Several months ago the Delaware State Police prevented 81 year old Alvina Vansickle from buying a Taurus .22 revolver for no other reasons than she was an elderly woman and she had never purchased a firearm before…at least as far back as they could check. More on that later. This event unfolded when Mrs. Vansickle, the wife of 83 year old J.R. Vansickle who lost both legs to diabetes and is wheelchair bound, stopped by Charley Steele’s gun store in August ’08 and set her sights on the little .22 pistol.