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Happy we're seeing the good outcome here. Hoping the changes in lifestyle keep you around for a while to come.

Mothballs. Or do some folks still use them? Just typing this brings back the smell of my grandfather's house.

Gun owners pretending they weren't in business are the ones who brought this down. As long as the background check system isn't a bogged down mess, I don't see this going away. As @JohnSutton1980explained pretty well, Congress ceded this authority to the executive branch...they had fundraising to attend to, I'm sure. Better to have something you pretend to care about when asking folks for money.

If people bought a gun every time that notion crept into their minds....well, I guess some do. But, you'll be fine. Let your desires and your budget guide you, not the political situation. We seem to be in a nice area of both sides want to argue about it rather than push the issue one way or the other.

No meme to go with it?

I think the feds had a good case this guy was clearly an unlicensed dealer. He apparently bought 150 firearms in less than 3 years and was selling them. Still, that doesn't earn a death sentence. And I would actually welcome federal hearings on this, because there's enough for both sides to pick open. Republicans can go after the ATF in general, and Democrats can pry into heavy handed law enforcement tactics. This is the search warrant if anyone wants to give it a look. The word "threat" doesn't appear, and the word "danger" is only used once to describe how Malinowski couldn't be followed during part of the investigation because he was running red lights and the agent didn't want to risk the safety of other motorists. https://www.kark.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/85/2024/03/Ex.-1-Search-Warrant-003.pdf This isn't some drug dealer who can flush the stash, and I'm thinking this would have been best done with a knock on the door before he went to work, or as others have mentioned, pulling him over on the way to work with the help of the local PD. I'm getting to the point where specific instructions on the scope and tactics of a search warrant may need to be approved by a judge, not just 6a-10p, or anytime day or night. There should be oversight on if a no-knock is used. If this was a no-knock raid, law enforcement executing search warrants aren't going to understand someone's first instinct to loud banging, or forced entry could be to get their gun and be ready, then we don't need them breaking down the door unless there is an anticipated reaction with gunfire. And that would be quite a claim to make. This is a tragedy on so many levels. I only hope he had a decent life insurance policy that won't be invalidated for the sake of his family. Maybe he knew he was screwed, and didn't want to account for his actions. We'll never know for sure if suicide by cop was the way he wanted to leave this world because the ATF just can't resist being a SWAT team with federal funding. Not for nothing, their own guy might have been wounded because of the tactics here.

Troy is a solid brand. Not as big name or flashy, but I've never been disappointed by their products for the price point. Vortex helped me with something similar once. I think these smaller companies understand how to endeer brand loyalty pretty well.

The grift that keeps on grifting. Now I really think this is just a PR stunt. One that cash flows.

While I wouldn't put it past Chicago, I don't think they're trying to get some nationwide win here. More like just seeking some easy PR by throwing a case in the courts to say they're "doing something". Like any other battlefield, once the winter fades away, action picks up. March-October is shooting season in the Windy City.

Best wishes on the recovery road. Seems you have plenty of experience to draw from here if you need some help or motivation along the way.

Good on you for engaging in the dialogue, @Worriedman . We need more interaction, not less. I'd imagine this will be CNN focusing a good bit on what happened during the last legislative session with the "Tennessee Three" as they've become known nationally, and how the state supermajority is conducting politics.

I don't know why we expect judges to be familiar with every nuance in cases brought before them....especially in general courts like SCOTUS is. The lawyers did a good job of respectfully correcting them with facts. Most gun rights supporters don't understand bump stocks as a niche item given how ready they are to let the ban stand with little more than a shrug (looking at you, Trump). I'd also wager that 800 rds per second was a flub of 800 rds per minute, which is more reasonable if you extrapolate the bump stock fire rate out to 60 seconds minus any mag changes (since capacity is variable). Still realistically wrong, but there's no denying you can increase the rate of fire significantly beyond intended use of design like happened in the Las Vegas shooting...which is the big risk/threat seen.

Wouldn't the reform candidates want to talk about the reforms they hope to bring? Or did I miss that part in the weighted voting instructions memo here?

Because with Wayne and some of his cronies gone, the board can finally be reset. @Chucktshoeshas the right if it that the size of the board needs to be shrunk. They also have to have the right people to oversee what will be a very important selection of new management.

It's a huge decision for a company to move their operations, especially one so centered around their manufacturing equipment like a gun company. One they'd rather not make if it can be avoided. The difference in corporate tax rate isn't as drastic as the personal income tax. I think the political climate drove the decision just as much. A company wants to feel protected to do their thing, and as good as Remington was to the state of NY, that feeling was gone. Same story with Springfield in Massachusetts. Again, sad days for those workers who did everything right.

This was a civil trial, not a criminal one. It'll have to be enough that Wayne is going to spend the rest of his life in financial destitution and the next ones holding the reigns know they're being watched. Ironically the NYAG might have done more good for the NRA in the long term here than could be had from internal discontent.

Feel for the people there. This wasn't their fault and they are going to get all the economic impact.

I was wondering if this was the case. Losing farmland that sits fallow isn't a big deal overall except for the changes. It's the ones who bring products to the market we need to keep an eye on. Even enough smaller family ones add up in commerce. But land development of unused farmland is just change and growth of the state.

I remember a few times where I had to go get this and bring it to the classroom. My elementary school only had so many, and the teachers had to reserve the time.

Sorry you keep encountering this, @NoBanStan. I agree with everyone involved in the tragedy of it all. I don't drink anymore for health reasons (made my blood pressure way easier to manage), and I don't miss it at all. I'll never be a prohibitionist because we saw how that worked, but if the world went dry, or reigned it in for their own reasons, that would make it a better place, I think.

2002 Ford Ranger, 121,900 miles. My first and only vehicle. Haven't had a payment since September 2007. Going to drive this thing until it makes a sound that cracks my heart in half.

Saw this in action just this week. Caught it from the mezzanine, as I'm operations, not IT. But I understand enough to know what went wrong. Had a simple enough task for qualified folks, changing out a 1GB network switch for a 10GB one. The current setup was put in place in painstaking detail by an employee who was local, loved his job, and bent over backwards to do good work every time. That is, until he left due to being fed up with shortsightedness, and being overworked. Now, instead of a local guy who manages something he has pride of ownership in, we had to rely on a remote resource, who while I'm sure has decent skills, just didn't have enough to make the switch and get everything back up. I'll bet as much as I plan to bet throughout the Super Bowl that it just came down to being a roving network engineer, instead of a dedicated resource locally. We had to roll back to what we were trying to upgrade, and we lost an hour of productivity, which is a lot on a Wednesday afternoon. Another attempt is pending time to schedule it. But the overall labor cost is down still, so blips like this are the cost of doing business from the day our local guy left and going forward. I just hope we don't have anything bad happen. Everything works fine...until it doesn't.

Labor arbitrage is a hell of a drug.

I think we've been running this experiment for almost a generation now, and cheap goods has clearly proven itself in staying power.

He helped make that movie a classic. Anyone else and the character he played might not have popped as well.