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Yeah, I'm done with them. They were cheaper on a couple of items I'd ordered, as well as the only source I could find on a few. But not anymore. Jon

Damn straight! I'm authorizing overtime and running 3-eight hour shifts until materials are GONE, UPS trucks parked at the loading dock. And then when the ban comes, our phones, computers, radios, and televisions don't work, loading up pickup trucks instead of UPS and distributing around the nation for the coming party. Jon

Remember Jim Zumbo? His totally getting slammed over his anti-AR comments a few years back helped to change a lot of opinions out there. And Ted Nugent rescuing his ass. Tom has it right about being generational but it is also a locale thing. Older hunters in this area are commonly carrying M-1 Carbines for javelina hunting and would carry M-1 Garands or M1As if it weren't for the weight. Go back to Pennsylvania and semi-autos are NOT hunt legal (or didn't used to be). Anyone you encounter with the attitude of "I don't need an assault weapon," just remind them that a few years ago the politicos were after "Scoped sniper-type weapons, that fire bullet-proof vest defeating ammunition." In other words, every single bolt-action centerfire rifle in production. First it will be "assault weapons", then "military and police style scoped sniper rifles", then "trench-warfare shotguns", then "cowboy range war lever-actions". ZERO COMPROMISE!!! Jon

That's great bro! I'd brought up teacher/staff training with our principal at the beginning of the year, we both put it on the back burner...'til Friday. We'll be doing an inservice training for all the staff after Christmas break. Jon

All of them brothers, not just the "bad ones": Jon

Well worth 12 minutes of your time: Jon

Signed, at just under 50,000 now. Jon

I usually go through Gunbroker, but got this email from Manny Delacruz at Guns America. Right on man! Jon We at GunAuction.com are horrified by the events that transpired in Newtown, CT on Friday, and wish to express our sympathies to the families of all those that have been affected. We know that nothing we can say will ease your pain in this trying time, but you are in our thoughts and prayers, and we dearly hope that you will come to find some comfort. That being said, there are many people, who in a very predictable fashion, are trying to use this tragedy to further their political agenda of restricting our 2nd Amendment rights. We all knew that with the re-election of Barack Obama, there would be the risk of a President unrestrained by the prospect of another campaign, who would reveal his true intentions of limiting freedom. We now see the President working with Sen. Feinstein, to revive her long discredited and discarded Assault Weapons Ban, in an attempt to harness the emotions of the moment for political gain. We at GunAuction.com would like to publicly declare that we fully understand the core purpose of the 2nd Amendment - to maintain the balance of power that exists between the government and the governed, and that we will never compromise our standards regarding the 2nd Amendment, that it is our 1st Amendment duty to provide this marketplace to the American public. We never wavered. We are FULLY open for business. Thanks for your loyalty and support. Manny DelaCruz CEO/GunAuction.com

My understanding is Cerberus is selling ALL of Freedom Group, the entire firearms kit-n-kaboodle. Not just Bushmaster. Jon

That SCREAMING deal on the Eotech from Chief just shipped!! Jon

After working 8 years with Severely Mentally Ill and 4 in corrections, I just have to say about the above... Yup. Jon

Mass shootings suck. Your feelings are understandable and normal. When the Tucson shooting occurred, I was separated by 1 or 2 degrees from lots of it. Students I've trained had just left Safeway minutes before it happened. My daughter attended school where Gifford's sister worked, and Pat Maisch (who was also shot) and her husband do the school heating/cooling systems. Dipwad bought the pistol he used (after passing the background check) at the store I used to work in, and still teach classes at the location. He went to highschool with a lot of the young employees there. The shooting was on Saturday. At 0630 on Sunday, I got a call from the New York Times. They'd gotten my contact off the store's website where the shooter allegedly bought the pistol used in the shooting. He wanted to know if myself, or any of the other instructors teaching there, had trained the shooter. The reporter was quickly advised that none of the instructors had taught this person, and that if someone as mentally unstable as the media was portraying him to be had contacted us, he would have been flagged and reported to authorities. No story there, no mention of it in print. Worldwide media reported the store had sold "the weapon responsible for the deaths in the shooting", so death threats started rolling in to the point the store had to quit answering the phone. One hysterical male came into the store screaming about murderers working there, was taken down and held for police. Marana PD posted officers around the clock in tactical gear, sans helmets. Tolerance my ass. Wednesday after the shooting, it was reported that an AZ Game & Fish officer had pulled over the shooter after he left a different retailer with the ammunition used in the shooting. All the death threats and anger calls then shifted to AZG&F for "letting the shooting happen". Knowing investigators, reports from the scene are both disturbing and mind boggling. The shooter was opportunistically methodical, firing a shot every 1 or 2 seconds. Of the scores of people present, nobody engaged the shooter, even though 20 or so were within a step or two...if not in arms reach...when the shooting started. Not one person engaged him while he was actively shooting, no folding knives planted in his neck, no pistol placed against the back of his skull, no "spontaneous take-downs" (pure YANK on the shoulders, head rupturing on asphalt or concrete), until his first magazine was empty. When removing and attempting to reload, Pat Maisch saw an opportunity (not the boastful fatass retired Colonel) and charged, wrestling with the shooter by grasping the 32-round Glock magazine. If she is 5' tall I'd be surprised. Others then jumped in to help. Of the two CCW Permit holders present that we know about, neither one felt they could take a safe shot with so many dozens of people running around. Also shot that day, Ron Barber (D), who won Gifford's seat in Congress and now calling for an AWB. Pat Maisch too, who being of such small stature, would never in her life have been able to wrestle away a standard-length or 10-round Glock magazine from the shooter. The very DAY of the shooting, the county sheriff calls his constituents hateful intolerant racists, blaming talk radio and conservatives for the shooting. The vitriol REALLY took off after that, with calls for tolerance and to arrest people for "hate speech". People on the conservative side said it was the deed of a deranged lunatic. The liberals and media would have none of it... ...until it came out that the shooter shot Gifford for not being liberal enough, being a "blue-dog democrat" that voted with Bush. Then, suddenly, the shooter was crazy. Better dope him up on meds! So what was evident that we as society can learn from the Tucson shooting? Police are a few magazines away...ultimately we are responsible for our own security. Untrained and undisciplined shooters can cause a LOT of damage in a few short minutes, IF left to continue upon their path by those in the area. Shooting may not be a viable response to shooting, put other weapons in the box. What else did we learn? Non-firearm liberals people are intolerant, hateful, vengeful people that will silence you in any way they can, in order to subjugate you to their every whim. Think I'm wrong? Put a NRA sticker on the back of your vehicle before you go out next time. Prepare for rocks and sticks. Brother, the pain and memories aren't going away. You weren't there. Could you have made a difference and saved children's lives? Probably. But don't kick yourself for another person's actions. What you can do now is increase the possibility to save the lives of children in future attacks. LOUDLY proclaim to do away with "gun free school zones" and to arm teachers, staff, and parents. Offer your services to train people in competent arms use (no "spray and pray" crap). Finally, do not under any circumstances bend on the current availability of firearms or magazines. Those spittle-spewing, hateful, vengeful, power-mongers will make Pol Pot look like a Girl Scout selling cookies once they have YOUR weapons. If you think a mass shooting is bad, think about having to watch thousands of people bludgeoned to death at the hands of "tolerant progressives". Jon

