When it really happens: SHTF...

[fjruple]

Well, another update on the homefront and the gunshop. Local bear spent two hours in a tree in the otherside of the township with a local news crew filming the bear like it was some sort of protests. The news caster was even throwing food at the bear until it took off into the woods. I kept a loaded .30-06 Remington hunting rifle loaded just in case. I use to hunt these critters back in the 1970's and they can be very dangerous. Worked the gunshop on Tuesday all of the Glocks, S&W and low end SIG Sauers are gone!! We have no idea when some more will be coming back in. All of the Troy Industries A4 are gone as well. We did get a new source of guns to sell. Photo attached!! LOL!! Stay safe and healthy everyone!

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[Surpmil]

Maybe call that the "morally consistent self defence for liberals" cabinet?

"Sir, are a registered Democrat? I believe we have some guns over here you will like."

Better ask the boss first though.

[fjruple]

Better ask the boss first though.

You mean the Minister of War, Finance and Love! LOL Believe or not I actually sold some of the water pistols LOL!! Probably to go home to the Minister of War, Finance and Love, to say,"Honey this is all that they had left." LOL!!

[Surpmil]

Right, I forgot the part about "...love, honour and obey..."

[Aragorn243]

I really can't say what is going on around here. Things are happening that I never thought I would see and it is disconcerting. My wife is telling me to be careful going to Lancaster and I've not been taking her seriously at all but in a neighboring small city called York, a woman was dragged out of her car and her car was damaged pretty badly because she made the mistake of being on the same street as a bunch of moronic peaceful protestors. We have Democrat mayors and Governors who seem to be waiting for Trump to move in and take care of their problems so they can vilify him for it but he isn't making any moves and they are coming to the conclusion they have to take care of it themselves. But they've waited so long, it isn't going to be easy. I have no sympathy for them. I'll happily wait and watch until they start begging Trump to come in and then he will and it will get taken care of. But they won't be able to criticize him for it because they made the request. The media went on an on about how the protests were not increasing covid cases but the day after a Trump rally, they declared it was a record day for new cases. Completely ignoring that it takes a minimum of 5 days for symptoms to occur. There is a concern I have about Gettysburg National Military Park. I saw an online flyer today that set off all sorts of alarms and I know some conservative groups are watching this very closely. I forwarded it to the National Park Service and they replied that they were aware of it and were in constant contact with the FBI and other federal agencies. The event in question involves a flag burning in the Gettysburg Cemetery. Now I know of no cemetery in Gettysburg called the Gettysburg Cemetery so I have no idea what that means but the Feds won't allow it in the National Cemetery and Evergreen probably wouldn't either. That is where several Confederates are buried and their graves are usually marked with Confederate flags. These same groups have alluded to a possible attempt to deface or pull down the Robert E Lee statue which would be quite a feat because it's huge and people will not stand for it. They were asking for volunteers to guard it. This is all happening on the July 4th weekend which is the 150th anniversary of the battle. The danger of course is it backfires and the conservative groups get into conflict with the Park police inadvertently. They are on the same side but they can't officially sanction anything. I'm not part of any group but am feeling a bit conflicted because that battlefield means a LOT to me and that's not an understatement. These threats have occurred in the past and nothing ever came of them but the incident in York has me concerned. In order and roughly the same distance apart are Lancaster-York-Gettysburg and Gettysburg is in easy reach of Baltimore which is the nearest true city. Lancaster and York are both sort of minimal for the designation. York is also easy reach for Baltimore and it wouldn't surprise me if the malcontents are from there. Lancaster has had peaceful gatherings. Ephrata has even had a few, no more than 200 or so standing with signs. But for here, that's a lot. Last time this was going on they got less than 10.

I do not carry although I and my wife are licensed to. I may start and that's a pretty big decision. It's crazy and the authorities are not doing anything to control it and it's giving them incentive to escalate. This is one of those things that should have been cracked down on in the very beginning and these Democrats refused to do so because they thought they were on the same side. I think they are now learning that the anarchists don't like them either.

[browningautorifle]

Here on the other hand things are still kind of strange. People walking to the far side of the sidewalk to pass you, the next one brushes shoulders. Mostly no masks but there are some. My gym is open again but it's the only one. My range never closed but one in Northern Ontario won't open for months yet... My son says in Vancouver they are suspecting that this session we just went through IS the second wave...the first was back in December in China...

[Ovidio]

Here things are quieting down.
We have the government and their political side trying to keep the tension high in order to get to the September regional elections still in a crises mode, which normally helps the ruling side.
But people have had enough.
Of all the talk made about emergency plans, help for workers and businesses, opening of schools... almost nothing has been realised.
We’ll pay dearly for it in September. There are already unmistakeble signs of the crises we’re getting into.
For what concerns me, Tuesday evening I drove the Family to Milan, to see the Grandma and one of the uncles, who got the Covid and got through.
Yesterday I took my wife and the kids and spent the day in Milan, before driving back home, leaving them there.
Milan looks like a city just starting to recover from an enormous shock.
Vehicle traffic is up, but there are very few people on the sidewalks.
We went to the Duomo Square and it was practically empty. We even went on top of the Duomo, which usually requires a lot of patience due to the long queues to get the tickets and go up.
They’re down from 10.000-15.000 visitors per day to 200.
We were never with more than 6 other people up there.
One of the guards also took half an hour to show us around and tell us lots of things about all the restauration works etc.
He took my youngest daughter in great simpathy and joked a lot with her, telling her to take a very good note about the day, because even Obama and Michelle could not see the Duomo by themselves, being surrounded by 30 secret service people
I’m wondering how things will develop in the US.
This pandemic has become a hostage in the political struggle for this years elections, which is a very bad thing, especially for those who suffer, physically or economically...

[fjruple]

King Murphy has determined to let the indoor ranges open back up on July 2. We have been running classroom instruction on the basics of firearms unfortunately without the range time. With social distancing still in effect the classes have been full. The crowds are different this time. Usually I get the guy who last fired a weapon in the Army in the late 50's or Johnny Kool Tactical all decked out in his black tactical gear who wants to roll in the dirt and play hard *ss. This time its different I am getting a lot of folks of the "liberal" side of the political spectrum who up to six months would not think about buying a firearm and learning how to shoot. Hopefully the next time gun control comes up in NJ, the folks buying the guns now will remember. We are living in interesting times to say the least. It is interesting how little understanding of human nature that the politicians have. Everyone stay safe and healthy. The next life that you save may be your own.

[Ovidio]

Things are quite strange now. We live in a sort of state of limbo. The statistics of the disease are good and the medical situation keeps improving, but the foolish communication policy of our "leaders", virologists, doctors keeps a high pace.
No-one agrees on anything. The more we seem to get out of trouble, the more some people spread panic.
We were expecting things to take a further step in the right direction with the beginning of July, but instead, things are getting worse internationally.
Flights to some destinations like UK, Turkey and USA get canceled on short notice or without any notice, Germany seems to be getting in trouble, the US stats look very bad.
But nobody tells us what really happens.
Here in Italy, the few positive cases are mostly completely without any symptoms. How about those in the rest of the world?
In the meantime, work is exploding. I'm getting crazy like in the worst days of normal years.
I'm absolutely disgusted, particularly because too many people talk and so it is as if nobody was talking.
We can also add the weirdest coalitions of donkeys ruling our country, which makes for very dire forecasts. Economically speaking.

[Gil Boyd]

Done the compulsory Range Officer COVID course tonight ready for a resumption of shooting before the latest Swine Flu hits the shores of Europe from China at Christmas!!