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I have to agree that there seemed to be more 'chemistry' between the cast as a whole in the first, couple of seasons. I'm wondering if the removal of some of the actors who played 'main characters' (not just the characters they portrayed but the actors, themselves) from the mix has damaged that chemistry. For instance, I don't think they ever gave T-Dog enough to do but the shows 'chemistry' hasn't seemed as strong since IronE Singleton isn't among the regulars, anymore. Of course, it could just be that strong chemistry between a cast is something that is difficult to maintain. Honestly, I am ready for them to get out of the prison and, hopefully, leave the whole 'Rick is going nuts and seeing Lori everywhere' thing behind. Not that I wouldn't expect all of the characters - including Rick - to slide ever closer to the edge. Also, I would expect someone like the Rick character as he was portrayed in the first season to have a lingering sense of guilt not only over Lori but also Shane and everyone else who has been lost. Still that, particular aspect (him seeing Lori everywhere) is getting on my nerves, already. One thing that I think has been lost is a sense of urgency. Maybe that comes from trying to fill an entire season rather than (like the first season) trying to fit in a good story in just a half season but there really is simply too much 'filler'. I don't consider character development to be 'filler', either - I also like that aspect - but rather than real 'development' it now seems like we are seeing the same character do the same thing over and over, every week. I also get that the characters wouldn't still be quite as 'freaked out' by walkers and I actually like that, when out and about, they basically ignore walkers who aren't close enough to pose a threat. Still, having them sit in a concrete bunker and squabble amongst themselves every week - even when there are walkers in the prison yard outside - is not very entertaining. Honestly, that is probably how real people would act and may very well be how the human race would meet its demise but that doesn't mean it makes for good television.
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The Walking Stick Method of Self Defense
JAB replied to JAB's topic in Handgun Carry and Self Defense
There are and have been all sorts of neat 'gadget' canes. One of my professors at UT was from Wales and he also collected canes. Unlike me, though, he had more money to devote to the hobby. One of his had a handle that screwed off to reveal a drinking flask built into the top portion of the cane's shaft. There was also a compass built into the underside of the portion that screwed off. He joked that once one consumed the contents of the flask the compass would be needed to find his way home. Huh, I went searching online for a cane pistol (I'm thinking there is a company that still makes them - or maybe they are 'non-firing replicas') and came across this ad for a cane with a built in 'stun gun'. http://www.defensedevices.com/rattan-sword-cane.html?utm_source=bingshopping&utm_medium=cse This company offers canes with a built-in air gun. Given that the canes, themselves, are nearly $500 before the air-gun conversion, though, I don't think I'll be getting one any time soon. Those are some really nice canes, though. http://borispalatnik.com/CaneGun_BCG.htm Ah, here is an article about some old cane guns: http://www.remingtonsociety.com/questions/Canes.htm -
I used the Flitz that comes in a gray/silver tube (like toothpaste.) I had a pack of large patches of, basically, t-shirt material that I had bought at KMart to use as cleaning patches. They were cheap and were odd shapes (not always perfectly square) and large enough that I had to cut pieces out of them to use for cleaning patches. They were just right for applying the Flitz, though. I used a combination of those and some cheap paper towels to polish/rub the Flitz off. Took it took a few hours of spare time over the course of two or three days to get it that shiney. I even polished up the front of the cylinder. When I got it, that surface was so black that I thought it was painted black from the factory and supposed to be that way. After a bit of polishing, though, I discovered that was not the case. I have no 'before' pic of it but this was 'after':
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Has anyone been able to find 9mm Makarov lately?
