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If every single firearm was removed from Memphis, it still wouldn’t fix the problem. Same goes for every other city in this country.

It’s just pandering. They’ve pretty much admitted that it would violate state law. These proposals are just playing to the masses.

Astra Constable in .380 Its in nice condition and comes with one magazine. I'd prefer cash but am interested in interesting trades. Located in West Nashville

The AARP started as a marketing device for selling insurance to old people. Today it still sells insurance, but it also is a large lobbying organization that, while officially nonpartisan, spends tens of millions of dollars each year lobbying for programs espoused by the Democratic Party. And of course, more gun control is one of those programs. Cheers, Whisper

This thread keeps popping up, then going back to sleep, then back up................. After watching several videos and talking to some Tisas owners, I bought a 1911A1 and earlier this week took it to the range. I have to say that I am pleasantly pleased.....surprised....maybe even shocked. As I usually do, I first disassembled and cleaned it just to lube it and check it. It was easier to take down and back up than many of my more expensive 1911's. Also, very tight fitting and not the slop that one might expect in a budget weapon. It ate everything I threw at it with zero problems. I found it to be very accurate although the sights are the basic "GI" sights that one finds on the originals. Lately, when I shoot, I do it in "themes." I'll do all .22's, or all revolvers, or all 9mm, etc. so this day was a 1911 theme. I decided to take two additional original WWII Remington Rands as well as a couple of newer "name" brands with me so I switched out magazines and the Tisas accepted all of the mags and ammo flawlessly. In fact, the slide can even be switched out with the originals which I found to be very impressive, indeed! I could wax on and on, but suffice to say it was a very pleasurable experience with no hassles. Not bad for a $350 pistol.

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#1. they want to look like they're trying to do something #2. they're looking for federal $$$ to bolster the grossly mismanaged, under-funded, and very Admin top-heavy MPD. They figure to win on both points because JB&Co are so keen on shredding 2A.

Below are pictures of the Tisas 1911A1 that I discussed above. As an aside, I got to thinking about the movie, "The scent of a woman" where Al Pacino's character, who is a blind, ex Army Lt Colonel, disassembles his 1911 and then asks a person to time him assembling it. Did it in 25 seconds. I tried it................... no freakin' way, ha.

So I bought the Macintosh in 1985 (borrowed $4500 at BB&T) because you could immediately create a document on it. (The PCs of the day required multiple steps to create a document.) I purchased the external hard drive to save my work on floppy disks. The reason I spent so much money on this "thing" was to write my doctoral dissertation. I kept each chapter on a separate disk. The longest chapter was Chapter Two. It had lots of tricky writing and documentation and took days to write. Late on a Wednesday night I put the finishing touches on the chapter. And as always, I was careful to save to the disk so I wouldn't lose anything. The Chapter Two icon was on the disk before I removed it from the Mac. Ending around 3 am, I felt a great sense of accomplishment. The longest and most difficult chapter was finished! A day later, I decided to look at chapter two again. I put in the disk, and it was blank. The icon with the title, "Chapter Two" was not on the disk. The disk was labeled "Chapter Two", so I was using the correct disk. In a true panic, I went through every other disk to see if I accidentally Chapter Two on another disk. It was nowhere to be found. Chapter Two totally vanished from the disk. I laid down on the floor and cried. Then I drank a large amount of vodka. And then I went to sleep. The rewrite started the next day and took three days to complete. Chapter Two was saved on 5 different disks. The story is true, but the names were not changed to protect the innocent.

In the early 80’s I used to do real simply programming on a TRS-80. Still have my original Mac I used in college in the late 80’s.

I put the AOL "You've Got Mail" notification on my phone for when it get an email on one of my Gmail accounts.

Old enough to be a member, but I wouldn't join them, if their organization was free to join. To hell with AARP!

oh I go back to commodore experience. That P1 is the first i actually owned

I’d tend to agree - but with a caveat. A lot of the meds these days aren’t the ones we grew up with. I know a couple of people who were so resistant to meds because of bad experiences in the 80s and 90s. They finally got modern meds dialed in and it truly changed their life.

