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Like the others said, better buy what you can when and where you can now. An even better plan, wait until availability improves then stock up, sometimes referred to as "hoarding" by the unprepared types ...
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9 hours ago, btq96r said:
The state likely should be taking the lead on these kinds of cases, but they can very logically be done at a county level as well. Where Funk may have made an error was going for the PR win with what he said. He would have a lot of cover if he said something akin to he would consider any legal action available, but as a DA, he has to prioritize based on how he assesses the best use of resources in serving the community. That would be a read between the lines way to signal that he wasn't going to push an abortion prosecution, but plausible enough since Metro Nashville has way bigger fish to fry in the courts given the crime. That kind of discretion is easy to second guess, but the authority for it is clear.
This is a self-correcting issue if the political will exists, however. District Attorney's who are elected can be recalled (if the mechanism exists), and lose their next election. In this case, Funk is very likely aligned with the majority of voters who have him on their ballots, so in this example, the political will is absent. But recourse being in and through the people is a lot better than the alternatives.
The state can leverage resources to prompt action as well. I'm sure there is some grant money, or something that can be taken off the table if they tweak the laws that authorize it enough. But that would mean the state legislature would want the fight. They always seem more interested in early adjournments than principled stands like that, so don't get your hopes up.
In many cases, regardless of what side of the aisle a policritter happens to sit on, abortion is a loser of an issue and most want to avoid it at all costs. As with many of the "hot button" issues, it's much better (from an election standpoint) to be able to rail against laws you know are unlikely to ever get changed than to actually have to make decisions regarding enforcement or other actions relevant to the issue at hand. It's also a lot easier to raise money by opposing positions your constituency finds objectionable than by defending laws they agree with ...
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On 6/26/2022 at 2:46 PM, Grayfox54 said:
I'm in need of a really good plumber. Honest, dependable and reasonably priced. I think I have a leak in my slab.
Any recommendations?
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On 4/22/2020 at 6:09 PM, Quavodus said:
Does anybody know if they will ever import any more Mosins?
Updating a long-dead thread, but there actually have been some Mosins imported this year. One of Finland's biggest collectors recently started liquidating at least part of his collection (rumored to number 20k rifles), Century brought in a bunch of M28's and M28/30's which have been gradually making their way to distributors this summer. Anyone who's still looking for the proverbial $100 Mosin will be disappointed though, most of these are selling quickly at $800 and up ...
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On 6/16/2022 at 10:04 AM, scatman said:
I'm on the fence with waiting for prices to go down on 5.56 because recent leaks have given information that the Biden administration is trying to get Winchester to stop selling their surplus to civilians.
A couple of points to consider:
1. The federal government owns the Lake City Ammunition plant, Winchester only has the contract to operate it. Nothing in this EO affects Winchester's own plants or production ...
2. M855 is essentially already out of production, as the military switched to M855A1 years ago. There may be some quantities of M109 still being produced, but M855 is already obsolete, at least as far as military contracts go. Therefore banning "excess" sales of a product no longer made is meaningless ...
Although I have no doubt that the current administration would gladly curtail most, if not all civilian ammunition sales, this probably isn't the calamity its made out to be on some of these websites ...
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On 6/15/2020 at 8:58 PM, Quavodus said:
Thats pretty cool. Watches have got like televisions, nobody much works on them anymore.
Hang around with any of the 30-and-under crowd, and you can add "nobody much wears them anymore" ...
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There's a reason why every circular saw made is called a "skill saw". It's actually from "Skil", who made the earliest, and potentially best circular saws. I know today everyone has gone cordless, and I don't have any problems with that, the batteries of today are not those of yesteryear, but I bought a 6" Skil 552 in 1980 when I was doing this for a living. It's still the first saw i reach for in the shop ...
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4 hours ago, btq96r said:
You're injecting logic when I'm talking about time travel?
You're right though, on the whole, it's no less onerous in one period or another. I just wish I could skip around the rules of special relativity to enjoy a few things.
I read a quote on another forum I'm active on - "I don't want to be the richest corpse in the graveyard". It's certainly true that many can, and do carry this philosophy to an extreme, saddling themselves with crippling debt, however that statement does have a ring of truth to it ... ...
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23 hours ago, btq96r said:
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
If anyone needs me, I'm gonna time travel and go pick up some of that 9mm at $0.09 per round.
Minimum wage in the 60's was $1.60, I think, so you could buy about 18 rds/hr then. At $7.25 today, you can buy the same number of rounds if they're priced at roughly 40 cents each. In terms of purchasing power, not much has changed with ammo prices, seems like ...
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22 hours ago, btq96r said:
I still continue to think we're in the unrealized/unannounced phase of a recession.