JAB replied to gjohnsoniv's topic in Ammunition and Reloading
Well, one reason I thought the ~$10 a box price for Monarch brand at Academy was so good was that everywhere else I saw Mak ammo (and, remember, this was when there was no ammo 'craze' going on), it was priced at $21.00 or so per box of 50. That was for Wolf brand, mostly. Before Hornady added 9mm Mak to their Critical Defense line, the only JHP that was really available for MAK was made by Silver Bear (I think Hornady used to make Mak in one of their other JHP lines but had stopped.) I got my LGS owner to stock a case of it and I bought several boxes from him - he priced it pretty close to the FMJ that he already stocked. Others must have been interested, as well, because that ammo didn't hang around his store for too long. A couple of months ago, I did buy three boxes of Critical Defense in Makarov at Sportsman's Warehouse in Chattanooga. Strangely, I don't think they have ever stocked any Mak FMJ but they were selling the Critical Defense. They probably can't keep any in stock now, though. I haven't had a chance to test out the CD ammo for reliability, etc. in my CZ82 just yet. -
The Walking Stick Method of Self Defense
JAB replied to JAB's topic in Handgun Carry and Self Defense
Like I said, I sort of collect canes. Because of that, I own one or two 'sword canes'. Many such canes require the handle to be unscrewed in order to draw the blade. Seems pretty useless, to me. The one I have that I might even carry were it legal to do so simply requires a sharp 'jerk' to start pulling the blade from the shaft. The way it is made, you'd never even suspect it is a sword cane unless it were x-rayed. I don't carry that one because doing so would be illegal (funny that I can carry multiple handguns on my person and loaded long guns in my vehicle when 'out and about' but a foot and a half long blade hidden in a cane is illegal.) I just have it as part of my small collection - sort of like owning auto opening knives which cannot be legally carried. Honestly, though, if I can't neutralize a threat with a sturdy, three foot piece of wood (especially one that has a metal hame as the handle) that basically only requires gross motor skills to swing then I doubt I would be able to neutralize that same threat with a 18 inch long blade. -
Love it! Of course, don't forget that some of those LE agencies are probably tasked with, among other duties, providing security details to those politicians' sorry butts. Obviously the safety of those politicians is more important that the public that is meant to serve them.
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The Walking Stick Method of Self Defense
JAB replied to JAB's topic in Handgun Carry and Self Defense
My understanding is that, while Bartistu did heavily employ stick fighting (mostly of a style originated by a Frenchman named Pierre Vigny), this is something different. In this case, Mr. Lang was a British officer with the Indian Police and he developed a simple style that was expressly intended not to require extensive training and was supposed to be simple enough that a man, woman or child could use it. He might have gotten some or all of his ideas from Bartitsu, though, I guess. -
The Walking Stick Method of Self Defense
JAB replied to JAB's topic in Handgun Carry and Self Defense
As others have said, I can carry a cane in places where I can't carry a gun, knife or even pepper spray. I'm 41 and could give a damn if people think I am 'old enough' to have a walking stick or not. I like them, sort of collect them, have made a few and will carry one if I please as long as it is legal. Truth is, I have an old 'drinking injury' that happened in my early 20s (too many Long Island teas coupled with a rainy night, linoleum covered stairs and shoes with poor traction = taking the 'express way' down the stairs) which results in one knee giving me trouble from time to time so there are times when I really do need the cane. A couple of years ago I went on a cruise to the New England states and Canada. Went to Bar Harbor, Maine. Went to Boston, Mass. Went to a couple of destinations in Canada. The cruise departed from NYC. A gun or even a knife would have been a no go. Pepper spray would probably have been out, too. No one even blinked at the cane I carried with me on and off the ship at each and every stop. I can carry a cane at work where carrying firearms is illegal per state law (I work on a satellite campus of a small, private college.) Even carrying a knife on 'school' grounds is a bit of a 'gray area' from what I can find. Further, in the absence of extensive training, I really don't believe that a knife would be a very effective defensive tool. A cane gives greater range and would seem to require a little less precision. I have an HCP and carry a firearm wherever I legally can. Despite my doubts as to their usefulness for SD, I often carry a couple of knives. I am not suggesting a cane as an alternative to a firearm when a firearm can be carried or legally deployed. I am simply thinking it might be something useful in circumstances where a firearm is not an option. Of course, when I speak of 'canes' or 'walking sticks' I am not talking about some of the crap that drug stores, etc. sell. I am also not talking about a thin, reedy 'opera cane'. I am talking about canes with some heft and strength to them. For example, I made all three of these (turned the shafts and - in the case of the derby style - carved the handle by hand.) I believe that being struck with any one of the three would be very nearly comparable to getting struck with a wooden baseball bat. This is the one I have with me, today. I used a small hame knob for the handle and turned a knob onto the bottom of the shaft to help provide a bit of balance. For this one, I used a length of twisted dogwood (which I harvested, myself) as the shaft. It was too thick along its entire length to use as it was so I turned both ends to thin them down a bit while leaving the middle more or less alone. I used a larger hame knob for the handle of this one: When planning for the aforementioned cruise, I wasn't sure how well the metal knob handles would go over so I made a cane with a wooden handle. I carved the handle - a variation on the derby style - out of a piece of cherry and turned the shaft. I honestly can't remember if the shaft is oak or ash (ash is the wood generally used for regulation baseball bats) but it is plenty hard either way. Unfortunately, I have since realized that the handle had a weak spot so I will be replacing it with something else. This is the one that didn't even draw a second glance when it accompanied me not only getting on and off a cruise ship but also when walking all over areas of this country and Canada where carrying a firearm - and in some cases even a knife - would have been against the law. I would like to make a few more but no longer have quite as easy access to the lathe I used to make these. -
Nice. Love the looks of those break tops. I like H&R revolvers. I've posted pics of this one, before but what the heck - I'll post them, again. My H&R 930 that I got for $99 (before tax and TICS) two or three years back. Looked like this when I got it: and looked like this after I put the Flitz and elbow grease to it:
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Has anyone been able to find 9mm Makarov lately?
