TGO David

Just wanted to add, in case anyone else gets a case of tinfoil poisoning and decides to go full retard like this... I don't just play a forum Administrator on TV. I started this site, I own the site, I run the site. I'm not just "an" administrator, I'm the Administrator. And I'm note deleting anything. I'm leaving this out there like a head on a spike at the castle gate... a speed bump for stupidity. Here there be dragons, chief.

Bye.  :wave:

  This x100000.  Keep the weapon loaded.  Lock it away during the day if you need, but keep it loaded.  And I mean one in the chamber loaded.  It's useless to you if you can't deploy it, single handed, in the nick of time.  Don't fool yourself and think you're necessarily going to have time to wake up from your slumber and chamber a round before someone's already in your immediate vicinity.

  Yep.  I hadn't seen it until a few years ago myself.  It's kind of common in the IDPA circles too as a safety mechanism, for certain stages.  I figure that's where these folks saw it based on their videos.

  I've seen it taught in classes. Basic idea is to keep your weak hand away tucked in close and away from the firearm during the initial draw, bringing them together at the chest and punching out together.   The instructors who innovated that to begin with have started moving away from that and teaching "natural movement" where your weak hand meets your strong hand down near the belt where the firearm is being drawn from, and punching out together from there.  It's funny how you can kind of spot "tiers" in the instructor world by seeing who is still teaching concepts that the top tier instructors maybe taught a few years ago and have since moved away from while they continue to innovate.   The lower tiers of instructors kind of lag behind the times by a year or two it seems.   Anyway, you asked and that's why.

Eh... not sure about that.  NRA is the 300lb gorilla.  I've already had requests to add GOA, 2FA and a bunch of other crap.  I think I'm going to just leave it with NRA for now.  People know what that is.

  That's cool -- as long as you brought more drinks, we can always use a second shift.  :)

Yeah, I looked and I Googled.  You guys are endeavoring to be "professional vloggers" (video bloggers) and shooting is kind of the latest thing for you all.  If you're not looking for crap from people, the Internet is the wrong place for it.  A lot of us here have learned to keep our family out of the eye of the Internet for various reasons that you're probably not considering while you try to establish yourselves as YouTube celebrities.   Be careful with that.

  Agreed.  He looks about as comfortable carrying that sign as I would feel giving spongebaths at an Occupy Wallstreet camp.

Dude... you're late to the party.  This has been beaten up in at least one thread already.

  Wow dude, you're new here so I don't think you really know enough about TGO to call any of us assholes.  You can call me that if you want, but that just suggests you really don't want constructive criticism and just want subscribers to your video feed.  That's cool - I get it.  Nothing wrong with that.   My suggestion stands, though.  If you really want to do something for the "industry" and care about the "shooting sports" then maybe leverage the popularity of the videos to do more than just feature your wife shooting a gun.  Maybe use it as a podium to reach out to the women out there who think it's not for them, or that guns are the domain of men, or that guns are just scary and bad.  Sure, you're still going to get the 12 year old morons from Arfcom who live in their parents' basement and watch your videos because OMFG IT'S A REAL GIRL WITH A GUN!!!1 but you're also going to be reaching out past that pasty-white demographic and hitting the mark with people who need to be swayed.   I have confidence that you've acquired the MW3 players and lecherous old dudes as repeat audience members.  Shoot past that.  :)

  Don't be that guy.  Don't talk about shooting with a purse and then try to make me feel bad when I call you out about shooting in heels.  It doesn't work.  Now I'm going to have to insist that your wife punish you for this by taking a picture of you wearing heels and a purse.

  Don't post a video if you don't want feedback.  And don't package it the way you did here (aka "Beautiful wife shooting drills (video)") and not expect the trolls on Arfcom to come out to play.   If all you're after is putting up videos of you guys doing something you enjoy doing, more power to you.  People put videos of their cats playing in paper bags on Youtube for the same reason.  At least this video had guns.

  How do you feel about shooting in heels?  :squint:

We're sitting here debating whether it's an R or a K and the bottom line is this picture got picked up by the media and run with because this jackass was there with that sign and it says exactly what the media wants people to think about gun owners.  That we're itching to mow down a bunch of fascists.

Warning: Constructive Criticism Ahead   So... what's the point of the video or subscriptions?  I'm trying to figure out what your angle is here because this video itself just seems like a "Hey come look at this girl shooting a gun".  The target audience for that is what exactly?  Creepy dudes who aren't legally allowed within 100 yards of a real woman?   Even the way you promoted the video seems almost exploitative.   Are you guys going somewhere with this or just hoping to become the next Hickock45?  Why not do something productive and use it as a channel to draw more females into shooting?  This video just seems like simple voyeurism.

  Nein.  Stella is good but there are so many craft beers that are so much better.  Do you prefer lighter or darker beers?  Any particular style?

  Yep - it is indeed better than regular Guinness.   I'm a major beer snob and typically the darker and higher ABV, the better.  I'll have to start a list of things I think people should try and compare notes with my fellow hopheads.  Dark beer and small batch bourbons are my thing.

