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Mostly they are expensive because millions of them were sent to the scrap yard a few years ago.  Stupid .gov programs have consequences.

Better kick your GF out before the wife gets home :)

Funny. But I just wish 'em all Merry Christmas. If they don't like it, they can lump it!  :usa:

 I saw this on Facebook and it rings awful true,    To My Liberal Friends--if I have any: Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2014 but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes. To My Conservative Friends: Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!   Sorry it's showing up in light gray but it's late and i'm far to lazy at this hour to type it all out so this light gray copy and paste will have to do, Luke

That's a better offer than I made him Spots... Now I feel like an ass.  :wave:

I'm not against buying one with a rebuilt title, but will not pay a clean title price for it.

More likely to be a switching error at the Switch. Rare, but it happens. Most likely to happen if the call is being made as either the caller or receiver is in a handoff between cell sites...not getting too deep into it but although it happens it's very rare now.

I didn't realize tin foil came in camo

They're high because people are willing to pay that much:)

Look into Summit or Lone Wolf treestands. Both are great, safe, and comfortable.

Not all training is "fantasy camp"....While there are some "tactical dude ranch experiences" out there that does not mean ALL training is that.   Some folks teach civilian training classes based on the NRA safety class with a sprinkling of legal info (which is essentially what the TN HCP class is) , some teach based on IDPA match prep with some awareness and legal info added, some try to teach from a police or military perspective and try to bend that to fit civilian encounters and then finally there are some who actually know the difference and teach from the perspective of  the criminal assault paradigm. They teach what the typical criminal assaults will most likely look like , teach you to avoid it if possible and then provide concepts and solutions for the likely situations, not just teach you shooting techniques with no clear vision of WHAT you are actually training for and expect you to figure it out in the heat of the moment......    So just like there being good lawyers , doctors or mechanics and there also being  bad lawyers, doctors, or mechanics, there are people in the training industry that can speak with authority on all subjects from human reaction time, to effects of adrenaline on your motor skills to recognizing the cues of an assault about to happen, to how to shoot more efficiently and effectively to how integrate hand to hand skills with use of the gun,  to treat a gunshot wound to how to talk to the police afterward....and then there are those who can do little more than follow a syllabus someone else wrote.....not ALL training is the same. 

There has been such a rash for terrorist pedophile kidnappers stalking secondary school children in rural TN that we had to do it for the children!   Something smells, a lot like bull scat here :)    

A friend and I recently talked about training as it concerns firearms. Both of us are from different backgrounds, professions, and possess different types/levels of training. I always enjoy constructive conversations with fellow professionals and enthusiasts because it's a transfer of knowledge and experience, not a contest or attempt to best the other. We don't always agree on everything, however it's healthy to talk to one another and take the time to research what we hear about. This includes everything from tactics, weapons manipulation, equipment and setup, an understanding of psychology and physiology as it relates to lethal force situations and the aftermath, and so on. Among the many things we agree on is the need to be open minded and be willing to learn from others, especially those who have seen combat whether domestically or afar. Don't be afraid to stand your ground on topics or matters you feel strongly about, but make sure you're not discounting something based on pride. To be a good student of any discipline is to be a good listener. Never stop learning. I don't always agree with everything I hear or read, but I always look for what I can take away from a discussion. In other words, "what can I learn from this person"? I also have to be willing to admit from time to time that things I have practice or employ may not always be the best or even sometimes downright incorrect. It's dangerous to let pride affect our professionalism. The ownership and employment of firearms is a serious responsibility. The moment you don't take it seriously, is the moment you open yourself and those around you to danger. In my opinion to own carry a firearm is to take on the responsibility of understanding our weapons intimately, not compromising our safety practices, taking in knowledge and doing our best to decide if it benefits us, and employing that knowledge in regular training so we can be assets and not liabilities. This applies to everyone from a seasoned veteran of combat, to the uniformed persons protecting us, to the mother that is defending her children. To me, the best persons I know seek to do no violence and/or hope that the need to employ it never comes about. But those same persons train as though that day is an inevitability. If you own and carry firearms, please understand that this is not a joke or a game. A firearm is a tool, not a status symbol. Understand that if you have to use your weapon, you will be doing so in a stressful and dynamic situation where anything can happen. I hope for everyone's sake whether armed or not, that no man or beast will ever try to do harm onto you. But for those that are armed (military, law enforcement, citizen, sheepdogs) I say to you...train seriously and train regularly, don't stop taking in knowledge, ready your bodies and minds, and be ever vigilant...so that if that day comes where you must employ all this, you can emerge well and unharmed, and protect those we hold dear. Stay safe and take care of each other.

