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  1. I couldn't pay to get hauled off? Well here is they first boards finished from the logs. I would also like to publically thank my doctor for saving them from a burn pile.
    7 points
  2. Sounds to me like two people got shot and then the perp started a fire to try and cover their tracks.
    4 points
  3. I was at Lowes today and noticed somebody open carrying. The guy was in the plumbing section and bent over looking at something on the shelves. He was carrying a 1911 in a non-retention holster and I walked right behind him and I don't think he even noticed I was there. If I was bent on doing harm, I feel sure I could have reached behind him, got his gun, shot him, and then proceeded to shoot anybody else in the area. I'm principally against full open carry personally, but if you do, at least secure your gun and be aware of what is going on behind you.
    4 points
  4. I've been contemplating writing the following post for a while now. I've flip-flopped between considering it appropriate and considering it distasteful in light of current events. However, I decided to write it. To some extent on the topic of mass shootings as a whole, aren't we all (collectively, as America) to blame? I'm not trying to play the blame game but rather, in my opinion, take responsibility to some extent. Now, first, I fully admit and accept that there are truly evil people that set out to do truly evil things. Some people don't like hearing that but I do believe it to be true. However, if we investigated each and every "mass shooting" over the previous 2-3 decades, how many of them could have been prevented had people simply been more caring about those around them? I'm not delusional to think that all of these shootings could be prevented, but I'm thinking about it from this standpoint, particularly in the setting of school (be it high school or college). It wasn't that long ago that I was in high school myself. I made it through ok; I wasn't super popular but I also had enough friends that I enjoyed most of it. Considering that the profile for these shooters is typically someone outcast from the "norm" and generally shunned by most/all of their peers, I wonder how many of these shooters would have turned out differently had they simply been treated better by their peers. I'm not talking about an "everyone wins, there are no losers" environment, but rather one where people, specifically classmates, treat each other with more respect. I think we all can recognize there is usually a certain number people in a school environment that are generally pushed aside by everyone else. These people are mocked, teased, bullied, etc. I am in no way justifying what these shooters have done; Shooting other innocent people because the shooter's life sucked is not ok. It is evil. However, what I am suggesting is that perhaps for a certain number of these shooters, perhaps if only a percentage of classmates were nicer to the shooters themselves, perhaps their outcomes would have been different. I'm simply talking about being nicer to people. People at this latest school shooting supposedly all "joked" that if anyone was going to shoot up the school, it was going to be this guy. Well, what if part of the school had been nicer to, spoken politely to, dedicated even a few moments of their day checking up with said shooter and generally just caring about his life? Sometimes to a person in a dark place mentally the absolute best thing that can be done for that person is just genuinely showing them that someone cares about them. Again, I'm not naive to think this would solve all shootings. For the truly sick/evil ones, which are out there, this would effectively help zero. Some people just want to see the world burn. The best thing to do is to stop them before they burn too much. Yet, instead in our society, everyone wants to put the blame on someone or something else (black rifles, the FBI, the local Sheriff's Department, mental healthcare, background checks, etc). Most people want this problem fixed magically, either by banning black rifles, policing people by thoughts, locking away forever the mentally ill, background checks that are magical and catch people even without criminal records, etc. People generally want a "fast food" answer to a complex problem, so that they can go about their lives and forget that evil and tragedy exist in this world. However, personally I feel a lot could be prevented if people were less infatuated with themselves, cared more for their peers' general well being, were more generous and less prideful, and ultimately just treated people like fellow human beings. And, after all of this is said and done, be prepared to put a few bullets into the truly evil people that act upon their desires.
