QuietDan

So, Eotech needs to put a big white arrow on the top of sights meant for Northeast police sales??

God Bless Don in his recovery and God Bless anyone who ever prayed for a Wounded Warrior. Over time, the doctors that you all have paid for have gotten so much experience treating Wounded Warriors that they develop new techniques that benefit Don and others. So, God Bless You All, and Will The Circle Be Unbroken.

  From Casablanca:   Renault: I've often speculated on why you don't return to America [Tennessee]. Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a Senator's wife? I like to think that you killed a man. It's the romantic in me.   Rick: It's a combination of all three.

You'd think it was the Soviet Union with hoarding scarce commodities and bare shelves and reports of people saving commodities for friends and a thriving black market. Thank you to the Communist Dictator, the God-Emperor Barack Hussein Obama and all his minions and strap hangers -- you are all @$$#oles and bring out the @$$#ole in others. This is not capitalism -- this is a stinking socialistic favored-group nightmare pale shadow parody of capitalism, managing a shortage in a land of plenty. What else is being destroyed? What's next -- joining a line in a store because it's a line, before finding out what the line is for?   I'm sticking with my local gun store, which has a modest supply of ammo at reasonable prices, an honest approach to selling it, and enough sense to head off the w#ores that would exploit the rest of their customers.

Nightstand gun for inside the house work is Springer M1911 with .45 hollowpoints.   HCP gun is Springer EMP with 9mm hollowpoints.   Outside the house work is SR 556.

Freakin' morons.

For all the bull-shit "make it as painful as possible" sequester effects, they should be saving 100's of billions of dollars. These aren't the effects of a 5 percent cut. The cuts are being targeted to punish the conservatives, the "wealthy," the military, and other forces that didn't vote for the God-Emperor Barrack Hussein Obama. And it's harder to track because the bastards haven't published a budget in four fucking years.

If enough people did that, it would be the equivalent of the internet's "Distributed Denial of Service." That means they are so busy answering the phone that it shuts their system down.

. . . reconsidered. . . .

He's keeping out all the whores and drug dealers, and making the place safe for his regular customers, who are still low.  He's attempting to preserve and defend his society, ala Mad Max or Book of Eli. You see stupid #### like this overseas all the time. Welcome to the third world.

  One and the same.

An earlier incident in which he tasers a foul mouthed woman who attacked him.   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271996/Caught-camera-Horrifying-moment-security-guard-Tasers-mother-children-row-Atlanta-shopping-mall.html   (edit: I couldn't find nobanstan's earlier version)

I'd like to know if da gator tried to climb up'n the truck hisself and whether or not he was chompin' on it. . . .

  By definition, we don't know the "truth" until a court trial, everything before that is a piece of the truth or a piece of a masquerade of the truth.   With a dead perpetrator, there will now be no trial and therefore no adjudicated truth.   The result of a court trial is as close to the truth as we can get, being mere mortals and all.

Spoken for pending meet-up arrangements.

Cleaning up and sorting range brass on my reloading bench and divided out about 150 mixed headstamp brass .40 cal S&W that I don't need.   It ain't much but in these times with everyone scrambling thought I'd put it out there.   Free for the asking unless you want to lay a little 9mm or .45 cal range brass on me.   FTF in Smyrna. PM me for a time and location. Smyrna Popo parking lot works for me.

