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- Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:31 am
- Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
- Topic: Pulled over ... while walking
- Replies: 82
- Views: 11557
Re: Pulled over ... while walking
This was definitely an illegal stop. Don't quibble about words like "arrested" or "detained": you were seized (in the legal meaning of the term)! You were not violating any law, but you were accosted and handcuffed. This was not even a Terry Stop, although that's probably how the...
- Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:24 am
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Open Carry.Org Targets Texas
- Replies: 166
- Views: 21966
Re: Open Carry.Org Targets Texas
OpenCarry.org, a Virginia-based organization.... I didn't realize that Virginia-based organizations were unwelcome in Texas. Don't you happen to sit on the Board of Directors of a Virginia-based organization? ;-) OpenCarry.org is no more an "organization" than TexasCHLforum.com is. I woul...
- Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:28 am
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: i would like to make my own holster
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1730
Re: i would like to make my own holster
Heat it. Mold it. Cut away the excess.lunchbox wrote:how would i make a holster out of a sheet of kydex
If you google it, you will find more thorough instructions.
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:17 am
- Forum: Rifles & Shotguns
- Topic: Marlin 795SS range report
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3271
Re: Marlin 795SS range report
Rimfire rifles are as fickle about ammo as teenage girls are about boyfriends. Sometimes they pick the one from the wrong side of the tracks, and if it makes her happy, we just need to get over our snobbery and accept it. ;-) Seriously, I've had rifles that shot miserable groups with Green Tag or El...
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:09 am
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: MYSA.COM TEXAS GUNS KILL IN MEXICO
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1011
Re: MYSA.COM TEXAS GUNS KILL IN MEXICO
The Mexican government can't afford to guard their northern border. They're too busy trying to keep Guatemalans and Hondurans and Panamanians from sneaking north to work illegally in Mexican fields and clothing factories. To the degree that they guard the northern border at all, it's mostly to ensur...
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:55 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Pet peeves outdoors
- Replies: 94
- Views: 12681
Re: Pet peeves outdoors
I wouldn't have a gripe with cigarette butts if they were biodegradable, but they're synthetic and will last forever. Unfiltered? The paper and tobacco will disappear in a week, composted back into the earth from whence they came. But filters last as long as throwing a piece of carpet on the ground.
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:52 am
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Open Carry.Org Targets Texas
- Replies: 166
- Views: 21966
Re: Open Carry.Org Targets Texas
As long as they continue to have some sort of training/education/certification/test in order to carry legally, and then grandfather current CHLers, I guess that I would be OK with OC.... Sir, it looks like your internet registration is out of date. May I see your political commentary license, please?
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:49 am
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What is the fascination with the AK?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1848
Re: What is the fascination with the AK?
Could be that they work every time no matter what condition or what you do to them. While they're rugged, I wouldn't go that far. I've handled a number of military AK-47s that weren't reliable at all because of poor storage conditions. We kept them around in the Army for "threat familiarizatio...
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:37 am
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: i would like to make my own holster
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1730
Re: i would like to make my own holster
For Kydex, all you need are common household tools and your oven.
For leather, one of the most valuable tools you can have is a vacuum pump. Vacuum-forming beats the heck out of hand boning!
For leather, one of the most valuable tools you can have is a vacuum pump. Vacuum-forming beats the heck out of hand boning!
- Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:37 pm
- Forum: Other States
- Topic: No carry at New Orleans Insectarium
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1103
Re: No carry at New Orleans Insectarium
I can't carry a BUG? "rlol" By the way, the "U.S. Custom House" in New Orleans, where the Audubon Insectarium is located, is not a "Federal facility". The Customs offices are not located there, and even if they were, the insectarium is not where where federal employees...
- Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:19 pm
- Forum: Never Again!!
- Topic: Mumbai photographer: Armed police would not fire back
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1764
Re: Mumbai photographer: Armed police would not fire back
Those bolt-action rifles look like good old-fashioned small-magazine Lee Enfields left over from the British occupation. Quibble: SMLE is an abbreviation for (Rifle), Short, Magazine, Lee-Enfield. It is the rifle that is short, not the magazine. Those in use in India aren't leftovers, they were alm...
- Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:30 pm
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Kid's Sporting Events
- Replies: 7
- Views: 899
Re: Kid's Sporting Events
Little League is not a school sponsored event, but teams are organized by ZIP codes, which can often make them effectively, and perhaps actually, linked by school district.
(That's my understanding, anyway; we don't have LL here, just Dixie Youth.)
(That's my understanding, anyway; we don't have LL here, just Dixie Youth.)
- Sat Nov 29, 2008 9:12 pm
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Crisis Building in Neighborhood
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5074
Re: Crisis Building in Neighborhood
1. Lots of motion-activated lights. 2. Lots of video game cams. 3. A second, more formal, visit with the uncle and a friendly deputy. After that: CPS, a private attorney, a restraining order and/or order of protection, and criminal charges (in that order). At that same time, I cannot help but be awa...
- Sat Nov 29, 2008 8:47 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Wal-Mart employee trampled to death
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1307
Re: Wal-Mart employee trampled to death
Why would a temp maintenance guy be in charge of opening the doors, except that they understood the risk and considered it best that the worker at the greatest risk be one without their insurance? I suspect the lawyers representing the estate of the deceased, as well as his loved ones, will take no...
- Sat Nov 29, 2008 8:36 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Saudi author advises on the proper way to beat your wife
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1749
Re: Saudi author advises on the proper way to beat your wife
Jesus reminded us that "eye for an eye" isn't touted, but is a limitation on retribution. You can't take a life for an eye, or a limb for a tooth.atxgun wrote:Exodus 21:24 touts an eye for an eye but I don't think many christians would cite that as grounds for such retribution.