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Mike Hensley

42

White male

Live in Indianapolis Indiana

Shipping manager for a scuba manufacturer(15 years)

1928 WH

WWII M1

4 cats

2nd wife

no childrens

1-Harley Ultra Classic (for sale)

working on buying other Thompson's

1 computer

4 web sites

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I am 43 years old, live in south Norway. Don't want my name on gun sites, I'm sort of a semi-public figure in my community. I served ten years as an army officer, now I spend my time teaching/researching. Collect primarily pre-1945 guns but like anything that goes "BOOM!" Wife, dog & daughter. Savage Thompson M1928. Sidecar motorcycle. 28' boat. Wife-certified pack-rat.
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Bryan - 24yrs old

White Male

US Navy Officer - Nuclear Engineer

Chattanooga, Tennessee

WW2 M1A1, M-2 Carbine, M16, AK47, UZI, MP5, HK33, G3

No money or Hobbies due to my NFA addiction!!

No Wife

No Kids (that i know of)

 

Looking for a WW2 1928A1...preferably Savage built

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Bruce Volensky

55 Years old.

White male.

Part owner Pyrotecnico Fireworks Display Company (We have most likley done your cities July 4th fireworks)

Live just outside of Montgomery, AL (Pike Road, AL)

Colt Navy Overstamp

Guidelamp M-3

S&W 76

Various other WWII firearms & Semi's

1 Wife, 2 Children, 2 Grand Children

Intrests:

FXDL Harley (Lowrider), original owner 1974 Stingray,

MG's & firearms in general, Metal Detecting, History.

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Jack Ardrey "Grey Crow"

48 years old

White male

PA

1 Kahr 27A1

many handguns

1 rifle .22

1 wife, 1 child

1 Bull Mastiff

1 Red Foot Tortoise (captive born)

Work for the Lycoming County SPCA

Managed a Pet Shop for 26 years

Worked as keeper in zoo reptile house 8 years

taught collage level herpetology 1 year (study of reptiles)

Interests:

High end Audio

Reptiles

Thompsons (everything affiliated with them)

Handgun Target Shooting

General Target Shooting

Computers (3 of them)

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John Jamieson

Tucson, AZ & Virginia Beach, VA

40 years of age

White Male

Motorcycle Mechanic/Restorer

Married 1st Wife, No children

3 Dogs waiting on 4

Enjoy: Motorcycle Collecting/Restoring(especially Hendersons & of course HDs) , Gun Collecting(especially Shotguns: many, NFA: 1 WH '28 TSMG, 1 BAR), Shotgun games(skeet, Sporting Clays), Muay Thai & Playing Rugby.

1 house, 1 condo

2 computers

1 website

Pleased to be a small part of the TSMG Board,

Johnny

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Thomas Hauslein

51? W,M.

Holiday,Fla.

Colt 21,WH28,Savage 28

Nesa BAR,MG34,Sten,Sterling

MP40,M16,Reising50,Uzi,M2 carb,Macs,

bunch of title ones.

59 Corvette,67 GTO

owner/mech auto repair

3 Golden retrievers

one very understanding WIFE

7 kids,all grown

Interests: see above

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Ah, Narcissism! Christopher Anderson here, Eddyville, KY. The far west side of the Bluegrass State. Thirty-five years old; originally hail from Louisville (Looavul), KY. Have worked for the Kentucky State Police as Trooper for nearly ten years. Here's a bear in the woods...

 

http://www.darklightimagery.net/1138.jpg

 

My speciality is fatal collision reconstruction.

 

Been married for nine years to Teresa. And we have Sagan...you all have been introduced to them before but...

 

http://www.darklightimagery.net/thompson/andersongang01.jpg

 

Our son Sagan has recently been "diagnosed" with cerebral palsy, so we are dealing with that. He's very happy though!

 

Thompson are only a very recent passion for me.

 

http://www.darklightimagery.net/thompson/imaposer.jpg

 

I picked up my first Thompson just a few years back (a pals Savage 1928), and 15 rounds through a 30 round stick, I was hooked! My dad, Bob, has long had a passion for guns, and the Thompson has proved no different!

