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Title: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: JC5123 on January 21, 2013, 09:10:43 AM
Bought my girlfriend an new rifle and we went and shot guns ALL day! What did you guys do?
Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: 44s rock on January 21, 2013, 09:50:43 AM
The wife and I took an all day defensive pistol class.
Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: jnevis on January 21, 2013, 09:56:28 AM
We went looking for a new house and found one about a mile or so from a public range that was PACKED.  The shop next o it was also PACKED.  Since we were out of staters (for now) all I got was powder for 223.
Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: JLawson on January 21, 2013, 10:11:33 AM
We didn't have a chance to go anywhere but I did upgrade to NRA Lifetime membership.

It's a great deal now... save $400.

https://www.nra-2013.org/ (https://www.nra-2013.org/)

Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: Magoo541 on January 21, 2013, 11:05:27 AM
I had planned on heading up to Salem, OR, 20 minutes up I-5, to join the HUGE crowd but the wifey was not feeling well so I stayed home and tumbled the 5,000 rounds of 45/5.56 brass my daughter and I policed Friday night  ;D

I did make a quick trip to Bi-Mart to get some containers to organize all my brass and swung by the gun counter to check on powder/primer availability-it looked like the cleaning lady got carried away. 
Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: Frosty on January 21, 2013, 11:53:25 AM
I attended Gun Appreciation Day @ Denver, CO. There were a fair number of folks there (maybe 500 +/- ?) and some good speakers, a lawyer, a State Representative, a former anti-gunner turned CCW gun owner. One speaker now a U.S. citizen from a latin country run by a dictator was very adiment about not yielding our inalienable rights esp. 2A. He said lving in a country run by a dictator you never knew who came knocking at your door in the middle of the night or why . His brother was imprisoned for an unknown offense after being stopped at a check point.
Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: PegLeg45 on January 21, 2013, 11:57:35 AM
I attended Gun Appreciation Day @ Denver, CO. There were a fair number of folks there (maybe 500 +/- ?) and some good speakers, a lawyer, a State Representative, a former anti-gunner turned CCW gun owner. One speaker now a U.S. citizen from a latin country run by a dictator was very adiment about not yielding our inalienable rights esp. 2A. He said lving in a country run by a dictator you never knew who came knocking at your door in the middle of the night or why . His brother was imprisoned for an unknown offense after being stopped at a check point.

These are the people that groups like the NRA, et al, need to capitalize on by putting them in TV and magazine ads.


As to the gun appreciation day, didn't go shooting....but did load up some new PMags and re-arranged one of my go-bags.  :D
Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: crusader rabbit on January 21, 2013, 03:01:27 PM
I just spent several hours at my favorite local gun shop. 

I helped out a bit when they got overrun, and answered a few questions posed by sincere newbies. 

I helped close a couple of sales--one on a pre-owned S&W .38 special revolver; and one on an evil, semi-automatic, black, extended magazine 9mm pistol personally made by Satan but marketed by that Nazi company, Sig-Sauer, expressly to murder small children and to shoot puppies and that has no legitimate reason to be owned by any right-thinking American because nobody needs to shoot that many bullets in an extended clip.  I felt particularly good about closing that second one.

Oh, and I sent in another years' membership to the NRA.

All in all, it was a pretty good day.

Crusader
Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: JC5123 on January 21, 2013, 03:07:36 PM
I just spent several hours at my favorite local gun shop. 

I helped out a bit when they got overrun, and answered a few questions posed by sincere newbies. 

I helped close a couple of sales--one on a pre-owned S&W .38 special revolver; and one on an evil, semi-automatic, black, extended magazine 9mm pistol personally made by Satan but marketed by that Nazi company, Sig-Sauer, expressly to murder small children and to shoot puppies and that has no legitimate reason to be owned by any right-thinking American because nobody needs to shoot that many bullets in an extended clip.  I felt particularly good about closing that second one.

Oh, and I sent in another years' membership to the NRA.

All in all, it was a pretty good day.

Crusader


OH say it ain't sooooo!!!!!! My primary carry gun is an EVIL Sig Sauer P229 in .40 complete with EVIL rail, EVIL 12 rd magazine and REALLY AWFULLY EVIL Siglight tritium night sights. Oh the HORROR!!!!

Wait a second, last time I checked the Sig P229 was the primary service pistol for..........The United State Secret Service. Just Sayin.

Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: fatbaldguy on January 21, 2013, 05:00:01 PM
Columbus, Ohio.  Somewhere between 1000 and 1500 attendee's marching around the statehouse.  Speeches, other stuff.  4 hours of gladhanding.
Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: rojawe on January 21, 2013, 05:37:12 PM
Bass Pro in Independence Mo and my Hat is off to Bass P for having a great rally and a great time
Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: graywolf on January 21, 2013, 05:42:03 PM
Went to the Guns Across America Rally in Lansing. Check out YouTube   Guns across America
Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: twyacht on January 21, 2013, 06:01:32 PM
Went to my local indoor range for some pistol time, 45ACP is now cheaper to shoot than .223. :-\

Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: JoeG on January 22, 2013, 08:45:22 AM
Spent some time reloading for the next action pistol match.
Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: JC5123 on January 22, 2013, 05:48:02 PM
http://www.k2tv.com/news.php?id=2578

We made it on the local news. No interview, but they caught us in the background setting up.
Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: farma on January 25, 2013, 01:07:46 PM
I spent the morning building a receiver for my project rifle.
Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: alfsauve on January 25, 2013, 01:14:07 PM
I feel bad I didn't join with the group at the capital.  But I bracketed it with trips to the range last Friday and this as well as a gun purchase.

Title: Re: Did anyone celebrate Gun Appreciation Day on Sat?
Post by: jaybet on January 25, 2013, 02:53:27 PM
Started building my secret hidden bunker/loading/armory/safe room.