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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Just came back from Snopes... Seems to confirm it. Entry looks like he was too fond of being a party animal to exchange the life of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll for military service, not for "political" reasons.


Definitely never knew that part about him...
Yeah, but if you're a leftist or William Jefferson Clinton, then it's all good.
 
Next, if there is a next, (I can hear “what’s he sayin’ “IF” for, good God, man, there is always a “next”), it will surely be a double stack, I love my 1911 45’s , been side eyeing the STI Staccato P2 👀. Who knows. 🤙
Geez, that's a lotta money. I've 2 springfields that have never malf'ed, and are natural pointers. Maybe I don't know what I'm missing.
 
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Geez, that's a lotta money. I've 2 springfields that have never malf'ed, and are natural pointers. Maybe I don't know what I'm missing.
I picked up a Staccato P a few months ago. My Springfield TRP is not in the same class of firearm IMO.
 
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From a web article on the History o f the AR-15 (so yes the AR was around in 1962)

ArmaLite first developed the AR-15 in the late 1950s as a military rifle, but had limited success in selling it. In 1959 the company sold the design to Colt.

In 1963, the U.S. military selected Colt to manufacture the automatic rifle that soon became standard issue for U.S. troops in the Vietnam War. It was known as the M-16.

Armed with that success, Colt ramped up production of a semiautomatic version of the M-16 that it sold to law enforcement and the public, marketed as the AR-15.

When Colt's patents for the AR-15 expired in the 1970s, other manufacturers began making similar models.
 
Geez, that's a lotta money. I've 2 springfields that have never malf'ed, and are natural pointers. Maybe I don't know what I'm missing.
I don’t know if I’m missing anything either, it does sound like it when I watch some reaction vids and stuff. I think Springfields have a solid rep and are fine, I was considering a TRP strongly when I started looking 👍. Admittedly, it is some money and there's lots I don’t know, I try to make researched decisions, while also saying I just like what I like is a part 😉. 🤙
 
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Just came back from Snopes... Seems to confirm it. Entry looks like he was too fond of being a party animal to exchange the life of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll for military service, not for "political" reasons.


Definitely never knew that part about him...

I was working security at big outdoor concert in 1979/1980 (?) and we walked the parking lots at night with the Sheriffs, lots of drugs on the scene. Well the concert weekend that featured him had drugs 10x in the lots. Seeing how messed up all the other acts were I was expecting him to be DOA. My job was escorting the bands to the stage or from the helicopter pad and hanging back stage with them. When we went to get Ted I was unprepared for what I saw. He jumped out and extended his hand, I was a little a shocked. He was talking to us like we were good buddies. Finally I told him that I thought he would be all drugged out and he said never touch the stuff, I'm high on life.
I was in awe of him and his energy and how well spoken he was. Met him at the SHOT one year and he said glad to meet you and I told him that I met him before and still thought he was the man.
Not sure I would believe anything negative I read about him, not like the far left wouldn't want to burn him or have it verified in snopes.
 
Sir, that, is a Marine. 😁

After my retirement from the U.S. Army I became an IT consultant to a large firm. While on contract to the U.S. Navy I once addressed a Marine Sergeant (E5) as "Sarge." After a polite, respectable discussion, followed by my apology, I never made that mistake again. I returned to my quarters and refreshed my knowledge of the various enlisted ranks of all military services and proper forms of address.