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| Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 02:09 am |
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Bama46
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5 to 4... a stronger majority would have been more "bulletproof"..pun intended.. but the decision that the 2nd ammendment means exactly what it says and that the right to own a firearm is an individual and not a 'collective" right is certainly welcome news in this household!... makes me want to go buy another one!
This decision has been a LONG time coming..I have been waiting all my adolescent and adult life..50 years ... WAHOO !!!!!
I have had my eye on a Ruger (P-40) in .40 Smith for a while... Now to decide if I really want to have to buy the dies and stuff to set up yet another caliber on my Dillon..
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 03:13 am |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 01:22 pm |
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j harold 587
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Bama,when I retired my duty weapon was a Sig in .40 S/W. Since it was less than two years old I had to pay full state purchase price so I could keep it. I am not a big fan of autoloaders, but it is probably the best shooting pistol I have ever owned. You would not regret going to the .40 cal.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 01:54 pm |
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I have several autoloaders, most notably a 1911A1 that I have extensively modified..new sights, trigger job, polished ramp, new hammer, etc, etc.. but the .40 will be the first of the DA autoloaders I will own. I am still not sure of them as I see the potential for a real screwup... had a relative who was in a gunstore lookin at a Glock and asked how to decock it. A state trooper was standing next to him, pulled his duty weapon ( a Glock) to demonstrate the procedure. The trooper shot my relative in the butt accidentally. Relative went to the hospital and surgery, the trooper lost his job.
Single Action Autoloaders are safer than revolvers (MHO) and WAY safer than DA autoloaders... that is why I have been holding back. I understand the SA, but not so much the DA
Ed
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 05:22 pm |
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What is scary is that the vote was that close and four of the judges were that clueless as to what the Bill of Rights was about. The BoR wasn't put in place for militia rights but for individual rights. I don't take too much comfort in the outcome, especially with the outlook for who will be appointing judges in the next four years.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 05:26 pm |
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I agree, but a dirty win is better than a clean loss...
We still have the right, but once lost, it will NEVER be regained.
Ed
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 08:37 pm |
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Johan Steele
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Good thread; right on the $. What frightens me is that the Supreme Court hsa become so political. To me, this decision proves it; splt along liberal/conservative lines.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 08:46 pm |
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Bama46
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Everything else in our society is split along liberal/conservative lines, why not the court?
I believe this country is on precipice (sp?..Thank you Gen Jackson!) and could very easliy split itself apart
Ed
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28th, 2008 02:09 am |
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Johan Steele
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I think it's been on a precipice sp? since the CW and well prior. In the last forty odd years we've been on the brink... yet somehow by the grace of god we persevere. I sometimes wonder what kind of world I've brought my kids into but in fairnes my grandparents probably thought the same thing.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28th, 2008 02:43 am |
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I don't think they did... at least mine didn't, but I am much older than you...my grandparents grew up much like their parents did, but from that time on, we can't recognize what last year looked like, much less what a geneeration ago looked like
Ed
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Johan Steele
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Bama, my grandparents brought my parents into this world during the depression and WW2. I can very well see them wondering.
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My grandfather was born in 1895...he lived until 1954. Was a Captain in WW I (France)
My grandmother was born in 1903 and lived until 1997.
They were born before the automobile and lived their early lives much as their ancestors had. I find my grandparents lives to be facinating in that they lived thru so much change...literally from horses to rockets and from the telephone as the newest technology to computers.
My grandfather never gave the 2nd ammendment a 2nd thought.. as he never would have considered not carrying a firearm everywhere he went... and today we rejoyce in the fact that 5 old men saved our rights...for now at least
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Johan Steele
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Well said, my grandmother and your grandmother would have been contemporaries. She remembered the Wright brothers and their crazy flying machine, along with man walking on the moon. What a generation, eh?
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ole
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Pikers! My paternal grandfather was born in 1859. The grandmother in 1865. She passed on in 1933; he left us in 1949. Unfortunately, I was too young and too stupid to actually ask him some questions. Imagine the changes he went through. The steam tractor, Kitty Hawk, WWI and WWII. The Depression. Radio. A widowed daughter coming home with four children. Fortunately, he didn't live to see a grandson killed in Korea.
The stories are long and endless. Figure 1935. Father's widowed sister needs to be picked up in Minot, North Dakota. Take the Model A in the dead of winter, all the way up there, gather up her and her four children and baggage, and deliver her to her father's house. There were giants on the earth in those days. That was surely the greatest generation.
For many of you, that was your grandfather's time. It took a different kind of man and woman than we are used to to survive.
Worth thinking about.
ole
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"For many of you, that was your grandfather's time. It took a different kind of man and woman than we are used to to survive.
Worth thinking about."
ole
Yes, it is.... and that makes 3 times we have agreed!
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Ole,
I have an uncle, still living, whose grandfather carried a flag of truce at Appamattox... verified.. and I had his picture placed on the Wall of Honor at the visitor's center a year or so ago..
The flag he carried, a dinner napkin, is in the museum at the VC
When viewed in that light, the war really wasn't that long ago!Last edited on Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 02:39 pm by
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susansweet
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Ole our paternal grandfathers were born the same year, 1859. Sadly mine died in 1927 long before I was born. My paternal grandmother was born in 1868 she died in around 1936. My maternal grandfather was born in 1889 as was my grandmother. He died of swine flu in 1919 . My grandmother lost her husband her mother and her only son in an 18 month period back then. She almost lost her two daughters too to dieases that now kids get vacine for . Grandmother picked herself up got a job as a postmaster (yes master , she always said that is the title) then worked in a general store to take care of her family. No complains out of her ever that I know of. She married a man who was a widower . His wife had been my grandmother's good friend. They both lived into the 70's . Imagine all the changes they saw. They raised the two daughters to be good citizens, one a housewife and one a housewife and teacher.
I agree they were strong people. I respect them very much. Admire what they did and who they were . I also love them very much.
Susan
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