Typically, recessions aren't "officially" noticed until after they've begun, often until after they've ended. My bet is you're right, we're in the beginning stages of a full blown recession, one which will most likely persist at least until the fall ...
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WWII ended 77 years ago. Many of the milsurps we came to accept as "normally" priced came from that era, or before, and were declared surplus either shortly after that conflict or in the next few decades that followed. The flood of older, Comm-bloc weapons entered the markets during the 90's after the fall of the communist regimes in Russia and eastern Europe. The stockpiles of those weapons have either been depleted by now, or are held in countries from which future importation is forbidden by our laws, or theirs, and in some cases by hostile relations between our country and others. We will never see masses of cheap, easily available milsurp weapons again, as the period after WWII saw most countries adopt automatic or select fire rifles and carbines, none of which are legal to import or possess. That's not likely to change under any future conditions. If you want to play the milsurp game, you have to pay current pricing and use all avenues to locate whatever you want, pickings in local gun stores and pawn shops will be slim compared to even the limited availability online. Those who spend their time complaining about prices and the inconvenience of not being able to walk into a gun show and pick through barrels of milsurps, all the while waxing poetic about the "good old days" will be left empty handed ...
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3 hours ago, Snaveba said:
So am I the only person who’s Instagram feed is full of close-up videos of people popping blackheads, ingrown hairs and other gross things? And why in the name of all that is good, do I keep watching them? They are like a train-wreck, you don’t what to look, but you just have to.
I think I need to ask my Dr. to up my meds.
There's a really simple answer to this ...
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Practically indestructible ...
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20 minutes ago, Gurn said:
They removed mine. Yeah, that worried me but so far so good.
Mine too, along with a lot of other repairs in 1977. Made it to 2018 before I had total replacement. It never was completely right after the first surgeries I had back then, but I learned to live with it. The last 10 years before they installed the bionic knee, I had multiple injections each year, some of cortisone, many with the ground up rooster comb concoctions. I should have had it replaced years before I did, but at least I can walk again now, albeit slowly and with a slight limp. The arthroscopic surgeries they can do now are much less intrusive and the recovery period is far less, my advice would be to bite the bullet and get it done right away, hopefully preventing some of the long-term damage that I did to mine by waiting too long ...
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6 hours ago, gregintenn said:
It’s just a one time deal. I’m not going into the babysitting business.
Famous last words ...
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10 hours ago, gregintenn said:
Correct. Yet the inflation rate is being reported as 8.1%. Isn't that odd?
In all fairness, I doubt that primer costs represent much of a percentage in the CPI though.
In fact, the entire guns/ammo industry is too small to have any discernible effect on the calculated inflation rate ...
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58 minutes ago, Dustbuster said:
Was thinking how did we get here?
We have these little episodes every few years. Give it some time, prices will fall and availability will increase again at some point. Then remember, hoarding is your friend ...
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3 hours ago, gregintenn said:
Well, today was a disaster on Wall Street. Should I jump out a window, or wait and see what tomorrow holds?
2 hours ago, gregintenn said:Ground floor of course. I’m a weenie.
I suspect the freefall isn't done yet - I'm anticipating a real, live bear market coming on ...
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15 hours ago, Erik88 said:
I'm just thankful I'm not trying to buy a house right now. The 30 year fixed rate is now 6.75%.
I plugged that into my mortgage calculator and if I had that interest rate my monthly mortgage payment would be over $750 higher. Things are about to get interesting.
3 hours ago, monkeylizard said:It doesn't seem that long ago to me that 6.75% was a deal. Our first house was at 6.75% in 2001. That was a 1/4 point below the market rate of 7% because my wife is a teacher and the bank had a "special rate" for teachers. That was after seeing them come down from the 8s not long before that. The 2-3% rates we've seen for the past decade or so are the anomaly.
On the other hand, estimates are that when I-Bonds reset the next time on May 1, they'll be paying out over 9% for the next 6 month interval. It's been a long time since anyone with money could get any sort of return on bonds, Treasuries, CDs and the like ...
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23 minutes ago, Jeb48 said:
My advise is have a plan, stick to it, and don't panic.
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38 minutes ago, Dustbuster said:
Thanks, Yes its all there for sure. Not enough time to pursue it. The way things are going now its prob a good idea if youre gonna shoot.... a lot!!
Assuming you can find primers ...
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From what I remember from back when I actually went to gunshows in Tennessee, if you do find one with 1000 tables half of them will be filled with camo, cheap trinkets, clothing items, jerky and that obnoxious bug zapper person ...
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For those of you who missed out the first time around, he's got another :
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/930284866
BTW, the seller gave the buyer of the original gun listed in this thread A+ feedback on the sale, so it must have been a completed transaction ...
Another interesting auction ...
in Curio, Relics and Black Powder
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You lost me on that one ...