Grayfox54

I own one suit. Its nice and looks good on me. But if I'm wearing it, somebody is either gettin' married or buried. Back to the original topic..... The best piece of advice I ever got and have tried to pass on to my sons: Never pass up a good opportunity to shut up.

Asking how many guns someone owns goes right in there with asking a woman how much she weighs. Its just bad form.

I have a couple of the J-frame .32s and they are great little guns. Very accurate with almost no recoil. When the arthritis in my wife's hands got to where she could no longer handle the recoil of her .38, she ran across a 2" Model 30 at a gun show. That's the same gun as your's, just with a round butt. I put a set of boot grips on it and lightened up the trigger a bit for her and that little .32 served as her defense gun. She loved that thing because she could shoot it very well and it didn't hurt her hand. A .32 may not be much, but it sure beats harsh language. Playing around with her gun prompted me to later buy 3" and 4" Model 31s. They're loads of fun. If you want to use it for self defense, I recommend the Magtech 98gr SJHP round. These have an excellent reputation for accuracy, penetration and expansion. This load makes the .32 a viable defense gun. Ya done good there Bubba!

What do we do with it?

Nope, its a lie supposedly created by some Glock super fanboy who's still pissed that Sig got the Army contract. I've seen this on a couple of other sites. Do a little searching and the truth comes to light.

I did a little asking around and it turns out that I know a guy who knows. Its not an estate. The owner is still alive and kickin'. He 's just decided to "downsize". And from what I hear, he's very proud of his collection and its priced accordingly. I'm about 30 minutes away, but I'm not going. I can't afford to even look at this stuff.

I re-read this and just wanted to throw a few things out there. Society will begin to collapse almost immediately. Most people won't recognize an EMP. What they will know is that their phone, I-pads, laptops, etc won't work. Most have never lived without instant communication. Suddenly being cut off from information and not knowing what is happening will leave them angry, scared and frustrated. Arguments and fights will soon follow. I believe there will be chaos by the end of Day 1. Pre-1980 gasoline vehicles will NOT run. An old fashioned ignition coil is nothing more than about a mile of very fine wire wrapped inside a housing. An EMP will over heat that coil and burn it out. Batteries don't handle EMPs well either. Wouldn't matter much anyway because thanks to government mandated ethanol, all the gas will go bad in about 3 to 6 months. What will run will be older diesel engines with straight mechanical fuel systems. Of course you'll have to be lucky enough to find one parked where you can either roll or push start it. Even then, if it has air brakes (most of these will), you'll have to have enough air left in the tanks to release them. What you're left with will be older farm tractors. Yeah, good luck finding one. Just say that you're able to overcome all these problems and acquire a vehicle that runs. Well, then you become everybody's target. Of all the possible SHTF scenarios, an EMP event scares me the most.

That would be what CMP calls the Special Grade. They have some exactly as you describe in stock now. The price is $830 These days its hard to find one with original parts, even a mixmaster, for less than $1000.

Jeb48, I am sooooo gonna steal that.

The officer screwed up and ran the wrong number. He should get an official reprimand AND the lady should sue. Normally, I'm extremely supportive of Law Enforcement. But if an officer makes a stupid mistake and then defames an innocent citizen for it, then he should pay the price just like anybody else.

Y'all are probably gonna call me all kinds of nasty names. But I'll tell you anyway. In my late friends collection there was a like new Romanian SAR-1, a bunch of extra mags and about 8000 rounds of ammo. I could have had that rifle dirt cheap. Hell, his wife very likely would have just given it to me. I could have been set up with an AK and ammo for life. I seriously considered it. I must have picked up that rifle about a dozen times, handled it, pointed it, etc. I know its a fine weapon. It has a great reputation, fires a decent cartridge and is battle proven. In the end, there's just something about the AK that just doesn't "do it" for me. I'm not even sure why. So I let it go to some one else. BTW: I know the guy who bought it and he's tickled plumb to pieces with it. I've mentioned before that I don't care for the AR type rifles at all. Maybe I'm just an old fart too set in my ways. I guess if the world ever really does go to hell, I'll just have to muddle through with these.

Bear in mind that even if the guns are transferred soon. CMP still has to set up a system to unpack, clean, inspect, repair and grade them. And their staff isn't all that big. I don't expect to see any for sale until at least a year after CMP gets them. More likely two years.

Ditto on Gunbroker, BUT go to the Advanced Search and check completed auctions. This will tell what the guns are actually selling for. I pretty sure you have to register as a member to get that function.

I'm still looking for one. During set up at the gun show last weekend, I made the rounds asking if anybody had one. No joy. From what I've read on other boards, those who have bought one are happy with it.