Gun Owners Separate Friends from Foes By Frank Miniter   Chris Walsh didn’t set out to punish businesses that don’t allow him to carry his concealed handgun. He’s just a software designer from Richmond, Va. He started the website Friend or Foe in 2009 to keep track of where he could shop and eat without running afoul of business policies and local regulations. But then gun owners started using his website. As word got out on gun-rights blogs, people began adding more business ratings to Friend or Foe, highlighting the establishments that ban firearms and those that don’t. Before long, Walsh found he’d become an activist, and his fast-growing website was helping to fortify a civil-liberties movement. He’s okay with that. He has big plans for how to separate friends of the Second Amendment from foes.   His latest deed was integrating Google-mapping software. Now anyone can easily log in and rate businesses. A red thumbtack signifies a business that’s not friendly to gun owners. A green thumbtack represents a place that openly welcomes gun owners. A gray thumbtack is a business where folks have carried a concealed firearm without incident, but where the official policy is not known. There are now over 11,000 places rated, and users are adding more everyday.   Walsh’s website is an Angie’s List for Second Amendment advocates. Each rating can have a note attached; click on the thumbtack to see it. For Dr. Jagadish Potluri’s office in Leesburg, Va., for example, a note says, “Signs on all entryways barring firearms.” For Grioli’s Italian Bistro in Bealeton, Va., a note reads: “I placed the first, that is NEGATIVE, rating. I have since received an apology from the CEO/President of the chain. He has done his homework and seen his manager was incorrect and taken steps to educate the staff that handguns ARE legal in the restaurant.”   “I never meant for this site to be used to persuade businesses to change their policies,” Walsh says. “But when a business finds they’re losing customers, they often clarify or change their policy.” Whereas the Journal News in White Plains, N.Y., posted the names and home addresses — also via a Google map — of some New York residents who have concealed-carry permits, Friend or Foe doesn’t invade personal privacy. It helps gun owners follow laws and regulations and take their business that respect their freedom. “I’m a big believer in property rights,” Walsh says. “I don’t dispute a business’s right to ban firearms on their property. I’ve just decided to take my business elsewhere. Some other gun owners are choosing to do the same.” As the website grows, Walsh is modifying its security and finding the best ways to make sure ratings are accurate. When a rating seems odd, website users flag it and Walsh or others check on the establishment and adjust the rating if necessary. He prefers establishments to have multiple ratings so users can see an average rather than a single opinion. He also wants to create an app that allows travelers to search for restaurants and hotels that don’t bar them from carrying a gun.   Walsh doesn’t require people to sign in or give any personal information. “Many gun owners are very private people,” Walsh says. “They shouldn’t have to give personal information before they can help others chose where to take their business.”   Tom Gresham, host of Gun Talk (a nationally syndicated radio talk show about firearms, shooting, and gun rights), points out that Friend or Foe is only one example of citizens’ becoming educated consumers. There is so much peaceful, grassroots Second Amendment activism afoot that Gresham compares today’s gun-rights movement to the civil-rights movement of the 1960s. “Gun owners are standing up for a basic human right,” says Gresham. “I want to support the companies that also support my constitutional freedoms. Technology is now making it easier for us to do this.”   Gresham’s stance on this issue solidified after he invited someone from Wounded Warrior Project, a charity that helps veterans, to come on his radio show on Veteran’s Day. After sending the invite, Gresham received a statement from Leslie Coleman, the public-relations director for WWP, saying they were declining because Gun Talk is “related to firearms.” This shocked Gresham, because many gun companies and hunting groups have done a lot to financially support WWP.   After Gresham talked about this hypocrisy on his show, many gun owners spoke out on blogs and elsewhere. To subdue the controversy, WWP’s CEO, Steve Nardizzi, agreed to do an interview on Gun Talk. But Nardizzi only inflamed the tension during his appearance, distancing WWP from those who cherish the Second Amendment.   Gresham was torn. WWP does great work, but other organizations also help wounded warriors. He decided it was time to take a stand. He wrote, in an op-ed for the Shooting Wire:   Now, as the U.S. Senate deliberates another “assault weapons” ban and other measures that target the right of law-abiding citizens to bear arms, the more than 100 million Americans who own guns are learning to separate their allies from their enemies. Friend or Foe is just one example.   There is a major push to demonize and marginalize gun owners, gun makers, and the shooting sports. It is in this light that I see the WWP policy of prohibiting gun and knife makers from using the WWP logo. What are they telling the world? 
Take the longer view. Ebay blocked firearms from being listed. Paypal blocks the use of its service for buying guns. Google blocks guns, dealers, and makers from searches in its shopping service. We have reports of banks closing the accounts of gun makers simply on the basis that they won’t do business with the firearms industry. Each of these is a very public way of saying, “We don’t do business with ‘those people.’” Each is a way of saying that reasonable and responsible people should have nothing to do with the firearms business. We are being put into the same box as pornography. . . . No longer will we just shrug when faced with a distorted media report about guns. No longer will we just go about our business when a politician makes outrageous claims about gun owners. No longer will we continue to give money to, or do business with, any outfit that in any way labels us as “undesirables.” To shrug and just go on is to not just accept the demonization, but it actually agrees with it and supports it. No longer.   When I asked Walsh if he has had to give up his favorite restaurants or stores, he said: “I had to give up going to Costco, as they have a corporate policy banning guns. Locally, I also had to stop going to Buffalo Wild Wings. As you educate yourself and try to give your hard-earned dollars only to those who stand with your freedom, you find there are sacrifices. For me, though, it’s worth it. For the handful of places I’ve had to give up, I’ve easily found new places that support gun owners.”   Meanwhile, the comments about local businesses from gun owners around the country keep filling in the map on Walsh’s website; one person in Washington, Penn., gave Washington Ford a red thumbtack and wrote: “Was asked by one of the salesmen to cover up [my handgun] because it upsets people. Well, upset him out of the sale of a new Focus hatchback.”   — Frank Miniter is the author of The Ultimate Man’s Survival Guide: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Manhood.   http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/343230/gun-owners-separate-friends-foes-frank-miniter

