tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post6848647504837003652..comments2024-03-18T14:48:54.769-04:00Comments on Free North Carolina: Your Papers, Citizen: Gun Control and the Changing American CharacterBrock Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-79337047114229648582013-02-19T15:55:21.953-05:002013-02-19T15:55:21.953-05:00Great stories. I had a M1 in military school wher...Great stories. I had a M1 in military school where I also received my one and only M1 Thumb!:)Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-87005674865651488612013-02-19T15:49:22.103-05:002013-02-19T15:49:22.103-05:00I'm a young 'un compared to Fred, being bo...I'm a young 'un compared to Fred, being born in 1934. I worked all summer in 1946 saving $6.00 to buy my own .22 single shot Remington. ($6.00 was a lot of blackberries at ten cents the quart) I've still got the rifle. I killed a lot of squirrels and rabbits with my rifle. My rifle kept us in winter meat.<br /><br />I went on to buy almost every rifle made if was a Winchester or Remington. I don't care for the commie shit, even if Colt makes it.<br /><br />And then the USMC taught me their version of the correct sight picture and trigger squeeze. I was way ahead of them as I already knew that stuff.<br /><br />The beauty of it was that they gave me the finest rifle ever made - the M1 Garand. There are many like it, but this one is mine.<br /><br />Ain't no commie government types coming close.<br /><br />Molon Labe. (I learned some Greek via Homer and the Iliad while in the 8th Grade, just two years after I bought my .22.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com