Is there some new law I don't know about ???

I would like to apologize to everyone as well, even Wyatt Earp. I should have acted in a more adult manor and I feel terrible about it. I hope everyone can forgive me...
Lee J, I know I'm banned for a week but can you please post this for me?
Thanks.
 
Originally posted by tonytgman:
I would like to apologize to everyone as well, even Wyatt Earp. I should have acted in a more adult manor and I feel terrible about it. I hope everyone can forgive me...
Lee J, I know I'm banned for a week but can you please post this for me?
Thanks.

I'd like to apologize for the smart*** answer I gave you to a simple question, Tony. It was uncalled for. I find many helpful people on this board when I need to know something and I'm afraid I was being less than helpful with my response.
 
Looking back on this thread, it is a lot easier to understand what happened and why. I know that any threat to individual gun ownership stirs peoples' emotions. It certainly does mine. I also understand why someone would not want to listen to what politicians SAY. So I can easily understand why everyone who got upset did. I would like to commend tonytgman and others for their apologies, and Lee for his patience. Tonytgman one thing you may want to consider is a membership in the NRA. For a few bucks a year your membership will get you (among other things) a good magazine to learn more about firearms in general. Also when state and federal election time rolls around your magazine will contain a "report card" on candidates in your area. One of the things this report card is based on is the candidate's past voting record on firearms related issues. As far as I am concerned, a candidate's voting record is more important than what the candidate says. The information provided in the magazine will certainly give you a starting point to do your own research into a candiate's attitude toward gun ownership if you don't want to take the report card as gospel. From a longtime gunowner, welcome to gun ownership. I don't feel comfortable welcoming you to the forum since I am a newcomer myself.
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When I first started here posting my rookie questions, I was usually brought up to speed rather quickly through generous answers here and reading on my own, but I will never forget one response to the effect of:

"This board is only for people to whom firearms are a major part of their lives, you have no business here."

I apologized for not having uncles or a father who took me hunting every week, or for not inheriting a vault full of guns and said: "We all have to start somewhere sometime."

I hope that I have not blasted anyone trying to learn something.
 
Just saw this thread for the first time today. My, my. Thanks for calming it down, Lee, but I, for one, certainly understand how high emotions can, and in my view SHOULD run when it comes to attacks on our freedoms. We now have an administration that has vowed to attack not only the Second Amendment, but the First, i.e., the one they've always held so high and holy, with attempts at resurrection of the grossly misnamed "Fairness Doctrine," of which Richard Nixon was so fond.

To Tony, and to anyone else, I'd suggest immediately joining NRA, as well as the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. These organizations fight for our rights, and if you are a new gun owner, they will keep you up to speed better than anyone about what the tyrants in D.C. are trying to do to us, with written publications and e-mail alerts.

Welcome to new gun ownership, Tony, and to the Forum. Try not to hold it against anyone here who expresses passion about the Second Amendment. (Even Wyatt is really a good guy, despite his occasional abruptness.
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) Most of us have recently gone on to whatever step on the emotional ladder that lies above the one labeled "Bitter." It's gonna be a rough, ugly ride...
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First of all, I'm glad to be back !!!
38-44HD45;
I really do appreciate your insight. I have (since being busted from this forum) been looking into and researching our new president and I can totally understand why tempers are high when it comes to this type of discussion. I'm now looking into joining the NRA for all the news and e-mail alerts. Thank You and All!!!
 
Originally posted by HOUSTON RICK:
When I first started here posting my rookie questions, I was usually brought up to speed rather quickly through generous answers here and reading on my own, but I will never forget one response to the effect of:

"This board is only for people to whom firearms are a major part of their lives, you have no business here."

I apologized for not having uncles or a father who took me hunting every week, or for not inheriting a vault full of guns and said: "We all have to start somewhere sometime."

I hope that I have not blasted anyone trying to learn something.

Major +1 to that.
 
Originally posted by tonytgman:
First of all, I'm glad to be back !!!
38-44HD45;
I really do appreciate your insight. I have (since being busted from this forum) been looking into and researching our new president and I can totally understand why tempers are high when it comes to this type of discussion. I'm now looking into joining the NRA for all the news and e-mail alerts. Thank You and All!!!
De nada! Welcome to the wonderful world of the Gun Culture, where we love freedom, hate tyrants, and generally, leave each other and everyone else alone, unless forced to behave otherwise.
 
I'm now looking into joining the NRA for all the news and e-mail alerts. Thank You and All!!!
Tony,
Don't "look into it" just do it. Everyone who holds their freedoms sacred should be willing to at least donate a very small amount of money to protect them.

HERE is the link to join online right now. For your small donation you even get your choice of several different magazines. it's the least we all can do!
 
I've not been hitting the range with my M&Pc very often anymore; don't know when I can replace what I shoot. I did hit Kesselrings in Bellingham WA two weekends ago and they must have just received a shipment there're were lots of unopened cases on the floor and the shelves full, and the stuff was being grabbed up fast, was able to get another 500 rds.
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getting back to the original spirit of the thread; lately, I've seen very little in the way of ammo, especially at WalMart, Gander Mountain, Bass Pro, mom-n-pop shops, et al; even with some new arrivals in the collection, I have to be selective on what to shoot & how much, especially defensive stuff, to break-in and 'proof' selected loads with the guns they go with; I just found 3 boxes of Winchester WWB Personal Defense 110gr sjhp in .357 mag and was ecstatic!!! last week, I was perverbially doing cartwheels to find a box of Winchester Silvertip 110gr in .38 spl for my dad's S&W 642, even at $40 for that box of 50 rounds; I can tell you that ammunition manufacturing and sales is one area of the economy that doesn't need a stimulus package...Obama has been doing it since the election!!!
 
Just today, in conversation with a local dealer, he emphatically stated his firearms sales alone have tripled since the election. He also stated that if he ordered 20 cases of normal handgun ammo, he'd be lucky to get one case. As to the
skyrocketing prices, he said he was having to give, for ordinary high speed shotshells, the same price he used to SELL them for. He showed me a couple of his invoices to back up his statements.
 
No surprise in that Special.
The oldest page in capitalism's book,
"Page #1, Supply and Demand".
Glad it still applies somewhere? I believe you and him!
 
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