GlockSpock

It's pretty late, so I may be having a more difficult time that usual in decoding things, but I am having a hard time getting "vote already agreed upon" from anything in that alleged conversation.

Depends entirely upon what sort of ban we have. It could be that the roughly $10 that each mag is worth could be $100, or even more, in a few months. Depends on legislation. I believe after the '94 ban, you could still sale whatever you wanted to as long as it was "pre-ban". In that scenario, you have a very fixed number of magazines (supply) and theoretically an increasing number of people wishing to purchase them (demand). In the scenario, the sky is the roof in determining the price of a Pmag. It's called capitalism. However, we'd have an artificially reduced supply (legislatively), so prices would skyrocket.   Or it could go the other way, and legally speaking you could only possess what you already own with no option for transfer. Worse case scenarios? Either you have to register each high capacity magazine with the BATFE for $200, or not even be able to posses them at all legally.   How it plays out is really up to us. If we (gun owners) lay down to sleep and accept whatever is imposed against us, then it could be very bad. If we (gun owners) call and write our representatives, encourage others to do the same, and educate the "uneducated" about things, we stand a chance. And in that scenario, hopefully in a few months it will be exactly the same as it is now.   I will say this though: If people are getting frustrated with current market prices of rifles and Pmags, keep in mind that current market pricing will look like a bargain if anything resembling a ban happens. 

I never really thought about reloading a long gun one handed. You seem to have a method down that works pretty well. 

Ok, I've met my quota.    If anyone else is interested in reading the book, it's only 99 cents on Amazon if you have some sort of Kindle device. If you don't feel like buying it, perhaps one of the original 10 that I bought it for will buy it for you after they read it:)   So if you are interested in possibly a free copy down the road, perhaps make a claim here saying you'd like one. Perhaps someday someone will take you up on that offer!   Looking forward to seeing what everyone thinks once they've read it.

ochretoe,   PM me your email and the last copy is yours!

I am still willing to purchase one more copy if someone wants it.   How are the reads coming fellers?

  And 10 years from now the only transferable AR's are the ones that are to be registered via NFA just like machine guns. That $1500 purchase may be worth a house at that point. Impossible to say, but it's just all speculation. I say, sell it at market value, and don't feel bad. Feel bad if you buy at current market value and then 6 months from now whatever you purchased today is worth 50% of what you paid for you. THAT is when you feel bad:)   But don't ever sell anything for any amount of money if you like the item you are selling and can do without the extra bit of money. That $1500-$2000 might seem great now, but lets say that there was a ban and you could not in the forseable future legally purchase whatever you sold.

Also factor in these two likely scenarios:   Confiscation would be best implemented in tough times. In tough times you need lots of law enforcement. If the best and only chance a LEO has at feeding his family and keeping them from starving is from being a LEO, he may do things he disagrees with morally.    Also, although many LEO's may generally agree with the 2nd Amendment, there are many things that LEO's hate. Criminalize "Assault Rifle" owners to the point that they are considered terrorists, and then LEO's are "fighting the bad guys" aren't they?   That's the way Nazis killed a bunch of Jews isn't it?

Well, if there is a shred of truth to it, I believe it is that he is an extremely unlucky person.   I'd say the brass probably got lodged into his leg a bit, but who wanted to report that?

Articles such as that to which the OP linked to are between a rock and a hard place. Just because they cannot be proven true doe not mean that they aren't true, but just because they cannot be proven false does not mean that they aren't false. I feel that many articles such as this are based some on facts, some on what is believed by the author to be facts, and some on fiction.    Many years ago, it is my understanding that one (possibly more) men tried to warn the world about what the Nazis were up to. I believe one such man was Jan Karski. If someone in a modern day country tried to warn others of something that was going to happen, it'd be near impossible to get anyone to truly believe them. Some things you just have to wait and see I suppose. Since we cannot verify a single thing about the "Insider", the next best thing we can do is take a look at Douglas Hagmann. This article wasn't originally on that Canadian site. Hagmann has his own website here.   If it were to turn out that Hagmann was generally a very trustworthy reporter/writer, then that adds + to the linked to article. If he generally isn't trustworthy, that adds - to the linked to article. But even if he is the ++++iest person in the world, he is assuming that the alleged "Insider" is who he claims to be and that he even has a clue what is going on.   Sorta like how every gunshop owner has met hundreds of special forces snipers.   My main comment on the story is this: I really hope that there is no credibility at all to the story, but for all I know it could be true or it could be false. That is all I know.

