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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    FWIW, I'd also suggest that if the super says he will grant it with conditions attached, no matter how stupid they sound, to take it. I have a ridiculous condition that I can only use my.22 silencer on my own property and on ranges. But I can use my .308 anywhere I'm hunting or on a range in the 26. Go figure.

    You can always appeal the conditions as vexatious and unreasonable at a later stage once you have the can on the end of your gun, which is the main point of this whole exercise.:)

    Have heard of these oddball stipulations. Are these appended to the licence? As in do you have the S but with a star beside it. And that means look up the licence on pulse for additional requirements. What I’m getting at is you have the s. If you use it outside of whatever imaginative stipulations, how are you outside the law?

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭tudderone


    Feisar wrote: »
    Have heard of these oddball stipulations. Are these appended to the licence? As in do you have the S but with a star beside it. And that means look up the licence on pulse for additional requirements. What I’m getting at is you have the s. If you use it outside of whatever imaginative stipulations, how are you outside the law?

    I always wondered about these stipulations too, how far can the supers/chief supers go legally ? I heard of one CS telling a centrefire pistol shooter, the route he had to take from his home to the range, the exact roads, there and back again, if he needed petrol he was snookered as he would have to deviate from the route.

    How far should they be allowed go in a democracy ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭tudderone


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Always had my doubts about Merkel from the get-go.
    Even though my German fam are staunch CDU/CSU supporters [ CSU Bavarian state badge name party of CDU which is like FF on steroids and protein supplements...]
    Came up too much in the GDR political system as a party brat and tout on her school and university classmates to the STASI to be a bit too dodgy to become a wholesome capitalist overnight and take on the role of Germany and the EU[SSR].
    Even her dad was weird.:eek::eek:As a Lutheran pastor,he moved into the GDR, when anyone sane was desperately trying to leave by any means possible to the West. Many paid with their lives in the effort to get to freedom.

    She has been described as "Honeckers Rache"[Honecker's revenge][ Eric Honecker the deposed GDR dictator who died in South America always swore he would take revenge on W Germany and Europe for destroying the Communist state...Think he is succeeding with Angelika.:eek:




  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Feisar wrote: »
    Have heard of these oddball stipulations. Are these appended to the licence? As in do you have the S but with a star beside it. And that means look up the licence on pulse for additional requirements. What I’m getting at is you have the s. If you use it outside of whatever imaginative stipulations, how are you outside the law?

    Never actually noticed that. Must have a look at that tomorrow AM...
    Later
    Nope! No weird * or others on my Lic.

    My take on this is, it is probably 99% BS and will be in 99% of cases never used as well, but is left there as a booby trap to claim that you broke the conditions of your licensing if they ever have a reason to refuse you and you were caught in a circumstance that was violating those conditions.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users Posts: 39,078 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    tudderone wrote: »
    I always wondered about these stipulations too, how far can the supers/chief supers go legally ? I heard of one CS telling a centrefire pistol shooter, the route he had to take from his home to the range, the exact roads, there and back again, if he needed petrol he was snookered as he would have to deviate from the route.

    How far should they be allowed go in a democracy ?

    They are perfectly entitled to tell you whatever they want in terms of routes, conditions etc.
    Being a good upstanding citizen, you say yes sure and take you license.

    But from then on in you follow the actual laws on using and transporting a firearm. If a condition has no basis in law, then it has no basis.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Feisar wrote: »
    Have heard of these oddball stipulations. Are these appended to the licence?

    I've some stipulations on my restricted licences. They aren't printed on the licence. I got a letter (not a grant letter) saying that the CS approves my application subject to the following conditions bla bla bla. A week later I get the grant letter that says that I have been granted the licence subject to the conditions contained in previous letter bla bla bla.
    tudderone wrote: »
    I always wondered about these stipulations too, how far can the supers/chief supers go legally ?

    Two of my conditions relate to transport.

    First one is don't leave the firearm unattended in the car. Sensible enough. Until I have to go to the jacks when going a long distance to a competition. Do I bring it slung over my shoulder into Obama Plaza?

    Second condition is that I have a locked safe in the car for transporting the gun. Grand as long as I own a car. Does this condition mean that my owning a gun is dependent on me owning a car?

