Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

From Wikipedia: The Deora is a 1965 Dodge A100 pickup truck that was heavily customized by Mike and Larry Alexander in Detroit for the 1967. Full entry here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deora_(custom_car)# From Core77: https://www.core77.com/posts/106582/Insane-1967-Dodge-Concept-Pickup-Had-Most-Elaborate-IngressEgress-Youve-Ever-Seen# Has before and after pics.

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.

I'll use me as a For Instance, though the State of Georgia already reinstated my Rights. Many years ago, my first wife and I wanted to adopt a baby. We were Stationed in Georgia at the time. We placed an ad in a local free paper stating such, and that finances would be paid by us. NOT that we wanted to "buy" a baby, but that we would pay medical expenses. Well Cobb County Georgia chose to read it that we WERE trying to buy a baby. They even extrapolated that we were STEALING babies and selling them. We weren't. We were arrested and charged with I can't even remember what now. But we were supposed to be Tried in 3 or 4 months. So we waited. And waited. And WAITED. The Charges were changed, and changed, and changed AGAIN. They finally settled for charging us with "Making an Illegal Advertisement" or some such. A felony. We didn't do any Time, except for the Time we did after Arrest before we Bailed out. But it cost us several Thousand dollars, my Marine Corps career, and our Rights. And we were Convicted under Georgia's "First Time Offenders Act", under which if successfully completed, our Conviction would be , the best I can explain it, on "hold" as long as we didn't commit another Felony. Our Jail Time would also be "put on hold", but would be reinstated if we did anything else. We were put on 3 years Probation, and allowed to leave the State as long as we filled out our Monthly Reports. We didn't even have a Probation Officer to report to, just mail in the Reports. At the end of that time, under the "First Time Offenders Act", our Rights would be restored. we did so, and I've lived as honest a life since then as I had before. The stress of the whole thing, I think, contributed to my wife's death 4 years later. The whole reason for this story is that we NEVER committed a violent act towards another, weren't thieves, nor were we Druggies. Thanks to Georgia's Laws, I've been able to live a free life these last 35 years, but in another State, I might not have been able to. I see no reason that others similarly Convicted shouldn't have the same opportunity.

This is what I'm thinking too. While I can understand and agree that violent Felons shouldn't get their Rights back, it makes no sense, (to me), that somebody convicted of a white collar, PAPER Felony, not have their Rights restored. I would of course, like to think that ANY LEO, including Political LEOs, should understand that honest gun owners are NO threat to anybody that means them no harm. However, as long as their BOSS thinks like that, and governs like that, it's not as important to me.

This is meant to be informative, NOT political, so please treat it as such. (I've gotten a couple threads pulled by my commentary, I don't want this to be another). From Breitbart: "Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a rule Wednesday reversing the ATF’s decades-long ban against the restoration of gun rights." “Because of an amendment by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) in 1992, ATF has been prohibited from restoring gun rights for the last 32 years!” She's reversing this. Full story here: https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2025/03/19/ag-pam-bondi-issues-rule-reversing-atf-prohibition-on-restoration-of-gun-rights/

My contact list has.... 14 people in it. Three of them are my mechanic, his son, who works at his shop, and the shop itself. Two guys from where I used to work, (who I haven't talked to in 2 years), three family members, and several friends. The other dozen or so are service types, (Electric company, Cable co. ,etc), and a few phone service types that came on the phone. When I had a Work phone, I had customers listed by Company and name. Truck and other services by Company name.

Just to keep it interesting, our landline is the same as the local Fedex office, with the last two numbers transposed. It doesn't happen much anymore, since they show an 1-800 number online, but we used to get several calls a week for them. Nobody argued when we told them they had a wrong number though.

Update: I called this morning to check the status of the case, and found out that LAST NIGHT the case was Dismissed Without Prejudice, so I didn't have to even go. Good thing I didn't call yesterday, because it wasn't even done then! It would have been nice of them to call and let me know THAT!

And sometimes just the opposite. Today, I'm scheduled to go to a local Court as a Witness. When I was Served the Subpoena, (in January), I was told to call a number on it to let them know that I'd been served. I did so. Three times. I got a voicemail box every time. Every time the voicemail box said it was a different number. I left a message, but never heard anything back. Until a couple weeks ago. Someone from the office called my cell phone and left a message that they needed to speak to me. Now because of previous threads on cell phones, many of you might remember that I don't have my cell phone grafted to my hand like an added appendage like many people seem to, it sets on my dresser and the only time I do anything with it is when I leave the house. So when they called, I didn't hear it. Sometime later, I heard it making a noise and figured that someone called it. I listened to the message and called the number back. Voicemail. Again. I identified myself and said that I was returning their call. Court is today, and I STILL haven't heard back from them. Now here's the kicker: The message I have on my cell phone SAYS that if the caller wants to talk to me, they should call my LANDLINE, and gives that number. Whoever called OBVIOUSLY didn't pay any attention to that, otherwise they would have called me there.

A lot of whether it smacks your knuckles has to do with the grips. S&W factory grips do not fit my meathooks. I have only one N Frame Smith, and it wears Herrett Shooting Star grips. They feel like they were custom made for me.

A few months ago I was at my favorite indoor rang, done shooting just shooting a couple bulls with the guys there, when a guy brings a S&W 500 in. We're looking at it and he asks if I'd like to try it. Well after much arm twisting, (yeah right), I did. I had never handled one before, and I'd seen more than a few youtube videos where people fired one and either fired a second round into the ceiling just from the recoil or had it recoil so far back that they were looking down the barrel.🤬 So I loaded one round, and BOOM!!! Not as bad as I thought it might be. I loaded another, and it wasn't too bad either, (BTW, the bullet hole in the target were TOUCHING!) I fired a third, different load, (lighter than the others), and THAT hole was about 3/4" to the right of the other two. That was enough for me, and I was more than happy to leave with THAT group on a target. I know when to take "Yes" for an answer. All that being said, having done it, I do NOT have the desire to have one. I'll stick to my Super Blackhawk.

I think this warrants more of an eggsplaination.

Because he knew that some dumba$$ would buy it.

no, I'd bet that was their Final Exam for their Degree.

Looks like something Blackwater would do.

Gibbs Rule 9: Never go anywhere without a knife. I personally have carried at least one every day since I was about 12. Right now, sitting here at home I have three on me and two more on my desk in my Command Center.

A T-shirt I just got my wife.

One of my gym shirts:

Does that include the characters in "High Plains Drifter" and "Pale Rider" that were killed before he was before the character he played in the movie?

I've been known to do similar things with a similar reaction from the other guy. That's why we called them the Portable Sun.