Murgatroy

I missed this. I use flashlights on a daily basis in my profession. I am very rough on them. They go through things that would make many people shudder. I swear by the Ozark Trail lights at Walmart. I posted before about them. I have the DT350 which takes 4AA batteries and is a great light. I have the DT600 that takes 6AA. It has been dropped, thrown, walked on, gotten stuck under equipment, used as a persuader tool, etc. I would not hesitate to buy anything from Ozark Trail in the same line. Both of mine have been working with no issues for well over a year. And they show a lot of wear.

We have a Shoot Point Blank in Louisville, the daughter and I are there nearly every weekend, the staff gets huge kick out of watching other customers that don't know us. They all think it is cute to see a little girl with her father. Then she rocks her sparkly eyes and ears, loads mag, slams it home, works the action on her M&P22 and shoots smaller groups than the muscled tactibro in the next lane. We can't go to the range without positive comments from other customers.

I have PSA, Anderson and now ARFiveSeven (ARFifteen) lowers on my build. I have not honestly found a difference on them. If I were going for a high end matched billet upper and lower set, maybe. I have built a half dozen ARs, all with PSA uppers of various flavors. It is addictive. IMO the upper (and quality of parts therein) is more important than the lower. I have several PSA uppers as mentioned, and there is a marked difference in their premium line and their lower line. I am going to assemble my next AR complete, upper and lower. Ronald_55 posted a site https://22mods4all.com/ that seems to scratch that itch at a really reasonable price. For what it is worth, I have a higher end PSA I built, with several custom parts beyond the 'catalog' choices. It is my GO TO carbine.

I watched the first season. The first half of the second. I need to finish it. I liked it.

Even though my only AKM at current is wearing Magpul polymer, I prefer wood. That looks much better. I have been thinking of some at home Cerkote or similar, I am thinking of doing my first full AR assembly, as opposed to a lower build with a complete upper. I think I might get creative.

I think Little G could do it. He has several impressive builds under his belt, if you put Little G and Big G together, they could arm a platoon with them in a week.

I know Cabelas and Rural King have some. I know I have bought some, but I can't honestly recall the price.

If a psych/physical eval isn't required for a HCP/CC/CCDW, why would we require it for teachers? I have a school age child. A school age child that is markedly more qualified to handle a firearm than many 'adults.' Sending my child to school is a fearful time in the day for me. She is away from me, her mother, and our dogs. She is at the mercy of someone else. I am not a social person outside of the internet. I have no family, I don't have friends. I have my wife, my daughter and our dogs. I live in Small Town USA. I trust that the school and it's designated will care for her. That is a lot to ask of a father of a daughter. I ask them to educate her. I ask them to keep her safe. I ask them to do what I would do when I am not there. I am 100 miles away providing a living for her, her mother and our dogs. Oh, and the cat. But he is a cat. I would like armed teachers. Trained, armed teachers. Trained, armed teachers that are willing to do what I would do if I were available if the situation turned to the worst imaginable. I am not asking for the teachers to be trained because I think it is a requirement to have a gun, I am asking the teachers be trained so that they would know how to react in a situation that would require them to be armed. I think this should be a choice, not a requirement. I also think that it should be known that a school has teachers, unnamed teachers, armed and trained to deal with an active shooter situation. I would also feel pity on those that would be so scared of an inanimate object that they would refuse to allow their child to attend a school that had known, trained, armed staff prepared to protect their charges.

It looks mismatched. My latest build is an AR pistol. More of an assembly comparatively. *EDIT* Calling it mismatched doesn't mean I don't like it.

I was thinking about him the other day. I remember something about him getting out of the business and his daughter taking over. I could be wrong.

They were ordered to by the commander on duty. This is just the first link, but there are dozens. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5448315/Commanding-officer-initially-ordered-officers-stage.html

No, it saves in 20 minute segments, for however many it can fit on the card, then it starts over at the top again and overwrites the oldest. If you need to find something, it is broken into 20 minute groups, not one or two minutes.

Probably the same one I got, Black Web. I need to pull the card and check the quality. I have it set at 20 minute loops for 720p.

Because you can. I am worried we might see the day again they aren't falling off of trees.

This is why I have a dash cam in my truck. I get evidence, and be calm.

I like to take my well behaved dogs into retailers that welcome them. Lowes, Cabelas, Rural King, Pestmart, Feeders, etc. I however hate when people take their dogs to retail locations that specifically prohibit pets, such as you know, someplace that sells food for human consumption.

