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We are definitely armed. In fact, Airman’s Glock is within arm’s reach.
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How do you keep that safe from your kid(s)?
By amputating their arms.
You want them to disarm their kids?
[QUOTE=intention]
… The key to that game is the “Neighborhood Watch Potluck Lunch”. Paper plates, barbeque if someone has and wants, rotate the location around the different households different weekends, get together and talk to your neighbors. Exchange phone numbers, set up a phone tree…
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and set up a Yahoo group or equivalent with an email messageboard service.
The neighborhood we lived in in Texas started going to hell in a handbasket a couple of years before we left; there was not just increasing theft and vandalism but lots of door-to-door scam artists, some robberies and peeping toms, and a couple of homicides. Being on the neighborhood mailing list made us aware of how bad it really was – as well as helped the neighborhood nail some scammers and at least one peeper. The mailing list was much, much more effective than the phone tree, even for breaking events like “The peeper just peeped at me and he’s running down the alley headed south! Everybody, try to get a good look at 'im!”
[QUOTE=gigi]
How do you keep that safe from your kid(s)?
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He’s in Texas for the next week or two, so it’s a non-issue right now. Generally, though, I do not leave guns lying around.
That was fucking awesome. 
[QUOTE=villa]
Carlisle really has changed then. I lived there from 2001-2002 and the greatest danger I ever felt in was of death from boredom. That’s a shame. It was a nice little town when I was there. Well, except for the weekend when the Custom Compact show was in town, but those people were more amusing than threatening.
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It’s still a nice little town. We just happen to live on the road between the North Street Apartments and the high school, which happens to be the wrong side of the tracks around here.
Yep. In fact, it has become the townie bar by default since the Plunkett and the Carlisle Tavern closed.
I was on the first block of East North Street, right by the big Chuch there. But then again, isn’t everywhere right by a big Church in Carlisle?
Blondie’s was pretty much the only place I ever went out to drink. Crazy prices on huge steaks on Wednesday night, IIRC.
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF]
In one of the more astonishing developments of my life, Robin actually asked, in defiance of her previously held convictions, how to go about getting a concealed carry permit. I think that speaks volumes.
While I am in principle on board with that, before I offer up one of my handguns she has several trips to the range and some instruction ahead of her. …:
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If the range uses human silhouettes, take the best couple of shot groupings and put them on prominate display outside the house. That’s a warning that’s hard to ignore.
[QUOTE=cards]
If the range uses human silhouettes, take the best couple of shot groupings and put them on prominate display outside the house. That’s a warning that’s hard to ignore.
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I MUST pass this idea on to my husband.
[QUOTE=cards]
If the range uses human silhouettes, take the best couple of shot groupings and put them on prominate display outside the house. That’s a warning that’s hard to ignore.
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It can also function as a signal to burglars that there are guns in your home they can steal. That is a big reason why I don’t have NRA stickers and crap on anything I own.
[QUOTE=Scumpup]
It can also function as a signal to burglars that there are guns in your home they can steal. That is a big reason why I don’t have NRA stickers and crap on anything I own.
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Hmmm… clamp bear traps onto the bottoms of the targets?