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Its circular. You have first timers and you have speculators. The regular user is crushed by both, but probably more so the speculators. Speculators start drying up sources as demand from first timers rise. I have empathy for first timers, I have much annoyance from speculators. The good part is watching the speculators trying to unload after the tide subsides. Main reason I want the tide to end is so I can start negotiating with speculators on their cache of drawer parts they overpaid for hoping to turn a huge profit. Those are the best most pleasing deals!

Not sure it's a great way to handle that... But wow! Iron sights, no less, moving in a helicopter is impressive!

This ^^^^ Historical context helps to understand application and understanding of a principle at a specific time. Principles transcend dynamic application. In other words, the reason the Constitution transcends time and culture is because the principles are "found to be self evident". What we wrestle with is the "application" of the principle in a changing culture not the principle. However, the leftists are attempting to remove the principle. That is the slippery slope with a cliff into the abyss at the end. Those on our side who can not apply transcendant principles/truth with changing culture are just as bad as those trying to remove the principle all together.

Yeah, and I'm in the middle of dealing with Metro Nashville Codes on a building permit. It's as bad or worse than lumber prices.

Wow, a hog with a .22lr? And I thought 5.56 was way underpowered for hogs!

That's awesome!

I agree. The Californians NEED to be buying all they can get before the state tries to stop it again. Tennesseans could help by not drying up the supply lines unnecessarily. We're on the same page

It's stuff like this that creates the problem. If you were planning on getting them... get them. If not, hold of till supply replenishes. However, if you just have to.. you also probably need to run to the store for milk, bread, and toilet paper RIGHT NOW!

Maybe someone could explain Asian Americans and Indians (from India) in the US?

I prefer CCI Quiet .22LR. I may or may not used it to rid the yard of groundhogs with my Ruger 10/22. Works well but at 720 FPS shoot placement is still important. Bonus is that it's consistent and accurate. Their sub-sonic runs at 1050fps and works better but adds a little more neighborhood noise.

Anytime I'm told to "kindly" anything you know it's an offshore/overseas scam!

Haha, my wife's favorite! If you see one, you have seen them all. It is neat to see how actors have aged. Hallmark appears to be where actors careers go when they're dead.

Interesting. Not at all what I expected to happen!

Interesting, care to elaborate?

Got to say everytime I see this thread pop up, I remember how much I miss Mars. Listening to nothing in particular.

Haha, than you shouldn't be in a gun forum, because "eliminating guns saves lives, so we shouldn't resist". It's literally the same argument on the same premise with identical moral and philosophical points. I can show you just as many studies, journals, physicians, articles, etc to the contrary. There is a reason doctors "practice" medicine. Arogance and assumptions in a dynamic event is not good medicine. Good doctors know that, bad doctors talk a lot.

It's not the way you fight any disease, it is the result of fighting a disease. The purpose of reducing the curve is to let herd immunity develope while maximizing resources for those that need more intensive and invasive treatment. Meaning controlled exposure is necessary and as important as eliminating contact. You need both.

Decreasing odds in one category often increases them in another. That's the nature of a dynamic relationship. For instance, reducing contamination in one category statistically increases the odds of contacting unforseen diseases in other categories. Not to mention weaking an immunity system designed around exposure. The best immunity is herd immunity and isolation is proven to be very bad for both the above. While I am trying not to get it, the best thing I could do is get the virus. Statistically I'm better off that way than any other.

It's definitely real and definitely bad ... for those in the danger zone: elderly and underlying health issues - typically both together. The cases vs. hospitalization still remains extremely low. Death rate is now below .05% overall and the death rate for 29 yrs and younger is lower than the standard flu. In fact, for those bemoaning schools reopening and economy reopening and then claim we (US) are handling worse than the rest of the world, the rest of the world is open and has been open for a while. School in Europe has been open for months at this point and the numbers continue to decline. There is zero correlation with closed economies/schools and reduction in viral transmission. NY is a great case for what happens when you do everything wrong.They did not flatten anything. 35000 dead, but the cases are now in decline and some precincts are reporting an estimated 50% herd immunity now. Essential the virus killed off those susceptible and those left are now naturally immunizing. More could have survived if they had handled things like most other states, but it is an indicator that a second "wave" is not just highly unlikely, at least the way it's pitched in the media and by a couple folks here, but also not how viruses and the immune system work.

My understanding is that a person who has had a virus will have the virus in their system (basically indefinitely?), even though the strain will be dead. Antibodies did their job. The test will be positive since the test only test for presence of the virus strain. So the test only test for the virus strain, not whether it is active or dead. Symptoms are the indicator of a live strain. I'm sure I'm missing some things but that is how the medical specialist I've talked to explained it to me. I will add for the conspiracy desire in us, I've also been told they can tell whether a virus strain is active or dead if they want, but the basic test simply test for presence not status.

That's just grossly innacurate. Percentage of test to positive had remained neutral if not negative, death rate continues to drop to less than .05%. In over three months of reopening levels stayed dormant until the heat hit. NY, NJ, Boston have huge death numbers that the current numbers of FL, TX, and GA don't even combine to come close to, even with a "surge". Total numbers in every group with the exception of 20-29 year old continue the steady decline. As to reopening, less heat hit states like Colorado (opened with Georgia) are at a -43% increase even with more testing. Children and young adults still have a death rate so low it doesn't even show. There are two ways this ends. Vaccine, we still don't even have one for the flu, or herd immunity. The latter is most likely and realistic. The objective with flattening a curve is not to eradicate it but to manage the herd immunity through the natural spread. Context and numbers have to be looked at together.

Haha, his "handling" of a coordinated rigged political/media assassination was an impossible task. As Rahm Emanuel said, "never waste a good crisis." They failed with Russia, Kavanuagh, Media, CIA, FBI, etc. If it takes a pseudo pandemic, mixed with outright civil unrest/rebellion in Democrat cities just to make his reelection questionable ... I have some optimism. The Dems have gone completely over the edge just to get to close to even. That says a lot. I could be wrong and I have no idea how it will play out in these uncharted waters or how far the dems will go to completely break a system they can't "win", but I heard this stuff before about Trump's possibilities and the naysayers (even the loud ones here) weren't just slightly wrong, they ended up being incredibly wrong. Hang on, it will be interesting if nothing else.

We are in charge of us ... And there lie the problem.

It depends on the blade, length, grit, style, etc. but $20-$35 IIRC. gets you a mirror finish and sharper than anything else you will find.

Back when I was working multiple jobs, one of which was at night. I stopped to get gas in Madison (don't do that BTW) at 2 am. Had three guys circle the station, park on the far side, then two flanked me at distance while the third made an indirect/direct line towards me. The flags went of as I was the only one there. Didn't have my gun on me but it was in my front seat. I made eye contact with the first guy, grabed my gun but kept it out of sight, and began planning attack priorities if they continued. Fortunately when I didn't break eye contact with the lead guy, they all stopped about 20 feet out, stared at me for a minute, then turned and retreated in the same way they approached. They got back in the car and left without showing plates. I don't know if they had ill intent, but that was the first time I fully understood the importance of have an equalizer present. I would have been completely helpless in that scenario otherwise.