Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

Well, if they're all living in the same trailer park...

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It usually, it appears to me, that whenever a book is made into a movie, whoever does so want to "put his own spin" on the story, as though they think that even though the book is so popular that it's now going to be a movie, the author didn't get it quite right. News flash for any Hollywierd type that thinks that, YOU'RE WRONG!!! The one exception I can think of was the PBS "Mystery" series of Sherlock Holmes. They did about 40 of the stories back in the '80s, and IMNSHO, they did them right.

I've been carrying on my person for over 30 years, in my vehicle for about 20 before that. Never needed it, but always glad to have it handy. There have been a few times that I'm certain that the sight of a gun on my hip has stopped trouble before it began, but I've never needed to actively do anything with it. And I would want to top it off if the need arose, but I'm NOT going to carry loose ammo to do it. A round from a spare magazine as I mentioned before, from my belt slide, speed loader, or even replacing a partially empty moon clip with a full one, yes. But if I've GOT ammo in a spare magazine, belt slide, speed loader, or moon clip, WHY would I carry loose ammo?

The aforementioned H&K P7. ONE guy on Gunbroker has USA magazines for them for $25. I don't know why, when everybody else has USAs for $75, everything else IS around $150.

Somebody get up with Forty Rod and ask HIM what he would have liked back then!

I didn't see "Starship Troopers" or "The Number of the Beast" on there.

If you said that, you'd get in trouble with the Church, which pretty much ran things back then. They'd have you imprisoned or killed outright just to keep their power base.

In "Starship Troopers" he mentions "Back in the XXth century. And in "The Number of the Beast" when they are looking at a American History book from an alternate reality, Zeb is startled to see that many years ago there was a President Carter. But I don't remember it getting any more specific than that.

Knowing Alpo, he'd try to google how to make...

I was at a gas station here in Tucson some years back when a Newby Tucson Officer, (who it turned out was from Kalifornia), started giving me crap for carrying my gun. His T.O. yanked him aside and informed him that this was NOT Kalifornia and that guns are LEGAL here. The T.O. then came over to me and apologised for his Trainee's behaviour. I told him not to worry. I figured that he would straighten the guy out. As was getting ready to leave, the Trainee was STILL giving me the Evil Eye. Just because I'm an A$$hole, I turned, with my hands down at my sides, and said "You'll never make it". His eyes bugged out, he started yelling and gesticulating wildly, and the T.O. grabbed him again as I got into my Jeep and drove away.

Like a belt slide. I have a 12 round clip on slide in .45 Colt for when I carry my RNM Vaquero.

This happens about twice as often as a reported school shooting.

When I was a young Marine, we carried 6 magazines in pouches on the belt, 1 in the rifle. We sometimes did carry bandoliers, but that was the factory packaging. They look like this: It had 7 pouches that carried 2, 10 round stripper clips with a clip adapter, (the gray thing). It was fitted to the magazine so that you could just slide the stripper clip into it and push the ammo into the magazine in one quick move. That's a far cry from loose in the pocket. Here's one for you, .45ACP rounds fit in a .38/ .357 Speed Strip. When I had my .45 Pitbull I was planning to do that.

It just doesn't make sense to carry loose rounds in your pocket just as a matter of EDC. I suppose that I might have a couple there if I'd just come from the range and just dumped the in my pocket. Carrying them loose is as bad as carrying a pistol loose in your pocket. They're going to get covered in dust, dirt, just basic "pocket lint" in short order, making them harder to load and more likely to cause a FTF. A third magazine makes much more sense. Swap out magazines for the Tactical Reload. Place the partially expended magazine in place of your second spare magazine so that a full loaded is next up. If you need to perform a second Tactical Reload, load your first spare, top off one of the others and replace it as your first spare magazine, still leaving a partial for the second spare. .

I'd more likely carry another magazine.

"How's that work?" No idea. But it must pay alright because it sure seems that there are a lot of Creators that do it as a full time job. Anybody else watch Motor Trend TV? They were bought out and shut down. Now, everybody who had a show there has a Youtube channel. So that's how they're making a living now. As for AI voice videos, I open individual videos in a separate tabs. When I find a video like that, I give it a "Down Thumb", comment that I hate the AI voice, then go back to the still open Youtube home page, and click "Don't Recommend Channel". "So why, I wonder, do they continue to use it?" I'd guess either laziness or English isn't their first language.

NOT UNTIL HE GETS WHAT HE DESERVES !

And they all vote.

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I would have told him. My Dad didn't care for guns, but he wasn't anti-gun. He WAS as honest as the day is long, and I trusted him to do the Right Thing. I'm sure that it would have meant calling the Police and turning it over to them. Even if I HAD found a gun as a teenager, what could I do with it? Even back then I wouldn't have been old enough to buy ammo for it. I wouldn't have been able to go shoot it anywhere. By the time I could have, I'd have almost been old enough to do so on my own. Which is exactly what I did. And No, Alpo, you and the rest of the world DON'T think alike. We have enough problems.

They're used to abbreviating everything while texting on their da*n phones.

The Landmaster from "Damnation Alley".

Look at it this way: They're letting us know who they are.

Yeah. When we were in the process of being arrested, and the Officers saw what was really happening, they actually apologised for having to do so. I always suspected that there was a Deputy D.A. looking to make a name for himself over this, but we got out of Georgia so fast that I never got the chance to ask.