[Charles Martel]

Perhaps Texas should enter the bidding for the USS Iowa. As a museum ship, of course.

I can just see the Texas messageboard traffic now, filled with propellant/projectile suggestions for the 16-inch guns. Anybody got a really big metal-turning lathe?

[bert]

The Texas is docked at Houston already.

It isn’t the Iowa but it has guns

[NeverForgetBataan]

“Anybody got a really big metal-turning lathe?”
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I can get you set up in a heartbeat. Coincidentally, some of the largest CNC Turing Machines are in.... wait for it....

HOUSTON TEXAS!!!!

We don’t even have to move the material that far..

[The Comedian]

I can just see the Texas messageboard traffic now, filled with propellant/projectile suggestions for the 16-inch guns.

And good sources for 55 gal. drums of Hoppes #9.

Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.