    I'm just playing devil's advocate here and bitching for the sake of it. To be honest it's easy enough for me to comply with those conditions. I'm just pointing out that some conditions could be hard to follow in certain circumstances.
    Mellor wrote: »
    They are perfectly entitled to tell you whatever they want in terms of routes, conditions etc.
    Being a good upstanding citizen, you say yes sure and take you license.

    But from then on in you follow the actual laws on using and transporting a firearm. If a condition has no basis in law, then it has no basis.

    Given that I was told in writing that my licence was granted subject to certain conditions, I wouldn't like to be the test case in court if I ignored any of those conditions.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    tudderone wrote: »
    I always wondered about these stipulations too, how far can the supers/chief supers go legally ? I heard of one CS telling a centrefire pistol shooter, the route he had to take from his home to the range, the exact roads, there and back again if he needed petrol he was snookered as he would have to deviate from the route.

    How far should they be allowed go in a democracy ?

    Like putting "safes" in your car and this example,are "Vexatious and unreasonable" What does the guy do if he wants to go shoot a comp on a different range in the country? Or there is a diversion off his approved route?In itself, it is a very dumb condition from a security standpoint as well.as if anywhere he is compromised in his security and routine,it becomes an academic exercise in how to stop and relive him of said firearm.

    Safes are not an easy thing either in a car. Not all cars are the same and neither are gun safes.Bit of a bummer if you are driving a 2 seater sports car with a boot that you can just about get a slimline briefcase into.:roll eyes:


    ASFIK the guidelines say in a sleeve and inaccessible to the occupants' driver while driving so get one of these. Single or double holder, lockable and inaccessible to both occupants and driver when in motion and out of sight. Cost about 40 quid with shipping for the double. Getting one of those actually fulfils the guideline recommendations,As German hunters have had the same requirements for years now and you can argue a compromise with this. Would even go as a "locked container" if you use one of the sleeves to carry the ammo as well.

    https://jagd-platz-shop.de/WebRoot/Store28/Shops/be6cabf9-b6f8-41c9-a6bc-09a4fcf8be60/5A8F/0256/6B20/3972/0CAB/0A48/3572/C976/Unbenannt.png

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Like putting "safes" in your car and this example,are "Vexatious and unreasonable"

    Safes are not an easy thing either in a car. Not all cars are the same and neither are gun safes.Bit of a bummer if you are driving a 2 seater sports car with a boot that you can just about get a slimline briefcase into.:roll eyes:

    ASFIK the guidelines say in a sleeve and inaccessible to the occupants' driver while driving so get one of these.

    To be honest, it was a condition to have a lockable metal box that could be affixed to my car and not a safe. It was just easier for me to use a safe.

    I put it in the car whenever I am bringing my restricted rifles anywhere. It's chained and padlocked so that someone will need to go to a little bit of effort to snatch it out of the car.

    Like you said about the car having a small boot, I have to let down one section of the back seat to fit the safe into the boot. Because of that I can't really conceal the fact that I'm transporting a firearm.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Could you put a folding stock on it?A perfect justification for one to comply with the chiefs conditions,as it is restricted anyway.:D

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Could you put a folding stock on it?A perfect justification for one to comply with the chiefs conditions,as it is restricted anyway.:D

    I've 3 restricted rifles. It's only practicable to put a folding stock on one of them. Not that I'd bother because I'd more than likely be transporting all three at the same time.

    Like I said earlier though, the conditions on my licence are manageable as long as I have my own car and don't have to pee. :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭jb88


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    To be honest, it was a condition to have a lockable metal box that could be affixed to my car and not a safe. It was just easier for me to use a safe.

    I put it in the car whenever I am bringing my restricted rifles anywhere. It's chained and padlocked so that someone will need to go to a little bit of effort to snatch it out of the car.

    Like you said about the car having a small boot, I have to let down one section of the back seat to fit the safe into the boot. Because of that I can't really conceal the fact that I'm transporting a firearm.


    Cars have alarms and if your stopped on the way to or from the range its best to be within a good viewing distance.

    If they really really want it, they are going to take it, by force if necessary. Ive explained this to a Chief once. What robber is going to use Bolt cutters and a torch or angle grinder when they can take the car.

