>As a former fighter pilot, I bridle at anyone who would restrict my rights.
>
>Here in Texas, it is perfectly legal to carry whatever long gun one
>wishes --
>including machine guns.
>
>I believe in exercising rights. Use it or lose it. If you are afraid of
>running a military vehicle around legally with a dummy gun, then you ARE
>PART OF
>THE PROBLEM!
>
>I drive my Ferrets with LIVE guns.
>
>I have been stopped thrice by police -- twice out of curiosity. They
>did not
>even ask to see my BATF Form 4. After I told them what it all was
>about, it
>became "way cool!"
>
>The third time, however, was the most interesting. I took my Ferret to a
>neighboring town's jamboree: car show, parade, etc. (wife and son in
turret).
>That having been done, I drove to a friend's range and ran a couple of
belts
>through "Mister Happy" (very therapeutic!).
>
>On the way home, with turret in trail, I stopped in my home town for fuel.
>While I was refueling, a man in a pickup pulled up next to me and started
>shouting about "that tank," and "is that gun dismantled! (sic). I was
dressed
>in civvies. He called the police, showboating in front of the other
patrons.
>Then he tried to detain me.
>
>The cops came, laughed him off, and sent me on my way. This MORON is a
federal
>prison guard who is stupid enough to get into a machine gunner's face.
>
>I talked with my sheriff to remind him about the jurisdiction of prison
guards
>and told him: "If I had been a real 'bad guy', this jerk would have only
gotten
>half -way though his second sentence, which, by the way was: "Never mind
>who I
>am." Other action is pending.
>
>Folks, there is no victory in compromise. If you want to be beaten back to
>keeping your treasures safe and unobserved in your garages, you will
>lose. The
>same argument concerning gun control follows into the ranks of anything
>military. The bad guys hate us, and they do not want us to have our
"manly"
>stuff.
>
>Don "Jet-Eye" Loucks
>Fighter Pilot, Politician, Patriot.
>
>
>
>
>Keeping that in mind
>
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