Dolomite_supafly

US citizen responsible. Name Sayeed

David has already warned FTE in my loan officer/ mortgage broker thread.

Always have at least one AK with me at all times. Wait until Star Wars premier.

Scanned just reported last suspect may be in black Honda Accord.

Periscope just said police scanner is reporting something about suspects in church. Still one a large in the neighborhood.

Periscope sender says female on the run was speaking Arabic.

Live broadcast on Periscope App.

Crazies generally don't run in groups of three. My bet it is a Paris type attack. ISIS has been communicating they will attack America's most vulnerable.

Second vehicle with 2 suspects.

3 suspects. Live on TV. Shoot out happening as I type this.   Two suspects injured last suspect shooting at police. Several police injured.

Which Berkey do you have? If it is the Big Berkey look up item # 121046264766 on EBay. They are less than half of the Berkey filters and are much better made. If you have another model contact the seller and he can advise you. I will say measure from the top of the top container to the bottom of the top top container. Give him the measurements and he will help you out.

What exactly happened that caused the filters to last only a few months? I will say that some filters have charcoal inside and the charcoal can settle reducing the speed with which they filter. And if your water has very fine sediment you will have to clean more often. Our water is from a well and because of that we do have some sediment. We use whole house filters to remove the sediment then use the filters to make it 100% safe. We bath and I have drank the water so it is safe but we do worry so we filter.

Wow, that is a lot quicker than I had envisioned.

I have reached out three times since then trying to work on becoming a family again. Fortunately they refuse as I know the drama will ensue the second we did.

You talking about shortening the magwell or shortening the front of the frame?

The reason I won't be around my family has zero to do with their stance on guns. It does have to do with the fact my brother tried to kill us and my parents sided with him. He tried to kill us because I cut him off. I found out his girlfriend "Crystal" was actually his way of thumbing his nose at me when he said he was getting money for his date with "Crystal". After my brother tried to kill us my mother asked me if it was worth it. I asked her what she meant and she said it was my fault he tried to kill us because I cut him and her off months earlier. I cut her off at the same time because she would "borrow" money from us to feed my brother's drug habit. And my father's response was if I ever called the cops on anyone again he would take care of me and my family while making a gun with his fingers and plugging it at me. That is the reason I will not have anything to go with them. Several people here have witnessed the spiteful, lunacy that is my father.

Being family doesn't mean I will put up with more. If they are good family I will but if they are not I view them as any other POS. Blood doesn't make the bond any closer than with any other person. The ONLY family I have now is my wife, my son, his wife, her brother and our granddaughter....that is it. All others can go to hell. I have seen family members hurt their family more so than complete strangers. Both mine as well as other families. It is sad but the ones who hurt me more than anyone else were also the ones who were my family.

Carrying a firearm on someone else's property is not a right, Constitutional or otherwise. It is a privilege extended to the guest by the property owner. This has been common law since the Magna Carta. As far as in laws go I would put it on him to be the bad guy. I would let him and her know that you carry to protect yourself AND them. Then tell them that if they insist that you still not carry in their house then tell that is not possible and that you prefer they come up your house instead.

Nothing screams heirloom like a Smith and Wesson revolver. A quality 1911 would be second but not by much. I still have the first gun I hunted with on my own, an old Stevens rolling block 22. Killed a ground hog when I was probably 8. Spent the day trying to get close enough and finally got him. Although it is in really rough shape, 8 year olds don't really clean, it is the most important gun to me.

There is something special about kids this age. You can see the wonder in their eyes with every new experience. This weekend will be with me forever.

No doors got shot but we definitely destroyed a bunch of 1911 barrels. Our "trips" would sometimes have to pass through "neutral" countries and because of that the guard cars had hidden compartments. We would get a phone call on our MRT (mobile radio telephone) telling us to stow the weapons. We would remove various panels to find weapons racks to store our weapons because we were not allowed to enter those countries. Not me but here is a picture of the guard car with a soldier. I was a member of the 570th MP unit and by the time I was in the unit the guard cars would a bit more low profile. Funny people don't know this but we were known as a "Railborne" unit. There was talk of having an additional skill identifier for those assigned and trained to do rail missions. And with there being "field" MPs and "garrison" MPs having different missions there was also talk of a MOS, job classification, specific to those who guard classified shipments. In the year and a half I was part of that unit I seen places I would have never seen. We travelled all over Europe and seen some amazing stuff. We would also guard cargo ships, nothing more enjoyable than taking a two week cruise up the river Rhine and having your meals catered by the staff of the ship an getting paid $100 a day on top of your $900 a month base pay. Or nothing sucked more as we escorted a over the road shipment from southern Germany to and not getting paid because we had a few cases of MRE's. Five of us lived in a CUCV, military Blazer, for over 10 days and the only stop we made was to refuel from one of our tanker trucks in with the convoy. One constant stop was the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Our cars were on the same rails that brought the Jews some 50 years earlier. And although I do not believe in ghosts there were a lot of odd things that happened ONLY while we were in Bergen Belsen. We had what we called "ghost cars" that would randomly start moving so you had to be careful not to walk on the rails as they were dead quiet but also deadly. Had one member of our unit die when he was pinned between a stationary car and one doing and estimate 20 MPH. He got caught chest height by the bumpers. which are about 2' in diameter, and it popped him like a balloon. It was also very annoying when those ghost cars would slam into our car at full speed. It would literally throw you out of your bunk or toss your plate of food in your lap before you knew it. I was, literally, home only 6 months the three years I was in Germany. And those were broken up into 3-5 days home at a time. Enough time to wash your clothes, buy more supplies and get drunk before heading back out. This was during the mid 90's drawdown so we were BUSY. We would get alerted and had four hours to make it into the unit. We were then put on 24+ hour lock down with zero outside contact before getting the mission brief. Then we would load into an unmarked VW van with curtains to drive to the departure location. We never really knew what we were carrying or how long the trip would be or where we were going. We would get a call ever 24 hours on the MRT to get status updates. When we were within 24 hours of our destination we would get a call notifying us were we area and what we would doing. Then we would hop on commercial trains and head back home. Best time in the military was spent in Germany even though I was gone a lot.

Just going to put this here.

When I was in Germany I was in a unit that did railway security. We rode trains for a few days to a few months at a time. And all the doors and windows of the cars we rode in had a funky square nut that took a special key. Well it turned out that if you put the muzzle of your 1911 over that square nut and applied some side pressure to the gun the rifling would engage the "Zu" nut. As you can imagine decades of doing this with the same, unit issued guns, wasn't very good for the guns. Every 1911 in the units arms room had either severly damaged or completely missing the rifling the last 1/2" of the bore. It got to a point that if you were issued a 1911 for a rail mission that one of the checks was for rifling because if the 1911 you were issued didn't have any you could not open anything. When we started transitioning to Berettas we were pissed because we could no longer, easily open the things we needed to open. But shortly after that our TO&E changed. It was because the other units in the battalion were bitching that our unit was making extra TDY money and they weren't. Yes there were "Zu" keys but over time they were lost or broke and so only the supervisor had them. And if he was sleeping you did not wake him up.

Family above all else. Right now I am watching my granddaughter eat breakfast as my wife cooks us all breakfast and could not imagine anywhere else I would rather be. Going to be a lot of firsts this year and hope I am able to be there for every one of them. Wish everyone as much joy and happiness these holidays as they can stand.

Go pick up a box of FGMM to see what the gun is capable of. You can improve it some with reloads but FGMM is about as it gets with factory ammunition.