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Troops carry loaded arms every day in Afghanistan. Why on Earth could they not be trusted to do the same on base in the US? Am I missing something here? I seem to recall being an E-3 in the days following 9/11, having a loaded M-16 with basic combat load and an M9 on my belt, also loaded, standing post at an armory in a downtown area. Also recall transporting weapons across country in uniform and being armed with shotgun + pistol. If I remember correctly, the arms room guy has a loaded side arm at all times. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Ok, I'll jump in here with one of my (hobby) or passion... Building scale models. I look at them as 3d paintings and a way to "engineer" interesting displays as well as pay tribute to the veterans that have gone before. P51D of the 55th FG A4C Skyhawk M4 Sherman The tank was featured in a Scale Modeling magazine several years ago. I'll compete in some local competitions every now and I have a couple displayed in various museums... But mostly, I just have a mini-museum at the house! Steve

Sig has filed a lawsuit over the ATF decision regarding the muzzle brake on the MPX. The ATF classified the brake as a suppressor component and has determined that the MPX cannot be sold without a form 4. Sig and their clanking balls have decided not only to sue the ATF in an effort to force them to reverse their decision, but has also named Director B. Todd Jones directly as a defendent. This means that the ATF must respond within 21 days. I think I just became a Sig fanboy.    http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/04/foghorn/sig-sauer-sues-atf-calling-muzzle-brake-silencer/

The fact that some will overstep and abuse a right is not sufficient justification for the government to exercise prior restraint on that right.

Because some people are stupid we should punish everyone. Mmmm....freedom. Sent from somewhere in the cosmos using magic...and bacon.

The Brady Campaign called. They want their arguments back. 

I've joked repeatedly that Sig must have an entire department devoted to giving the ATF the finger. I'm not sure it's a joke anymore. I am seriously getting the impression that Sig has a hardon for the NFA and is going after the idiocy of the ATF's rulings pretty much full bore. When I refer to their clanking balls, I mean it. Sig is showing a hell of a lot more testicular fortitude than the NRA, GOA, SAF and other so called gun rights organizations by directly attacking the NFA. I got nothing but love for them and pray they have continued success against the ATF.

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  So someone who carries concealed will go crazy and kill everyone in sight, but someone carrying openly is just a snuggly teddy bear? You can't assess the threat until the bullets start flying. 

As other posters have said.... Why should these folks be entrusted with "the bearing of arms' on duty in other countries; and be disarmed here..?  There should be no places where the citizenry is disarmed...    leroy

Next argument I expect to hear against this legislation is the cost of all the body bags they'll have to buy for all the deaths from OK Corral shoot outs in the streets. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Walt Disney, that's who! I had to drive up near the pointer on Tennessee's map today and saw a sign luring tourists to visit the birthplace of Davy Crockett. I decided to stop in, just to see if he was "born on a mountaintop in Tennessee," like the song goes. NOT!!!! He was born in a valley on the banks of the Nolichucky River in Greene County. I mean, the nearest mountain is over a mile from that place. It's located in Davy Crockett State Park....evidently his parents named Davy after the park so they wouldn't have to pay rent. This really cuts me to the quick.....I squandered two bucks back in the 50s for a stinkin' Davy coonskin cap that shed hair all over me after about a week. And the plastic replica of Ol' Betsy that fired Greenie Stick 'em caps started splittin' right up the middle after just a few swings and pops on my buddies' heads while playing Defend the Alamo. But I never figured that Walt Disney would lie to us. But you tell me......does Fess Parker look anything like this? He looks more like my third grade teacher, Mrs. Grundy. It's a wonder the Mexicans didn't let him leave the Alamo with the rest of the women, for cryin' out loud. I really don't know how long it's gonna take for me to get over this. I'm even beginning to suspect that Disney's stupid submarine didn't go down 20,000 leagues under the sea after all.

Corvettes......

Not gun related but still pretty fregin funny...

I hear Memphis is nice...     ;)

I know all of us love firearms, but what else do you guys do on the side? I know some of you have RC planes, but whats something that you like to collect? For some reason, ever since I was a kid, I have always had a fascination with legos. To this day I buy them, but had to restrict myself to a genre. (Dont judge, we all have our different tastes). And I am bored at work and decided to come up with something FUN! Since everything else is bad, fattening or illegal. When I was with my ex, I tried moving them into our apartment, and her kid started breaking them. So I drove them back to my parents house. I need more shelves :panic:

Digging thru photos I realized something. TGO made me increase my collection. With all the advice and evil photos and great help. Before TGO: Mid life crisis due to TGO: As of today thanks to TGO: I am not showing the hand guns since the only addition was another 1911. The two ar's from the first two pictures are now gone and the one on the last is still being built. Its not at its final evolutionary stage yet. Honorable mention: I have a third AR coming in tomorrow and my friend wants it, so I will get a photo of it, but luckily, I wont have to worry about making room in my safe for it. As always thanks for all the great advice and the great deals from the members I have dealt with!

