The Right to Bear Arms Thread.

We have open carry here, just don't see it much. Passing acquaintence with former biker in a church I attended years ago, took him years after becoming a church-goer to give up the mini-pistol he hid behind his belt buckle. He told us about it in church one day after he'd given it up.

Tools of the trade, definitely. wouldn't want to be way out there with a horse broke leg, without the pistol. Pulaski saved my bacon late one day years ago. Came back up the dead end dirt road I'd gone down earlier in the day. 9-inch diameter green tree, lots and lots of good sized branches, had fallen across the road, blocking me in. used the pulaski to chop the top 8 feet off, drove around, called it good. Fire crew found it later and cleaned it all the way out.
 
alevin said:
:cool: good story burro. Nobody I know likes to advertise their predicament by calling for help on the radio when they get stuck, not til they've been at it a few hours. Like to keep it quiet if we can.

Ran into a stockman on his horse looking for stray stock in the snow late fall one year, had a bunch of city slickers with me. Stockman wearing wooly chaps, big handlebar mustache, big hat, side arm open carry, rifle on saddle. All the city folk's eyes got big and bigger when they scoped full gear, especially the side arm, all they could talk about on the way home.
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tools of the trade, and neccesary at times for survival. my pickup always has a shovel, axe, steel bucket, and tow strap, in addition to the 'scoped full gear'. extra water too. gave the pulaski away to a friend one time when the need arose, always wanted another, one of these days.

all of these things work best when you don't have to use them, but good to have around none the less.
 
eye contact, an honest handshake, and lack of criminal intent have a lot to do with it too.

we pretty good at smelling bullshit out here.
 
alevin said:
...All the city folk's eyes got big and bigger when they scoped full gear, especially the side arm, all they could talk about on the way home.
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My spouse was in law enforcement for over a decade. He says it's not the sidearm that you can see that you worry about. :D
 
:cool: good story burro. Nobody I know likes to advertise their predicament by calling for help on the radio when they get stuck, not til they've been at it a few hours. Like to keep it quiet if we can.

Ran into a stockman on his horse looking for stray stock in the snow late fall one year, had a bunch of city slickers with me. Stockman wearing wooly chaps, big handlebar mustache, big hat, side arm open carry, rifle on saddle. All the city folk's eyes got big and bigger when they scoped full gear, especially the side arm, all they could talk about on the way home.
 
http://earthhopenetwork.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=527

now for some local news, consider carefully who you vote for sherriff.

talked to mine this afternoon, a man of the people, at a creek crossing down a dirt road, maybe barely passable this soon after the thaw, been watching it for a couple of weeks, we target practice up near there. saw two northen pike make it up the shallows, literally right in front of my feet, but haven't bought our licenses yet this year. so we were just racing sticks down the stream and skipping rocks.

was scoping out an odd set of ripples and a new crack in the slab when he pulled up. we talked a bit, both carrying open, neither one nervous.

agreed it was a bit of a stretch and i hadn't planned on jamming it on my own this far from town, but hey now that there's two of us here... he said if i get stuck tell someone about it, i said if you get stuck first thing i'll do is pull you out, and i won't tell no one about it. so he crossed first, shouted back an assessment from the other side, yes there is a big hole there now, stay to the right, i'll tell the road crew about it.

and we both went about our day. now that's America.
 
ha! good one.

my son had a heck of a time figuring out the joke, finally said "hey that's not a rifle, it's got a battery, it's for screwing, them dirty varmints, that'll sure fix up a house!"

couldn't have said it better myself, screw them dirty varmints, i can think of a few houses that need fixing.
 
Anyone in the market for a nail gun? :D

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New Nail Gun, made by DeWALT.
It can drive a 16-D nail through a 2 X 4 at 200 yards.
This makes construction a breeze,
you can sit in your lawn chair and build a fence.
Just get your wife to hold the fence boards in place while you sit back,
relax with a cold drink and when she has the board in the right place,
just fire away.
With the hundred round magazine
you can build the fence with a minimum of reloading.
After a day of fence building with the new DeWalt Rapid fire nail gun
the wife will not ask you to build or fix anything else, probably, ever again.
 
I bet his whole upper body quivered the rest of the day. :D Cool, I'm going to have to go to one of those big gun shoots.
 
Found this in a gun rag today. GunsSaveLives

Three Percenters:
During the American Revolution, the active forces in the field against the King's tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists. They were in turn actively supported by perhaps 10% of the population. In addition to these revolutionaries were perhaps another 20% who favored their cause but did little or nothing to support it. Another one-third of the population sided with the King (by the end of the war there were actually more Americans fighting FOR the King than there were in the field against him) and the final third took no side, blew with the wind and took what came.

