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My 5yr old son walks into the kitchen a minute ago - wielding a toy bow and arrow (primary weapons system).  I said, "You look like a bear hunter." He said, "Yes, I am a great bear hunter!", and as he turned to walk away, I could clearly see (printing) a light saber half-concealed down the back leg of his pants (Back Up Weapon).  It put a smile on my face and my heart.   You don't have to teach a reasonable kid that it's good to be prepared.  

Joe, Congratulations on your appointment to lead a presidential commission to end gun-related violence.   As a National Rifle Association board member, husband, father, grandfather, law enforcement officer and genuinely concerned American, I too want   nothing more than to see evil, senseless massacres stopped. I concur with the president and caring people everywhere: It’s time to end these   slaughters.   As you gather your team to study massacres and how to stop them, I offer to you my services and a lifetime of expertise on guns in all their   implementations. While I strongly differ with President Obama on many issues, I agree with him that we must work with all we can possibly muster to   end these tragedies.   As you begin to formulate your thoughts on how to proceed with your task, I hope your starting point is to provide the president with the facts regarding   these slaughters and to offer him common-sense recommendations that are void of a political agenda and will actually make a meaningful difference.   If the American people smell a political agenda here, that will only bog down our efforts.   In the spirit of goodwill and a deep desire to end gut-wrenching, incredibly sad and senseless rampages, I offer you the following recommendations:   I encourage you to persuade the president to lead this effort by providing a number of public service announcements. The announcements should   include watching out for each other, encouraging parents to be more involved in their children’s lives regarding entertainment choices, and knowing   various indicators we should watch for in people who are unstable.       Clearly, the focus on solving these mass murders must be on the mentally ill. In almost every instance of mass killing, there were ample red flags and   warning alarms that either were avoided or were not acted upon by mental health professionals, family members, friends and acquaintances. While I   deeply respect an individual’s privacy and civil liberties, the American people need basic awareness of what indicators to look for regarding potentially   violent, psychotic people. Our collective safety begins with being collectively vigilant.   You will find in your assessment that all of the massacres have occurred in gun-free zones. What gun-free zones create is an environment where good   people are unarmed and virtually defenseless against an unstable person intent on committing mass murder. Gun-free zones are modern killing fields.   I implore you to recommend that Congress pass a law to ban gun-free zones immediately.       Just like your full-time, armed security detail, qualified citizens with authorized, legal concealed-carry permits should be able to carry weapons virtually   everywhere to protect themselves, their loved ones and innocents.   I also implore you to strongly consider recommending that trained school officials have access to weapons to protect students. Just as airline pilots   may have access to a weapon to prevent another Sept. 11 mass murder, school officials also should be trained to stop shooting sprees at our schools . I don’t encourage you to recommend a ban on any weapon, magazine capacity or type of ammunition. That won’t accomplish anything other than   prevent the 99.9 percent of responsible, law-abiding Americans from enjoying these modern weapons as we do now. We should never recommend or   develop public policy that restricts the rights of the good guys based upon what evil people do or might do. If that were the case, alcohol still would be   banned. As you may know, drunk drivers kill an estimated 12,000 Americans each year and hurt tens of thousands more.       I encourage you also to keep this misnamed “gun violence” in perspective. While all deaths are tragic, the vast majority of gun-related murders and   violence are committed by gang members who do not use guns that look like — but do not perform like — military assault weapons. The majority of   crimes that involve a firearm are committed with handguns. I concurred with you back in 2008 when you stated, “If [Mr. Obama] tries to fool with my   Beretta, he’s got a problem.” I trust you still maintain those sentiments.   Again, I offer you my services and a lifetime of expertise. I look forward to hearing from you.   Sincerely, Ted Nugent

You don't win a race by holding down the gas wide open and just hope you make it around the turns, which is exactly what that guy was doing last night, braking and steering are as important. He did a fine job in the beginning of maintaining control of the discussion, but then kept turning it up a notch even though he was in control. Then when Morgan opened up that trap door (that everyone could see a mile a way) Jones jumped in it willing, screaming on his way down.   A perfect example Josh Boston:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOjI6laKGYU   That guy embarrassed the CNN anchor and he did it in a way that will get much more attention (and deservingly so) than the Jones rant.

All blue dots represent a gun owner in Tennessee.

