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i've met a few members......and i can honestly say that i'd not have any issues with them carrying in my home. a couple of them, if i were in desperate need of help with mom.....as in they could get there faster than me or the ambulance, i would trust them to go there too.

if other walmarts are like the one i go to, they only have signage asking us to "please refrain from openly carrying a firearm". i have been armed with 1 spare mag every week when i go shopping there since i got my ccw

i'm way late on this update. i gave her a comedic birthday card, and dropped a couple $100 bills in there. left it on the table with the notebook that her and i use to keep tabs on mom.........in that nights note, she was VERY surprised, and happy. she said it made her day. i'm glad. i was looking to over-complicate things with my gift card idea, so although i shoulda thought of the cash idea myselfr, the fact is i was too much of a dumbass to. i REALLY appreciate everyones input.

when i'm walking to/from my vehicle in any parking lot, my head's always on the swivel. ain't no one getting near me that i don't want gettin close to me......

my mom had a bj's membership....they were pretty decemt

whelp....if i were gonna pay to shop somewhere...costco is off the list.

i made copies. one in a folder in each glovebox with my insurance and reg, original laminated in my wallet.

my 98 actually had fantastic brakes. one of the fleets i work on has a 12 and a 14........the 14 has had a new tranny and a new engine within the last 2 years....the driver ran the engine dry..........but brakes fine. the problem i've found on a lot of chrysler product brakes is the way that the pad ride on the slides. when you get some moron that does the brake job and doesn't believe in lubrication......the pads tend to wear a groove into the slide. this causes the pads to cock and then jam themselves in place which causes premature wear. back in the day when there were tons more of those on the road, we used to break out the mig welder, fill in those grooves, grind them flush then finish the brake job properly. with lube.

and you don't think ours is?

i would imagine that even with that in mind, if they're air dropping, they could modify to get more retardent on the fire...... then again though, i'm wondering if in the long run it's better to let it burn for now, considering that a lot of those fires possibly started due to poor forest management.........

couldn't really beat the town and country and caravan/grand caravans

i know they're mostly private companies up there doing that. i'd read an article years ago on a company that used tbm avengers, but i dunno how they filled them. i think there was a company using pby catalinas too. i think those guys just do a low approach over the lake, skimming the surfact to pull water in........ i only really asked because well.....like i said.......we never sent just one b17 to bomb that refinery. it was always 50 or 100. so.....why wouldn't that work to extinguish a fire? lead drops, rest of the box drops too.....rather than say....20k gallons, now we've got 80k gallons dropped. of course i'm just some schmuck mechanic, so there's probably something i'm overlooking there.......

i don;t want to pay the new fees....but i think my desire for that 1911 is outweighing thedetriment of the new fees......

in hindsight, i probably over-generalized with what i'd typed before.

yea. pretty nasty over there. they were probably watching how we handled blmtifa. now they don't have any control. pretty much every govt on the planet doesn't seem to realize that they govern at the consent of the governed.....

so this is probably a stupid question, but it's been bugging me....... so canada is still on fire. we all know they "water bomb" those fires using water, or whatever other fire suppressant that they have. but i always see them just doing it one aircraft at a time. wouldn't it make much more sense to attack these fires pretty much the same way that bombers used to attack targets? a whole formation.....even if it's just a box of 4........dropping on target at the same time? it would seem to me that it'd have a much better effect than dropping one payload now, then another in a few minutes, then another in another few minutes......

this particular belt has a smaller buckle. you can fit it through most belt loops. the prongs don't stick out far at all. i'll see if i can get a pic of it buckled. i don't tuck, so the belt's not really visible at all. if i tucked in, then the buckle would be visible, but i kinda feel like it's small enough to not be noticed by most people.

been wearing this belt now for about a week.......i really like it a lot so far. i also have their leather gunbelt too. that was much thicker than i expected it to be. https://www.vedderholsters.com/cobra-quick-release-gun-belt/

is a friggin ANGEL. her birthday was yesterday. i'd really like to do something for her or get her something for her birthday, but haven't got a clue what would/could be appropriate. as it stands, i'm leaning towards a gift certificate to a decent eatery like the lamp post diner or something similar. anyone got any suggestions? i'm mostly asking 'cause i'm generally not a fan of gift certificates........

i hadn't heard that about those. i thought they were gonna keep the v6 versions. that turbo4 pickup will show out to be a turd after about 4 to 6 years in service when the turbos all start sucking oil through the seals and costing engines. that's dumber than some of the stuff that ford's done..... they'll be lucky to make it TO 100k

oohh i give them a ton of credit for what they've accomplished, and hope they keep the train rolling.....

i'm hoping that doesn't happen. but i'm fearful that it will, considering that some of those organizations(nra for example) have historically bargained our rights away.

stellantis owns chrysler and quite a few others now. and skuttlebut is that they're discontinuing the hemi

i thought that was known, lol. i haven't been in the air since about 2010 though. i was about to get current then the stuff with mom happened.....so now i'm too poor for the time being.......but it'd be nice to know that i can carry from the time i leave home to the time i land, enjoy whatever i'm gonna do and then return........when i can afford it of course.

little side track on this........ what's the law if you're renting and flying yourself? say for instance i wanted to fly to ocean city, or down to cape may county airport?