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I'm sorry but you're missing understanding what the FCC did, and where the government backed monopolies get approved. First, the telephone and cable companies didn't 'invent' the commercial Internet, lots of small companies that were already pushed out of the market 15+ years ago did... MindSpring, AOL, etc provided dial-up service to end users, and started the Internet revolution. These companies received no government money to do this.... They provided the critical 'last mile' of service to end users when nobody else would. At some point around 2000, telephone companies, and cable companies saw an opportunity to leverage their 'last mile' infrastructure to dominate the ISP space, and did just that. The rest of the Internet is mostly 'unregulated' and is doing very well today. 4 years ago it cost $1 per month per Mbps of service at a data center in Dallas, today it's around $0.15 per month per Mbps, so the free market is alive and well. Every major city has an 'Internet Exchange' that is a privately run organization that provides peering services to anybody at cost, to make exchanging data between companies easier and cheaper. Most ISP's considered themselves 'common carriers' under the FCC rules regarding telephone companies, and they didn't attempt to mess with customers traffic. But around 2003-2005 some of these large companies got caught violating common carrier rules.. In one case a telephone company in NC blocked all traffic to Vonage, to prevent customers from switching away from their more expensive telephone service. Comcast got caught 'forging' Internet traffic to prevent some customers from downloading, or using VPN technology. By 2007 Comcast was caught intentionally slowing down Netflix traffic, and when customers called to complain, they recommended their own more expensive service instead. At this point the FCC stepped in to try and prevent these large cable and telephone companies from leveraging their monopolies, to create walled gardens where they got to pick winners and losers in the market space. They started by making ISP's follow basic telecommunication company rules called Title 2 which had been in place for 50+ years. Verizon and Comcast fought these regulations in court all the way to SCOTUS, the ruling basically said the internet wasn't a 'Telecommunication Service' (yet another example of why 60+ year olds in black robes make bad rulings) and therefore couldn't be regulated under Title 2, but the FCC did have the authority to regulate under Title 1. The FCC following the courts ruling moved the regulation under Title 1, and nicknamed it Net Neutrality. All this regulation said was that ISP's must treat all traffic the same, nothing more. We've had this rule in place with telephone companies for decades, where telephone companies were required to treat all calls the same. The rule guarantees that if you call a Sprint Cellphone from your AT&T land line the call with go through. This is called 'common carrier', and has been around since before AT&T was broken up into the baby bells. We've all see problems recently where conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment content is being censored on Youtube, Facebook, and other giant social media sites, because of liberal pressure (internally and externally), today there is NOTHING stopping Comcast (or any other ISP) from blocking access to websites they don't like, or to bend to public pressure to block websites that aren't socially acceptable. I'm not a huge fan of Youtube and Facebook, but I can choose not to use those sites... I only have 1 option for broadband Internet, and if they start blocking Internet sites, there is nothing that I as a consumer can do other that turn the Internet off.... Which in today's business environment would make me unemployed. I'm as libertarian as they come, but until we remove these government backed monopolies, the government should force them to behave as 'common carriers'.

This thread should serve as a reminder to the folks that are new to the shooting sports as well as those of us with short memories. Remember the boy scout motto: BE PREPARED.

Picked up a XD .45 4 inch service model bi-tone with the 3 dot sights: came with 2 13+1 magazines, hard case with cable lock, and bore brush and a free 20 round box of PMC Gold Starfire .....OTD with tax, background check was $446. I have not had a chance to shoot her yet, pistol is very dry don't know if it had been in storage for awhile or not....I like the fact the Springfield went to the trouble of polishing the feed ramp.

States Rights bull? Of course it varies in every state. You want the Feds making the rules on how, where, and what you can carry? You may get your wish; but I bet there is a very good possibility you won’t be happy with it.

Look, we probably should break up the current cable and telephone companies like we did AT&T years ago. Force the companies to separate last mile infrastructure away from TV channels, movie studios, and copyrights holder parts of their business. This would create a free market in the space of entertainment, while treating the data services part of the business as a simple utility much like how we treat land-line telephone, electric and water/sewer companies or coops. Doing this would remove a lot of the 'profit' motive from messing with access. But, that would require a federal anti-trust lawsuit by the DOJ and would take 20 years to work it's way through the federal court system like the break up of AT&T did. Until then, we should regulate ISP's as common carriers, since they can only operate by granting of public easements or licenses, just like other public utilities. Otherwise we're all headed down a very bad path of walled gardens that we're forced into and will in the long run kill innovation on the Internet. Trust me, I don't like to admit defeat, under the best of times the government in a necessary evil, and we're far from the best of times, but there is no other solution to this problem other than the FCC regulating basic common carrier rules onto last mile ISP's. And unlike Crowder, I worked in the 90's as VP of Operations for an ISP, before transitioning to Computer Security for the last 18 years of my career. I understand just how bad the Deep Packet Inspection hardware Comcast and other ISP's are using could be turned against customers to censor the Internet we've had for the last 25+ years. And while Google, Facebook, and other should scare you a lot, last mile ISP's are the real immediate risk to censorship that we face today, and the only legal roadblock to such behavior was just removed.

New guy rooting around. Say no to replying to threads 2-4 years old.

Great pickup. I have a .45 compact and a 9mmSC, and the SC is still my favorite carry gun. As previously stated, they aren't much to look at, but they are fantastic shooters.

Found this in another thread...thanks to DaveTN Program Director, Lisa Knight,P.O. Box 23710 Nashville, TN 37202 (615) 251-8590

Personally, I feel that these were very underestimated pistols. Very accurate and easy to hold and shoot. Once you got past the grip safety, for those who hated it, a very good pistol. I still have a 5'' 45 in my safe. And I never understood what all the ruccus about the grip safety was for. Heck it's just like a 1911. Can you hold a 1911 without crying about it? Same thing.

http://www.springfield-armory.com/products/1911-trp-10mm/#PC9510L18 I simply must have the 5-inch model. So much drooling here right now. Oh, and they have a long-slide version with adjustable rear sight for you nerds that like things such as that.