JAB replied to gjohnsoniv's topic in Ammunition and Reloading
I think the situation with 9mm Mak is pretty much the same as what I think has happened with .32apc and .25acp. I think the quick disappearance of all three of these ammo types, along with pretty much everything else, is actually a holdover from the last ammo shortage. See, the last time there was a shortage I bought a Phoenix .25 because .25acp and .32acp were pretty much the only ammo that Walmart consistently had on the shelf. By the time I bought the .25, I had noticed that .32 supplies had started to slip but they still had .25 on the shelf and, in fact, had piles of it - so much that they often had .25 ammo stacked in the empty spots where other ammo was supposed to go. Pretty soon after I bought that Phoenix, though, I noticed .25 supplies dwindling and then even .25 disappeared, altogether. During that time, I also bought a CZ82. My mom had bought a CZ82 shortly before that and I found that I really liked shooting it. As a bonus, there seemed to be piles of ammo available in 9mm Mak (not to mention that Academy was well stocked on their Monarch brand for under $10 a box for steel cased.) Not long after buying that CZ, however, I noticed supplies starting to dwindle. I wouldn't say Mak ammo really became 'scarce' but it certainly became more difficult to find before the last shortage finally played out. My thought is that, as people realized that they couldn't find .380 (which seemed to disappear the fastest and take the longest to catch up last time), 9mm Luger or (eventually) .40 S&W, they started buying guns to match the ammo they could find. As more folks bought guns so chambered, however, that ammo started drying up, too. As people already owned those guns at the first of the current craze (having bought them during the last craze) - along with the privateers looking to turn a quick buck - that ammo disappeared rather quickly this time right along with everything else. Of course, just to throw a kink in the whole thing, Academy has been more or less out of their Monarch brand of 9mm Mak for quite some time, now - for about a year or so, in fact - starting well before the current ammo craze. The Academy in Knoxville hasn't had any for a long, long time (which is really annoying because, having previously bought it at the Hixson and Hamilton Place locations, cheap Mak ammo was the biggest thing I was looking forward to back when Academy first announced that they were coming to Knoxville.). I managed to find some at the Academy at Hamilton Place some months back when I happened to be down that way but IIRC the last time I was in the area, even before the current 'craze' started, they were sold out as well. -
I found this online and thought it might interest some folks here. It was written in the 1920s by a fellow named Lang who was a British officer in the Indian police. It is supposed to be a 'simple' method of self defense using a walking stick that can be used by men, women or children. Now, I have no background in martial arts and make no claims about the effectiveness of this method. I am interested in the idea of using a walking stick for self defense. At 41, I also have no desire to embark on a path of in depth training in something like judo, tae kwon do or the like - I simply want to find a simple but effective method for using a walking stick as a self defense tool. That is what lead me to find Mr. Lang's book. I only just found it so I haven't read it, yet, but thought I'd post the link here in case others might be interested. http://www.the-exiles.org/manual/lang/lang.htm
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I like my WMR mini revolver as a BUG because it is a revolver. If I carry a BUG it is carried on my weak side. This means that if I am going for the BUG then my strong-side hand is probably either otherwise occupied or out of commission. It also means there is a good chance that I would be defending myself at contact distance and/or from an awkward, less than ideal firing position. To me, the smaller a semiauto is the more likely it is to jam - especially in such adverse conditions. Therefore, I'd rather go with a small, reliable revolver. I like .22 WMR because, especially with the advances in WMR ammo technology, I believe it would get the job done at close range while not having a whole lot of recoil when firing with my weak hand in one of the aforementioned less than ideal conditions. I have a P3AT which sometimes gets carried as primary. I much prefer the NAA for a weak hand BUG. I would recommend that you consider a WMR (.22 Magnum) version for carry, though. If you want to be able to practice with .22LR for cheaper practice, there are convertible models available. My NAA mini is a 1 5/8 inch barreled WMR only version. I put the oversize rubber grips similar to what is on the Black Widow on mine and it really improved handling. I was resistant to put those grips on because I thought they would negatively impact concealment but they really don't. If I come across one at the right price, I would probably pick up a Black Widow. The barrel on them is slightly longer (2 inches) and they have 'real' sights. For close in work (which