They ROCK!! Below is their statement. Jon Bravo Company USA Since there seems to be a number of fair weather venders profiting in the firearms industry, lets make it clear of our stance on the 2nd Amendment. "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." The founding fathers made the right to keep and bear arms second only to the freedom of speech in the Bill of Rights. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Mason, Samuel Adams and so many others, labored tirelessly to create a new nation with laws free from the tyranny of the old country. A place where the government would represent the people, not repress them. As Americans, we have the luxury of living in a developed society where we can develop ourselves through education and critical debate. We have a responsibility to question ideas and confront issues that we have a stake in as citizens of this nation, be that the rights of yourselves or the rights of others when threatened by the state. Firearms are, first and foremost, a tool to secure your life and the lives of others, against any aggressor. The people at Bravo Company USA and BCM support responsible civilians having access to the same tools of Law Enforcement to affect the same ends. Securing and defending ourselves, our loved ones and innocent people if the situation arises.

Where WE stop them. At the laws not being passed? At the enforcement of the law at the retail level? The confiscation of rifles and magazines? Jon

CTD has stopped all firearms sales online. Not even listed anymore. Another one to boycott. Jon

I'd thought about this also...plenty of former politicos in Cerberus/Freedom Group, lots of connections to listen to. Plus crybaby Boehner using these shooting headlines to quietly negotiate taxes being raised...no reason he wouldn't throw gunowners under the bus. Jon

Do they work with .22 LR ARs? Slidefires. Not Tom's jaw joints. Jon

It would have changed all our lives. Jon

Thanks guys. Looking on it I was ranting a bit. I've trained proficient persons that most would look at and say "They aren't a threat of any sort." Once they hit your off-switch it is too late to re-evaluate your underestimation of their skills. I feel in a few short months we are going to see mass despondency, as the handouts quickly dry up. We will then see who has the will to make due and who fails to succeed. Jon

Sounds like a lawyer's decision. I'll be glad to get them out of the firearms business. Jon

I just asked if someone could get a group discount. $300 looks like the regular price where I've checked. It would have to be substantially discounted for me to get one. Jon

Wrench...works. While the way this particular incident went down I don't like, I disagree with police in schools. Our willingness as a national community to shuck personal responsibilities (in this case, protection of our children) and have "someone do something about it" is nearly at its zenith. You know why media, politicians, and the "left" in general are against training and arming parental volunteers in schools? Because it will generate community bonds. It will show them that we don't need a government babysitter. Because it will remove the conditioning of having a uniformed agent of government in your life providing for you from your earliest communal interactions. Know what a cop is? It is an acronym: C.O.P.=Citizen On Patrol With great freedoms come great responsibilities. Sometimes those responsibilities aren't fun. Want another reality? We're broke. Place police in every school everywhere? With what are you generating their salaries? Borrowing more money from China? Parents, when pushed, WILL do what they have to for their children at no cost. Like in Israel. Try entering the school to do malevolent mischief. Everyone's responsibility. Jon

Her hip's strong than your jaw! <lmao> Turnbull does some beautiful work. This auction is for Serial # Uno. I'd shoot it to rebuild time. Jon

Like standard-capacity magazines, mental health is a distraction. A woman on the radio yesterday, top of her field with doctorates in psychology and psychiatry, THE go-to person for Aspergers, stated simply "This person knew right from wrong." And as they were discussing, I don't really care about the why. I care about stopping the next one, by teaching as many people as possible to incapacitate the next shooter...immediately and permanently. Jon

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=322196026 All that extra time you've been working, get two! <laughs> Jon