S&WForty

We wouldn't need all this talk if an alien spaceship would come take away all of the Democrats and RINOs. Replace them with Tea Party members and Libertarians. I think the TP and L parties could reach across the isle and agree with each other about 1,000,000 times easier than R's and D's. Just picture that flying saucer lifting off with Pelosi, Reid, and the RINO's staring out the windows.... If only...

[quote name='6.8 AR' timestamp='1353513933' post='849124']We're all just racists and haters in red states. Blue states all just love each other. I think of Philly the city...[/quote] The City of Brotha-ly Love.

It all comes down to this: a gun free zone is a gun free zone, and we all know that a criminal or mentally unstable person isn't going to abide by the law. I can understand anti-gun people calling for a gun-free zone, but gun proponents that are citing private property rights wanting gun free zones in their parking lots are borderline hypocrites. If guns on your property are bad, then why aren't they so bad everywhere else? I could understand the stance if we were fighting for "Right to Carry Inside the Workplace," but we're just asking to be able to store a gun in a locked car.

Last Friday my closest Walmart still had quite a bit of ammo. I was surprised.

Lester, testing on myself confirms virgin tin foil hats work despite my Jeri Curls. I do have to swap out to a new hat every 4-6 hrs. I'm gonna try the cheap dollar store brand next. Reynolds is pricey stuff.

Thanks for the post. I need research and see if I need to add my pistols to my personal articles policy (currently it just has camera gear).

[quote name='RevScottie' timestamp='1353446125' post='848872'] Not everone else can. Not everyone has the same mental or physical ability to get work done. Many people find themselves at the mercy of an employer no matter how hard they work due to circumstances beyond their control. Some just dont have what it takes to compete in todays job market.I know plenty of people who have made hard choices and worked hard for 40+ years and still have to work retail in their twilight years because its all they can find. That's not discounting anyones hard work thats just stating facts.[/quote] This. And That (TGO David's post). Until I can go door to door and assess every person's individual predicament, I'll give people the benefit of the doubt. Obviously, both sides of this argument have valid points. I just can't paint with a broad brush one statement on/against all. I know plenty of slackers that don't get a lick of sympathy from me, and I know a lot of people that really burden me when I see what face. I will say that typically those that bring attention to themselves to garner sympathy are the ones that least deserve it.

[quote name='scoutfsu' timestamp='1353360832' post='848374'] Amen. I've missed 3/5 marriage anniversaries, with what looks to be another coming up this spring for 4/6. I've missed the birth of my only child and a majority of the pregnancy and his 1st birthday. I've missed many other holidays too. That's not even counting all the Staff Duty, CQ, and field rotations. Its very hard for me to empathize with it too. It sucks to work holidays. You're preaching to the choir with all the military, medical, police, fire, etc that can't be off either. It sucks but it will never change.[/quote] You guys are truly cut from another cloth as the saying goes. I don't think there is anything that deserves more respect and admiration than U.S. servicemen.

[quote name='TMF' timestamp='1353359010' post='848344'] Everything comes at a sacrifice. Want to feed the family? Then you might have to work on Thanksgiving. Don't like it? Then work somewhere else or don't work at all. Sorry, I've missed several Thanksgivings and Christmases while deployed to war along with hundreds of thousands of other Sevicemembers that have endured the same. I never expected pity or appreciation, so I have a hard time empathizing with a person that can just go find another job.[/quote] I appreciate your sacrifice and service. I've been fortunate to work in a professional job where I'm off almost every holiday, but I have friends and close relatives that work under bad conditions. If it was as simple as "just go find another job," they would. Everyone's situation is unique to them.

[quote name='TMF' timestamp='1353356558' post='848318']Meh. If your employer requires you to work in Thanksgiving, find a different job.[/quote] That sure is a short sighted statement. Not everyone can hop from job to job especially in this economy. I've had to endure that same line in the Parking Lot Bill thread if someone works for a company that bans firearms from employees' cars. Perhaps someone can drive to work and home unarmed and pray for the best. I guess that same person working on Thanksgiving should pray that their family doesn't miss them.

Yeah, I'm familiar with that "war," too. A certain high-powered conservative radio talk show host informed me of that some time ago via the airwaves, but I dare not type his name since too many here dismiss him as a blowhard...

I hate it. Absolutely hate it. The commercialization of Christmas irks me, and "hypocrites" in my family irk me. After my grandparents died, my mom's siblings more or less dumped us for reasons we can't figure out. We haven't had a "real" Christmas in about 20 years for that reason. I hope I can marry into a normal and loving family someday. Until then, Thanksgiving and Christmas are just extended weekends to me. Last year my job had me out of the country for two weeks at Thanksgiving. I lost my two days off while the To Do list around the house just got bigger and bigger. At least I'll be home this year with nice weather. I need to post a photo of my middle finger on Facebook and tag all of my family. Hehe.

