Grayfox54

Oh how I remember the cussin' and fussin' of cops everywhere when Ford discontinued the Crown Victoria. It was the best police car of all time. Never could figure out why Ford would do such a stupid thing. They had guaranteed sales, PDs everywhere just loved 'em. Why oh why? I also remember our change over to the Dodge Charger. Everybody hated them. Senior officers would pull rank and keep their CVs for as long as possible. Junior officers highly resented being stuck with a POS Dodge. I have noticed since retiring that our PD is going more and more to the Ford SUVs. Maybe not the fastest thing or best pursuit vehicle. But as its long been said: ya can't outrun that radio.

I wouldn't call myself a prepper, but I am a camper and have the needed equipment. I learned some valuable lessons back in 2003 when Hurricane Elvis hit my area. I got through it just fine, but many of my neighbors didn't have so much as a mechanical can opener. I was able to learn from their mistakes. If another emergency arises, I'll be just fine for a good, long while.

I always require a BOS and proper ID to buy or sell. This is simple CYA. These days you can't be too careful. Its always best to know where the gun came from or who it went to just in case LE should ever come around asking questions. Ya never know.

The whole zombie thing has always been a metaphor for a sudden collapse of civilization and finding yourself on your own, forced to fight to survive. While the zombie threat may be fiction, it does make people think about what could happen in our society if the S was to ever HTF. Zombies aren't real. But everyday we are surrounded by the mindless masses who would very dangerously panic in a real crisis.

Quite a few companies, Cimmeron, Navy Arms, Taylors and a few I can't remember are just Ubertis made to the seller's specifications. And those specs are usually just the quality of the finish. I used to have a Hombre model which is Uberti's cheapest. Just as good as any of the higher priced models, but with a very plain matte black finish. You can generally find these for right around $400. For just a range toy, this would be a good start. Ruger makes excellent single actions, but they aren't quite the real cowboy gun.

Just one more item to prove that we have a serious mental illness problem in this country.

Here's a good story. As most of you know, I'm a retired City of Bartlett employee. Some years ago the Mayor we had at the time was well liked. He'd come by various departments from time to time and just chatted with employees about most anything. When his car came in for service at the City Shop, where I worked, it was standard procedure to reach down between the seats, remove his S&W Model 60 and secure it in the office until he came back for the car. It never bothered any of us. That's just what we did. So one night one of the upper echelon City Hall pencil pushers goes out to dinner driving his city car. He left his lights on and sure nuff, he came out about 10:00 pm to a dead battery. One of my co-workers was called out to go boost him off. My co-worker made a regular habit, that if he got called out at night, he'd take his pistol along. So he's taking care of business and the pencil pusher happens to look inside his service truck and saw the gun on the seat. So here's the story as we got it from reliable friends at City Hall: Bright and early the next morning, the pencil pusher rushes into the Mayor's office and starts going off about this city employee who had a gun in a city vehicle. The mayor just looked at him and said "So do I. What's your point?"

A SRO isn't there just to stop an attack. Schools are a training ground for young criminals, drug dealers and gang banger wannabes. You'd be surprised by the amount of actual police work a SRO has to do these days.

I finally managed to get an e-mail through by using the ILA messaging web page. I don't know if it'll do any good, but maybe if enough of us sound off King Wayne may finally get the message. Jam 'em up boys!

One of the problems is that there are a huge number of members who blindly follow the NRA completely without question. They don't want to hear and just plain won't listen to any criticism at all. To them the NRA is almost God like and is to never be questioned. They will stand by and say or do nothing as the NRA tears itself apart. These's another board I visit where the owner is one of these die hard NRA followers. Any thread that gets the least bit critical of the NRA is immediately shut down. You can't solve problems when you won't even acknowledge that they exist. As near as I can tell, when King Wayne's performance was questioned, his reply was "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!" All this advertising and money mess happened on WLPs watch. The right thing to do would be for him to accept the blame and step down. Don't look like that's gonna happen. What really concerns me is how are we gonna make the NRA know what we want when, as I've already mentioned, their e-mail won't work? Tomorrow I'll try a phone call. Maybe that'll go through. We need to contact them and tell them how we feel. Also as I've already mentioned, at the next gun show the NRA booth is gonna get an ear full from me! Maybe, just maybe, someone there can pass along the message if enough of us do that. More likely, those folks are just dumb volunteers who just send in the applications and money with no communication at all with the higher ups.

A bit off topic, but involves 3D printing. Adam Savage has a new show on the Discovery Channel called "Savage Builds". In the first episode he built an Iron Man suit by 3D printing the various parts out of Titanium. Very interesting and the darn thing actually is bullet proof.

You're free to believe whatever you want. I live near Bartlett High and feel perfectly safe here. I have some rather strong opinions about Raleigh. But I won't air them here. No point to it.