 

http://www.darklightimagery.net/thompson/tongue.jpg

 

Oh, and Teresa only just tolerates the thing..

 

http://www.darklightimagery.net/thompson/teresaandtommy02.jpg

 

My primordial passion, however, is nature photography, which I've been at for over 20 years. I see beauty in all nature...

 

http://www.darklightimagery.net/Img003052.JPG

 

I also cave. I'll crawl into anything to see where the water goes...

 

http://www.darklightimagery.net/thompson/pstragedr01.JPG

 

Got my head in the stars, too

 

http://www.darklightimagery.net/ngc1977LRGB.jpg

 

We also have two dogs, a Lab and a mixed breed, and an iguana (hey Grey Crow: want a lizard?).

 

I guess that's about it!

 

Really glad to have met all my cyber friends here!

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Chris very nice photo of the Copperhead!

 

LOL, sorry after many years of reptile collecting, and over 200 species of snakes from the world over, I only work with tortoises at this time. I have owned several Iguanas over the years though. They can be interesting but demanding in not only equipment but space.

 

We down sized our home so Iguanas are a little demanding.

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Gunner

Suburbs between Dallas & Denton, Texas

Manage utility company

Have been writer/editor, war correspondent, DC lobbyist

Married; wife is attorney

One son (married); no grandkids

Wife, son & I enjoy skiing

I like Bird & Deer hunting, skeet

Own a WH 28, with a WH M1

Shoot my Thompsons in North Texas submachine gun competitions

Biggest kick is foreign travel

Also like reading history (WWII), art museums, movies & live performances

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RAY ROBERTS

36 YEARS OLD

PRATTVILLE, ALABAMA

 

GUIDELAMP M-3 W\BRITISH PROOFMARKS & CIENER SUPPRESSOR

SAVAGE M1 (PENDING STATUS SINCE SEPT 24,2003) http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/mad.gif

REISING M50 COMMERICIAL

SA M-1 GARAND

WINCHESTER M-1 CARBINE

WINCHESTER 1917

ROCK ISLAND '03 (1910 RECEIVER/1918 BARREL)

TRW M-14 (SEMI - REWELD)

COLT AR-15 RIFLE

COLT AR-15 CARBINE

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John Anderson

46 years young (and you can't make me grow up!!)

North of the Twin Cities. Minnesota

 

Postal Worker (hahaha....no jokes, OK??)

actually Electronics Tech for the USPS

 

US1928A1 Bridgeport

S&W 76

(Maybe a Sten MkII in the works??)

Couple Garands, couple FALs, couple carbines, couple AKs, couple preban ARs, couple big gun safes full of a bunch of other stuff....

(see, I have two kids who can't ever split anything up fairly, so to make it easier, I just try and procure two of everything!!)

 

I have a wonderful wife who finances all this stuff, two greak kids (daughter - 15 and son - 13) both great shots and very much into expending copious amounts of ammo!!

 

I make the trek to Knob creek with a few buddies every spring.....maybe someday I'll make the Thompson shoot!

I teach Furearm Safety a couple times a year and am on the Board of Directors of my gun club. Very active adult leader in my sons Scout troop and active in both kids schools.

 

We like to travel and have been all over the West and most of the East. too!

 

Hunting is an excuse for us to get out in the wide open spaces and woods, so we hunt everything we can, but not with as much passion as some. Still, we do OK and have a great time.

 

I have been on these boards for a few years now (through three format changes, I believe??) and someday would like to meet a you all. Sooooo I guess I'll have to really try to make the Thompson shoot....maybe next year??

 

john http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/laugh.gif

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Tom Murphy

Gardnerville, NV

Age: 58, wife #3 (think I'd learn by now)

Freelance writer and retired from the air conditioning business.

sold my WH M1 6 mos ago, but am looking.

Ruger AC556, Mac 10 9mm/45

 

Like some of the others, I own a Harley - V-Rod; race my Vette occasionally and just finished my 3rd book about Harleys

I fell into this site after talking to Frank about some gun articles and plan on staying.

