kenw

Greetings and welcome.

And yet, here's your post.

You're gonna love that gun. I have one, it fits and shoots great, and has never failed to go bang.

and it isn't even a firearm image. I started this shot on Friday afternoon, and just finished it. I gave myself headaches working on this, so I just thought I'd share. If any of you guys do any custom wiring harnesses, we just became full line Deutsch resellers. The prices are good, and we'll be soon introducing a line of custom colors for a lot of the standard Deutsch products.

Half off dicks?? Sounds like a Bris gone bad.

I knew this was starting to remind me of something sitting deep in the recesses of my memory. Quote from Blade Runner... Sad on so many levels, not the least of which is that I remember a small quote from an old movie that wasn't so great to begin with.

Wow, satisfy that pesky need to sleep, and I miss a bunch of interesting stuff. Like anyone else, you are entitled to your opinion, and like anyone else, your opinions have been shaped by your experiences. Yes, you should spend some more time with responsible members of the shooting community. It may expand your narrowly formed opinions somewhat. You may be surprised at what you learn about people, and freedom. While I don't agree with virtually anything you said, I do want to thank you for honestly (I assume) answering the question, and for your service to the community, irrelevant of your personal motives for serving.

Therein lies the basis of your faulty reasoning. We were not given rights. we have rights as a result of our humanity, and it's the responsibility of the government to recognize, protect and ensure that those rights are never threatened. if you believe that we were granted rights, then you believe that they can be rescinded, and that's where your belief in the superiority of government over the individual grows from.

I have no intention of bashing you for this. I'm just curious as to why. For civilians, it's mostly a fear of guns, and a lack of a firearms and shooting culture and tradition that puts them in the anti's camp, but I could never understand why a cop, who understands guns as a defensive tool, and who knows that they can't be everywhere to protect everyone, would be against responsible civilian carry. If you have no objection explaining (not defending) your position and reasoning on this, I'd love to hear it.

I disagree. This isn't some obscure law like "no bowling on Sunday" or some statute that is loosely written enough to be subject to interpretation. This is a matter of fact. It is legal for a LTCF holder to openly carry a holstered weapon within the state of Pennsylvania. Seems fairly simple, and the fact that the ignorance of such a simple and straightforward law could easily lead to a tragic and disastrous mistake should make it imperative that LE be aware of it, and be prepared to protect anyone legally exercising their rights to do so. There may be many laws, but this one is an easy one to stay on top of.

Why? Do you stop everyone driving a car to see if they have license, insurance and registration? Are there checkpoints at every corner to check for identity theft? Do you stop people coming out of sporting goods shops to ask why they have a baseball bat? I've been in places where open carry is legal, and has been legal since forever, and I've never seen a citizen accosted and brutalized in such a way by the police. Is it only in densely populated urban areas where your rights mean nothing? Or only in the Northeast? If carry ever comes to NJ, there'll be a decade of such incidents. Some of them will be instigated by the civilian, flaunting his new rights in the face of authority, and some will be the fault of overzealous police trying to come to terms with the new freedoms. There may even be some tragic accidents. But in the end, as the culture of freedom becomes more accepted and normalized, the incidents will stop, and people will go through their days, some armed, some not, and the world won't stop spinning, blood won't flow like water in the streets, and our innocent children and brave law enforcement officers won't be any more vulnerable than they were before the state decided to protect our rights rather than deny them. Cops have a tough job, but an armed, law abiding population isn't going to make it any harder.

Whether or not he was planning to start something, or just planning to protect himself in case something started is irrelevant. The fact is that he was illegally accosted by cops who were ignorant of a law that they should be very well versed in, in the most thuggish and degrading possible way, while doing absolutely nothing illegal. He wasn't baiting anyone, he wasn't threatening anyone, he was buying car parts or something. There was no reason for the treatment he received, and it's only by great good fortune that he didn't find himself shot for absolutely no reason other than the ignorance, and then the authoritarian intransigence, of those who are sworn to uphold the law that he was peacefully obeying. As a rule, I don't "cop bash". I have huge respect for the police and for the job they do, but in this case, our president said it best... "the police acted stupidly", and this guy deserves nothing less than a public apology from the Police Chief and Mayor of Philadelphia.

Nice.

Welcome to the monkey house.

I've actually been in Augusta. They have some seriously high, dangerous curbs there.

"Id rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun."

Greetings and welcome.

Welcome to the group.

Greetings and welcome.

Congratulations and Mazel Tov! And yeah, being a Daddy is awesome.

Welcome to the group.

Greetings and welcome.

I was on the silo range from about 12:30 'til around 3. I was the 6'6" guy with the 5'2" wife. Single shot beater and Remington 597 for me, and Walther P22 and Henry Survival .22 for her (mostly). I was probably there while you were shooting, as c couple of people came and went while we were there.

Lynn is talking about going to the range tomorrow. If she doesn't change her mind, we should be there somewhere around noon. Probably just the handgun and silo ranges. If anyone's around, come by and say hi.

It's looking and working great. Nicely done.