Firearm fanatic and onetime gunsmith Louis Minardi of Odessa, Florida loves weapons a lot that when it got here time to construct a brand new yard pool, any suggestion of a rectangle or kidney form was shot down in favor of a way more customized design: a handgun.

“Neighbors which have purchased homes round right here have all come by,” says Minardi. “They’re all, ‘Is that this man a whack job?'”

From Fox 35:

The story behind the revolver-shaped pool goes again roughly 40 years to an thought proposed by Minardi’s highschool good friend, Albert Jones III, a contractor who mentioned he was bored constructing extra historically formed swimming pools.

Minardi was reluctant at first, however the thought resonated with him, given his lifelong relationship with weapons. Now 67, Minardi mentioned he grew up searching with associates and remembers receiving his first firearm, a double-barrel shotgun, when he was in center faculty however already conscious of gun security.

(Due to our Florida bureau chief, Charles Pescovitz!)