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I stopped by the Hillsdale College table at the NRA convention in St Loius some years back. Signed up for the "Imprimus" and have received it ever since. Great publication and we need more universities like Hillsdale teaching the true meaning of our constitution and US republic form of government. In the not so distant future we will need the Hillsdale nurtured minds giving oral and written arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the effort to beat back the zombie left assault on freedom. I just signed up for US Constitution 101.

Wife gave my go to gun (Colt SP1 Carbine w/fake flashider and original metal stock) the name "Bad Boy".

Yes, and a lot of those sheeple are in the almost 50% that draw government assistance. Why would they vote any other way?

Glock 17 or 19 AK47 (Century or simlar throroughly checked out for quality of build) Ruger 1022 (Synthetic stock) Glock 26 All of these are good choices for the used market. Make you $1600 go further then you may have some funds left over to get a pump12ga shotgun. When you go out to hunt leave the Glock 26 and a couple of happy sticks with your better half.

I visit Paris Landing on Kentucky Lake quite often and the State Park Lodge to eat or spend the night sometimes being the boating/fishing meca that it is. The Park has a "no firearms" sign on the wall close to the service desk in the Paris Landing SP Lodge. A while back, after first noticing it several years ago, asked if it was legal to conceal carry on the park if you have a permit and about the sign. Asked had the law not changed etc..I was told that they realized you could carry on park property... as long as your gun was not visible. I told the nice lady that the carry firearm should not be visible if you are a permit holder and following the law. The first person I asked the question too did not have a clue on what I was talking about or even knew of the posting. Wonder if not taking the sign down is exclusive to Paris Landing? No big deal but glad I finally asked and the staff did not seem alarmed about the conversation. I was not carrying at the time.

I think that some form of gun confiscation may very well happen. Look at how the Health Care Bill was passed. Majority of the people did not want it passed but it was and the US Senate did what it took to get it passed. Every election from here on out is important for Second Amendment rights and the preservation of our Republic form of democracy. I believe that at any point in time we are one national election away from sweeping gun control legislation or the first corner stone being laid for gun confiscation. Vote and vote often!

Just got my new AR upper build in. Went with the Arms 41B folding front sight with triangular end cap and MOE midlength hand guard. Nice traditional setup and the Arms unit is solid. Easy to fold and raise with one hand.

The issue is some groups get to exercise their traditions while some do not. There has been a lot of tax dollars expended in getting the national bird off the endangered and threatened lists. Wonder if they will take a mating pair. If not then four eagles will be affected instead of two. Just saying..

Be careful with the WASR. I understand that they are put together by different manufacturers so quality can vary. I'm just saying check it out good before buying to make sure you are getting a good one.