Found this in my old archives mass cleaning in marine corps boot camp circa 1980 ! Enjoy Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.

Warning - There are a couple of bad words in the video.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0uvh1yCCbA

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013/11/24/glock-teasing-smaller-g42-pistol/. Just thought I would share this. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

  I was amazed at how much my sister got for her early 2000's V6 Mustang on Craigslist.  She had it sold in a matter of hours, too.     I bought my wife an Odyssey last month, and we couldn't find a good enough deal on a used one to justify it over new.  We looked at a used one at a Dodge dealership in town who couldn't (or wouldn't) even match the quote we had on an identically equipped new one.  It's still sitting on the lot.   :rolleyes:

... ^ this!

Looks like he got what he paid for.

Two observations. 1st: If Mr. Howe did something before the video started why wasn't he arrested earlier? Because he sure didn't do anything during the video deserving of arrest. B: It's mid November. If they haven't gotten the traffic problem worked out by now then they're not going to. ;)

They're several things I have regretted in life that are seared into my brain. They are in order the following:   1. Showing up to watch an IDPA match without my pistol and gear.   2. Being a bad boy one year as a child and Santa bringing me a stick and coal ashes.   3. Telling a woman I loved her.   Please learn from my misfortunes and at least have everything you need when you show up and watch, but you won't be watching. You'll thank me, praise me, be forever grateful to me.

A few years ago, we had a guy here in Clarksville who harvested a deer, and he and his buddy threw it in the back of his truck. He was setting at the traffic light at Riverside and 41A, when his buck decided to jump out of his truck and run through down town Clarksville. CPD wound up shooting the wounded deer.   DaveS

Magpul BAD lever. 

   Yea I pretty much refuse to step foot in Chicago so that won't be an issue for me but I do hope that they get all the unconstitutional BS ironed out of the system up there. I do however travel on the interstates when cutting through IL so it will be nice to not have to stop at a state line to unload and separate everything. 

Here he is. Good looking dog.

   Putting hot lead in a deer is the same as putting it through paper.. point and click. You'll get another chance and at least you're seeing deer! There are much worse things than shooting low, last year I lost my first deer. I was tucked between two pieces of bluff rock that were sticking out of the side of the hill and as the sky started to get a little gray that morning I saw 3 doe come out of the woods about 40yds away. I eased my safety off, put the crosshairs on her and pulled the trigger, she bucked up sprung back into the woods crashing through brush and limbs and I smiled because all I saw was meat in the freezer. I stayed put for about 15 minutes or so and then eased down to the spot she was standing to start tracking her (first time i've ever had to tracked my own deer, they always dropped withing 10yds). I got about 2/3's of the way down and noticed a sapling about the size of my thumb that was broken and doubled over and started to worry i'd missed her. It ended up being way worse than a miss, I got to where she was last standing and found a pile of stomach contents and followed a sparse trail of it for 10 yards before it stopped. I never found the first sign of blood and even after picking up my Dad and grabbing a dog she still was not found. After 3-4 hours of looking I decided to call off the search and that was the worst I have ever felt about hunting. Not only did I almost certainly kill that doe but I gut shot her because I didn't see that sapling between her and the tip of my barrel. I'm sure it was a long painful death and for that I felt horrible but i'm sure the coyotes had a feast. No matter how big a bullet you shoot there is no replacement for shot placement and knowing everything between you that might throw that off. I for one will be more mindful of things like this in the future. Good luck taking your first deer this year!

as far as tactical and high-speed-low drag stuff.. nahh.. But my husband makes sure I do once in a while shoot and stay at a certain level of accuracy with my gun. Nothing wrong with training and keeping it to a certain level of proficiency .

