bersaguy

I have two 380 Thunders that I love but ran up on this one on a trade. Gonna make a trip to the range soon and see if it remains in the family or goes to a new home. I don't really have the grip in my hands I once had and it all depends on if the recoil of a 40 is to much for my hands to deal with. I know my LCP give my grip a handful when I shoot it but it is not a big gun so I can deal with a 380 LCP.

My guess is it was someone from one of the Obama camps doing the survey and had nothing to do with the NRA-IRL fishing to try and find out what folks are really thinking!!!  But then I could be wrong. I get calls from crazy numbers all the time and if the number is not inn my phones phone book I don't answer it and let voice mail get it. Funny they want to talk to me but never leave a voice mail............... :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: 

Bersa Thunder 380   =  23 oz loaded 7+1 in tube   Ruger LCP 380 loaded = 11.4 oz        6+1 in tube

  Then according to the police you guys are!!!!!!shooting practice rounds with a high-powered firearm – which the police say is usually a precursor to a homicide........................ :stunned: :stunned: :stunned:

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Yep, for sure but I think a lot of hers is put on for show and not real. I saw another woman that sounded like her doing some furniture commercials a while back and she sounded fake also................jmho

Well, if you really would like an honest answer about tea just ask a Chinese or Japanese person what they think about Americans and tea.  I have a friend that is Chinese and was raise here in the states but was brought here at age two and is a US citizen the legal way. Any how he was raise in a strict Chinese lifestyle by a family that owns a few Chinese restaurants. They offer sweet tea and it is good tea, better than you will find at MCDonalds of KFC but they also offer the traditional unsweetened hot tea which is the only way the Chinese drink tea. We were talking about tea one day and he said his grand father always thought the American people had problems making up their minds on things and you could tell it by their tea.   They boil it to make it hot, put ice in it to make it cold, put sugar in it to make it sweet and lemon in it to make it sour which made them very confusing people to try and figure out for his grandfather. Kinda makes sense if you think about it................ :rofl: :rofl:

Divorce papers just have not been served is all............................ :shrug: :shrug:

Of course the left and all anti-gun people are going to spin his death every way they can. I am always sorry to hear of someones passing and his is no different. I just wish the the people in the anti gun organizations would have enough respect for his loss to let it go but what I am going to watch is how his wife and family reacts mostly. If they make the first spin then my respect will become nill and void for them all........................jmho

I do agree with most of what you said Nicky. I grew up in the 50's 60s and 70's and yea, they were some good times but I don't want to go back to them. I have my memories of them and that is good enough for me. What bothers me way more is what I see happening in  the country I so dearly love that my Children and grand children will have to grow up in that really bothers me. I don't want them to grow up in the lifestyles I did but I want them to have a chance and the gold ring like we all had back 60 years ago. Have a dream of actually owning a house and having a family and being able to provide for them because there are jobs out there for them. This administration has done really nothing to improve what they had when they took office almost 7 years ago but yet they like to talk like they have done so much but yet no one really sees a lot they have done for the good but can see a lot of damage they have done....................jmho

I have been noticing more and more that the many southern traditions are going away as more and more Yankees move south to retire. Way I figure it, we didn't invite them to retire in the south. That was their idea so when in Rome you do as the Romans or you get the hell out but don't expect the Romans to change their way of life to suit you. Thing is for some damn reason the Romans are changing and catering to these carpetbaggers from the north and for what reason I have no clue. I guess if you get far enough out of town you can still see some of the old traditions like when two vehicles pass each other they both wave howdy to each other and folks still help their neighbors when or if a problem arises that they need help. You don't see those things in the city any more and as the older generations pass away it becomes less and less a common practice.....................jmho

I didn't say I agreed with all of his points of view but was not going to edit it to suit my beliefs or to satisfy those of others. He was expressing his views......... :up:  