is their 'niche', anyway) mine is accurate enough, though. I did a very informal water jug 'test' of some of the newish Speer Gold Dot .22 WMR ammo and was fairly pleased with it. The bullet opened up just as advertised and it more or less penetrated three jugs (I say more or less because it came to rest partially protruding from the rear of the third jug.) By comparison, a .380 Hydroshok round fired from my P3AT didn't penetrate much better (IIRC, it got into the fourth jug but didn't even dent the back of that jug.) Also, the .380 HS round gave only partial expansion. For a small primary, I'd still go with the .380 over the NAA but for a BUG the NAA is my preference. Then, again, for a small primary my S&W 642 has all but bumped the P3AT out of my pocket. Also - although rare and not my first choice - there have been a couple of times I have carried the NAA as the one and only because - with the clothes I was wearing - it simply hid better than the P3AT or the 642. I also did the same type of 'test' with Hornady Critical Defense in .22 WMR. From the NAA, it didn't penetrate quite as well (made it into the third jug but didn't even mark the back of that jug.) It also gave pretty poor expansion - in fact, it barely expanded at all. [Just as an aside, I did the same kind of 'test' with both ammo types from my Heritage Rough Rider and from its 6.5 inch barrel the Hornady came into its own and actually slightly out performed the Gold Dot.) As for reloading, yes, that is a drawback of the mini revolvers - they are pretty slow to reload. Of course, when acting as a BUG I don't really see that as a concern. If I am down to needing to quickly reload my weak hand BUG then things have already gone from bad to worse. That said, NAA is supposed to be releasing a new model called the Sidewinder, soon. That model has a swing-out cylinder for quicker reloading. My understanding is that their plan is to do a limited 'collector' run with special serial numbers, first, and once that run is done start doing regular production models. There are also break-top models (called the Ranger, IIRC) but those were only ever done as a limited run, were quickly bought up and to my understanding are pretty pricey when/if they become available on the market. Anyhow, here is a pic of that Gold Dot round I 'tested'. The round, itself, is sitting on the plastic box near the upper, left hand corner. Notice how much it looks like Speer's picture of an expanded round that is in the lower, right hand corner:
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I don't plan on bugging out. I already live rural so where the heck would I go? Instead, I'll just sit outside with a shotgun and yell at all the 'urban commandos' who think that rural areas will just be wide open and waiting for them to get the hell out of my yard. For just general tooling around after the 'pocalypse, though, if my '01 Dodge 4X4 pickup won't cut it then this little fellah should get the job done (these pics were taken back before the $&^% closed the trails at Tellico - I never did any of the really hard trails because I can't afford to fix crap that I tore up 'on purpose' but the one or two easiest trails were fun) :
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Nashville Business Journal on Firing workers with guns in cars
JAB replied to MacGyver's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
Sounds like a pretty useless law, to me. I still say the best way to handle it would be to declare the interior of a person's car to be protected just like the interior of their home and declare any 'right to search' clauses in employee contracts to be null and void in the state of Tennessee. Heck, make it illegal for an employer to even ask to search an employee's vehicle. If the employer suspects the employee has taken company property then let them call the cops, let the cops get a warrant and search the vehicle. Otherwise, it is no one's business but my own what I legally keep in the interior of my vehicle which is my private property. -
Joe Biden's point-blank advice: Buy a Shotgun
JAB replied to TSprint1's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
From the article: Exactly what the hell about, "...shall not be infringed..." allows the government to 'set limits'? I guess that is what the 'reiterate' part is about - taking a page from another Joe's book (Joseph Goebbels) with the idea that if you repeat a lie often enough it will become the truth. -
