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The little missive I sent to magpul@magpul.com: To whom it may concern, I hope your efforts regarding stopping the recent anti-freedom bills introduced in the CO legislature bear fruit. Should they not, we'd love to have you here in Nashville, TN. No state income tax, a built-in workforce of skilled tradesmen and women, right to work laws, and a populace and legislature that would support your endeavors. Also, easy access to Fort Campbell, wherein you'll find many Magpul fans and therein eager testers of new products for the military and civilian markets. I'd further mention the high number of carry permits issued in the state to demonstrate TN's commitment to 2nd amendment rights for all citizens, as it is a shall-issue state. You'll note I did not mention the mountains, white-water rivers, hunting, fishing, camping, music, et. al. Come to Nashville and they're all within reach. Sure, your mountains are bigger, and you can ski and board for months on end out there, but here you'd be welcomed while you do your day job. Look into Williamson County, TN and you'll like what you find. Nissan did, as have hundreds of other businesses, ranging from startup bio / pharma operations to larger interests such as Mars, Ford Credit, and multiple major healthcare providers. Speaking as a resident, we are open for business and would love to have yours. For employees concerned about transferring, within a 35-mile radius of Nashville you'll find any kind of place a person might enjoy, from the truly rural all the way to urban, with plenty of options in between. If schools are a concern, the various county school districts are easily searched for student success data. Williamson is the best in that respect, but the surrounding counties have made great strides the last many years to catch up. Sumner County is well on its way to equaling Williamson Co. Schools. Excellent private schooling is available in every county. We get new and interesting restaurants on a regular basis, and several local brewers have only recently opened up shop here. We don't have a Flying Dog or an Avery here yet, but good craft brew is being made at Yazoo, Jackalope, and we have a brand new brewery in East Nasty that is getting good reviews. Bottom Line: We can give you much of what you have in Boulder, minus a few things: You have better mountains, especially when it comes to boarding or skiing. Regarding that, Southwest flies direct to DEN cheaply. I'm actually taking one of their flights tomorrow to go get some POW! at Vail. You also have tons of wannabe-hippies all over the place, who lately have been questioning why you should be allowed to exist at all. Sadly, some of them have been elected to high office. What you maintain: an NHL team that will make the playoffs, being surrounded by decent people. What you gain: Music, 24/7, all over the city, anytime between 3:00 and the next 3:00. It's not all country, and even the country you'd hear down Broadway isn't any top-40 BS. It's by mostly-serious pros doing old songs their own way. You'll like it. In addition, there's a good rock scene here, and plenty of venues for various indie bands as well. Name 'em, they've played Nashville. Hell, the Black Keys moved here (though from Canton, not Boulder, so it was probably easier in that respect). Here in Nashville, the hippie population is low and very focused. Last I checked, their deal was more organic veg at the Farmer's Market. Since they're unorganized and starving, I doubt they'll be any kind of an issue for an organization such as MagPul. Many TN hippie-types own guns, after all. They're into the spiritual side of hunting - good on 'em. Anyways, as a fan and customer, I figured I'd write in and make an unofficial Nashville sales pitch. One ast thing, ladies and gentlemen: PLEASE don't go to Austin. The denizens say it's not Texas, and they're right. After Fort Hood, they'd hate you 2nd. Regards from a TN MagPul fan and customer, I hope you find your way southeast soon, should CO not come to its senses, Patrick

I liked it, but you need to change one thing. They need to move to the Knoxville area. They'd like it better out here.

Home school, folks.

Sad thing is he's now afraid to draw his super hero pictures because he thinks he'll get suspended. One of his other friends got sent to the office for pretending he had a light saber. He said, "Dad, its just silly. Don't they know that boys like to pretend they have swords and guns. Girls don't like them but we do." Trying to fundamentally change our boys to girls and our rights to wrongs.

Yes but it goes to show that the "Anti" crowd is lying by saying "Nobody wants to take away your guns" :down: :down:

Nothing anymore. They managed to gut this legislation of any value. It is useless and those voting for it should get no credit. This bill is the pro-gun equivalent of gun control legislation. A feel good measure that doesn't actually accomplish anything.

