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I agree Sidecarist - I don't want to see him fail either. I'm not a military guy, so I can't speak with authority, though it looks to me like the claims of cowardice in combat are uncalled for.

BANGKOK – A Thai man is recovering from a bloody encounter with a 10-foot python that slithered through the plumbing of his home and latched its jaws onto his (family friendly edit) portion of his body that normally doesn't get sunburned as he was using a squat toilet. Attaporn Boonmakchuay was smiling as Thai television stations interviewed him in his hospital bed about the intimate intrusion, and doctors said he would recover. But photos of his blood-splattered bathroom in Chachoengsao province, east of Bangkok, were testimony to his ordeal. The 38-year-old told Thai TV Channel 7 that he struggled to remove the snake for 30 minutes Wednesday before he managed to free himself with help from his wife and a neighbor. After his wife tied a rope around the snake, Attaporn pried open its jaws before passing out. Emergency workers dismantled the Asian-style squat toilet, with the python still twined through it. The snake was taken away to be released back into the wild, according to an emergency responder cited by the newspaper Thai Rath. Doctors said Attaporn, bloodied but unbowed, will recover. "He has a really good attitude... even though his own wife and children were in shock. He's been smiling and giving interviews all day from his bed." hospital director Dr. Chutima Pincharoen said.

It's kind of sad. He handles himself such that people want to see him fail.

My response to Omega was confrontational rather than informative - sorry about that Omega. I've edited my post with my sources of info as well as sharing how people can find this info themselves.

It can definitely make a difference in court. Keep in mind that soldiers in combat have a different set of rules. The training I received from Tom Givens as well as a day long course from a defense attorney that only focuses on deadly force self defense cases both made this point. The attorney is Andrew Branca. This same info is also available with a Google search.

The reason is that any training you have had may come out in court and it can help you or hurt you. My concern about James Yeager isn't related to his training, which I'm not familiar with. It's more about a prosecutor talking about how my trainer lost his carry permit for talking about shooting people and any number of the other inflammatory statements he has made.

Yes, they do. I'll say this though. I wouldn't want the be in court on a murder charge when I was defending myself and have it on record that I trained under him.

I dunno Sam, I would have to put Kanye in the one notch above Voldemort slot. I have to think that James Yeager would be well liked if he could learn to control his mouth.

For those that don't know, James is a firearms trainer in TN. He makes brash statements when he would do better to say nothing. His response of slamming TGO on Facebook is a perfect example. I don't know him though suspect he's a good guy who has a hard time saying nothing when that would be best. He lost his carry permit for a while for making inflammatory remarks about the anti gunners. He deployed to a Iraq as a security contractor. People claimed that he reacted with cowardice. I watched the video many times and read about appropriate responses in that type situation since I'm not a soldier. It seems to me that he responded the way he should have and that people started attacking him verbally due to previous inflammatory statements and that their verbal attacks against him were wrong. In the shooting incident, the vehicle was on the right side of the road. They were stopped and bullets started flying, coming from the right. He went to the ditch on the left side of the road, laid down and started taking aim with his weapon.

I completely agree with this. I think the NYPD are lying liars and that the journalist doesn't know enough about guns to catch them.

I'll be the first to say that I'm not a military guy and don't have knowledge to base my thought on solid info.

Below is info on what NYPD carry. Clearly, this is quality equipment. Below is a link to someone essentially saying that the newspaper was duped into printing BS by the NYPD The NYPD, the largest police department in America, has more than 40,000 officers—in effect the fourth-largest army in the world—equipped with some of the best 9mm weapons on the market, all using Speer’s 124-grain Gold Dot hollow-point +P load. NYPD officers buy their own guns, and can choose from three options: The Glock 19, the S&W 5946 and the Sig Sauer P226 DAO. http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/05/23/everything-heard-jacket-stopping-nypd-bullets-absurdly-false/

I'm going to have to call ego based trash talk on the idea that a single seal team with a typical load could have achieved that. 3,000,000 Americans fought in that war. I'm not seeing a single team, as badass as the Seals are, being able to pull that off.

Whoa! That is totally awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This story reminded me of my time living in Atlanta. Seattle hosted the G7, leaders of the seven most prosperous countries. The protesters usually hit these things as the world is watching and they get air time. The protesters in Seattle turned into vandals and looters and tore Seattle all to pieces, no telling how many millions of dollars of damage they inflicted. A meeting soon after that was held near Savannah GA. A friend of mine was an agent with the Ga Bureau of Investigation. The short story is that the vandals and looters didn't even come to GA because GA has a reputation of not putting up with that crap. In short, Seattle is setting itself up to get what it deserves. Same thing with Hawaii, which hopes to become the first state to require that law abiding gun owners to register in a Federal database. One impact of that database is that if police anywhere in the US pull them up, it shows that they are part of that database. Of course, gun owners will have to pay to be put in the database. " Hawaii could be first to put gun owners in federal database By MARINA STARLEAF RIKER May. 24, 2016 6:42 AM EDT 0 2 photos FILE - In this May 10, 2016, file photo, Jerry Ilo holds a gun that he uses to teach the Hawaii... Read more HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii could become the first state in the United States to enter gun owners into an FBI database that will automatically notify police if an island resident is arrested anywhere else in the country. Most people entered in the "Rap Back" database elsewhere in the U.S. are those in "positions of trust," such as school teachers and bus drivers, said Stephen Fischer of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division. Hawaii could be the first state to add gun owners. "I don't like the idea of us being entered into a database. It basically tells us that they know where the guns are, they can go grab them" said Jerry Ilo, a firearm and hunting instructor for the state. "We get the feeling that Big Brother is watching us." Supporters say the law would make Hawaii a leader in safe gun laws. Allison Anderman, a staff attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said the bill was "groundbreaking," and that she hadn't heard of other states introducing similar measures. Sen. Will Espero, who introduced the bill, and the Honolulu Police Department said Hawaii could serve as a model for other states if it becomes the first to enact the law. Yet others say gun owners shouldn't have to be entered in a database to practice a constitutional right. "You're curtailing that right by requiring that a name be entered into a database without doing anything wrong," said Kenneth Lawson, faculty at the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law. Legal experts say the bill could face challenges, but would probably hold up in court. Recent Supreme Court rulings have clarified states' ability to regulate gun sales, said David Levine, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. The bill will undergo a legal review process by departments including the Attorney General's Office, which supported the bill, before Gov. David Ige decides if he will sign it into law, said Cindy McMillan, a spokeswoman for the governor. The cost to enter names in the database will be covered by a fee paid by gun owners, which wasn't defined in the bill. Even though other states don't enter gun owners in the database, Honolulu Police Department Maj. Richard Robinson said it will still benefit Hawaii police. Right now, Hawaii gun owners undergo a background check only when they register a gun, so police have no way of knowing if they're disqualified from owning a gun in the future unless they try to register a new firearm. "We were only discovering things by accident," said Robinson, who helped draft the bill. "They happen to come register another firearm, we run another background check, and then we find out they're a prohibited person." That happens about 20 times each year, he said. Some local gun owners say the law confirms their fear that the government would know exactly who and where people keep their firearms. "This is an extremely dangerous bill. Exercising a constitutional right is not inherently suspicious," said Amy Hunter for the National Rifle Association. "Hawaii will now be treating firearms as suspect and subject to constant monitoring."

