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Oh, no, I don't plan on shooting it. I plan on finding a person I don't have much use for that knows nothing about guns and selling it to them. I would like to get at least part of my buddies money back for him. I have no plans to shoot it at all. I will post a few pictures of it and ya'll are not going to believe this but just had one of my bait customers stop by and he saw the gun laying on my table and said, " I have a 380 just like that and I like it. I have put probably 200 + rounds through it and once in a while it will jam but I like it." I was nice and didn't say anything bad about his gun since he liked it an all. I did have another guy stop in today and said he would actually give $125.00 for it if he could shoot it and it worked ok. The guy is a friend but don't know about selling it to a friend. He said he would like to have it as a night stand gun. Oh well I wish my buddy had not brought me the damn thing but I will try and do something with it. Just not sure what?????? Wish they would have a Buy Back Program around here close. This is the only gun I would really like to see destroyed and get something for it in return. I will post a few pictures of it since someone ask to see some.

What a piece of art this thing is.......A diamond in the rough it ain't. For a collector of junk firearms it may be a diamond. I got 18 32 Remington bullets with it. My buddy brought it by and just dropped it off and told me to do what I can with it and I told him I could dig a hole out in back yard and hold funeral services for it and he just laughed. The only thing that might get anyone excited is it seems to have a low serial number. it's in the mid hundreds and I guess that would be a low number......... :shrug: :shrug: 

To me that was a clear cut case of premeditation and he should have been found guilty of all charges. He could have and should have dialed 911 when he heard them attempting to enter his home and if the police did not arrive in time than he would have had right to defend himself if he was threaten with fear of his life. I don't condone what the two teenagers were doing and it was only a matter of time before they would be caught or killed but that was a planned execution and not a self defense situation.........jmho

Nothing amazes me anymore. Been in the ld world long enough that I don't doubt anything anymore.......... :whistle: :whistle:

Very true O S  considering the rifles he was using. He only really have one that would have been effectively accurate and the other two would most likely have been considered a lucky hit...The Remington 700 with the scope would have been the only real gun for that long of the shots he was making. The Remington Pump Rifle they said was a 35 caliber didn't have a scope and the other rifle was a 30 caliber Carbine would have really been a reach from the tower. Taking all of that into consideration and the fact that he shot 215 out of possible 300 in the marine corps doesn't make him exactly a top shot candidate so I would say his shots after the first few were mostly luck more than skill...........jmho

I have no clue about Tennessee except everyday I drove to school I had a shotgun and a rifle hung in gun rack in back window of pick up truck so I could go hunting after school. What made me think about that article as I read it back years ago and then OS made the post that if that shooting at Fedex today might be the first mass shoot in a non gun free zone and I remembeed reading that story from 1966.

I have been wondering that same thing as I was reading these posts?................ :rock:

Gosh I thought sure OS or nicky would get this.  I guess I will point it out.     Because such tactical teams did not exist at the time of Whitman’s crime, many students had risked their own lives to fire back at the unseen sniper, or to help wounded strangers to safety.        Students were shooting back which would indicate that UT was not a Gun Free Zone at the time of the Mass Shooting!!!!!!!

If and when I go to a walmart store for anything I never bother to walk back to sporting goods even if I only 1 or 2 isles away. Never saw a sense in wasting my time with that in last 3 years...........jmho

  Nope not it!!!!   Infact it was something in one of your other posts that caused me to go back and look again..........

I was curious because I thought I have read something interesting about this back years ago so went back to read it again. I was right about what I read. Lets see how many of ya'll can find the one sentence I am talking about after you read the article.     On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower with three rifles, two pistols, and a sawed-off shotgun. The 25-year-old architectural engineering major and ex-Marine—who had previously complained of searing headaches and depression—had already murdered his mother, Margaret, and his wife, Kathy, earlier that morning. He fired his first shots just before noon, aiming with chilling precision at pedestrians below. “The crime scene spanned the length of five city blocks . . . and covered the nerve center of what was then a relatively small, quiet college town,” noted executive editor Pamela Colloff in her 2006 oral history of the shootings. “Hundreds of students, professors, tourists, and store clerks witnessed the 96-minute killing spree as they crouched behind trees, hid under desks, took cover in stairwells, or, if they had been hit, played dead.” At the time, there was no precedent for such a tragedy. Whitman “introduced the nation to the idea of mass murder in a public space,” wrote Colloff. By the time he was gunned down by an Austin police officer early that afternoon, he had shot 43 people, thirteen of whom died. The shootings garnered international attention. “The cover of Life the next week made a big impression on all of us,” UT alumnus Shelton Williams told Texas Monthly in 2006. “The photo, which was taken from the victim’s point of view, was of the Tower, as seen through a window with two gaping bullet holes in it. From that vantage point it looked menacing, even evil—not the triumphant symbol of football victories we were used to.” At year’s end, the Associated Press and United Press International ranked the shootings as the second most important story of 1966, behind only the war in Vietnam. The massacre would spur the creation of SWAT teams across the country. Because such tactical teams did not exist at the time of Whitman’s crime, many students had risked their own lives to fire back at the unseen sniper, or to help wounded strangers to safety. The incident was arguably the most painful in UT’s history and the university tried for years, unsuccessfully, to erase its memory. That changed in 1999—33 years after the murders—when president Larry Faulkner agreed to allow a place of reflection to be created behind the Tower, dedicated to Whitman’s victims, and a memorial service to be held

