Recent content by Anchorite

Geeze …… https://time.com/5184160/trump-guns-due-process/?xid=homepage and another … https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/28/trump-says-authorities-should-take-guns-first-from-people-who-pose-a-threat-then-go-through-due-process.html

163 years ago today, Stonewall Jackson died at 3:15 PM on a Sunday afternoon in a small farm office in Guinea Station, Virginia. He had told his wife that morning, “It is the Lord’s Day. I have always desired to die on a Sunday.” He got his wish. Eight days earlier at Chancellorsville...

It would seem to me that if I utterly failed in my situational awareness then I’m at risk of being the target of a assault/mugging or car jacking. That makes it a “Jack Ruby” scenario for me. Lots of posts in these threads seem geared towards mass shootings.

RIP. He would be 106 today. Gone, but certainly not forgotten.

I carry a revolver because I expect that if I have to use it, it will be effectively point blank range to maybe 3 feet.

For starters, figure out where your safe is going to be positioned. Then buy as big a safe as you can for that space. No one ever said they wished they’d bought a smaller safe. I also agree with layers of security. A safe is merely a temporary deterrent to a thief. Generally, they are...

Sitting here thinking of all the brass I need to order …. Rainy days do this to me.

Reminds me … I need to do some eBay surfing on this rainy day for magazines.

Well, I don’t think we will ever know what happened in this case, except the human didn’t survive the encounter. Maybe the bear was surprised and charged, who knows.

Probably had 3+ inches of rain since last night. Pool is very full.

I’m not naïve. I will never believe we are getting the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, from the administration.

I can’t help but remember the bump-stock ban. I have little - as in zero - confidence this administration is truly 2A “friendly.”

Drinking coffee, listening to the rain and I was reading some of the ridiculous posts in the “dress code” thread. Carry on, fellas.

A lot of that has to do with the funding of the institutions.