TGO David

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.

Welcome fellow M&P carrier.

I agree with this 100%.  While rolling around in the dirt all dressed up like some sort of mercenary bad-ass at a civilian high-risk shoot 'em up training class is undeniably fun, it's about as practical as tits on a boar.  You're welcome to debate my stance on that all you want and argue that your favorite badass teacher with a ton of YouTube videos is more knowledgeable and more badass than I am, but let's look at Kyle's creds first:         Unless your guy has credentials like that, your guy can STFU.   So here's what Kyle has to say about civilians and training for the fight:   Secondly, I will continue to run all open enrollment classes from deep concealment, not just an OWB with a shirt over it. I believe this is more important now than ever due to recent events, the possible coming bans and the fact that the concealed draw is, in my opinion, one of the most important skills a civilian MUST master. With this, I hope that more OE students will train with me as they would walk the street, which is to say probably not wearing a mil helmet, cammie uniform, plate carrier, and over belt. Additionally, I will be working on some training nuance’s to be able to get more out of pistols than traditionally is thought of. This is a major reboot for some people as they simply wear the other gear because it’s easier to shoot and do drills from, but in fact is more complicated once the concealed draw is learned, and has no application to the real world. It also goes without saying that blade work will be more important now than ever.   Source:  http://kyledefoor.tumblr.com/post/39690998443/re-boot   Click on over and read it.   :popcorn:

There will never be a time to relax.   “Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves.” D. H. Lawrence (1885-1938)     What we are dealing with now is the result of the complacency of the past few generations.  Believe it.

  Bill Scarpino is anything but "new" ... just new to the Armory.  You can see their announcement here:   http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/55211-gunsmith/   Hope that  helps.

Just me.  Tnx!  :)

  If you hit enter a few times while editing inside the quote box, it will push you outside the quote box and automatically re-format the quote around it.  It's actually a pretty cool feature.

  They are well aware that the current implementation of Tapatalk for IPB 3.4 has a lot of problems to be worked out.  They simply aren't showing it any attention, preferring to work on other platforms instead.  vBulletin, phpBB, etc.

Like I said earlier, this isn't about the speed of the server.  We know we've got a problem there -- the new look and feel was just designed to let pages load faster by reducing the amount of big image files, and maybe take some of the load off of the server.   The server is another problem entirely.

Nashville Armory (one of our vendors) has a smith that provides services through their shop.  Might check with them.   Guns and Leather (also a vendor) has a smith but I am not 100% sure if his operation was impacted by the recent fire at their location.  Might check with them also and see if he's still operational.   Not sure about others.

quoting from mobile now. Looks good.

I've just applied a patch from IPB that should fix this.  We'll have to see if it really does.

From Noveske's Facebook page for those here who don't use FB:         Source: http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=519975964689488&id=181862575167497

Noveske Rifleworks has confirmed on their Facebook page.  It's not just rumor any longer.

  BUT... the companies (big box retailers) that you are talking about are not producing any of those items.  They are simply clearinghouses for them.   Glock is a manufacturer.  If you are going to ask them to deviate from their standard handgun design, you might as well ask them to manufacture tricycles as well.

Unfortunately, yes it is true.   http://www.flashalert.net/news.html?id=1002

  Tnx.  It's moving quickly right now and I hope that stays the case, but I had it screaming fast yesterday only to see it slow down a bit.  I'm not going to trust that we won't have speed problems again until I get us moved over to Amazon's cloud service.

  Nope.  Sorry.

  Understood.  I'll work to get that fixed.

  Are you getting blocked on your native IP?  We had to block some address ranges at the firewall earlier.  Yours might have gotten caught in the dragnet accidentally.