    These type of thefts are rarely opportunist and are often planned. If they want your guns they will take your car as well, why spend time unloading your boot?? There is a nice robber, only one window broke and the boot cleared out how considerate of you...

    As for the lad who has everything in his back seat or leaves the jeep running when he goes into the shop and comes out to see no jeep and two shotguns gone, well its happened. (In rural safe Ireland) Nothing recovered.

    All future licences should be declined in that respect, as they dont have the competence to own them, but yet they got new guns?
    Only in Ireland.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,448 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    I know the elections are ruling the news and i don't really want to turn this into an election watching thread but i had to ask for someone else's opinion.

    They called Arizona for Biden a few hours ago. The count is only at 84% and Biden has an 80,000 lead on Trump with the voting split being less than 1%. That means there are over 470,000 votes still to count and if Trump takes over 60% of them he'll actually win the state.

    Then shuffle over to Georgia where the count is at 95% and Trump has a 85,000 lead and the media say its too close to call even though Biden who is taking 47% of the vote would need nearly 70% of the remaining votes to win the state.


    Who is calling these? Even the Governor of Arizona has come out publicly saying its way too early to call Arizona.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Unlike us where we hand count all our votes, and pigeon hole them for recounting if need be,all by hand.
    The US ballot is machine-readable with a barcode and a black dot for your canditate of choice,rather than ticks or X[At least in AZ where I voted by mail it was] So they can also be a lot more predictive on how a state, down to the county is voting and thus giving a much quicker tally.

    So that can make it easier to call a state, but of course, there can be mechanical faults as well those delay things with this system.hand sanitizer on the ballot papers have caused a problem in one state,as had running out of ink in another on the machine. Then add onto it if you look at the county sizes how quick they can count a small pouplation with the machine to give you a tally.

    Am amazed at the California contamination of AZ. Californians leaving because the state is fuked up, and taking their liberal ideals with them to contaminate their new home.So apprently AZ is now going to be a "pothead " state as well.That or there is some serious voter fraud going on there,as it as way too easy for me to get a ballot ,and proof of residence was abit of a joke TBH.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,448 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    Maybe what you explained has a bearing but for the moment, and it could be my misunderstanding, that is not what i'm asking.

    I understand how they count them and thus how they get a projection of the most likely outcome. However it usually is based on number of votes counted, percentage to each candidate, number of votes remaining, and based on previous split of votes the likely outcome in the state.

    However, and at the risk of repeating myself, with only 84% of the vote counted (by machine), and the difference between candidates being roughly 1% how can a state call for a candidate when races in other states which have a higher count percentage (over 94%) and slightly higher difference between the votes for each candidate (over 2.5%) be "too close to call"?

    TO put is in simpler terms if the remaining uncounted ballots (16%) were all cast for Trump then the call for Biden is wrong.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Am amazed at the California contamination of AZ. Californians leaving because the state is fuked up, and taking their liberal ideals with them to contaminate their new home.So apprently AZ is now going to be a "pothead " state as well.That or there is some serious voter fraud going on there,as it as way too easy for me to get a ballot ,and proof of residence was abit of a joke TBH.

    I have read about this, California people moving out and then surprised/upset at a couple of good old boys shooting guns!

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,448 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    Ok here is another one.

    Michigan. Trump leading by over 180,000 votes. The electoral map showed it as leaning Red. 138,000 new ballots "found" and counted with ALL of them going to Biden cutting Trumps lead to 50,000. Meanwhile Biden Reps (on SKY) saying two hours ago that they've won Michigan and are positive it'll be called shortly. Before the votes were counted/"found".

    How can 138,000 votes ALL be for the one candidate? It's a statistical impossibility.

    Now the electoral map shows it leading as blue with Biden winning.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Uinseann_16


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Unlike us where we hand count all our votes, and pigeon hole them for recounting if need be,all by hand.
    The US ballot is machine-readable with a barcode and a black dot for your canditate of choice,rather than ticks or X[At least in AZ where I voted by mail it was] So they can also be a lot more predictive on how a state, down to the county is voting and thus giving a much quicker tally.

    So that can make it easier to call a state, but of course, there can be mechanical faults as well those delay things with this system.hand sanitizer on the ballot papers have caused a problem in one state,as had running out of ink in another on the machine. Then add onto it if you look at the county sizes how quick they can count a small pouplation with the machine to give you a tally.

