bobsguns

Avoid living in Davidson Co like your life depends on it, IMO. If you're working in Antioch (L.A., lower Antioch), then Rutherford Co might make the best sense? Bedford Co is another option as is the aforementioned Wilson Co. Williamson Co is super nice, but Ho Lee Chit, it's expensive. Good luck!

Saw on the news 100K people have no power in Shelby Co. That would suck for people with c-pap & ventilator machines.

Obesity seems to be a common link in a lot of the covid deaths.

I've never heard a complaint about 2 Men & a Truck.

I eat there quite a bit. Rick is a cool guy. All the restaurant workers are his kids too. I did the pictures for one of his daughter's wedding last year. The restaurant is right on Hwy 411, between Delano & Benton. Good place to eat.

There's a post on Scoop: Nashville about the moving company "All My Sons" who got caught stealing some Beretta's (didn't say which ones) & a bunch of money. While we all can decry the use of a moving party to move one's firearms, who the heck leaves cash around for some movers to see, touch & take? Stupid! The guy(s) who stole the guns & $$$ admitted it to his boss & the cops. Needless to say, he wasn't one of the "Sons"............... LOL!

Pardon my ignorance, but what is the advantage of the General over the Technician level?

All true. Look at peanut allergies. Widely found these days, wholly unheard of prior to (say) 2000. MSG, gluten, all sorts of allergies these days. Dementia is seemingly 100 times worse than it was when I was a kid.

LMAO!!!! You have to ponder this? Allow me to list just a few of the changes. 1) Kids today (including college) have to have "safe spaces". This means no "mean" words. Doesn't mean the words are actually "mean", just that a kid believes they are. 2) Kids have to be told to NOT eat the Tide Pods. Seriously? What next? Don't stick one's tongue inside an empty lamp socket & turn it on? 3) No dodge ball, tag or any other "old" games on the playground. Seemingly it deflates their self-esteem when they become "it" in a game. 4) Obesity is a pandemic. In the mid- to late 1960s I could count the "fat" kids in my entire grade on one hand & have several fingers left over. Now it's the opposite: count the number of non-fat kids on one hand & have fingers left over. 5) Teens would have a shotgun or .22 rifle in their gun racks while at school in the 1960s. Some hunted before school, some would hunt after school, some would shoot mistletoe from the tops of trees & sell it. No one EVER thought about shooting up a school! 6) No kid was on meds. None. Now, you have Attention deficient disorder & they take Ritalin. Anxiety promotes Zantac or some such thing. (Studies also show every single school shooter was on some sort of anxiety med. Look it up.) 7) We got many paddlings by the teachers (gym/shop teachers were the worst!) or the principal & then went back to class. No fuss, no muss. Now it's a "time out" or in-school suspension, neither of which do squat. Now, a principal paddles a kid, Children's Services shuts the school down & the principal is hauled off in leg irons. 8 ) A good 1/4 of the guys in my school took some sort of shop class. We were blessed with a good shop program. Offerings were carpentry, electronics, HVAC, machine shop, auto repair, auto body & welding. Construction trades (brickwork) too. They knew not everyone wanted or were cut out for college. Now, it's go to college or you're a failure. 9) Haven't seen a kid change his own tire in over 20 years. They don't know where the spare is nor how to work the jack. 10) Kids in a Massachusetts school "identify" as cats. No BS, true story. So the school put down litter boxes in the restrooms. Schitt thee I not. 11) A kid today says "I am not a male, I am a female" & they get to use the female restroom. Never mind he has a penis, that's overlooked. This has resulted in at least one sexual assault in VA, possibly more that was covered up by the local school board. Look it up. 12) While I won't go into the whole points/timing/dwell thing on a car engine as they're no longer used, but I know grown men whom cannot change their own oil. Grown............... Men............... I began doing my own at 16 & have continued that to this day 47 years later. Heaven forbid they change their coolant, spark plugs or brake pads. They're clueless, completely. I weep for their future. They'll be made to speak Chinese, IMO.

Well, someone had to make that decision, no? Still sad to know this.

Most likely the deal was in the works before "inventory". A new owner, coupled with a new FFL & ATF regs/audits, would probably require such an audit. No one in their right mind would buy a large gun shop & not want to ensure everything is in stock as the paperwork says it is. I asked earlier if the old owner was retiring & never got an answer.

Good news-bad news. Bad news is, I'm highly saddened to hear S&W QC has dropped to such levels. I've a bunch of their revolvers & their target Model 52. All are excellent in examples of firearm manufacturing, IMO. Good news is, I neither own nor plan on owning a S&W semi. My only exceptions are my Model 52 & their Model 41. It baffles me how a company can make such excellent revolvers & turn right around & make such mundane semi's?

A) You would be correct. B) You're learning why now. No offense meant nor implied.

Is he selling his shop & retiring?

Anyone whom harms innocent people is not, or ever will be considered "sane" in my world. YMMV.

Can't help on the attitude, but as for pricing? Look at where they are, how much property costs, taxes, etc. They'd have to sell 20-25 guns a day in order to not go broke, IMO.

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On private property, as long as they're not hunting, anyone can shoot anything (safely). Hunting opens up a stinkbox of regulations & so forth. Anyone under 21 is currently prohibited from purchasing a handgun by Federal Law. Anyone under the age of 21 can be "gifted" a handgun. Most people try to make this come from a parent so as to maintain appearances. More to follow.

I think so. Being crazy doesn't necessarily mean stupid. Theodore John Kaczynski is a perfect example of that, IMO.

I moved my brother/sis-in-law & myself with just he & I doing the work. He used a POD system & I used a big assed U-Haul truck. I can't imagine what my body would've felt like were I in your shoes. Glad you got everything moved safely. The only time I will EVER move again is to the cemetery.

A) Libs want the thugs to be able to riot in the cities w/o being endangered by the people whom own the businesses who got looted & burned to the ground. B) A few well-placed snipers are worth multiple tanks & planes, IMO. Just ask Lincoln, JFK & several others in history's past.

Yep, announced on his Instagram. GOAT.

Skirting around the edges of a/the law with a device or gimmick is not something I want nor like to do. If people want to do that sort of thing, that's their choice(s). But when I have a BATFE letter stating my device IS legal, that's it, IMO. I could care less if or when they change their mind on something they earlier said, "perfectly ok." Screw that. Congress passing a law is one thing. An unelected bureaucrat changing their mind on something is an entirely different kettle of fish. I fear the next Waco (and there WILL be one under Biden) will make the first one look like a Boy Scout campout. Given the joy liberals take these days in inflicting pain upon their opposition, there will be no push-back on the next Waco-like event, IMO. It will be neither pleasant nor legal, IMO.

Well, Technician IS the lowest level, so yes, it's where one would start. I don't know that *I* would need a General license but obviously everyone is different. In a complete power loss SHTF situation, I'm pretty sure the repeaters up on my local mountain have their own generator back-up sets. While I don't have a gen set myself, I could charge my hand held in my truck & use it then. If someone has a base unit in their home, doesn't have a gen set, the only thing I can think of is to use an inverter & run it off their vehicle. It converts 12VDC to 120VAC. It won't carry a lot of amperage but I can't imagine a radio drawing much more than an amp or two. I could be wrong on that, someone can speak up if I am. No power is definitely the highest level of suckage one can have, IMO. I've been w/o water for a couple of days but I got by. But no power obviously = no heat, no A/C, possible no comms, no cold for the fridge, no hot water, etc.