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If I was doing a HALO jump from the international space station, this is what I would wear. For everything else I like the wrap around protection I get from M frames and Half Jackets with the full sized lens. There are a lot of IED victims out there that have clean skin in the shape of their Oakleys.

I think you have a valid gripe with them scanning your license without your permission, but I think it was just a misunderstanding rather than a lack of consideration. I'm sure they aren't planning on selling your info or using that information for nefarious purposes, and so they probably didn't even consider it to be an issue... in their mind. Perhaps they should have anticipated customer concern. Maybe if you'd informed them that you aren't comfortable with them doing that, especially without your permission they would have changed their policy. And if they got huffy with you I'd agree with posting their info here. But I don't think this is anything beyond a misunderstanding that could have been cleared up on the spot, as opposed to posting here and chasing off customers.

Is Tommy Lee Jones showing up?

Well, over 99% of people don't walk around with $600 cash on them, so nearly every customer would need to have the deposit put against a credit card. I'm gonna take a wild ass guess and say that most people would rather just exchange their driver's license than have their card run. I mean, you have to do it when you test drive a car. I don't see people boycotting every car dealership ever over that rule.

You might change your mind after having a few guns run off as soon as you hand them over. Just saying, perhaps instead of getting upset at the store, try to put yourself in that situation.

Only 150 people showed up to walk with this lunatic..... in Chicago. That goes to show you how irrelevant this guy is.

And yet the liberal spending elitists of California look down their nose at Texans as if they are backwater hicks, while their government gets more in the hole each day and their citizens suffer astronomical costs of living on top of taxes. I hope Texas keeps up the advertising campaign, if anything to rub their nose in it.

But then how do you screw people who are smart and responsible with their money? More importantly, how do you prevent the taxation of the welfare queens who vote based on who will give them the most government "entitlements"?

But nobody takes them seriousry.

Oakley does prescription lenses for many of their ballistic (using term loosely) eye pro. When I was in the Army all the blind guys had prescription lenses for their "M" frame eye pro. I wish I could point you in the proper direction on where to get them done, but I have one good eye that offsets the bad one, so I don't wear glasses. Check out the optometry center at WalMart. I'm sure they offer those now. The great part about getting "M" frames is that you can switch out the lenses in seconds and go between clear lenses, amber, UV, polarized.... you name it. I have 4 different lenses for my M frame.

This is the big plus of having a son. I get to play with all his toys under the guise of bonding, and it doesn't make me look like I'm juvenile.

I agree, but I'd chalk this one up to a miscommunication. I'm sure they thought nothing of it because THEY know they aren't doing anything with the information. Of course, that doesn't give YOU peace of mind since you have no idea what they're doing. A good way to handle that would have been to let them know that many people aren't cool with that, especially without some kind of consent. When you take a car for a test drive they make a copy of your driver's license. I've never found this practice to be abnormal. If I was handing someone an expensive piece of merchandise and I didn't know them from Adam, I'd want some kind of assurance that it wouldn't be stole, especially if it was something that occurred frequently. I guess what I'm saying is I'd hate to see someone lose business over a little misunderstanding. Surely there were no nefarious motives there; the guy at the counter probably didn't think anything of it. At any rate, it would be nice to have clarified the issue with the guy at the business before flaming them here and turn away potential customers. If he was a d**k about it I would say flame them all day long, but it doesn't sound like that was the case. It would be nice to see an employee from that shop comment here to clear the issue up.

How is that even in the same ballpark? You speak as if an exclusionary tax or fee for gun ownership is the same as procuring the property of the firearm itself. That is like saying having the right to free speech is the same as the government providing you a medium for it, such as your own soapbox. Everyone should have the ability to exercise their rights without government involvement. That means if I want to exercise my right to speak freely the government shouldn't interfere with that. I should not have to pay a tax for liabilities which may occur from my free speech. Same as gun ownership. The government should not create any law which would prohibit gun ownership unless a tax of some kind is paid. Saying that sales tax or whatever is such a tax is not true, because I can buy from a private citizen at no tax or have one given to me for free. The first few firearms I owned were given to me as gifts. Should I then be forced to pay a tax or insurance so I can maintain my own personal property? Hell no.

They have to be flown below a certain altitude and not within certain airspace of low flying aircraft, such as airports. We used low flying UAVs when I was in the army. The teeny tactical ones that fly pretty low due to their limitations. Low enough that it was not uncommon for them to be shot down. I don't see the problem here. Seems to me that the UAV boom has little to do with the government and more to do with the civilian market. Those drones they are talking about aren't being built by Lockheed Martin. They're being built by an under-sexed college kid in his mom's basement.

Not saying it's an excuse. With rights come responsibility, but not everyone exercises that responsibility appropriately. That's life though. Once you step over the boundary of allowing folks to exercise a right, to mandating how they exercise it we have crossed a threshold that we can't come back from. Obviously we have already crossed that threshold multiple times over on many rights, but more wrongs won't make a right. Makes me wonder what people did in America prior to the last few decades when individual liability insurance was the norm. Life musta just been out of of control..... blood in the streets....

Haha, I'm pretty sure harming any animal in the woods surrounding Ft. Benning comes with a $10,000 fine of some sort. Every thing we did in the field came with a safety brief 10 minutes long about the various wildlife you can't touch for fear of immediate execution. If you even fart in the presence of a red cockaded woodpecker I'm pretty sure that's 20 years in Leavenworth.

And that is the sad part. The libs are using Hollywood movies as examples. Pure fictional made up stories.... made up by the same people who have an agenda against private firearm ownership. It's Refer Madness all over again.

I think with the current hype surrounding the awful Sandy Hook massacre, folks aren't exactly going to be excited about a movie with such a graphic title.

And why I am so flattered. My wife doesn't even find me charming.

I'd like to see someone try to take out a jetliner with a .50. Ain't gonna happen unless you shoot the pilot, and that can be done with just about any high powered rifle out there. That is, of course, if you're the best sniper in the world or Marky Mark, that you can hit a cantaloupe sized object from a mile away as it moves laterally at several hundred miles per hour. Shooting a jet engine is not as easy as it sounds if the aircraft is moving, and even several successful hits would not bring it down. I remember when a DHL plane was struck by an SA-7 shoulder fired missile outside Baghdad International..... right in one of the engines. It just turned around and landed. Liberals are stupid.

First today in this thread or the site, because if it's the latter than you may have already been beat..... like 5 times over.

Thanks for the invite, but I don't make it out east too often. When I was a private we used blanks in our M16s to make cleaning rod launchers to see who could stick one into a tree.

Ahhhh, you beat me to it.

This made my day. Stupid North Korea. This was like watching one of those crappy commercials for graphic design school. The scene where it shows New York under missile attack is almost certainly stolen from the video game Modern Warfare 3. I am almost positive of it. I don't know whether to laugh or be sad that there is an entire country that only get exposed to this kind of stuff and have no idea how good things would be if they rose up and overthrew their government.

I'm going to disgust a few folks around here with this one, but I bought a complete polymer lower about a year ago from a fellow member for $90.