Big howdy from Texas, y'all

Ex CME

Ex CME

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Corinth, Texas
Just joined your group. I heard a certain Mahmood Elahi was telling lies about Texas in a Canadian newspaper so I'm here to restore truth and honesty to the gun control debate, but first a little about myself. I'm a proud Canadian currently living in Texas. I'm originally from Vancouver, B.C. and a was an avid hunter, fisherman, gun collector, B.C. Hunter Safety course and Canadian Firearms safety course instructor, Firearms Verifier, military vehicle collector, and Canadian Forces Reservist. I was a member of 192 Airfield Engineer Flight in Abbotsford, B.C. I now live in Texas, and own a 1942 C15 CMP which I take to a LOT of reenactments! Try wearing wool battle dress when it's 105 out and you'll know the meaning of hard core! I'm also an active member of that excellent forum, Maple Leaf Up.
 
Welcome to CGN :)

I used to live in Aldergrove when I was a youngin'.....I'd look forward to going to the Flea Market in Abbotsford so I could look at the airplanes :)
 
Ex CME said:
Just joined your group. I heard a certain Mahmood Elahi was telling lies about Texas in a Canadian newspaper so I'm here to restore truth and honesty to the gun control debate, but first a little about myself. I'm a proud Canadian currently living in Texas. I'm originally from Vancouver, B.C. and a was an avid hunter, fisherman, gun collector, B.C. Hunter Safety course and Canadian Firearms safety course instructor, Firearms Verifier, military vehicle collector, and Canadian Forces Reservist. I was a member of 192 Airfield Engineer Flight in Abbotsford, B.C. I now live in Texas, and own a 1942 C15 CMP which I take to a LOT of reenactments! Try wearing wool battle dress when it's 105 out and you'll know the meaning of hard core! I'm also an active member of that excellent forum, Maple Leaf Up.
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Don't worry about our good "friend" Mahmood, a few dozen of us set him straight! ;)
 
dont you miss this record rain (i think) we are getting this month of march?? not!!! lol.
 
Ex CME said:
Just joined your group. I heard a certain Mahmood Elahi was telling lies about Texas in a Canadian newspaper so I'm here to restore truth and honesty to the gun control debate, but first a little about myself. I'm a proud Canadian currently living in Texas. I'm originally from Vancouver, B.C. and a was an avid hunter, fisherman, gun collector, B.C. Hunter Safety course and Canadian Firearms safety course instructor, Firearms Verifier, military vehicle collector, and Canadian Forces Reservist. I was a member of 192 Airfield Engineer Flight in Abbotsford, B.C. I now live in Texas, and own a 1942 C15 CMP which I take to a LOT of reenactments! Try wearing wool battle dress when it's 105 out and you'll know the meaning of hard core! I'm also an active member of that excellent forum, Maple Leaf Up.
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Welcome!

I'm actually born and raised in Abbotsford and I just got back from two weeks in Dallas/FW last month. It was SO hard to come back up here....

If you can share any knowledge and help a poor Kanadian learn how to become a citizen down there without having to get hired somewhere....please do tell. I'd give anything to move to Texas, I love it there.

Welcome to the site!
 
Thanks all for your welcome!