Embrace and support local radio. Listen to music as it supposed to be…random.

Browning Citori, Special Sporting Clays edition, custom cut by Todd Nelson, the Country Gentleman Less than 1000 rounds through it Edit: found something I want. 2100

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A light Maxim gun, made for the German emperor for cavalry use Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim credit with making the first automatic machine gun

Listing this for my son. We got this here on TGO and my son has been riding for a year now, but he's wanting something a little different. It is a great , fuel efficient, fun bike, that is easy to ride. I'm a bigger guy that rides a 1900cc Yamaha Stratoliner bagger daily and this S40 is an easy and fun ride. We rode 1k miles on our last trip covering everything from winding mountain roads to interstate and the S40 had no problems keeping up. In fact he outmaneuvered me on the switchbacks pretty easily. 6800 miles sold. What he's added: - Voodoo Café Turnout muffler 19.75": It's LOUD! in a good way (the color variation is where me melted his jogger pants on the muffler.) - DEI Titanium Exhaust Wrap - Kuryakyn Heavy Duty mirrors - DC Motive Speedo/Tach/Trip (GPS Speedo, Tach not connected) mainly for the trip meter to manage fuel levels - new Raptor Fuel Petcock - Shorai Lithium Battery - (new) Mikuni VM36 Carb - Sigma Jet Kit - Avon Air-90 Grips - K&N Air Filter - all LED lights (easily removable) - Slipstream Spitfire QD windshield and hardware included (not installed) - Willie & Max throwover saddlebags - under carriage accent LED lights with remote - USB quick charger - QD seat retaining pins (best mod ever for theses!) That's bug splat not pitting.

Yes...I left that aspect out. I just got tired of attempting to be humorous on this one. Was pooped after a long day of medical testing.

I wish I still had my C64. I went straight to a 286 in the PC world when I went to college. I learned to program on the C64 (BASIC and assembly) which helped setup my career path. I absolutely fall into the nerd category myself.

My first computer was a Commodore 64 with a 1541 floppy drive. I bought a 110 baud acoustic coupler modem for it with money that I made from mowing relatives' lawns. Later I got a 300 baud modem for and it started running a BBS at night on the family phone line. My parents barely tolerated that by unplugging their other phones. My first PC was an 8088XT clone, then an 80286, a 80386, 80486 and finally into the world of Pentiums. Somewhere in there I started another BBS running on a single dedicated phone line and eventually I had four lines on a BBS before the Internet took over. And then... forums! Such a damned nerd.

Sheesh, My last Duty Station in the Army was Ft. Bliss assigned to Range Control in the late 90's. We had the area east of the Franklin Mountains to the Alamogordo hiway, from El Paso north to the White Sands MR perimiter. We did live fire of everything from small arms, ADA, MLRS and such. Since the Army considered it bad form to kill illegals during live fire, we had 2-man teams that would patrol the ranges. We had one M16 between us and one mag full of ammo and every round counted pre and post patrol. Also had case of bottled water, case of MRE's, and GI issue green wool blankets. We would easily pick them up and put them in the back of the Humvee cuz they were usually starving, thirsty, cold or hot, and abandoned by thier coyote. We would drop then off at Border Patrol back in El Paso. I acutally did enjoy that duty. Seems like now, would need a much bigger truck, and I sure would want a bigger team, more arms, and certaily more ammo.

This is the reason we have so many dumb and stupid around today.

By "Acting like you are thinking about it".

First . . .I want to know what you had in mind Jim Henson wasn't directly involved in anything Star Wars, but he influenced it for sure. Lucas wanted him, but he was busy and referred Lucas to Frank Oz (Yoda). Oz and many of the other puppeteers in the late 70s and 80s all ran in the same circles, especially those at the top of their craft who would be working on feature films. Several (Oz for sure) were apprentices of Henson so his style influenced their own designs. I've always thought there was some resemblance between the monkeylizard puppet and some of them from Henson's The Dark Crystal.

