RobertNashville

It seems pretty incredible (and not in a good way) to me that someone would question the sense of liberty or self-sacrificing nature of a member whom he doesn't know and has never met.   Even if semiautos and TMF do know each other, making such assertions is something that I sincerely hope isn't tolerated.

This is so bizarre that I don't even know what to say.   "A suspended seventh-grade student in Virginia Beach, Va., could be expelled for the rest of the school year for shooting an airsoft gun with a friend in his yard as they waited for the bus to come..."   LINK: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/23/suspended-student-may-be-expelled-for-rest-of-the-year-for-playing-with-toy-gunin-his-own-yard/   We used to take toy guns to school...hell, we used to take REAL guns to school and no one ever got shot...we played cowboys and indians and secret agent man and 007 and still managed to learn that 2 + 2 = 4 EVERY TIME.   Folks, if you have children or grandchildren in the public schools, do whatever you have to do and get them the hell out of there.  If there is any hope for the future of this country it rests with the children alive right now but with the kind of nonsense and outright ANTI-AMERICAN garbage they are being inundated with there is simply no chance that this country can recover from its demise.

I've never worked a job where 40 hours/week was all I needed to work - a 40 hour week would seem like a vacation to me! ;)

I should?  Well...maybe I should but I just don't have it in me anymore.   I went to DC twice to try and stop this monstrosity legislation...I called and wrote politicians...argued with people who thought Obama would just be the greatest thing ever (not just liberal Democrats who love Obama and anything he did but people who were typically conservative or at least middle of the road). When it passed anyway then I started donating time and money to candidates that I thought might make a difference.  Not only has it not made a difference but people REELECTED THIS SOCIALIST ASSHOLE IN CHIEF for a SECOND TERM!   I guess I could feel sorry for all of us who are paying the price but what good would that do? Feeling sorry for myself or anyone else won't change anything - if I'm sorry for anything I'm sorry that this great experiment is coming to a close.

The one fellow said that when he called 911 the operator couldn't here him because of the noise!  If that's true I'd be pretty pissed too and not very happy that I had an outdoor range that close. However, although they they may have legitimate complaints they may have no power to do anything about it.   One of the benefits of living in a county is to escape all those pesky zoning/noise laws and property restrictions...one of the downsides to living in a county without all those pesky zoning/noise laws and property restrictions to handle issues like this.   About all they can do is to sue the range - maybe in three or four years it will be resolved!

This is what a majority of the American people voted for...I no longer feel sorry for those who are paying the price for their foolishness.

It probably isn't importnat there but I'd submit that technically, the American Revolutionary War was a civil war...it was citizens of England who didn't want to be citizens of England any longer fighting citizens of Eng;amd; we just don't call it a civil war.   Anyway...voting can change things but I'm unfortunately in agreement with the sentiments of many here that I think things have gone too far for too long and we have far too many people who are registered to vote and do vote who are completely illinformed or uninformed or simply too stupid to be able to make rational decisions leaving the rest of us in the minority. That knowledge won't stop me form voting but my expectations aren't very high any more.

Someone needs to teach her to treat her signature like it's the key to her private vault or people will take advantage of her. :)

What does the Constitution mean when Presidents, Senators, Representatives and even Supreme Court Justices seem able to ignor it or circumvente it when it suites their purposes?  It IS a profound, even beautiful document but one that is being routinely ignored. I believe there was once a time when even the worst of our politicians had SOME basic sense of fairness...right and wrong; I believe that a majority now have no such basic moral structure at all.   How "Constitutinal" are any of the firearm laws we currently have?  How can survalance by the NSA not be a violation of the 4th Amendment?  Who does one appearl to those in charge simply ignor you?  I've seen (and I suspect you've seen) the world turned upside down just in our adult lifetimes...what was once considered good citizenship is now mocked by our own representatives as being anti-American and dangerous attitudes.   As long we have immoral, dishonest people in positions in power we can and shoudl expect technonogy to be used against us whether it's monitoring what we say on our phones, or on internet forums or the things we think are "private" even in our own homes.

