Omega

Welcome to the group; Angry, Happy, Depressed doesn't matter we have all kinds of moods here.

So, scenario: You find someone in your garage or carport, a place where you have a right to be and an intruder is present.  What, you think he will just kindly leave the premises when you confront him?  You think that a wiry skinny perp can't do great bodily harm on his way off your premises?  Anytime I confront someone, I am of the mindset that they can and will cause great bodily harm to me or mine.  The TCA does not say you have to allow great bodily harm to come to you before you try and defend yourself.  Sure, you don't shoot him in the back as he is trying to run away or pop him while he is tugging on your stereo but at the same time I am not going to get into physical altercation with an intruder; and I am sure not just going to run away and let him proceed to rob me blind.  So, you confront him, threaten him with force (how I will leave that to your imagination) perp now has a choice to make, laydown and let the law come for him, let the irate homeowner beat the crap out of him, run away, or attack said homeowner because he had the audacity to stop him from making a living...how do you think this scenario will play out?    When you go check to see what all the barking is about, or go check where the noise outside came from do you go armed?  While armed are you going to resort to wrestling an intruder?  The law does make some fine points about what you are allowed and not allowed to do, but the incident will dictate when it comes to either protecting your property or your life, and in most cases both are one in the same when you confront someone that does not want to be confronted.

Just like protecting your home, in TN you are allowed to protect your property with lethal force if necessary. TN Code 39.11.614

Hey, some of m...those zip guns are quite the piece of art :devil: jk, I doubt any of the zip guns someone takes a lot of work to produce end up at one of these sales.

A guy would compile Iraq videos to songs like this, some of my favorites.

He had one heck of a career, I am glad he finished it off with my Broncos and that he went out on top.  Good luck to him in his future endeavors, I am sure he will remain in football in some way shape or form.

No, not a 12x12 room...more like 8x8 aluminum enclosure w/doors open and an M134 Minigun going off.  And no, not tougher; like I said you would be surprised about the effect of it.  You probably do suffer damage to your hearing anyway(Tinnitus is a b.), but in your mind you do not register the fact that there are mini explosions gone off; you are more concentrated on where the fire is going and what may be coming back at you.  Watch any of the YouTube videos out there filmed by our troops, most are not wearing hearing protection.

Not really surprising, I have been in an enclosed area like that and hardly registered the rounds going off.  Those who hunt may of experienced something like that; a shot while hunting vs a shot at the range "sounds" different.

"KPD: Man who shot himself in mall parking lot was gun permit holder"  No bias in that report.

Electricity is over rated.  If all that was effected was electrical , it would suck for sure, but unless it was followed up with an invasion I think it would be recoverable within short order.  First of all, not every electrical item would be effected, there are many electronics that are shielded against such things. Many of those are generators, and since we have the knowledge, we can get things repaired quite quickly.  No, a EOTWAWKI event would have to be a global event such as a meteor, massive tectonic plate movements, Super Volcano eruption or nuclear war or a mix of those things.  Along with such events are the massive loss of life, and depending on where such an event originates, there may be large metropolitan areas wiped out so hordes from there may be non existant.  Even accounting for the mad max scenarios, large like minded groups are the only way to survive such events; whether it be in a rural area or town/city will depend on what is left of those areas.

Just take it apart from the top, Lee dies are perfect for this.  Then it's easier to hammer it out with a punch.

Boy talk about wishful thinking.  There are many gun toting, survival minded tactically trained individuals in large cities.  There is a high likelihood that among that 'horde' will be combat vets that have fought up in the mountains of Afghanistan against some very rural communities.  If a large group leaving the city encounters other groups of gang members and such as mentioned in the article, then the group that eventually ends up in rural areas will be battle hardened and not the soft bellied individuals the writer suggests.  No, the most likely way for rural inhabitants to survive is to come together into large groups and create defense perimeters that can be defended costing attackers too much time, energy and most of all casualties to take.

Probably an ammo can of 30/06 or .308 in an ammo box, the article never mentions .40, it says 40 year old ammo. Since .40 didn't come out until the 90's it rules that one out. If it was .40 they may of busted out the robot:

I doubt VA will follow suit, but maybe some will move next door.

Not a big hockey fan, but if I were I'd have to root for the Avalanche.  It's the dilemma I have with football, I'll root for the Titans unless their playing my Broncos.

While they are better now, they were not too bad even 10-15 years ago. I purchased what was supposed to be an original MS Office disk set, when it arrived it turned out to be a copy, and a bad copy at that. I notified eBay and they refunded my money, and they didn't have me send the disks back.

Good, just follow up with PayPal. But hurry, there is a time limit.

If you paid with PayPal you can get your money back. Otherwise eBay may suspend his account if he doesn't return your money. Visa also does guarantees, just not sure if eBay is covered.

I don't know, I was pretty tickled when uday and qusay went down, not to mention ole osama.

Bluff, he always rattles and we give in. I say ignore him.

Yea, like they consider a shoe string an NFA part.  If one has any imagination you can construct an NFA part from a multitude of things laying about the house.

Stuff comes from the same place.

Seed choice is key, I've tried many different types and while they do work, the cheap Rural King seed (bagged not loose) worked pretty good, I used it in a food plot for soil erosion prevention and it came up better than the expensive stuff at the house.  Here are some seed choices:   Bermuda grass: full sunshine Centipede grass: partial shade ‘Meyer’ zoysia grass: partial shade ‘Emerald’ zoysia grass: shade St. Augustine grass: shade Tall fescue: shade   Get a soil test, put down either fertilizer or get seed with it already on it.  Depending on what the current grass looks like you can either kill it then till it up and start over, or just dethatch and run a aerator through it.  After spreading the seed rake it in (needs good soil contact) and or cover it with straw to keep the birds off it.  Another way is to get grass plugs such as zoysia grass or sod, I am going to try this method (plugs) as mine is a mix of different varieties ATM.  This grass take over the lawn so hope to get it to take hold out front, the back is fine.  While I was stationed in Japan, I noticed that the Japanese would lay sod out like a checker board and in no time the entire lawn would be covered,  I am hoping the plugs work just as well.

Looks like gun stores need to have a civilian based Joint–Services Interior Intrusion Detection System (J–SIIDS) enabled safe, but that would require developing a ready reaction task force since incidents like these are quick, 2 minutes for this one.   This story is contradicting itself; in one sentence it says multiple arrests, then follows up with still on the loose.  Good help is hard to find nowadays.

I noticed the contents shrinking sometime back, even seen a news report about it. They surmised that it was due to rising fuel prices then, so with the fuel so low why aren't they giving us more? On the other side of the spectrum, aren't the soft drinks at fast food joints getting bigger? What they call medium was a large when I was growing up, now the large may as well be a 2 liter.