I worked for the City of Bartlett for 25 years. So I have a real good idea of how things are here. Bartlett PD is light years ahead of Memphis PD. They close cases and the bad guys know it. Yeah, we have our share of petty crimes. But serious stuff like armed robberies are rare here. And when they do happen, the bad guys do get caught. I can't even remember the last time there was a shooting, much less a murder here. Interesting story. A few years ago some guy robbed the Target store on HWY 64. At that point 64 is the city limit between Memphis and Bartlett. If the robber had stayed on the Target side of 64, he probably would have gotten away as MPD response time there is 30 minutes or more. Nope, this dummy crossed over into Bartlett. There we six BPD cruisers on him in less than half a mile. Bartlett is a fine town with an absolutely outstanding Police Force. I'm proud to live here.

All you have to do is push the right buttons to bring up the call history. Only takes a few seconds. You were just in a wreck. You may be injured or at the very least shaken up. How you gonna stop them? And from what I understand, its completely legal for them to do that as part of the investigation. Can you site any law that says they can't? I'd like to see it.

Most of the time these shootings are from one car to another right beside each other.

Its become common practice for officers at an accident scene to check the time stamp of a driver's last phone call. Its amazing how often that time stamp matches the time of the accident. Personally, I like the new law. I can't even guess how many times my faster reflexes have saved me from an accident with some idiot on their phone. Happens far too often around Memphis. Pisses me off royally. This will be like the seat belt laws. Mostly ignored, but every once in a while the cops will crack down and write a whole bunch of tickets for a couple of weeks. Just a reminder to drivers that this is the law and to generate a little extra revenue.

I just saw on the news that there's been another shooting tonight on HWY 385/ Bill Morris PKWY. That road seems to be quite popular with the shooters. No serious injuries. Driver got a few cuts from flying glass. No explanation given, but they did mention that this is the 27th highway shooting in Memphis this year. Actually, this is about normal. Shooter takes a couple of pot shots at a vehicle, but rarely is anybody seriously injured. Who can say it isn't? Maybe its just not as news worthy in those areas? Besides those people have strict gun regulations. They settle their road rage with tire irons and other blunt instruments. BTW: when I have to go into Memphis I try to avoid any major roads as much as possible and I'm always armed. My little town is right next door to Memphis, but its like a whole nother world. That stuff don't happen here.

Well shoot. I just renewed my DL back in April. Its extremely rare for me to fly. Then again, if I was to decide to take a trip somewhere, I guess I'd have to get a new DL as part of the planning process. I don't have a passport either. I rarely go anywhere I can't drive to. I guess I'll deal with it when I have to. And all this because the feds have messed things up so bad that we now have to prove we're U.S. citizens. "Papers Please".

I know for a fact that at Memphis Sport Shooting Assn non-members are allowed to shoot sanctioned IDPA matches. The entry fee is $2 higher for non-members. I believe its the same for any other type of match there. I'm sure other gun clubs have similar rules because the various disciplines want to attract new shooters. There may also be matches at public ranges as well. I know that IDPA matches used to be held at Range USA and the TWRA indoor range in Memphis. Contact the group you're interested in for local match locations.

Guys, its Memphis. People shoot each other there all the time for no reason whatsoever. If you've ever driven the interstate around Memphis, you very quickly learn what road rage is. Terrible traffic, idiot drivers and there's always a construction zone making things even worse somewhere. I'm surprised there aren't more shootings than one a week. Just another day in the big city.

I thought the TDL was already compliant. What else needs to be on there?

Well once again I went to the NRA web site and tried to send them a message expressing my concerns. And once again, it would not go through. It seems that the NRA doesn't want to hear from us peons. Yet another reason I'm pissed off at them.

Hickok makes a good point. We, the general membership, have no clue what's really going on at the top levels of the NRA or where this in-fighting is going. OTOH, I've often expressed my frustration with the current NRA leadership over their compromise attitude and just barely protecting our rights. I've never made a secret of that. Personally, I've never liked WLP. I've long thought it was past time for him to go. But then, as already pointed out, we don't have the details about what's really going on. And that, in itself, is part of the problem. Too many secrets and too much dirty laundry that the membership has not been told about. Whatever is going on, it needs to be dealt with and resolved quickly for the good of not only the members, but for every gun owner in this country. Edited to add: There are a couple of gun shows I plan to attend next month. I plan on stopping by the NRA booth and telling them exactly how I feel. I suggest that you all do the same.

It seems that for at least three years a security guard at an ATF gun destruction facility as been stealing guns and gun parts. He got away with thousands of items including some NFA stuff. ATF Caught w/ Pants Down, Scrambling to Find Thousands of Firearms Stolen from Facility

Just guessing here, but I wonder if they knew for sure he was dead and left the body in place for CSI and the Coroner to document? I'm sure we've all seen crime scene photos with a covered body in them.