I doubt it matters if we "like it" or not...we are living in a technological revolution that is and will have just as profound an effect on this country and the world as the industrial revolution or the renaissance did...there is NO stopping it.  If you tried to name just the parts of our lives that have changed because of technology in the past decade I doubt you could remember them all...remember "flip phones", Compact Disks, dial-up modems, AOL, or cars without more CPUs than the Space Shuttle?   Kids born in 2000 and later have no idea what a "record" is or that the interned hasn't always existed or that we can't just talk to our phone or our car and have it do something for us. Do any of you have young children or grandchildren that have walked up to your TV and tried to change the channel by swiping the screen because they think it's just a big iPad and a "remote control' is a foreign object to them?   Twenty years ago a futurists said that we had seen more technological changes in the past 50 years than in ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY up to that point but we haven't seen anything yet.   The truth is, technology is neither good or bad...moral or immoral...fair nor unfair...it just is. Facial recognition can be used to spot a known terrorist that DHS thinks is in the process of planting a bomb at a public event or it can be used to spot a "dangerous" patriot who doesn't trust the government and has spoken out about it. We can try to insulate ourselves from it...avoid it...but the truth is that technology has done a lot of good for us. It makes our lives easier; in some cases a lot easire and it some cases, it's the only reason we haven't yet taken that big dirt nap.   What really matters when it comes to technology is what we do with it. Most of us don't trust "Homeland Security" because we tend to not trust anything the "government" does...I understand that...but I don't think it makes any difference whether we like it or not. The best we can hope for is to try to put good people into power who ARE moral and good and fair.  

The Republican senators are worreid about it too...just an email from the NRSC (per Orin Hatch) asking for $$$ and I get phone calls almost weekly...the "party" nore any of its siblings will ever see a dime from me again and I sure as hell am not going to support the likes of Orin Hatch who shoudl have retired abotu 20 years ago!

This isn't the first time Paul has taken a position or made a statement that is either antithetical to the Constitution or just plain stupid although I doubt it would hurt his chances in a run for president.  I really can't see how him getting the nomination or not is  going to depend on one stupid statement.   I just know I don't plan to support or vote for him.

Yuup...not only is that what I've been told by many instructors I've seen it demonstrated...the right ammo is devestating to flesh (not to mentione all the ohter adavantages of a 5.56 rifle) but it simply will not overpentrate walls like most most all handgun calibers will (at least handgun calibers that are powerful enough to stop the threat well). There is no "one" right firearm/ammo to use for HD but I think a 5.56 rifle has some big advantages over shotguns and handguns. JMO 

That's really awesome and exceptionally noble and self-sacrificial for you and your wife to do.   Congratulations...I'm sure those three children will benefit greatly from the home you provide.

Good one...really good...you just summed up 15 pages of posts.

I don't even bother contacting them anymore - I'm tired of their form letters in return and the fact that it's so totally obvious that they don't give a flying **** what the little people think.   These days I communicate with my money and my vote.

I wish someone would cite for me, the passage in the Constitution that says I have a "right" to do anything on another entity's property if that entity doesn't want me to do it because no matter how many times I've read the Constitution I've never seen it??? :confused:   To the best of my knowledge, unless it's MY property or PUBLIC property I have no right to carry arms or say anything I want or demonstrate or practice religions acts and even those "rights" can have restrictions placed on them when it's necessary for good of society (i.e. I can't just decide to hold a parade down Main Street; I have to go through a process to get a permit, arrange for traffic re-routing ,etc. because my parade will/can negatively impact other people).

They may not have "cared" but I'd bet that George and Tom also never intended to and would not support forcing or trying to coerce a business owner into allow arms on/in his property if he didn't want them there.   The right to arms is ONE right, there are others and the all need to be respected (and when necessary, a balance struck when they start to conflict) or all of them mean nothing at all.

You're always pissed about something!  ;)

Given the size of conventions, the number of venues that can hold it are not many so I guess they have to work within the rules they are given.

I have no "inside knowledge" of this but I doubt the NRA has anything to do with those decisions...I would suspect that it's the policy of the venue that determines whether carry is allowed or not.

I have to say that even as something of a 1911 purist I like the external extractors when they are designed properly as they work exceptionally well and consistently. It's worth noting that Kimber had some bid problems when they tried using them and I don't believe they ever got it right; they just went back with internal.AFAIK but that was one company who did a crappy job with them...the ones I've had from other manufacturers worked great.

Stop projecting your ailments onto me! ;)

I usually have Outpost Armory do mine but I'm sure they are doing it poorly as my targets keep getting holes in them in places I didn't intend. ;)

Rather late to the party I know but I thought I'd mention that I have two SIG 1911's; one is a C3 compact and the other a Scorpion Carry which is actually currently out on loan to a friend of mine.   I've had very little problem with malfunctions with either example regardless of ammo and I think they are a fine example of the venerable 1911; especially for the $$$ spent.