I'll try to respond to everybody's posts in one reply. Fonix: yes, I love Texas too! I miss the hunting and fishing in B.C. but the sunshine, the low taxes, the concealed carry permits, full auto, and friendly people make up for it. The economy down here is amazing! Over 50 of the Fortune 500 companies have their headquarters in Texas. Construction is through the roof! The budget for one interchange in Dallas at I-635 and Hwy 75: $500,000,000.00. New terminal at DFW airport: $785,000,000.00 New Cowboy's stadium: $1,000,000,000.00+. Toyota just built a state-of-the-art plant in San Antonio. Bell-Textron is busy building the Osprey and Lockheed the Joint Strike Fighter. And that is just a miniscule portion of the total economy here. It's nothing short of flabbergasting! How did I get to move here? I met a Texas gal, courted her, and we got married, 'nuff said. I'm surprised at how many Canadians I meet here every year...doctors, nurses, IT techs, and retirees abound, all soaking their poor Canadian bones in the Texas heat!
Maple Leaf Pilgrim, thanks for settin' our friend Mahmood straight, once again an anti-gunner opens his blow-hole without knowing what he is talking about. I first heard about Mr. Elahi's comments on the Maple Leaf Up forum where I posted a reply in the "Sargeant's Mess" forum under "New Texas Self defence law" Look it up, you'll find it interesting.
capt. 2K_ca: Did you serve at CFS Aldergrove? We Engineers did a lot of work for them over the years. Bad news about the airplanes: apparently the Abbotsford International Airshow will soon be no more! The city of Abbotsford and West Jet want to build a new terminal which will be in the infield, thus preventing any further airshows. I hope they're wrong!
The rest of y'all, thanks for the welcome and I hope my experience with firearms over the last 40 years will be of some interest and benefit to you. Derek.
 
Welcome to CGN, Ex CME.
I am sure you will find this to be the best gun forum around.
How did you learn of us?
Tell us a bit about your shooting interests.
Have a look at the Newbie FAQ section. A link can be found in my signature line below.
I hope you enjoy your visits here!


-thats the generic welcome everyone gets, now a more personel one.
Did you spend a lot of time volunteering for the RFOC-BC in the early days, around 1994? I think I know you. If you are the one I am thinking of, I bought a couple of fired artillery cases off of you shortly before you moved south.
I cant quite remember your name. Maybe Derrick??

Dean
 
Hello Ex CME,
Make sure you check out the Ottawa Hill Times on Monday to see our response to Elahi. What is great about GunNutz is that anti-gun lies and misinformation does not go unnoticed by us. When ever the anti-gunners try to distort the truth we are quick in our efforts to set the record straight.

http://www.thehilltimes.ca/
 
tootall said:
Welcome to CGN, Ex CME.
I am sure you will find this to be the best gun forum around.
How did you learn of us?
Tell us a bit about your shooting interests.
Have a look at the Newbie FAQ section. A link can be found in my signature line below.
I hope you enjoy your visits here!


-thats the generic welcome everyone gets, now a more personel one.
Did you spend a lot of time volunteering for the RFOC-BC in the early days, around 1994? I think I know you. If you are the one I am thinking of, I bought a couple of fired artillery cases off of you shortly before you moved south.
I cant quite remember your name. Maybe Derrick??

Dean
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Derek. Yup! Ya got me! How are doin' Dean! I worked hard back then for the RFOC in Langley and taught Hunter Safety and the CFSC for the Langley School Board at nights at H.D. Stafford. I also worked hard to get Randy White elected the first time. I moved from Langley to Abbotsford for a time to be closer to my Reserve unit there and to also prepare for my move south. At first I was going to take everything to Texas with me but after I contacted the B.A.T.F. office in Seattle and found out that they wanted $100.00 per firearm to inspect them with no guarantee that they would be allowed into the U.S., well, 80 X $100.00 X 1.42= more money than I cared to spend, so a lot of people benefited from my having to dispose of my collection. Those cases I sold you are now relatively rare, they are both RCN, the short one was from the Mk 10 LIMBO anti-submarine mortar and the long one was the 3" 70cal. DP main deck gun. Both weapons were landed on the old 230's which I believe were the last of the RCN's steamers.
Surprisingly, I haven't been shooting near as much as I used to back in Canada, other than to practice my draw from concealed carry. I try to retrieve my pistol and get 2 shots off within 2 seconds...a difficult task sometimes depending on what I'm wearing. It's too warm 9 months of the year to wear a jacket to hide a shoulder holster so a lot of Texans use fanny packs for concealed carry. Rough rule of thumb: Fanny pack in rear, no gun. Fanny pack in front, he's packin'.
Since buying and restoring a 1942 Canadian Military Pattern C15 and a trailer to haul it with, I've slowly started rebuilding my gun collection. To go along with my Royal Canadian Engineer, 18th Field Engineer Company impression I've been buying mostly WW II stuff; Lee Enfields, Browning H.P., 2" mortar, and a Sten Mk III. I've also built a replica 4.2" blank firing mortar. Texas is a class 3 state so full auto is allowed but they are becoming devillishly expensive! A quick look at some of the Class 3 dealer's websites will shock the Heck out of ya! One site was asking $45,000 for an MG 42! The cheapest Stens I've seen having an asking price of $4,900! I hope in the future to buy a full auto Bren MkI, made by Inglis, of course but all purchases are currently on hold as I'm saving for a trip to Normandy in 2009. I've hooked up with Bruce MacMillan who's from B.C. He's putting together a Canadian contingent for D day and I'll probably meet up with them over there.
I've met lots of Canadians here in Texas, one of them some of you might know. Gnr. Dave Thompson, ex-RCA is a Korean war vet who flies every year to Toronto for Remembrance Day. He's the old boy pulling the lanyard on the 25 pdr. in downtown Toronto. If you're from Tranna, walk up, say howdy and buy him a beer!
 