I still like the show but I also commented on the fact that, for someone who can make running headshots on zombies with a handgun, Rick seems to suck at shooting a rifle with optics. Daryl is still my favorite character but I have to say that Carl - who I found annoying in the first season and most of the second - is moving into a close second. The actor who plays him does a great job, IMO, for so young a guy. He has the empty-eyed thousand yard stare down and that would have to be a difficult thing for even an adult actor to pull off. I think he does it better than Andrew Lincoln, in fact. Also, I agree that Rick's little trip to crazy town is going to have to end. It only worked with the Shane character because it was fairly short lived and then he was killed off. A main character - even the leader of the group - being a little bit 'off' may be interesting but there is a difference between being a little 'off' and chasing shadows through zombie-infested forests or endandering the group by waving a gun around at something only he can see. It would also make perfect sense in such a post-apocalyptic world that a lot of folks wouldn't be all that mentally stable. Rick being outright bat guano crazy, however, is getting old - quickly. The others have been through some crap, too, but only Rick and Shane are driven nuts because of it? Hell, Carl had to watch his baby sister getting cut out of his mom's belly with a pocket knife, see his mom die and then put a bullet into his own mother's head. Further, his dad might as well be dead for all the good he is doing as a parent and Carl has to worry about his baby sister because Rick can't seem to pull it together enough to do so but still - while the Carl character is obviously 'on edge' a lot of the time - he hasn't lost it. It is a little ironic that the only folks in the group that have gone nuts on a semi-long term basis were the two cops. Of course, I guess that there is always another possibility. In a world where zombies exist I suppose ghosts could be real, too. Maybe Lori really is there. If that is the case, though, I think it would totally ruin the show. I don't mind ghosts on some shows but such a thing would really be out of place on this one.
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Personally, with a few exceptions, I don't trust people. I don't necessarily even mean that I think most people are purposefully out to do harm (although some are.) I also mean that I don't trust most people not to do something stupid at the worst, possible time. Some people happen to be police officers but that doesn't mean I trust them any more than I trust anyone else. Further, some people are dishonest. Some people are just plain jerks. Wearing a badge and a uniform doesn't preclude the possibility that the person in said uniform could be potentially dishonest and/or a jerk the same as anyone else. A badge isn't a magic talisman which burns all the 'bad' out of a person nor does it make me automatically trust the person wearing it.
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I have to agree with you on this one. I currently work at a small, satellite campus of a private college. A couple of years back, I decided to earn a Masters degree and, as an employee of the college, I was able to do so without paying tuition. I got an A in every, single class. Our final project was comprised of several chapters which had to be turned in individually before being turned in as a whole unit with a presentation. The head of the program taught the courses in which the chapters were to be turned in. She also graded the final project as a whole as well as the presentation. She marked every chapter I turned in individually with an A. She marked my presentation with an A. However, she marked my final project as a whole with a B+. To this day I cannot figure out how work that earned A grades individually could add up to a B+ as a whole. Honestly, I really don't see how it could other than saying that this, particular professor is pretty erratic (I know that not just from being in her classes but also from dealing with her as a coworker.) I didn't raise a stink as I didn't want to jeopardize my job but I can honestly say that I didn't earn a B+. I earned an A but was given a B+.
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I'm close enough to you that I'd really like to know which Walmart that is. Not doubting you - seriously asking, in what Walmart are you finding ammo? Last Saturday, we went to the Heiskell area to visit my step-grandfather. During that trip, I hit the Halls Wally, the Clinton Wally and the Lenoir City Wally. Ammo was scarce at all of them and not a single .22LR round except for the .22LR birdshot they had at the Clinton store. Clinton and Halls are the only two Walmart locations of which I am aware that stock reloading supplies and those shelves were pretty much bare, too. I wanted to hit the Oak Ridge Wally, too, but we ended up being in a hurry to get home so I didn't. Anyhow, the point is I did drive around and still really didn't find much. All the Walmart locations I have been in were nearly out of most 12 gauge ammo, didn't have a lot in the way of 20 gauge ammo and didn't even have any .22 WMR. Weekend before last I was in the Athens Wally and all they didn't have much in the way of ammo, either. The same was true of the Walmart in Madisonville and the one in Maryville (on 411) the last time I was in either of those but that was two or three weeks ago. I keep hearing good things about South Clinton Pawn but have never been in there. That isn't exactly my neck of the woods and when I am up that way it always seems to be when they are closed. I haven't checked Frontier Firearms, lately. I find their prices to be a bit high even when there isn't a shortage so I rarely go in there. I might have to go soon, though. My favorite LGS was running pretty low on ammo when I was last in there.
