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Is that a rifle in Grandpa's closet?
nrablog.com ^ | 6 July, 2012 | Lars Dalseide

Posted on 07/07/2012 5:51:46 AM PDT by marktwain

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To: marktwain
sad commentary that NONE of them wanted to keep it...
21 posted on 07/07/2012 7:04:54 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: marktwain

This is the type of item that often ends up in the silly gun turn in programs.

Many of those valuable guns are sucked up by the savvy cops and politicians for free.


22 posted on 07/07/2012 7:11:07 AM PDT by chainsaw ("Two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.")
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To: afraidfortherepublic
OK. Point taken, but see my special connection to the .306 in #9.

Sorry to be a nitpicker, but the caliber is .30-06, not .306, .30 being the actually caliber(.308 or 7.62MM)and 06 being the year it was invented, or actually improved upon from the 30-03.

23 posted on 07/07/2012 7:13:11 AM PDT by calex59
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To: afraidfortherepublic; lightman; SF_Redux; Clint N. Suhks

“... born 12 hours later...”

Heck, you had PLENTY of time for the gunsmith, a couple hours of range time, and a burger & beer. LOL!


24 posted on 07/07/2012 7:15:00 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs and most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

That’s funny!

Thanks for sharing.


25 posted on 07/07/2012 7:23:29 AM PDT by panaxanax (Voting 'Third Party' will ensure a Communist-Marxist-Socialist dominated Supreme Court!)
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To: t1b8zs
TSA confiscates knives daily and some pretty darn nice.....They all dont make it to trhe scrape heap,for some unknown reason.

Several years ago, before people caught on, I found an online auction from a state back east for confiscated TSA good. I won several auctions for knives in bulk, a 20 pound box, a few ten pound boxes, a box of multi-tools. When word spread, the winning prices went too high.

I was surprised by the low quality of the knives. There were a very few good brands and oddball foreign knives of good quality, but most were junk. Same with the multi-tools. Some Leathermans but mostly cheap copies. The TSA people didn't seem to like Victorinox Swiss Army knives, there was quite a collection.

It ended up making me mad when I would find a beautiful little penkife, honed razor sharp, engraved with somebody's initials and carried lovingly. Not the weapon of a hijacker. I know how it feels to lose a good knife by accident, to lose it by force must be gut-wrenching.

26 posted on 07/07/2012 7:34:44 AM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I’m very happy for you. I’ve been with my wife 20 years, and the years have just flown by.


27 posted on 07/07/2012 7:50:23 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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I remember reading of a gun buyback many years ago.

A widow woman took her deceased husband's WWI Springfield and 1911 Colt to be disposed of.

The cop on duty recognized them as collector's items and told her to take them to a dealer for appraisal as they were worth way more than what she would get at the buyback.

The cop was later reprimanded by his superiors for letting them get away.

28 posted on 07/07/2012 7:51:00 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I LIKE ART! Click my name. See my web page.)
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To: t1b8zs

Kinda like when CAMP raids a marijuana patch.


29 posted on 07/07/2012 8:09:01 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The democratic party is the greatest cargo cult in history.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

There were comparatively few of the .22 trainers made, and most of them did not hold up in service due to the destructive effects of corrosive primers on the barrels.


30 posted on 07/07/2012 8:10:20 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: calex59

Happy for the correction. I didn’t think .306 looked right.


31 posted on 07/07/2012 8:23:48 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: marktwain
A Model 1922 Springfield Armory and it's just in exceptional, exceptional condition. I bet it looked like this when it came out of the armory.

And I bet it wasn't drilled and tapped for a scope when it left the armory.

32 posted on 07/07/2012 9:33:07 AM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "p" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

12 hours? Plenty of time! ;)


33 posted on 07/07/2012 9:41:20 AM PDT by Sarajevo (Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
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