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Wheelgunner

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  1. Like Runningfree, I'm a fan of CAO, and especially the La Traviata. I also like an Arturo Fuente Churchill now and then. During finals season I go to the cigar shop (which has free wifi) with a couple twenties in my pocket. I buy a stick, fire it up, and before I know it I've been studying for two solid hours. Great way to mix business and pleasure.
  2. If you compare the stats on Cor Bon 125 grain rounds on the Ballistics By The Inch website, the .357 round is 400 fps faster than the .38 Spl out of a 3 inch barrel. Agreed, .357 is a beast in a J frame, but there is a real ballistic advantage over .38 SPL even in a snubbie. Maybe a nice heavy SP101 in .357 would fit the bill?
  3. @ Benkharr - How tight a budget? Less than $1,000 for both?
  4. I am grateful they did make a stand, but I'm not at all confident that even a third of our fellow Americans would support making a stand today. The underlying question I struggle with is, "Is it worth making a stand for constitutional principles in a democratic society if the majority of the electorate prefers to reject those constitutional principles?" You see, that question pits our love of democracy against our love of God-given, inalienable rights. On a side note, and in response to PapaB's post, I quote from the footnote on page 171 of Congressman Ron Paul's book, "The Revolution": "John Adams is often misquoted as saying that one third of Americans supported the Revolution, one third opposed it, and one third were indifferent. Historians have repeated this incorrect quotation time and again. Adams was in fact speaking of American support for the French Revolution. Historian William F. Marina has shown convincingly that a majority of Americans supported the American Revolution."
  5. Understandable that most prefer to remain tight lipped about this stuff.  Would you guys change your plans if it looked like the majority of Americans really don't want to keep their rights?  RobertNashville, you made a good point about the looming consequences of chronic fiscal irresponsibility.     I wonder about the logic of sticking around in a nation where my fellow citizens attach ever less importance to constitutional rights.  And I have begun to doubt that most Americans prefer to be free men over the reassurances of a nanny state.     I'd rather take a long vacation than personally survive a Dr. Zhivago scenario.
  6. What would it take to make you believe that you no longer had legislative or judicial protection of your Second Amendment rights? What event would make you snap into action (leave the country, hide your firearms, etc.)? Obviously an outright, open federal policy of collecting all privately owned arms would get most gun owners into gear, but would anything less than that set you in motion?
  7. "Not enough" is the answer.  You make a good point.  It's time to put some thought into new ways to make an impact, cause this ain't cuttin' it.  Thanks for the push in the right direction.  
  8. Dennis, I'm embarrassed but you stumped me in a single post.  I'll do some reading and try again soonish.
  9. I see what you're saying - that there are costs associated with carrying a handgun even aside from fees for permit or class.  Because none of us expects the state to distribute free handguns, holsters, ammunition, and training under constitutional carry, even if that system were adopted in Tennessee there would be some citizens who were precluded from exercising their right to bear arms due to financial constraints.  That makes sense.  It's acceptable because it is the result of free market and capitalist principles.   What I have a problem with, like Chucktshoes, is the state imposing a fee that I must pay to it before I can exercise my constitutional right.  In my opinion our law in Tennessee unconstitutionally infringes the federal Second Amendment not by issuing a permit card, or by fingerprinting us, or by requiring a fee, but rather by making it illegal to carry a loaded handgun in public in the event a citizen does not fulfill those prerequisites.
  10. You can bet your bottom dollar that citizen, State court, and federal court would all find infringement of a constitutional right if classroom instruction, fingerprinting, fee-paying, and permit were prerequisites to everyday free speech.
  11. @ sventvkg - I wholeheartedly agree that something needs to be done all across the country. But it seems to me that involving the federal government - even in "solutions" that look helpful on the surface, like a federal carry permit - is a mistake. The authority of our federal government over the States and their citizens is growing in a way I can only describe as out of control. These days I think the only way to reclaim the rights we're losing or have already lost is by first setting things right in Tennessee and then using the power of the State to start nullifying unconstitutional federal laws.
