QuietDan

Ok . . . I would expect a line on November 6, but a line on the first day of early voting? Is that normal? I'm thinking there is nothing normal about this election.

(If more guys practiced personal gun control, there would be fewer unwed mothers.) The point they were actually trying to make is that well-raised and successful young adults don't use gun violence to settle scores or rob liquor stores.

Romney's doing well as he is debating Obama AND Crowley. Two against One and holding his own.

+1 on the "Back to Kimber" thought. If it has kind of a bead-blasted look to it, they might be able to do it again on the same gear that made the finish in the first place. I'd certainly phone first, following up with e-mailed pictures for them to consult with you.

Juries can't be hand-picked. There's a challenge process that involves the defense and the prosecution.

Clearly not a legal posting that applies to HCP holders. Surely, the lawyers knew that, and instead drafted this eye-candy to appease the sheeple and to give them justification to ban thug teenagers.

Good show. Crowded (that's a good thing). Lots of vendors. It was a hopping place. I got my hand re-stamped nice and dark and might go back for an hour or so today. Saw the folks from Specialized Arms there with - twenty tables (!!!), they were doing a land office business. I remember a Murfreesboro show a couple of years ago that had looked pretty starved out, but the economy was doing really crummy at the time. Seems like the economy is trying to come back. November can't get here soon enough to start correcting some major errors.

How'd you sew it -- punch, needle and thread -- or do you have a machine that can do leather? The stitching looks pretty even. I - - did a couple of knife sheaths, but it's been . . . a dozen years ago.

That's freakin' awesome!

I thought that marriage imposed a decent wardrobe upon 'ya. . . . At least when you're visiting her momma.

This sounds pretty good. Willpower and a positive attitude really matters. The brain lights up differently when you know someone loves you.

Ditto. Amen.

Laugh all you want. It'll be too late to laugh when your guns are locked in the trunk of a police car and you're standing on your front porch with a handwritten receipt in your hands. . . .

I'm a retired military officer and carried a pistol under my arm for almost two years in Iraq, an uncertain environment, where I was able to provide for my own personal safety and was responsible for the safety of 30 others. I feel I have honorably earned the right to wear and to carry a pistol in these times, much as in another time I might have worn a sword. Finally receiving my carry permit and arming up while out and around was a satisfying feeling of calm normalcy. I am still responsible for my own personal safety and that of my lovely bride. I sometimes introduce myself in social situations as "her bodyguard," and I mean it. I still feel a general sense of responsibility to protect those around me to the extent that I can.

Agreed, all hypothetical. Confiscation is just something that can't be done by half measures. It'd have to be all at once, and everywhere, and it would be CLEARLY illegal, in opposition to the Second Amendment. The State Governors, most of them, just wouldn't stand for it and would counter it within the boundaries of their various States. They pass a State Law to forbid the Feds in their state, and forbid State and Local officers from implementing it. There's just not enough Federal officers to implement a confiscation when the States legally oppose them, and especially so if the States counter the Feds with force. For the military, and to a similar extent, other Federal, State and Local officers, they will NOT execute illegal orders. It's counter to their commissions. And if they are met with physical opposition, the few stupid enough to try it would rethink it while receiving incoming fire. Imagine Federal officers being arrested by State Troopers, local Police, or even by the State's National Guard.

Who would they turn their guns and ammo TO? The local police? I can't imagine the local police wanting to have ANYTHING to do with a Federal gun grab. Who, the TSA? The TSA personnel are in the TSA because they were unsuccessful in delivering PIZZA. "Here's your pizza, and please put all of your guns and ammo in the trunk of my car." Har!