The following story was sent to me by a friend who has had a lifelong career in the military and federal service and I thought it worthy to post. I have no reason to believe that it is not true and it shows that our military will not be defeated on the battle field. I'm reading the "American Sniper" a autobiography of Navy Seal Chris Kyle. The book states the same devotion to duty and country that was demonstrated by the two young Marines in the story (account) below. What is striking in the account is that the Iraqi's did not have the level of devotion in their own country as the two soldiers that stood their ground for their fellow Marines. "The Last Six Seconds" One can hardly conceive of the enormous grief held quietly within General Kelly as he spoke. On Nov 13, 2010, Lt General John Kelly, USMC, gave a speech to the Semper Fi Society of St. Louis, MO. This was four days after his son, Lt Robert Kelly, USMC, was killed by an IED while on his 3rd Combat tour. During his speech, General Kelly spoke about the dedication and valor of our young men and women who step forward each and every day to protect us. During the speech, he never mentioned the loss of his own son. He closed the speech with the moving account of the last six seconds in the lives of two young Marines who died with rifles blazing to protect their brother Marines. "I will leave you with a story about the kind of people they are, about the quality of the steel in their backs, about the kind of dedication they bring to our country while they serve in uniform and forever after as veterans. Two years ago when I was the Commander of all U.S. and Iraqi forces, in fact, the 22 ND of April 2008, two Marine infantry battalions, 1/9 "The Walking Dead," and 2/8 were switching out in Ramadi. One battalion in the closing days of their deployment going home very soon, the other just starting its seven-month combat tour. Two Marines, Corporal Jonathan Yale and Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter, 22 and 20 years old respectively, one from each battalion, were assuming the watch together at the entrance gate of an outpost that contained a makeshift barracks housing 50 Marines. The same broken down ramshackle building was also home to 100 Iraqi police, also my men and our allies in the fight against the terrorists in Ramadi, a city until recently the most dangerous city on earth and owned by Al Qaeda. Yale was a dirt poor mixed-race kid from Virginia with a wife and daughter, and a mother and sister who lived with him and whom he supported as well. He did this on a yearly salary of less than $23,000. Haerter, on the other hand, was a middle class white kid from Long Island. They were from two completely different worlds. Had they not joined the Marines they would never have met each other, or understood that multiple America's exist simultaneously depending on one's race, education level, economic status, and where you might have been born. But they were Marines, combat Marines, forged in the same crucible of Marine training, and because of this bond they were brothers as close, or closer, than if they were born of the same woman. The mission orders they received from the sergeant squad leader I am sure went something like, "Okay you two clowns, stand this post and let no unauthorized personnel or vehicles pass. You clear?" I am also sure Yale and Haerter then rolled their eyes and said in unison something like, "Yes Sergeant," with just enough attitude that made the point without saying the words, "No kidding �sweetheart�, we know what we're doing." They then relieved two other Marines on watch and took up their post at the entry control point of Joint Security Station Nasser, in the Sophia section of Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq. A few minutes later a large blue truck turned down the alley way - perhaps 60-70 yards in length, and sped its way through the serpentine of concrete jersey walls. The truck stopped just short of where the two were posted and detonated, killing them both catastrophically. Twenty-four brick masonry houses were damaged or destroyed. A mosque 100 yards away collapsed. The truck's engine came to rest two hundred yards away knocking most of a house down before it stopped. Our explosive experts reckoned the blast was made of 2,000 pounds of explosives. Two died, and because these two young infantrymen didn't have it in their DNA to run from danger, they saved 150 of their Iraqi and American brothers-in-arms. When I read the situation report about the incident a few hours after it happened I called the regimental commander for details as something about this struck me as different. Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat. We expect Marines regardless of rank or MOS to stand their ground and do their duty, and even die in the process, if that is what the mission takes. But this just seemed different. The regimental commander had just returned from the site and he agreed, but reported that there were no American witnesses to the event - just Iraqi police. I figured if there was any chance of finding out what actually happened and then to decorate the two Marines to acknowledge their bravery, I'd have to do it as a combat award that requires two eye-witnesses and we figured the bureaucrats back in Washington would never buy Iraqi statements. If it had any chance at all, it had to come under the signature of a general officer. I traveled to Ramadi the next day and spoke individually to a half-dozen Iraqi police all of whom told the same story. The blue truck turned down into the alley and immediately sped up as it made its way through the serpentine. They all said, "We knew immediately what was going on as soon as the two Marines began firing." The Iraqi police then related that some of them also fired, and then to a man, ran for safety just prior to the explosion. All survived. Many were injured, some seriously. One of the Iraqis elaborated and with tears welling up said, "They'd run like any normal man would to save his life." "What he didn't know until then," he said, "And what he learned that very instant, was that Marines are not normal." Choking past the emotion he said, "Sir, in the name of God no sane man would have stood there and done what they did." "No sane man." "They saved us all." What we didn't know at the time, and only learned a couple of days later after I wrote a summary and submitted both Yale and Haerter for posthumous Navy Crosses, was that one of our security cameras, damaged initially in the blast, recorded some of the suicide attack. It happened exactly as the Iraqis had described it. It took exactly six seconds from when the truck entered the alley until it detonated. You can watch the last six seconds of their young lives. Putting myself in their heads I supposed it took about a second for the two Marines to separately come to the same conclusion about what was going on once the truck came into their view at the far end of the alley. Exactly no time to talk it over, or call the sergeant to ask what they should do. Only enough time to take half an instant and think about what the sergeant told them to do only a few minutes before, "Let no unauthorized personnel or vehicles pass." The two Marines had about five seconds left to live. It took maybe another two seconds for them to present their weapons, take aim, and open up. By this time the truck was half-way through the barriers and gaining speed the whole time. Here, the recording shows a number of Iraqi police, some of whom had fired their AKs, now scattering like the normal and rational men they were - some running right past the Marines. They had three seconds left to live. For about two seconds more, the recording shows the Marines' weapons firing non-stop the truck's windshield exploding into shards of glass as their rounds take it apart and tore in to the body of the ( I deleted) who is trying to get past them to kill their brothers - American and Iraqi-bedded down in the barracks totally unaware of the fact that their lives at that moment depended entirely on two Marines standing their ground. If they had been aware, they would have known they were safe because two Marines stood between them and a crazed suicide bomber. The recording shows the truck careening to a stop immediately in front of the two Marines. In all of the instantaneous violence Yale and Haerter never hesitated. By all reports and by the recording, they never stepped back. They never even started to step aside. They never even shifted their weight. With their feet spread shoulder width apart, they leaned into the danger, firing as fast as they could work their weapons. They had only one second left to live. The truck explodes. The camera goes blank. Two young men go to their God. Six seconds. Not enough time to think about their families, their country, their flag, or about their lives or their deaths, but more than enough time for two very brave young men to do their duty into eternity. That is the kind of people who are on watch all over the world tonight - for you. We Marines believe that God gave America the greatest gift he could bestow to man while he lived on this earth - freedom. We also believe he gave us another gift nearly as precious - our soldiers, sailors, airmen, U S Customs and Border Patrol, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines - to safeguard that gift and guarantee no force on this earth can ever steal it away. It has been my distinct honor to have been with you here today. Rest assured our America, this experiment in democracy started over two centuries ago, will forever remain the "land of the free and home of the brave" so long as we never run out of tough young Americans who are willing to look beyond their own self-interest and comfortable lives, and go into the darkest and most dangerous places on earth to hunt down, and kill, those who would do us harm. God Bless America , and SEMPER FIDELIS !"