    Am amazed at the California contamination of AZ. Californians leaving because the state is fuked up, and taking their liberal ideals with them to contaminate their new home.So apprently AZ is now going to be a "pothead " state as well.That or there is some serious voter fraud going on there,as it as way too easy for me to get a ballot ,and proof of residence was abit of a joke TBH.

    Even Texas is infected with the commiefornians:(


  • Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Uinseann_16


    Cass wrote: »
    Ok here is another one.

    Michigan. Trump leading by over 180,000 votes. The electoral map showed it as leaning Red. 138,000 new ballots "found" and counted with ALL of them going to Biden cutting Trumps lead to 50,000. Meanwhile Biden Reps (on SKY) saying two hours ago that they've won Michigan and are positive it'll be called shortly. Before the votes were counted/"found".

    How can 138,000 votes ALL be for the one candidate? It's a statistical impossibility.

    Now the electoral map shows it leading as blue even though Biden is still behind.

    Ive seen videos on Tik Tok with people showiing getting multiple ballots with the typical Vote biden F*ck trump rhetoric so....
    It seems rigged to be completely honest
    They need Voter ID over there :rolleyes:


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,448 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    I'll be honest, i'd like to see Biden win. People will get to see his "master plan" for dealing with the Chinese virus, cause he says he has one that will fix the things Trump hasn't done, as well as the massive tax hikes he has planned. Then the really good stuff will happen with his ban on guns and taxation of accessories kicks in, or won't because he won't have senate control.

    Of course he'll have to get all this done with the first year as his own party have said they don't expect him to make it the full four year term. If they maintain control of Congress then they'll have an easy time confirming their new VP after harris takes over from biden.

    So will be interesting times ahead.

    One other thing will be the rioting that the MSM push as "peaceful protests". It stopped when the democrats found out it was hurting them in the polls and they threatened to get back to it if Trump won. So if Trump loses and there is no rioting, well how can the dems continue to try and blame Trump supporters?
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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Cass wrote: »
    Ok here is another one.

    Michigan. Trump leading by over 180,000 votes. The electoral map showed it as leaning Red. 138,000 new ballots "found" and counted with ALL of them going to Biden cutting Trumps lead to 50,000. Meanwhile Biden Reps (on SKY) saying two hours ago that they've won Michigan and are positive it'll be called shortly. Before the votes were counted/"found".

    How can 138,000 votes ALL be for the one candidate? It's a statistical impossibility.

    Now the electoral map shows it leading as blue with Biden winning.

    For such a technologically advanced country, there does seem to be shenanigans going on surrounding voting.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Uinseann_16


    The left are going to cause violance whichever way it falls thats the sad truth it wasnt republicans out burning shops and attacking federal buildings
    I really would not like to see biden win as hes planning on a big gun control plan which will be matched by our dumb politicias this sde of the pond pandering for votes by doing something too... "for the children" like:o


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    I hate to say this my friends, but if Trump doesn't win and Biden gets in, where he will last all of 6 months before being shuffled off back into his cellar,and Kamala Harris gets in. Then I fear the America we knew will cease to exist as the forefront of Western democracy.

    An entire witches coven of Harris, Pelosi, Oscario Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Feinstein along with Cuck Schumer and the rest will turn it into a heaving Socialist mess even further in debt than we ever thought possible, and I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing a State Secessionist movement start again.

    Am reading a story cum survival manual by a lad called Selco Begorivc who lived in the former Yugoslavia and survived its civil war. The comparisons he makes between the current situation in the USA in 2019/20 and the former Federal Yougoslavia are absolutely horrifying in similarity.In his case mobs of nationalists of various hues claiming their turf,in our cases mobs of anarchist Leftists carving out their turf in major cities of the US...It only goes down hill from there.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    On a more cheerful note,this could be good craic while we await the season start and want to get some practise in. 120 euros in Kildare Ballistech.ie

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVT_yPWWnyA&fbclid=IwAR3GNcdJD7jFptl98M166lZbzGZW60GDm8OSnWlzp3owb8J5nLDnBUrIOSk

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users Posts: 39,078 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Cass wrote: »
    Maybe what you explained has a bearing but for the moment, and it could be my misunderstanding, that is not what i'm asking.

