Well the Germans in New Mexico seem to have taken well to the local gun shops and shooting ranges and gold prospecting hobby. Same goes for some of the long term deployed aircraft maintenance people in Arizona. Not exactly an invasion force and I think more than a few have even expressed sympathies for the Oathkeepers.

Ran into a Turkish Specops guy at a gun shop a while back who was saying he was amazed that AKs were still being sold but figured it was one way to tell who the terrorists are. I inquired for clarification what he meant by that and he said (in fairly good English) that anyone who would own an AK must be a terrorist, especially a civillian. Realize this was in an American surplus store / gun shop. I turned out his host/handler was there (Marine NCO) looks at the guy like "oh shit". Well, since I was considering whether or not the shop owner would decide to remember what I looked like if the cops were to show up.

So I am there talking to this arrogant Turkish guy who pretty much bragged his own security clearance out the window.

"Yeah, we have some groups here who have those guns, lots of individuals too."

"I would fight them, so what do they hide in the hills somewhere? Do they think they could fight against the military?"

"Yeah well, most of uh..them..have been in the military, and some are still in".

"Well, maybe take out their leaders and see what happens, we have ways of dealing with people like that in my country."

"Oh really? Say, want to step into the parking lot and discuss this? I mean, don't you think maybe the Armenians would have something to say about gun control being a bad thing?

So then the Marine, who is standing there with that really confused "oh shit" look on his face looks at his "foreign exchange buddy"

"Wait, you think anyone who has one of those guns is a terrorist?"

"Well, yes, don't you think that is obvious? Why else would you want to own one of those?"

"My brother has a bunch of those and we were going to take you shooting this afternoon, are we terrorists now??"

"Oh, you mean YOU have some of those? That's so cool, you mean a military person here can have guns of his own?"

"Yeah, we have a phrase here called "no shit sherlock".

"so how can I have one of these legally?"

"You wait for residency to go over six months and then pass a background check".

"Oh wow, that's great, Yes I want to go shooting, do you have more military guns?"

"Yes, but my brother does not want to be called a terrorist".

"Well, maybe not terrorist but that probably should be illegal you know".

That's where I chimed in again -

"Well you see my foreign friend, that's where we sort of have that paradox, because that's when someone will start the terror - like when the guns are all declared illegal, and the government goes after people who don't turn them in.

Hey Ed, how many of those guns do you think you sell a month?"

"Oh, maybe five or six of the assault type rifles, then the rest is hunting guns and handguns. We did a lot more business on those before Y2K"

"Ok, how many cases of ammo do you think?"

"Oh people mostly get that mail order now, but I still go through one good shipment a month, say ten or twelve cases".

So I turn to my new Turkish friend, and tell him that I run a similar business but sell double the number of rifles, and I burn around 1000 rounds a month in training.

By that point, Turkish guy is looking like the wolf who just wandered into the bear cave.

Dude was practically going into shock, and his Marine buddy got him out of there while saying stuff "uh, hey man, it's not like that, we can be cool right? I'll try and straighten him out, damn I can't believe I invited this guy but we were buddies in Iraq on a joint operation, oh shit, damn, well maybe I can straighten him out...