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Are you talking about the Browning Auto - 5?

I participated in one back in 93 or 94 on the Capital in Nashville. and about 1000 showed up for that. We had no problems with people showing up waving firearms.  Hal Hill (Talk Radio Personality here in Knoxville) spoke among others and did a great job! I think a lot more would come now, if the publicity were done right.

Thanks for the link prag!

I plan on "Bugging In" for as long as possible.  I keep a "Get Home Bag" in my car, just so I can get home.  I live 19 miles from my work place, so I figure that it would be a day to a Day and a half to walk home from there. I carry all I need for 3 days, including high calorie food.  Once I get home, I this will be my home base.  If my neighbors stay, then I will attempt to organize them, since there is strength in numbers and diverse knowledge.  If they "Bug Out", then what they leave will be "assets" for the future.

Any rifle used by a major power over and extended period of time, starting over a 100 years ago, is going to have a history.  What has made these rifles so popular is the fact that they have come into the country over the last 15 years in great numbers. The Russians used this rifle through two world wars and exported it to all their satellite nations for manufacture. They are actually has iconic and prolific as the AK47.  They were and are sold at a great price and ammunition is cheap for them.  And there are many different makes.  Some are more expensive than others due to their rarity.  Many people on this board own more than 3 or 4 of them.   If it were me, I would research what you have to find out the real history on it. Then have it checked out by a gunsmith to see if it can still be fired.  If it can be, buy some of that cheap ammunition and shot it.  Hang on to it and pass it down to you children.  Make it a family heirloom, since it belonged to your father.

They are good first packs and rugged as hell.  They are a bit on the heavy side and they carry a lot of the weight on the shoulders, which can get uncomfortable.  You should be able to get a nice used large ALICE for under $40 and a new one for under $60.  A good hiking backpack will start at about twice that, but if you get it set up for body, it will be a lot more comfortable to walk with.  I really suggest that you consider this with your wife.  If you get her a good commercially available pack like a Kelty, Osprey or ALPS it will be a lot more comfortable on her than an ALICE will and she will be able to carry more weight.  I'd go with an internal frame pack with a good padded waist belt.

It's a little known fact that the U.S. sent an expeditionary force to Russia late in WWI and afterwards to help the White Army fight the Reds (Communists).  They armed them with the M91s so the could be supplied by the Czarist Government and later on by the White Army. Westinghouse and Remington manufactured Mosin Nagants for the Czarist Armies.  However when the Reds took over Russia, they refused to pay for the rifles and large inventory remained here in the states at Bannerman's Armory until the 1950's, when most were sold off. It could be one of these rifles.http://www.mosinnagant.net/global%20mosin%20nagants/bannerman.asp   Here is a good article on the Bannerman Mosin Nagants. http://www.mosinnagant.net/global%20mosin%20nagants/bannerman.asp  After re-reading the article, it seems that some of these were issued to National Guard units, mining companies and the U.S. Post Office.  They were even sold through CMP for a while.

I haven't seen one in years!  I had on back in the late 80's.  It think I paid about $100 for it and another $15 for an extra mag.  It was a pretty decent gun and shot well. It was a fairly decent carry pistol, has it was thinner than most large autos at the time.  I traded it off for something else, but I can't remember what it was.

I've owned 2 Mini 14s and I won't own another one.  I understand from OS's posting that they are doing a pretty good job with them now, but the ones I owned, wouldn't hold a group for any amount of money.  Both would start off good, but after a magazine, groups would start to get larger. Won't waste anymore money on them.  Much rather have an SKS.  Better rifle for less money.

Those Jackhammers have a pretty high rate of fire, don't they!!! :)

Bet you'd knock them unconscious with a Mosin Nagant M44!  Probably would make it easier to use the bayonet that way!

  Hey now, some us are old you know!  Went to war with M16a1, back in 91.  It served me well.  While most of the Infantry units had a2s and M9s, us Engineers still carried a1s and 1911s.  Didn't get to fire an a2 or a M9 until a couple of years later.  The a2 impressed me!  I thought they hit a home run with it.  I wasn't impressed with the M9.  I've always preferred the 1911 over it.  And never thought it shoot as good as a Glock 17 or a Browning Hi-Power.   Back on topic now. Seems like most home invasions happen to people that are doing things they shouldn't be doing.  Not all of them, but most of them.  I'll stick to my pistols and shotguns to fend off the invaders.  