    I understand how they count them and thus how they get a projection of the most likely outcome. However it usually is based on number of votes counted, percentage to each candidate, number of votes remaining, and based on previous split of votes the likely outcome in the state.

    However, and at the risk of repeating myself, with only 84% of the vote counted (by machine), and the difference between candidates being roughly 1% how can a state call for a candidate when races in other states which have a higher count percentage (over 94%) and slightly higher difference between the votes for each candidate (over 2.5%) be "too close to call"?

    TO put is in simpler terms if the remaining uncounted ballots (16%) were all cast for Trump then the call for Biden is wrong.
    To answer your question.
    It’s not just down to remaining votes. It’s about the profile of remaining counties or votes. For example in Georgia. They counted the in person votes first, which were much more likely to be red voters. And this creates a false lead. And they know that the absentee votes are going to more blue.
    Arizona probably shouldn’t have been called so early. The idea I’m guessing was that counties outstanding were leaning blue so the narrow gap wasn’t going to close.

    Also, it’s not the state calling the winner. It’s only Fox News, or CNN or whoever. It has no actual bearing on the result. Not all of them have called Arizona for Biden


  • Registered Users Posts: 39,078 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Cass wrote: »
    Ok here is another one.

    Michigan. Trump leading by over 180,000 votes. The electoral map showed it as leaning Red. 138,000 new ballots "found" and counted with ALL of them going to Biden cutting Trumps lead to 50,000.
    Simple answer there is that it didn’t actually happen - bad would be statistically impossible.
    It was a error on Decision Desk HQ that somebody tweeted, and Trump re-tweeted. The error was corrected and the original tweet deleted.
    https://mobile.twitter.com/freep/status/1324061057640550400

    In the 24 hours after the ejection Trump’s twitter was a constant stream of false information. He knows mail votes are valid for example, but is suggesting they shouldn’t be counted. Some people are stupid enough to believe him when he says it’s fraud. I know this is a high stakes for him, but blatantly lying to the country is hardly presidential material.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Pretty good opinion on how we should go forward by Mike Lindsay of Owners Rights Co-Operative in NI. Just delete any of the UK references and this can apply here too in the ROI.

    The Secret Society Shooters.

    The UK is a complicated place and one with many rules. It matters little what it is you plan to do the state will have a say in how you do it. This goes double for the world of legal shooting and firearms ownership – it goes without saying you need to enjoy jumping through hoops to own one legally.

    So my thoughts have wandered to why some clubs and shooters here insist on treating the sport like a highly secretive old boys club and I’m scratching my head as to how they think this protects shooting in any way whatsoever.



    I can see the logic don’t get me wrong, to them by keeping it secret and only having people they agree with on every level joining their clubs they feel that if it’s kept quiet enough no MPs will bother them with more needless legislation.

    Here’s where my thoughts go however,

    By keeping shooting needlessly exclusive you don’t grow firearm ownership or encourage new blood to take up shooting, in turn your membership consists of people in older age brackets that fear anything new and you end up having your old members eventually die off, leaving both the club and shooting in the area starving for new faces.

    Eventually your secret club vanishes completely and those that would rather civilians didn’t own any firearms laugh at your stupidity.

    While I understand and have seen first hand license departments punish people for being open about their passion it in no way puts me off from promotion of ownership or shooting.

    Shooting sport is perfectly legal as is ownership.

    Talking about it grows interest.

    Taking people out shooting grows interest.

    Opening up clubs to people a little different than yourself grows interest.

    For shooting to survive in 2021 shooters need to realise that having little cliques or bad-mouthing others that do value their liberty isn’t going to save their own skins, on the contrary sitting on your hands is the worst thing you can do. Now I’ve been accused before of being too vocal and speak my mind too well……. Here’s the thing,

    Sitting down and saying nothing will not stop more attacks on shooting, it hasn’t worked in the past and it definitely won’t work now that they have removed pistols and semi autos above 22. Hell they just banned MARS rifles, please pay attention. Anyone noticed an attack on Fieldsports? No?

    Being timid isn’t going to win any rights back – you need to say it like it is.

    You need to be politically aware and able to navigate social media to fight the cause, you need to engage with MPs, you need to challenge the narrative.