Bottom line: The little #### video-gamer allegedly transferred his video-gaming persona to his real life in an attempt to rack up more "points" than any other mass shooter.   If so, who says that video games do not desensitize a small fraction of players to mass murder if not prepare them for the act?   If this is so, and I have no reason to doubt it, it should completely reset the national debate. It should, but I doubt it will. That makes our national leadership complicit in these crimes. If national leaders are going to pass nonsense laws, instead of laws that address the facts on the ground, they make themselves complicit in future mass shootings.     **************************************************************************************************   Morbid find suggests murder-obsessed gunman Adam Lanza plotted Newtown, Conn.'s Sandy Hook massacre for years     Law enforcement reportedly discovers a sickeningly thorough 7-foot-long, 4-foot-wide spreadsheet with names, body counts and weapons from previous mass murders and even attempted killings. 'It sounded like a doctoral thesis, that was the quality of the research,' an anonymous law enforcement veteran said.     NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Sunday, March 17, 2013, 8:11 PM Updated: Monday, March 18, 2013, 10:05 AM   Authorities believe Adam Lanza targeted Sandy Hook, because a school would provide little resistance, allowing him to rack up victims in a quest for notoriety.   It is three months since the killings in Newtown, since 20 children and six adults were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School less than two weeks before Christmas. And as bad as the story was, and will always be, it is even worse than we originally knew because now we discover that this was slaughter by spreadsheet.   It has been reported previously that law enforcement found research about previous mass murderers at the Newtown, Conn., home the shooter, video gamer Adam Lanza, shared with his mother, the first victim of Dec. 14.   It was more than that, and worse than that. What investigators found was a chilling spreadsheet 7 feet long and 4 feet wide that required a special printer, a document that contained Lanza’s obsessive, extensive research — in nine-point font — about mass murders of the past, and even attempted murders. But it wasn’t just a spreadsheet. It was a score sheet. “We were told (Lanza) had around 500 people on this sheet,” a law enforcement veteran told me Saturday night. “Names and the number of people killed and the weapons that were used, even the precise make and model of the weapons. It had to have taken years. It sounded like a doctoral thesis, that was the quality of the research.”   The law enforcement vet attended the International Association of Police Chiefs and Colonels mid-year meeting in New Orleans last week, a conference where state police colonels share information with each other, and learn from each other. One of the speakers this year was Danny Stebbins, a colonel from the Connecticut State Police.   Stebbins spoke for a long time about the morning of Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary. Those in the room were told of first responders in Newtown who have since quit their jobs, so shattered were they by what they found when they got to the school that morning, when they saw dead teachers with their arms wrapped around the children they had tried in vain to save.   The man to whom I spoke, a tough career cop who did not wish to see his name in the newspaper, was in the room when the state cop from Connecticut spoke, said the man was well into his presentation when he began to talk of the spreadsheets that had been found at “the shooter’s” home. He didn’t use Lanza’s name, saying he did not want to give him even an hour more of fame, just because that is what Lanza wanted; what all these shooters want, from Tucson to Newtown to Virginia Tech.   “We keep calling them mass murderers,” the veteran cop to whom I spoke said. “But there should be a new way of referring to them: Glory killers.   “They don’t believe this was just a spreadsheet. They believe it was a score sheet,” he continued. “This was the work of a video gamer, and that it was his intent to put his own name at the very top of that list. They believe that he picked an elementary school because he felt it was a point of least resistance, where he could rack up the greatest number of kills. That’s what (the Connecticut police) believe.”   The man paused and said, “They believe that (Lanza) believed that it was the way to pick up the easiest points. It’s why he didn’t want to be killed by law enforcement. In the code of a gamer, even a deranged gamer like this little bastard, if somebody else kills you, they get your points. They believe that’s why he killed himself.   “They have pictures from two years before, with the guy all strapped with weapons, posing with a pistol to his head. That’s the thing you have to understand: He had this laid out for years before.” Another pause. “He didn’t snap that day, he wasn’t one of those guys who was mad as hell and wasn’t going to take it anymore,” the man said. “He had been planning this thing forever. In the end, it was just a perfect storm: These guns, one of them an AR-15, in the hands of a violent, insane gamer. It was like porn to a rapist. They feed on it until they go out and say, enough of the video screen. Now I’m actually going to be a hunter.”   Those who didn’t know about Lanza’s life on its way to the gates of hell were told in New Orleans about the plastic that covered his own windows in Newtown, the Connecticut town he would make famous as a way of making himself, the newest glory killer, famous. Were told about how in the last days of his life, not a single ray of light could get into his room.   He was finished with his spreadsheet by then, the old score sheet, one that did not yet have his name on it. “The whole thing was chilling and riveting,” the law enforcement official said.   The fascination (Lanza) had with this subject matter, the complete and total concentration. There really was no other subject matter inside his head. Just this: Kill, kill, kill.   “It really was like he was lost in one of his own sick games. That’s what we heard. That he learned something from his game that you learn in (police) school, about how if you’re moving from room to room — the way he was in that school — you have to reload before you get to the next room. Maybe he has a 30-round magazine clip, and he’s only used half of it. But he’s willing to dump 15 rounds and have a new clip before he arrives in the next room.”   The career law enforcement veteran paused again, and when he started speaking again his voice was shaking, like a wind had blown through it.   “They believe he learned the principles of this — the tactical reload — from his game. Reload before you’re completely out. Keep going. When the strap broke on his first weapon (the AR-15), he went to his handgun at the end. Classic police training. Or something you learn playing kill games.”   The police in Connecticut believe that Lanza’s mother, a gun lover herself, was an enabler of her son’s increasing obsession with guns, that she was making straw purchases of guns for him all along, and ignoring the fact that he was getting more and more fixated on them.   At this point I asked the man what we can possibly learn from what happened with Adam Lanza and his mother and what finally happened at Sandy Hook Elementary on that Friday morning in December.   He said, “The amazing thing is, as much of a tragedy as it was, it really could have been much worse. We heard that in New Orleans, too. Those teachers . . . the whole school . . . they did everything they could. There is nothing more they could have done. Despite the great loss of lives, they did save lives by acting the way they did.”   He said when the presentation was over that day, he walked out of the hotel and into the New Orleans morning, three months removed from Sandy Hook Elementary but unable now to shake what he called the “visual” of Adam Lanza’s spreadsheets, the seemingly endless list of names and numbers compiled for God knows how long; the list on which he wanted his name at the top, because of all the easy kills he thought he could get at an elementary school.   “Then I called my wife,” he said, “and told her about it, and started to cry about Newtown all over again.”  Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/lupica-lanza-plotted-massacre-years-article-1.1291408#ixzz2NvKNZBjZ

  There's a provision in the TCA that others can probably quote chapter and verse that says if you are using a gun in a valid self-defense or others-defense situation, all the other administrative trivia falls by the wayside. I think it says that self-defense is an "affirmative defense" for the use of the gun.

I too thought you had bought a "Ma Deuce":   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning     It sounds like an awesome truck:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M35_2%C2%BD_ton_cargo_truck     Maybe you can get an over-cab gun ring for it . . .

Can I be fired if I have a "NoBama" bumper sticker on my car when I park in the company lot?

Welcome to TGO from Smyrna!

The bill can certainly be a "Pathfinder" or a "Scout," opening up the idea of a lifetime permit that gradually applies to more and more folks. Half a loaf at a time.

  Still applies.

May God Bless you and your family.