To the moderators:      If this belongs in Hive please move it     Written by a USMC Vet. (I can't argue with any of it. Passing it along as it was received.) >>   >>He wrote: >>   >>The American Dream ended (on November 6th, 2012) in Ohio. The second term of Barack Obama will be the final nail in the coffin for the legacy of the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled and developed the greatest Republic in the history of mankind. >>   >>A coalition of Blacks, Latinos, Feminists, Gays, Government Workers, Union Members, Environmental Extremists, The Media, Hollywood, uninformed young people, the "forever needy," the chronically unemployed, illegal aliens and other "fellow travelers" have ended Norman Rockwell's America. >>The Cocker Spaniel is off the front porch... The Pit Bull is in the back yard. The American Constitution has been replaced with Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" and Chicago shyster, David Axelrod, along with international Socialist George Soros will be pulling the strings on their beige puppet to bring us Act 2 of the New World Order. >>   >>Our side ran two candidates who couldn't even win their own home states, and Chris Christie helped Obama over the top with a glowing "post Sandy" tribute that elevated the "Commander-in-Chief" to Mother Teresa status. (Aside: with the way the polls were run, he didn't need any help!) >>People like me are completely politically irrelevant, and I will never again comment on or concern myself with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered our culture, our heritage and our traditions without a shot being fired. >>   >>You will never again out-vote these people. It will take individual acts of defiance and massive displays of civil disobedience to get back the rights we have allowed them to take away. It will take Zealots, not moderates & shy not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs to right this ship and restore our beloved country to its former status. >>   >>Those who come after us will have to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to bring back the Republic that this generation has timidly frittered away due to "white guilt" and political correctness... An American Veteran......... Semper-Fi >>   >>Got the guts to pass it on? >>You betcha!!!!!

I have to agree , it did belittle the clowns that were used........................jmho

Yep, I will not argue that cars maybe somewhat safer but when it comes to some of the repairs it is totally ridiculous and it is really not your neighborhood mechanics fault. I owned a family operated Auto Repair center for almost 20 years before turning it over to my son and grandsons when I went disabled and I saw coming what they have been going through since I got out coming. Just about 2 years ago they had to purchase their 4 generation computer Scanner/ Programmer to be able to continue working on cars and light trucks. It cost them right at $3,200.00 because they needed it to  begin programing the transmissions in the newer cars after rebuilding them to make the compatible with the On Board computers in the cars. My Grandson was having an issue with his 2000 Dodge Intrepid shutting off on him while do 70 mph on interstate. Check engine light came on so he ran by Auto Zone to have them scan it and tell him what the problem was since they do it for free. Thing is those computer scanner they use that might cost $129.00 told him it had an intermittent miss code. Well lets see............ :ugh: :ugh: that really narrowed it down. It continued to cut off on him at all speeds so he took it up to his uncle and my son put his $3,000.00 computer on it and it showed that the Crankshaft Sensor was intermittently dropping out causing the on board computer to shut the car off. It would start back but for how long was the question.  My son ordered a Crankshaft Sensor and installed it and the sensor was $44.97 and took 20 minutes to put on. I called the Dodge Dealer here locally to get and estimate on how much it would cost to get a crankshaft sensor installed on a 2000 Intrepid and the part was $89.97, Computer scam to confirm it needed the Sensor. I told them it had already been scanned and we knew what the problem was and I was told that they didn't take another companies word for a problem so they would charge $55.00 to scan it and labor to install the Sensor  $109.00. I ask them what their labor rate was in the shop and I was told $70.00 per book hour. According to the All Data online labor manual the repair called for .57 hrs which is not quite 1 hour. At $70 and hour the labor should have been $59.80 and not $109.00  So all I can say is welcome to the world of Technology. You have honest mechanics and garages and then you have the rest of them such as the dealer I called. Now My son said if his Nephew would have been a customer off the street the repair costs to do the repair would have been about  $128.00 + tax.   At the dealer the same repair would have been 253.97 + tax. They are working very hard at putting auto repair centers like my sons out of business forcing people to depend on dealers for all their car repairs. About 7 years ago the manufacturers made it a rule that the only people that wold have access to the on board Computer codes for repairing automobiles in a major move to put independent garages out of business and a bunch of them filed a class action suit against the manufacturers and the garages won the case because the Supreme court said that for the manufacturers to not share their information would be creating a monopoly and found in favor of the garages so the manufacturers were forced to sell the information to the manufacturers of the testing and repair equipment companies like Snap-on and All data and other companies the repair codes. That is when the Scanners went from about $300.00 to $3,000.00 for independent garages. That is why I drive a 1997 Jeep. Something an average Joe can work on. If I was to buy a new vehicle it would be one with a 100% Bumper to Bumper Warranty for 100,000 miles. I would pay to have oil changes and tires and the rest would be up to them to fix...............jmho  