+1 I was homeschooled 1st-12th. Even tho I didn't learn all the liberal, socialist, and godless things they teach in public schools for the most part today, I received a well-rounded education and have since completed a bachelors degree as well as a masters degree. To me not having to learn all the government imposed philosophy, has actually helped me in these days to discern what is right and what is bogus. When you know the truth and it is all you know, you quickly recognize a lie.

Amazing to see so many advocates of the 1st & 2nd amendments perfectly ok with the idea of throwing the 6th out of the window. Don't get me wrong; I don't care if the guy died by his own hand, or died from returned fire, but PD doesn't have the right execute him by any means if that's what happened.

Well... i hesitate to say logic. My wife was rewatching the first half of season three and i had to say.... woah pause it. Something aint right here....

We had to go through something similar, seems a classmate of my daughter said "I don't like you."   So now, the child has been labeled a bully, and all the parents were pulled together to find a solution.   They staff looked at me like I was insane when I said "Let them be kids and grow up."   Things are a little too touchy feeling anymore.

It's not gonna get better either!

Well I have a feeling with some of the crazy bills purposed again it may get crazy again.  Points at Missouri Democrats.

  No? ....if you move your feet first you CAN beat the Tueller drill at 3 yards.  Come to our Zero To Five Feet Gunfighting class....you'll see. The key is not standing still like a statue, but getting off the X and NOT being there when the knife gets there. 

99% of what is does is allow certain Republicans (especially Harwell, Haslam and Ramsey) to claim they are pro-2A and did something to help the TN firearm community without actually causing any heartburn to the big businesses whose campaign contributions they so love and cherish.   Other than that, it doesn't do much.   I'm not sure at this point if it's worth passing or not...I wasn't expecting to get everything on a first pass but this is almost nothing.   I just emailed the entire legislature asking them to make this a good bill or don't bother...I also asked for a response and noted that their response or lack of one would be made know to places like TGO, Facebook...I guess I'll see who even bothers to respond. ;)

He was given lots of chances. In each one he decided to shoot officers or shoot at officers. The day he died he had two separate run ins with police, both times shooting at them, resulting in the wounding of one officer and the death of another. I don't know why anyone would assume that he would give up peacefully after that display, but apparently the police did when they tried to gas him. The fact that it caused a fire (no one knows if that is true) is inconsequential. They did everything within reason to allow him an opportunity to end this peacefully. He chose not to. I don't care if the cops threw a Molotov cocktail into the house. They were justified to use deadly force.

Good old incendiary tear gas. That trick never gets old. I said they had the HRT manual. ;)

RIP Chris!  :usa:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSYQ7pkwFAw&sns=fb

The issue with removing Cooper is that he has Davidson County and that is why he won't be beat. There are too many here that are living off of the government and have been convinced that the only way to keep the FREE money flowing their way is to keep voting Dem. Even with the odds stacked against anyone else taking his seat I'll work very hard for anyone running against him every time he comes up for re-election.

  Once, again, just because I may go to the range and shoot at targets depicting assailants wearing ski masks doesn't mean I automatically associate wearing a ski mask with being 'evil' nor does it mean I am going to shoot someone simply for wearing a ski mask.  Likewise, just because I might shoot at a target depicting an assailant wearing an unbuttoned, flannel shirt over a t-shirt doesn't mean I am going to automatically equate being so dressed with being a criminal nor does it mean I will shoot flannel shirts on sight.   Heck, just because I might shoot at targets depicting ground hogs doesn't mean I am out to stage a whistle pig massacre.  So, once again, there are a few possibilities here:   1. The Muslims who are whining actually do equate themselves with terrorists and that is why they are offended   2. The Muslims who are whining honestly believe that we are too stupid to tell the difference between a paper target depicting a   dead terrorists and a real life, non-terrorist Muslim (in which case maybe WE should be offended)   3. The Muslims who are whining are simply a bunch of overly sensitive a-holes who are looking for a reason to be offended and who think they should have a right to dictate behavior to the rest of us   4. The Muslims who are whining are just plain, old stupid or   5. A combination of two or more of the above

Guess I need to take down all those "get it before they're banned" ads I have on gunbroker for my Tapco magazines I'm selling for $300 a pop. Really, there are going to be three types of people here in a few months... Those that will should be ashamed for ripping folks off; those who should be ashamed for getting ripped off; and those of us who have been sitting back watching this lunacy that had the decency not to rip anyone off and the sense not to get ripped off.