The one that bothered me was the story about the girl with the 'emotional support' hamster. She went to take a flight, and through some miscommunication, she mistakenly thought her rodent could fly with her. When she was told it couldn't, again, through some miscommunication, she decided that she had been told to flush the animal down an airport toilet. So she did. And now she is suing the airline. I am not making this up. http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/02/08/spirit-airlines-employee-told-student-to-flush-emotional-support-hamster-down-toilet-student-alleges.html

I have an older Remington 870 Special Field, with the straight stock, 21" barrel, magnum receiver. It is fast and a joy to carry. It is also a pretty solid do all shotgun.

The serial number looks like it would be a late wartime run, however I am fairly certain it would be refinished. Many wartime trophies were refinished. At the time, no one thought they would be collector's items and many of them were in very rough shape.

$50. AR Five Seven lowers were all they had in stock. The ones I got were consecutive and seemed clean. I have no other opinion as I haven't assembled them yet. I have only used PSA and Anderson lowers. I was wanting another Anderson, since they are made in Kentucky, but they didn't have any. But I drove an hour to get there, and I wasn't leaving empty handed. I will update after the build.

I know that it was shoulder to shoulder at Bud's yesterday, but the ammo case is still full at Walmart.

It's almost worth trying at those prices. I just picked up a handful of lowers at Bud's yesterday. One is becoming a pistol in a few days.

One of my favorite soundtracks. And a favorite of Metallica too...

My wife was at my daughter's middle school to pick her up today. 6th and 7th Grade only, the 8th Grade goes to the new High School. This morning I dropped her off and there were two cruisers in the lot with an officer opening the door to let the students in. My daughter explained to me they had been there since the Florida shooting. So, this evening, my wife is there, and she calls me screaming, as she is sitting there nearly dozen cruisers converge on the lot in full disco mode, armed officers run into the building. It seems that last night a student posted a threatening message on social media, and this afternoon near dismissal another(?) student made some "trigger statements." The official email stated that the school was not on lockdown, the students were never in any danger and they were issued a 'stay in place.' The town I live in is considered the fourth safest town in Kentucky by a few recent articles. The final home of Colonel Sanders. We had our first murder in several years last week, a teenager stabbed her stepfather to death.

I think that is a naive outlook. If someone has a solid support system that can watch your child(ren) for free, yes. When the average cost of daycare is $10 an hour, explain how you can afford to survive when almost all of your paycheck goes to cover it? Especially when you take into account that your benefits are based on your income, so as you work, your benefits decrease. A good work ethic and dedication have nothing to do with straight up not being able to afford it. A single woman who graduates high school with a crap education, gets a manufacturing job at $12 an hour, works 40 hours a week, pays $10 an hour for daycare can not afford to pay for it all, even with assistance. She then gets trapped on the teat, work and not survive, or accept the benefits and survive. College? Not even in the cards If she can't afford day care when she is working, how will she afford it when she doesn't have the hourly income. Take that same woman and give her a support system that she can trust that can watch her child(ren) while she is working, attending class and studying at no cost to her, and she has a much better chance of success. The funny part of this argument is that we then run into the common dead horse of today about the parent(s) not being their to raise the child. How could they? They are working 40 hours a week and taking classes to change their stars. The point is simple, the system is broken. Society has changed. Families do not stay together, it doesn't mean the devil is coming, it means that society has changed from the 50s. The same era that history shows wasn't all peaches and cream either. A man as close to me as a father was raised by a single mother, after his father walked out on seven kids, then went on to have several more. He never helped, was never there. The mother didn't work. She raised a garden and took care of her sons and daughter. This man grew up to be one of the finest men I know, and it took a lot to get him there. I am not saying that I agree with the route society has taken. My wife and I have been together for a long time, we became friends twenty years ago and next month we have our twelfth wedding anniversary. We have one daughter, because at that time in our life, one child is what we could afford. We both work, and we both are involved in our daughter's life. That might have been the norm, and it might be the norm among our circle of friends. But it wasn't how I was raised, and it isn't how my friends as a child were raised. It also isn't how my daughter's peers are being raised. Again, I can stand on a soap box on the corner and rant about it, but that isn't going to change the new norm. Just like this thread of normal discourse discussing Welfare Reform isn't going to cause the whole system to be revamped. I just think that too often we sit in our little world and judge others when we don't understand the struggles they may or may not be facing. I hear every day from folks about how hard it is for them to escape the drugs and poverty. But that is all they know, how they were raised. It is how I was raised, and I know, it was a struggle. It was pure hell. If it weren't for my wife, my daughter and several healthy communities I became a part of, I am not sure I would have made it.