H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619

Well, okay. I have to admit I didn't know it could take so long. I agree that is not right.

How did I miss this? Sorry, but these things are just not worth it. Now THIS is the way to go...

This one bothers me a lot. I can't tell you how many times I've had a gun just left on my porch. It's a little frightening, to be honest. This has been things purchased on my C&R, and sometimes gun being returned to me by gunsmiths. What's even more disturbing is how I get the e-mail saying it was signed for. And this has included things that can be legally sent through the mail.

I have to say, of all the reasons stated, that's a pretty weak one. Seems like it would not take any longer than doing the NICS check for an in store purchase.

Got it. What's the "Pale Rider" category?

Broken link...

Is there going to be a Northeast regional/Guns of August shoot out in Ohio this year? I checked the club website where it was held last year, and while the registration for last year's event is still there, there is nothing listed for this year.

As a C&R holder, I feel that it is incumbent on ME to know what is and is not eligible. And I do find it distressing how so many C&R holders are ignorant of what they can do. No. The age of the design does not a C&R gun make. The age of the GUN does. Unless it's one of those rare ones "on the list" that are less than 50 years old. In cases like that, I will quote the listing in the book and ask the seller if they will accept. If they won't, I don't argue. I might be disappointed, but it's their Business, not mine. (For example, my recently acquired Patton commemorative. Obviously, they accepted it.) With regard to the sales tax, I will admit that a couple of times I have purchased in a brick and mortar shop, the dealer told me it was sales tax exempt. Others have said it's not. I don't know. I don't ask. I leave that up to the dealer. Their reasoning was that it was not a "sale" it was a "transfer" from one FFL to another. Since so many dealers have said different things, I don't know what the reality is. I don't blame you for only doing it in person, and you HAVE explained in understandable terms why some dealers are hesitant. It's rather sad that it's brought about by foolishness on the part of C&R holders. If I ever make it back to Nevada, I'll stop by your shop, Creeker.

For the record, over the years I have purchased several C&R type firearms and had them shipped to my house from several other states. I have also used it to purchase in brick and mortar stores in other states and cash and carry out the door. One of the reasons I got the C&R was because many of the guns useful in this game qualify, and are hard to find in my home state. There have always been a small handful of dealers who had misgivings about shipping to Massachusetts, even though they can, and to tell the truth, I don't blame them for their hesitancy. But this is a fairly new phenomenon that I am noticing, a lot of online sellers saying "No C&R Sales" at all of any kind to any location. (As an aside, it is not unusual to go into a LGS around here, and see the tag on a pistol say, "For sale only to C&R holders.) Again, I have seen the random place do this over the years, but it was a rarity. In the past year or so, it seems to be becoming more and more common.

I have noticed that more and more people selling things on Gunbroker, usually gunshops but not always, are noting right in the details that they will not ship eligible firearms to a C&R FFL anymore. On the one hand, okay, it's their FFL and if they won't do it, I can't force them. But I do wonder WHY they are acting this way. I've seen more than a few guns recently on Gunbroker, and other online sites, that were of interest to me, but they were all. "we don't ship to C&R holders anymore." Are their any regular FFL holders here that can shed some light on this? It's very "irksome."

Those are great pistols. Used to have one.

What kind of a choke?

Eh, people have been talking about this for as long as I can remember. It'll never change. As to who would want it, who would oppose it, and who doesn't care one way or the other, I have no idea what the breakdown would be..

Well, yeah. But that would require a rule change.

And in all my years of shooting CAS, I've only ever been to 1 shoot in Pennsylvania that allowed it. Wish more clubs would do it.

Again, I don't understand why. The gun was designed with a 5 round magazine Wild Bunch requires a 97. (Or at least it used to.) Why does it write 6 round stages when the required gun only holds 5? You are pretty much forcing people to modify their guns. That makes no sense.

A few years ago, when S&W temporarily reintroduced the M1917, I wrote and asked them if they would consider marketing the .30 carbine version. They did respond. With a polite no.

I've never understood why the 6 round mod is needed.

Have you considered buying from the CMP?

.30 Carbine? Sure, if I could load it with Trail Boss, I'd shoot it in a derringer! Got the same price as above for the .32-20 version from American. Along with the words, "They are not allowed in Massachusetts." So that ends that....

Anybody ever make one?

Those events were in 1775 actually. Too bad you didn't swing by Bedford and the Public Library to see the actual flag that was carried into battle by our Minutemen and was "to April's breeze unfurled." But, Lexington and Concord (pronounced "conquered" not "Concorde) are great places to visit.

Well, you see, that's the strange part. It may be being held in Maine, but it's the TriState shoot for Massachusetts/Connecticut and Rhode Island. There may be some Maine shooters there, maybe even some from New Hampshire or Vermont, but it's "not for them." Something to consider. And who knows, the last several years, I'd been officiating at the Cowboy Church service on Sunday. Haven't been asked to this year though... But I'm still going. I think I'll shoot my Bisley's and Lightning in .32-20 this time around

I wish you could come to the Massachusetts/Connecticut/Rhode Island Tri-State match. It's being held in Maine this year. That would, I suppose, count for 4 states at once! It's in early June this year. On a similar light, the "Northeast Regional" is held out in the MidWest in Ohio in early August. I may try to get to that one this year.

$crooge McDuck would admire you.