It's the short attention span...

That's what drew me to it was the grip safety and the way it pointed .....and more importantly how it felt in my hand.

What is it with all these necro threads popping up? It's the zombie apocalypse up in here.

The moment Greg drills a classic pistol to feed some flavor of the week we'll know that it's time to start worrying about him... I'll call his wife and kids to get them to secure the rest of the collection before he can harm himself or any of the guns.

Shut your mouth!

It better do a whole lot more than that.

I am pleased to announce that Glock will be sponsoring the obstacle at Stage 3: "Glock's Slide To The Pit Of Despair", and will be providing a pistol certificate for the prize table. https://us.glock.com/

That's some pretty wood. Too bad the receiver is all scratched up.

I'd be too skeered to touch it let alone shoot it!

Holy thread resurrection Batman.

Yep... I asked if they would throw in a free background check if I paid in cash and he said no . I couldn't even afford the sales tax.

I'd get documentation on the medication and side effects from his doctor as well as his military record and try to apply in person rather than online . Get the doctor to write a paper stating that he has no known mental issues and that that the meds caused the problem and that he is no longer taking them and has had no further problems stating how long he has been off them . Might not make any difference but that is what I would try first . Damn shame to be punished for telling the truth . Eddie

Sorry for the difficulties. Someone who remembers her name will chime in with contact info for a very helpful lady at TDOS who can address this sort of thing. I just can't recall her name at the moment...

So the internet has grown into a huge service that nearly everyone uses and relies upon through a free and open market (well even with pseudo monopolies) and now that it's a huge business with all the risk of development taken out the US federal government wants to come in and create an expansive "new" bureaucracy to take money they didn't create and control the evil corporations that brought us the service in the first place. What could go wrong? It concerns me that we can see clearly this happen over and over in the past and realize it's a business and market killer, and yet here we are again debating what's already been answered. Personally, I hate that the government is already involved in helping keep theses pseudo monopolies like Comcast in place. Less government interference would have opened the market up to even more bandwidth at lower prices long before now. I can't see any reason why more government solves anything.

The most likely answer to the original questions is "no", there are no more large amounts of milsurps which will be imported into the US. The Eastern Bloc stockpiles have been liquidated, as have all the Western European nations, these countries updated and modernized their countries armaments decades ago, replacing the semiautomatic and bolt action guns with FA's, which will never be made available to civilian markets. The 2 nations (Russia and China) who amassed the largest quantities of WWII era guns are closed to us as to further importation and have been for many years now. Ukraine is probably the only of the former Soviet republics with any substantial inventory left and the recent sanctions proscribe even the Soviet era guns which were formerly coming in from Ukraine being imported in the future as they originated in the former USSR, not to mention the fact that they have been involved in a civil war which is never an ideal situation for exporting guns. There will be small quantities that are able to be brought in, we got small shipments from Albania and the former Yugoslavia as recently as last year, and Swiss rifles show up occasionally in small lots as private buyers put together small shipments of older rifles for sale on the secondary market in that country. In addition, we have competition for the few remaining guns from sources which were formerly of little consequence, one example is from collectors in Western Europe who actually pay more than we will for available examples of collectible pieces. Buyers on the open gun markets are also snapping up any available weapons to supply to the many insurgencies, terrorist operations and revolutionaries who are operating in many theaters, these buyers do not have the same laws, rules and regulations that we have to deal with and in that market "cash is king". On the other hand, the secondary market here has a lot of inventory becoming available as older collectors are starting to liquidate their collections, a lot of fairly rare pieces have come to market in the last few years which haven't been available in decades, of course not at the prices they sold for in the 50's - 90's ...

I should have specified... at w*rk. Some of the big-cheese management boasting that they had brought me back, and their several little sycophants parroting it... It wears, over time. I've been content to really not have had anything resembling a social life. Damned well if I had one, and started to get that crap at it, would have been dropped like a hot rock. TN will be a better deal, I think. ALthough it has been over thirty years since it was released, I DO like the fourth stanza: Because you can't starve us out And you can't make us run 'Cause we're them old boys raised on shotgun And we say "grace" and we say "Ma'am" And if you ain't into that we don't give a damn and DO like knowing that I'm going to a place full of such fine folks. SWC a/k/a KI7CIL

I don’t see this playing out anytime soon. The SCOTUS has split the 2nd into two parts.. Keep and Bear. They have ruled all Americans have the right to KEEP arms, but they have not yet ruled that all Americans can strap on a gun and walk down the street; I doubt they will. They have indicated that States Rights allow reasonable restrictions; although I don’t think they have ruled that. They have refused to hear challenges to states banning open carry and states banning AR’s as assault weapons. So those bans stand for now. The only way I see Federal carry going forward is a Federal Carry Permit. Good luck getting the states to agree on the background check, the training and on what you can carry.

I really do not "need" a thing, wants now is a whole other list. Good will toward men, peace on earth and all, yea call me old.

Here's my meager entry. A decent Smith and Wesson hand ejector. It's shoots great!

It's not a bad idea at all. I will see about getting it added soon.

Shucks, I thought I was gonna get to see something I didn't know. That is the way I have been skinning Tree Rats since I was about 12 years old and I'm 69 now. I can do a rabbit about as fast if not a little faster......................

It better do things that my wife won't for that kind of money.

Next we'll have to bring back the Kentucky Conan and his lovely companion! lol