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New to ArizonaShooting.ORG or Firearms in General? :: Re: New members/classifieds :: Reply by Brasscatcher

no_email@example.com (Brasscatcher) — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:14:56 -0700

How do I contact a member, for some reason I do not have that capability.

Problem resolved, thank you

Firearm Related General Discussion :: Have you ever hosted a table at a gun show ?... :: Author geezer

no_email@example.com (geezer) — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 23:43:20 -0700

...if so, maybe you've wondered 'what happened to that box of 38 Super I had over by the corner of my table ?..', or , 'what happened to that 45/70 Lee Loader I was just showin' a guy?..

So if you're wondering why so many displays are under glass, there's a reason.

At the recent Prescott Valley show, a guy who had a pristine Brit Enfield missing the magazine said he was distracted by a guy at one end of his display who tied him up with trivial questions, and then later realized the magazine missing.

If you are going to do a table anywhere , remove magazines and keep a sharp eye out.

Firearm Related General Discussion :: Re: Have you ever hosted a table at a gun show ?... :: Reply by tunnug

no_email@example.com (tunnug) — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:12:18 -0700

Friends and I get a table every few years, we always have had at least 2 people there, helps to have a second set of eyes and yes, never leave any magazines in the guns, small expensive items should be closer to you on the table and use some type of cable or even cord weaved through the trigger guard if you have a lot of handguns, they have also been known to walk away.

Firearm Related General Discussion :: Re: Have you ever hosted a table at a gun show ?... :: Reply by GunNut

no_email@example.com (GunNut) — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 23:05:34 -0700

Done many shows. ALWAYS have 2 people. As stated small items nearest you. Many items chained/secured. That is the world we live in

Firearm Related General Discussion :: Memphis police officer killed by friendly fire, not the teenage suspects :: Author Suck My Glock

no_email@example.com (Suck My Glock) — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:25:06 -0700

Remember kids,...spray and pray is NOT got tactics.

https://www.actionnews5.com/2024/04/17/ ... -confirms/

Firearm Related General Discussion :: Re: Memphis police officer killed by friendly fire, not the teenage suspects :: Reply by kenpoprofessor

no_email@example.com (kenpoprofessor) — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:51:49 -0700

I bet DeShaun, Lawanda, and Lecresha were all there, just having a "blast" from what I read. We obviously know this isn't a gun problem, it's a people/culture problem, and nobody wants to talk about the 800lb gorilla in the room.

Have a great, gun carryin', Kenpo day

Clyde

Firearm Related General Discussion :: Tennessee legislators pass bill that would let teachers carry guns in schools :: Author Dauph

no_email@example.com (Dauph) — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:09:21 -0700

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi ... rcna149068

Tennessee legislators pass bill that would let teachers carry guns in schools
The bill's passage in the Republican-led Legislature comes a year after a shooter opened fire and killed six people at a Christian school in Nashville.

Firearm Related General Discussion :: Re: Pat Tillman :: Reply by Dauph

no_email@example.com (Dauph) — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:36:50 -0700

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Firearm Related General Discussion :: Re: Pat Tillman :: Reply by Miker12

no_email@example.com (Miker12) — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:48:22 -0700

Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 by U.S. troops under questionable circumstances. Two years later, his brother wrote this powerful, must-read essay, first published in Truthdig.

Kevin Tillman / Truthdig
KEVIN TILLMAN / TRUTHDIG
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/after-pats-birthday/

Editor’s note: Then NFL player Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat (left) in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004 by American troops under questionable circumstances. This essay by Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, was first published in Truthdig on Oct. 19, 2006. It remains relevant. In 2023, there are hundreds of thousands of U.S. forces deployed around the world — not just in Syria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia, but places like the Philippines, Somalia, Kenya and Niger. Yet there’s little public awareness and no public debate about where U.S. troops are deployed.

* * *

It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice… until we got out.

Much has happened since we handed over our voice:

Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can’t be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.

Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy of torture became the fault of a few “bad apples” in the military.

Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It’s interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.

Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.

Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started. Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.

Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.

Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.

Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.

Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.

Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.

Somehow torture is tolerated.

Somehow lying is tolerated.

Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.

Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.

Somehow a narrative is more important than reality.

Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.

Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world.

Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.

Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.

Somehow this is tolerated.

Somehow nobody is accountable for this.

In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don’t be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that “somehow” was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.

Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat’s birthday.

Brother and Friend of Pat Tillman,

Kevin Tillman