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Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 24, 2003, 11:14:36 AM: LOL.

I figured it was time.

Some of you do not think there is an iminant threat to our right to bare arms. I do.

I do not think it is a big issue now, but wait tell a Dem or even some Reps, get back in ofice and you will see them start trying to erode our rights to bare arms again.

I want to be part of the fight to keep them.

I want to be able to buy an evil black rifle again darnit! I never should have sold my AR-15.:aok
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: ra on October 24, 2003, 11:16:35 AM: It's too cold for bare arms.
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 24, 2003, 11:18:36 AM: Ra
Not in sunny CA! Hell I am going to take my M1 Garand to the range this weekend, they are saying low 90s.

Fun stuff.

I do not think we will get any rain here tell Nov.
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: Udie on October 24, 2003, 11:47:55 AM: I'm going shooting tomorrow :)
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: rabbidrabbit on October 24, 2003, 11:50:35 AM: Good to see... Welcome
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: Makarov9 on October 24, 2003, 12:00:27 PM: I bought a Mosin-Nagant 91/30 rifle and will pick it up tomorrow (damn CA 10-day wait crap). I will be heading to the range also with my new honey.

I've also considered joining the NRA. I will look into it again and may pull the trigger. :)

Have fun at the range boys!

Oh GTO, I noticed you're in Fremont. What range do you go to? I'll probably go to the Los Altos one on Skyline. Have you ever been to the one near Stevens Creek?
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Post by: udet on October 24, 2003, 12:01:59 PM: Another confirmed Redneck!!! jk :)
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 24, 2003, 12:13:05 PM: Makarov9
I have never been to the skyline range, I hear it is cool cause it has a pit where you can shoot cans and other stuff most ranges will not allow.

I may check that out this weekend.

The ones I normaly go to are Chabot gun club up in the Hayward hills. It is a pretty nice range and the range masters take it serius so no one does dumb stuff. It is a bit stiff, but ok.

I also have tried the one in San leandro, but it sucks, for rifles you have to shoot softnose rounds.
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: lazs2 on October 24, 2003, 01:58:01 PM: good work guys! We really do need to support the NRA... it is only $35 a year and you get insurance and 12 months of "American Rifleman" which I guarentee that you will find as interesting as any mag you pay $5 a pop for.

Just joining is a big deal... when the NRA can say "we have 5 millon members and we feel that..."

lazs
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 24, 2003, 02:02:08 PM: I think I am going to join the Chabot gun club as well.

I need to do something that gets me a certification that says I have fired 50 rounds in some kind of marksmenship program so I can buy a CMP M1 Garand.

Best way to get one cheap.
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: Curval on October 24, 2003, 02:17:02 PM: Way to go...

You are now officailly a part of the largest political lobby group in the US.

Your $35 will go towards a new gold shower spout for one of the directors. ;)

Just kidding guys..please don't blow a gasket.
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Post by: mietla on October 24, 2003, 02:29:20 PM: I joined NRA before I even had a gun.
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 24, 2003, 02:31:38 PM: Curv,
I see it as, I just joined the special interest group that protects all others rights.

If the second amendment goes, the others will follow.

The NRA does what it claims, they protect my right to own firearms.
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 24, 2003, 02:33:01 PM: mietla
I held of cause my dad was not a big NRA fan, kinda wacky but he was convinced they have members list with addresses and he thought that was an invite to a theif.

I don't think this is true, though I used my non home addy.
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Post by: medicboy on October 24, 2003, 02:35:32 PM: Life member of the NRA, and leaving for an elk hunt in Idaho in 3 days!:aok
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: Makarov9 on October 24, 2003, 03:21:11 PM: Ok, just joined also. I should have done this a long time ago. Thanks for giving me the push to sign up!
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 24, 2003, 03:24:04 PM: Makarov
Nice! We should look into having a Nor Cal, AcesHigh shooting day or something!
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: mietla on October 24, 2003, 03:26:06 PM: Quote
Originally posted by GtoRA2
mietla
I held of cause my dad was not a big NRA fan, kinda wacky but he was convinced they have members list with addresses and he thought that was an invite to a theif.

"Bring'em on"... Now I do have guns.
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Post by: midnight Target on October 24, 2003, 03:29:36 PM: You'd be surprised who is a member......

(http://www.vttbots.com/Graphics/nelsonwithgun.jpg)
(http://www.nrawinningteam.com/bios00/annual/youngest.jpg)

(http://www.parascope.com/articles/1296/moore.jpg)
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Post by: Makarov9 on October 24, 2003, 03:29:41 PM: Most excellent idea! I can show you my ability to completly miss the barn. :)
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 24, 2003, 03:39:05 PM: LOL MT is that you in the top one? I thought you where older?:D
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 24, 2003, 03:42:25 PM: Makarov
Man funny story.

So me and my brother in law take my M1 to the range, the front site had been loose last time and I fixed it so we are trying to site it in.

I did not know you needed 8 clicks on the elevation at 100 yards.

Some older fellow, I would say in his mid 80s is watching us, and I think watching the target through his scope. He comes over and makes some site adjustment suggestions and then asks if he can have a go.

So I sit down behind the spotting scope and watch as the old guy puts all 8 rounds from 2 clips into just over 3 inches!

He stands up and grins, "You have a nice shooting M1 there!"

I think it made his day, lol, but I was red as hell, having been outshot badly.... hehe

He carried on in the army and I am betting a war.