The Three Percent today are gun owners who will not disarm, will not compromise and will no longer back up at the passage of the next gun control act. Three Percenters say quite explicitly that we will not obey any further circumscription of our traditional liberties and will defend ourselves if attacked. We intend to maintain our God-given natural rights to liberty and property, and that means most especially the right to keep and bear arms. Thus, we are committed to the restoration of the Founders' Republic, and are willing to fight, die and, if forced by any would-be oppressor, to kill in the defense of ourselves and the Constitution that we all took an oath to uphold against enemies foreign and domestic.

We are the people that the collectivists who now control the government should leave alone if they wish to continue unfettered oxygen consumption. We are the Three Percent. Attempt to further oppress us at your peril.

To put it bluntly, leave us the hell alone.

Or, if you feel froggy, go ahead AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS.

Here's the deal, as embodied in the Doctrine of the Three Percent:

We will not disarm.

You cannot convince us.

You cannot intimidate us.

You can try to kill us, if you think you can.

But remember, we'll shoot back.

And we are not going away.

Your move.
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http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2009/08/back-by-popular-demand-what-is-three.html
 
Even MSNBC forced to admit numbers don't support 'gun control'

That, however, is just what they are pointing out, in "Record numbers now licensed to pack heat: Firearms deaths fall as millions obtain permits to carry concealed guns."

Americans overall are far less likely to be killed with a firearm than they were when it was much more difficult to obtain a concealed-weapons permit, according to statistics collected by the federal Centers for Disease Control. But researchers have not been able to establish a cause-and-effect relationship.

In the 1980s and ’90s, as the concealed-carry movement gained steam, Americans were killed by others with guns at the rate of about 5.66 per 100,000 population. In this decade, the rate has fallen to just over 4.07 per 100,000, a 28 percent drop. The decline follows a fivefold increase in the number of “shall-issue” and unrestricted concealed-carry states from 1986 to 2006.

The CDC data only extends through 2006, but the trend appears to have continued, with the FBI reporting violent crime at a 35-year low in 2008 (and homicide at a 43-year low). In the first half of 2009, murders dropped by another 10%, during a time of unprecedentedly high gun sales.

http://www.examiner.com/x-2581-St-L...ced-to-admit-numbers-dont-support-gun-control

The cause and effect relationship that experts aren't able to establish is very simple and they jsut don't want to consider thisreasoning. Criminals only murder/attack/rob/rape when they are pretty sure that they can get away with it. Criminals are just bullys or thugs that prey on the unprotected and the thought of them getting hurt and possibly killed is a bi deterant. You read more and more well, not on the MSM, about burgalars being chased off or bunned down by an arwmed citizen who is protecting his home and loved ones.

An armed society is a much more polite and respectful society. Chicago has one of the most strict handgun laws in the country and it is nothing but a free fire zone. The more the public is disarmed the higher the crime rate. Scotland yard has also found this to be true.
 
.45 in my bedstand, .357 on my wifes side, all hollow points for self defense. And for clean up, under the bed a Mossy 500, first 2 shells deer slug and next 3 double 00, for that up close and personal work. Always go heavy for self defense and carry. Go light for plinking and target.
 
old fashioned here,

.357 mag, winchester silvertip hollow points. low flash so you can still see, if you can't see you shouldn't shoot.

6 max, but only five with the hammer down on an empty. if you need more than five of those then you should've seen that trouble coming long before it was time to pull the trigger.

of course a remington 12 ga. pump, never jams and always clears the room. and the -06 good for 300 yds.

problems solved.
 
Cool gun and ammo..I didn't do any research on it, but I'm wondering about these Defensive discs and BB's .410 rounds..aside from knocking someone down with bird shot speckling and maybe only putting three major bruises on their chest (consider I'm thinking of a heavy winter coat on them too)..would these actually kill at 7 yards?..or just p!ss them off?...I'd rather use a .410 with Black Talons or Hydro-Shocks....Or are these rounds just as good for the ultimate "dead man tells no tales" scenario?
 
Got my holster today. Very simple and very rugged thus simplyrugged. The judge is not a ladies gun, beware. And, shipped from Arizona on Friday, delivered to my home in eastern Missouri on Monday. Go United States Postal Service priority mail!!!
 
Show-me said:
Nice thing is with buck and ball you get a tight pattern with the ball and if you are a bad shot the buck takes over for you.
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I've wanted one of those since they came out. I love revolvers and would like to get a nice self-defense model for my wife to keep in the nightstand. Thing is there isn't a great selection of viaable self-defense ammo widly availiable. Give me a good 45LC hollowpoint with a fast burning powder on par with today's 9mil & .40cal and I may change my mind.
 
Nice thing is with buck and ball you get a tight pattern with the ball and if you are a bad shot the buck takes over for you.
 
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