Funny thing was, only a long-time journalist friend from Cleveland, OH, (used to live there), and another from J berg, S Africa, made a stink...found out I have a few new shooting buddies, most notably a fellow journalist from Singapore!!! The Swiss (our hosts, from a major machine tool company HQ'ed there) were very supportive, mentioning that they all mandatorily own rifles...
I'm the machine gun toting race car driver from TX...
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I'm the machine gun toting race car driver from TX...
Well, that's what the international journalists in the metalworking technology community know me by...LOL...long story short, got outed by my Dad/boss during an international press dinner here in Milan, Italy, last night, he used to clamp up on these things, but, I guess, at 74, he welcomes the "futile resistance" from the opposition...
Funny thing was, only a long-time journalist friend from Cleveland, OH, (used to live there), and another from J berg, S Africa, made a stink...found out I have a few new shooting buddies, most notably a fellow journalist from Singapore!!! The Swiss (our hosts, from a major machine tool company HQ'ed there) were very supportive, mentioning that they all mandatorily own rifles...

Funny thing was, only a long-time journalist friend from Cleveland, OH, (used to live there), and another from J berg, S Africa, made a stink...found out I have a few new shooting buddies, most notably a fellow journalist from Singapore!!! The Swiss (our hosts, from a major machine tool company HQ'ed there) were very supportive, mentioning that they all mandatorily own rifles...