:D
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: Makarov9 on October 24, 2003, 03:47:54 PM: Cool story. I'm actually really anxious to fire my Mosin-Nagant 91/30. I've never had/fired a bolt-action, large caliber rifle before. I have several pistols and an M1 Carbine (which is a fun lil' rifle). I have a friend coming to the range who is an expert at the long rifle to give me some tips.
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: lazs2 on October 24, 2003, 04:00:01 PM: Just stepped out of the office and popped off 100 44 mag rounds... man that Dan wesson is one accurate sob!

We had a plastic milk jug that was full of frozen water and I tried a hP reload on it... snow cones for everyone... on me.

really guys... thanks for joining. you made my day.

lazs
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: Makarov9 on October 24, 2003, 04:05:36 PM: Wish I was there Lazs. Would love to shoot the .44. My wrist are a little big bigger than Beetles so I think I would be ok with it. :)
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Post by: mietla on October 24, 2003, 04:08:05 PM: http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99725
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 24, 2003, 04:15:04 PM: Everycheck Mietla's post, lets get the ball rolling.
Title: Today I joined "den radikale" parti
Post by: Seeker on October 24, 2003, 05:15:28 PM: LOL.

I figured it was time.

Some of you do not think there is an iminant threat to our right to smoke doobies. I do.

I do not think it is a big issue now, but wait tell a Venstre or even some Dansk folk parti, get back in ofice and you will see them start trying to erode our rights to smoke doobies again.

I want to be part of the fight to keep them.

I want to be able to buy an evil black afghan finger again darnit! I never should have sold my hydroponics.
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 24, 2003, 05:21:04 PM: Maybe you should put the crack pipe down and move along...
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: Seeker on October 24, 2003, 05:27:18 PM: See! Another foreigner attacking our freedoms!
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: Airhead on October 24, 2003, 05:30:04 PM: Quote
Originally posted by lazs2
good work guys! We really do need to support the NRA... it is only $35 a year and you get insurance and 12 months of "American Rifleman" which I guarentee that you will find as interesting as any mag you pay $5 a pop for.

lazs

Of course the NRA insurance doesn't cover gunshot victims.
:rolleyes:
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: Leslie on October 24, 2003, 05:51:18 PM: WTG fellas!!! The NRA is not the "gun lobby." It's the freedom lobby. I believe they are the only thing standing between freedom and opression in the United States. Not only do they represent the interests of gun owners through defending the Second Amendment, but also keep close tabs on those who would undermine the First Amendment as well.

20 year member here.

Les
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: Twist on October 24, 2003, 05:57:50 PM: Most excellent news, welcome aboard! :aok
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: Ping on October 24, 2003, 06:57:09 PM: I have the Nagant 91/59 and I will have to say that "I" Suck big time, with accuracy with it. :)
Kicks like a mule and tends to leave me with a sore shoulder after the time at the range. Helluva alota fun :)
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Post by: capt. apathy on October 24, 2003, 07:12:01 PM: I used to be a member but I've found that I might as well give money directly to the republican party. so I just keep the $35 and send in $35 less to the democrats.

that way I get an extra $70 to spend on ammo and it all evens out.
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: Gunslinger on October 24, 2003, 09:39:45 PM: The NRA is a great organization. I agree they are not about guns, they are about freedoms. The only complaint I would have against them would be the millions and millions of letters I got from them asking me for more money. Thats all. OH and my NRA sticker faded in one arizona summer
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Post by: Maverick on October 24, 2003, 10:34:59 PM: Life member since 1976. Good organization.
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: yowser on October 25, 2003, 08:14:27 AM: Are you the guys that wear bedsheets?

yowser
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: Ripsnort on October 25, 2003, 08:16:34 AM: My father signed me up in 1968. Welcome aboard GTO!
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Post by: Creamo on October 25, 2003, 08:47:55 AM: lol, beat that NRA wannabes!

Somewhere Captain America is giving his shield to some kids to toboggan down a school yard hill in pure shame of Dripsnores mastery of all that is tough, and gun, and American.
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Post by: lazs2 on October 25, 2003, 10:16:00 AM: Been a member of NRA for decades.. The only dowside is that they dun you for money all the time. Not a big deal.

I think any gun owner who is not giving something to some pro gun outfit (there are a few others) is getting a free ride and making excusses for his being a tightwad freeloader. That's fine... but don't pretend otherwise.

What I figure I get for my money is this... I get a really good magazine subscription every year and some insurance for gun theft or accident... Yes airhead... they do insure against gun accidents. I also like knowing that when the NRA talks about guns to the spineless, lying, greedy politicians in this country they can say.... "we don't want this POS, useless law passed and we speak for at least 4 millon people (or whatever it is now).

I want them to say "we speak for 100 million gun owners".
lazs
Title: I just joined the NRA.
Post by: lazs2 on October 25, 2003, 10:19:20 AM: Been a member of NRA for decades.. The only dowside is that they dun you for money all the time. Not a big deal.

I think any gun owner who is not giving something to some pro gun outfit (there are a few others) is getting a free ride and making excusses for his being a tightwad freeloader. That's fine... but don't pretend otherwise.

What I figure I get for my money is this... I get a really good magazine subscription every year and some insurance for gun theft or accident... Yes airhead... they do insure against gun accidents. I also like knowing that when the NRA talks about guns to the spineless, lying, greedy politicians in this country they can say.... "we don't want this POS, useless law passed and we speak for at least 4 millon people (or whatever it is now).

I want them to say "we speak for 100 million gun owners".

Unless you are a rabid neurotic about guns or... you have no idea what the NRA stands for or fights for... You will find nothing offensive about what they stand for or do. Think about it....

All the womanly gun haters never say why the NRA is so terrible... they only generalize... like all gun haters they are ignorant and lazy and decietful.
lazs
lazs