  Right, because being shot by a "civilian" round like .308 Win, .30-06, .270 Win, or .30-30 is like a kiss from grandma.

I have a much simpler idea. Tennessee should implement some kind of system where a citizen can take a class, say an 8 hour class at a gun store for example; then get fingerprinted; have a background check; pay a fee to the state for the privilege of exercising a God-given and constitutionally protected right; and then receive a permit to carry a handgun. They should then do away with stupid "gun free zones" and let people protect themselves instead of being mandated into victimhood by their omniscient government. If we as ordinary citizens are good enough to protect ourselves and our children why aren't our teachers? Hell, some of the folks on here are no doubt either teachers or married to one.

Clearly, packs of coyotes come in 1's and 2s so a flintlock rifle is sufficient.

My Christmas present. AKC Shepherd and the owners dropped him off at the pound in Auburn, AL. Drove down last Friday and picked him up. 4 months old, 40 lbs. Named him Independence, Indy for short.

Well, that went well, Alex, thanks for supporting us by being a total raving lunatic.    Probably converted a hundred thousand fence sitters into pro-gun-ban folks all by yourself.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWQPZ-taYBs     - OS      

I will not bring up the disability thing.  However if you have a parking lot for employees, visitors or customers, you will have to comply with other codes issues.  Number of parking spaces based on the size of your business, draining, lighting, marking and so on.   Buy a house these days and neighborhood associations will tell you what kind of window shades you have to put in your house.  I support private property rights.  I don't want somebody telling me what I can or can not do.  But it happens all the time, but that is not the real issue.  My car is MY private property.  What I have in that car, as long as it is legal for me to possess, is nobody's business but mine and as long as it REMAINS in that car, there is no harm or foul to the owner of the lot on which my car is parked.   Where would you draw the line on what an employer could dictate concerning the contents of your car?  If your place of employment is a no smoking facility, would you say they should be able to tell you could not keep a pack of cigarettes in your car?  Let's say you are Christian and your boss is an athiest, can he say you can't have a Bible in your car?  It's your car.  As long as any item, including a firearm, remains in the car, and not brought INTO the work environment, be it tobacco or a bible, it is nobodys business. 

that is no worse than what some people here think of their stuff.   Anyone buying at these prices is a fool.  I recall there is some saying about a fool and their money.

Nothing a little aluminum oxide, a media blaster and some Cerakote can't fix.

If pink is your thing

Can't believe the measure of support for AJ's performance expressed thus far, even on a gun forum. Guess I was just shortsighted by my take on the public relations angle here.   So lets hope AJ becomes a more prominent voice for gun owners. With any luck, he'll appear on various congressional hearings and fact finding panels on The Hill, especially the public ones. Hopefully will get lots of airtime so that he becomes a household name to the general public. LaPierre and other 2A advocates should embrace him in public at every chance, too.   That way we'll be sure to retain our rights to keep BB guns. Maybe.   - OS

I have made some pretty inflammatory statements here. I have done so with the expectation that websites like this are being monitored. Now isn't the time to cow down and hide and worry if you are on a list. This is the time to be bold about who you are and what you stand for. Take pictures of yourself with your guns, post them on Facebook with the message that you will not comply with ANY of their schemes. Let the watchers know that we are ready and waiting.

Stop the madness... don't turn into a gamer here.  There's no reason to polish the feed ramp of your M&P unless you're experiencing some sort of failure to feed.  Just shoot it.  A lot.

Rob - LOL... Yeah, the guy is a little hard to warm up to.  I could only imagine being at his wedding. "You are correct, I will take this woman to be my wife and I will utilize this woman for all intents and purposes in accordance with the law."

  That is exactly right.   I've heard many say that the idea of citizens going up against a "future" tyrannical US government is just fantasy even if ARs and such were legal. I then quickly remind them of Afghanistan during the 80's when a ragtag army using nothing but small arms gave a world power all they could handle. Not to mention our own revolution where again the largest and most advanced army on the planet was bested by a vastly outgunned group of patriots. The will of the people, and a just cause, goes a long way when it comes to winning a war......