I'm retired now, but I spent 42 years working as a mechanic. Started out in the trucking industry, ended up spending the last 25 years working for the city I live in. There I was the truck and equipment guy. I worked on everything bigger than a pick-up and just about any piece of equipment the city owned. In my time I've worked on everything from weed eaters to bulldozers, shovels to backhoes, Fire trucks, garbage trucks, chain saws, lawn mowers and even the occasional desk chair. I'm a dinosaur, a general mechanic who'll work on anything put in front of me. But my kind are becoming extinct. In these days of high tech, computer controls and electronic everything, you have to specialize in certain areas as one man just can't learn it all anymore. Hell, just the average garbage truck these days has electronics controlling pneumatics which are running hydraulics. Backhoes have computers in 'em now! Gettin' to be too much for my old head. So I pulled the plug 3 years ago. Let the younger generation who grew up with this stuff deal with it. These days the hardest thing I want to work on is lunch.

My hair went gray in my early 30s. Its a family thing. But I wear my gray hair with pride. I earned every damned one of 'em! Never mess with an old man. They're too old to fight, too tired to run. So they'll just kill you and be done with it.

When I inventoried my late friend's ammo locker, the count came up to roughly 35,000 rounds in 44 different calibers. Thankfully, between what the family kept, just gave away and what I've managed to sell, we're down to about 10,000. Ammo is heavy and bulky. I sure didn't want to haul it. As for myself...... I'm workin' on it!

We're just private sellers. Her Mother and Grandmother will be right there with us. So we should be good. Being as smart as she is, I'm thinking of just putting her in charge of keeping up with the money. Thanks.

Does Tennessee have any kind of law regarding a minimum age to sell a gun? I ask because one of our helpers at the gun show this weekend is the 12 year old grand daughter. The young lady is sharp as a tack and I trust her completely. However, I wouldn't want to run afoul of the law by accident.

I had some reservations about seeing it. DC hasn't done too well with their movies. But after reading a number of good reviews on gun boards (real people, not film critics) my GF and I decided to give it a chance. We liked it! Being a child of the 50s, I grew up on comic books and the old "B" monster movies. I still love that stuff. Looks like DC is finally gettin' their act together. Another interesting fact about Gal Gadot, she's from Israel. Like any good Israeli, she served in the IDF. Word is that she knows her stuff and is very pro-gun.

I don't care what country he's from. That's one Hell of a shot! But, I'm really glad he's on our side.

That guy on the desk with his hands behind his back looks kinda shady to me.

I've heard of these, but never actually seen one. Reported to be good rifles. Looking forward to some pics and a range report.

I'm a fan of both cartridges. The .45 Colt has an edge due to a heavier bullet at a slightly higher velocity. Bear in mind that the .45acp was designed to be a near equal to the .45 Colt and still work in a semi-auto. The difference isn't enough to worry about. OTOH, the .45acp has the advantage of a much wider variety of factory ammo and its cheaper. My own preference is to keep the two cartridges where they belong. The acp in a semi-auto and the Colt in revolvers. I'm not a fan of hot rodding the .45 Colt. When you consider that a 250-255gr hard cast lead bullet at standard velocity will go completely through the average white tail deer, you'll see that there's really no point to it. If you want a magnum, then get a magnum. And yes, it's not advisable to be shooting .45 "Magnums" in a Smith & Wesson. It won't blow up, but it will accelerate wear on the gun. However, the Smith is tougher than most people think. If you must, you can push the .45 Colt up into the +P range without any worries.

Back in about 1999, the Clinton administration basically declared war on gun manufacturers threatening lawsuits for making "unsafe" products. In early 2000, S&W (owned by a British company at the time) signed an agreement with the Clinton government which caved into their demands and supposedly freed them from litigation. (it didn't) Thus the infamous "internal lock" was born. They were the first company to do so, but a few others were thinking about it. The shooting public was outraged and boycotted S&W products and pushed the company right to the edge of bankruptcy. S&W finally very publicly canceled that agreement to save their butts. Time passed, S&W was sold to an American company, all was forgiven and S&W bounced back. Yet, the internal lock is still there in all but a very few S&W revolvers. Opinions on S&W's internal lock vary. Its a bad design right from the start. While it does work perfectly well most of the time, there have been enough documented cases of the lock engaging accidentally by itself and freezing the gun during firing, that many people will not trust a gun with it. I do believe S&W now has the bugs worked out of it as I haven't seen a report of a Smith "locking" in several years now. However, there's always that little bit of lingering doubt. Some people buy S&Ws with locks and think nothing of it. Some buy the gun and disable the lock immediately and others just won't own a S&W with a lock. I belong to that latter group.