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Ok... but why not just think about it from the angle of the gun show being a convenience to you, the consumer, rather than thinking about how the gun shops represented there aren't cutting you smoking deals across the entire spectrum of what they are selling? Sure, you may find some tremendous bargains at a gun show, but you also may get to visit a representation of 100 different top notch gun shops and vendors sampled from a 300 mile radius under one roof. To me, that's worth the price of admission. It saves me from having to take a one-thousand mile, one week-long travel circuit and all of the expenses associated with that were I to drive my car and visit each of these shops or vendors at their home bases. If we could find a person who would donate a top-quality, comfortable, modern, air-conditioned venue centrally located to five major cities and metropolitan areas, and be content to lose money themselves while everyone else made money for a weekend... we'd be all over that. Until that happens though, we have to operate within the realm of the realistic and accept that you can't put together an event like this without paying whomever owns the venue. The guy who comes up with an antidote for the "cheap consumer" is going to make a ton of money, provided people won't haggle him out of business once he starts selling it. Bud's has a retail location. You just have to spend your time to drive up to Kentucky and pay for the gas to get there and back. Maybe we can rent a TGO Tour Bus and make that trip some day.

It is my understanding that the postage for much of the items being mailed out is paid for by the companies providing whatever goods or services are being marketed within. Therefore when the "NRA" ships you a packet offering life insurance or some other good or service that might be of interest to a sportsman or shooter, while the NRA logo may appear and it may be an endorsed advertisement, the postage was paid for by the advertiser and not the NRA. Also, and this is completely my own assumption here, but it is not uncommon for a large organization like the NRA to run at a loss to avoid massive taxation from the government. The same way that you and I might seek tax shelters by wisely "getting rid of income" via completely legal methods per the direction of our investment counselors, etc. Businesses do this all the time.

An unexpected but useful byproduct of this thread has been that it made a few ingrates stand out from the crowd by lobbing accusations against the Administration of TGO (me, primarily) of surrounding ourselves with sycophantic members. Nothing could be further from the truth. However, I do take issue with the notion that these two feel they can come onto a forum that I've worked hard to create and grow, and make such statements in the first place. You don't go into a man's home and disrespect him, expecting not to be shown to the door. Apparently "manners" aren't as common in some parts of the gun community as I had originally thought. Therefore, these two will no longer be with us here. Edited to add... What appeared at first blush to be two people (Bullwinkle, Joeharris) has turned out to be one person using two different names to post in this thread. Actually, this person has had several accounts on TGO, all of which have been deleted. Crazy is as crazy does, apparently.

That's a pretty idiotic statement. The NRA does not exist to save you from prison if you knowingly violate Federal firearms laws. As others have stated, the NRA is far from perfect but they are the best, largest and most well equipped lobbying organization in our country fighting to preserve our 2nd Amendment rights. Beyond the political aspects, the NRA works to provide funding to youth firearms education programs, training programs for law enforcement agencies, self-protection programs for women, and other educational programs. The effectiveness of the NRA drives the Leftists up the wall, perhaps best illustrated in a quote from former Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos who said, "Let me make one small vote for the NRA. They're good citizens. They call their Congressmen. They write. They vote. They contribute. And they get what they want over time." It is my opinion that if a Tennessean can afford to financially support just one pro-2nd Amendment organization annually, it should be the NRA. Not TGO, not the TFA... but the NRA. They do more nationally than any other organization, and are immensely effective at the state and local levels as well. If you decide to join, fee free to use the link provided at the bottom of every TGO page to do so or just visit NRA and sign up there.

Did they do it as a tongue in cheek sort of thing ... or what? Really hoping for the former.

Thanks for the compliment.

She is a perfect candidate for an easy government job. Mediocre academic performance and the willingness to sue if something doesn't go exactly the way she had hoped.

I've got an idea for something that might be a cool way for folks to sell their firearms that might be really innovative, give excellent exposure for that person's item for sale, and streamline the whole process. I'm going to bump it off of the other folks involved in organizing this and see what they think before I make any sort of public announcement.

They were ACTION FIGURES you shmuck!

Saw it last night and can offer a one-word review: SUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Transformers fanboys who cried foul about how Michael Bay raped their childhood memories seriously got off lucky with their movies. The GI Joe movie ****ing blew. Everything about it blew. They took my childhood, gouged its eyes out and skull ****ed it. By the time the movie was halfway through, I was praying for it to be over. The plot sucked, the cheesy insertion of GI Joe key-phrases was beyond gay, and the shameless monkeying with character histories was pathetic. They took The Real American Hero and turned him into NATO's Multi-National Force Of Star-Wars Wannabe Bitches. They even screwed up Snake Eyes!!! Is nothing sacred?!? Worst. Movie. Ever.

If they just sold cigars, they would have the ATF trifecta.

Trade secrets.

Thanks for joining us.

Welcome, Drew.

Welcome.

Welcome to TGO.

I won't use Duracoat on it but may Moly it or Cerakote. Depends on how fast the current finish wears off and looks like complete butt. So far it's moving along pretty fast though. Kimber's finish is maybe a half-step above Krylon.

.40SW was like a hotdog thrown down a hallway.

It went off and drilled a hole in the target, but didn't cycle the slide.

I should note that I am absolutely loving this gun. I didn't want another safe queen 1911 that never got taken out and shot, so I set forth with the goal in mind to just shoot the paint off of it and treat it like a fighting implement. So far, so good. She seems to like being treated like a dirty two-bit skank.

I feel almost naughty confessing that I like to treat this gun like a cheap date... but I do and the "character marks" on the slide prove it. Added since the last time pics were taken: MARS Armament magwell with lanyard loop, 20lpi checkering and Cerakote finish 10-8 Performance tritium sight set Abuse and about 1,000 rounds of nasty reloads including one accidental .40SW round that somehow got thrown into the heap The Jeff Meister down at Hero Gear fitted the sights for me and also reamed out the chamber and polished the feed ramp to improve reliability. Again, big thanks to him for treating my 'ho to some TLC.

Me too.

That sounds like a great lead in to another question... What do you completely and utterly dislike about any of the current gun show circuits out there? Feel free to list as many complaints as you want. Those of us who are involved in organizing this really want to know what areas suck about other shows so that we can make this one completely different. So far this group is taking a very no-holds barred approach to organizing these shows. They want it to be absolutely over the top in every good way possible.

Frightening. The words "Beanie Babies" were thrown around frequently during a war-gaming session that I was involved with on this.

Thanks for the emails Ben. I believe we're good to go.