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    Showing Off Your CCW Unsafe?

    Citation? "Brandishing" typically requires intent to intimidate.
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    Guns no longer welcome at Starbucks

    Yes, there is. You can't decide not to be your ethnicity. You can disarm yourself. One is banning the person, the other is prohibiting an item. While I think neither should be law, there is certainly a difference.
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    Guns no longer welcome at Starbucks

    My local Dunkin' Donuts is a combination store that is also a Baskin Robbins. It's across the street from the a college campus, and I take my daughter there 1-2 times a week on average. I've never had a negative comment there.
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    Guns no longer welcome at Starbucks

    It's been a while since I was on THR, so my social skills w/r/t to this forum may be a bit rusty. I say this as politely as I can, but I have to say it. What gives you the right to judge my intentions? I OC daily, and I can assure you than none of your assertions are correct. I carry...
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    A "Best Buy" in Chicagoland 2012: Selling (s)crap metal at a gun turn in

    I saw the story on FoxNews - thought "Hey, I bet that's Templar!" Sure enough :)
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    "Bubba" guns - Just launched a new website

    Thanks Der Stro - yes, we have several more photos to run, but we're really going to need user participation to keep it running. One of the next guns on the list is AR with a hand-fluted barrel (done with a Dremel). I try to take heart in the fact that most of these guns, even if not attacked...
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    "Bubba" guns - Just launched a new website

    Not sure if this really belongs here, but I thought I'd give it a shot. I and a couple of colleagues have just finished up the first iteration of BubbaGun.com, a website featuring the worst hacked-up, home gunsmithing projects we can get photos of. I'd greatly appreciate it if you guys would...
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    The Marlin 39 Club

    Just stumbled upon this thread, yet again, and find myself being drawn into it. A buddy of mine just wrote an article on the Marlin 39, and I've loved mine for years. I mostly shoot CCI CB Longs out of it, and .22 Short HPs for squirrels.
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    Firearm readiness with a child in the home?

    I'm in the same situation - we've got a curious 2-year-old. To make matters worse, we live in a small home, and she sleeps in our bedroom. She's often up before us, and can get into things before we're awake. For my handgun, I just bought this: For the rifle, I'm thinking about...
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    Gun Website question

    subguns.net is the other popular NFA site. Their classifieds have helped me pass many a boring day at the office.
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    Shooting-related Computer Wallpapers

    I'll have to contact Stickman. I'm careful to observe copyright, and his are marked
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    Shooting-related Computer Wallpapers

    If anyone is interested, I recently launched Guns Wallpapers, a site dedicated to providing high-quality, free gun-related wallpapers. I have a bunch of great photos on my hard drive from an online magazine I'm working on, and it just seemed a shame to let them sit there in the dark. I'll be...
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    Would you take a 2 year old to a Gun show?

    I took my daughter first when she was 18 months. She sat in her stroller, which was a pain to maneuver, but that was the only bad part. In fact, I had an Israeli k98 slung over my shoulder during that trip, and traded it for a very nice CZ-52. These days, she's 2 1/2, and she rides on my...
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    Stay away from Marlin 1895 .45-70s...

    I've always wanted one of those, with a scout-mount red dot or Burris 2x pistol scope. Sexy is the right word for it.
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    Ruger Mini 30 and steel cased Russian ammo (ie, Wolf)

    My Mini-14 has run everything I've ever thrown at it. The Minis are not known for accuracy, but they're also not known to be picky eaters :)
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