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Please call/write your senators and ask them to follow through on this! Thanks, Sap | ||
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My U.S. Senators are both anti-gun leftists, so writing them would do little good. (It's not as if I haven't tried.) On a more personal note: It's just as well I'm not hot to get one of these. It would seem that, despite being a veteran, I don't meet the Requirements for Purchase "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Do No Harm, Do Know Harm |
Which, specifically? Short of not being a citizen, anybody can manage to qualify for CMP purchase pretty easy. Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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Sigforum K9 handler |
This is great to see. They have been trying to give these away by the crate to LE for several years. | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
This, specifically:
Not a member of any club at all. CMP-affiliated or otherwise. I don't care and I'm not complaining. I was just mildly surprised, was all. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
Join the Garand Collectors Association. It's $25 a year and counts as an affiliated club. They also share your membership with the CMP so basically you don't have to do anything. You get a high quality quarterly journal with cool articles about the Garand and other things too. http://thegca.org/product/gca-membership-2/ | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
Glock Sport Shooting Foundation qualifies. $35 to join. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
mbinky beat me to it. As a sidenote, how close are you to Howell? The Howell Gun Club is CMP recognized, has the only 300 yard range in Livingston County, is building a IDPA range, has 50 and 100 yard outdoor ranges, Trap and Skeet and a 50 foot indoor range with heat and good ventilation. Take a look at the website, takes two member signatures on your application, just happen to know a couple members............  -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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Pulling up my own state, I see Boy Scout troops, Venture crews, 4-H clubs, Civil Air Patrol, a gunsmithing club, and the state version of the NRA in addition to a number of actual shooting clubs that qualify. There's a little something for everyone. | |||
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| Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon  |
I was a member when I lived in Michigan. Truly excellent club, I loved the indoor range and all the guys on Sunday morning teaching me some trap. I haven't found any clubs like it in TN since I moved here. Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
I know the club well. I've been there a time or two. One of my best friends, who just passed away in March, was quite heavily involved in the club. A great club but further than I'd often drive to shoot or participate in club activities. (If I was going to join a gun club, there are two nearby that are much closer. [One of in which I was once a member.] Three, if you count Detroit Sportsmen's Congress, which is closer to me than HGC.) Guys: That remark about CMP purchasing eligibility was simply an aside. It's unimportant to me. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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You stated you are a veteran. Why not join the VFW, if you were overseas, or the American Legion, if not. Or the DAV if you were wounded. There's a lot of organizations that would qualify you as a veteran. If you retired or are active in the military, that qualifies you too. The standard for qualifying is rather low, but you do need to take five minutes to sign up for some organization, assuming you didn't do 20 good years. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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Are these the $1000 1911's that were talked about when they were blocked? http://www.alloutdoor.com/2016...fficer-mark-johnson/ ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
^ I think so. | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
I know the club well. I've been there a time or two. One of my best friends, who just passed away in March, was quite heavily involved in the club. A great club but further than I'd often drive to shoot or participate in club activities. (If I was going to join a gun club, there are two nearby that are much closer. [One of in which I was once a member.] Three, if you count Detroit Sportsmen's Congress, which is closer to me than HGC.) Yes, I slightly was acquainted with your friend, not well but knew of him. A notice was posted inside the clubhouse of his passing. I saw it the day of the Women On Target program early in June. -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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Historically, very cool to own one for what it is. Unfortunately, not worth it to me at $1k plus each. My father's description of Vietnam era 1911s was less than favorable(better for a hammer than anything else, etc) and definitely not putting them into Dan Wesson pricing territory. Would be more excited to see more carbines come in and I like 1911s. A Perpetual Disappointment... | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
I'm assuming that the NRA and TSRA would comply? (Yep--TSRA is an accepted club.) flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
Yeah, he was a big-time participant in Women On Target. (I think he may even have run the program at HGC?) Always posted a a raft of photos about it on his FB page every year.
Shooting an M1911 at a base range when I was in the Army was what turned me off to M1911s. The word "rattletrap" was the first thing that entered my mind at the time. I've since handled many well-built 1911s, but, that initial impression will not leave me, thus, I've rarely been inclined to buy one--particularly considering the prices the nicer ones demand. I would not care to own an example of what I shot back in the early 70's. Not even for free. Certainly not for $1k.
The NRA is not a CMP-affiliated club. Have no idea about the TSRA. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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