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I will start: The M4 is a gas operated, magazine fed, air cooled weapon shooting the 5.56x45 round. It is capable of semi automatic, as well as fully automatic, firing. Fully automatic rates of fire are 750 rounds per minute. It has a muzzle velocity in excess of 3,000 fps and is capable of piercing a steel helmet at 500 meters. Hopefully that is not too technical and I hope some Congalese tribesman doesn't use this information.

They can eat :poop: and die.

Company drill team. Charley Company, 7th Battle Group, 3rd Brigade, United States Army Training Center Infantry, Fort Ord, California. May,1961. Yes, Mildred, those rifles really are M-1's. This was the most fun I ever had in the Army. I'm the skinny 18 year old kid 4th from the front. OK, here's the other one. Same outfit, same drill team, same day, different formation. This one shows the M-1's a lot better than the photo above. My M-1 was a Springfield Armory rifle with serial number 792554, which puts its date of manufacture as 1942. I'm the skinny kid in the front row, second from left. That steel pot was so big on me I always figured that if I went into combat I could throw it down, jump in, and fire from it. We stayed in the 1941 barracks of the Greatest Generation and were largely trained by them. We broke in on all of the WWII weapons - M-1 rifle, M1918 BAR, M1919A4 and A6 machine guns through the end of '61, then transitioned to the M-14 rifle and M-60 machine gun after that. It was really neat to have trained on all of the classic American infantry weapons of WWII, and then to have gone on to a completely new and different generation of weaponry. I liked the M-1 a lot better than the M-14, and the BAR had no peer, but the M-60 had it all over the Browning .30's in my book. The Army came up with a squad automatic rifle based on the M-14 with bipod legs and a pistol grip, but it had such a high cyclic rate of fire and such sharp recoil that it was uncontrollable and didn't last long. Long ago and far away, but I wouldn't take a million bucks for the experience. Fort Ord was the most beautiful training post in the Continental Army Command. They shut it down as a training post in 1976, and it became the home of the 7th Infantry Division. It was eliminated during the big round of base closings that followed - around 1991 or so. Oh by the way, notice how perfect our trouser legs are above the boot? To get those perfect blouses we cut the ends out of coffee cans, slid the cans up our legs, put the boots on and then bloused the pants down around the coffee cans. We wore the gloves for the photos only - they were so slick we couldn't hang on to the rifles, so they were just for looks. Fun. EssOne

There is a difference between biological sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Gender identity and gender dysphoria are recognized as legitimate conditions that are the result of processes in the brain that medical professionals suspect are the result of how we respond to hormones we are exposed to while in the womb. This is not some modern 21st century construct either. Native American tribes recognized three genders, one being "two spirit" individuals who we would consider transgender. These two spirit people were respected and seen as having unique spiritual abilities and were free to marry either men or women. Other cultures also recognize transgender people as a regularly accepted part of society. For some reason, the United States has one of the most closed-minded and stigmatizing cultures among democratic societies. We talk about freedom and individualism, but as soon as anyone doesn't fit into the neat little boxes we create, they are treated as second-class citizens and denied the same legal rights and protections others enjoy. Transgender people are generally not protected from being fired by their employers, and Tennessee is one of the states that has refused to include that protection in its human rights law. in reality, the only time people have a major problem with transgender people is when it is a man presenting as a female, which is a reflection of how our society puts men in a very tightly controlled box when it comes to acceptable gender presentation. I was a cop, have a wife, two kids, shoot guns, do leatherwork, fix my car, can do carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, and other "masculine" things, but if I wear a skirt instead of pants, society sees me as a mentally ill disgusting freak of a human being. Nothing else has changed except how a piece of fabric is cut and sewn, yet it carries so much social weight. But if you call it a kilt instead of a skirt....

Nashville is growing, and crime is sure to increase. Rent is going up every year and the poor are just getting poorer. Desperation and stupidity are a dangerous mix.

