How time flies

[Richard Simmons]

Just realized that later this week, December, I'll have been a Gunsnet member for 18 years. Man, a lot has happened during that time. Nothing stays the same and I do miss the glory days and the boom times on the C&R side of the board but be that as it may I still call this place home and all of you family.

Don't know if the board or myself have another 18 years in us but I certainly hope so. Thank you to all of you who have contributed to this site and to my life. It's much appreciated.

[ltorlo64]

Time is flying. I think I joined in 2007 after buying my first handgun (a 1911) and I needed some help with a simple mechanical issue. The answers I got were serious and did not make me feel stupid for what turned out to be very simple to fix. It got me to check another thread and then suddenly it is almost 10 years later. I do hope the board sticks around. It is like having pen pals without the wait for the post office.

[imanaknut]

Agree, hard to believe how long some of us have been around. I will have 16 years in February. It did seem like there would be an endless supply of inexpensive C&R, the AK variants would play nicely as william jefferson clinton had not yet further stomped on the Constitution with his ban of "non-sporting weapons" by name.

Looking back I can't believe how much time I would spent here, and how much fun I would have.

[l921428x]

I joined in 05/06? and it has been a hoot. But I do remember some of you wanted my ass perma banned.
But the mods here, as I have learned, have never been over bearing. That is what I have always appreciated
about this place...

[Partisan1983]

I joined in '01 or '02...it's been awhile

[Schuetzenman]

We never recovered after the big shut-down. I think my original join date was November of 1999. I see it says 2010 after the reboot.

[1 Patriot-of-many]

Just realized that later this week, December, I'll have been a Gunsnet member for 18 years. Man, a lot has happened during that time. Nothing stays the same and I do miss the glory days and the boom times on the C&R side of the board but be that as it may I still call this place home and all of you family.

Don't know if the board or myself have another 18 years in us but I certainly hope so. Thank you to all of you who have contributed to this site and to my life. It's much appreciated.

I forget when I first joined, it had to be around the time I bought my first two guns from that place in Fridley, MN,Federal Arms I think it was called, around the same time frame as you.

An AK74 and G3 boat anchor clone. I miss all the great stuff in the BIY forum that got lost. We should petition the NSA to restore our forums.