You're pretty close to the border there Brandon! You should wait for dark and go over the wall before the politicians figure out how to raise your taxes again! (Unless you're lactose intolerant, a very bad condition for a cheesehead...)
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I'm there! I OWN West Central IL! HAHAHAAHAHHA
G'day,I had no idea the membership was so large across the world. It's very impressive. What a wonderful organisation.The only thing I have to say in the negative is the Google Maps depiction of where I live bears only passing resemblance to the area as I know it; I think the computers get a little 'confused' translating photographic data to map form. The satellite depiction is spot-on. JimVia BallaratVictoriaAustralia
Quote from: mobilemail on September 06, 2017, 09:14:59 PMI'm there! I OWN West Central IL! HAHAHAAHAHHAI'm there too! And I OWN CENTRAL Central IL! HAHAHAHAHAHA
Quote from: ShawninIL on September 07, 2017, 11:14:30 PMQuote from: mobilemail on September 06, 2017, 09:14:59 PMI'm there! I OWN West Central IL! HAHAHAAHAHHAI'm there too! And I OWN CENTRAL Central IL! HAHAHAHAHAHAYou in springfeild area?
G'day Brandon and Scott,To own an air rifle in Australia we have to be over 18 years and have a Class A firearms licence which means having a Police check and random security checks of home gun security by Police. For each firearm a 'Permit to Acquire' must be obtained before hand - certain categories of firearms are restricted for those demonstrating professional need, i.e. hunters and vermin eradicators culling pests species like wild pigs - and the firearm transfer must be managed through a registered firearms dealer and strict records kept. There is a constant battle between shooters on the one hand and the inner-city socialists who see no point in any private citizen owning a firearm.It was not so strict until just after 1996 when a maniac killed 35 people in Tasmania with a semi-auto rifle. When I was a lad [I'm nearly 70] air rifles were not licensed and were common amongst the lads with whom I grew up. Ownership of PB firearms was licenced, but not excessively so and I grew up being around firearms on the family farm and, as a school military cadet, drilled with Lee Enfield .303 rifles and shot them and BREN light machine guns on the range at millitary camps. We even had a small-bore rifle range on the roof of one of the buildings at school! Nowadays being a shooter is almost like admitting to the eighth deadly sin! I am lucky to live in the country on a small farm and thus can shoot whenever I want. Funnily enough despite tighter security and licensing in Australia there are more registered guns around now than before 1996. Of course no one knows how many guns the criminals have - they don't register theirs!Just to show how small the world is: in the 1970s-'80s I lived and studied at IU in Bloomington and later spent two years studying [George Williams College]and teaching in Chicago before moving to Virginia [Harrisonburg] and later Tallahassee. My wife is from Three Lakes in Northern Wisconsin.Jim
G'day Brandon and Scott,To own an air rifle in Australia we have to be over 18 years and have a Class A firearms licence which means having a Police check and random security checks of home gun security by Police. For each firearm a 'Permit to Acquire' must be obtained before hand - certain categories of firearms are restricted for those demonstrating professional need, i.e. hunters and vermin eradicators culling pests species like wild pigs - and the firearm transfer must be managed through a registered firearms dealer and strict records kept. There is a constant battle between shooters on the one hand and the inner-city socialists who see no point in any private citizen owning a firearm.It was not so strict until just after 1996 when a maniac killed 35 people in Tasmania with a semi-auto rifle. When I was a lad [I'm nearly 70] air rifles were not licensed and were common amongst the lads with whom I grew up. Ownership of PB firearms was licenced, but not excessively so and I grew up being around firearms on the family farm and, as a school military cadet, drilled with Lee Enfield .303 rifles and shot them and BREN light machine guns on the range at millitary camps. We even had a small-bore rifle range on the roof of one of the buildings at school! Nowadays being a shooter is almost like admitting to the eighth deadly sin! I am lucky to live in the country on a small farm and thus can shoot whenever I want. Funnily enough despite tighter security and licensing in Australia there are more registered guns around now than before 1996. Of course no one knows how many guns the criminals have - they don't register theirs![/size][/size]Just to show how small the world is: in the 1970s-'80s I lived and studied at IU in Bloomington and later spent two years studying [George Williams College]and teaching in Chicago before moving to Virginia [Harrisonburg] and later Tallahassee. My wife is from Three Lakes in Northern Wisconsin.Jim
it is very important that when you ad your pin to the map, that you PLEASE USE THE SAME NAME AS YOU USE ON THE GTA. This is the Only Way members will be able to contact you through the GTA private messages.in other words,... if your screen name on GTA is "Airgunner123" and your real name is John Smith,... You MUST USE , "Airgunner123" on the map, if you want to have other GTA members be able to PM you.
Careful guys, I would hate for this thread to get locked down for "political" discussion.That is the same reason I didn't ask Jim about the Ferrell Cat issue in OZ... we just cant talk about it here. So how about that AWESOME MAP!