QuietDan

I think he's being sarcastic . . . Paging Mr Haas. Paging Mr Haas . . .

Oh brother. I don't doubt you Dolomite, but who are the crazy people who put together laws where they've got to get inside your head? How the heck will they know for sure what your "intent" is? Maybe I want to build ten all alike and then I change my mind and sell them one by one. Jeesh!

Why don't they ship to Tennessee? Personal passion or some legal situation?

Wasn't exactly sure where to put this. It's the web page from an e-mail from Brownell's. UNUSUALLY blunt talk about the potential for ammunition shortages, rivalling the 2008-2009 "Election Year Bubble." UNUSUALLY BLUNT TALK, all wrapped up in the language of buying and selling. Apparently a big talk-topic at the SHOT show. http://links.brownellsinc.mkt2010.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MzkzOTYxMAS2&r=MjM3MDQwMTk3MjMS1&j=MTIxNTg4NTY4S0&mt=1&rt=0

I thought it was so the ATF satellite could track it from space -- scratch it off and they break down your door.

I'm sure they deliver pizza to the dorms, who's to say that other . . . commodities . . . don't get delivered as well?

This also means that you don't have to tell the Feds that you own guns, because Commerce already knows. If you buy gun stuff at Cabelas, or Amazon (well, Midway USA but they ASSUME you have guns), then they can make a good guess of how many and what caliber. If the Feds collected data on us the way Commerce collects data on us, there'd be a Second American Revolution. Well, there might be a Second American Revolution anyway, but that's another post.

CRKT M16-13Z Daily Cary for the last six or seven years. Gifted one to each male relative (well, sold one for a penny to each male relative. . . .).

Received this scam report from a friend. Don't know if others have seen it already. Out of caution for your safety, I post it here: ***************************************************** Women often receive warnings about protecting themselves at the mall and in dark parking lots, etc., but this is the first warning I have seen for men. I wanted to pass it on in case you haven't heard about it, especially if you are a regular customer at Lowe's, Home Depot, Costco, BJ's, and even Wal-Mart. Over the last month I became a victim of a clever scam while simply going out to get supplies and it could easily happen to you. Here's how the scam works: Two nice-looking, college-aged girls come over to your car or truck as you are loading your vehicle. They both start wiping your windshield with a rag and Windex, with their . . . torsos . . . almost falling out of their skimpy T-shirts (It's impossible not to look). When you thank them and offer them a tip, they say 'No' but instead ask for a ride to McDonald's. You agree and they hop in. On the way, they start . . . disrobing . . .. Then one of them starts. . . . hugging . . . . all over you, while the other one steals your wallet. I had my wallet stolen January 4th, 9th, 10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th, 24th, & 29th. Also February 1st & 4th, twice on the 8th, 16th, 20th, and very likely again this upcoming weekend . What a horrible way to take advantage of us older men. Warn your friends to be vigilant. Wal-Mart has wallets on sale for $2.99 each. I found even cheaper ones at the Dollar Store. As you would expect, you never get to eat at McDonald's. I've already lost 11 pounds just running back and forth from Lowe's, to Home Depot, to Costco, etc. Please share this with all the older men to be on the lookout for this scam. (The best times are just before lunch and around 4:30 in the afternoon)

Another excellent article to spread far and wide: ********************************** Are we armed because we're free or are we free because we're armed? by AWR Hawkins, PhD Every time I read the Bill of Rights, I am struck by the wisdom our Founding Fathers demonstrated in pronouncing and protecting our natural rights. From religious liberty to protections on private property and the security we have in our own persons, our rights are essential to our humanity because our Creator saw fit to endow us with them. Moreover, because they flow from God to man rather than from government to man, our Founders designated them as off-limits to government encroachment. But while the whole of the Bill of Rights is magnificent, it is in the Second Amendment especially that one gets a real taste of both the simplicity and profundity of the Founders: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and Arms, shall not be infringed. In these words, we not only see the right to keep and bear arms clearly and simply set forth, but also the profound truth that an armed population is “necessary to the security of a free state.†No other right is explicitly described by the Founders as necessary to the security of a free state. No wonder George Washington said a “free people ought … to be armed.†In Federalist No. 46, James Madison, the father of the Constitution, boasted of the “advantage†Americans had over the people of almost every other country: that advantage was the fact that they were armed. More recently, Wayne LaPierre, the executive director of the National Rifle Association, has described the right to keep and bear arms as “the fundamental freedom that separates [America] from every other nation on earth.†Just think of it, Madison wrote of the advantage of an armed populace in the late eighteenth century, and LaPierre in the twenty-first. It is a theme which, over centuries, has both remained true and proven to be a quintessential characteristic of the American way of life. Quoting LaPierre again: “The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is the essence of what being an American is all about — living truly free as individual citizens.†Yet, this freedom, which our Founders saw as necessary to the security of a free state, has come to a perilous point in history. Although our government was forbidden from infringing upon it, it has done so anyway, and now we approach a presidential election where perhaps the most anti-gun president in history is running for re-election. If he gets re-elected, he’s certain to expend lots of energy trying to destroy the Second Amendment, either in part or in whole. As a state senator in Illinois, he supported a one-gun-a-month limit on gun purchases, supported laws making it illegal to use a gun for self-defense, and opposed laws that allow law-abiding citizens to get permits to carry guns on their persons. As a U.S. senator, he supported bans on high-capacity magazines and he supported the assault weapons ban. And at the same time, with a straight face, he claimed to support the Second Amendment. Here’s the bottom line: The first president of the United States believed a free people should be armed. Like Madison and others, he recognized the right to keep and bear arms was an expression of our humanity. The 44th president of the United States does not see things this way. He equally abhors the thought of an armed people and a free people: much less a free people which is armed. But Obama is wrong, because the right to keep and bear arms is still necessary for the security of a free state. It always has been, and it always will be. (Rights given by God do not change over time, rather, they endure for all time.) Not only are we armed because we are free, we are free because we are armed. http://dailycaller.c.../#ixzz1n2bXvcbB

