He spoke with a heavy Southern accent not much different from my own.
He was about my age, somewhere in his early to mid-30s, white guy with a thick beard. I climbed out of my truck so he could look the rifle over while I counted the money he’d left on his seat. Customers were walking to their cars to get back on the road. There were families in rocking chairs in front of the restaurant. “You can just leave it in the seat so we don’t make anybody nervous,” he said as I rolled down my window. I was within the law, but it didn’t feel as if I should have been. But as I headed up the exit to the restaurant where we agreed to meet, I felt uneasy. Likewise, it’s perfectly legal to sell a handgun privately so long as the buyer has a purchase permit or a concealed-carry license. In North Carolina, long-gun transfers by private sellers require no background checks. I needed money to pay a buddy for an old ’70s model Lark teardrop trailer, and that rifle wasn’t doing anything but taking up space in the safe. We were both members of a Facebook group where people post pictures of firearms and buyers private-message to ask questions and make offers - sometimes cash, sometimes trade. Other than that, I didn’t know him from Adam except for a few messages back and forth on Facebook. He was looking to buy a Kel-Tec Sub-2000, and I had one for sale.
Wandering willows trailer cracker#
I was driving down from the mountains to meet a fellow I didn’t know at a Cracker Barrel off I-40 in the North Carolina foothills. Two weeks before Christmas, I had a 9-millimeter pistol concealed in my waistband and a rifle with two 30-round magazines in the passenger seat beside me.
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