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One more thing I'll add: I really wish Veterans Day was the last Monday in May and Memorial Day was November 11th.    If we're going to have a holiday where people take a long weekend and kick off summer, it would be more appropriate for it to be have a joyful holiday such as Veterans Day to justify it.  As it stands now, not many people really take the meaning of Memorial day to heart.   Putting our Memorial Day in alignment with other countries around the world who celebrate Remembrance Day and Armistice Day would make it more powerful, and weather-wise remembering the dead just seems more natural on single cool fall day rather than a warm weekend.  Plus, it could be easier to get the public involved without a long weekend associated; schools could center activities around it, ect...   Just my thoughts.

  I will never buy a pistol with a manual safety.  While I may be able to train muscle memory to disengage a safety on some models as good as I can on an AR, I won't bet my life on it.  The long double action pull of my Walther P99 is one of the best features it has for the same reasons you list above.

Near everything anyone about 25 and under does involves a smartphone, be it to receive, send or digest information.   Most of them only use a PC or Macbook as required for school or work these days.  They're doing what many of us may consider stupid things via like Snapchat, and other apps, but I know more than a few who use the technology to keep in touch with relatives- texting grandparents and the like- and reading religious material.  This app alone has 50-100 million installs just on Android devices and probably a proportionally similar number on Apple products.   At 33, I'm about in between with my smartphone use.  While I'm don't have my head buried in it, and walk with my head up, I use my smartphone a lot when I'm out of the house, especially at restaurants or between classes when I have nothing to do.  The ability to use apps to transition from news sources, Twitter (great info if you know how to look), and even keep up with sites TGO is very user friendly and helps satisfy my information needs.  Since I try to make only measured responses when debating things, I don't post from my smartphone much, but I will tag sources for further reading since I have my browsers synced between my laptop, tablet, and phone.   The biggest thing to bear in mind, is that a young persons smartphone is fast becoming the primary way they receive information.  That can be beneficial and terrifying at the same time depending on what they are being fed.

  The Mafia had meetings between rival families as well.   I'm sure the Waco PD made a lot of arrests that aren't going to stick, and even some legitimate ones that will be hard to keep due to the shear size of the calamity.   That being said, criminal activity occurred at that meeting when things got violent, and maybe even before if organized crime statues can be applied to the way the outlaw clubs think they can run "turf" like they own it and run roughshod over legitimate clubs who just want to ride.

  I'm the same way.  Whenever someone tries to thank me for my service, or credit me in any way for Memorial Day, I take a moment to remind them the purpose for the holiday.  I'll (reluctantly) accept accolades on Veterans Day, but Memorial Day is for those who never came home. There is too much personal meaning to the day for me to not point that out.

...not as follicly challenged as I am (and it's only getting worse).   To make matters even more regrettable, all my good hair years were spent in the Army, where having good haircuts were discouraged.

The biggest danger area is a gas station to me.  I always make sure to fill up during daylight hours at a gas station I reasonably trust to be free of trouble.  The other scenario's are avoid a bad situation as best you can with common sense.  I always have a lookout when mounting/dismounting a vehicle, and DaveTN has some great pointers about intersections, and some of them that I remember from my time in Iraq before we established a bubble around our convoys due to the car bomb threat.  If it's my life on the line, I'll put some dents in my truck to get out of harms way.   Those "defensive" techniques in the video are rubbish.  Unless you're trained up and have experience adapting to someone not doing what you hope them to do in a fight, it's asking for trouble to just learn those techniques and try to use them.  Someone like a carjacker can be expected to be an aggressive person who may or may not put up a fight when encountering resistance.  I've never been in a fight (real or practice) that goes exactly as I want it to.   Also, a shameless plug for my patent pending (not really) method of having a gun ready and accessible to you while driving.  It's visible in the day, but not so much so at night, but I'll take the trade off to get reflex easy accessibility.  Having a gun at the 4-5 o'clock on your strong side hip in the holster, or in a console adds valuable seconds in response time when you're in the drivers seat with your seat belt on. http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/87539-vehicle-holster-concept/

  I might see them allowing E-5 and above to carry, but there would be something like 2-3 checks a day and a formal reporting requirement, just like any other sensitive item check.  Never mind how fast post could get locked down if someone misplaces their carry gun.

Not that I could see any commanding general or garrison commander actually allowing concealed carry on post....but if they ever did, like all things Army, they would adopt the most painful administrative process to make it happen.

  The Jew hatred is there, but aside from Hezbollah and Hamas- who aren't states- who is in open war against Israel?  The Arab states that tried it in 1948, 1967, and 1973 learned their lessons after the third try.  They go along to get along these days, because it benefits them politically and economically; especially in dealings with the U.S..    Local Imams are puppets of the governments in most places.  Keeping the small folk in line is one of their jobs.  They will preach death to Israel all day long, but the governments have no desire to make real war against them.  Proxy war maybe, but that's pretty much status quo in that part of the world anyway.       That war was as much about Saddam wanting to expand Iraqi power as it was him being worried about the Shiites he was repressing being influenced by Iran.  He saw Iran after the revolution as a weak target since they had purged a lot of officers, and didn't have U.S. backing anymore.  He bit off more than he could chew.  Then he tried it again against Kuwait in 1990 hoping for a better result and got his ass handed to him there as well.       The Nazi's actually made war on multiple fronts.  So no, I wouldn't make that argument.    But hindsight is 50-50.  Should the world have preemptively attacked Germany as the Nazis rose to power?  After he started grabbing territory, sure.  But I think history has shown us how preemptive wars don't always work out for the best.