I live so far out in the high desert of Nevada that the coyotes still speak Spanish! I can shoot just about anything out my back door!

 

Frank, Nick, and all the rest of you - thanks for all the information and pleasure I've derived from this board.

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Wow, this is the "12 step thread" I started (good idea Nick,lot's of new members!),

 

Craig Zammiello here

48 years old, I mean Old!!

Live on Long Island, work in New York City

Am a master printer, obsolete Victorian photomechanical processes a specialty making prints for famous artists

Also an entomologist, beetles and Big Hairy Spiders are my love (yikes, I got to many of these things!)

two girls (22 and 16) with the same birthdays

one beautiful smart art teacher/painter wife

2- jeep cherokees

12- bass guitars

1 -west hurley 1975 27A1 Thompson ( currently undergoing the wizardry of PK)

1 22. Remington 1935 pump action with octagon barrel...what a beauty!

2- 60 caliber Tippman full auto open bolt paintball guns ( The only full auto's I can own in New York)

2- 68 caliber Tippman semi auto paintball rifles with 18 inch barrels and full suppressers (again, the only silencers I can own in NY)

1 in progress full Irezumi bodysuit (those that know what this is, my whole back and one sleeve is done, got about 3-4 more years to go)

That's about it give or take a dozen other things.

Amazing thing is the cross section of our country ( and other countries) and how we all focus on this one peice of craftsmanship/art/utilitarian tool/legend/icon.

Chris put it well, you just get hooked, me from the age of 6 or so.

Great group of folks, glad to be part of it.

Cheers, Zamm

 

P.S. Chris, hope all is well with Sagan, and the future brings only good news

 

 

 

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I am a Realtor by trade and own my company

I live in Arkansas

Married to Brandi for 4.5 years now and we have a little girl who is 18 months old

Own a British proofed Savage US Model of 1928 A1 that is "Tommy Gun" marked

I am 29, bought the Thompson a couple of years back

Took me 2 years to save up the money

I play guitar, pedal steel guitar, keyboards, etc... in a band

I own a collection of guns, a bunch of which I will be selling soon

I also have a 1919A4 by DLO

Pending a suppressed 10/22 by Norrell

I hunt, fish, play golf (bout a 4 handicap, I only play in the summer)

I like to play WW2 computer games

I am not into much else, just don't have time

 

Jr

 

 

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My turn to toot my own horn.

 

Chris and I have a little too much in common!

 

I've been a state trooper for over six years and only have 19 more to go until retirement!

 

I am married with one son, an absolute joy that I don't know how I ever lived without.

 

I enjoy U.S. military rifles, primarily from WWII, and have a very small collection which I love to take to the range when I have the time.

 

My longest standing hobbies are a '67 Plymouth Barracuda and a '79 Ford truck that require constant attention but I love to tinker with them.

 

My other passion is my astronomical telescope. I'm no where no the calibre of Chris (his picture is the proof!) but I enjoy guessing as to what is out there.

 

I almost forgot; I own a WH 28 which PK is currently doing a number on.

 

I am grateful for all the info provided on this board, thanks to everyone.

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Greg Fox

Orlando Area

LEO

FFL/SOT

Lovely wife, 2 daughters in college - so much for "disposable income!

Part time boat builder/woodworker

Car collector - currently looking for another 65-70 4 speed GTO conv. to restore.

Knob Creek junkie since early 80's.

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Jay

W/M, 57 years old

Live NW of San Antonio

U.S. Navy veteran with one tour in Vietnam attached to River Assault Flotilla ONE (never have I worked with more dedicated people!)

34 years in the pipeline industry with the last 21 as a pipeline safety consultant

Married 26 years (to my 1st wife), Wife - account exec for mortgage bank located in Houston

3 dogs, No kids (except the dogs --"Dogs are just kids with fur")

Currently "prospecting" for a Colt TSMG

Enjoy military history and creating collectible Corvettes (have 1 as-new '92 convertible I purchased new and currently has 2668 miles).