Okay, that's great, but the people on the targets aren't supposed to represent the good guys, it's meant to represent the bad guys. Your comparison of putting US servicemen on targets doesn't make sense. Are we the bad guys? Are we currently fighting against US troops? Yes, I would find that offensive. We aren't fighting US troops in US gear, but we have been killing a crap load of people from the Middle East over the past decade, a fact you repeatedly refuse to acknowledge. But there are plenty of targets which depict white, black and Hispanic persons and no one gets so butthurt over that.... at least most people who aren't closet racists. If one of those targets was wearing a cross on their neck would that be offensive? It is a religious symbol more than the headgear you falsely believe is an Islam mandate. The answer is "no" I would not get offended, because there are plenty of folks who wear crosses who are bad guys, and I have enough sense to differentiate between the wearing of the cross and the man who wears it. You don't seem to be able to do that.

Having lived there for a while it is nice to see that residents are getting fed up with the thugs that have run the streets (and government, but that is a different story) and are fighting back.  I both cases a CCW holder shot 2 thugs and no one else was hurt. I think that more people should see stories like this to show that CCW holders know what they are doing.  In another story I read about the coach who was 70 hit 7 out of 8 shot on the bad guys and the last shot hit the ground at the feet of the 2 guys. That is pretty good for a 70yr old at night under stress trying to protect 2 young ladies, I say he gets Coach of the Year.   http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/08/its-been-a-bad-week-for-robbers-in-detroit-concealed-carry-holders-fight-back-and-open-fire/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=Share%20Buttons

Just like on land, turn off the juice and things get bad quick.  Those cruise ships are all about packing as many bodies as they can onto the boat, period.  Never seemed like fun to me. 

I am using gunbroker and the Ruger bx25 mag as my gauge for when things are settling down.   I will have a big sigh of relief when they are ending at or below $30. :popcorn:

Boycott the re-sellers. Between them and the Gov't buying all the ammo, that is the reason why majority of us cannot catch a break.   Buying ammo is like playing the lotto. Some days you're lucky, some days.... more often.... not.

reloading is sooo addictive. now I shoot just so I can reload lol.

The Gun Ban Lobby and Its Funders http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2013/02/the-gun-ban-lobby-and-its-funders/   http://www.capitalresearch.org/2013/01/the-gun-ban-lobby-and-its-funders/

Missouri: no longer coincidently pronounced "misery"

i agree with the tactics being all wrong.  They set themselves up where they were shooting at each other since they decided to "surround" the guy with the knife? I don't know whose terrible idea that was.  The guy with the patrol rifle then came close to the man with the knife to do the negotiations? I would want him to be out on perimeter pointing his muzzle at the guy with the knife while i was a little closer (but well out of 21ft)  the entire time during negotiations...  I don't  know why they would get that close to someone with a knife either.

I think he is also saying regarding the 3rd, that if the People/Citizens/Civilians are the Militia who are mentioned in the 2nd, then the 3rd is speaking about the quartering of soldiers who are not the Militia in private homes, thereby proving that the People who live in and own those homes are, again, the Militia mentioned in the 2nd, not the professional soldiers mentioned in the 3rd.  Otherwise, the 2nd Amendment would need not exist if there were not a distinct and separate group, e.g. Militia vs. Professional Soldier, if the soldiers were supposed to be considered the "militia", for it would be a given that they would be supplied/provided arms by the govt. or establishing entity.  Since the Militia is mentioned completely separate from soldiers, it is thereby deduced that the soldiers are NOT the Militia, but the Citizens are.

  Same here, I just got two different holster deliveries from them today for a new pea shooter, binoculars yesterday, and something almost every single day.   I am already not looking forward to possibly giving them the heave-ho in 2014, now this comes up.  If this is true that will REALLY SUCK!   90% of the stuff in my house came from Amazon.  I was an early internet adopter and online buyer (since 1997) without any fear of online buying.  This will ruin my day for sure.

    Would losing California be that bad?