    4 points
  5. If you will look around you will see many of the items you have listed above no longer exist in our country. The last 2 generations have lost them and I'm not sure if they can't find them again or if they are even looking for them! It would appear they are not really looking very hard to find them because they are still here. I homestly don't think they want the country we had back 2 or 3 generations ago. I don't think tey have time to help somone that has fallen or someone that just needs a little help to get back on their feet. I have watched and if you look at the crowds at sporting events mos of th people in the crowds are standing but looking into their Cell Phones and not at the Flag. Some will say I had it on my cell phone. Why??? It's right in front of you going on live???????? Two friends will be sitting at a bus stop waiting on a bus and instead of talking to each other face to face they will be texting each other!!!!!!! What is wrong with that picture???? Are they brain washed to a point they can no longer speak??? I sent about 30 minutes some time back sitting on a bench in a pretty busy Park and during that 30 minutes 81 people walked past me and 74 of them had their faces in their cell phones and some eople actually bumped into each other , to busy to stop and look where they were going. If I would be willing to guess, I would say SOCIAL MEDIA in one of our major issues in todays society....................JMHO
    4 points
  6. Vanity top with a vessel bowl. Wife is remodeling the bathroom and rather than go buy a top I figured it was better to use a tree from the property. I built the house using trees I cut off the property.
    3 points
  7. "Wow. Just wow. You have to wonder how many lives he could have saved". You can wonder all day but we will never know will we? I would be willing to bet my last dollar if that would have been a retired VET we would have found out because a Veteran runs to gun fire and not away from it!!!!! I have said it a dozen times and I will say it one more. We have 1000's of Veterans looking for work a great job for them would be protecting our children and grandchildren while in school. There are many of them with college degrees that could be employed as school counselors, coaches, assistant coaches, Custodians(Janitors) Grounds Keepers, they are all trained in firearms and would only take a few short classes to refresh them on what their jobs are but job 1 is the protection of the children. They were in our military so they already know how to follow orders..............JMHO
    2 points
  8. How sad. They need to hire some of us older retired curmudgeons to guard the schools. We'd run, make that limp & hobble toward the gunfire.
    2 points
  9. Beautiful stuff right there. That should make a fine vanity top. I'll bet it would make some sweet lookin' knife handles.
    2 points
  10. That looks really good. If you haven’t finished it yet I bet some pure tung oil (the real stuff) or just boiled linseed oil would make it pop.
    2 points
  11. Ammo that cooks off is highly unlikely to cause death as the mainline of the story leads the uninformed to believe. In addition Garufa wins the prize for making me laugh today!
    2 points
  12. I honestly have been saying this for awhile. Pick and age that a teen becomes an adult and stick with it. But it has to be across the board, don't ask an 18yo to join the military, get issued a weapon and go and fight and die for his/her country if they can't enjoy the same privileges back home. If they decide 18, 21, 25, then so be it, make up your freaking mind about what makes an adult already.
    2 points
  13. I agree with a lot of what you say, but I disagree that "most" of the public understands the difference. A lot of them do. A lot of them don't. There is a vast group of people that think any AR-15 is a "machine-gun" because that's what the movies show. Coupled with movie portrayals is media misinformation. Referring to AR-15's but showing pictures of AK-47's while referring to all of them as "automatic weapons", there are a lot of people that simply do not care enough to be correctly educated and are quite wrong. I've heard countless coworkers repeat a long list of incorrect things regarding firearms as a whole. We live in TN, one of the overall better states to live regarding firearms. Consider that ~15% of the US population lives in the states of New York and California alone. Both of these states are overall quite anti-gun. If people in TN can get simple/common facts about firearms wrong in a state that generally is very open to firearms themselves, consider how misinformed the populations of those anti-gun states are. I've had a coworker try and argue with me that quite a few of the shootings (within the last five years) were done with fully automatic weapons, including San Bernidino. Also, I'd like to politely disagree with you over bump stocks. While I agree that admittedly they violate the intent/spirit of the law, the very plainly (and I think you have to admit) do not violate the letter of the law. 1 round fired per pull/function of the trigger = not a machine-gun. Up until at least recently the ATF definitely agreed with that regarding bump-stocks. My hope is that they come forward and uphold that opinion, and then state that it is up to Congress to change the law if they want. If they change law to ban them, I'm ok with that general process, because then at least we have the opportunity to pressure Congress not to. In my opinion it is very underhanded to reinterpret law to ban them. Also, couldn't it be argued that the NFA as a whole violates the intent/spirit of the Constitution?
    2 points
  14. I absolutely agree with this statement. Until people realize gun violence has nothing to do with guns the issue will never be fixed.