So my buddy was bragging about ordering a bunch of 5.56 from PSA.  While I don't have an AR15 or anything else in 5.56/.223, I was happy for him.   He has been b*tching about not finding anything and he finally found something in stock.   I asked him to send me a link to the deal so I could pass it on.  Here is what he sent me:   http://palmettostatearmory.com/index.php/ammunition/rifle-ammunition/223-5-56/prvi-partizan-223-remington-m-200-blank-20rds-per-box.html   I told him he might want to cancel.

I have been called MANY things.  But it was still legal......LOL

Rationing is the only thing besides time that will bring prices back to normal.

      I, on the other hand, will probably pass.  :rofl:

  You have no idea what Romney would do and making assumptions is trivial. We saw what BHO did in 4yrs and we have a good idea on what he's going to do in the next 4. He's a tax and spend liberal marxist that ignores our Constitution. Anyone besides a liberal democrat would have been better.

    Well it's a good thing you got the pink one first. You know, because once you go black.........

I would say with certainty that is what is at fault.   Nearly without variance, anyone that has an issue, didn't list their SS#.

Well I suppose that it is possible that some politicians still personally reply (or have an intern do so), but I also suspect that perhaps you and I just got put on two different lists? I may have gotten put on the 2nd Amendment/Sandy Hook list, and you may have just gotten put on the 2nd Amendment list? I don't know what your initial message requested, but it is just a thought. Anyone else receive one tonight?

if i had an ar for sale and some idiot offered me 2.5 times what i paid for it i would sell and could sleep peacefully ever nite. shame i dont have one for sale it would be gone under those conditions.

liberals won that night and the sad thing was,they planned it that way Alex made us all look like monsters.........

  The God-Emperor Barack Hussein Obama and all his granola crunchin' minions can kiss my ass.   And, I imagine the various Tennessee County Sheriffs and the Tennessee Governor probably feel the same way, if not a little more politely stated.

C'mon David, like you haven't tweaked your M&P? ;-) I'll take a pic tonight and see if what I'm talking about shows up in pictures. It's clearly visible in person. Just like my guitars, I want to fix the little things I don't like in this gun.

  He is, in fact, a little p###y boy.

I have and have gotten NO reply! Not even a canned one. (I keep hoping they are just getting over loaded with pro gun letters.)

Oh how pretty.. looks like he likes to eat stairs.. lol I have a soft spot for GSD`s.. He is supersweet looking

  I have no problem with the way he handled the limey douche, until we went full retard with the 911 conspiracy crap. He should have stuck to guns.

I like the article overall: however, this is a phrase from captain obvious: “They are based on weapons of war that were specifically designed for anti-personnel use that are now being sold on the civilian market"   All guns are decendants of weapons of war designed for anti-personnel use as are swords, knives, bows and arrows, crossbows and bolts, and clubs, etc. Heck, even rocks are a weapon of war.

  Agreed.  When I looked at the schedule pre-season, I saw 4-4 through October with a likely 7-5 finish and a semi-important bowl game, so the 12-0 regular season was MAJORLY unexpected.  I do wish the Irish would have carried themselves better, though.  The poor tackling was so unlike what they'd done up to this point that it was like watching another defense out there.  The BS calls in the 1st quarter may have made some small difference, but the way Alabama played, ND could have gotten all the calls in the world and still been beaten.   Nick Saban deserves a great deal of credit for the way the Tide won the game.  He built a simple run-first followed by play-action game plan based on two gambles, both of which he won.  First, he bet that Center Barrett Jones could handle ND nose guard Lewis Nix one-on-one, something no other team has tried.  Nix was doubled all year; this was the first time someone played "best on best" against him, and Jones held his own.  The handful of times he was beaten were not enough to affect the outcome of the game.  This allowed the 'Bama guards to get to the 2nd level off the snap and neutralize Manti Te'o, which they did very effectively.  At that point, the running game was good to go, which in turn opened up the play-action game.  Saban's second gamble was his correct guess regarding how Bob Diaco (ND defensive coordinator) would play his safeties.  Saban (or his OC) correctly guessed they'd be in a 2-deep look up fairly close, and also inside the hashmarks in order to support run defense.  That's how ND started the game, and the successful run game forced them to stay in that posture.  It helps that Saban knew that ND would be unwilling to bring a safety into the box, exposing their remaining 3 DBs, the defensive backfield being easily the worst part of the ND defense for the last several years.  'Bama then exploited the safeties' positions with multiple long play-action passes where their receivers ran post-corner routes, running over the top of the underneath corners to the middle of the field, then cutting a hard 45 to the sidelines, which prevented the safeties from getting over the top in a position to do anything but tackle after the catch.   I love ND and can't stand whoever they're playing, but the coach in me is very impressed by the simplicity of the Alabama plan and the few assumptions that needed to be proven correct for it to be effective.  It was an absolute masterpiece of game-planning.  Barrett Jones had better have gotten the game ball* - if he had been unable to handle Nix by himself, Alabama would have been on plan B after their first (likely unsuccessful) drive.  I guess if he doesn't get a game ball, he'll still be one of the first handful of OLs drafted, which is not too shabby by its own right.   *Seriously - this cannot be said enough - by doing what no other center had been capable of doing this year (or last year), he allowed his guards to get upfield and neutralize ND's best defensive player, along with the next closest LB or safety.  Te'o was never a factor in the game, and that was no accident.

