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Running out of money also causes severe penned up demand, and then the dam breaks!

It depends on your skills, your time, your patience, your budget and what you expect in the end. For parts, especially for older guns, I normally order from these guys: https://www.gunpartscorp.com/

I have the same problem, I use my safe to store 50 caliber ammo cans, and I need more room. However, I use my safe for two reasons, one for the fire protection and second for the security aspect. I can certainly move my 10 cans to the closet, but I lose the two reasons for using the safe. Do I just need another safe? My wife will sure to love that!

I have an array of Gen2s, they are great.

When you paid over $50 for the new credit card size calculator.

You are not alone. It can be worse, like me, I have the Signess and Glockits, with a touch of AR15ness too! I just wished I had moneyness

...when you enjoy drinking coffee at Hardees for long periods of time each day every day

yep I'm watching

I too have ordered from their website, but my local mom/pop grocery has the best beef ever. Then just up the road is Benton's hams, they too have some of the best beef too!

Congrats, I never have owned one, enjoy! You will have to give a range report soon!

This is interesting: ETHRA Top Goals: To provide a safe, quality, dependable public transit system. To connect people in rural areas to health care, employment, education, public services, and recreation. To provide an equivalent level of transportation service for citizens with disabilities in rural areas. Source of Funding: Federal and State funds are made available through the Tennessee Department of Transportation. Local funds are generated through fares and other projects. Fares: One-way trip is $3.00 or $6.00 for a round trip within the county of residence. An additional $3.00 is charged for every county line crossed. Extra stops under 15 minutes are $1.00. Extra stops over 15 minutes are $3.00. Source: http://www.ethra.org/services/transportation/public-transportation

I am hearing some more on Bitcoin, one is this article from Fox News about a Kentucky coal town using Bitcoins: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/05/struggling-kentucky-coal-town-looks-to-bitcoin-to-spur-economy/ And several stories how China is moving to restrict Bitcoin: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/business/international/china-bars-banks-from-using-bitcoin.html?_r=0 One more story,Ron Pauls comment this past week: http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/04/technology/bitcoin-libertarian/

In the past month, I have heard 2 or 3 multiple separate comparisons of the United States to the early 1930s Germany. However, in all the comparisons, the speaker does not go deep into the explanation. So this morning, I spent some time using google to read commentary, editorials, and other reading materials. To my surprise, what I was expecting like links and comparisons to Obama, Obama Care, Gun rights attacks, freedom attacks, etc, was totally false, and what I am actually starting to see with these readings are common threads that hit "me" and my political view! The comparisons that I am reading is comparing the right wing politics today to the run up of power of the Nazis of the 1920s and 1930s. THIS WAS NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING TO FIND! I do consider myself right wing thinking, I certainly vote right wing, and consider myself a republican, not sure if I am Tea Party republican, but nonetheless right wing if not teetering on far right.   With that said, what are you hearing about the comparisons of today's United States and 1930s Germany? Just to get your juices flowing, this article below I found very informative, and is similar to all of the threads that I have read over the past 2 hours.  I am not buying into this comparison, or at least not now.  But hey maybe I am seeing the world through right wing glasses!  The source: http://www.oleantimesherald.com/editorial/article_9668507c-4e06-11e3-9ba9-0019bb2963f4.html US And 1930s Germany? Take A Look Back at 1920s Posted: Friday, November 15, 2013 9:59 am By Kevin Sharbaugh Special to the Olean Times Herald | 0 comments With all the claims that the Obama administration is emulating the gradual rise to power of the Nazi regime, what we haven’t seen are actual comparisons. With such lack of details you could claim any administration in American history is identical to the early Nazi tenure in power. Now, of the acts of the Nazi’s gradual rise to power in the 1930s, how many apply? Have religious minorities and “degenerates” been required to wear identifying markers to make it easier for private companies to deny them employment? Have any had their citizenship revoked? Have there been taxpayer-funded media campaigns declaring members of such religious minorities “less then human”? Where is the government declarations that the disabled are an intolerable threat to the nation’s economy? Where are the privately armed citizen militias that were used to intimidate the masses? Where is the government confiscation of media outlets? These are actual actions taken by the Nazis in the early 1930s that have seen no actual repetition here in the United States. If you say there are such similarities but can’t cite any actual comparisons, it’s tantamount to admitting that, no, such similarities don’t exist. But, is there some similarities between Germany in the past and America today? Yes, 1920s Germany. The Nazis had not yet gained power in government, they were just a political party fighting for the heart of the German people with slogans and promises. These included actively condemning the democratically elected government as being weak-willed and under the thumb of foreign interests. They were frequently critical of the influence of labor unions and promised to free private industry from their tyranny. Religious and ethnic minorities were accused of endangering Germany’s traditional values by their refusal to assimilate, and were often accused of being involved in actual plots orchestrated by foreign powers. They were loud and proud in their condemnation of the threats posed by homosexuals, Hollywood and leftists. To that end, they called upon fellow German patriots to take up arms to form citizen militias to protect the people since the government was deemed untrustworthy and unwilling. It was common to see Germans sporting their privately owned firearms at Nazi Party street rallies or showing up at rival party rallies to intimidate those who disagreed with them. And there was no shortage of the Nazis invoking the memory of Germany’s great leaders and claiming to embody their core values and that they were fighting to uphold their national legacy. President Obama has been frequently attacked by the right as weak-willed and under the thumb of foreign powers, notable among them has been frequent claims he is a puppet of foreign Islamic governments. The right has been strongly opposed to labor unions and openly refers to their members as “thugs”; a common promise of the right is to limit the power of labor unions to organize so as to free private industry. There has been no shortage of criticism from the right about the intolerable unwillingness of Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Latinos, etc. to assimilate to American culture. Some have openly backed laws outright banning the construction of mosques, claiming that they are not houses of worship but are bases of operation for foreign governments seeking to destroy America. The right is loud and proud in their opposition to treating homosexuals as fellow Americans deserving of equal rights, often attacking Hollywood and the left as pushing a “gay agenda.” Privately armed citizens’ militias are cropping up across America, promising to protect the people from the government. Adam Kokesh even openly called for his listeners to make a peaceful yet armed march on Washington, D.C. (fun fact: that’s how Benito Mussolini, Hitler’s role model, came to power in Italy ... a peaceful yet armed march on Rome). Of course, there is no hesitation by the right to show off how well armed they are at their protests, most recently boldly standing their ground against four unarmed women who wanted to talk about things the right didn’t like. And, of course, there is no shortage of the right invoking the memory of the Founding Fathers in their claim that they are fighting for our nation’s core values. America far more closely resembles Germany of the 1920s, with armed nationalist party/militias promising to free us from foreign leftist tyranny than Germany of the 1930s, with its mass arrests of critics and passage of laws that strip minorities of their rights as citizens.