I only had one White Supremacist in my jail( Trousdale ). Turned out to be a wannabe. Trying to impress the rest of the inmates. He failed.

I agree, but it’s hard to argue the fact we are definitely an over medicated population.

The only thing I miss about the old days was when I would turn my computer on I would be greeted with YOU GOT MAIL!!!!

Testing the waters.... 1971 chevy. Cucv frame. 14 bolt rear, Dana 60 front. Np205. Th400 and 355 sbc. 37" tires. Lots of other stuff, just ask. $25,900

Same for me, but not AOL. I wanted a Star Wars handle back in the early days of the Interwebz, but of course all the common characters were taken and I didn't want to be BobaFett3728 or Vader7561. I landed on monkeylizard as the first obscure SW thing I could find that wasn't already taken. It's what Jabba the Hutt's pet thing is.

I talk to my daughter almost everyday and my son as often as I can but he is always busy working but there is never a conversation that does not end with an " I love you!!!!" Sometimes when I have not heard from my son I just send him a text that says I LOVE YOU SON!!

RFK Jr. has no idea about this. He's not a reliable narrator on much of anything.

RFK Jr. is pretty much anti-medication across the board. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-robert-f-kennedy-jr-distorted-vaccine-science1/

That may be true, but there are A LOT of folks who regularly take something like Prozac with no negative psychological effects.

There have always been migrants working the fields. There's a specific immigration status (not Green Card, I don't think, but something special for agriculture) that allows for those workers. I don't think the hoards coming in now are looking for farm work, but those jobs are available to work legally. One of the many problems is that any child born in the US is a US citizen, and those born to illegal immigrants (and I suppose to legal immigrants, too) are "anchor babies", meaning their parents can't be deported. And hospitals in Texas and California are going broke providing required care for those poor folks. Lots of US companies love immigrant workers, but many of those jobs go to legal immigrants from India; people with in-demand skills. We have a system for immigration, and it doesn't include coming here illegally. I'm all for immigration, some of my forebears came from Ireland during the potato famines. But it has to be controlled and the executive branch is constitutionally tasked with enforcing the law,

We've got 20 million of them. How many migrant workers do we need?

I heard someone on YouTube this morning saying New York now has 33,000 illegals and is spending one billion a year on public assistance for them. ( housing assistance, medical care, food assistance, cell phones, etc). With 5 million entering the country since Biden took office and figuring $27,000 per immigrant per year year cost to the government, which is what the governor of New York claims it costs, They are costing American taxpayers 130 Billion per year just for the 5 million that have come in since Biden opened the border. This works out to $407 for every man, woman and child citizen in this country. If you are married and have two children your share of the migrant cost is $1,628 a year. Disclaimer, I have not researched these figures and am just repeating a YouTube poster but have no reason not to believe the figures.

I know of no one who has a problem with LEGAL immigration.

There are some people coming here for a handout, but it's so few of them that it's intellectually dishonest and lazy to lump them together. Similarly, vilifying all illegal immigrants as drug mules and child sex traffickers is just a tool to dehumanize the whole group, so you'll hate them and think of them as the boogeyman. There's tons of good reasons to stop all illegal immigration. I just wish folks would remember that regardless of how people got here, they are human beings and most mean you no harm. They're just trying to make a better life for themselves. Who wouldn't do the same thing if you couldn't feed your family where you live?

Thanks y’all

European Starlings are a non-native destructive species according to TWRA and can be killed if found to be causing damage and you're the landowner. ... https://www.tn.gov/twra/law-enforcement/wildlife-damage-control.html Being annoying doesn't classify as damage and the OP isn't the landowner. And it'll likely piss off the neighbors.

I REALLY thought Dick's would go out of business when they went woke-tard, but I was wrong. It didn't happen to Coke, Nike, or any other business either.

This is your periodic reminder that these folks are performers selling a product. The idea that they are like you or share your values is simply you projecting your thoughts onto them.