TGO David

What Mike said. A revocable living trust is your best bet. It's a little more expensive on the front end but is, IMO, the only way to fly.

You're likely not going to get a consensus from the shops as they seem to all use someone different. I know that D&T Arms in Nashville outsources their 1911 smith worth to Chad Kandros. Hero Gear has an on-site smith - Jeff Meister. There are several other reputable smiths in the Nashville area. If you google either of those two names, I'm sure you will find the necessary contact info.

Just pay it forward like I suggested and everything will be right with the world. Not a big deal.

PS: Take the $20 or whatever it would have been and do something nice for someone you don't know. Find a cop having lunch somewhere and pay his tab or something.

I am not sure where you get the idea that I was being disrespectful from the statements that I made but whatever. We've come to a point where emotion is ruling one side of this discussion so we're probably not going to get anywhere. Tell you what, I'll just comp you a Benefactor status for a month so you can sell whatever it is you have to sell. Proof that I'm really a jerk.

Two of my colleagues are using these to try to stop smoking. As others have said, I have stood next to these guys while they are using them and cannot smell anything. They seem to like the way they work for them, too, so I suppose that counts for quite a bit.

Oh, and I'm unlocking the thread in case you feel that I'm being unfair and using a locked thread to voice my opinion on this matter is an abuse of power. I probably shouldn't have locked it in the first place but frankly I get tired of having some conversations.

You know, I wasn't going to touch this but it irritates me. The above has nothing to do with anything going on in this conversation. Further, the "Well that sucks" comment pretty much set the tone for the way things went and I would like to point out that I remained, in my opinion, professional about this while you kept trying to turn it into something it wasn't. TGO is not an enterprise. I do not have a fleet of people making sure the machine runs. It's all me and a handful of volunteers. If the server craps itself, that's on me and me alone to fix. In the past I have tried to be a one-man-band selling hats, stickers, shirts, swag... you name it. Every single time there's been one person who wanted to throw a wrench in the works with the statement "Well if it came in this color..." or "If you offered this size..." or "If you accepted this payment..." IF should be a four letter word. IF my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. Accepting PayPal as the only means of payment has worked well for my ability to streamline the process and keep it manageable. I'm sorry that conflicts with your personal stance against them as a company or their perceived politics, but it is what it is. Again, sorry that we could not come together on this and sorry that as a veteran of two tours in Iraq, the unwavering stance of a forum admin has offended you to this degree. I wouldn't have expected that, but people surprise the hell out me from time to time.

Well it appears we have resolution. Thread closed.

I'm looking for someone in the greater Nashville area that installs tile flooring. I will have a project in the next month (give or take) that will require about 350 square feet of tile to be laid. It's not a big job and not very complex, but I simply do not have time to learn to do it myself. I want it done right by a professional. Would prefer to use a TGO member and keep it in the family so to speak, but I will accept firsthand recommendations as well. Thanks in advance.

Nope, if you're ok with it just be sure to do it as a manual payment and put a note in my PM box about it. That said, I think it's a little silly that it is OK for you to "risk" fraud but not the OP. And I've been using PayPal since they started and I've never had anything fraudulent happen so I feel pretty confident saying it's a safe process to use. But anyway, we're good to go if you are.

Very nice. The .38 Super and 1911 platform are just a natural combination. Should be a sweet shooter.

Just keep in mind there is no automated system for that and it will have to be done manually by me. If you (Eyebedam) use the automated system, it will apply it to your account and not his. While I try to keep on top of things, there could easily be delays with the way that I've been having to work lately. Until someone comes up with a reputable, reliable alternative to PayPal, that is all we will use here. Obviously this doesn't please everyone, but I stopped trying to do that a long time ago.

Like I said, sorry. There is no rational reason to refuse to use Paypal as you aren't even required to have a Paypal account to do so. Paypal is the only method so, that's pretty much that.

No. Paypal is the only option now. Sorry.

I read it the other way but you may be right. Headspace issues would definitely cause it to fail to lock into battery. I'd stop shooting that thing until he knows for sure; bad head spacing can be very bad juju.

I remember that as well. All because the hand-wringers in Berkley were afraid that it was promoting nationalism and might offend someone. If you ask me, we still haven't stomped a big enough mudhole in the ass of a few countries.

It sounds like the AR is short cycling which can be the sign of too small of a gas hole or an obstruction in the gas tube. This would cause it to fail to lock back and would cause it to jam while trying to eject the spent casing and strip off the next round. What make / model / length upper receiver group are you running on your lower?

This response wasn't necessary. Please refrain. There are plenty of people who feel the way you do, but there are also plenty of people for whom "reliving" is a form of catharsis.

I was at work that morning. My employer at the time was an investor relations company, so as you can imagine we were plugged into the world financial markets and particularly the NYSE around the clock. The Bloomberg business news terminal was always up and there was always a television tuned to one of the major news networks. We knew about the attacks almost instantly. I remember a group of us had gone down to our mailroom where we could gather around another television and talk candidly. We were watching live when the second plane hit. There wasn't a dry eye in the place; folks gasped out loud and one person literally fell to their knees with tears in her eyes as the realization hit us all that this wasn't an accident. Our lives and our world were forever changed. America's age of security was gone in the blink of an eye. It didn't take long for us to close down the building and send everyone home. We had the capacity to work from remote and, like many, we feared that the attacks might be replicated across America's other downtown skylines. Our offices were just too close to the larger structures in downtown Nashville for anyone to be comfortable. Of course immediately following this, the stock markets remained closed so I spent the next week "working" from home. It mainly consisted of me checking email while I watched the saga unfold on Fox / CNN / MSNBC. The night of September 11th, our church had a prayer gathering. The building was packed; standing room only. I've only seen it that way on Christmas and Easter. The service officially ended about an hour later but I think it was nearly midnight before everyone had gone home and we turned out the lights. I think it was then that it struck me just how surreal the range of emotions that day had been. I will never forget small things that followed: The ridiculous rush on fuel at gas stations. The fact that you couldn't find an American flag to buy in the stores because they were completely sold out. The sheer number of cars you saw on the roads flying the little clip-on window flags. The little signs that read "PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN" that popped up at the various immigrant-owned businesses around town; especially if the owners were brown-skinned. They were afraid of being the victims of hate crimes, and rightfully so. People wanted to strike out against someone, anyone, and these poor Americans were fearful. I remember how sad that made me in light of this spirit of patriotism that our nation seemed to be experiencing.

Where were you on the morning of September 11, 2001? What were you doing when you first learned of the attack on our country?

I plan on going to see it once I'm off-call for work. Right now it'd be an exercise in frustration.

That's pretty good stuff right there.

This!

MacGyver covered this already. His decision stands.