I wrote the two Senators an email within a few days of the shooting. I have yet to hear a pipsqueak from them. 

So she balked on the no grandfathering and replaced it with NFA controlled grandfathering. She probably had to concede that no grandfathering that she was proclaiming a few weeks ago, but making potentially millions of firearms NFA items...that's huge.    A few around here are sleeping peacefully because they don't feel anything major would get through the house. I personally, wonder about stuff like this at night!

I've had mine for probably 2-3 years. They are built very well, and (presumably) the company will fix them if anything goes wrong. You will probably be surprised at how much force you can build up in the thing, and it can be either a very soothing, gentle "rehab" or a violent strength workout.

I've had one of these for a few years, and it is a very unique little toy. I ended up making it my TGO Secret Santa purchase, and also purchased one for my brother and my brother-in-law for Christmas. They both loved them, and I think Romad7 on here thought it was pretty neat as well. I could spend a while explaining them on here, but I will just link you here. I will attest that it indeed shows more "resistance" the faster it spins. It seems an unorthodox way to workout some muscles in your arms and possibly shoulders that don't typically get much use. It is supposed to result in greater hand strength and grip, which I can easily see if you use it regularly. I assume that it would possibly translate to greater handgun control!

No, the 76 cents was for the interest on what I owed them from April to December. The original "bill" for ~$600 had an added expense of $12 to cover the 3% interest that accrued since I was owing the IRS money. Since instead of owing them the ~$600 for those months I owed them $38 for those months, the interest accrued was 76 cents.

Between the HD's and the Bright & Tough Trijicon lines, which one is rated "tougher"? I am interested in the HD"s as all I have experience with are the Bright & Tough line.

Searching Youtube for "shock collar on human" can provide loads of entertainment!   So Caster...tell us which of those videos are you!

I overestimated the total gains. Total tax owed ended up being $38. I threw in an extra $.76 in order to cover 3% for 10 months (they were charging me $12 interest for the initial amount owed. 

So I have a question guys:   Are Bushmasters considered assault weapons that spray bullets everywhere and kill innocent bystanders or precise snipers that can pinpoint anyone within a 10 mile radius?   Because they cannot be both!

I am also fairly concerned about the Battle Mug being banned.

I have not yet calculated the exact number, but I estimate probably a total net gain of $800. I only played around with them a bit and then quickly realized that it was much to stressful for me so I sold them and haven't messed with them for nearly a year. I plan on later this week consulting with the CPA that did it last year and seeing what can go on. Hopefully the amount owed can be brought down. If not, oh well.

I thought that they only taxed the net profit. With the appropriate documents and forms, should it be possible to get the amount that I owe down some?

Received a letter from the IRS yesterday. It's a Merry Christmas! I owe an additional $600 for 2011's taxes. Basically (from what I understand), I did a bit of trading on E*Trade, and it wasn't accounted for. However, when I filed my taxes at a local bookkeeper, he essentially said that unless it was a certain amount that I shouldn't worry about it. Well now I get a sheet listing all the (few) sales I made, and their amounts. It is essentially setup to look like all that money was income. However, I argue that the income is the difference between the total of what I paid and the total of what it sold for. Is this not the way the IRS sees it? Does the IRS see it as additional income for what you sell a stock for?

Was doing some pondering about magazines today (while playing Black Ops 2 online).    Assuming that you are using your firearm to send bullets towards another human being, the only time magazine capacity matters is if you are being confronted. A single shot or bolt action rifle could be used to slaughter literally HUNDREDS of unarmed people if they couldn't defend themselves. If an active shooter isn't confronted with violence, he has all the time in the world to manipulate his single shot rifle or shotgun. However, place that active shooter up against an armed opposer with a high capacity magazine, the high capacity magazine shines in its ability to provide quick follow up shots.    Active shooters will always be able to take extra firearms, or extra magazines. It makes no difference from an active shooter standpoint if he has a single shot rifle or an AR-15 with multiple 30 round magazines if he faces no confrontation.