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Greenery

Offering to the gods

Ziggy!

Walk the line. Mount Church, 12,200 feet #idahoexplored #lostriverrange

Below Mount Donaldson in the Lost River Range

JEN Boise, ID Colt Automatic .22 Long Rifle Challenger pistol

Guns have been in my life since the beginning. I grew up with them and still enjoy them in many ways. I compete quite a bit, but I love to hunt, relax, and spend time with family all while enjoying our various guns.

The gun shown in the IDPA competition is a custom built STI 2011 built by Aaron Goodfellow from Caldwell, Idaho.  Of special significance is that the gun was a wedding present from 10 of my closest friends in the Boise shooting community.  This firearm and firearms used in sport bring much enjoyment to myself and those around me.  They do this by bringing like minded people together that enjoy friendly competition, safe use of firearms and believe strongly in exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.

I believe that it is the responsibility of Americans to understand how to operate and maintain firearms. We are all aware of our own brief and violent history, and when one looks around the world we see constant attempts by governments to gain more power by bleeding their own people….it is in the very nature of governments to want ‘ever more’ control and authority over their populations and eventually that is expressed through force of arms. The only way to deter this is through an armed populace. The thought of forcing your own citizens to do anything via violence should be considered impossible for Democracy to work. Not wrong, unjust or immoral….. but impossible. The only way for that dynamic to honestly exist is through the intelligent ownership of firearms by citizens. Fortunately, the founders of our country also saw the same need and included the second amendment into the bill of rights for this very reason……they realized that governments are not inherently good, but are kept that way through checks and balances against the excessive consolidation of power.

Smoke & mirrors

George is shy