Welcome to TGO!

We've got 1000 more coming!  :)

  Nah, I'm just a guy who thinks too much and has spent a lot of time observing people in the wild.  The psychology of why people do things fascinates me and irritates me at the same time.  I'd never be a good therapist as the result of the latter.  I'd probably be like the Gunny in that GEICO commercial.   What I wish were the case is if open carry didn't raise an eyebrow.  If society would get past it's retarded view of firearms as being "scary" and not even pay that person a second thought.  Unfortunately society has relegated the wearing of arms to a time past and feels that we are so civilized now that it's just not necessary.  That whole "thin veneer of civility" thing keeps people from noticing just how uncivilized this world is and how needed the implements of self defense really are.  People want to believe that guns aren't necessary because they want to feel safe.  Those people have their collective head in the sand because they don't want to feel like they can't walk into a convenience store at night without the risk of getting held up in an armed robbery.  They don't want to believe that there's a certain danger in walking down Printer's Alley in Nashville at 11pm because they might get mugged.  They don't want to see the world as it really is because then they'd have to worry.   Like I said in another post, there's a reason why so many anti-gun leftists suddenly change their mind after they've been beaten half to death in a mugging, or sexually assaulted in a parking garage late at night.  Suddenly they see the world for what it is and realize that the only person who can keep them from ever being a victim again is them.   Until their eyes are opened to the truth of things, seeing guns on people's hips is a reminder that they don't want.  A reminder that there are bad people in the world that want to do bad things to the rest of us, and sometimes a gun is what it takes to keep that from happening.

Let's get back to the basics...   Deprived (adj)   1. Marked by deprivation, especially of economic or social necessities. 2. Lacking in advantage, opportunity, or experience:     The OP and the article quoted insinuate that DHS is somehow nefariously depriving local police departments of ammunition.  How exactly is that the case?  Because DHS bought so much of it that local agencies couldn't source any?  Local agencies get their ammunition from retail suppliers, albeit generally on contract.  DHS contracted to receive the ammo that it did; they didn't go out and horde it up all of a sudden.  Their suppliers produced and allocated that ammo for DHS.   If anyone has made it tough for local agencies to obtain ammo right now, it's the retail customer.  You.  Me.  Everyone else who has been buying up ammo as fast as the supply houses can get it out there.  If a local police department is finding it hard to locate ammo right now, it's probably because they didn't plan ahead or because they didn't have budget allocated to purchase it until after the start of the 2013 fiscal year.  Like anyone else who suddenly has the money in their pockets to go and buy ammo right now, they're finding out that there isn't much to buy.   I don't blame the DHS for this.  And you have to keep in mind that the DHS is a sprawling organization now with a lot of child organizations beneath it.  For them to order a million or more rounds of ammo as large as they are probably isn't such an odd thing.   Or you can hunker down in your basement bunker and convince yourself that some shady shit is up.

Why not post the facts substantiating your opinion that TICS is unconstitutional rather than just claiming it is?   If you're right, you're right.

  It looks like the letter "R" to me.  Just badly drawn.

  Good counter point and definitely thought provoking.  However I maintain that the unfortunate fact is that the opposition will use, at every opportunity, a picture of a person carrying a firearm at a rally like this to divert the public's attention away from the substance of the issue and toward the sensational, "scary" gun.  The media is intent on painting a picture of firearms owners and carry permit holders as armed radicals who aren't like the rest of society.    Frankly I'm surprised that the only picture the Tennessean could get at this rally was of a normal looking guy legally carrying a common-place, mainstream Glock rather than a guy dressed in camo with an AK-47 slung over his shoulder.  I guess they (The Tennessean) had to make do with what presented itself.  Or maybe they planted the guy.  Hell, I wouldn't put that past the media either to be honest.         My opinion is that the only way we are going to alter perceptions is to do it individually with people we already know where a civil conversation can be had and eyes can be opened in a non-threatening manner.  You and I spot a guy open carrying and we might not think too much of it.  Or we might cautiously keep half an eye on the guy while he's in our immediate vicinity just because we've conditioned ourselves to be vigilant.   But Suzie Homemaker with her 2.5 kids standing in line at McDonalds is going to see that guy who is open carrying in a different light.  She's probably going to be scared by the inanimate object on his hip, pull her kids in a little closer, or -- if she's a belligerent type -- make a fuss about it.  That firearm on the guy's hip likely won't persuade her of anything but will somehow, illogically, reaffirm her believe that guns are scary and people who carry guns are scary, and that he, you and I shouldn't be allowed to carry them around her and her 2.5 kids.   Then she'll run home, blog about it, Facebook about it, and post a dozen angry things on The Tennessean's comment sections about it because she didn't like it.  Think I'm blowing this out of proportion?  Have you read comments in those places?  It's enough to make you wonder how some people rationalize themselves out of bed in the morning.   Anyway, my firearm is not a political statement.  It's there for my protection and I prefer to keep it that way.  I've got a box of crayons and some poster board if I want to make a political statement at a rally.