  12. Here's my advice: decide what purpose the BOB will serve (just get you home frame work, get you from home to a buddy's house, live in the woods for a week, etc.). Next decide what all you will need for that purpose and make a list. Then actually assemble everything on the list. Put it all in your A bag and carry it around for a while to make see if there are some items you want to cut to save weight. Once you know exactly what will go in the bag (like Garufa said) you can choose the right size.
  13. Law enforcement officers have the legal authority to disarm a HCP holder during a traffic stop. Got it. Here's what I don't understand: if an officer thinks the lawfully armed citizen is enough of a threat to prefer disarming him, why doesn't the officer actually treat him like a threat? (call for back up, take cover, weapon drawn and aimed at center of mass, short verbal commands clearly shouted, etc) If I were in the officer's shoes and were concerned about somebody shooting me, I can't imagine climbing into a stranger's car by myself to grab the handgun off his hip. I guess I'm just not that brave.
  14. Will, congrats on the new GP. They're outstanding guns. Was that fiber optic front sight factory or did you put it on yourself? How do you like the sight picture? Sorry I can't help on the holster issue.
  15. @ bayouvol - If the weight of the gun is uncomfortable, you might need a new belt, too. Like rockman I EDC a snubbie SP101, and found that a IWB holster (mine is Galco) reduces the felt weight of the weapon.
  16. Senator Feinstein says Gen. Petraeus will not testify in Senate hearings on Benghazi next week due to his "resignation." Isn't that convenient? http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/09/15054517-cia-director-david-petraeus-resigns-cites-extramarital-affair?lite
  17. @ BungeeCord - Yetlub, not butlub. But yeah, I read you loud and clear. Seems like nobody here in the real world understands the gravity of these ongoing events. But what else is new, right?
  18. I did the same thing for a year or so. (I only stopped because I found an IWB holster I liked better, not because there's anything wrong with it.) I had family members who I saw regularly react with surprise when I told them I had a handgun on my hip -- even if they had seen the bottom of the holster sticking out, they'd thought it was a cell phone holder, Gerber tool, etc. I think it still qualifies as concealed, since 99% of people are oblivious to the fact that you're armed.
  19. Unless the teacher consents to such a search in his employment contract (or verbally otherwise) it seems to me a really blatant violation of the federal Fourth Amendment, since the government is the party doing the search. I agree with you that students' vehicles should not be subject to search by anyone except a police officer with probably cause or a warrant in hand, just like any other citizen. But at least teachers still have big-boy rights... for now.
  20. What purpose is the carbine supposed to serve? Range toy? HD rifle? Sole firearm? Makes a difference.
  21. You ever heard that old saying, "To a man with only a hammer every problem is a nail"? Mr. Webster lives in the world of healthcare research and medical policy implementation. No big surprise he sees the issue in those terms; he probably sees everything in those terms. To him, teenage girls living in the United States is a precursor to the medical phenomena of teen pregnancy, and owning a car is a precursor to the "social disease" of car accidents. Unfortunately for Mr. Webster, Dr. Hargarten, and all the other good liberal medical professionals in the U.S., before they address the public health problem of gun ownership they must first remove the malignant tumor of the Second Amendment from the federal Constitution. I wish people would just stay in their own lane.
  22. Not only is the font small, but the sign itself is transparent!
  23. If owning guns were half as dangerous to children as that CNN fellow says then wouldn't it make sense that the entire gun-owning demographic would have died off generations ago? Hmmm, I guess I'm just a stupid gun owner...
  24. @ the OP - Cool thread. In the past week I have taken a trip to the range and started going to the gym again. One made my wallet sore, and the other made the rest of me hurt too.
  25. Hmm, something's missing... Oh! It needs a backup rifle somehow mounted on the rail system!

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