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[Tiamat]

Are you talking about the store on Crater lake avenue right near Vilas and 62? Some of their stuff is used. I have bought some shirts from there.


But yeah the days of REAL military surplus cheap stuff have been gone for years.

Yes.  That's the place. To it's credit it doesn't even have the word "surplus" in the name. Nowadays with survivalists, psudo military, militia types, re enactors, and just plain old "I'm such a bad ass" types, it's a thriving business. the "surplus" seems to be an afterthought, and not much of one at that.

Your description of that stores customers reminds me of Righties putting "liberals" all in the same pigeon hole. Also you left out HUNTERS, pretty sure they buy a lot of the camo stuff

I needed a bag to carry my Chemo Medicine pump that connected to a port in my chest. I found one at that store that fit so perfectly it looked as if it was designed for that purpose. Desert sand color with zipper and fit on my belt.

They have a ton of bags of all shapes and sizes. I bought an awesome long sleeve shirt, yes it;s camo (digital) and I'm pretty sure it actually is military surplus.It has lots of pockets with Velcro and and it zips instead of buttons. I love that shirt LOL, it's a great work shirt. Anyway I think I only paid 14 bucks

Damn after all that describing I easily found a photo....

Sure...campers too.  And hunters. I'm not pigeonholing. It's just there. I see the stuff. I find it disturbing that they sell tactical vests that have POLICE and SHERIFF lettering on them and handcuffs with unreachable key holes, telescoping batons and what not.  Who the hell are those for?  But there was a lot of cool stuff there too. My son bought my DIL one of those batons since she seems to have taken on the role of neighborhood bulldog and is out at night amongst a bunch of drunks and drug addicts, just doing her job.  So, it has a function.  He spent a lot of money on Camo gear.  It wasn't the camo he wanted. It was the pockets.

Yeah ,, the pockets plus they are just nice tough shirts


I find it disturbing that they sell tactical vests that have POLICE and SHERIFF lettering on them

Who buys them? Maybe the Police and the sheriffs

handcuffs with unreachable key holes

Maybe bounty hunters who don't want someone with a hidden key to get loose?

I find it  hard to believe that the local police and sherrif send their people for gear to the army/navy store. Maybe I'm way wrong.

Sure...Bounty Hunters.  I have no doubt. That's some of the folks who might want those. 

My point is, if just anyone can go pick up gear with POLICE written on them, that's a bit of invitation to some, and I repeat the qualifier: SOME crazy fuckers.

I'm not a paranoid kind of person. But there's a little madness in a store like that. It's where you would go if you were a bit on the extreme side of the scale.