    2 points
  15. I have plastic guns and actually like most of them. I also like 1911's....probably cause it's what I was raised on and carried most of my life. Old habits die hard. For me they are still the most accurate and fun to shoot pistols. As far as difficult to maintain I find it not so much if you've been doing it for over 40 years.
    2 points
  16. Middle Tennessee Shooters Club in Manchester will be hosting a multigun match on Sunday March 4th. The following divisions will be recognized; Open, Tac ops, Tac limited, Heavy Metal, 2 gun (rifle/pistol), and PCC. It will feature 5 fun and challenging stages. 100 rounds for each gun and 2 slugs should get you through the match if you are shooting one of the 3 gun divisions, bring more if shooting 2 gun or pcc. No slings necessary. You can pre-register on practiscore or at the range on the day of the match. Registration on match day is from 1100 to noon and we'll get started shortly thereafter. I can be reached at sumocrp@aol.com with any questions you may have.
    1 point
  17. My TGO hat has seen better days. Luckily, UPS took care of that today. This one only looks worn... I also got a TGO vest to wear out-and-about in AL.
    1 point
  18. Greg... RE: "The 1911 siren song".... It happens with all real pistoleros Brother... It did with me years ago (...in the 70's and 80's...)... I reloaded and burned lotsa powder thru em with round nose hardball... I carried a gubmt model and a commander as well... Grew to like the LW commanders better than any of the others... Don't carry em anymore... Too old and curmudgeonly to do so, and the Colts are too valuable to carry... Sadly, i think time has passed em by, like that great old killer the SAA and the great Smith "N" frames... Havin said all that, it is my belief that every finished pistolero owes it to themselves to own and learn to shoot proficiently the great 1911... Preferably a genuine Colt Gubmt Model... Remember, Brothers n Sisters, the 1911 was birthed as a cavalry pistol to replace that greatest of pistols ever, the Colt SAA... There are tales of the old troopers refusin to turn their beloved SAA's for the newfangled 1911, as well as tales of em rawhiding down the grip safety on em to make sure they went off when they needed to... The "Cocked n Locked" thing came after the calvary died... The old timers carried em hammer down or on the half cock and cocked em to shoot ALA the old SAA... They put the safety on after the shootin was over... HEHEHE... calvary leroy, the lefty 1911 pistolero....
    1 point
  19. The BATFE wrote an opinion in direct opposition of yours. I'd rather have a shake weight than a bumpstock for my own use, but this proposed ban is just one more step in the direction of banning all guns. Just a wild guess here, but don't be surprised to see a shooting in the not too distant future where the shooter has an ar15 pistol with a brace. You eat an elephant one bite at a time. It is against the law to kill people. I've not heard that mentioned one time since the shooting.
    1 point
  20. Ok. So if it is up to the law to protect us, what happens after we ban bump stocks and then someone pulls the trigger really really fast? Do those lives in that scenario not count as being “owed”? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
  21. OK...I'll be the one to say it! Do we really, really want to see nude pics of Megan?
    1 point
  22. Yeah, when we get into nude cell phone pics, it's National Enquirer territory. Wonder how soon someone will file a public records request with TBI asking for the photos.... Cheers, Whisper
    1 point
  23. I can’t watch CNN it would burn my eyes. I think I will wait to read your review.
    1 point
  24. I'd never......well let me think.....no not really. I'd be happy to pay shipping on any scrap pieces he has laying around though.
    1 point
  25. Your last sentence is all that matters. My sister-in-law sent a text stating how would you like to be next in line behind Billy at the Pearly gates waiting for your rewards. We all can do much more to help mankind than we do. I know I fall way, way, way short.
    1 point
  26. I didn't watch it. I just cannot stomach anything on CNN. I gave up a long time ago thinking they might do something remotely unbiased. I did see the meeting at the White House. We need more of that. The man speaking for his daughter since "she could no longer speak" made some great points. He even said quit talking about gun control. Fix the issue and fight over that another day.
