TGO David

Send me a PM and let's chat. I'm OK selling it out of state but we'll have to do it in a way that is mutually safe for the both of us.

It is.

You just described my house with the three kids running crazy. Wait... you meant TGO. Well, same.

TGO - Please keep the Trading Post threads topical to the buying/selling/trading of things. Create a new thread in the appropriate forum if you just want to chat about whatever. I've cleaned up this thread some to put it back on track. No reply to this comment is necessary. Thanks.

Very sorry to hear about your loss.

As I understand it, the ATF more or less considers it to be when you start doing the work for other people AND they are leaving their guns in your possession while they are absent. Whether it's fitting and installing parts or refinishing the serialized component of the gun itself, that's when an FFL is required and that's when you are on their books as a gunsmith.

We made it all the way to December 18th, but there it is folks. The post of the year for 2022.

Damn, someone was pretty salty to do something like that.

These are the rules specific to the Trading Post. We don't have a policy about thread bumping because it's never been a problem. Let your conscience be your guide. The harder you go after it; the more likely others are to complain. And if enough people do that, we'd have to consider writing a rule around it.

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I just want to wish you all the happiest Thanksgiving. The older I get the more I truly realize how much I have to be grateful for. I am very thankful for the friends that I have made courtesy of TGO as well as the simple fact that this is one place where I truly feel surrounded by "my people". Even when we disagree on things. I appreciate all of you. I hope that today you might be able to take stock of the things that are good in your life as well, whether you are gathering with family, friends, or just getting some restorative peace and quiet by yourself. Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm almost certain that Joe was one of the very first sponsors / vendors on TGO too.

We're both OF's now.

Most of you who have been here a while already know this, but @BimmerFreak (Joe) is a TGO OG, a good dude and someone you don't even have to hesitate to deal with. Besides all of that, he's a very dear friend of mine so this is about as good of a vouching as I can provide. I can count the number of people I'd drive across country to help bury a body on one hand. Joe's the middle finger.

Wow. How dumb can you be?! https://williamsonsource.com/owners-of-franklin-gun-shop-plead-guilty-to-federal-charges/

Yes - if you don't already have the Spectre Comp, just buy the Macro XL and apply the savings to your optic purchase.

I am certainly not the first person to do this, but I "Macro'd" my Spectre Comp a few weeks ago and finally got a moment to take a photo to share. For someone who remembers when Glocks were cutting edge 25+ years ago, it feels like we are living in the Golden Age of Concealed Carry when we can buy a handgun that carries 17 rounds in a package this small with this many desirable features. Anyway, what you see there is basically Sig screwing those of us who bought a Spectre Comp by releasing the Macro a few months later for about $300 less than they charged for the SC. The only advantages I have over a plain ol' Macro is that I have a gaudy gold TiN trigger and barrel, and I guess maybe the SC has the Sig X-Ray night sights whereas the Macro XL doesn't. Hardly worth the premium upcharge over a Macro.

I'd hang on to the 19X. You still get the benefit of the 17rd mags, it'll fit any G19 holsters that you already have, and it's somewhat unique in the sense that it's not just another black Glock. OR... sell them both and pick up a Zev OZ9 or a Shadow Systems MR series so that you have something a little more different than every other Glock.

Your best "defense" is just a well-performing email filter. I still use Gmail for a lot of things, and their spam filtering is pretty amazing, but I also have a Protonmail account that I never use for anything related to retail sales.

Welcome to the Internet, bud. It's a retched hive of scum and villainy.

As relates to Christmas decorating, I think the pandemic changed things around my house and they will never go back to the way they were. We used to be the kind of family that waited until the weekend after Thanksgiving to decorate the house. Especially if it meant putting up the Christmas tree. That all went right out the window in 2020 when we, like a lot of people, arrived at the period of time between Halloween and Thanksgiving and said, "You know what? We need some holiday cheer. Screw it! Let's decorate for Christmas!" And we did. And no one died because of it. Fast forward two years and here we are in 2022. We started decorating the house this past week. We have artificial trees up, decorated and lit in three rooms of the house. (I may have had a tree-buying addiction in 2020 and 2021 also. Don't judge me.) My wife and kids also hung most of the lights on the exterior of the house while the weather was warmer last week, although they aren't lit yet. But they will be soon if this frigidly cold weather persists. I mean, why have low temperatures in the teens if you're not going to call it Winter?? So, who else is going for the gold well ahead of Thanksgiving this year? Anyone else brave enough to admit it? Hell, I might just get a wild hair and put up TGO's Christmas decorations early too!

Ah, the old "Don't support the Chinese government" argument. I get it. I do. But the very fact that you are on an Internet forum tells me that you are using an electronic device that, statistically, has far more components inside of it made by the ROC than it has components made anywhere else. With that in mind, you sort of lost before you started. That aside, let's talk optics since it's one of my favorite things to talk about. You mentioned Trijicon and that's a great place to start. I am a fan of the RMR series and have owned and used some variant of them for the past eight or so years. They work great, are rugged as hell, and not made in China. Unfortunately, Trijicon also hasn't done much to innovate since the RMR was introduced. We got the SRO which is popular among shooting sports enthusiasts but not rugged enough for hard use. We got the RMRcc which is a smaller version of the RMR, but it's also rather uninspiring in a lot of other ways. Things that Holosun seem to be doing better than Trijicon these days: Fully enclosed emitter design. Shake-awake technology for better battery life. Battery is accessible without removing the optic from the gun. Also, they seem to be listening to and responding to the consumer. Do I wish that an American optic company with American manufacturing presence was producing handgun optics for the American consumer? YEP! But I can wish in one hand and put a Holosun optic in the other, and I can tell you which one fills up faster.

It would be wildly inappropriate and yet also hilarious if his funeral requires ponchos for the front row.

Oh. Well... all content here is contributed by the members. If he wants to contribute a list of gun shows, I'm sure his fellow gun owners would be appreciative.

Your post doesn't make any sense. Feel free to drop me a PM and explain what you're wanting to see changed.