Don't knock a lever gun for home defense either!  Pistol caliber lever actions (Marlin, Henry, Rossi, etc) will hold 9 or 10 rounds.  You can get them with 16" barrels and they are fun to shoot. There are other rifles out there besides ARs and AKs  that are pleasures to own and still do what you need them to do.  They also won't alarm you neighbors as much, if you care about such things.

I tend to go with the more traditional hawks.  I have a CS Trail Hawk and it's been a dandy!  Stripped the head and worked over the edge a bit.  It was pretty dull when I got it.  I had a CS Norse and swapped it away.  I found I missed it, but I wanted something with a pole on it.  The Pole makes it more handy in the woods.  All in all, it was a good $22 spent!

East_Tn_Patriot, I saw this segment when it aired on 60 minutes, back in 1995.  It was my belief at the time and it's still my belief today, based on what she said and the general tone of the interview, that she wanted to confiscate all firearms.  It made me even more furious than I already was.  When I see that segment today, it still makes me furious!!!  Nothing she has done since 1995 suggests anything else.  Now you can argue definitions and semantics all day long with me, but you will not convince me that she meant any less.  That woman hates everything I believe in.  She is not a friend to this country, the Second Amendment or any of us.

I watching her say this.  I've hated her guts ever since.

No vote in the House on the Fiscal Cliff tonight according to the news. http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/31/politics/fiscal-cliff/index.html?hpt=hp_t1   Personally, I hope they do nothing.  First of all, I wasn't for the Bush Tax Plan anyway.  I thought we would have been better off to pay the national debt down and cut Government spending.  Instead, he gave us back some of our taxes and VASTLY INCREASED Government spending, while starting to erode our Constitution and Personal Freedoms.  Obama simply carried all of it on.   If we go over the Cliff, we might actually get to see the Government cut actually spending, while paying down the national debt... I know it's a pipe dream.  No way any politician in Washington is going to do either.  But I can still dream about it, can't I? :(

I don't want to see anything pass.  Even the Gunshow loophole is sacred with me.  They can kiss my butt!

I own a Saiga and love it, but between the two, I'd probably go with the Marlin.  In .357, they actually seem harder to find than Saiga's  Besides, Saigas will cost you body parts, you best keep right now. :)

You make it sound easy, but trust me friend, when I say that it won't be.

The minute it looks like some sort of organization is starting to take place, search warrants will be issued and the Feds will be busting down doors.  And don't think for a minute that the NSA doesn't have some sort of a clue as to who is doing what.  This is 2012 (soon to be 2013), not 1860.  There are no secrets among groups in this country.  The Government will try it's best to crush whatever opposition seems to be forming, before it can form.   Besides, let;s say for (s)hits and grins, something like this happens, who's going to be running the country?  Is this disorganized mob just going to turn it over to who ever?  Are they going to hand it over to the Tea Party or the Republicans?  They going to bust up the Union and let the individual states become sovereign nations?  Are they going to crown someone Big Kahuna?  Is there going to be a Constitution?  Whoever gets left in charge, I can just about guarantee you, will round up all the ringleaders have them tossed in jail at the best and executed at the worst.  Why??? Because the revolution will be too dangerous to be left alone, to do it all over again, if some other people get mad about something else.   The minute a rebellion starts, the Republic will end and will be replaced by some sort of tyranny, regardless of who wins... actually in the end, no one will win.  We will all lose. We might really see the Blue Helmets come here and try to take control or at the very least support the current administration.  No way the world will allow all our Nuclear Weapons to remain in a country that has fallen into anarchy.   You all need to step back and think about what you are talking about and what you think you want out of such an event.  The odds against success are extremely high and even with success, your goals are not likely to be achieved.  I'm not happy about what's going on either, but I'm not at "That Point" yet either.

Instead of dozens, it should read thousands!

They tear the firearm apart and scan each part in 3D.  They've been able to do that for years now.  You know, I wouldn't mind a plastic or polymer frame for a 1911a1.  That could be kind of cool!  I wouldn't be transferring it. 

I can't see people making actual ARs with these though.  Seems to me the better weapon to make with these type printers would be small automatic pistols.  I bet a low powered semi-automatic pistol in say .32acp and below would last far longer than 6 rounds.  Seems to me that these would still need metal springs and firing pins to work properly.

I carry a ferro rod and lighters.  I wouldn't mind playing with flint and steel.  Where does one find flint though?  For starting a fire I carry PJCBs, jute twine, dryer lint, chagga and char cloth and a small Altoids can set up to make more char cloth.  I carry all this is a little leather. pouch