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Between pax's stolen guns thread, and all this talk of various safes, lockboxes, vaults, and so forth, I'm finally approaching paranoid enough. I only own three guns, and none of them are anything particularly special (Steyr M9, Beretta Neos, Mosin M44), but I'm in a situation where even a few...

Cracked butt and some other fans of The Shooter's Shop in Milwaukee have tossed around the idea of a THR shooting night at the range there. I'm not much of a leader/organizer, but I figured a good place to start would be to see how many people might be up for such a thing, and what sorts of...

It's important to note before we begin that Wisconsin charges different college tuition rates to students who are in state as opposed to out of state. Out of state tuition, obviously, is higher (by about a factor of two when I was in school five years ago), since the student's family is...

I realize I'm about to post several questions, and the answers to them are almost certainly scattered about here and on the web, so I'm mostly hoping to get some good pointers to resources. Of course, I'd also be happy to read any information you want to actually post, so don't let my goals stop...

I know there's a pretty high concentration of current- or ex-military folks on THR, so I'm hoping you can help me answer a question that came up a while back between a friend of mine and myself. When we were talking about it, the conversation was limited to the Interstate system, but it's...

I'm going to be in the Twin Cities this weekend for my brother-in-law's graduation. We're heading up tomorrow night, and coming back Sunday. Since even he isn't going to be partying for that entire time, I'm thinking about taking some guns and some ammo, and offering to take him and my sister...

OK - I need to get all my ducks in a row. I'm about to move into an apartment with an old friend of mine. He's a self-proclaimed liberal - but intelligent and rational. Most of his political beliefs he inherited, and he hasn't really thought about them too much. Among them, of course, is a...

So, in doing some research to get my facts straight before I responded to another thread, I ran across some interesting claims regarding the US government. Of course, the places I got them seemed...suspect...in terms of having a very specific agenda, and I couldn't tell if this was legit or not...

Let's just stipulate right at the beginning that much of the stuff Ted Nugent says is over-the-top, and not actually an accurate depiction of how most - almost all - gun owners behave. I've seen a lot of people on THR complain about this, particularly his recent comments at an NRA rally. They...

Has anyone tried "the World's Finest Earplugs"? If they really do give 34dB attenuation, I'd be more than happy to pay what they're charging for them, but their site just screams "SNAKE OIL!" at me. OTOH, it's entirely possible that they just don't recognize the value of spending money on a web...

I'm not going to be able to afford it for a while, but I'm pondering my next handgun purchase. Since I don't own one, one of the contenders is a 1911 in .45. But I don't know what to make of all the things I've read on here about them. I'll admit that I'm not (yet, at least) much of a...

In another thread, Parallax asked: This got me to thinking. To most of us here, the wording in the 2nd Amendment is pretty clear. But that pesky phrase about a militia and occasional arguments about the definition of "arms" have been used to steadily erode RKBA. So what wording should the...

"Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo -...

A hypothetical question. I'm going to be moving in May to an apartment in a highly gun-unfriendly city (Madison, WI). If the property owner were to take it into his head to do so, could he legally bar me from keeping guns on the premises? If so, would it have to be in the text of the lease...

Some friends of mine and I have decided we want to try livening up our range time by playing cricket. Of course, playing cricket with a dartboard that fits on a sheet of 8.5x11 would be...challenging, at best, given the 50' range we use - not to mention anything bigger than .22 would obliterate...

I'm ambling, slowly, to full-fledged gun-nut-ism. Just picked up my third gun (bear in mind I bought my first in February), a Beretta U22 Neos (4.5" bbl) .22. So I've got a plinker to go with my adequate-for-defense gun (Steyr M9...which has the advantage of also having cheap enough ammo for me...

Anyone who read my first few posts on THR is well aware that I was a complete novice regarding firearms a few months ago. I'm proud to say this is no longer true - I'm not a complete novice anymore. The road from there to here is about a thousand rounds long, and of no real interest to anyone...

Don't know if I should be posting here or in the Trading Post, so if this needs to be moved, please do. Anyway What's involved in a transfer from someone to me through an FFL? What has to be sent to whom? Is this a service most gun shops will provide? What's a reasonable fee to pay for it...

A few things I need to clarify before I actually raise the question. First, I'm assuming that everyone here accepts that the 2nd Amendment has been systematically and increasingly violated in both its text and its intent over the course of the last century plus. If anyone wants to disagree with...

The collective wisdom of THR has always come through for me so far, so here I am again. It looks like I'm going to be moving from Milwaukee to Madison this summer, though still working in Milwaukee (at least until I can find something in Madison). I just recently discovered the joys of shooting...