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It seems as if "Little Marco" is trying to get a similar bill passed on the federal level . I guess we're lucky he's not President. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/7/text

Words escape me Video at link. Two adorably clueless 17 years olds, Kevin and Kyle Bumstead of Iowa, got four minutes to dial a number on a rotary phone. It was their first time using such a relic from a bygone age. Imagine asking an English speaker to parse some Egyptian hieroglyphs. In this case, it took the pair more than a minute simply to recognize that Step 1 involved lifting the receiver. “What’s with all the holes?” one teen asked, before finally realizing you have to stick your finger in a numbered hole and spin the rotary mechanism to dial a specific number. Talk about the speed of progress. https://www.foxnews.com/tech/watch-2-adorably-clueless-teens-17-baffled-by-a-rotary-phone

Well...........McCain's dead and Flake's gone

Before I went to the link I thought he was going to build 150 of these image upload software

Welcome to the group

Welcome to the group from the western end of the state

I stand corrected. I forgot that global warming no longer fit their agenda.

Gore's global warming strikes again Let it snow, even in the desert. A rare winter storm dropped several inches of snow on cactus in the Arizona desert Wednesday, causing many schools and government agencies to shutter for the day. The Tucson area saw up to 6 inches of snow while Nogales, an Arizona city on the Mexico border, received a similar amount. Temperatures also dipped below freezing for the first time in four years, and were expected to remain through Thursday. https://www.foxnews.com/weather/rare-winter-storm-brings-snow-to-arizona-desert-as-midwest-northeast-avoid-deep-cold

It's a good thing he's wearing a helmet

Since this thread has taken a historical turn, here's another tidbit.. Ellis Island began processing immigrants into the U.S. on Jan. 1, 1892 — 127 years ago. Fifteen-year-old Irish immigrant Annie Moore was the first to cross through the Ellis Island Immigration station, according to the Library of Congress. She would be one of more than 12 million people who would pass through the entry port in New York Harbor, which operated for 62 years. https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/01/ellis-island-immigration-new-year/

I don't usually get into the "resolution" thing but this thread actually got me to thinking. About the most practical, and maybe, the most useful would be to try to sell more guns than I buy next year.

I'm going to make two, one for this year and another for next year. This year I'm going to start cleaning out/straightening out my shop. Next year I'm going to continue the job

Very few schools keep 100 year old books. I think my grandkids do everything on line now.

Don't forget to plant your flowers

On this day in 1890, three hundred Sioux were massacred when the U.S. Calvary came to disarm them. I'll just leave it at that http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/knee.htm

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This needs to be saved so it can be played every Christmas for the next 6 years

I've heard the easiest way to get rich is to get a government contract. Maybe we should look into this

This is along the lines I was thinking also.

It was indeed a pleasure to meet you both.

In this case, the red flag law seems to have both pros and cons. A possible school shooting averted and an unsuspecting relative having his guns taken away. A middle school student in Vermont helped avert a possible school shooting after overhearing two classmates discussing bringing guns to campus, police say. Investigators said a concerned parent from Middlebury Union Middle School called police on Saturday to inform them their child had expressed concern “over some conversation this student was privy to, where there was talk about using firearms to harm people in school.” Middlebury Police Chief Tom Hanley told the Addison Independent on Tuesday that police and school officials immediately launched a probe into the allegation over the weekend. “By early Monday, we had identified two people, one of whom had made a specific threat against a specific person in the school, with a date and time on when this was going to happen,” he told the newspaper. He said the two 14-year-old students were planning to get guns from a relative and bring them to school on Tuesday. “You had one juvenile making a very specific threat, another juvenile who was going to provide the guns for him to carry it out,” Hanley said. “There are relationship issues between all the people involved. We’re still getting through a lot of that.” Prosecutors got an Extreme Risk Order and seized the guns from the relative's home and police got the Vermont Department for Children & Families involved. Hanley said more than 10 weapons were confiscated from the home, largely consisting of hunting rifles and handguns. He told the Independent he doesn’t believe any semi-automatic assault rifles or shotguns were among the confiscated weapons. The youth who allegedly wanted to do the shooting was placed in custody with DCF and is receiving mental health counseling, while the other who offered access to the weapons is awaiting possible punishment. Their identities have not been revealed and they were indefinitely pulled from classes, the Independent reported. Police said there is no longer a threat to the school, which serves students in grades 7 and 8 for several towns in the area. https://www.foxnews.com/us/attentive-student-foiled-possible-school-shooting-vermont-police-say

The two things bolded in the last paragraph seem to contradict each other. The White House School Safety Commission’s report recommends gun confiscation orders as part of an overarching response to mass shootings in gun-free schools. Such orders, often referred to as Red Flag Laws, already exist in California, where a gunman shot and killed 11 innocents at Borderline Bar & Grill on November 7. The laws also exist in Florida, where a gunman shot and killed three at a gun-free Jacksonville mall on August 26, 2018. On March 2, 2018, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) noted the push for red flag laws post-Parkland, saying, “Anti-gun interest groups and politicians have used the Parkland shooting to launch what, until recently, they regarded as a distant dream — a wave of state legislation authorizing the confiscation of firearms.” The White House School Safety Commission’s report will be released this week, and it will include calls for such confiscatory laws. On December 18, 2018, Breitbart News quoted Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s preview of the report, saying, “Our report endorses states adoption of extreme risk protection orders, which temporarily restrict access to firearms to individuals found to be a danger to themselves or others.” DeVos stressed that the White House wants the confiscatory orders structured in a way that is “cognizant of due process protections and respectful of Second Amendment liberties.” https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/18/white-house-school-safety-report-recommends-gun-confiscation-orders/

We haven't even met and already have two things in common..................being retired and guns . My number is heading out to both of you.

You, bigun and I should have our own little meet and greet someday

Glad you're ok and welcome back. We can't afford to lose any members from our part of the state