Open Carry At Apple Stores?

[antdfsc]

I know there are a lot of idiots doing stupid things at Apple stores (Dancing, Ordering Take Out, Pet Goats), but where does open carry with a rifle rank?

http://gizmodo.com/5829999/why-does-this-guy-have-an-assault-rifle-at-the-apple-store

Here's The Photo:

 

[strangenh]

Spoof. Note the Vaio in this "Apple Store."

 

[antdfsc]

I did notice it, but I don't think it would be uncommon for someone to bring their current laptop into a store while looking for a new one... I mean I could definitely fake this myself, even photoshop the gun in, but something about it makes me think its real.

 

[strangenh]

Ok. I don't think it is actually an Apple store at all.

 

[Dirtypacman]

Nope I agree its faked.

 

[inerlogic]

note: it's apparently in Switzerland, standard US rules don't necessarily apply....

 

[Dench]

It could be fake, but a Swiss Reservist carrying a rifle like that around their drill weekend is very common.

 

[MichaelJR]

I see nothing wrong or stupid about the picture.

 

[jobowker]

You can't have an Apple logo and a Sony logo on the same laptop, so assuming they photoshopped the Apple logo, it does cast doubt on the rest of the photo as well. If it was just a wifi hotspot and someone open carried, I don't see the need to stick a fake apple logo on there.

 

[drgrant]

It could be fake, but a Swiss Reservist carrying a rifle like that around their drill weekend is very common.

+1.

I've seen videos of men and women carrying rifles there all over the place. Inside of stores, while riding bicycles, etc.

-Mike

 

[inerlogic]

You can't have an Apple logo and a Sony logo on the same laptop.

yes you can..... the sony vaio logo is on the laptop, and the laptop's owner no doubt stuck an apple sticker, on the sony laptop....
probably running a version of OSX on the sony....

here ya go

stick it on your AR... OHNOES!!!! you an't have an Apple AR! must be photoshopped!!!
ZOMG!!!! MUST BE FAKE!!!! not like anyone has invented the Hackintosh...

lex parsimoniae, Occam's Razor....

[video=youtube_share;V8oVU5AjqhU]http://youtu.be/V8oVU5AjqhU[/video]

APPLE LOGO + IBM LOGO PORN AT 1:08

 

[strangenh]

I don't think any of it is Photoshopped. I think the location isn't an Apple store.

 

[jobowker]

Yes a consumer could slap an apple sticker on their Sony, but you have to admit that casts some doubt on the legitimacy of the picture.

You would assume that most laptops in an apple store would be apples, not a hacked Sony. So yes, someone could do it on their own, but the chance of a non apple laptop in an apple store at the same time they snapped a picture is unlikely. so it's either an incredible coincidence, or some geek took a photo of a guy in a store and pasted the apple logo to fabricate a story.

 

[william_munny]

It could be fake, but a Swiss Reservist carrying a rifle like that around their drill weekend is very common.

+1, that was my first thought when seeing the pic.

 

[Radtekk]

Porn??? I'm awake now...

 

[SteelShooter]

I immediately thought Israel.

 

[antdfsc]

To me the most realistic part of the whole thing is the Apple store it's self. The aluminum walls, the recessed monitor behind the genius bar, the wood tables with Macbook pros, all of that seems correct. The fact that one person has a Sony Viao with an Apple Sticker (Which comes with every Apple Computer, iPhone, iPad, & iPod) doesn't really discredit it as a real Apple Store...

 

[whatluck]

Judging by the tables, lighting, and stools that's an apple store.

And the photo defiantly wasn't shopped.

Apple stores usually have wifi.

Nobody else seems to have noticed there's no mag in the rifle.

 

[strangenh]

It could be fake, but a Swiss Reservist carrying a rifle like that around their drill weekend is very common.

Ok, I'll go with that given the discussion -- that's now my fallback assuming it isn't a spoof. The lack of mag in the rifle supports it, too.

Zomg! The end of the article is pretty funny given that may really be the case.

 

[hpm]

While it's true that in Switzerland you would often see people carry their rifles after their mandarory gun practice...you would not want to live under their gun laws.

Those rifles transported in public have to be unloaded.
It's very hard to get a permit to carry a loaded handgun!
Also their storage laws are very restrictive.
Only positive thing - no one calls the SWAT team when someone walks aroud with an unloaded rifle...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Caroline-Migros-p1000507.jpg/450px-

 

[Rmccar4318]

It's an umbrella!

 

[bolt]

+1.

I've seen videos of men and women carrying rifles there all over the place. Inside of stores, while riding bicycles, etc.

-Mike

EEEEuuuuuPPPP..I was just reading "Supermoney" by Adam Smith. Things are different in Switzerland. Sounds nice over there in that neutral country.

 

[KBCraig]

If I could have a Stgw 90, I'd carry it everywhere, too.

 

[CRSIII]

Doobie tracks?