Hi there! (Not actually *super* new ...)
However, a convergence of events:
a) A while ago -- months -- finally noticed noticed this sticky thread, having ignored it for several before that.
b) A few minutes ago, checking my profile to see if there'd been any discussion in the forums I was most recently reading / responding within, I saw that I'd had to that point 365 posts, and an average of 1 a day, making ... a year!
So I guess it's time to add to this thread
Born and raised on the East Coast, but went to college in Texas, and have lived a number of other places besides in the intervening years, though I think the state I've moved to the most times has been Texas (4 times and counting). Now going to law school at Temple, in Philadelphia (motto: "The City that Glares"). Philadelphia presents as good an argument for an armed citizenry as any other.
I've learned a lot from this forum, and appreciate all the hard work of the administrators in providing it, as well as the work put into answers to perpetual newbies like me by the many more experienced members. Despite my current course of study, I know for a fact that many people here (and here I'm talking about the non-lawyers) grasp more about the law than I do or expect to anytime soon, esp. when it comes to firearms law, but brushing against their knowledge here has been a help to me in classes and in conversation.
My main complaint about THR: this forum has heightened my long-standing interest in all things gun-related, and in that way has cost me quite a bit of money, even in the mere year of exposure
[EDIT: And on that last point, I've decided that if I waited past today, it would have been *more* than a year and therefore officially ridiculous, so I just ordered my first reloading press -- the Lee Classic Turret from Kempf's.)
Cheers!
timothy