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NoloContendere Shall not be infringed. Joined Apr 2007 Posts 27080 EE 100% (13) MS, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 9:15:59 PM EDT [#1] Rest In Peace good sir.
	And yeah I'll fight my corner, Maybe tonight I'll call ya, After my blood turns into alcohol.

ToyCop NRA - Benefactor Joined Jan 2002 Posts 13910 EE 100% (54) MI, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 9:17:43 PM EDT [#2] RIP.
	Proud Member - "Team Ranstad"

KA3B 601 601 601 601 601 601 601 601 601 601 601 601 Joined Aug 2003 Posts 80600 EE 100% (42) WA, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 9:19:44 PM EDT [#3]
	Google, it's a motherfucker. One does not drive a motorcycle, one RIDES a fucking motorcycle!

BurtMacklin Let's Roll! Joined Mar 2014 Posts 4213 EE 100% (14) PA, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 9:21:26 PM EDT [#4]

GregMc Son of the American Revolution Joined May 2005 Posts 4558 EE 100% (2) IN, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 9:21:54 PM EDT [#5]
	Proud Member of Team Ranstad Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. -Hanlon's Razor Quaero mihi similes, et adiungor pravis.

Paul Self aware sack of star stuff Joined Nov 2000 Posts 108859 EE 100% (4) USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 9:22:31 PM EDT [Last Edit: Paul] [#6] RIP
	Celebrating the Second Amendment One Fine Firearm at a Time

robeans Member Joined Sep 2007 Posts 2464 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 9:23:54 PM EDT [#7] What a loss. What a great American he was.

TakeBackTheFed FUA Joined Jul 2008 Posts 11603 EE 100% (71) AZ, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 9:25:00 PM EDT [#8]
	Proud Member of Team Ranstad

masfonos Joined Oct 2006 Posts 7098 EE 100% (14) USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 9:25:19 PM EDT [#9] Oh no. I hate to hear that. He and I talked quite a bit back in the OG “militia” days. Top notch man, to be sure. Fair winds and following seas, Bruce.

Troll_toes No Beans in Chili Joined Oct 2006 Posts 27056 EE 100% (22) TX, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 9:26:15 PM EDT [#10]
	To The Lost Call sign Tsunami Never pick a fight with seven men if all you are packing is a six gun.

strat81 Misanthropic Realist Joined Apr 2007 Posts 36363 EE 100% (46) NE, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 9:27:45 PM EDT [#11] Godspeed
	"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." -Dogbert Join the Nebraska Firearms Owners Association! http://www.nebraskafirearms.org/

Willmar If only you spoke Hovitos! Joined Feb 2005 Posts 15665 EE 100% (32) LA, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 9:27:59 PM EDT [#12] Holy crap.
	Call sign: Rhino Don't let anyone tell you labradoodles don't shed. Ask me how I know.

WWIIWMD Randomness Manster, Knower of Things (GreyWlf52) Joined Aug 2015 Posts 77253 EE 100% (1) MT, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 9:50:27 PM EDT [#13] Rest In Peace Bruce Miss you evermore friend, Thanks for your endless generosity
	Something really awesome... in Latin (Wes) - MGD - WWII Historian - Task Force Dagger - Team Ranstad "The Fantastic Bastards" - Tennessee Squire - Camp Patriot - Flamethrower Instructor - Benefactor Life - 2011 Best In Show 1911 Pistol Display

Covertness TIBTLS Joined Dec 2010 Posts 13949 EE 100% (21) NC, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 10:01:33 PM EDT [#14] Rest In Peace Bruce Team Ranstad will live forever. We got this Sir.
	Benefactor NRA Member Team Ranstad TIBTLS

arbob Team Member Joined Jan 2001 Posts 6174 EE 100% (35) USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 10:10:11 PM EDT [#15]

OKC556CPA Member Joined Jul 2008 Posts 2270 EE 100% (1) OK, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 10:15:21 PM EDT [#16]
	The_Beer_Slayer: "every one of you fuckers would be doing the same thing if you had a rocket pod and pickup"

BadMonk Member Joined Mar 2014 Posts 2356 EE 100% (33) AL, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 10:17:30 PM EDT [#17]
	BuildAR NRA Benefactor

fmj_shooter Member Joined May 2014 Posts 1544 EE 100% (84) NM, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 10:21:22 PM EDT [#18] Damn. Rest easy.

