I am a retired sailor with 31 years of active duty. The minimum time for retirement regardless of rank is 20 years of active duty. I know of no instance in the last 50 years when an early retirement was authorized and that would literally require an act of congress to make it happen.
LarryJr, I am going to side with you on this one. I see no need to scare the soccer mom's and the little old ladies (and men for that matter) who don't want to know how dangerous the world has become. If the point of open cary is to simply exercise the right to cary, I get that and it has...
"you ain't from around here are you....."
I have had this experience several times. Always on the first visit and if it is bad enough I don't go back for a second visit.
Smart move, the worst thing the NRA could do now is to appear to be defending the guy who did this, and the MSM will spin any statement by the NRA in that direction. Silence until the media firstorm is past is the reasonable way to aproach this.
It is not possible to educate the clueless, Costas and his kind are a lost cause. Our part is to make sure they don't get the last word on the subject in public. As for Britan, they long ago took the guns away from their citizens, now the talk is about banning knives outside the kitchen because...
How many of us have the actual tactical skills to operate in a situation like that? 9/11 was the worst day of my life, I lost someone dear to me, the plane that hit the Pentagon flew through her office window on the E ring. There are places where an armed citizen can make a difference but an...
We used to call it a "clearing barrel" it was a 50 gallon steel drum filled with sand and set at a 45 degree angle on a steel stand next to the entrance to the base. it would stop anything we were carying. You really didn't want to put one in that barrell......
Hi folks, I'm Jim, I hadn't picked up a gun, much less pulled a trigger, since I left the Navy in 95 until Strongcrow twisted my arm and got me to Friday Night Steel. I am hooked. Thanks and thanks for the great site!