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I have a Charles Hellis 12 ga. double barrel with the original case that's just sitting. How can I sell it? The market for this kind of shotgun is fairly limited. Any suggestions?

Our VBS, for the kids, is starting in two weeks. Our safety team will need to be on the job. We always have neighborhood parents bring their children and just drop them off, leave, then come back to get them after it is over for the night. I have never understood that because you trust your kids with complete strangers. My wife and I never did that. Big responsibility to keep them safe while they are there. We do get a chance to teach them and we have had older kids come back to church with us. In fact we just had a mother and father join our church. They had a first born daughter start attending, with one of our members daughter, and now the whole family have come to Jesus, and been baptized, for the remission of their past sins, in His holy name. God's word does still work on people's heart even today. I just finished teaching a men's class on Spiritual Ignorance. At one time, in my life, I was the poster boy for spiritual ignorance. Our preacher wanted me to tell the men the details of my conversion. I was not a Christian when I met and married my wife. She was. It was her influence on me, and her patients with me, that first brought me to services, and eventually, as my faith grew, because of listening to God's word, I came to the Lord. I was a hard case! Anyways it was a wonderful class and the men(about 60) now knows how to approach and help someone who is as spiritually ignorant "as I was". I obeyed the gospel at age 27 and started my walk with God. I have never regretted that day since. I am 71 and now know where my soul will spend eternity. That, my friends, is "Pure Spiritual Peace". Get your Bible and read (Luke 16:19-31). I will be in Abraham's Bosom(Jewish term for a place of great comfort in the hadean realm). Jesus tells of "the realm of departed spirits" in this writing. Only place, in our Bible, we get a small glimpse of where our souls will go, in the next life(realm) "Realm of departed spirits" if He(Jesus) does not come back to earth beforehand. If and when he does then we will all be going to another place in eternity. Do prepare you soul for eternity guys. If you haven't, do seek it out. The hadean realm, it is the place for believers, and non believers just after death in this life. Sad to say, but we have had several instances where our safety team has been forced into action lately also. Never needed a team until about 7 years ago. Violence in churches was unheard of before then. Oh, the times, they are a changing. My attire will be the usual, 7 shot revolver in left front pocket, MP 2.0 9 MM IWB on right hip along with prayer that they will never be used. Mind you this will be for my sweetie's and my protection, ONLY. I am not a ninja cop. I leave that work to them, the Police. To God be the glory in everything.

John Moses Browning poses for a photo in 1918 holding one of his Browning Automatic Rifles (BAR) with Winchester gun designer Frank Burton.

Here's a good story. As most of you know, I'm a retired City of Bartlett employee. Some years ago the Mayor we had at the time was well liked. He'd come by various departments from time to time and just chatted with employees about most anything. When his car came in for service at the City Shop, where I worked, it was standard procedure to reach down between the seats, remove his S&W Model 60 and secure it in the office until he came back for the car. It never bothered any of us. That's just what we did. So one night one of the upper echelon City Hall pencil pushers goes out to dinner driving his city car. He left his lights on and sure nuff, he came out about 10:00 pm to a dead battery. One of my co-workers was called out to go boost him off. My co-worker made a regular habit, that if he got called out at night, he'd take his pistol along. So he's taking care of business and the pencil pusher happens to look inside his service truck and saw the gun on the seat. So here's the story as we got it from reliable friends at City Hall: Bright and early the next morning, the pencil pusher rushes into the Mayor's office and starts going off about this city employee who had a gun in a city vehicle. The mayor just looked at him and said "So do I. What's your point?"

peejman, we have not had that one yet. Eight year old chocking another! WOW! We have had several instances of disturbance in the past. Caught one neighborhood 15 year old boy going through the coat pockets, in our hallway, while people were in class and the hallways were deserted. Since the Antioch shooting we now lock our doors and keep a team member in the hallways at all times. We observe everyone who comes in the church also. One can't be to careful these days. Even then we have had to handle some things. We are proactive on safety now.

I haven't seen that show, but my general understanding of printers capable of moderate accuracy with some of the more exotic metals .... your $200,000 estimate is missing a zero. Definitely not in the DIY'er realm. The printers I saw at ORNL making parts for GE and Boeing several years ago were $5M.

In a lot of places in Tennessee, that used to be kind of a requirement to work in the Sheriff's office ...

I love it!!

They are like a bob-tail .45, perfect.

I did that 2 weeks ago. Owner s aid they're not buying anything right now. And I didn't start this as a For Sale ad. Not trying to get around a rule. Just asking for advice.

A bit off topic, but involves 3D printing. Adam Savage has a new show on the Discovery Channel called "Savage Builds". In the first episode he built an Iron Man suit by 3D printing the various parts out of Titanium. Very interesting and the darn thing actually is bullet proof.

Anyone who beats Michigan can't be all bad.

I'd rather have teachers and janitors packing rather than one guy or gal who does absolutely nothing all day waiting on the .000000000000001% chance something bad might happen.

Really not cool to characterize all SROs as Scott Peterson.

You know, in all my years of fishing, I’ve not ever used a bubble rig. I need to pick one up and give it a whirl.

Our church had a VBS first a couple weeks ago.... we expelled a child. Yeah. Seems an adult tried to intervene when one child was trying to choke another child, and the adult got a bloody nose for her efforts. I'm told the kids were about 8 yrs old. Fun times.

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