What am I most grateful for? Being born in the United States of America, which has made everything else possible!

 

This Board has a great group of people and I am lucky to have found them. Thanks to Frank, Nick and all of the key supporters for providing this resource.

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Bill Grose

Age 39

Still on my first wife (and hope to keep it that way.)

Two dogs, no kids.

Southwest VA

Currently an instructor at a small college in SWVA teaching US (mostly) and world history, but with past experience (approx 16 years) in heavy commercial construction as a carpenter and field engineer, and part-time professional guide.

C&R FFL with too many guns to list, but a collection of only three tax stampes (WH M1, M11/Nine, SDS can)...working on a fourth (SBS.)

Hobbies include history, reading, woodworking, hunting, fishing, motorcycling, camping, and about anything else that I can do outdoors, as well as collecting firearms and related militaria.

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Steve (public figure)

41 yoa

20 + year LEO (don't know what I want to do when I grow up) http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/tongue.gif

Friend of Greg's and occasional Knob Creeker

Colt 1921AC and an Savage AOC M1A1, various other MG's and stuff

Interests: Military history and collecting the stuff from it, great beer, hot chicks, classic cars, classic motorcycles, classic aircraft, classic movies, classic(al) music, flying, making stuff, grilling, pre 1963 USA, great comedy, great art, guns, Florida, Americana, things European (especially British) , nature and its wonders (and my wife accuses me of having only one interest) http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

Wife who hates my hobbies, 2 sons who like them (not old enough for the beer yet)

3 cats (one devon, one sphynx, one Japanese bobtail)

2 rats

 

Thanks for the boards Nick and thanks to those guys who have served.

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Dave, 33 years old.

 

aka NDLawyer.

 

1996 graduate of Notre Dame Law School after obtaining a history/poly sci degree at a small libert arts colldge here in Kansas.

 

Over five years as an assistant public defender where I represent indigent persons accused of crimes.

 

I have always had a strong interest in history and firearms. Grew up hunting and shooting although not much time for it now.

 

One wife, no kids, two psychotic Chihuahua mixes rescued from a local animal rescue group.

 

1 1976 WH 1927A1 that I came across as I was searching for an AR-15. The price was too good to pass up. Still don't have the AR-15 and probably won't until we buy a house.

 

In addition to my Thompson habbit, my other expensive hobbies are:

 

Computers

 

Home theater equipment

 

Softball

 

Golf

 

Music (more collecting now than playing, even gave my drum set to my youngest brother so he wouldn't have to save up to buy one like I did)

 

Cooking

 

Cigars (though I seldom have time to just relax and smoke one)

 

Good Irish Whiskey or, in a pinch, Scotch.

 

Love to travel, just not in the budget.

 

No hope of owning a real Thompson as long as I stay in Kansas.

 

While I do not always agree with our political leadership I have nothing but the utmost respect for any person who has served our county.

 

Thanks to Nick for the board, and Chris for the work as an administrator.

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Bruce Lieberman

 

A 41 year old Thompson-toting, pickup truck driving, Alabama Jewish redneck (Uncle Joe would be proud) state prosecutor with a very understanding wife and four kids.

 

How's them for demographics?

 

Where else can such a diverse group gather to share an appreciation for such a marvelous invention?

 

GOD bless America!

 

 

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Earle Yerger

 

Norfolk, VA moving to Jacksonville, FL by way of one more trip to IRAQ (in progress).

 

50 years old (but its never too late to have a happy childhood)

US Navy Captain, in the 27th year of active duty

Currently serving as the CO of USS BATAAN (LHD 5)

 

www.bataan.navy.mil

 

Wife Terri, no kids no pets.

Firearms of all sorts - skeet, trap & sporting clays through NFA

WH 1928 (with a PK 21 kit) and WH M1

1979 Porsche 930

Lionel Electric Trains (for when the weather sucks)

First trip to Knob Creek was last October, plan on going back in April!

 

Nick, Frank, Chris - thanks for the boards - very educational and entertaining.

 

 

Regards,

Earle

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