Center mass. Because real life isn't what we see in Hollywood, and heads are smaller and move faster than torsos. Muscle memory is something else - if used. After I had gotten into pistols, I realized I wasn't merely "good." Good at what you ask? In the dark, I have walked up to my door and slid the key right into the lock. If it was a game of basketball, it would be "nothing but net." Thanks to learning about muscle memory in shooting, I realized that ability to nail the keyhole dead-on so often while approaching the door in my normal manner had to be muscle memory. I am not even "trying" for that perfection. It just happens. If ever put into a firing situation, I want every factor possible in my favor of hitting the perp and nothing else. Muscle memory aiming center mass for me.

[quote name='leroy' timestamp='1353178456' post='847259'] Thanks S&W; ill take a look and probably send them some dollars too. leroy[/quote] I don't recall the end date of the promo, but just after the election they had a 25% off promo code "stock up."

Leroy, since you've spent a lot on holsters already, to save some $, buy a kit from Old Faithful holsters. The stage 3 kit is $39 with the std leather. All you do is assemble it. Check out stage 1 and 2 as well. While researching holsters, I read on another forum where even Crossbreed is not the original maker of the hybrid leather/kydex design, but they have been the most successful and everyone recognizes them as the originator. Theis Holsters is another alternative, but the cheapest way to try this style out is Old Faithful.

My friend's '04 Avalanche cluster failed. For a lot less than the cost of a dealer part, he found a cluster online (eBay maybe) that was an upgrade to be like the Silverado SS cluster. It even gave him oil and/or trans temp readings.

[quote name='6.8 AR' timestamp='1353165589' post='847161']Young skull full of mush. Thank you, liberals![/quote] Don't single out liberals. There are liberal gunnies, even on this forum! We mustn't offend!

[quote name='Steelharp' timestamp='1353124223' post='847026']We have several lib gunnys here; why is it a surprise?[/quote] There are good liberals, and then there are Hollywood liberals. Did I just say there is such thing as a good liberal? Excuse me while I go stick my head in a bucket of gunpowder and light a match... Hehe.

[quote name='6.8 AR' timestamp='1353107933' post='846869']Yeh, and half of them are liberals. Imagine that.[/quote] Yep. I thought the same thing.

[quote name='QuietDan' timestamp='1353114794' post='846961'] Hypothetically speaking of course, The Kaaba in the Courtyard of the Grand Mosque of Mecca is a good first nuke shot. Hopefully a big one, an air burst, right in the middle of the Haj pilgrimmage, turn it into a big sea of green glass with a million or two crispy ants embedded in it. Go on Google Maps and look up the coordinates. It's the one spot on the Earth that they all bow down to during prayers. Destroying it would make the rest of the radical muslims in the world go absolutely beserk, which will make it easier to identify them and pick them off. Islam as an organized "religion" would cease to exist. Of course, the resulting confusion would make Armageddon look like a Sunday picnic and could accidentally trigger the Second Coming, and He wouldn't be pleased. Fun to think about, not so much fun to do.[/quote] QuietDan thinks loudly. Wow! Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Here's a little star fodder... http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/slideshow/2012/11/16/celebs-packing-heat/?intcmp=features#slide=1

[quote name='DaveTN' timestamp='1353068931' post='846441'] The government thinks they have the right to outlaw carrying loaded guns in your car for the safety of the public, but a business can’t come to the same conclusion for the safety of their employees? [/quote] That sure is a good perspective. It's almost like such a law being enacted sets a precedent. What else can the government tell a private person/company what they can/cannot do/allow on their property? On the other hand, HCP holders leaving a firearm in their car are no more likely to go nuts and kill co-workers than the wacko employee that takes a gun to work on the day he decides he's gonna snap. If today, November 16, 2012, I am going to snap and kill my co-workers, I don't really think I am going to be worried about losing my job when I am caught with a firearm on company property.

My day was going just great until you made me think "Commercial Appeal."

[quote name='10-Ring' timestamp='1353091003' post='846691'] Secondly in concealed carry states if you print you can be charged with brandishing and other related charges. If you print in Tennessee it is a non issue.[/quote] Is there any truth in the statement that TN allows OC with the HCP to eliminate the possibility of false brandishing claims? It seems what we have is worth being thankful for, but I wish we had more leeway like that special permit now issued in MS. (if I've read correctly, they jump through the same hoops for their special permit as we do for our regular permit - grrrr)

[quote name='OhShoot' timestamp='1352926572' post='845679'] Most of the world loves Obama. Only in the US are his favorable ratings anywhere near as low as 50%. - OS[/quote] They loved his Apology Tour. The countries we've thrown countless dollars at don't like us, and the other countries are envious of us - until Obama's goal of cutting us down to size is accomplished.