Looks like we need more guns on the border.

  Or swapping them for food in the gummit breadlines post Meltdown.   - OS

It's definitely a lot of work. It's an emotional roller coaster. I hear guys complain about trivial things that there kids do and I have to laugh. Someone always has it worse than you. You just never expect it to be a two year old blind girl that has never had any human contact. I have a lot of people ask me why. They wouldn't have to ask if they saw that same little girl smile from ear to ear when I touch her face with my beard and whisper " daddy's home"

        If you really gotta have 1 sooner Gallatin gun club is having a classifier Feb.9th per there web page

On one hand, as an investment and as insurance against breakage and wear, You can never have too many.   BUT....I think some of us [up until recently I was very much guilty of this] need to be honest with themselves.  How long do you expect to last hashing it out with some form of opposition.  Fire fights are over fast.  Lives are over just as fast.  I won't last long unless I'm taking on geriatric zombies.  SO, 10-12 magazines per rifle is MORE than enough.  I can only speak for Caster, but I doubt I'll last long enough to do a mag change.  I'll either be dead or using my French military tactics.  I keep 12 for ever rifle and 6 for every pistol.  

Absolutely. Hope to see you there, Pat.

  That's not the question that needs to be asked.  The question that needs to be asked is why does this asshole still have a job?

bring it by the shop. we can walk you through it.

You'll need to review the gear requirements in the IDPA rulebook, which can be found at www.idpa.com.  Make sure you bring a cover garment as well (a jacket, untucked shirt, photographer's vest, etc.).  The new shooters briefing this week will require all participants to watch the range's own safety video, since a lot of the shooters will likely be new to Nashville Armory.  Hope to see you there-

I would move the trigger forward, add a pistol grip and stock. The cutouts are already there and it literally takes an hour to do the conversion. Doing this conversion improves the trigger as well as removing several parts that might break eventually. Basically you grind or drill out a few rivets then assemble the gun like any other AK.   I would recommend the kits that Carolina Shooter Supply sells. You can buy everything needed for the conversion for $150.   If you have any questions feel free to ask, I have done several.   Dolomite

If you can't lick 'em, join 'em.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dg_AcBeHgo

There's still many ways to protest and resist right now without starting a hot civil war, if some mag ban is passed and I can't find new mags to buy all I can do about that is write my reps, but if some kind of registration or turn-in bill is passed, millions of gun owners can resist by not acknowledging such an un-constitutional law. I keep reading some who seem to fear that if you resist there will be armed storm troopers breaking down your door, just how many LEO's, feds, soldiers etc. are there? Are there enough to search "MILLIONS" of households for guns? I certainly don't plan on caving in and hope no one else does because we are just too many for the government to deal with and I believe they can't completly trust all the LEO's and military personell to follow orders to attack American citizens. We may have an opportunity to put the politicians back in their place somewhat, at least show them that the people still ultimatly rule.

If it passes, meeting at Waffle House to talk it over is like rearranging chairs on the titanic. You would be like subjects England. "Stop or I'll say stop again!". Feinstein is a pig. A traitorous, statist, socialist, parasite. If she esposed her vile treasonous verbage 230 years ago she would have been tarred and feathered. How can anyone with one ounce of knowledge about our constitution have voted for this septic ,communist ,anti American ,blood sucking bitch? How stupid have people become?

He's got the best looking woman of anybody in any episode.