  Ahem... http://rapidcityjournal.com/sturgisrallydaily/arrested-in-rally-sex-sting/article_5b6d4c5b-dbfa-5c3a-bb00-1820143826d9.html

  I think its important to look at those with a grain of salt.  A lot of Friday afternoon mosque sermons are for domestic consumption and are full of hyperbole.   In any country with domestic issues, like Iran and a good bit of the Middle East, they need to find a boogeyman to focus the public against, and America and Israel fit the mold nicely.  Now, that's not to say that I think the feelings aren't really there, but the powers that be in those countries know there is only so much they can get away with outside their own borders.    Iran, for all their saber rattling in public is actually very pragmatic foreign policy wise.  They know their left and right limits, and focus on what they can do without biting off too much.  They demonize "the great Satan" to help their people forget the squalor they live in.   I liken mosque sermons in the middle east to politics in America.  It's like when a Republican who campaigns on conservative principles goes to Washington and votes in line with a big government agenda.  They tell the people what they want to hear, then go off and do whatever the powers that be tell them.

The Aimpoint's (M2) that were issued in the military required that half moon spacer if you mounted them onto a flat top upper. If you were hanging it off of the mount that screwed into a carrying handle on an M16A2, you needed to take it out. Things got ugly if you tried to zero without double checking for that. M2 mounted on "gooseneck mount" for M16A2; you can see how low it would sit on a flattop upper. M2 with half moon spacer for flat top mounting (it's the middle bar in the mount) to raise it up. The CompM4 had a riser in the base when we started getting those, but I just kept the M2 on my weapon. The PRO should have one as well.

  I was talking about the optics that aren't absolute or lower 1/3 co-witness without some kind of riser or other add on part to give it some height.

Bear in mind, more and more companies aren't considering a FSP when they prepare an optic for out of the box mounting.  With a lot of builds coming from a factory, or put together without a FSP, they're fine setting it up for that, then just offering the aftermarket parts to bring it up over one for anybody who needs it to compensate for a FSP.

If the C3 is anything like the CompM2 model that served as the M68 optic for the US Army, the mount needs a half moon spacer added to get it to the proper height.  Maybe that was the case with yours?  I'd need pics to be sure.   Either way, the PRO is probably the best overall value out there for quality without going over $500.  It should serve you well. 

I get that Islam is more "kill the non-believers" than tolerance by the letter of its law.  But this man used his religious beliefs to justify a plan for mass murder.  At best he's an old testament type of guy, and that part of the bible would probably be in agreement with him.   I'm honestly more perturbed that this guy is getting off quite light for what he was coordinating to do, and that there isn't much mainstream coverage.

  I apologize for assuming otherwise. 

  It's a beautiful blade, but I sincerely hope you don't find yourself bringing a knife to a gun fight if you're ever attacked.  Hell, taking a knife to a knife fight  fails to take advantage of having a gun. 

I'm a bit miffed that this news is only on the outskirts of the web.  If a Muslim had been caught trying to put together an attack like this, the government would be doing victory laps at stopping the threat and spinning it to justify funding levels.   So, it appears we have a "man of God" who believes it was some type of duty to kill Muslim's.  So, to those who ask, when was the last time Christian extremism breed "terrorist' qualities, here you go.  Enjoy Robert Doggart.   “Our small group will soon be faced with the fight of our lives. We will offer those lives as collateral to prove our commitment to our God,” Doggart said in a Facebook post, according to court documents. “We shall be Warriors who will inflict horrible numbers of casualties upon the enemies of our Nation and World Peace.” http://www.heavy.com/news/2015/05/robert-doggart-tennessee-congressional-candidate-islamberg-new-york-anti-muslim-islam-attack-arrest-court-documents-photos-charges-plea-patriot/ http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/5/16/300568/Former-3rd-District-Congressional.aspx http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/16/former-congressional-candidate-planned-to-attack-new-york-mosque/27453961/   Three questions come to mind 1) Why isn't this news? 2) Why did this guy get such a sweet plea bargain from the feds? 3) How is he out until sentencing with only electronic surveillance and $30,000 bond after pleading guilty?     ETA: Wasn't sure if this qualifies as "politics" or not.  Put in General Chat since it didn't have a primary political angle, but won't be upset if it needs to be moved by an admin.

Okay...if you guys think you can take 1359 to court and win, go ahead.  You obviously think you have the right of it, so why not go for it?  I'll be hoping I'm wrong, and if you win I'll buy you lunch.  If you loose, I'll buy you lunch after you loose to show there are no hard feelings.   OS- I read Heller as the entire 2A was incorporated, and once we get a federal definition of "bear" it will be automatically enforceable on the states.

  Nine is only the only number of fatalities.  Most reports have another 18 wounded.  That brings it to 27, which isn't too far off your estimate of 30 victims.

From what little I know about these outlaw motorcycle clubs, this was bound to happen.  To me they're on par with the Crips, or any of the Hispanic gangs out in LA.   I also wouldn't be surprised to find out at least a few of them had a carry permit from Texas.

  Boston Market is not a real sample of Boston area cuisine.   Now if he brings some Chicken Parm subs from a Mom & Pop shop down with him, that would be real Boston food. 

  When you see a B-29 target, you'll notice it's a good it smaller in overall size than the regular targets you see at the range.  At 14" x 22", the thing looks pretty small versus a larger silhouette on poster size (24" x 48" or thereabouts).  Just remember, your actual target is the X in the center, and that's the same size on the smaller one as it is on a bigger silhouette on a larger sheet of paper.  It's all mental.   If you can't secure some B-29 targets, go to the sporting section at Walmart and buy a ten pack of bullseye targets for a few bucks and practice on those.  Using a larger sheet for your target could screw with your head when it comes time to shoot at a small piece of paper.