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Long time ARF member and friend, Banditman, has passed away.

osprey21 R&W Forever Joined Jan 2001 Posts 157485 EE 100% (283) FL, USA	Posted: 8/24/2024 11:41:21 AM EDT [Last Edit: osprey21] Fuck... Randy Michael Gillet Randy was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) in November of 2023. https://www.ar15.com/forums/Hometown/I-have-ALS/10-671468/ My thoughts and prayers to his family.
	A vote for Harris/Walz is a vote for communism

jjrockbush Bro, respect your elders Joined Feb 2005 Posts 12592 EE 100% (62) TN, USA	Posted: 8/24/2024 1:06:51 PM EDT [#1] He was a great guy. He would come to our group camp/shoot weekends. Also some of the other events at Myakka. We are close to the same age. This is when you start losing a lot of friends and family. He was a tremendous family guy. When we first met, his kids were teenagers. Now another generation. He will be missed by many.
	SJJ 10/02/68-10/30/2022. It's not something you get over, it's something you get through.

grinning_bob Member Joined Nov 2010 Posts 6951 EE 100% (30) WI, USA	Posted: 8/24/2024 1:27:07 PM EDT [#2] RIP.
	“the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being”. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Holloway Native Cracker Joined Aug 2007 Posts 5994 EE 100% (6) FL, USA	Posted: 8/24/2024 1:56:27 PM EDT [#3]
	Make Florida Great Again United States of America. You mean Florida and it's 49 bitches. They call me the Machine-ish. "Close tolerances are overrated."

Dru Member Joined May 2001 Posts 41261 EE 100% (5) FL, USA	Posted: 8/24/2024 3:17:31 PM EDT [#4]
	Suck it blankskins, your pink flesh is an invite to hot burning metal rape - RustedAce I <3 Essex Girls!

Curmudgeon762 Member Joined Jun 2022 Posts 7411 EE 0% (0) FL, USA	Posted: 8/24/2024 4:02:23 PM EDT [#5]
	When your state is shaped like a huge, droopy penis, you have to expect there to be some huge nuts as well. Mech 2007

Bowhntr6pt Serving Since 1981 Joined Mar 2001 Posts 19893 EE 100% (585) FL, USA	Posted: 8/24/2024 4:07:07 PM EDT [#6] Praying for the family…

THEBAUMER Call Sign...Chigger Joined Nov 2004 Posts 10680 EE 0% (0) FL, USA	Posted: 8/24/2024 9:23:35 PM EDT [#7]
	Originally Posted By Mikhail_86: I'd let her shit on my chest and smoosh it with a tennis racket :) Id like to lay under a glass table and watch her squat and piss above me

Signal_Zero NorCal Callsign: HiViz Joined Oct 2004 Posts 1386 EE 0% (0) FL, USA	Posted: 8/24/2024 10:49:32 PM EDT [#8]

rubin Joined Jul 2007 Posts 1768 EE 100% (40) FL, USA	Posted: 8/25/2024 9:23:27 AM EDT [#9] RIP Banditman

MyakkaVice Member Joined Dec 2005 Posts 5783 EE 100% (25) FL, USA	Posted: 8/25/2024 9:35:14 AM EDT [#10]
	All of us want to be Hicks, but most of us are Hudson.

FB41 USMC 1977-1987 Joined May 2003 Posts 15086 EE 100% (3) FL, USA	Posted: 8/25/2024 10:08:57 AM EDT [#11]
	<placeholder for something good in the future>

Tobysi Member Joined Sep 2019 Posts 19845 EE 100% (4) FL, USA	Posted: 8/25/2024 7:12:38 PM EDT [Last Edit: Tobysi] [#12] Never met him. Prayers for him and his loved ones. Rest In Peace.

Danger_Close Member Joined Oct 2005 Posts 3846 EE 0% (0) FL, USA	Posted: 8/25/2024 7:44:02 PM EDT [#13] Dang He was a regular fixture here on ARF
	"Do you want to be buried with any of your guns?" "No, you keep them. I won't need them where I'm going."