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Muslims want gun shop to stop selling targets
JAB replied to TripleDigitRide's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
Once, again, just because I may go to the range and shoot at targets depicting assailants wearing ski masks doesn't mean I automatically associate wearing a ski mask with being 'evil' nor does it mean I am going to shoot someone simply for wearing a ski mask. Likewise, just because I might shoot at a target depicting an assailant wearing an unbuttoned, flannel shirt over a t-shirt doesn't mean I am going to automatically equate being so dressed with being a criminal nor does it mean I will shoot flannel shirts on sight. Heck, just because I might shoot at targets depicting ground hogs doesn't mean I am out to stage a whistle pig massacre. So, once again, there are a few possibilities here: 1. The Muslims who are whining actually do equate themselves with terrorists and that is why they are offended 2. The Muslims who are whining honestly believe that we are too stupid to tell the difference between a paper target depicting a dead terrorists and a real life, non-terrorist Muslim (in which case maybe WE should be offended) 3. The Muslims who are whining are simply a bunch of overly sensitive a-holes who are looking for a reason to be offended and who think they should have a right to dictate behavior to the rest of us 4. The Muslims who are whining are just plain, old stupid or 5. A combination of two or more of the above -
Muslims want gun shop to stop selling targets
JAB replied to TripleDigitRide's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
How, exactly, does a target depicting a dead (or undead) terrorist equate to the examples you mentioned? If these Muslims have a problem with folks shooting terrorists in effigy then perhaps we should stop to wonder why that is. It seems to me that the only reason someone would be offended by skeletal terrorist targets is that they equate themselves with those terrorists or, at the very least, sympathize with them. If that is the case then I really don't give a hairy rat's posterior about their feelings being hurt. -
Yeah, the last time there was such an ammo scare - around the time when Barry O was elected the first time - it took more than a year for ammo supplies to get back to what I would consider 'normal' - and when they did, prices were higher than than had been, before. I'd go so far as to say that this time may be even worse. Last time, .380 ammo disappeared quickly but other calibers were still available. Then 9mm and .22LR dried up. Slowly but surely, and at a rate of one or two calibers at a time, ammo disappeared. .32acp and .25acp hung on much longer with .32 drying up weeks before .25 did. In fact, I bought a Phoenix .25 just because .25acp was the only ammo that was still plentiful at the time - and then .25 ammo supplies got scarce, too. Most shotgun ammo - even 12 gauge defensive rounds - remained available. This time, it seemed to pretty much all disappear from the shelves at once - regardless of ammo type, caliber or anything else - and did so quickly enough to make one's head spin. Also, this time, even shotgun ammo is being snatched up. At all the Wally locations I have visited, lately even the spots on the shelves where the 12 gauge bulk pack field/target loads belong have been empty. My guess would be that even if the 'craze' ends soon (and I do hope that the OP is correct in believing it will) it will likely be sometime in the Summer of 2014 before ammo supplies return to something approaching 'normal'. I also expect prices to be a couple of bucks higher per box by then, too. The availability of the firearms, themselves, probably will improve much more quickly - especially if all the ban talk dies down.
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According to something I read on another forum (including a posting of another letter from them), Olympic Arms is also refusing to do business with the government of the State of New York as well as any police departments or other law enforcement agencies within the state because of the recently passed anti-gun laws in New York. In the letter, they make the statement that the police shouldn't have access to any weapon that is illegal for any other law abiding citizen to own. I don't own an AR nor do I really want one but if I change my mind I'd have to take a serious look at Olympic's products.
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Muslims want gun shop to stop selling targets
JAB replied to TripleDigitRide's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
I would say that the targets which were the original subject of the thread do not lump all Muslims together as terrorists. Instead, just as a target depicting a ski-mask wearing assailant is obviously meant to depict ski-mask wearers who are 'bad guys' and not everyone who wears a ski mask, the turban wearing skeleton is meant to depict a terrorist. If non-terrorist Muslims are offended by that target then it is those Muslims who have lumped themselves in with the terrorists by saying, "That target depicts me and mine." -
And that, my friends, really is the ultimate test of 'who has what it takes to survive'. Being dead really doesn't earn Shane many points in that contest.