Oh and while this is a gun owners/enthusiast website, the vast majority of us aren't fanatics, just normal guys who want to be left alone while we carry concealed

Basic training for me was 1975 and I am still serving. Going to retire this next fiscal year with 40. This old SGM is going to Fort Living Room for his last assignment. Not going to make the 6th uniform change that starts this summer since I enlisted.

Great pictures and story...thanks for sharing. You make me feel young again.... Basic training for me was 1968.

  When we got our 2 pairs of issue leather combat boots, our drill seargent made us march through a big muddy wet ditch, soaking the boots and we drilled all day until the dried on our soar a$$ feet. That pair was broken in that day, the other pair we used for inspection but we still cleaned and polished both. Remember sitting down with a cotten ball and the lid of a Kiwi black polish can with water trying to put a mirror finish on your inspection boots? I can still do that today.

To anyone who abuses, neglects or mistreats an animal; I hope you die in a slow burning house fire. Anyone who would just abandon an animal like that is lower than human. I would have more respect for [not much] a person who just put a bullet in the dog's head as opposed to abandoning it to the elements and predators. My current companion was a rescue. He's now 13, eat up with cancer and living on borrowed time. He also has hip dysplasia and has difficulty getting around. He was beaten and starved when I got him. He's been with me 12 years now, and I've had dogs before him, but he's REALLY taught me the definition of what a friend is. I think more of him than most humans I meet. Now he spends most of his days in bed. I bought him a baby crib mattress and I keep it in the shop with me so we can hang out all day, everyday. He usually just watches me trim brass in between customers. LOL. He's on a two different pain meds now and I don't expect him to last much longer. He's the best friend I've ever had. Sorry for the thread drift.

  The whole post was spot on, but this part in particular was especially profound.

Here's a couple of pics.

That was us exactly. They switched from brown to black boots in '57, and still had some brown ones in stock when I enlisted in '61. The poor slobs who got them were given a big wad of steel wool to get the brown dye off and a bottle of black dye to change the color. They worked themselves bloody but it never worked. Heck, with a good spitshine you could still see brown shining through for years to come. I missed getting them by about three guys. Whew!!

I'd really rather folks keep their problems in middle and eastern TN. You know how it goes, folks move to a nice area and bring their problems from their old homes with them. For whatever reason they just can't seem to leave their issues behind them.

Best steak I ever ate was a Ribeye from 'ye old steak house" in Knoxville it was unbelievably good.

First off if he was separated from service after 13 months he likely cannot legally own a firearm. I can guarantee he did not receive an honorable discharge and more than likely he was separated under less than honorable conditions which precludes him from firearm ownership. So here we have someone who is likely no legally allowed to own firearms and we have gun owners applauding him for breaking the law.   Being from the windy city I can guarantee he is a liberal with an agenda. People do not spend their entire life living, breathing the liberal kool aid then change their spots. I have yet to meet someone from one of the many nanny states who isn't a liberal to some degree and at the top of the liberal hate is guns. And because he has an agenda he does not represent the vast majority of gun owners and we should not be applauding his efforts. I suspect a lot of these open carry people are not gun owners but are liberals who are working towards their goal of a gun free country. And this guy has done exactly what he wants to do which is divide us gun owners in smaller groups within the gun community. The easiest way to tear any group down is to create distrust within that group.   As much as I have wrote to our representatives about legalizing rifle carry I know the second it happens hundreds of immature people are going to grab their rifles and run to the nearest Walmart in order scare people. For them it is not about exercising their rights but about some sort of misguided feeling of authority or respect they think they get. I have watched dozens of videos and the overwhelming majority of them have people taking pleasure in the fear they cause. In my last round of letters, where I begged for legal rifle carry, I said conceal carry would be a great option to keep stuff like this from happening. But even so someone will mold a Kydex in the shape of an AK or AR and walk around the places they think will get the biggest rise. I know if they legalized rifle carry here I would not carry a rifle in the open because people will not get used to it, ever, and after so many moms call the representatives we will loose the ability to carry our rifles, and maybe even other firearms, despite the fact we were doing it all the time.   robnfl, I can see you are passionate about this but let me give you a few words of caution. Do not allow your passion turn into aggression towards other members here. We all make our own choices in how we want to live so do not attack other members because they do not live by your standard of living. And while I am at it I will say that the vast majority of places these open carry types actually carry has nothing to do with exercising their rights under the second amendment or the protections from the government. Anyone's right to keep and bear arms can be limited on private property and the government can, and does, limit those rights on behalf of other private entities. The open carry types are not protected by the second amendment when they carry in Walmart, Starbucks or any other retailer just like they have no legal right to free speech at those places. And those places can actually put conditions on who, how, when and what they carry. They can dictate that the only "weapons" allowed on their property are Nerf weapons and there is NOTHING anyone can do other than abide by it or leave the property. So their thinking that open carrying a rifle on private property is exercising second amendment is misguided at best and idiotic at worst.