    1 point
  27. During the same era didn’t most states also lower the drinking age to 18, along with the right to vote? Not only because of 18 enough to vote but 18 enough to fight? The drinking thing didn’t work out too well, now all states are 21. The primary reason being lack of maturity of those imbibing and the danger they proved to themselves and other. It’s a tricky situation. The military needs 18 year olds. They are very impressionable and far easier to train than 20+ year olds, IMO. But consistently, that age group shows a serious lack of maturity, with or without discipline, the latter being just far less trustworthy in some ways.
    1 point
  28. The antis are planning a major anti-gun rally for March 24, 2018. There is now a idea floating around that we should respond by making donations to pro-gun organizations on that same day. Currently its being referred to as "Money Bomb the NRA". But I think contributions to any pro-gun rights organization will work just as well. Rather than stand in the streets and give lip service to the problem, we have an opportunity to show tangible support of our cause. Plus, we won't have to travel or take needed time out of our lives to do so. If enough people do this that the news media picks up on it, it could be a major victory for our side. We put our money where our mouth is. I plan to make contributions to the NRA, GOA and the TFA. SPREAD THE WORD! SUPPORT OUR RIGHTS!
    1 point
  29. Seems to be the solution nowadays. Ignore facts and promote this social justice warrior mentality. Then when a problem crops up, their response is to blame a tool or someone or someone else. Seldom have Democrats proposed anything that actually solves the problem or actually works. Disgusted with the direction of our society and the PC environ is undermining our society and the American values I was taught. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
  30. Glock with a happy stick. The party never ends...
    1 point
  31. Or, just mind your own business, make note mentally on why you don't carry like that, because at the end of the day at least he has a permit and is carrying a gun and that is good for society.
    1 point
  32. Most MAY understand the difference in semi and fully automatic, but I don't think it matters any more, the AR stands for assault rifle in the new speak lexicon, and that is what is going to be difficult to overcome. I hear the young guys at work saying "Don't see why you need a 30 round banana clip to hunt with, all these types of guns are meant to do is kill people." These are rich kids who pay $10,000.00 a year to duck hunt, they don't get the similarity of an AR and their Benelli SBII, or that the real intent is ban all guns, more especially semi auto pistols.
    1 point
  33. Why are people OK with the minimum age of buying a hand gun being 21 but get upset if a long rifle minimum age is raised to match? It seems that the people that are against changing the long gun age to 21 should be fighting to have the hand gun age lowered to 18. I might take this guy a little more seriously if he was looking to raise the minimum age to 21 for ALL guns not just one that's black and scary. If you just raise the age for an AR-15 then this is what will happen. Deranged 18 Year Old: I want to buy that AR-15 Gun Store Clerk: Sorry you have to be 21 to buy that gun. Deranged 18 Year Old: Ok, what about that Mini-14? Gun Store Clerk: Sure, will that be cash or charge?
    1 point
  34. I pushed the button.
    1 point
  35. I’ve seen to many guns go sliding across the pavement to not secure mine. But you see it a lot.
    1 point
  36. You'll grow out of it. I did. Be patient.
    1 point
  37. 1 point
  38. Yes that's what I had heard also. Mine is definitely a billet Gen 2 and has the star stamped on the left side.
    1 point
  39. The 1911 is what all pistols aspire to be. Just buy one and get it over with. You'll thank me later. Oh, and everybody needs a 92 or a 96....
    1 point
  40. Bellshire had Anderson's for a decent price as of today. Don't remember the price but I remember thinking it was about what they should cost after shipping and transfer
    1 point
  41. Exactly, Trump is listening. We (pro gun folks) can cross our arms, and refuse all discussions; but that won’t work. Kids and parents across the country are looking at what they can do to keep from getting shot to death. If the problem is not guns, but nuts with guns, then we need to step up and have discussions about what can be done. If it turns into a bunch of gun owners trying to protect bump stocks, and other obvious violations of the intent of the law, and trying to protect the gun rights of the mentally ill; I know how it will end. Both sides on this debate have people on the fringes that aren’t intelligent enough to have these conversations. We can’t let them steer the ship.