I hope not. I pretty much use my Amazon Prime account for just about everything. I get boxes here every few days from amazon. In fact, I got 3 deliveries from them today. I sure would hate to have to cancel my business with them, but I will if feel it' necessary. I hope it's not true. I'll guess we'll find out soon ETA: I quick search still reveals a bunch of gun related stuff

Pew, pew, pew, I'm firing my missiles.

Now JayC, the owner is loosing their ability to keep you from bringing a weapon onto their property, what a travesty of justice.

I really think they'd be happiest in Chattanooga. We have the fastest internet in the nation. We are close to the Ocoee, and the mountains. We are right in between Nashville, Knoxville, and Atlanta. And we are about as far away as you can get from Memphis in this state!

Most thugs dont want to die most of them just act hard but when its their life on the line they flee. Fighting back should be a good way to calm them down.

Thank you for helping our economy, and helping make sure we get to keep making guns here. After you get some glass on that we will be looking for a range report.

4 kinds of people actually. I've more than doubled my AR mag stash since the scare started, one gentleman here have me 3 Troy mags, 3-4 pmags, and 4 colt mags all for the whopping sum of $90. Same individual practically gave me some 556 since I had non at the time and also let me in on his cmmg 22 conversion for I think another $90. All in all better than pre panic pricing. Another gentleman also sold me 16 boxes of wolf 223 for the Walmart price of 4.50 a box. Totally normal pricing. So there are actually at least 5 different groups, those you have mentioned, those who mocked the panic, and those who completely ignored it all together.

Just remove the bell at the case mouth. Remove the barrel from the firearm and use the chamber as a gage. Only want the round to go into the chamber on its own and when turned upside down the round should fall out on its own. Minimum on the crimp.   .

Done.

The way I understand the amendment, it just EXPANDS the liability protection for the property owner/employer.  I spoke with Jeremy Faison's office yesterday.  In a nutshell I was told that this bill is going to pass with NO amendments.  Yes they knew well in advance that this bill has NO real protection for the employee outside of protection from criminal prosecution.  I was told if I was fired, I would have grounds for a wrongfull termination suit, which is TOTALLY NOT TRUE, that if private employers start searching vehicles and/or terminating or disciplining employees on the basis of firearms, the they will come back next year and address that.  Well if you believe that, I have several acres of prime beach front property on the moon I want to sell you.    What we MUST do is communicate to EVERY permit holder we can in every manner possible, that after this bill becomes law, we need to KNOW EVERY time a permit holder has their vehicle searched, they are terminated or otherwise disciplined or repremanded in regards to firearm possession.  We NEED a list of names and circumstances to throw on the desks of Ron Ramsey, Beth Harwell, Jeremy Faison and EVERY other member of the General Assembly.   Next, while it will likely have little to no effect at this point, I think everybody should contact their representative and tell them that this is a BAD, USELESS bill for the permit holder.  They need to know that we are not stupid people who can so easily have the wool pulled over their eyes.   This is almost exactly the kind of bill that Vance Dennis wanted by convincing Josh Evans to gut his legislation.  He called it an "incentive" bill.  When will they learn that a private business is not going to change unless TOLD to.

I suspect Obama's changes to the our military is simply part and parcel of his extreme left agenda and general loathing of the military rather than some intricate plot.   Our country is in decline except in the pot-hazed mind of the liberals who believe socialism is the only "fair" form of government (except of course the elite who don't have to answer to the same laws and conditions they impose on everyone else).   We are living in a house of cards on a foundation of shifting sand...I don't know what will topple us or when it will happen but I'm quite sure something is going to do so.

Jim Cooper is a smelly pooper. That is all. 

  I have had this thought for awhile. I really want to pick up an AR to play with, and I have the feeling that they will be flooding the market very cheap, very soon. Lots of people without disposable income bought a lot of high priced toys on credit

All this from a paper skelly. There's good christians and there are bad christians. There are good muslims and bad muslims. There are good athiests and bad athiests. The one constant we can all agree on.. is that the scientologists are whack jobs.

I was on a cleaning kick last night and decided since I had them out... why not snap a quick picture. It's by no means a super impressive collection, but I'm certainly happy about my setup. Though It would look a lot better with a shotgun laying there as well.....