Folks never forget! Its Dec 7th, 2013!

Is that OTD, or is it more like $404.98 OTD?

Yes same problem, and its related to this: http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/72746-quote-photo-and-link-problems/

Very nice. I have a P228, and its one of my favorites. This place is a good site for your mags: http://www.topgunsupply.com/ among others too.

Don't want to pop your bubble, but use a new computer or a someone else's computer, and you will not see this. I once thought the same thing until I used my Apple IPAD. I normally read and post TGO stuff on my desktop PC, but my IPAD I normally read other websites. I googled something gun related once on my PC, and saw a lot of interesting posts, but TGO posts showed up about 6th or 7th on list. I think duplicated the same search on my IPAD, and nothing TGO related showed.

Yes, I indeed have been violently ill since January 20, 2009, and it actually started on November 8th, 2008!

PTL, this is fantastic. I have been thinking about this all day! I have 4 kids of my own!

That is quick and very good. I wonder how they caught him?

I have not been a FFL holder in 20 years, but I recall "then" the state does not really regulate the storefront, and yes it can be city by city ordinances. I do think you have to have a special permit to sell handguns from the state. Now having said that, I would really deeply reconsider having a home or a building on my home property as my FFL location. You open yourself up to many risks both from the Federal Government intrusion and from the aspects of robbery. The ATF can visit you during your hours, and if you have private collection and store inventory, this can be open to interpretation by the Feds, and lots of other unnecessary scrutiny. Regarding robbery, once the public is aware that you have a gun store at your home or adjacent to your home, each time you are away from your property you are at risk of being robbed.

Thank you very much CZ9MM!  You are just one day late, I went ahead an ordered from Brownells Sunday afternoon.  Though Brownelles was not the cheapest, I became very concerned about the fake Eotechs, and decided to cross reference the seller to Eotech's distributor list.  If the seller was on the list, then I figured the seller is safe, and if the seller was not on the list, I had serious doubt about the quality of the product. btw SWFA is on the list.  So here is eotech's list: http://www.eotech-inc.com/merchantlist.php This was my retailers list with price delivered on Sunday Dec. 1, 2013 before the $60 rebate. Note most of these had some type of Black Friday ticklers: Grabagun delivered $366.87 (not on the list, location TX) EBAY (ROSCO69) $367.95 (not on the list, location MN) EBAY (THEDIGITALOASIS) $369.90 (not on the list, location FL) WALMART (Altatac) $384.99 (Altatac not on the list, out of Los Angeles, CA) BROWNELLS $390.45 (on the list) J&G SALES $391.52 (on the list) AMAZON $393.00 (not on the list) GT DISTRIBUTORS $395.55 (on the list) BUDS GUN SHOP $399 (on the list) OPTICS PLANET $403.75 (on the list) MIDWAY $405.00 (on the list) SPORTSMAN WAREHOUSE $409.99 (on the list) There were many more I checked out.

Truth to be known, this is probably more of a public tactic to leverage UPS or FedEx shipping rates between Amazon and the carriers.  If anyone is going to develop these, likely it would be UPS since they are the ones that would lose revenue in this situation.   Just like Walmart leveraged Master Card rates, Amazon is probably leveraging UPS. 

I do a lot a business travel for the company, I always have a rental car.  To be honest, I have never had a bad customer experience maybe because my company is a major customer to them.  We use National, Budget, Enterprise, and Avis mostly.  My company has never used Hertz, hmmmm probably because they are too expensive.   Now having said that, I was on personal vacation in October in San Diego.   I rented a car from Budget, drove 9 miles to my hotel, and the very next morning, I had a flat tire waiting on me.  Called the agency, asked they come out and repair it, they said no since I did not buy the roadway hazard, said it would be $250, so I said no, and changed the tire myself with the tiniest doughnut you ever did see.  Budget did tell me to bring the car in and exchange it.  So I did, but while there, the attendant said I need to see the manager, and the manager gave me a piece of paper to fill out, then he said it would be $35 for the tire repair to plug the nail.  I asked why, he said since I did not buy the hazard plan, that I was 100% responsible for the tire.  So I had a choice argue it and still pay the $35, or just pay the $35.  So I paid and went on my way.  In the end, I noticed this Budget was not a corporate owned facility, but rather a franchise owned facility, and I chalked this experience up to the gotcha slick used car tactics.  This was my one and only bad experience in over 250 car rentals in the past 20 years.