How hard can this be?   1. Pull the pin   2. Throw as far from boat as possible   3. Use dip net to pick up dead and stunned fish   The guys shown in link below missed step 2 and are favorites for a Darwin Award       http://img.fae.ro/9e9f04.gif  

Geography fact of the day: Tennessee doesn't share a border with South Carolina.

grits.  i can cook them many different ways.  shrimp is good in them along with other good things.  is there anything better than grits, no matter the time, day or night. 

Need??? What's that got to do with it?   I don't need 90% of what I have. But that just doesn't seem to matter when the "I desirebut I don't need it" feeling rolls around. Or worse yet, it's at a good or better than good price. Then I have to have it.

Just saw this, totally awesome...

Lies

I've only fondled them up till now, not owned or shot one. Having said that based on the feedback I've read here and how they fit my hand, I'll most likely end up with one at some point. Anyway, Tresoso nailed it. If most of us only started buying "what we need" 1/2 the gun stores in TN might go under!

I have nicer pistols than my shield. That said, it is my favorite carry pistol. It is small enough to conceal well, but I don't feel under gunned carrying it. I got my HCP in 1999, and the shield is the pistol I've been wanting for the last 15 years.

[quote name="semiautots" post="1136750" timestamp="1397151080"]I think "regulated" has that meaning in the 2nd.[/quote] that is because the framers assumed that if one chose to keep and bear arms that they would also train regularly in their use to be as proficient as possible in maintaining "the security of a free state"... I dont think dumbassery existed in their time to the degree it does now...but hey, that's just me...

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When you have to ask or be granted permission it is no longer a right.,.

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People do kill people and the only way to stop that is by killing them first. To a utopian this is a moral paradox that invalidates everything that came before it, but to everyone else, it's just life in a world where evil is a reality, not just a word.   [url]http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/04/armed-society-spends-time-stopping-evil-contemplating/#Owc6J3jpveMXIGy7.99[/url]

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I like turtles! Er, guitars!

Diecast car collector(make that accumulator). Not Hot Wheels, I had to become hooked on the 1/18 scale stuff. Primarily only the muscle car era. It's amazing how few different cars really fit into that little niche. And absolutely astounding how many I have that differ in so little manner. I ran out of display space in my 2 den cases years ago. Each can comfortably(for my tastes) hold 56 vehicles. I used to rotate them, but lately have just decided to put only my favorite or most unusual cars in them. The remainder, approximately 300, are still boxed in my attic. I've always been a car guy, but in the early 80's got into the cheapie Ertl stuff. Then when I discovered the internet and ebay in the mid 90's...all heck broke loose. I found all the really, really nicely detained stuff available out there. Someday, some estate sale buyer will wonder what kind of freakin' idiot bought all these "toy cars" and left them in the boxes.

You have to admire the finger control on two of the homies though.

After much wait and borrowing a hammer from the neighbor, I have the third and final lower together. Had Gabe inspect it and its all good. Was not hard at all. By the way, thanks for those videos Oh Shoot, they were really handy for double checking everything, specially the trigger and hammer springs/coils. And this is the outcome of yalls help and guidance. Cant wait to take them to the range!

Grit waisters.

  You mean you don't?  :whistle:

I wish they made the Pacific in a non-serrated blade.  I'd buy one in a heartbeat   I'm working on some Japanese cleavers right now, but I might trend towards that shape with my next project knife..

I love my 500 for HD but these Saigas are starting to call my name.

Just ordered a Protech Godfather from BladeOps.  :rock:

Bikes.... Photography....

The next great conflict of our nation: The right to offend / or never be offended

There are many fixed blades that would fit the bill. Becker, ESEE Izula or Izula II, Buck, my favorite so far is an Izula II, it's about as large as I want to go. http://www.the-knife-connection.com/esee-knives--izula-ii.html This would work but sharpening might be a challenge. http://www.the-knife-connection.com/tops-lilfix-tplfix01.html Becker http://www.the-knife-connection.com/bkt-beckneck-bk11.html

The ARFCOM guide is all you need.  It's got pictures and everything.  The only way you can mess it up is to let a spring-loaded detent shoot across the room.

Just wanted to connect the dots:   http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/77703-my-2nd-unicorn-slayed-glock-31-gen2/

I have been denied twice.  First one was while I has a pending charge against me, no conviction mind you.  It was overturned in three days.  The other was a few years ago trying to buy a 91/30 from a gun shop outside of Phoenix AZ.  The owner of that shop told me it happens all the time and to come back in three days and I should be good to go.  I told him it was now or never as I was leaving the state the next day.  What was funny about it was when the Fast and Furious story broke the gun shop was one of those used by der gooberment to sell guns to Mexicans.  So they turn me down on a Mosin Nagant, but allowed AR's sales to drug cartels.   Sad it is not unbelievable.  Heck, nothing the .gov does anymore is unbelievable.

    how many ways are there to spell Nashville?  I call BS.   :cool: