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Gallatin is a little far for such a small job, plus I don't know any Sam in Gallatin. I do appreciate the input, however.

Chinese Type-53

  You'll have better luck finding a 2 headed flying unicorn that poops silver dollars. LOL     Seriously, I've found several guns that have a better trigger OR is lighter to carry OR is smaller. What I haven't found is any gun I like better overall OR that feels even remotely as comfy in my hand. I'm open-minded and optimistic, though, so I keep looking too.

I order from Midway several times a year, but never ammo. Before this ammo craziness hit, I hardly ever found ammo online cheap enough with shipping to beat Walmart, Academy, etc. prices. When I did buy ammo online, I always bought enough to justify the shipping cost. Sometimes that meant buying 4 or 5 times as much as I "needed" to keep the cost/round down.   Lately, it's insane. I can buy 100 rounds (their typical limit) of .223 from Cabela's cheaper with shipping than I can buy 100 rounds locally. That wouldn't be true if I were only buying 20, though (but, who-the-hell only buys 20 rds of .223?).

I'm in La Vergne, but I work in Franklin. I'm looking for somewhere close.   Who would you guys recommend to drill & tap a rifle receiver, so I can mount a scope?   I've seen that several local shops offer the service, but I hate to roll the dice. I'd much rather ask for recommendations.

I can imagine this going much worse, considering they identified themselves when they entered. It can't be easy to have ANYone point a gun at you. Impressively handled situation. Kudos to those deputies.

  I know I'm not immune either, but if it ever happens to me...it'll be out of 100% pure undeniable negligence on my part. I will deserve whatever penalty I get for it.

I for one am very glad to hear the whole idea isn't being flushed over one vendor backing out.   I'm still optimistic and very excited.

Awesome idea!

Very cool looking! Love to see cool mods like this, especially when it ruffles feathers of stodgy purists. I'm curious to hear how it shoots too. So, yeah...keep us posted.

Of course he could have been. I've had that Watermelon Tea...it's freakin' delicious. If somebody caught me drinking some and muching on a bag of Skittles, it'd be a far fetched assumption that I was gonna make a drug cocktail with it. If I had a history of drug abuse, listened to rap music, had gold teeth, wore a hoodie, got caught at school with burglary tools and stolen loot, and acted like a thug on FB and you questioned my purchase of Watermelon tea and Skittles, you'd either be profiling or racist, right?

Yeah, quite a surprise here. I wouldn't have expected a lib to call him on it.

The "innocent kid portrayal" was created by the media when they ran those pics of a 6 yr old Martin and the innocuous trip to the store for tea and candy. The "evil gunslinging mall cop portrayal" included the mug shots of Zimmerman and a doctored 911 tape making it sound like he singled-out lil Trayvon because he was black. This helped get this case spiralling into deep waters, as is evident by the perpetually offended Sharpton and his ilk swooping in to play the race card. Now, it seems the case will be forever tainted as a white on black hate crime, even if it wasn't. If the DA hadn't pressed charges, there'd have been riots. If a jury acquits Z or only gives him a slap on wrist, there'll be riots. Every piece of evidence presented to contradict the "innocent kid portrayal" is attacked as an irrelevant character assassination. I found all the evidence about burglary tools, stolen jewelry, handgun ownership by a minor, drug usage, and general displays of thug-like behavior much more pertinent than dropped charges of domestic violence and resisting arrest. This evidence along with the real 911 tape, witness accounts, and the map of the neighborhood made the idea that TM doubled-back to attack GZ much easier to believe than GZ running TM down to assault/confront him. That's just where my stance came from, but clearly others disagree and that's cool. This is actually another piece of that evidence that got me wondering if TM was an innocent kid from the start. I can't prove it, but I'd bet you money he was headed home to mix up some "Drank"/"Lean" (Watermelon flavored iced tea + Skittles + Robitussin http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=75112). According to this link, it's very popular in southern rap culture. Just read about the 4 levels or plateaus it creates. Like I said, I may be wrong, but based on his past, it's easier to believe than "lil Trayvon walked to the store one night in the rain, just to get candy and tea and was murdered by a white man with a chip on his shoulder".

Why have gay scout masters at all? Why have gay scouts at all? How about just having scouts - PERIOD? Why does this group (all gays) insist so strongly on labelling themselves?

Wow, amazing! Are you going to have some angry sons/grandsons looking for you to get that rifle back? LOL If not, ask her if she has any more guns and chores she needs done :D

I think the biggest hit the BSA took was when they were banned from holding meetings in schools and from camping on public land. That seemed to me to make finding places to hold meetings more difficult and made it more difficult to get boys back and forth to the meetings and it made finding places to hold events like campouts very difficult. Regardless of what the council voted, many disagree with the decision. If many parents of scouts are like me, they are against ANY open display or discussion of sexuality with their young boys, not just homosexuality. It's an issue that simply shouldn't have ever come up. Nobody in the BSA needs to know a kid's sexual tendencies and nobody there to be a scout needs for everyone to know. So their ranks will dwindle even more, b/c a few people have a perverse need for everyone to know their business.

In the initial release of the 911 tapes NBC edited the conversation to make it sound exactly as you remember it. In fact, Z sued them over it and they even released a public apology. The undoctored tapes were later released and included Z giving a rough physical description, mostly of what TM was wearing. The dispatcher is the one that pressed GZ to speculate on the race of the suspect. In my head, I hear GZ saying this in reference to criminals, not black people. I got that impression, because the police had said there had been a rash of B&E's in the neighborhood. There was a crime ridden part of town on one side, a few stores and other businesses on the other side, and this gated community in between. I think the foot traffic through the neighborhood was what most suspected was source of the break-ins. Somebody correct me, if I'm wrong, but didn't I read somewhere that someone reported seeing someone that looked like Martin lookin in windows and patio doors? I don't think it was Zimmerman, but I seem to recall somebody else saying this.

Sick people that show up at a hospital are there because they are sick and want to be healed. Sinners who show up at church to cleanse their soul are always welcome. They find themselves unwelcome only when they deny their sins are wrong or asking that they be ignored. So if a church bans unrepentant gays, how can they expect to be welcome? I can't fathom how being anti-abortion is a "right/religious-right" crusade. It's got nothing to do with one side forcing their religious views on others - unless murder is only morally wrong to people who are religious . Everyone should stand up for an unborn, innocent child in danger of being killed.

I don't believe Zimmerman was a willing participant in a fight. Whether he caught up to the younger, faster kid (highly unlikely) and confronted him or was on the way back to his vehicle and was jumped, I doubt he was looking for a fist fight. But, to play it out your way, let's say he did catch up to a scared, adrenaline-pumped Martin, who was in fear of his life, and confronted him. I'll do you one better, let's say in a fit of bravado, Z tried to subdue him physically and a fight ensued. If that's the way it happened, sure he put himself in that position and shares responsibility for the course of events that follow. However, the moment it escalated to attempted murder and his head was being pounded against the sidewalk, NOTHING he did prior forces him to accept death or brain damage over defending his life.

I'm on pins and needles. This will be my first build.

I've always tried to avoid buying ammo at a LGS, if I could help it due to prices. The big box stores have barely raised their prices, which is why the LGS and internet corrks are scalping the ammo from these places. I've only checked a few LGS for ammo since the SHTF and their already higher prices are way too rich for my blood. For instance, I was in Everything Weapons in Cool Springs the other day and saw a box of no-name .22 for $75 for 500. Their cheapest .45acp was "only" $30/50. Their cheapest .223 was $18/20. And there was no 9mm at all. I'll just do without and/or keep picking up a little here and there using GunBot.net. I'd never have thought there'd come a day when I could buy ammo cheaper online w/ shipping than even a LGS.

Maybe Zimmerman WAS being a busy-body and shouldn't have gotten involved. Maybe he shouldn't have followed Martin to see where he went. Maybe he shouldn't have confronted him and/or asked him what he was up to. BUT, none of that is illegal, none of that warrants being physically assaulted, and none of that justifies a murder charge. In far too many cases, by the time the cops show up to a non-emergency call like this started out as the bad guy is long gone. All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. Well Zimmerman may not be an angel, but I think he was doing the right thing by keeping a suspicious looking person in sight so he could report back to the cops.

Zimmerman was NOT a robust muscle-bound 250 pounder. He was a short doughy, out of shape fat guy. Even at 6'3" and only 140 pounds, I bet your average 17 yr old kid is lean, quick, and strong enough to whoop the crap out him. If I saw them squared up against one another in a street fight my money would be on TM, for sure. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWxlZ52O0rI[/media]

I'm jealous as hell. In my neck of the woods I still haven't seen a box of 9mm fmj on any shelves for under $25 or a brick of .22 for under $70.

I don't think anyone is surprised by this new evidence. Seemed pretty clear TM was a thug from the get-go, not an innocent kid. GZ is no saint, either, but I don't believe what he did wrong warranted him dying, which is what would have happened if TM kept bashing his head against that sidewalk.