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Have you seen the new rotating rails that we have in stock? We will have on on display on our gun counter if you want to feel the action first hand! Here is a video demo just show you a few of its amazing features! We're hooked!

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Adventures In Tool Repair: No Pain, No Plane

Planers. They plane wood. They make heaps of wood chips that could be used for mulch. They were also potentially designed by chiropractors. The latest planer weighed about 500 pounds, and my back is not happy.

This particular planer was brought to us with the complaint that it was “popping”. In the tool repair world, that could mean a gear problem, but with this machine, we noticed the drive chain wasn’t exactly ‘factory’. It was flopping around like the chain on a bicycle that had been constructed from parts from lesser bicycles.  Chains need to be the correct spacing to match their corresponding sprockets. If the chain spacing is slightly off, it can get out of sync, causing the chain to ‘jump’ a tooth on the sprocket. This in mind, we tested the planer with a standard 4x4 and then a 12 inch-wide piece of oak, taking off the maximum amount of wood the machine would allow.

Just as suspected, the chain would jump after several rotations. We could not get the chain to skip a tooth on the sprocket, but we were able to determine that it was in fact a problem with the chain, and not the actual gears. Gear problems are much easier to diagnose, and more difficult to repair in some cases. But that’s another story for another time.

Planers are very useful tools for anyone serious about woodworking. It’s always best to replace worn or damaged parts with the correct parts from the manufacturer. It might save you some trouble in the future, and perhaps someone's back. 

- David Furlong

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And our Free Friday Winner is...

And our Winner is... Brian Clark from Monroe, Louisiana! We have an awesome Red Jacket signed t-shirt waiting for you. You have until 4pm to claim it. :)

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Friday Specials:

New Glock 32 g3 in 357sig $479 cash or check; New Glock 19 g3 $499 cash; Used Glock 29SF 10mm with stainless storm lake barrel, original barrel, night sights, ghost trigger, extra mags with extensions, like new $700 cash

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BIG Day Today!!!

Big day today- tax free weekend on all guns and gun related items. Come see us at Tool Town and Trading Post Guns

No tax on guns, ammo, gear. We will be open today till 6. AND tomorrow 9-6. Layaway is also tax free! 20% off all clothing this weekend, and lots of in store specials!

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We'll have this UTS-15 Dual Tube shotgun in this week! Price is $1199 cash or check.

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Wave Goodbye: The list of firearm manufacturers fleeing gun control states

Via The Daily Caller

By NRA-ILA

In recent months, several traditionally anti-gun states, and Colorado, have enacted laws that abuse the rights of the average citizen and offend their corporate citizens. The situation has led to an exodus of gun manufacturers to more friendly climes, with anti-gun states losing the significant tax revenue and jobs these companies provide.

Amongst the companies that have chosen to relocate is

Another refugee is Kahr Arms of Rockland County, N.Y. Following New York’s enactment of the so-called S.A.F.E. Act, Kahr announced that it would be moving some of its operations from the Empire State to more gun–friendly Pennsylvania. Prior to New York’s new law, Kahr had been considering building a new facility, with 80-100 additional jobs, in Orange County, N.Y. When asked about the move by the Wall Street Journal, Kahr Vice President of Sales and Marketing Frank Harris said of New York, “We don’t feel welcome.”

PTR Industries, a maker of semiautomatic rifles in Bristol, Conn., has also chosen to move. In reaction to Connecticut’s recently enacted legislation, the company confirmed in June that it would be moving to Aynor, S.C. Similarly, fellow Connecticut gun maker Stag Arms and the Palmetto State have shown mutual interest.

Other manufacturers, such as Sturm, Ruger & Company and Beretta, have sought out firearm friendly states for their expansion plans, with Ruger opening a new plant in North Carolina. Even Remington, which has built firearms in Ilion, New York, for over 150 years, is reported to be looking to move part or all of that operation to a gun-friendly state.

Manufacturers looking to move or expand are in a buyer’s market, as several states have rolled out the welcome mat. Back in June, the Hartford Courant detailed recruiting trips by fervent gun rights supporter and shooter, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, who were seeking to convince Connecticut manufacturers of the virtues of their states. Stag Arms CEO Mark Malkowski told a reporter for the National Review that the company had received “about one hundred offers” to relocate.

It is not surprising that the radical anti-gun legislatures and governors in these states failed to consider the impact these extreme new laws would have on businesses and the jobs they support.  Restricting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans is a far more important goal to these politicians than protecting the jobs of their constituents.  Fortunately, our federalist system gives people and businesses the opportunity to locate in states that continue to respect the individual rights of Americans  and that best represent their economic interests.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/24/wave-goodbye-the-list-of-firearms-manufacturers-fleeing-gun-control-states/#ixzz2d6UNQ8xa

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