9mmCarbine Florida Team Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 3045 EE 100% (26) FL, USA	Posted: 8/25/2024 8:41:29 PM EDT [#14] Condolences and prayers to the family.
	"You have enemies? Good- that means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." “In the end, respect is more useful than popularity.”

AR18 Joined Jun 2001 Posts 20771 EE 100% (45) FL, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 12:16:27 AM EDT [#15] Damn. R.I.P.

avmech Grumpy old aircraft mechanic Joined Jan 2007 Posts 5037 EE 100% (13) FL, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 4:45:53 AM EDT [#16] RIP Banditman
	Proud member "Team Ranstad, The Fantastic Bastards" God Bless Our Troops...Especially Our Snipers 82ND-ABN: "I found an excellent gun control law we should all follow. It's called the Second Amendment."

SGB Jacksonville, Florida Joined May 2001 Posts 36813 EE 100% (56) FL, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 7:15:57 AM EDT [#17]
	"It's easier to avoid conflict than it is to survive it" - SGB

ThEWayOftheGUn1 Joined Aug 2005 Posts 3392 EE 100% (12) FL, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 2:01:11 PM EDT [Last Edit: ThEWayOftheGUn1] [#18] Way too young. Praying for the family.

PR361 No Longer Participating Joined Feb 2009 Posts 27973 EE 100% (14) FL, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 4:17:27 PM EDT [#19] Damn that seemed quick! RIP. I will miss his posts.
	The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. George Will

ricky_45 Member Joined Jul 2004 Posts 17575 EE 100% (59) USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 4:47:39 PM EDT [#20] Oh man, I just looked at his thread a few days ago. RIP, friend.
	NorCal callsign “Boogaloo”

osprey21 R&W Forever Joined Jan 2001 Posts 157581 EE 100% (283) FL, USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 5:39:02 PM EDT [#21] Quote History Originally Posted By PR361: Damn that seemed quick! View Quote From what I've read, about one third of those diagnosed pass within 12 months after first diagnosis - sadly Randy was in that category.
	A vote for Harris/Walz is a vote for Marxism/Communism

Mannlicher Joined Aug 2001 Posts 5322 EE 0% (0) FL, USA	Posted: 9/8/2024 5:14:26 PM EDT [#22] This is sad news. He was quite a guy, and a fine human being. Damn......... I lost a sister in law last year to ALS. It's just nasty stuff.

osprey21 Known Associate Joined Jan 2001 Posts 157775 EE 100% (283) FL, USA	Posted: 9/8/2024 5:37:23 PM EDT [#23] It's a horrible, horrible disease.
	At my age the specter of prison or the death penalty for my actions mean little to me.

swamp_fighter Joined Apr 2003 Posts 1768 EE 100% (13) FL, USA	Posted: 9/11/2024 8:37:15 AM EDT [#24] That sucks, he was a great guy

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Posted: 9/22/2024 8:32:40 PM EDT

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Earlier this year Banditman posted in a thread of mine that he couldn't draw or design as well as he used to, and he mentioned his diagnosis a little while later. I had no idea how fast this took people's lives. He was a part of the reason I moved to Florida, and I believe he joined us for a boat ride about a decade ago in SWFL. We are diminished by his passing.

zer0t Member Joined Sep 2011 Posts 6744 EE 99% (93) FL, USA	Posted: 9/27/2024 8:34:39 PM EDT [#26] RIP. What horrible disease.

Miami_JBT Member Joined Apr 2007 Posts 127968 EE 100% (7) FL, USA	Posted: 9/27/2024 10:09:23 PM EDT [#27]

apcapt Member Joined Jan 2008 Posts 2460 EE 100% (57) FL, USA	Posted: 9/28/2024 8:11:22 AM EDT [#28] RIP Bandit.
	Stay low, move towards the heat.. "Let no mans ghost return and say his training let him down"

BayEagle Ó Dhia gach aon cabhair Joined Jun 2003 Posts 29893 EE 100% (7) FL, USA	Posted: 9/28/2024 12:40:16 PM EDT [#29] Just saw this. Dammit. Rest in peace, you deserve it.
	For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. -Ephesians 6:12

Long time ARF member and friend, Banditman, has passed away.

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