TGO David

I'm looking at our performance stats for the evening last night and never see a load average above 1.2 for the server. And that spike occurred during nightly backups, which is forgivable.

There is no one-size fits all course of action for anything that I can think of. However the benefits of using a Trust far outweigh the negative of the up-front cost. The only way I can think of it not being of any benefit is if you refuse to ever share your life or your love of shooting with someone else who might conceivably want the ability to possess one of your NFA items legally, or have those items passed on to them at a later point. If you're a hermit living on a mountaintop with just your dog, you might be right about the Trust being of no use to you.

If you would, shoot me a link or two to the other sites so that I can see if they are running TR ads as well. It would definitely help our case with TR if there is a commonality between TGO and these other sites. TR knows that they have had performance issues in the past and they are generally very quick to respond if there is a legitimate problem.

You know, reading back through this thread it strikes me that as a society -- even an armed society -- we base too many of our decisions on generalizations and assumptions. We generalize and assume that a female is not going to be a threat, or as much of a threat, as a male. Therefore we are more willing to lower our guard a notch or two (or even completely) which in turn leaves us vulnerable. The practice at my home is simple, and everyone knows the rules: If we are not expecting you, we are not opening the door to you. That doesn't mean that we will open the heavy door but not the glass / storm door. That means any door. You will not see us. We will not expose ourselves to be seen by you or harmed by you. And rest assured that if you are ringing my doorbell or skulking around my house, we know you are there, we are watching you from within, and we are armed. This isn't paranoia, it is an adaptation of our lives to the fact that the world has changed for the worse and that there are predatory people out there who will scope out you and your home in the effort to harm you and to take from you the things you hold dear. There are predatory people in this world who will use your kindness, your ill-placed trust, your naivety, your desire to help your fellow man, against you to kill you. The day of the door to door Bible salesman is gone. There is no reason for anyone to be pounding on your door anymore. Frankly I am surprised that no one has resorted to sending school-aged children to a door first under the auspices of selling something for their school, only to have the adults come in behind them with overpowering force and push their way into a home. The only thing less threatening than a teenage girl ringing your doorbell is a gradeschool kid, right? Some folks think talk like this is ridiculous and over the top. Those folks are the ones who end up robbed, hurt or worse.

If you try to invade my home, I will defend myself and my family with every means at my disposal - up to and including the use of deadly force. And I can assure you that neither I nor the ammunition in my gun care about your race, creed or gender. A threat is a threat.

This is EXACTLY why I keep telling people to do the Trust before they start buying NFA items. The transfer fee is simply too high (for most folks) to go and buy them as an individual initially and then become savvy to the benefits of a Trust and want to transfer them into the trust. Do it right the first time and think long term instead of immediate term.

Whether you display the ads in your browser or not, the page loads still depend on the ads being served. You're putting 2+2 together and coming up with 5 somehow. Adblock, the speed of the ads servers and the speed of our server have nothing to do with each other. It's not a TGO server issue. I've been watching it very closely since we moved to the new hosting company and have had zero ... repeat, ZERO ... signs that our server is doing anything less than an absolutely stellar job.

I can tell you that I have absolutely not had any such experiences with the site on the new server except for a few instances where Tactical Republic's ads seem to be slow. And when that is the case you will see references to that in the status bar of your browser while it waits on TR's servers to catch up. As for the TGO server itself, we are kicking ass and taking names as of late. It's simply a beast and hasn't broken a sweat with us yet. If you're seeing delays, it is likely TR or even your ISP. I will email TR and ask them what the situation is.

I've been trying to get used to the AFG that I put on my BCM Mid-Length build and frankly just can't. I'll be going back to a Tango Down "stubby" on it, same as I have on my short-barrel build.

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.