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  That is what I am thinking.  Next time she is back in the Nashville area, I am going to try to take her to a friend's farm where she won't be intimidated by others at the range and can just go at her own pace.  I feel terrible, but had chosen this class based on other recommendations, but it sounds like it was not quite as advertised.

I am looking for a good class for my mom to take for home defense and gun handling.  She has never owned a gun in her life and recently got a 20 gauge youth Remington as there had been several break-ins and my dad is often gone on travel during the week.  I had her signed up for a class in NC where she spends half the year that sounded like a perfect fit for the new gun owner with a shotgun.  Here was the description.     Basic Defensive Shotgun â€“ 4 hours      **NEW Course** A 4-hour introduction to defensive shotgun shooting. The course is designed for beginner shotgun shooters and individuals who have a shotgun for home defense.  Course topics include safety procedures, equipment and ammunition selection, defensive shotgun shooting skills, malfunctions, cleaning, and storage. Students will spend approximately 2 hours on the range participating in various shooting exercises.  Students will need a 12- or 20-gauge shotgun for the class.    However, I just got a call from her and she already gave up on the class a couple hours into it.  She said everyone in there already had extensive gun experience and she felt very overwhelmed.  It also sounded like the instructors were moving very fast and they were wanting the students to shoot from kneeling positions, running and hiding behind barriers, etc.  Keep in mind my mom has never even shot a gun before this and it sounded like a good fit for the beginner.  I would take her out and teach her myself, but I do not know of any private areas where I can shoot a shotgun as I live in the city.     Does anyone have any suggestions for a true beginner course (maybe even private lessons) for a woman who wants to become familiar with shooting and safe handling of a shotgun?  Right now I am taking this kind of personally and hope I haven't turned her off from becoming familiar around a shotgun.

SG Manager's office?  

He probably just stashes it when it does come in and not put it out on the floor.  Either way, both of those guys are d-bags.  I went ahead and sent an e-mail to corporate so they can start auditing their Cool Springs store.  They are taking this crap very seriously right now.

Thanks David...I figured I'd just bring it to your attention since it had been at least 10 business days.  Hopefully it was just a one-time glitch.   :up:  At first I thought it was maybe b/c I live in AL or something...  :squint:

I renewed my membership on 1/28 and my payment has long since showed as being cleared on Paypal.  However, I still do not appear to have Benefactor status.  Could someone please look into this.  Thanks in advance!

I bought several guns from him when I used to live in Chattanooga...he is a stand-up guy and well worth the short drive.

Ah yes, the famous elephant walk picture of a handful of kids.  I still need to see like 590 more.  2 Ambulances...great response effort there!   "Source confirms gunman's father found dead in NJ"...great reporting there as well.   Thanks for posting the pictures, but I have seen all those before and I still have my doubts.  If you want to belittle me for questioning authority and the mainstream media, then so be it.  I have always liked doing my own research on things and not just taking what is shoved down my throat as fact.

All I am saying is a lot of the facts around the entire thing don't make sense to me.  Where are the 600 kids who were evacuated?  Why are there no pictures or video of that?  Where are the ambulances?  In all the pictures I saw, I counted 3 up by the fire station...why are they not down by the school?  When my wife was at VT during the shootings, there were ambulances lined up EVERYWHERE, as well as EMT and Blacksburg is not the biggest town out there.  Newtown definitely seemed a bit short staffed on the responding EMS.  That is all, something just hasn't sat right with me since I first saw Sandy Hook on the news.  

There were several Facebook pages that showed creation dates of 12/10 on Facebook.  I noticed people were asking about this on 12/14 and their posts were being deleted and eventually the pages were deleted and new ones were created,  Also, the RIP Emile Parker page was created the morning of 12/14 and the first post was from her dad talking about her death.  Who creates a Facebook page for their daughter asking for donations instead of being at the scene trying to figure out what is going on?  A couple hours later it was posted on the same page that the school was on lockdown and they weren't sure if Emile was alive in the school or injured at the hospital.  The timing on a lot of it was just weird.  Call me a tinfoil hat freak all you want.

No offense, but I checked Snopes and they didn't even scratch the surface concerning a lot of questions that are being brought up.

The nurse also stated in an interview to network TV that Adam Lanza's mom was a well-liked kindergarten teacher at the school.  Mrs. Lanza had no connections to the school!!   Here is a link to the DHS site...unbelievable this page is still up.  Must just be one hell of a coincidence.   http://www.ct.gov/demhs/ical/eventDetail_page.asp?date_ID=CAC9C6C9CD83CDC9C7   Also, not many people have mentioned the fact that the car Lanza supposedly drove to the school, a black Honda Civic, Connecticut plate number 872 YEO was registered to a Christopher A. Rodia (born August 1969), totally discrediting the official story of the car belonging to his mom.  There is video footage of the car being towed away and the plates are clearly visible.

  Prvi is anything but foreign crap...I have used a few different calibers of Prvi and it has always run reliably from my AR to my M&P9.

Does anyone else find it weird that DHS and FEMA had a disaster drill scheduled in Bridgeport, CT (15 miles from Sandy Hook) for 12/14?  The title of the course/drill was "Planning for the Needs of Children in Disaster."  Also, I can still not find explanation as to why some of the R.I.P pages and Sandy Hook Memorial Fund pages were created on 12/10 and 12/11...a few days before the shooting.

They already do...it is called Doomsday Preppers.   :popcorn: