[fella]

I'm sitting here in Fort Worth listening to our neighbors from the south empty their guns into the air. They've been at for about a half hour now. Mostly nine milimeters (14 to 17 shots) and .320 autos (6 to 8 shots and not as sharp) but the spooky ones are the AKs, also a few shotguns. It's not as bad as it used be when it sounded like a full scale infantry battle, now it's more like fair sized fire fight.

Anybody else listening to gun fire tonight?

[TXnMA]

"Anybody else listening to gun fire tonight? "

Yes, indeed. Over here in the far northeastern Texas Piney Woods, (immediately after I kissed my wife at midnight) I followed our long-standing family tradition of firing the same number of rounds as the last digit of the incoming year.

So, I fired nine rounds of 9mm -- waiting long enough for the echoes to die out between shots. BUT, I stepped out the back door, and fired them safely downrange into the backstop berm of my backyard pistol range...

Happy New Year over there in my wife's hometown!