-Omega-1 1911's rule!! Joined Apr 2007 Posts 6621 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 10:21:47 PM EDT [#19]
	Looking for my first .45. Satin nickel Colt Combat Commander serial # 70SC85412 sold at a gun show in Louisville KY sometime in 1985.

Truman_Sparks Member Joined Apr 2012 Posts 5687 EE 0% (0) WA, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 10:22:57 PM EDT [#20] Damn. Sorry.
	Team Ranstad Proudly Deplorable

pavlovwolf Grumpy : Salacious Cretaceous Rex Joined Apr 2008 Posts 25785 EE 100% (11) SC, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 10:32:10 PM EDT [#21] RIP
	Tastes like chicken.

bigdog02 Do not go gentle... Joined Jan 2010 Posts 1999 EE 100% (151) PA, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 10:40:19 PM EDT [#22] Very sad, great man. RIP

mattja

What he lacks in lean, he makes up for with mean.

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Posted: 6/29/2018 10:42:55 PM EDT

[#23]

I remember reading the threads when he was in the initial stages of forming Team Ranstad. What a great guy. He wanted to let our guys know that people at home are thinking about them and their sacrifice was not forgotten. He sure as hell succeeded in doing just that.

Here's a guy that actually did something for others as opposed to just talking about it. God bless him and his family for their terrible loss.

"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
- Declaration of Arbroath, 1320

FlyingGorilla Pennsylvania. The Land That Made Trump President Joined Oct 2012 Posts 24734 EE 0% (0) PA, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 10:50:22 PM EDT [#24] Sad news. I had no idea RetMac was in declining health. RIP Good Sir.
	Be Wary Of An Old Man In A World Where Men Die Young.................. Proud member Team Ranstad

cowboy The Myth Joined Nov 2004 Posts 28542 EE 100% (88) AR, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 10:51:51 PM EDT [#25] RetMac was a good man. RIP, sir.
	Just the right amount of wrong.

HARVpilot HARV VII has fallen. Long live TBRT. Joined Oct 2006 Posts 977 EE 100% (2) UT, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 11:07:52 PM EDT [#26] Damn
	Signo Dato Inferna Concitate Proud Member of Team Ranstad. NRA Life Member Tennessee Squire

G1F2-EE Member Joined Aug 2011 Posts 5545 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 11:21:43 PM EDT [#27]

USMC_Dad That ringing in my ears Joined Mar 2004 Posts 7084 EE 100% (2) AZ, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 11:36:30 PM EDT [#28] Nick Obviously my condolences go out to you & yours. The memories are deep here. I miss my buddy , your dad. So glad that you and my Jarhead son had an opportunity to meet & share deployment stories. Wish I could express more in this post, however, I chose to drink some Rum in his honor. Always has been a friend indeed,
	Chief Security Officer of "Team Ranstad"..."The Fantastic Bastards" Tennessee Squire...NRA Life Member RIP LCpl Steven Stacy....

TLF Now offering free helicopter rides! Joined Jul 2006 Posts 3670 EE 100% (2) TX, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 11:38:12 PM EDT [#29] Quote History Originally Posted By buckshot_jim: View Quote
	commtechforums.net “An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." - Lt.Col. Jeff Cooper

BMWBIKR Veteran of the Cola Wars - CWW2 & 3 Joined Aug 2014 Posts 4142 EE 100% (5) AZ, USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 11:48:30 PM EDT [#30]
	A lot of my time on this planet has been simply for survival. But at the Cola War, I am living. Tweeter "You chug, and that's all I need to know." NoloContendere / p2tharizo Arfbortion 2016 Survivor

smithc6 Member Joined Aug 2008 Posts 23287 EE 100% (49) USA	Posted: 6/29/2018 11:51:56 PM EDT [#31]

MK262 Life in the slow lane Joined Nov 2008 Posts 19029 EE 100% (2) USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 12:07:16 AM EDT [#32] RIP
	"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." -- Thucydides

DD1801 The bottled beer taste, in a can. Joined Mar 2005 Posts 16019 EE 100% (15) OK, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 12:18:24 AM EDT [#33]

millirad Member Joined Jul 2001 Posts 367 EE 0% (0) OH, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 12:21:30 AM EDT [#34]
	Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun - Mao Zedong NRA Life member I drank What? - Socrates

