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  A couple of years ago a guy near here went down the line of his low cinderblock wall pouring gasoline into about a dozen yellowjacket holes. I mean he really poured in a bunch.  But nobody told him not to light it, so he threw in a match and KAFOOMP!  He had so much deflection and crack damage in the cinderblock wall that he had to replace it. Hmmmmmm, what's that about can't fix stupid?

Love of country is a powerful motivator, especially after your country has been attacked. I honestly think this is at the root of why these guys stuck their necks out like that. If the same guy had gone into a big bank and shot it up during a robbery, it would have evoked an entirely different public response. But he didn't. In the eyes of these fellows he shot up the United States of America, and to a lot of folks that's still a capital offense worthy of sticking one's neck out for. That's why I can't be critical of them.

I grant that they are making themselves sitting targets. That's obvious. But whether risk is necessary or unnecessary and whether it should be avoided is up to them.

About thirty years ago I was a young Highway Patrolman working a hot four lane on the west coast about 25 miles out of town when I got after a new sedan going well over a hundred miles an hour. I finally caught up to him and as he pulled over I ran his plate and found out the car was stolen before we were even stopped. There were three rather mean looking men in the car who later turned out to be wanted all over the state. So as we stopped I rolled out the driver's door and down behind it with the shotgun and began giving them instructions. My biggest concern at the time was that they would pile out the right side and start shooting since I ..............   About the time all of this was racing through my mind, I heard a metallic "clink" from behind me. I took a really quick look back and what I saw is still with me today...........a muddy old Chevy pickup had pulled in behind me, and two ranch hands from a lemon ranch up the road were standing alongside their headlights holding muddy irrigation shovels at port arms, ready to charge the badguys if need be. They weren't about to leave, either - they stayed there until my backup arrived about ten minutes later, naked to any gunfire that might have come their way. They were determined that no badass alive was going to take out one of their cops without a fight, even if it had to be with muddy irrigation shovels.   Yes, people really do that kind of thing. Just take a look out in front of our Recruiting Stations and I'm quite sure you'll see their modern day equivalent - standing there totally exposed in a job they were never trained to do, determined that no badass alive will get to one of their GI's without a fight, and knowing that they probably don't have a prayer of winning.   Give credit where credit is due.

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Heck, I can do something no 25 year old man on earth can do - remember Harry Truman!

I'm pretty sure Indian Springs Armory on Memorial Blvd in Indian Springs has them too, and for a similar price.   www.indianspringsarmory.com

I like the water-ducks-back post. When you're carrying a gun and an altercation is offered, swallow your pride and walk, run, crawl, swim, slither, meander, or fly - but evade the altercation at all costs. You'll wake up a lot happier the next day. Believe me - a LOT happier.

We used to set .22 LR rounds flat on a rock with the bases facing us and then try to detonate them by hitting the base with a BB out of our Daisy Red Ryder BB guns. Never got one to detonate, luckily. We also launched stick matches out of our BB guns to watch them go spiraling like crazy into a brick wall and light with a loud POP. We also used to hide in lemon orchards and chuck lemons at the freight trains when they went by. Luckily again, we never hit anybody. That was during the period of development when we were at the shallow end of the gene pool. :surrender:

Yep. There is a thread on Calguns.net in which the members tell all the reasons why they want to leave. It's 35 pages of posts and will make you even gladder you don't live there.

Yeah, it always amazed me how boats down there come from the factory with a bunch of good looking women on them. Well, they do come with the boat, don't they? :pleased:

  Me too and so does my wife. We both carry large CZ 85B 9mm's, me at 4:00 and she at 8:00 (lefty). Take a look at the horsehide models.

  Why YEAH!! How can you doubt it? Surely you don't think they'd enact this kind of stuff to throw restrictions on law abiding gun owners, do you? :rant:

As Ol' George Strait sang: "That's why I hang my hat in Tennessee."   In California, the state's Penal Code reserves most gun ownership and carry issues at the State level, not the local level. Three times in my lifetime San Francisco has tried to ban guns only to be overturned immediately by the state appelate court system for this reason. Like others here I can't see why the locals are acting against large capacity magazines when they are already outlawed at the state level. Maybe they ran out of the really important stuff to outlaw - like declawing cats and using plastic grocery bags. Or like Garufa says maybe they're after the ones made before they were grandfathered in - which tends to put LA Ordinances into conflict with state law.   I left California 19 years ago because I could see the ship listing heavily to the left and I wanted off before it sank. The latest trend is for the State's 43% conservative minority to pack up and leave like I did. I just hope I live long enough to see the situation arise out there where the only people left to pay for all the entitements are the people receiving them.

Seen on a tee shirt during a friend's trip through Utah:       "IF GOD HAD INTENDED FOR MAN TO BE A VEGETARIAN HE WOULD HAVE MADE BROCCOLI MORE FUN TO SHOOT AT."                                                                                               At long last somebody found a suitable use for the @#$%^ stuff.                                                                                                      :rofl:

  Family reunion. Otherwise me neither.

  This is why I am playing it so cautious when I have to go to Illinois.

  My feelings exactly.

  Neither do "mean," "vicious," "murderous," or "evil." I spent a lifetime in LE and to this day I refuse to believe that a person has to be crazy to commit a horrible crime, including mass murder. He only has to be one of the four things in my first sentence.

I agree with Hozzie. That is indeed the best article I have read on the subject in a long, long time.

Thanks for the information. I'll check it again just before I leave.

  Like I said - I don't trust those people any further than I can throw Maryland and New Jersey put together. SCOTUS won't be there to assure reasonable application of the law, so I'll just deny them the opportunity to be difficult. I appreciate the thought, BG, I really do.

I was up in Galena last October and, despite knowing about this section of law, I came in from the Iowa side with my pistol field stripped and padlocked in one hard side gun case and my mags and ammo padlocked in another hard side pistol case, both stored in a floor compartment in the rear of our Pilot.  You guys do what you want, but I don't trust Illinois authorities any further than I can throw Maryland and New Jersey both, so I played it really cautious............. I continued on out of Illinois like this and stopped and put everything back together when I got about three inches into Indiana. I'm going back this October and I intend to do it exactly the same way unless I can determine that Illinois has suddenly developed a heretofore unknown streak of fairness and tolerance towards lawful gun owners.

  I'm not surprised one bit. After all, the Obama regime can't have federal agencies going around saying that citizens armed with high capacity semiautomatic rifles are a good thing, especially when they demonstrate some organization and commitment. So they're going to plant a seed of doubt as to their motives in compliance with their Anti-gun Liberals' Handbook. 

Haven't seen nary a one over here in the Tri Cities.