  I had to shine boots myself.  As I am fond of saying to younger troops, "I was in the BDU Army."  I had a pair of jungle boots so well worn in that it felt like a handjob for my feet.    Switching to ACU's and the desert boots full time sucked.  The desert boots were good to go when broken in, but that took forever compared to leather boots, and they never lasted as long as quality leather jungles did. 

If you think this guy is good for gun rights, I have some real concerns about your logic and deductive reasoning skills. I am not saying don't believe what you believe, but realize you are wrong based on any measurement of common sense. Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

Our three pups got adopted today. All have been placed in good homes! :) Very emotional couple of days for us knowing they would be going since they've been with us before birth. My wife has poured her heart and soul into these pups for the last 8 weeks so it's been really hard for her. Mom is still with us at the moment. She has been a great mom to the pups and seems to fit in well with our other dogs. We have grown very attached to her. I'm on the fence about keeping her due to already having 3. My wife wants to keep her so we'll see. If we keep her, it limits our ability to feasibly foster other dogs in the future due to our somewhat limited space IMO. Also, and you guys that have several dogs know what I'm talking about, non-dog people already roll their eyes when they hear we have 3 dogs. They really freaked out when when had the mom and pups for a temporary total of 7. So we're back down to 4 right now. I guess it doesn't matter what other people think so we'll see what happens with keeping mom or not.

The last couple of dogs we have gotten have been older dogs whose owners have passed or had to give them up. Apparently no one wants an old dog and most are just put down. My wife has made it her mission to adopt older dogs and make their last years as good as possible. We have spent a fortune on some of them, but it has been worth it.

My last 3 dogs found me. Not sure who rescued who.

Please do not patronize dog pimps. Our last 6 dogs and god knows how many cats have been rescues. Some of them have been to smart for their own good, some have been dumb as a sack of rocks. They have all been cherished friends and companions.

Pew Pew Pew Pew!!!! Sorry Remington, that thing is butt ugly!!!

It really does look like a toy.  Does it shoot little disks?

  My shine kit in the closet next to my dress shoes has the cotton balls and kiwi just like you mention.  I think everybody that had to shine boots in the Army can still shine shoes into a mirror on cue.       Congrats on the retirement.  At least this uniform change is going to help fix the abomination that was the ACU. 

For my model 19 Smith Currently in progress One Made earlier for the Bersa

I guess the 1st Amendment only pertains to the crap the people in the federal government and WH want to talk about. Morons...all of them.

My dear departed dad always told me that there is never stupid questions.

Too populated! Give me woods and seclusion! Besides, we just moved 6 months ago. Twice. Not doing it again! I've only been to Memphis once. I was much younger. We went to see Graceland. When we got there we rode past it 3-4 times because we couldn't see it. I guess we were expecting the house to be bigger? We saw it, laughed and went and got food! Fun road trip. I'll never go back to Nashville. Ever.

Looks like we have a 3 way rivalry here, west, east, middle. Anyway, we are all on team Tennessee, even though we have Bozo the Clown for a Governor.

Basic at Fort Riley, Kansas 1966.

