Wheelgunner

New career as an armed security specialist with Brinks or Loomis!

Quiet you!  Move along.  All in the interest of your safety.

The most dangerous part about a man wielding the notorious thumb and forefinger is how difficult it is to disarm him.

We need to get a form letter posted on the forum that members can easily print it out and mail or email to their phone service provider.  This is a request for interested members to put their concerns into formal language and make it available ASAP.   There are innumerable ways for this app to endanger or undermine our community.  While the first thing that came to mind was some anti marking our home addresses, it is just as likely that businesses allowing the carry of handguns will be marked as unsafe and experience a serious loss of revenue -- for supporting our rights.   We have to jump on this one quick, guys.  We're not dealing with some stick in the mud politician who won't change his mind regardless of how many letters he receives.  Nope, this time it's private businesses (telecommunications companies) that absolutely will respond if enough consumers make a stink.

If the liberals are correct that the guns themselves - the physical objects - are the reason for the violence and murder rates then implementation of Representative Davis' plan would cause Chicago to implode in a violent supernova. You see, the Guard has thousands of assault rifles, machine guns, and even handguns.

Statist politicians - who, incidentally, are the imminent threat to the American people - have worked hard to earn our international reputation.  Most of our leaders today are double threats: they afraid of a free population and thus seek to curtail our rights, and simultaneously support isolationism in the most dangerous sense.  Through their constant military, political, and economic interference within our own borders and abroad, they cause the United States to be ostracized by the international community.  Unlike the version of isolationism popular in the early twentieth century, this modern form is a near-permanent decision that is difficult, if not impossible, to undo.

I carry a grudge because I'm a sore loser.

Sometimes I hike with a 45 oz. 6" barrel revolver.  I carry it in a cross draw leather holster on my belt, and it's very comfortable.  That's what I'd recommend for stuff like camping and hiking.  Academy sells a holster made by a company called Allen that might work for you.  The best way to go is to order one from Simply Rugged, but you won't be able to get that in a week (more like a month, but the quality is top notch).

Nice score!  It's good you got one now - I've heard that FN has begun restricting sales of the new Five Sevens to military and police.  If that's true then your new gun will only appreciate in value.

And who do you think the Qataris are going to come crying to the next time some (Muslim) Saddam-wannabe tries to annex Qatar instead of Kuwait?     Yeah, infidels.

MY understanding of the sequester is that the "reduction" is actually a cut to the annual increase in federal spending - meaning that, at worst, next year the feds will have to live off the same amount of money they had the year before.   In my book that's not a cut at all, so I'm with you 100% that there is absolutely no reason for us seeing catastrophic effects now.

I'll call you a realist.  Bernie Goetz took out four bad guys with a .38 J-frame.

I like the sentiment behind this proposal, but I'm not convinced it would set a good precedent.  I'm already very uncomfortable with the State requiring us to pay a fee before we are allowed to exercise a right.  In fact, when you look at Article I, Section 26 of the Tennessee Constitution it seems clear that it does not allow such fees.  And that's without even touching the federal Constitution's 2A, which probably was intended to prohibit the rise of any kind of statist prerequisites for owning or bearing firearms.   Conceptually, recognizing different rights for different categories of citizens is so deeply flawed and so recently relevant that I'm somewhat astounded this bill was ever written.  The Jim Crow era is well within living memory.  Making veterans or firefighters or police officers or teachers members of a privileged class does not help the dilemma of logic: if we all have the same rights, why don't we all have the same rights?   Shake a veteran's hand.  Mow his yard for him.  Treat him to lunch.  Tell him you're proud of him - and not just on Veterans' Day.  But giving him a lifetime permit to do something he has a right to do in the first place?  To this veteran that smells like an effort to cast illegal restrictions of my rights in a better light.

I love how in the article the police chief states that police "don't encourage" citizens lawfully stopping a brutal attack on a defenseless woman in the middle of the night.   How do you "not encourage" what Blackmore did?  That's the same thing as saying, "The proper thing to do here was let the bastard keep beating that poor woman until it was convenient for a police officer to show up."

I must be confused.  I wasn't aware that the State Attorney General's opinion had the force of law.

Amen.     I love this Nation and our form of government but I don't need a piece of paper or a legislative body to tell me I'm a free man.

Email and letter sent Friday to Senator Stevens.  Thanks nigeltufnel.

  I've heard that you can shoot in the General Services district during daylight hours, with the normal caveats (not across a road, etc.).  Can't remember the source where I heard that, though.

Talk to the neighbors, too.  They have just as much reason to be concerned about that kind of suspicious behavior as you.     Ask them to keep an eye out, and touch base with them once a week or every other week.  In particular, ask them to note the vehicle and the time of the incident.  This will help you figure out if it's the same person snooping around each time.   Cameras are not overkill.  When my uncle's house in rural Georgia was burglarized five years ago, the only reason he got any of his possessions returned was the pictures his CCTV got of the criminals.

She offends me on so many levels that it's tough to even put my disgust into words.  There are very few people whose very citizenship - the ability to call themselves Americans - disappoints me.  But I think she's made the list.   

@ JReedEsq - Another approach would be to change guns.  You could put some regular .38 wadcutters in a heavier .357 gun, like a 4" GP100.  The weight of the gun will eat up a significant amount of felt recoil (which is already pretty tame with .38 rounds).  Most ranges have a .357 like that to rent out, or maybe you could borrow one from a buddy.     Or you have a great excuse to buy a big new .357.   :)    Edit:  Guess my suggestions were a little late.

Actually, you could be expelled, right?  Just not arrested?   I mean, the school could set its own policy or regulation that is stricter than the law, right?

Nope. It's the assault rifle's fault. Only solution: increased deficit spending.

Guys in the country pack camo gear. I do the same thing but for a different environment. If I have to use my get home bag, I've got to pass through some urban and suburban areas. Thus, my kit includes a pair of jeans, shirt, and ball cap instead of surplus gear. Same reason I chose my bag - a rinky dink backpack from Office Max. There's even a textbook next to it in my trunk. When I walk by a stranger, he sees some kid walking home from class with a backpack full of books. He's forgotten me before I'm even out of shouting distance. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with military style stuff, because there's not. It just makes you stand out in my daily environment.

Do a Google search for MyTopo.  Their website is a great way to get exactly the map you want, and it's really inexpensive.  I got a military-style grid map of my area from them with all the special markings I wanted and at my desired scale for less than $20.