I've been a member for more than a year but I don't
think I've ever introduced myself. (If I have -- well, old farts are entitled to repeat themselves!
)
Bad news: I suspect my firearm collection is about as big as it is going to get, at least for a while. My wife is insisting that things like fixing the foundation of our house takes precidence.
So, as of now I have three handguns: a Kimber CDP Pro which I carry on weekends or night, an NAA Black Widow which I carry constantly with the .22 magnum cylinder, and a Ruger Old Army which has been sitting neglected in my closet, but which I hope to take out to the range for exercise this coming Sunday. Oh, I also have a Marvel conversion kit for the Kimber, but it has become a problem so is getting sent in for repairs tomorrow. (Oh, yeah, I am legally licensed to carry. Just because I believe that the Second Amendment is in principle the only license I need doesn't mean I am so dumb as to try and act on that principle!)
Of these, the most fun to shoot is the Black Widow with a .22lr cylinder. Next most fun is the Ruger, which is also the most accurate. The only drawback, of course, is the loading time.
Long guns: I have three Mosin-Nagant M44 carbines, one of which I have bubbaized with a scope and modified stock; an M39 Finn Mosin-Nagant which weighs a ton but shoots spectacularly well (better than I ever will); an SKS; an Enfield Mark 4; a Garand; a CZ 452 full stock .22, also spectacularly accurate; and a Saiga 12 gauge, which is sort of like a semi-auto AK-47 in 12 gauge.
The CZ452 is the most fun to shoot because even with cheap ammo it is accurate at 100 yards. The only thing I don't like about it is the 5 round magazine; I've heard there are 10-rounders available, but I haven't seen any for sale. The Garand is emotionally the most important to me because that is what I trained and shot with in Basic (shows how old I am!). If I had to sell all my long guns, these are the two I'd keep forever.
I post under my real name -- lynnkcircle is just my real name run together and, yes, "Lynn" was a man's name 60 years ago, especially in the south. If you google Lynn K. Circle you'll find I've spent a lot of time defending the Second Amendment and attacking racists and bigots.
Oh, yes ... I am a liberal of the old school who believes the Constitution says what it means and means what it says, and that the Bill of Rights applies to all American citizens. I also believe that English should become the official language for all government documents, that ballots should be available only in English, and that if someone cannot read English well enough to vote on an English ballot, they really cannot understand enough about the issues to vote anyhow. We need to both control our own borders absolutely and even violently if necessary, while we do whatever we can to encourage legal immigration. Legal immigrants have been a primary driving force of American innovation since our beginnings and we continue to need them.
Sound contradictory? Well being a real liberal means being non-ideological and forming your own opinions. That pretty much eliminates me from being able to belong to either today's liberals or conservatives since both sides seem to want everyone to conform to
their ideology.
OK, old farts run off at the mouth and so I have. Now you know who I am.