Maine_11B_to_Nurse Infantry, sales, nurse. Shoulda kept the rifle... Joined Jul 2010 Posts 3321 EE 100% (2) ME, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 12:29:39 AM EDT [#35] Damn. We lost one of the good ones. My deepest condolences to his family. He was a hellova guy that made a real difference in so many lives.
	Proud Member of Team Ranstad Straddling the thin plastic line between psych nurse and patient. Now say 3 FBHOs and go in peace, my son-PorchDog Survivor of ARFBORTION 2016

eyesoffire0 Joined Nov 2015 Posts 167 EE 0% (0) NJ, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 12:30:35 AM EDT [#36] rip

Lomshek Just some dude Joined Nov 2005 Posts 18707 EE 0% (0) KS, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 12:36:42 AM EDT [#37] You are relieved RetMAC. Enjoy your peace. It is deserved.

geegee I didn't kill that pimp! Joined Feb 2002 Posts 18308 EE 100% (288) TX, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 12:51:15 AM EDT [#38] Very sad news. RIP sir.
	"I carry a gun because it is my responsibility alone - not that of the police, nor the government, nor the community - to defend the precious lives that God has entrusted to me." Will Dougan, writing in gomemphis.com 08/17/03

MSC182 ARFCOM call sign: Hoot Joined Jan 2009 Posts 20216 EE 100% (4) TX, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 1:45:21 AM EDT [#39] Fair winds
	Proud member of Team Ranstad Member of the National Rifle Association and the Texas State Rifle Association

TerryC

in famulatu pro aliis obtinuit

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Posts 29517
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Posted: 6/30/2018 7:43:36 AM EDT

[Last Edit: TerryC] [#40]

Quote History

Originally Posted By FlyingGorilla:
Sad news. I had no idea RetMac was in declining health.

RIP Good Sir.

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It all happened very quickly.

He only went public with it a couple months ago and had not known himself for much longer than that. It was already very advanced (stage 4, inoperable) when discovered, and was more aggressive than expected.

I don't often bare my soul, it's ugly and tends to frighten people.

Yojimbo Member Joined Jan 2001 Posts 12816 EE 100% (42) OH, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 8:29:16 AM EDT [#41] RIP...

nick89302 Member Joined Oct 2003 Posts 17224 EE 100% (13) IN, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 8:38:11 AM EDT [#42]

Striker Arfcom's foreign office. Joined Nov 2000 Posts 58905 EE 100% (1) CAN	Posted: 6/30/2018 1:11:37 PM EDT [Last Edit: Striker] [#43] RIP Chief. My condolences to Nick and Bruce's family.
	Originally Posted By Knightzone: I've got an inch a half guard rail nut on a length of 550 cord. it's not whiz-bang tactical, but one smack in the grape and it's coloring books for christmas.

FreefallRet Lazy Army retiree Joined Mar 2002 Posts 36725 EE 100% (185) NC, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 1:13:36 PM EDT [#44]
	No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms Thomas Jefferson If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. - Thomas Jefferson

EdAvilaSr SENIOR STAFF Joined Nov 2000 Posts 26893 EE 100% (2) NY, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 1:28:12 PM EDT [#45] Sorry to hear Condolences to the family
	Life is like a road. Some lives are long and some short, but you shall surely have many bumps along the way; so make sure you have faith or pure force of character as shock absorbers to ride it out. EdSr 2017

oregonroofer Member Joined Mar 2009 Posts 801 EE 100% (2) OR, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 1:37:42 PM EDT [#46] RIP Bruce
	Proud Member of Team Ranstad “Anytime we can shoot bullets that explode, versus bullets that don’t explode, that’s a good thing.”

Golden-Arm A MILITIA OF ONE Joined May 2012 Posts 4164 EE 100% (17) FL, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 1:40:01 PM EDT [#47] RIP Bruce.
	*Proud member of Team Ranstad* *FBHO*

GoatBoy "Code Monkey" Joined Nov 2000 Posts For Sale EE 100% (2) TX, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 1:40:56 PM EDT [#48] Very sad news. An absolutely amazing person and a big loss for the community. He will be missed.
	You only live once, but if you live right.. once is enough.

OnlineAllTheTime I am Buttfool. Joined Dec 2008 Posts 27859 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 1:42:37 PM EDT [#49] Sad week here.
	When it comes to ta-tas, shape rules all. Actually preferring flapjacks would be like preferring hairy nipples, or wishing for more nutsack skin.

Ghetto Is it still homemade if you're homeless? Joined Dec 2004 Posts 24910 EE 100% (748) TX, USA	Posted: 6/30/2018 1:44:28 PM EDT [#50] RIP
	I'm here to make my stand with a rifle in my hand

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