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When you're in high demand in low saturation you can pick and choose. Look at the price on a high end full custom 1911. The more exclusive you make yourself the more you can charge, providing there is reputation and demand. I'm thinking of Minton T-Bird resto shop. I can understand not working on vintage/historic pistols like OLD Colt's SAA. I can understand not working on some of the copies as there used to be some truly substandard reproductions. From What I've seen of Bowen, he really likes S&W and Ruger DAs. I can't say anything about any other custom smith. Not throwing shade at Cimmaron for sure. They make great replicas.

Girl I went to high school with went to law school with him. Not that she would or could pull any strings with him. She kinda hates me now. LOL. But he is excellent.

Louisville, TN. this is the only shop in TN I'd want to use for anything I can't do myself. + Bowen Classic Arms + Home

read a piece about doomerisim recently. People get overwhelmed with the gloom and doom and we spiral further into the doom. People are weary of the current state of our society. I fully understand why. Some days I'd head to my cabin in the woods myself if I had one.

and slipping off topic somewhat. I fully believe that "they" would and will try to disarm Americans completely. It is the basis of "their" platform to take care of you every need. Your diet, your health care, your security, what your children are taught, what kind of car you drive, what you can and cannot say. If you don't think "they" will actually try to take your guns you need to open your eyes to what they have already taken.

Where I went to high school, there were gun racks in trucks. Where I grew up there were a lot of adults strapped at all times. Yes, we could resolve things without weapons, one on one. We could also say "I'm going to kill you" and not be arrested for the rhetoric it was.

So we need parenting? Discipline? Morals? Yes we do! I keep several weapons at the ready. When my children were young I had one out of four that was not trustworthy. One who would sneak, scheme and work through barriers to access. I had to keep all but one empty and locked, I had one that was always within arms reach, ready to go. We have the responsibility as parents to understand our children and their tendencies. We have the responsibility of seeing that they are not perfect and see their faults. Adapt and overcome. Trust but verify. I have avoided the news on this shooting. I don't want to know what the media says, I don't care what the politicians have to say. This is tragic, as with the Nashville shooting, I'm sure clues were missed or ignored. We live in a time where parents will fight unceasingly for their children even if they know the child is wrong. So yes, we are all complicent allowing our society to get where we are. It's going to take adults to fix this. Not teachers and politicians but parents. Also, there have been two students in Nashville schools caught with guns this week. Do I think the timing of an election year is part of the issue? Sure, the rhetoric is not lost on our youngsters, they hear when the president says a GOP win will destroy our country.

These are a couple of the things in my opinion above about what is different.

You're pulling a lot of what if's here. Why not go so far as to say what happens when a kid steals a car, wrecks into a patrol car, and steals the officer's weapons? There were unsecured firearms in my home as a child. I never touched them without permission. There were hundreds available to my high school classmates, and there were many fights as well as bullying that went on. Therre were no shootings in any of my schools growing up and I never heard of any elsewhere. It isn't the guns, it isn't accessibility. I have my own opinion as to why but I'll let you figure out your own answers.

It's true, there have been great developments in arms and ammo. The example is evidence of that. I have explored options but I don't normally carry a 9mm. In fact I just traded my only 9mm for another .45. Oh I'll replace it with another micro sized pocket 9 at some point. The one that has gone everywhere every day for over 25 years has not been improved upon. There's only one pistol I know of smaller and lighter than my KelTec P32 and I don't carry it at all. I don't care for red dots on handguns and I am not fond of the huge mags on the hi cap 9s. There is also a trade off in accuracy for smaller and lighter.

that's me LMAO

mine used to be "NSA SURVEILLANCE VAN 2"

When the big crash of automotive sites hit it wasn't as disturbing as when TGO went down,,,and I work in the auto parts industry. Hope this site never goes down again. GUNLISTINGS.ORG has been blank since they started craking down on who needs an FFL.

I have to do a resupply on my 45 ammo or this would sit next to my Baby. Nice piece!

I'm good thanks for checking

not hunting, just nice to know I wouldn't be hungry. There were 5, one was hit by a car, this year's fawn probably died without momma.

The original SBR as it were

Very nice bike, rare to find this close to original. I had an XS400 and an XS750. superb bikes in their classes. Rob is a good one to deal with too.

I agree, the NFA and GCA are unconstitutional and need to go. We see from that progression the anti's are not happy with a little, they want it all. @Grayfox54 yes I understand the thugs are getting bolder and better armed. that just goes to prove that gun control laws don't work. We have to find a better way to deal with that problem. Maybe go back in time and legalize weed so the cartels didn't grow so strong. Or stop prohibition from being passed so the mob didn't profit from liquor. those two bans didn't work and gave the criminals a lot of profits. Had we kept these two thing legal, controlled, and taxed we would not have spent billions on enforcing bans and gained billions in tax dollars. I have no clue how many jobs are in the liquor and liquor control/inspection industries but we can see how much the criminals have profited. I have dies for .45 and I'm sure I could buy more die sets for any other full auto I might be able to get. I'm sure that machine guns are not that expensive, they are just a finite commodity in the USA so the price goes up.

Happy for the success for Outpost, but I hate seeing On Target close. A little competition is a good thing. Range fees at Outpost are very high as are other ranges in Rutherford Co. At least they have ranges, not a thing in Shelbyville and I have neighbors behind me on both sides.

Well, it's about time this was overturned. Let's hope it sticks. US judge tosses machine gun possession case, calls ban unconstitutional (msn.com) #1 on my wish list is a Thompson

Don't guess the population is apt to increase.

I always thought magnum was in reference to chamber pressure. I understand the different calibers such as all of the .38s are where the measurement is taken. but tactical is just an add on term for has extra stuff. for handguns, could be and accessory rail or a 1911 with round butt. It's all in the perception.

from the Oxford dictionary; relating to or constituting actions carefully planned to gain a specific military end. For my money tactical would be stealthy. Quiet, unnoticed, achieving one's objective with minimal effort. Looking at tactical teams and gear would lead one to assume it means having every possible piece of gear you could ever by some chance need when the perfect plan works as one would expect (SNAFU).

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