Another welcome from west tn. Where's direct gun shop located?

I'll 2nd the Tactical Response 'Fighting Rifle' in Camden, TN. You will learn alot and shoot 1000 plus rds in two days doing it. Nice Avatar!

I think when policy gets written after any law is passed a waiver system is established. It's crazy. "No Child Left Behind" pushed by Ted Kennedy and Bush was mandated to the States. Gov Bredensen (TN Dem Governor) requested and was granted Obama's "Race To The Top" money. All Obama did was give TN and a few other States a waiver to NCLB because RTT requires higher standards than NCLB. States that are still under NCLB did not accept Obama's RTT money and are held to standards under NCLB. Obama's waivers basically did nothing. The news media did not give us the full story and used the waiver granting to the president's benefit once again.

I think the issue is more about usurping the constitution than birth control. When a president wields power that is not given to the office by the constitution (and the other two branches do nothing to stop it) then it is up to the people to bring the three branches of Gov't back in line which is what happened in the congressional races of 2008. The Presidential office does not have the power under the constituion to demand what we have seen over the past several days. If the position does have that kind of power then any presidential administration could demand that we all buy LED TV's and battery cars for energy conservation. Voting is the best way to ensure we have checks and balances.

I've never used a comp or muzzle break with what I will say a "closed end" with only the bullit hole or partially closed end like the Troy breaks so this may be a stupid question. Does carbon and fowling build up and make it hard to clean etc??

The Arsenal Circle 10's are top notch. They are metal reinforced at the at the feed lips, mag catch and front tab. They pretty much fit any AK if within specs.

New to the forum and glad to have a place to go with like minded Tennesseans and beyond. Great forum. I have not seen a tactical rifle that I don't like, just some that I would not lay down hard earned $$$ for.

Anyone out there have experience with the A.R.M.S.® "SILHOUETTE™" #41-B™ Folding Front Sight. I'm working on an AR upper and am considering the basic FSB/handguard setup using the ARMS unit with a midlength MOE handguard. I'm keeping my eyes open for one in a shop but have not run across one yet.

I handled one at Outpost Armory awhile back. Also might check L&A Firearms in Union City. 731-885-3369