Shooting anyone in any part of the back of their body should send up red flags. If a person is shot in the back one would assume that the danger was over and the person with leaving. I am sure this will go for the shooter since he was the business owner and with no other witnesses dead people for the most part cannot testify UNLESS  their are power burns new the wound and a good forensic investigation is done. The dead man has a lot of people on his side as character witnesses that the victim was for the most part  a non violent person while the shooter was a know Hot Head.............Hope we learn the facts..............jmho 

I don't disagree that there are exigent circumstances where the police may be required to enter a private property without a warrant...  I just think we should place some reasonable restrictions on the cases where they do.   First being that any and all evidence discovered during one of these exigent situations is fruit of the poisonous tree is ALL cases, period.  This would create a serious disincentive to use such exigent situations to advance an investigation while still preserving the ability of the police to rush in save people's lives.   Second, if the exigent circumstance turns out to be false...  For example claiming to hear somebody calling for help and it turns out there is nobody inside calling for help...  then the police and the department would lose all sovereign immunity for their actions.     As for your points on the courts basically dismissing the 9th and 10th amendments...  you're right they ignore them with wild abandon, but I don't recognize their ability to rule what is or is not unconstitutional...  Where SCOTUS and I disagree on an unconstitutional infringement, I readily ignore their interpretation...  We are talking about the same body that said slavery and placing American citizens in concentration camps was constitutional.     At the end of the day I can read and understand the Constitution (and the State Constitution) just fine, and I use that as my guide... even though I regularly question the ability of men born more than 225 years ago to bound me to a contract I had no say in.   That doesn't mean I don't stay out of trouble..  because I realize that the government is happy to use violence to enforce their interpretations of the Constitution, even if they use the Bill of Rights as toilet paper on a regular basis... :)    

  Because they wanted the bullet to go really fast.

Was in JCPenny's over the weekend and saw a holiday decoration. It went like this:   Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah Happy Quanza Feliz Navidad   I just felt that it was ironic that Christmas was on there twice.

when someone tells me happy holiday i tell them merry christmas. 

I just borrowed that to help me make more friends on Facebook.  :D

Sharpton spent decades loudly, publically spewing hate-whitey racist rhetoric on a national stage, now he condemns some of the resulting racial violence with a single comment? Yea he's absolved.

Oh...but he isn't calling people names; just making observations. ;) 

  No, federal law does not say that at all, Dave.   Federally, in both cases to be unlawful, the seller must  "know or have reasonable cause to believe" that such is the case. Otherwise, it is not unlawful, simple as that, as the statutes are precisely worded. I don't know of any seller in his own state who was stung for that unless he saw the buyer's out of state ID or was told by the buyer he was from out of state, and sold anyway -- never have seen any mention of a precedent where simply not asking to see ID was grounds enough alone for a conviction.   AFAIK, TN law doesn't address the issue of private interstate transfer at all, not sure regarding proof of culpability for intrastate transfer to a minor.   - OS

Here is an example of how this sort of situation would play out with me. I believe that if there is not an identifiable victim, there is not a crime. Any prostitution, nonviolent drug, or other consensual act offense I would vote not guilty. I'm not telling the lawyers involved because if I did, I wouldn't be able to stop the state from committing the immoral act of putting someone in a cage for a consensual act.

Having someone else do the deed for you doesn't absolve you of culpability in that deed. If you have the opportunity to serve on a jury where you can prevent the state from committing an immoral act and actively have yourself removed from that jury, you share responsibility just the same as if you voted to convict. I believe that jury nullification is not only a right of the people, it is a duty. If the lawyers don't ask about my views on the subject, I am not going to volunteer that information and remove myself from a position of being able to actually do something about it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

I wouldn't believe him if he said it was dark outside, I would go and see for myself.