JNG said:
Hello Ex CME,
Make sure you check out the Ottawa Hill Times on Monday to see our response to Elahi. What is great about GunNutz is that anti-gun lies and misinformation does not go unnoticed by us. When ever the anti-gunners try to distort the truth we are quick in our efforts to set the record straight.

http://www.thehilltimes.ca/
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Thanks! I'll be sure to read your response to Elahi. It's important to quickly counter the hyperbole, half-truths, and outright lies that the antis promote as "the facts." I heard about Mahmood's letter first in the Maple Leaf Up forum where I posted this response:

"It's all too easy to use hyperbole in an emotional debate on a subject such as gun control. Mahmood Elahi, who I'm sure is a fine Canadian, does his side a disservice by shrilly decrying the "gun culture in Texas."
Let's calmly and rationally look at the facts. I looked up a few statistics and I can compare statistics from 2005 for Canada and Texas.

Firstly population:

In 2005 Canada's population was set at 32,805,041 while Texas' population was set at 22,859,968. The best estimates for Illegal Aliens residing in Texas put the number at 7 to 10 million, so the unofficial population of Texas could exceed that of the entire country of Canada, so let's compare apples to apples.

Homicides in Canada in 2005: 658
Homicides in Texas in 2005: 1,407

Significantly more, granted, but not the "thousands" expounded by Mr. Elahi and his ilk. But, consider this, most of the murders in Texas are Black-on-Black, Hispanic-on-Hispanic, Drug dealer-on-Drug dealer, or Gang banger-on-Gang Banger and tend to be concentrated in certain geographical areas. I'm willing to bet that if one could retrieve the racial and criminal proportion of the homicide rate out of the total, you'd find that a White, law-abiding citizen who stays out of Oak Cliff or Northside Drive area of Fort Worth is far safer in Texas than in Canada. Why? because one doesn't want to piss someone off here because they are probably carrying a pistol. When I lived and commuted to work in Vancouver, B.C. I was flipped off 6-10 times a day by other hot-headed commuters. Here in Texas, I've maybe been flipped off 6-10 times in 5 1/2 years! An armed citizenry is a polite citizenry. Derek."
 
Welcome,

I just joined up here today, but wanted to say welcome anyhow. I lived in TX for the best 2 years of my life (grad school in Denton) and if I could find a good job and go back, I would to...I absolutely loved it there...my home away from home. I have never been treated so well as I was when i was down there. Guess I'll have to meet a nice TX'n gal and head down.


God Bless Texas.
M
 
Hi Derek,
hey, I was right! (Don't know how I missed your name in post 10 on page one:redface: )
Anyway, welcome once again.

Inreseting what you said about the $100 per gun inspection fee at the border. I did not know of that.
I am planning on writing an article comparing Can. and US gun laws, so stuff like that is good to know.

You mentioned comparing the homicide rate, and wondered what it would be if you factored out the gang angle.
I saw something a while back comparing Van with Seattle. Overall, Van had about 3.8 per 100,000, while Seattle was about 10 per 100,000.
However, if the black and hispanic areas where factored out, the Seattle numbers where about 3.6 per.
 
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