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Someone posted about people focusing on the opening of a firearm pointed at them. I have to agree with this. In my only (hopefully never again) experiance with a gun being pointed at me, it was during a street robbery. The handgun was presented in the first seconds, and the barrel...

Looking back at the original topic, i realize that my post does not involve an "unloaded gun," so I apologize for the tangent. Regarding the deer in the head lights syndrome...As the attempted mugging unfolded, I very disticntly remember thinking to myself "I don't like this TV show, I'm...

Back in 01-02 I was out late at night in the wrong part of town in Belize City Belize. A guy rode up on a bicycle, pointed a silver automatic handgun at me, and demanded my money. Another guy was with me, and the mugger kept changing his point of aim from me to the other guy and back. I...

I just took my first Krav Maga class earlier this week, and plan to take some more. Probably only a month or two of weekly classes due to finances. Anyway, I obviously am no expert after one class, but I can say that the class was hard work. It is very much geared to the individual, i.e. it...

nice! Very interesting idea, and the results look really cool! Honestly, I would be interested in seeing images like this of almost any firearm...maybe scan a marlin model 60 and I'll finally be able to figure out why mine won't cycle reliably! Thanks for your time on this project!

Thank you for sharing your experiances, it's a real eye opener to hear what you when through. I have never had to deal with legal ramifications, but I was envolved in a very violent encounter that stuck with me for a long time. I can relate to what you said about replaying events in your...

Thanks for the into Bubba613. Doug Jackson struck me as stand up guy during that one brief interview. Glad to hear that his record/actions support that view. It seems pretty rare that an elected official (or anyone really) would actually come out and say, "I was wrong." good for him.

NPR did an interview with Doug Jackson, who I beleive is a democratic senator from Tennasee. I do not know Mr. Jackson's record, but he had co-sponsered a bill that required Tennasee police departments to sell confiscated guns, rather then destroy them. He seemed very supportive of...

84, Thanks for sharing, and thank you for your service.

Thanks for the replies, its good to get other peoples take on this.

I have not bought any new guns since moving in with the girlfriend, but I know I will not really "show them off" to her when I do make a purchase. She comes from an anti family...and its kind of a grey area for her. I do own a certain rifle with russian ancestry that accepts 30 round...

I don’t post a lot, and this post does involve some amount of “shtf” discussion. If THR isn’t the place for this, I apologize in advance. So I’ve read several posts where folks had unknown bad guys/drunks/random people banging on their front doors, and trying break through into the house...

thanks Roostrider for expending the time and emotional energy to post your story. Reading your post gives me some insight into an experience I had several years ago that was very different in the details, but similar in my reaction to it. Thanks for helping me understand.

Thanks for the post coloradokevin.

gunbroker buyer resources If you're unhappy with the local dealer transfer fees, you might be able to track down alternatives under the buyer link on gunbroker. They let you search for ffl holders by zip code. I found a guy that did gun sales out of his house as a second job, and charged...