There are more reasons to to get rescue animals - the likelihood of getting a great animal is far greater than purchasing from a breeder.   My ex-wife is a master dog trainer, so I saw many, many dogs when we were together.   What I'm about to say isn't always true, though is the majority of the time.  Often, the pure breed dogs are badly inbred.  The "champion" dogs we hear about are usually a champion because of their looks - not what's between the ears.   Also, dog's MUST be properly socialized by their mother as puppies.  There are far too many breeders that interfere with this and when they do the dog will never be able to be a good pet.  This is much less of an issue with rescues.

It asks: Have you been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions? And the PDF I looked at on ATF.gov had dishonorable in bold.  

I'm almost old as dirt.  Basic at Ft. Polk in '71.  Polk is the garden spot of southwestern Louisiana.

  We had the old O.D. green fatigues when I was in, tucked in shirt and black leather boots, you actually had to polish. I believe it was in 81 when we changed to the BDU's and didn't have to tuck in our shirts.

Thanks to all the SO's and staff that put this on and put up with all of us today. Fun day and fun stages!

We used linoleum strips to blouse our boots.lol. I miss the khaki' s. Great pictures.

welcome!   the classes and hoops to jump thru for deer season ... youll want to get right on that so as not to miss your chance to get the license.  You will also want to figure out where you can go to hunt way in advance  --- public land is weird, you get stuff like "you can hunt these 2 acres every third Wednesday between date and date".   Best of luck with that.   The 30-30 would be ideal for deer.   The 308 would also work of course, and you could load 308 to perform like 30-30 if you like as well, saving a bit on the shoulder.   Its not the one shot you fire at the deer.  Its the 25 you fire sighting it in the week before that bruises you...

  I would rather live in Iraq.

If either one got that close to me........  That pinhead standing there was a Darwin candidate.    And bluntly..... both of those animals need to be put down - no fear whatsoever of humans.

LOL   An oldie...but still a goodie!

Any restaurants have a good porterhouse that are not posted?

Will give them a try next time we are up that way.  Thanks for the suggestion!  "Good" dining can be surprisingly hard to find in that area.

Those are challenging to cook.  I like a filet rare, but a strip medium rare just to tenderize all the tissue a bit.  Getting the strip side cooked enough without overcooking the filet side is beyond me.

Just wait til one of the carjackers gets capped trying to jack the wrong person. We'll get to hear how little Freddie Trayvon Brown was always a good boy and there was no way he'd ever try to rob anyone. Maybe Uncle Al will even show up to help calm things.

Are these nut cases so ignorant they think they are helping? We don’t need that kind of help.

This is bad for gun rights when someone shows off like that.  I bet he rarely carries, except for going to the local Wal Mart at 6AM to buy ammo to resell.

Our Koolaid was a Glock 26 Gen 3. I don't know what happened but in April this year, somehow 2 more just showed up at our house. 2 29's. A gen 3 (sf, because I am a lady) with a beautiful Nickle Boron Finish on the slide and then a gen 4 for Monkey. Crazy how they multiply! Someone call Captain Kirk, I think they might be Tribbles in disguise!

And while people think they can say anything they want under the guise of "freedom of speech" I will say they cannot. The protections afforded someone under the First Amendment is only there to protect the individual from the government, it does not protect them from another private party. Because I am not a government agency I can limit people's right to free speech on my property. If I don't like what you are saying I do not have to listen to it and can tell someone to either quit or leave my property. No one has the right to say whatever they want whenever they want, especially on private property.   And one must realize that even though they may be allowed to say what they want under the guise of "free speech" there are consequences for what they say, both good and bad, and there should be. One must weigh the consequences to determine if the personal reward of saying what they want outweighs the risks. For most people the risks are far too great to speak their mind most of the time. Everyone weighs those decisions every day and just because someone may have a right to say something does not mean they will not suffer the consequences for what they chose to say. Just because someone has the right to say something does not mean they are exempt from the consequences and if those consequences break the law then they will have to deal with their own set of consequences for their actions. I can guarantee there is not a single person on this board who speaks their mind 100% of the time without weighing the consequences.

An adjustable gas block will reduce blowback significantly. It also helps the gun run cleaner and reduce felt recoil.