I think Bars would be cheaper than that type of glass your talking about TDR and if I was protecting an inventory of fire arms Bars on the windows and doors painted a nice shinny black would not stop me from going into a gun store to shop if I were a customer looking for a gun or accessories...............jmho

Well being old and stupid I would not know how to do it anyway and I have Comcast and not Xfinity................... :shrug: :shrug:

Of course he is removing as many high ranking military personnel as he can as fast as he can because he is scared to death of our military and any possible plans he has for our country in his last 2 + years in Office. He knows for a fact that most of or about 95%+ will not follow any orders he may give against the Civilian Americans that goes against any part of our Constitution or their moral aspects so he must find younger and more manipulative lower ranking officers that he can still brainwash into doing his deeds. All in all I think he is going to be hard pressed to find very many real men at all that will follow him when push comes to shove...........jmho 

I had to laugh about my older brother. He is 68 years old and has been haing his toys all his life. He is at age 68 still a Street outlaw and still shows up for outlaw street drags and he has a small FWD Dodge Daytona but only the body is Dodge. The rest is a frame and suspension designed and built by Hoger Engineering and it is a rear wheel drive car sporting big rear tires inside the fenders on a narrowed rear end  and sporting a 568 cubic inch Rodak power plant putting out about 1000 HP on Dyno machine. He is going to send me pictures of it to post when he gets time. He has not lost a race in over a year.............. :up: :up:

I saw that same you tube Video of the 59 Chevy and the 2009 Malibu. I would like to note that there was a period of time that General Motors did have cars with the X frames that where very dangerous and almost considered death traps. I am guessing they use a 59 Chevy because it had one of those frames. They were only use for 4 years before they began using twin rail frames. If they would have performed that test with a 65 Chevrolet Impala or Bel Air the Malibu would have been completely destroyed................jmho

You can bet before it's over one of those scientists will probably do something to piss it off and the human opps factor will come into play making one hell of a mess..............jmho

Yep, they are leaps and bounds ahead of the 60 and 70's with 302  5.0 engines producing all that horsepower and foot pounds of torque and it is impressive but back in the 60's and 70's all the horsepower being made by those cars, 90% of it was getting to the rear tires to make the cars fast. Today a little less than 60% of all that horse power is getting to the rear tires to get that great fuel mileage all the real horse power is being sucked up by the computer programs, Rear gears and transmissions of today's cars before any gets to the rear tires. Not saying they don't have some serious top end speeds in some of the new cars but You have to make sacrifices in one place to get something someplace else and they have sacrificed raw horse power at the rear tires for fuel mileage on the highways. I hear all these advertisements about 0 to 60 in 7 seconds these days.  How about 0 to 130 in 7 seconds. That was the cars of the 60's and 70's. If you want to see some serious street races like took place back in the 60's and 70's tune in to Street Outlaws on the Discovery Channel Monday night around 7 or 8 PM. They are some serious dudes racing there.........................jmho 

Being it was in L.A. and was on Martin Luther King Blvd the cop probably sold it and broke the locking mechanism to make them think he lost it................jmho    Why in the world do they think they need a shotgun on a police bike to begin with? Oh yea wait. I remember now. The police officers out there are only allow to have what is it? 7 or 8 rounds in the hand gun magazines. That would be a good reason to need a shot gun back up.........how stupid of me to forget that.................... :shrug: :shrug: 

Well, as far as I'm concerned we know very well how our Government works. That is why we still have stored some of all the most dangerous diseases known to man in laboratories in freezers. We studied them, created a vaccine for them that worked very well and made people well and protected millions of others. With that said what is the reason our Federal scientists have kept viles of the disease instead of destroying it. Chemical weapons of course. All they are wanting to do with the Ebola is create a vaccine for it and then store it along with all the other viles for a possible future weapon................jmho

I don't know how much the guy would charge but let me ask you this. Would it have the same meaning if you were able to buy it as it would if you were able to build it? Some things are just not the same...............jmho