TGO David

Welcome to the zoo.  :)

I like it.  I could see going with 9mm and using it as a "survival rifle" of sorts for hiking.

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You guys ever read the announcements?

  Like I said... still trying to come up with ideas.

Gotcha - thanks for the heads up.

Just sayin' :)

Sooner or later someone with a HCP is going to get murdered on their way to or from the office, and their family members are going to sue the living shit out of the employer for prohibiting the deceased from being able to have their legally possessed handgun in the car at the time.  When that happens, I hope the employer is bent over and their bank account is reamed out properly by the court system.   That is the only way this is going to change.  Until it does, we're all pissing in the wind with our hopes and dreams because TN's legislature isn't going to side with anyone other than the big tax payers.  i.e. Corporations.

Welcome to the group!  There's a lot more here to do than just the Classifieds, although they are definitely the happening place.  Be sure to get involved!  :)

Never go full retard.

Spot on, Randy.  Spot on.  :up:

:)

One side note...   I past fighting pistol / carbine classes that I've attended, spent magazine retention was not emphasized.  It was more of an eject, let it fall, insert new mag, keep shooting mindset.  I've seen mags bust apart when they hit the ground, especially if you were training on a hard surface instead of soft dirt.   Back then, if a mag blew apart it wasn't a big deal.  Go home, order another.  With the current political climate and supply being diminished with worst case projections being that Swinestein might get a mag ban through, I am likely going to abandon the practice of just letting the empty mag fall free and will rather seek to retain it in some fashion or another during my reload process.   That's not to say that in an active shooter scenario, God forbid, I would slow down to retain a mag.  Just saying that in a training class, I'm likely going to start stuffing empties in my pockets instead.

When I consider how many magazines I should have on hand, in general, I am not considering how many I will carry.  I am thinking long term and viewing magazines as consumable items.  Springs wear out.  Housings break, get dented, etc.  While you can replace springs and followers, if a housing is destroyed you are now down one mag.  And if the parasites in power have their way, that is one mag you won't be able to replace.   My statement stands.  Buy as many as you can afford until you feel like you've acquired enough to last you for a long while.   Carry as many as is practical.

  I've worked for some folks over the years that I'd like to see wetting themselves in a corner while being pinned down by simmunitions fire.  :D

I'd buy as many >10 rd mags as I could afford right now.

Sweet baby Jesus that page looks like Uncle Sam threw up on it.  Good read, but wow... someone needs to lighten up on the colors.  It really made my eyes hurt just trying to adjust to what I was seeing.  :(

  Milspec has been the "new cool" for the past few years and there are some so-called training outfits that have benefited from it by providing "Dude Ranch" experiences for the milspec fanboys.  Like I said, it's an out of the box Band of Brothers experience for folks who never served but want cool war stories to tell when they get back to their mundane jobs.   Then there are training outfits that are absolutely serious about equipping people with practical skills that could save their life someday.  Those places have my attention.  The others have my sarcasm.  :)

Yes, we are aware.  Still working on it.

I kind of ran out of time a moment ago while I was formulating my rant... However, I do digress. I am fully supportive of true fighting handgun and fighting carbine classes having open enrollment to civvies (OE in Kyle's blog) where you're taught practical things. Some of the best classes I've had yet were taught by CIS back when Todd and Dustin were doing their thing, and we never once "popped smoke" or fast-roped into a shooting position. Yeah, there was some shooting from the ground, but it was practical stuff. It was stuff that taught you how to deal with shooting from awkward positions because you had just gotten knocked on your ass, or because you were simulating operating a firearm while slightly incapacitated. I would like to attend more of those types of classes in 2013 if ammo supply and budget permit. I'd also like to mix some force-on-force and martial arts training into there as well. I will be skipping anything that has civilians doing silly shit like this... Why? Because it's just me and my wife at home and I don't see us entering a structure in a stick formation like a bunch of Facebook Ninjas anytime soon. That's my new term. Feel free to use it.

  Agreed.  I've been brainstorming some ways we can do that via TGO.  My requirement is that whatever we do, it must be constructive and put forward the best face possible.  In other words, I'm not going to play into the hands of the antis by forming or encouraging the formation of "armed rallies" where a bunch of yahoos with rifles or handguns show up and scare the hell out of the part of society that doesn't really care one way or the other about firearms but still votes for or against the issues that affect them.   I think this is perhaps the crucial point that a lot of the recent activism seems to be missing.  There ARE people out there -- fence sitters, if you will -- who do not really have an opinion about firearms in general but still vote on issues that affect those of us who do care about the Second Amendment.  Nothing polarizes the voting public like sensationalism, and nothing is as sensational as a bunch of rowdy, armed rednecks, toting signs about overthrowing Obama, hanging Senators and Congressmen for traitorous acts, etc.  I'm sure that statement will rub some fur the wrong way here, but the truth hurts to hear sometimes and I'm getting pretty tired of the public judging all gun owners by the appearances and actions of a small subset of the "gun culture".   What needs to happen is for the voting public to understand that their family physician, their pastor, the cute little unassuming soccer mom next door with a minivan full of children, the lady who cuts their hair, the guy who bags their groceries, the nice man who delivers their milk... all of those people are gun owners and many of them carry for their own self-defense.   Sadly the media is always going to seek out the one wild-eyed Bubba dressed in military garb, with a Gadsden flag on a pole, and a Glock on his hip, and take HIS photo and run it on the front page of the newspaper and as the highlight reel for the 10pm news and claim he's what gun owners look like.   The answer is to not be that guy and not have that guy at your rally.  But gun owners aren't willing to play by the rules set forth by the antis so we keep losing the PR battle.

  That's not the question that needs to be asked.  The question that needs to be asked is why does this asshole still have a job?

Kyle is the real deal.  More importantly he's the real deal who also "gets it" as it pertains to civilian carry and self defense.   I won't begrudge anyone a day of rolling around in the mud because it can be a lot of fun, but like I said it's incredibly impractical.  I've started referring to the primary benefit of those classes as providing Retail War Stories for people who didn't sign up for the armed forces.  You pay your money, throw on a lot of combat gear, bunk with strangers-turned-band-of-brothers for a weekend, bust a lot of caps, and come away with some "No shit... there I was putting rounds onto this tango 300 yds away while my buddies were closing in from the left flank" stories that you can tell at your boring ass job come Monday morning.   If you're lucky, someone has a camera and the common sense to spot good photo-ops so you can post up a bunch of bad ass photos on Facebook.   Bah, who am I kidding.  Everyone has a camera. :)

I'm not reinstalling Tapatalk anytime soon.  Use the Mobile version of the forum; it's nice.

Huh... didn't know this about Asheville's leanings.  What a shame; some really great beer comes from there.  I guess the 21st Amendment is a different story.