    You think this guy is going to stop?
    I’ve had people try to stop me from speaking, I’ve had threats from various activist groups, messages from “shooters” threatening me that they will “see me soon”.



    I’ve had “hunters” that live near me try to Doxx me,



    vegans threatening my life……. And none of it stops me.

    If something is wrong and you know it is in legislation it is your duty as a citizen to challenge it.

    Stand up for what you believe in and stop being cowards.

    For those who do fight back, God speed and I will stand with you.

    If you plan on doing nothing then get out of the way.

    -Mike

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Feisar


    That’s a solid point and really interesting. Apart from an exclusive club there’s also the thing of coming from a shooting house for the want of a better expression. For the likes of me the path to ownership was easy enough in that a gun was not some exotic thing bound up in red tape that was next nigh on impossible to own. I only know two lads that have guns that don’t come from shooting families. One is my best friend so I was the gateway, the other was into ferrets etc so already countryside sports exposed. Can I mention to the intrinsic fear some people have of guns? What the hell is that about?
    On talking about it I’ve always been low key, leave no trace. Part of it is security based but the other part is something else. Cause no waves, keep the head down and hopefully I’ll/we'll go unnoticed. I remember reading with incredulity about lads going to court about super’s decisions.
    Maybe it comes from a hunter’s natural modus operandi, I don’t know.
    Food for thought though.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    What I find is an acid test for those newbie gun owners is the girlfriend/wife/baby test. They can be out shooting with you morning, noon and night, but once a new bit of alright arrives, becomes the wife, and the Baba is on the way or is there...Well that's where the excuses or the quitters show up.

    Best one so far was "Uh ..well since we have had the child [ 5months], we don't want it getting at the gun,so I sold it!"
    "But you had it disassembled and the parts are hidden?"[Pre 08 days.Semi shotgun]
    "Uh ..Yeah...But you know kids can put it together eventually"

    "So why not just buy a trigger lock,or lock and keep your shells up with the medicines and other stuff kids can't get at? This is really.....talking to you isn't it?"

    "No,no,no...It's really not for me shooting..[Despite winning a couple of flapper DTL comps]:rolleyes:

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,448 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    So Biden basically has it. Congratulations President-elect Biden.

    In a way its a good thing. Watching tv, listening to radio or reading the papers and having story after story about Trump was tiring. Of course there are some issues that'll need to be ironed out now Biden is President elect (well he is, bar the official announcement).

    It means an end to any current or future investigation into him, his Son, Obama, Clinton, etc, etc.

    So be it. Didn't seem like it was going to happen anyway.

    The fun part is, and i said this before, now he has won is he must be able to speak to people regularly, work 20 hour days, meet international leaders and make the same trade and peace deals previous Presidents have done. No more calling a lid after 4 hours and hiding in his basement for 3 to 5 days.

    Then there are the election promises such as medicare for all, open borders, health care for illegals not to mention tax hikes across the board, plus his attack on Fracking, 2nd amendment, and his promise to fund the green new deal to the tune of 2 trillion.

    The big one will of course be the Chinese virus. He said he has a plan to effectively combat it so now he must deliver on that, not to mention the promises made to ethnic and racial groups during his campaign.

    Of course none of this will be his problem in 12 to 18 months because i'm taking bets that is the max he'll serve before Harris takes the reigns. You think Nancy Pelosi was researching how to use the 25th amendment JUST for Trump!.

    Its going to be an interesting 4 years. I'm actually looking forward to it.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 549 ✭✭✭Munsterlad102


    It'll be interesting to see what'll come of any impending legal action from the Trump campaign. It fairly obvious that there's extensive voter fraud with videos emerging of vote counters filling out votes in the counting centre and to several districts reporting over 100% turn out rate and votes from dead people too. I think we would all agree that Biden isn't responsible for any fraud, so hopefully he isn't subjected to the same witch-hunt that Trump was. Ultimately a victory for Biden will see Kamala Harris become president in a matter of month as Biden is a literal senile old man, so it'll be interesting how that pans out. Also let's not forget about threats to the second amendment if Biden is elected, AR-15s may be on the chopping block! Or whether Biden will try and stack the Supreme Court, mar a deir an seanfhocal, is maith an scéalaí an aimsir!


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