TGO David

I see several people who should have woken up in a hospital needing emergency surgery to remove a cell phone from their ass. Seriously... I just couldn't do that job. You guys keep that in mind the next time someone posts a "cop bashing" thread here on TGO. This is the sort of B.S. they put up with on a daily basis. If 9 out of 10 people you encountered in your job acted like those assholes, you would probably find it really hard to choke back the expectation that the 10th person was going to be any different. And for what it's worth, the blacks in the ghetto are just the most recent arrivals to the video everything the cops do party. Stupid ass white people started it during during protests and demonstrations, just HOPING to catch one cop at his wits end, finally going upside someone's head with a well-deserved baton or a boot. Freedom gives you a lot of things in this country, but one thing it SHOULDN'T is freedom from consequences. Those highly productive members of black society who were obviously just on a lunch break from their well-paying jobs at Edward Jones and Associates, clearly got lucky and missed the Consequences Bus that day. Martin Luther King must be rolling over in his grave. He died for THIS?!?

  These guys probably don't get much time behind a stick like that.  Many of the patrol officers opt not to carry handguns.

I think most of you have been here long enough to know the rules and know to leave the pics with profanity off the forum.   Tnx.

I greatly prefer the rubberized GunTape brand material for this reason.  The abrasive sort is hell on your clothes, skin, anything in your pockets.... just anything it gets up against.

  The vehicles are way more entertaining than I am!

Will keep you in my prayers, Doug.  As Mac said, let us all know if you need anything.

I honestly don't have an answer for that.  It seems like a huge change in reception to your sticker with the mere addition of a URL, and I really can't rationalize it. 

  The URL is what brings new people to the community, and it's really small on the decals.  Small enough they have to be walking by your vehicle and stop for a second to really get a good look at it.

  I dressed like Little Bo Peep once.   Not really.

  Hear hear!

    Bears repeating!   Closing this thread.

All the jokes aside -- I'd still like to take a class led by him.  The guy has a lot of good info between his ears.  The Magpul Dynamics DVDs were great instructionals and there really wasn't a whole lot of BS in them.  Granted, Travis Haley seems to have kept him anchored pretty securely but still.   I think the most recent batch of ridiculousness is just the result of him believing his own press a little too much.

  It's just disheartening.  Drove me to drink!  Still drinking.  What's been seen cannot be unseen.

I'm pretty sure that conversation with me would have gone more along the lines of: You want me to do... what?

  If I can draw it, they can produce it.  The only limitation is the cost per square inch of real estate.

  We cranked some of those out in years past.  I'll probably revisit it at some point.  In the meantime the morale patches would be a great addition to any tacticool hats with velcro pads on them.

I can also go larger with these, or even have a second option for larger patches for those of you who want to use them for something else or want bigger swag to slap on your coat / range bag.  They'd be a little more expensive but a 3" or even 4" would work better as a coaster or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3CxkhMVva4   :stunned:   I just don't even know what to say.  Wait... yes I do.     I'm a model you know what I mean And I do my little turn on the catwalk Yeah on the catwalk on the catwalk yeah I shake my little tush on the catwalk     Why, Chris?  Why?   :ugh:

  Haha.  That's like saying you'd buy a Coke if it didn't say Coca Cola on it.  :lol:

  I will only be offended if it's swill beer.  100% approved for craft beers.  ;)

  PVC.  Stated several times in the post.  :)

We've kicked this idea around before but I have a renewed interest in it. I am considering having some PVC rubber TGO "morale" patches made up. These would be identical to our TGO logo decals that we sell in the store, and would be 2-inches diameter, 3 dimensional, with velcro backings. They would be full color. The manufacturer I am talking to about this is well known in the tacticool industry and makes patches for a multitude of military units, law enforcement departments, organizations, etc. Cost would be somewhere between $8.00 and $12.00 depending on how many folks we get to participate. If you're interested and seriously would buy one (or a few) please vote in the attached poll so I can gauge interest. Examples of similar style of patches follow.

Michael is spot on here.  Go ahead and engrave it now.  It'll save you the headache and hassle of doing it later.  If he's set up to do the engravings, by all means let him help you with that too.  :)   And you are correct, none of what the BATFE does makes a whole heck of a lot of sense.

  The odds that anyone left in military or even political service in France was there during WWII are astronomically against it.  With that in mind, and based on what I have read of the current generation of France's fighting forces written by members of our own elite forces (Rangers, SEALs, etc), running and surrendering are not in their vocabulary.   I know, the fact that France's political leaders rolled over and played dead for Hitler in WW2 makes for an easy target and a funny joke.  It's also disingenuous to their modern warfighters and, frankly, kind of tired and old.   What we should be throwing jabs about is the fact that France seriously restricts private gun ownership in that country and none of that gun control was worth a hill of beans in these most recent terrorist attacks.  Even the police are given the option to carry or not to carry a sidearm, and many of them reportedly opt not to.  Why in the world?!?   I suspect some officers may change their minds after this.

You know, I was looking back at this thread the other day and thinking about how badly I need to get back to the range.  I also need to get back to the gym and back to hoofing it a few miles every day.  Right now I would be the weakest link in my overall "self defense system".