Awesome! Good catch! Good for all. And it's Brownells, therefore trustworthy.

Right in his dorm room? Lovely.

Awesome!

Who then, are they going to get to drive the damn bus? Have you driven a school bus lately? Some of the kids nowadays are twice as big as a little ol' female school-bus driver and would as soon cave in the side of the bus-driver's face as sit quietly in their seats. Are you willing to drive this bus on this route? Have you reviewed the sheriff's reports lately? I imagine the Sheriff or local police departments could describe places that are too dangerous to drive a bus. I imagine that in the last year, there has been at least one report of a child in school with a gun in their backpack, which would have been carried . . . on the school-bus! Apparently the risk assessment was such that the Sheriff's office sent an escort for the bus. If I were a school-bus driver, I'd want to be at least as well armed as my passengers! I might settle for a taser. You can rest assured that the county schools are not going to go through the cost and expense to put an armed security guard on the school bus, not even one in rotation among the various school busses. Nothin' personal here, just to move the issue forward a little. . . .

That's a little unfair to the cowardly lion. Or the Scarecrow. Or the Wicked Witch of the West.

I know there are a lot of Catholics that make their own decisions about birth control, even after hearing about and understanding the Church's point of view and teachings. And, the Bishops are the teachers of the Church, and what they say is the official position of the Church, and they aren't going to back down. That being said, Catholics, even Catholics who use birth control, for the most part will fight the Obama Administration rulings. There are some things that are between us and our religious leaders, even when we argue with the Priest or ignore the Bishop -- and is none of the government's damn business. You'll find a lot of Catholics that might be really irritated with their Bishops that will defend them utterly when the Bishop's attacked or challenged by the government. Treading on Freedom of Religion is a very dangerous thing, and one of the early warning signs that all potential Dictators trip up on. We are in very dangerous territory here. After the government gets finished going ofter the First Amendment, they'll come after the Second Amendment. Sure as you can count from One to Ten.

Regarding the guns and "trouble." There's trouble, and then there's TROUBLE. You could be chasing women. That's TROUBLE. You could be drinking heavily. That's TROUBLE. At the very least, messin' with guns will keep you out of the bars. So, pick your trouble. Presented thusly, I imagine your wife might even support your gun habit.

If they don't let her carry into the dangerous territory, then she ought not go there unless she has the Sheriff's escort. The Sheriff's office will get pretty tired of that pretty quick. Barring the Sheriff's protection, maybe she ought to stop about a half-mile away and let the little s#!+s walk the rest of the way home. Better yet. Don't take the little s#!+s on the bus and make their low-life parents come to the school to pick them up. They had better not fire her, who the heck else are they going to get to drive the damn bus?

It's a shame that our government and our people can't take a hint from the Canadians. You go through all this stupidity with the gun registration, spend billions, inconvenience everybody, tread on the dignity of the people, find out it DOESN'T STOP CRIME ONE DAMN BIT, and then have to spend years and years trying to back the law out, with the liberals fighting it every step of the way. Tragic, and stupid. I'm wondering how long it is going to take for the Brits and the Aussies to back out of the stupidity, and I wonder if the U.S. of A. is going to avoid going down such a stupid path or run in the other direction.

Sure would like to know what they were arguing about. Hope it was more than parking spots or working hours.

Not a word from the young man's Dad in this story . . . Once upon a time, the school-teacher or principal would get concerned about something and talk to the Dad on the phone, who would say: "I'll take care of it." And the school would know that Dad would take care of it, and Dad WOULD take care of it. Not to jump to conclusions or anything, but . . . where's Dad?

In a SHTF or a guerilla war situation, you take what you can get and for any scratch-gathered group, you're going to get mix and match. Any pistol is better than no pistol at all. In guerilla war, a pistol is good for getting a better gun, through ambush of military forces or whatever. I imagine, that as you build the size of your force and have to train and equip them, you'd go with the lowest common denominator, or whatever you can get the most of, what you can get the ammunition for, what is the easiest to field repair, the easiest to train up.

Bummer. Didn't realize I was posting to an old thread. Makes you wonder what brings on "Forum Death"

Karma's a bitch! Good for you!

Form follows function. "Pretty" matters. That action sure looks nice. Can't wait to see the whole rifle.