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Although I don't disagree that certain parts of the economy (maybe most?) are slowing, I suspect the main reason for discounting guns is due to falling sales as a result of the normal "boom and bust" nature of gun and ammunition sales. We've seen this before, many times; periods of "panic" buying and shortages followed by fire sales and increased inventories. The next step is typically bankruptcies of some of the manufacturers ...
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Some good advice here regarding sanding/rubbing compound. The kits are just pre-packaged assortments of what you can source from any hardware store, normally at much lower prices. As with any restoration of paint/plastics, start with the most aggressive media you feel comfortable with, progress through finer grits or compounds until the desired results are achieved. I usually use wet or dry sandpaper, wet with plain water with a drop of Dawn dishwashing liquid, ,and finish off with a polish of some sort. Headlight restoration is much like reviving old paint, same methods for the same results.
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12 hours ago, Chucktshoes said:
I was one of those Ritalin kids from the early 80s. Caused a lot of issues later on in my life.
If any school administrator suggests getting your kid put on ADHD meds, punch them right in the mouth. (Not joking in the slightest. They’ve earned it.) Then get your kid/grandkid out of that school.
5 hours ago, Chucktshoes said:There’s a vast difference between diagnosing and treating and adult and a child. This is something the medical establishment seems to have forgotten and big pharma never cared about at all.
I’ve got a lot of first hand experience and knowledge gained from looking into why certain things may have gone they way they have in my life. I am 100% comfortable standing by my prior statement.
2 hours ago, Links2k said:I totally agree.
We wanted to kick some behind when the lazy public school teacher and principal advised putting my son on medication. He was bored, so he was disruptive. After getting my son enrolled in academic settings with more challenging curriculums, my son thrived and the disruptive behavior stopped.
2 hours ago, gregintenn said:This very thing happens all too often. “No child left behind.”
A kid has energy. Deal with it. You can’t get a puppy to sit still all day, why do you think a kid should. Especially when they are bored out of their skull.
I spent more than 30 years teaching in public schools. When I wasn't busy indoctrinating kids in left-wing, communist ideology or teaching my science/math classes, I also coached football. As such, I worked with hundreds of teenage boys over the years. Once ADHD and it's associated diagnoses and prescriptions became a "thing", a pediatrician in town became known as somewhat of a "specialist" in this field. I never knew of a single kid who was evaluated by this lady who was not diagnosed with some form of ADHD and prescribed Ritalin, or whatever drug was most fashionable at the time for their "condition". Normal adolescent behavior, particularly among the males in the school, was routinely being described as "abnormal" resulting in prescriptions being administered indiscriminately. Fortunately, over the years it became increasingly common for parents to reject these diagnoses and refuse to medicate their sons due to this lady's recommendations.
It's also worth noting the total dollar revenues of these medications for both the pharmaceutical industry and the doctors prescribing them ...
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2 hours ago, gregintenn said:
I’d prefer they knock $500 off the bid.
Exactly. Ain't no free lunches ...
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13 hours ago, threeshot said:
UPDATE 5/25/2023:
The three brothers who own the Franklin Gun Shop received no prison time at their federal sentencing on Wednesday for forging documents in an attempt to cover up more than 100 weapons missing from their inventory.
U.S. District Judge Aleta A. Trauger sentenced brothers Alan, Brian and Michael Hassler to two years of supervised release and ordered each to pay a $20,000 fine at the hearing at the federal courthouse in Nashville. The Hasslers pleaded guilty in November to making false entries on an official document with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation and making false entries regarding the disposition of firearms.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert E. McGuire wrote that the missing weapons were likely sold to lawful gun owners, but the brothers failed to fill out the necessary paperwork. Faced with a federal investigation, they chose to forge those documents to make it look like other customers purchased them.
In short, the brothers "committed a federal crime to cover their own negligence in following federal regulations," McGuire wrote in a sentencing memorandum last week.
"This case puts the truth to the adage: 'It’s not the crime, it’s the cover up,'" McGuire wrote. "Though in this case, the cover up was the crime."
The charges stem from a 2016 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms investigation into the Hasslers' family owned business, Franklin Gun Shop.
A follow up investigation in 2020 found that hundreds of weapons were missing from the store's inventory with no record of their sales. By July 2021, the brothers were able to find records for all but 144 weapons, court records show.
Then, "in perhaps a desperate attempt to keep their family business open," the Hasslers "exercised extremely poor judgment," McGuire wrote. The brothers forged federal records known as Form 4473s by adding the missing weapons to other Form 4473s for previous sales to make it appear the guns had been legally sold, McGuire wrote.
ATF agents contacted the individuals on those forms, all of whom kept their receipts to show what they had actually purchased, which didn't include the missing weapons.
In December 2021, the ATF served a warrant on Franklin Gun Shop. Shortly after the men were charged, they admitted their wrongdoing to federal prosecutors and moved to enter a guilty plea.
Several of the missing guns have been located by the ATF in unrelated investigations, and none indicated any criminal activity on the part of Franklin Gun Shop, McGuire wrote.
Franklin Gun Shop's license was revoked in May 2022. The men have also lost their federal firearms licenses.
The Tennessean left a message with the Hasslers' attorney Ben Russ seeking comment Thursday afternoon.
Dumasses ...
