Quote Originally Posted by Arthur LaMarche View Post
Burt knows Scratch, I wonder if that will come out in this chapter. In the tanker recovery chapter, Burt tells Scratch Familiar Piece you got there. The operative word is Familiar. At 20 to 30 yards looking at a pistol pointed at you will not reveal enough detail for a handgun to be familiar. Recognizing a face is possible. Of all the things Scratch could have said, Lock and loaded implies she knows Burt. I am sure there is more than one gunshop in LA. The prison is all the way across LA on the coast with ground zero in the middle. Is it by chance that Latch and scracth hit Loacked and Loaded, just so KC could link the characters? Alternatively, they may hit Lock and Loaded if they knew the RPG would be there. Finally, Burt calls the guns that Latch and Scratch put down when they first visit the tower "his". No way to see serial numbers. He might be exaggerating or he might remember his customers.
Latch and Scratch were some of the people who raided Burt's shop. Latch was able to get into the smaller gun safe, but not his vault. And Burt can identify more with the guns than people, especially where he was at as a person at that point in his life. Another clue is you can imagine that Scratch took the best gun from the shop for herself.