I have no intentions of deflating my Jeep tires for fear it may float away in heavy rains...........Who ever said that was an idiot with zero brain cells functioning...........jmho

Yep, another Joe Biden shooter. Prayers going out to the families and people that were shot. Hope all of them recover from their injuries....... :( :(

My only question to all of this is there was I think 3 other officers that had the man subdued so what was the reason for this officer to do this. He was cuffed for part of it or most of it and for the most part helpless to do much. I'm guessing this officer has had to man other bad reports in his file and it was just time for him to go............jmho

As far as tornado's go back when I was a teenager growing up in middle Illinois in the heart of Tornado Alley it is so flat up there you can see one on the ground 5 miles away and when the sirens sounded in town a bunch of us kids would get together and chase them through to farm roads in pick up trucks throwing beer cans at them. Sometimes we might get to close and the truck would begin to lift and you had to be fast enough on the brakes and reverse to back away from it. Now I am much older and a little smarter, not much but a little and They scare the hell out of me now that I live in Tennessee. I don't know what it is or why but during the day if you can see it soon enough you can avoid it by driving in opposite direction of it's path but I have found that in Tennessee for some reason they always seem to show up after it gets dark and you can't see them so you don't know which way to run so you ride it out as best you can in your house  or basement. I know a guy up in Ridgetop TN. that built his own home home for him and his elderly mother and he built a tornado house. Cost $198,000.00 dollars and so far it has been struck directly but 3 . 2 F3 and 1 F4 and received zero damage to house. Not even broken window. He does allow neighbors to come in when the storms are coming and many times he has as many as 25 or 30 folks from nearby with him and him mother in during the storms. In all honesty I went from chasing them and throwing beer cans at the to being totally scared of them at night!!!!

Reasons for that is they have these new toys that can come close to pin pointing where they are located in a storm but can't tell you if it will touch down on you or not. he newest toy they have is locating the debris ball at the base of a larger tornado on the radar and the can show you were it is on the ground at now. Weather men have got to be life the news reporters and want to be the first one to announce the bad weather and they fight over ratings when they are dealing with peoples lives......... :rant: :rant:

They are biting on June bug Red Flake Trick worms on Guntersville right now. Had a buddy fish a tournament down there last Friday and he got 2nd place and lost one about 6 next to the boat. Fishing by himself and couldn't get the net before the fish got off. He weighed in 17lbs. He was kind of disappointed there were very few weeds and I told him they began spraying them in February this year. He caught most of his fish back by the bridge in South Salty Creek. I think most folks don't know they are spraying the weeds but they will be disappointed when they get down there and find out.

Yep, they have had license plate lights on cars since the Roaring 20's when cars were only required to have 1 tail light and Plate light combination. That reminds me of my Uncle Hugh. He was a farmer and he had hogs he would feed every evening and he drove an old 51 Chevy to the hog lot down hwy 70 about two miles. While he was in the hog lot one night a few hogs were scratching them selves on his old car bumper just after coming out of pig pond and they covered up the tail lights on that old chevy with mud. On his way back home he got pulled over by a State Trooper. The trooper waked up to the window and said sir, I had to pull you over because your tail lights are not working. Now you had to know my uncle but I swear this happened because I was about 10 years old and with him. He told the Trooper that they dang sure are working and he gets out and walks to the back of the car. Looks at te back of the car and hauls off and kicks the fender and knocks all the dry mud off the fenders and there is them bright red tail lights all lit up. The trooper took off his hat and scratched his head and handed him his license back and said you have a good night Mr Greer and got in his Patrol car and drove off. From then on my Uncle would look at the back of his old chevy before going back home after dark from the hog lots.................. :rofl: :rofl: 

Gosh she has some long legs all the way to her Butt. She must be 6 foot tall..................... :whistle:

That law has been on the books for many years. I think last year they announced that they would begin enforcing it........jmho

Gosh I never gave license plates that much thought till now and yea, the tags are still made by the convicts but now they are paid a wage to work and make them. I think that is some the ones that are ordered by the courts to pay restitution to their victim they do it from jail. I think they also have to reimburse the state for any child support the state pays to their children.......... :up: 

WR100      When I bought it up at Krogers they had people there from FEMA and several other agencies programing them. First time storms came through and weather man was talking tornadoes in Sumner it never made the first beep. A week later they had severe storms in Clarksville and Dickson and the dang thing went nuts. So I carried it back up to Krogers and there was no one there that knew how to program it and they said take it to the Fire Hall because they program them all the time and I did. And the guy said, your all fixed up. Stores came through Gallatin, not a beep. Storms went through Franklin and Fairview and the thing went nuts.  Had a buddy of mine tel me he programed  his and it works great and he lives in Portland. he takes mine home and brings it back last Summer. We had severe storms come through and nothing. Storms in Montgomery county, Dickson  County, Williamson county thing goes nuts. That is why I said I would give it away because it works in every county and town but this one so I would rather someone have it and maybe it will save their lives cause it damn sure don't want to save mine........ :up: :up:

Like I have said many times in the past. I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer but I figure if it makes me happy I go with it........... :up: :up:

  In all honesty I wish the storms would move faster because I would rather face the storms in daylight than darkness. I hate night time storms and tornado's It seems like most of it is moving south of us bt they still have all of most of Tennessee with a 5 in 10 chance of having tornado's till about 8PM