    1 point
  42. Admit it. The next time you drive by a golf course you're gonna honk that horn for all it's worth!
    1 point
  43. Apparently there were red flags. Signs were there. No one apparently spoke out. He was expelled for disciplinary reasons. I wonder if the school offered any help? Politicians will blame guns. I wonder if there will ever be a discussion about what binds us together? Morals, accountability, responsibility, self-control, pride in self, family and community, patriotism, the flag, national anthem, pledge of allegiance, duty, honor and country. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
    1 point
  44. These sorts of mass shootings are a relatively recent phenomenon and even though a semi-auto ban most likely would have a downward effect on casualty numbers, it would still be a miniscule amount of the total annual number of gun deaths. I also can’t support any sort of action that penalizes the whole for the actions of the individual. The guns aren’t the problem though. They don’t cause the shootings to happen. Semi-auto and even full auto guns were much more accessible in years past and we didn’t have these types of shootings. Our society is sick and that sickness is causing our children to have these types of psychotic breaks. I can see the problem, but I don’t know how to fix it. What’s the solution? How do we heal something so fundamentally broken?
    1 point
  45. What has happened is we, as a society, have went from "not on my watch" to "business as usual, so why care". We see it every single day, politicians doing things that are not only against the law but against the basic morals this country was founded on. We have gotten so numb to the corruption that as long as it doesn't affect us personally we have no problem sticking our heads in the sand and hoping it will get better, eventually. Today's elections are not about finding good, honest politicians but about voting for the one that stinks the least and that is not what this country should be. Both parties want control and the two parties are there to ensure at least one controls the majority while the other distracts the remainder. And this isn't about party lines either, both parties do it and they have become two sides of the same coin. They do not want us to be free and dare I say it but if you look around we are hardly the free country we once were. Government has moved into every single aspect of our lives. Every day there are more laws put on the books to turn any one of us into a criminal because once you are a criminal the government has the right to control you. Laws, rules and regulations are made on a whim, often without a vote, then enforced under threat of violence because some bureaucrat thinks a segment of the population should be made into criminals. The only real difference between us and most dictatorships is we are given permission to reelect dictators chosen for us every four years. Regardless of who or what party is in control we are still being controlled by those in government. I don't care how much it would cost, hold her accountable to the fullest extent the law will allow. Throw her ass in jail and make an example of her for anyone else who might try to break the law. That is the only way to fix it, letting them off to save money doesn't fix it and only serves to tell others that they can also break laws with impunity. All of us here are expected to follow the law and if we do not we will face the consequences, regardless of the cost, so the same should be the same for everyone. Unless we decide to actually stand up and demand these corrupt politicians be held accountable they will continue. And if we cannot hold those corrupt politicians accountable under the law we must hold them accountable at the voting booth if they have not already made you a criminal.
    1 point
  46. Yes, though it took a few years to find out it's name. We were taught that due to higher incidents of enemy using body armor. And with many stories of perps surviving even large caliber hits to the torso gives me incentive enough to continue the drills today.
    1 point
  47. The Last Stand by William H Weber was a great read. It starts out in Sequoyah Hills in Knoxville and goes all over East TN. Its a fast read as I took the four books on a week long camping trip and got sucked in and read all four in about six days. Great read easy read Sorry if already mentioned
    1 point
  48. Great article. I've always tried to put myself in the shoes, or the mindset of new Americans back in the days that the Constitution was written and try to imagine how they thought. Their opinions and writings seem to be pretty much straight forward and accepted as the norm among the vast majority of new independent Americans. To me, the 2nd. Amendment was intended to express a right that we already had and that's for a man to own and keep his rifle or pistol to defend himself, his family, and his neighbors from indian attacks, criminal hooligans, an attack from an invading army either from another country or some tyrannical unconstitutional army from his own government. As a capable man it was understood that it was a duty to organize with his neighbors as a militia if needed to protect his city, state, or country from any and all criminal or unconstitutional attacks. The idea of a capable man owning personal firearms was accepted not only as an individual right but a duty to his family and country. I believe they envisioned a possible scenario in the future where some in the government might twist and turn and pervert the meaning of their patriotic intentions and attitudes so they wrote the 2nd Amendment and the Bill Of Rights as clear and simple as they could, meaning that every American citizen has an individual right to keep and bear his own personal arms, and also has a right and duty to organize in a militia if needed to protect his family, neighbors, and country. And I believe it's as simple as that.
    1 point
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