I've tried to leave a detailed post about what I expect would happen after a Federal Firearms Confiscation was declared, and each time, I think I've hit some sort of keyword filter and I found myself kicked out of the post. It might be my imagination, but it's happened twice in this thread and never in another one. TGO David's board, TGO David's rules. I'll go carefully here. I'm thinking the Governors of the various States would counter and strongly OPPOSE any move towards Confiscation by Federal Forces. They'd be on pretty solid ground from a Tenth Amendment perspective. I'm thinking the Governors of the various States would take approximately the same tack they took 150 years ago for the Civil War and proceed to raise State Companies, Regiments and Brigades to operate locally in conjunction with local Police, County Sheriffs and State Troopers for small unit guarding, patrolling and tactical missions, and in conjunction with the State's National Guard for larger unit tactical and strategic missions. All of this, of course, describes the raising and activation of the State-sponsored unorganized "mil#######." It would be just as described (and for the same purpose as anticipated) in the U.S. Constitution. If things got ugly and stupid, we'd have to go with what we got, at the level of preparation and training that had been achieved up to that time. That would mean that you would have to decide in advance if you want to be capable and ready to be a Private, a Corporal, a Sergeant, a Top-Sergeant, a Lieutenant, a Captain, a Major, a Lieutenant Colonel, or a Colonel. Expect former or retired Military or Police personnel to be graded up about two grades, and expect there to be a shortage of qualified leaders for the MANY volunteers. Tennessee is the Volunteer State, after all, and after all this time. Such organizations would probably top out with leadership at the Colonel level before being incorporated as a unit of State National Guard. Federal-level confiscation against the States was tried once, though at the time it was Sovereign-level confiscation against the various Colonies by British troops, and it ended badly. The first Confiscation mission involved the powder magazines and arms-stores in the Concord, Massachusetts area, and there were more casualties than the British expected, from so many quarters, that their mission remained uncompleted and the force was routed all the way back to Boston under nearly continuous gunfire. And there's been a few changes since in technology and organization that would make it an equally (or more so) bad idea now.

God Bless you and your girlfriend. You are a good person as you are worried about HER, thinking about HER, wanting to do something for HER. Talk to your pastor. Your pastor is the one you talk to, even if you pick a church at random and walk in. Just knock on the door. There are so many things that happen to us that have never happened to us before and we don't know what to do, what to say, what to think about. A pastor does. You and your girlfriend have no experience in this life situation, but your pastor, any pastor, does. Spiritual help, and practical help, is a conversation away. I notice that you are in Smyrna. I recommend Father Jacob at St. Luke's, on Old Nashville Highway. I don't know if you are Catholic, it kind of doesn't matter all that much. That's who I talk to. He's a good man, and he's backed up with a good team that knows the territory. Others could point you to other pastors who are equally capable.

You are kind of right, and kind of wrong. Communism is a big lie, and it doesn't work. But, it is seductive to the ignorant. Really, Communism as ever implemented in the world is a dodge to allow a small circle to amass absolute, unaccountable POWER, while duping the little people into thinking they are being taken care of, by pandering to their greed, their laziness, and their ignorance. It is a positively SATANIC route for enslaving people by harnessing and pandering to all their base instincts. Also, Right and Left are kind of a circle, you go far enough left, and you start bumping into the far right. Big People, or people who think they are Big People, gaming the system for their own personal advantage.

I agree with your ". . . same old, same old . . . " However, I reject your apology as completely unnecessary! I dislike the ". . .and your momma . . ." ad-hominem personal attacks. I'd rather stick with the issues and supportable facts, back and forth, back and forth. Post on! Post on!

Obama is a Communist, Surrounded by Communists & Funded by Communists. A lot of folks think "Communist" is an old fashioned word, and shy away from using it. Once upon a time it was a charge that was beyond the pale. Unfortunately, it's true. Obama is and always has been a truly evil son-of-a-bitch, dedicated to the destruction of this country. Many people knew this from 2006 and 2007 and some of us before even that, certainly well before the 2008 election, but no one wanted to believe the warning signs. We as a nation were stupid to get shystered into electing this dangerous man. Understand Obama by reading his "Playbook." It's called "Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky, the original Chicago-based Community Organizer, short-hand for Communist Agitator. Obama too was a Chicago-based "Community Organizer," though a pathetic pale shadow compared to Alinsky. Obama is too young to have worked directly for Saul Alinsky, but Hillary Rodham (Clinton) was offered a job by Saul Alinsky himself. Rules for Radicals was Obama's Bible in his Chicago efforts, and he and his minions have carried its prescriptions with them into the White House. Don't take my word for it, read it for yourself. Read Rules for Radicals and weep for our country: http://www.amazon.co...es for radicals http://en.wikipedia....es_for_Radicals Oh, and read the dedication. I am not making this up. Saul Alinsky dedicated his book to Satan, who he referenced by his other name, Lucifer. The quote: Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer. -- Saul Alinsky

You missed the Wally Walk at Wal-Mart.

Hasn't it always been more or less a s#ithole??

Cocked, locked and shocked. There's a song in there somewhere . . .

I'll beat the bad guy to death with my unloaded pistol after I've unloaded it on him and his dirtbag buddies.