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On 10/14/2023 at 4:10 PM, lovatet said:
If Windows 10 isn't suiting your needs, you can definitely switch back to your previous version. Here's how to do it: Go to "Settings" (you can find it by clicking the Start button), then select "Update & Security." From there, click on "Recovery" in the left-hand menu.
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2 hours ago, Snaveba said:
Wow, someone dropped the BanHammer
2 hours ago, OMCHamlin said:I saw that.
59 minutes ago, GlockSpock said:@Chucktshoes just cares so much about the community he was the first to comment. The action was a consensus of behind the scenes discussions.
Look back at these posts from the beginning. Second (and third) chances and hints were given but not appreciated.
Kind of surprised me that it took as long as it did ...
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2 hours ago, crc4 said:
I feel the same about dropping the bombs on Japan. I wasn't for the genocide of the Japanese. I was for the utter destruction of their ability to fight.
1 hour ago, OMCHamlin said:Was it genocide to nuke Japan?
Recently (as in the last several years) there has been some interesting research into what ultimately led to the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII. Reading through the minutes of the Imperial War councils immediately after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was little to no discussion about either of these cities being destroyed, or the methods employed to do so. It now seems that the final "nail in the coffin" which convinced the Japanese to throw in the towel was the Soviet declaration of war and the succeeding invasion of Japanese held territory by the Russians, rather than the use (or existence) of atomic weapons. To the Japanese, there appeared to be no significant difference between the destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the many cities destroyed earlier by conventional bombing. Being potentially invaded by their traditional enemy Russia was another matter though ...
Offered as an interesting historical aside, with no bearing on the current discussion. Please carry on ...
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Nice rifle, and as Greg says an interesting piece of history.
Having said all that, I can't resist adding ...
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2 hours ago, MacGyver said:
A lot of businesses are deciding it’s better for their business to go card only.
Add to that, getting rid of regular payments by check or card, using ACH transfers instead. All the benefits of card transactions, without the expense ...
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13 hours ago, Chucktshoes said:
Under normal circumstances I would make a statement about condolences for the family and friends that loved them. I’m not sure there are any because I can’t see where anyone in her life that actually cared for her instead of using her didn’t have the “taking the keys” talk a long, long time ago.
You could probably say that about many politicians these days ...
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48 minutes ago, AuEagle said:
In 1933 Gold was priced at $20.00 per Oz.
This is, of course, true. However, at that time the price of gold was also set by government fiat, due to the declared rates for convertibility of gold to dollars. It's also true that 1933 was the year that ownership of gold by private citizens (other than exceptions for small amounts of jewelry, and some collectible coins) was outlawed in the US. Outstanding gold coins, gold bullion, as well as gold certificates and notes were required to be surrendered to the Treasury and replaced by dollar notes. US citizens were also forbidden to trade in gold elsewhere in the world. In 1934 the federal government repriced gold to $35/oz, partly to better reflect the real market value of the metal, but mostly to allow the Fed to increase the M1 money supply as a means to halt the devastating deflation resulting from the Depression. As such, I'm not sure that using the artificially derived price of gold in 1933 really bolsters your argument ...
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It's kind of ironic that we're having a discussion about the relative merits of digital currencies on an internet forum ...
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1 hour ago, Photoguy67 said:
First pistol I ever owned was a security six exactly like this one except stainless. Great pistols!
My first handgun was a Ruger Mk 1. My second was a blued Security Six, completely stock with wood grips. 46 years later, I still have the Six ...
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1 hour ago, Grayfox54 said:
Thankfully, you're too far away or might have 4.
Road trip ...
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14 hours ago, Erik88 said:
Not concerned. This group cannot pass new laws and Congress has shown they won't either. This is one of those feel good measures to show they are "doing something".
Exactly. This is reminiscent of the time right after the Newtown shooting in 2012 when Obama formed a commission to make recommendations for new gun control measures. Given the situation, I was concerned that some actual legislation might be enacted, until I heard that Obama had appointed Joe Biden to head it up. At that point I knew that it was nothing more than window dressing, and was destined to fail. Appointing Kamala Harris to head up any new office is a kiss of death ...
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5 minutes ago, Grayfox54 said:
I can see that as most of the district is deep blue north Memphis. But once you hit the Bartlett city limit, it changes to bright red. Why would they wanna punish us?
They're required to keep the districts roughly equal in population. The gerrymandered districts are more likely to get overturned in court if they're too egregious, i.e. keep a few safely democrat, and in the process practice a form of "containment", by lumping as many democrats as possible into a small number of districts. The final factor is to protect the incumbents at all cost. Once you plug these factors into the equation, you get the bizarre districts we (and practically every other state) have. I'm sure it wasn't directed at Bartlett residents personally, your neighborhood just happened to be sacrificed to ensure a republican majority (or super-majority) continues, while allowing whoever the incumbent is to stay in his locked-down district ...
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2 minutes ago, krunchnik said:
I thought we broke the internet
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20 hours ago, deerslayer said:
I don't think I would want my daughter hanging around with him.
Your daughter probably would have been fine. Your son, on the other hand, is a different matter ...
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51 minutes ago, gregintenn said:
So does this simply mean we are now officially caught up from the Covid fiasco, or does this foreshadow some tough economic times ahead?
My guess would be both ...
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2 hours ago, gregintenn said:
Isn’t she the head of the ACLU or Teacher’s Union or some such nonsense?
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It’s Football time in Tennessee
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Those ships have sailed already ...