  It's not a bad enough headspace problem that the firing pin won't reach the primer. Just need to measure everything.

Yeah, I'm still not convinced it's a headspace problem. Could be, but I'm not sure with the information provided. A bad box of ammo isn't exactly rare.

    Junk piled on top of junk.

http://www.isp.state.il.us/firearms/ccw/ccw-faq.cfm according to the website: "Out-of-state residents who want to carry a concealed firearm on their person must obtain an Illinois Concealed Carry License to lawfully carry a concealed firearm in Illinois. In order for out-of-state residents to be eligible for an Illinois license, their state’s concealed carry license laws must be substantially similar to those of Illinois. The Illinois State Police will establish rules to identify the elements necessary to meet the substantially similar requirement. Out of state residents are granted a limited exception to lawfully carry a concealed firearm within a vehicle if they are eligible to carry a firearm in public under the laws of their state or territory of residence and are not prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm under federal law. This rule became effective immediately. If the non-resident leaves his/her vehicle unattended, he or she shall store the firearm within a locked vehicle or locked container within the vehicle in accordance with subsection (b) of Section 65 of the Firearm Concealed Carry Act."

In socialist & communist nations, children belong to the State, not to the parents. Another example that we've arrived.

Two weeks ago today, I adopted an 18 month old male basset hound through Belly Rubs Basset Hound Rescue. I just couldn't go without a hound any longer. :) His name is Wally and he has an interesting story... About five weeks ago, an elderly couple who live in Lenoir City were RV camping up in the Smokies when they saw this dog wandering toward them. He went to the door of their RV and whined like he wanted to be let in. Being dog lovers themselves they obediently opened the door at which point this hound went inside, promptly jumped up on the sofa and went to sleep! He was a bit of mess, dirty and tick infested...they washed him up in their on board shower and dealt with the ticks as best they could and too him to their vet to get fully rid of the ticks. That's when they contacted the rescue organization. They named his Wally and I decided it's a good name for him! We don't know much about him but it was obvious that he had been on his own for a while. He is negative for heart worms which was a big relief but he was positive for worms which he's been treated for and we are also treating him for a couple of bacterial infections (ears, toenails and positive for a tick born disease; all of which is very common to basset hounds and especially in Tennessee) but overall, he's a pretty healthy boy. Based on his teeth, my vet believes he is not older than 18 months. He's already made himself quite at home here and quite at home with me...I still miss my girl Millie and I suspect I always will but Wally is a great hound and already a good friend! If you have or ever had a dog who has made you laugh, brightened your life, and every day silently accepted your tears without judgment, snuggled with you, forgiven your faults and loved unconditionally - dogs are a gift that most of us don't deserve!

Considering I can't shoot for crap anyway, most of them are pretty dumb actually. Vertical foregrip I guess.

^^This. When I travel to MO, I only drive for 20 seconds through IL and I stop on KY side, unload, separate ammo from gun/mags, drive through IL and stop on the MO side and reload. Don't test them. My two cents

.......yawn.

    Sorry, no owner impression, here.  Honestly, when I first saw in one of the gun rags that Taurus was going to do a 9mm carbine, I kind of eagerly flipped over to read the article.  The wind was taken out of my sails by the '10 round proprietary mag' statement.  My thought was, "Well, then, it has zero benefit over my Hi Point 9mm carbine that has been 100% reliable and also uses 10 round, proprietary mags.  At least Hi Point carbine mags are, supposedly, compatible with their handguns (but not vice versa - the handgun mags don't work in the carbine.)"   Then I saw the projected price tag and thought, "Okay, so now the Hi Point has an obvious advantage over the Taurus.  Price."  I see nothing about the Taurus that would make its end user value worth any more than the Hi Point, to me, much less more than double the price.

Ive wanted one bad for months now, but Ive always had an intrest in them. The only difference is I want one with a wood stock and 22.5" barrel. Tapatalk ate my spelling.