Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

That's why books have this disclaimer in them: "This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is coincidental." But most authors would do as you mention and try NOT to use a famous name, just to keep it simple. As I said before, Tex was scared of getting sued so we changed names anyway. BTW, when I was in school, there was a kid named Kent Clark. He just leaned into it and introduced himself as Superman.

Then where'd they go?

I suppose that there wasn't enough room for the dragons either?🐉

When I wrote my book, we changed real names and people just enough so that my friend didn't worry about getting sued. It was a constant concern, (of his. Me not so much), and since such thing didn't matter to the story, I went with it. Pretty much the same thing with places. The town that the book is named for is fictional, but based on, at least in name, a real place. The same with many of the people. Some were real people, changed very little, some were made up purely for the story. Many, (most) of the events were at least based on things that we really did, some weren't, some were combinations of different events. Some had just a bit of literary license in them, others a LOT. Not any self promotion here, but if anybody's interested, PM me and I'll tell you the title.

My home defence shotgun is a Mossberg 500 with the 20" barrel and the 7 round magazine. 7 round sidesaddle, and another 5 on the stock. That being said, if it comes down to TEOTWAWKI, and for whatever reason I can have only one, I think that Stumpwater has the right idea.

I think that it's correct the way he wrote it. "One of his relatives' wife", might be read that she was the wife of more than one. "One of his relative's wife', indicates one relative. (Yes, I'm just picking at nits).

My friend and I had some "adventures" when we were younger. I usually say we were kids, but we were between 17 and 23. A whopping span of five years between when we met when I was a Senior in High School and when I Enlisted in The Marines. We had a lot of fun in those five years, and in later years we rehashed them often. We eventually referred to them as "The Stories". After I left, he began telling them to other people. Friends, co workers, relatives, anybody who would listen. I never really realized how many people he told them to until I was back there visiting one time. He'd had an Aunt die, (his parents were both gone by this time), and was doing his due diligence to visit the Funeral Home. We were going to be out and about, (looking for more adventures), so I went along. As he introduced me to his relatives, most of whom I'd never met, when introduced, to a person, they all said, "I've heard of you." When I asked him about it later, he told me that over the years, they knew me from "The Stories". The following is directly from the Forward in book we wrote: "Eventually, though, even though we were having fun with them, our families decided that they didn’t need to hear The Stories anymore. Jim observed that, at least in the case of my sister, they didn’t have any stories of their own to tell, and didn’t like being reminded of it. One night in June of 2007, Jim called me with an absolutely crazy idea: let’s write a book based on The Stories. I thought it was an interesting idea, but wasn’t sure we could make it something that other people might be interested in." So we did. It was as much for ourselves as for anybody to read, but everybody that's read it has loved it with two exceptions: My ex-sister, because she didn't look so good in it, and his Mother in Law. Years later, in March of 2022, when I spoke at his Funeral Service, again to people I didn't know. I introduced myself with, "I see a lot of faces that I don't know here today, but you all know me, 'cause if you knew Jim more than about a half hour, he'd tell you a story. I was in a lot of those stories. I'm Spex. The whole bunch of them nodded their heads as though they'd rehearsed it. Many of them told me after, that they'd read the book too. So for Dantankerous and anybody else still reading this long winded answer, OUR incentive was just to be able to tell stories that might entertain people. And maybe to preserve them for posterity, and our children.

Not officially though.

When my first wife died I had her cremated. One of her dreams had been to go to the Grand Ole' Opry. I took her ashes there and dumped them into a large tree planter by the front door.🤐

Not disagreeing with you, (I'm just a truck driver and wouldn't know anyway). What I'm saying is just that performing the actual test is probably not that long. I would also think that in very specific cases, like a political assassination, they would fast track the tests, and perform every test imaginable.

Well, the movie took place in 1906, if my rememberer is correct, so maybe for Wild Bunch.

I'd guess that most of us have at least a few that are "untraceable", having been acquired by means other than purchasing from an FFL. Yawn. This is nothing more than another Lame Stream Media type adding his bit to the Left's overall gun ban ideology. Another case of "No here here". At any rate, a sporterized '98 Mauser hardly meets the standard they have to scream about. Bolt action, 5 shot internal magazine, even THEY couldn't call it an "assault rifle". We'll likely not hear much more of it. As for DNA, when DNA tracing first came to public attention, around 2000 or so, mostly because of the TV show "CSI", while they got results as soon as the script called for it, it used to actually take a week or so. Now, I don't have anything to do with forensics, but I'd venture that the science has advanced in the last 25 years so that it doesn't take near that long anymore.

Get help.

I live in Tucson. Desert landscapes abound. But some places , like parks, still have grass. When I pass by someplace like that and smell fresh mown grass, for just a moment, it takes me back to my childhood in Ohio.

And wear my seatbelt. Short answer: In case I need it.

Nope, a cow.

Probably the first gun I bought when I started getting back to having guns. My 1911, Bigmouth.

Interestingly enough, I watched a youtube video a couple years ago done by a lawyer critiquing TV and movie court scenes. If you JUST look at the actual legal machinations in the movie, it's very legally accurate. But I think that the Judge should have Sustained Vinnie's Objection to Trotter's new evidence.

I thought that they were training exercises.

That's pretty much my point. But on these shows, they always seem to be able to determine the Make and Model of the car just by knowing what tire it has. "These tires go on a 2015 to 2021 Dodge Blastmaster."

Don't forget Registration.

Only a couple? You need to catch up!

You don't fool me. You're just hoping that AI will remember your being polite to it when it takes over and not put you in the battery.

That was like in the first season of "Longmire", they found a .45-70 shell casing and someone commented that they haven't made them for 100 years or some such.