
Sheriff, he has heard this kind of name in American dramas, this is usually elected by the residents of the county or small town, and there are not many people under him, plus the small town is not flying all day to blast and rob banks, it is estimated that 300 days out of 365 days a year are used to go to work and drink tea.
Of course, it is not excluded that there are sheriffs and blue waves on the bar...... Most of it happens in Hollywood.
James Johnson put his belt in his hands and said kindly: "I know you, I have a cousin's child who works in your vineyard, I heard that their original boss went bankrupt, and the new Chinese boss is a good person, I didn't expect to meet you today." ”
An Feng said modestly: "This is what I should do." ”
James smiled, and then said seriously: "Joanna's statement just now is not entirely correct, in some cases, there are cases where you have been denied a gun if you have a green card for less than 90 days. And a friendly reminder that you can't be around campus with a gun under any circumstances. ”
"Xie Lu Xie, I know what I said." An Feng nodded seriously.
After chatting with James for a while, he came to play with guns and invited An Feng to join him, but he rejected the enthusiastic sheriff on the excuse that he had already played softly.
Joanna said as she walked: "Mr. Johnson is very good, with him, you have no problem buying guns, didn't you hear him say that you are a 'good person'?" ”
"I know it." An Feng said that he was still a little proud in his heart, and his heroic actions in exchange for a good reputation were helpful in buying guns.
Just as An Feng started the car and was about to leave, he suddenly thought of something: "Joanna, I remember just now that they said that the guns and bullets are separated and the problem of not being able to conceal the gun. He looked at Joanna quizzically, unless she really had a concealed gun license, otherwise it would be fun.
Joanna put on a cowboy hat for herself and said with a smile: "How high do you think the crime rate in the city must be for the police to come and find a beautiful and friendly lady?" ”
An Feng shook his head, and then he smiled, rules are dead, people are alive, and this principle is also applicable in the United States. Next time, you have to be careful of a beautiful woman, no one can guarantee that she will be like Joanna, who is delicate one second and scary the next.
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The pace of life in the small town is slow, and when you drive around the park, you see a lot of native Americans sitting on benches reading and chatting in cafés, and the occasional pickup truck is mostly working in the vineyards. Joanna said there were probably dozens of winegrowers in the area, most of them wealthy. An Feng is right to think about it, it costs more than 10 million yuan to buy a piece of land by himself, and even if other people's are smaller, they can sell them for millions of dollars, and they are undoubtedly rich for an annual income of 100,000 yuan even if they are good in the middle class.
Joanna also has a vineyard at home and has set up her own brand, which is strictly speaking, it should be a winery. An Feng asked her curiously why she was looking for a job, and she was not surprised at all and said, "My family pays for my college tuition, but it doesn't include my other expenses." ”
"Oh. I thought you graduated! "At this point, the way foreigners educate their children is very good, and if you want to change in China, I'm afraid that few rich people are willing to let their children in school go out to work for others, right? Joanna is twenty-one years old, the age of college.
"I'm graduating this time next year, and I'm probably going to continue my MBA, and I think I'll be about 24 years old." Joanna said.
"Business administration major? You're amazing! An Feng admired that he got a master's degree at the age of twenty-four, and in domestic terms, he was a "scholar".
Joanna smiled and said, "Thank you, but I found that the international students from China are really powerful, and they can almost study hard for a month." Do you know that every day in addition to eating and sleeping is holding a book. Oh my God, I can't imagine if I was going to get moldy doing this. ”
An Feng laughed, although she had just met, it was easy to chat with her, she knew a lot, and she was also very good at teaching people with skills, rather than taking theories in a rigid manner. An Feng slowed down the car, there was a Volkswagen Touareg driving slowly in front of him, An Feng glanced at the reverse lane, and just wanted to show her a skill of changing lanes and overtaking, Joanna pressed his shoulder: "No, follow him." ”
An Feng turned off the turn signal in confusion and slowly followed the Touareg in front.
I saw Joanna with a sly smile on her face: "Wait, there's a good show to watch." ”
An Feng followed slowly, Joanna suddenly motioned him to look in the rearview mirror, An Feng found that he was followed by a car, no overtaking, no honking, and also following An Feng. There is no car in the reverse lane, and it is completely possible to overtake it, but everyone has the mentality of watching a play and cooperates silently.
In a few moments, there were five slow-moving cars behind him.
When the car in front passed an intersection, a police car parked on the side of the road started and chased after it, the external horn honked a few times, let the white Touareg pull over, and guide the rest of the vehicles to overtake, An Feng was the first to pass, he glanced at the innocent Volkswagen owner, it was an Asian face.
An Feng prayed that he had better be Japanese or Korean.
Joanna turned her head back, "See, when the abnormal low speed affects the driving of the car behind him, he has to pay a ticket." ”
"Are you all so happy?" An Feng increased the speed of the car, with the scene just now, he didn't want the guys behind him to follow.
Joanna said: "You can only see it in this kind of small town where there is no pressure to go to work, everyone is very tacit, they don't honk their horns and they don't overtake." In a metropolis like Los Angeles, there are also drivers who are particularly anxious, who will say words that start with F, honk their horn behind you, or pin you to the side of the road. ”
"Interesting." An Feng said with a smile.