They are all gone. I'll tell you, when they post aggressive pricing on popular guns they go fast. Classic Firearms posted Manurhin MR73 .357 revolvers recently. I saw the email about 30 minutes after it came and they were gone. I signed up for emails for that gun. They got more and I saw the email about 15 minutes after it came - same thing - too late.

Oh Shoot makes a good point. Considering their resources, it's a wonder that the South did as well as we did. The North had more people and most of the industry. We had the will to win, but not the ability. Part of the issue is that the South tried to get support from Europe and couldn't pull it off. Also, Sam1 makes a really good point above - good thing they didn't have better weapons. These are Americans that we are talking about.

I'll have to check out Turtledove's book. Omega, what you are saying makes perfect sense. I'm a little dumb founded to read as much as I have about generals focusing on not wasting ammo. It seems like that was more important to them than thinking about how a higher rate of fire could help. The Spencer Carbine was a repeater with a great intro. So, in their wisdom, they bought a part that cost $.25 per gun to turn it into a single shot. Admittedly, that would be the Northern generals making that call and the north had no shortage of really bad generals.

There may be some folks on here that know more about this than I do, though I thought this would be an interesting topic. Imagine that there was time travel, magic, etc... and that the Civil War leaders could choose between the muzzle loaded Springfield rifle, by far the most used long gun, or the M4. Based on what I've read lately, they would have stayed with the Springfield. If they chose any M4s it would have been limited. Why? They seemed to resist repeating arms. Their big concern what that soldiers would waste ammo. I think that is still an issue today, but they really, really, really worried about that. Part of that is understandable as neither side had a supply chain that would really keep up, though there thinking seems to go far beyond where that makes sense. You could always use the Springfield if anyone had black powder and the right sized bullets. The Civil War guns that used cartridges were of no use if you ran out of ammo. We were discussing on a recent thread that the post war Army moved from the repeating Spencer Carbine to a single shot rifle. Another reason they didn't like repeaters in the Civil War is that black powder created so much smoke that no one could see anything when they had repeaters. Of course, the M4 is smokeless. OK, enough fun, time to get back to work.

It's a .46 caliber. I'm actually having a hard time figuring out the story on this one. I looks like a Civil War Ballard Carbine and had the bayonet, yet it is a Brown Manuf. model. Brown didn't begin manuf of these until 1869. According to the NRA museum, these never took off with the military and weren't used by the military after the Civil War. That article did say that KY bought a bunch of them, so it may have come from there. There are several KY related guns in the estate purchase I made.

According to the article a woman bought it for $250,000 to give to her son for his birthday. That gets its own page in 'The Book of Weird"

I hate to say it but I would much rather get shot than get run through with this bad boy. It was attached to the Ballard Carbine shown below. The Ballard rifles were among the most popular with sportsman and hunters in the 1800s. You've probably seen Westerns where the gun has two triggers and is accurate for quite a distance. That is a Ballard. Different model that this one. This gun has a reversible firing pin so it can be either rim fire or center fire. I may actually shoot this gun. The metal is solid and the wood is in really good shape. In looking at my old guns, most of them have good metal, but the stocks and handrails could break if I shoot them.

A friend of mine is part of a team going to market with a new kind of fishing pole. They are doing a Kick Starter campaign, which has video and more information. Here's a link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1283998894/angry-fish-rods-fishing-made-simple My friend, Dale Lott, had one of the most successful KickStarter campaigns of all time with a different product and recently sold his company to Fender Guitar.

Amen to that brother. Usually, customers aren't nearly as nice as an employer when they aren't happy.

People don't realize how hard it is to make a business succeed. Too many act like businesses are money trees. Politicians talk about the importance of a job for everyone. My experience as a small business owner is that our government is in the business prevention business much more than they are in the 'help businesses succeed and add jobs' business. The sad truth is that relative to politicians you are either at the table or on the menu. Small business owners are so busy building their businesses that they don't have the time and money to make a difference politically, thus putting us 'on the menu'. I strongly recommend membership in the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Not only are they based in TN, but their lobbyist to the State of TN, Jim Brown, is very, very good. Membership doesn't cost that much either.