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If those NFL players taking a knee think I served in the Army, deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq four times over eight years just to give them the ability to make their statement of protest during the national anthem...they're exactly right.

Never forget.

The PBS App is also good to go on Roku, AppleTV, and Amazon Fire. I watch a lot of Frontline, American Experience, and NOVA through it. http://www.pbs.org/anywhere/connected-tv/

Ken Burns documentaries don't disappoint. Been looking forward to this since I heard about it a while back. I kind of want to watch this with my Dad on my next visit to see him. He enlisted in the Army in '66 knowing full well what his immediate future held, and I'd love to hear him talk about it more if it is something he's willing to share. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk. OhShoot very much likes to know when we're using Tapatalk.

Honestly, in my professional and personal lives, finding the expert to do the job right is hard enough...people who try to impress me by how they dress are only setting themselves up for disappointment if I see they're more prepared with their attire than they are with their minds or the content of their work. If you want to dress nice, cool. I never think I'm paying for the clothes, only the quality of the product. Would that it increases faster. Mon-Thur, I wear some decent slacks with a casual to dressy button down shirt I always keep untucked. I know it's not "professional" by the modern sense, but I honestly hate tucked shirts. I always say if I can wear jeans and a polo on Friday, yet still be productive and of value to the company, why are Monday-Thursday different? That said, I can begrudgingly realize when the time to play dress-up is at hand for visitors of a high enough status or out of office meetings/events of import. I keep a black blazer on a good hanger under a plastic bag on the back of my office door, and I can tuck in my shirts, throw on the coat and be both dog and pony in a moments notice. But it's a fraud on who I actually am, and I feel like I misrepresent myself when I do it all in the name of what really amounts to dick measuring through clothes. Yup. Hell, think of how much good it would do if even a fraction of those buried in their one and only suit instead donated them to an organization like Career Gear, so that someone poor can get a suit for a job interview that could be the ticket to raise them from poverty.

When I left the Army a little over eight years ago, it was bittersweet, but I knew good men would remain and good men would sign up to take their place on duty. @R1100R, your son is one of those good men, and you have every right to be proud. Tell him thanks on my behalf and to start pushing...then when he knocks a few out, tell him to recover and say thanks again.

Well, they raised the bar, alright...they made a Glock uglier than ever.

I'm a fan of it. Thought it was well done all around, and I'm looking forward to seeing what they do in Season 2 as well.

Hard to say they aren't making a great rep for themselves in the American market at the moment. As long as CZ can keep producing quality firearms, I think they'll have lots of repeat business.

Good point. Guess we'll have to see if he's Targaryen enough to not get burned, or just dragon friendly.

If you remember the first season, Jon very much got burned by the oil lamp he had to grab and throw onto the wight. Part of Dany's is she never felt the burning of the hot dragon eggs in Season 1. In the books, they explain that not all Targaryen's are immune to fire, but some were.

Ahh, much better! Thanks. In addition to the dank, the wood background is visible on the sides a bit again as well. Always thought the forums look great (light or dark) framed against that a bit.

Out of all the cool space age tests they do on gear in places like Natick Labs and the Arsenals we have around the country...the real tests should be a group of Soldiers from different units out in the back 40 and on the ranges seeing how it really holds up.

For now, or for the foreseeable future?

Awesome to read the stories behind the family history associated with that one special gun in many individual collections here.

Sure...but bored people with disposable income need some new fad for their ARs. [emoji4] Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk. OhShoot very much likes to know when we're using Tapatalk.

Can't remember if it was mefloquine, but the pills we had for malaria in Afghanistan when I was there in early 2002 were awesome. Made rack time something to look forward to with those crazy dreams. We only had them for a month or two before they switched them out for something else, so I suppose I won't have any long term effects.

I use USAA, and I think I'm getting a decent deal. Most of my rises in cost have been within inflation, and like Bersa, my multi-product discounts help a good bit. What I hate is that I have a 15yr old truck with less than 100k miles on it, and ten years of being paid off. As far as I'm concerned, for any accident I'm in where not at fault or a contributor...anything short of a new vehicle paid off when I take the keys is a loss for me. But, the game is what it is, and we're all mandatory players.

Question and poll are self-explanatory...but I thought this would be a good thread to discuss in detail. My first gun was a Walther P99 in .40 S&W (don't judge, it was a phase) that I bought a bit over 13 years ago. Doesn't get carried anymore, and rarely makes a trip to the range. Many times I have considered putting it up for sale to fund something better, or sexier...only to hold off. Something in me won't let that gun go up for sale. Honestly I haven't sold any of my guns, but some others have come a lot closer than my first ever have. Can't see myself coming off it unless an emergency came to pass and I needed funds quick. But how about the rest of you? Are you as sentimental as I seem to be here, or did you pass through your first gun a long time ago?

If we're speaking honestly, that's an occupational hazard, not a public health issue. I would love to have a can for any of my guns without the hassle of the NFA process. But pretending this is some epidemic we need to government to solve for our safety is a disingenuous as the logic that brought the NFA laws and others that followed to begin with. The argument in favor of legalizing suppressors sans NFA hassles is the intent of the 2nd Amendment being to allow the individual citizen to be as well armed as is needed for service in defense of the land is all the reason we need. With the military and police making use of this equipment in the gear they issue, citizens should be allowed to as well.

This bill will go old and die waiting for a committee hearing. With this SHUSH act not even requiring suppressors/silencers to initiate a background check at purchase, I really can't see it passing. Even I think they should be treated the same as any firearm for purchase. Also, there is a provision in the House version that nullifies any state ability to " impose a tax on any such conduct" which would seem to be out of bounds with concurrent taxing system. I don't think it's meant to approach sales taxes on a transaction of commerce, but NFA style taxes at the state level. The same language also nullifies "recordkeeping or registration requirement with respect to the firearm silencer." So, there are a few more strikes against it. If Republicans are still thinking strategy in politics, and not just dealing with the day-to-day messes of their President, the HPA comes into the plans around in the after the first quarter of next year. That way, they can force all those Senate Democrats running for re-election in red states into a quandary as they balance out the impulses of their base in the primary against their odds in the general. The fact that they couldn't do anything of consequence legislatively so far makes me wonder if they are trying to follow the campaign plan anymore...if they even had one to action.

Rope @Dustbuster into this thread. I remember he was experimenting with side charing ARs a while back, so I'm sure he has some good info to share after playing with them a bit.

All those guns and not one AR.... Amazing collection. You can see the love for firearms history this individual had.

A Blanton scenario could conceivably creep up again, but my conscience can't accept the risk of putting the innocent to death as a partial at best check against future Blanton like behavior. Government executing innocent people (or preparing to execute and thankfully stopped before it happened) is a problem that we have seen in the past, and continues to happen on a steady pace. I'm also not sure that someone on death row can't be pardoned as a rule of thumb...that would vary state by state. All of his pardons and commutations is documented if you care to deep dive them. https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-pardons https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-commutations

Plastic Magpul parts on an AK = cats. Glad we agree.