-
Posts
6,669 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
41 -
Feedback
100%
Content Type
Forums
Events
Store
Articles
Everything posted by btq96r
-
The "if he was not guilty of anything why was he running" line is irrelevant to the issue at hand, which are the conditions this man was treated to while in police custody. Even his alleged crime doesn't factor into that. From a Fox News link The Gray family's lawyer, Billy Murphy, said "his spine was 80 percent severed" while in custody. It's not clear whether he was injured by officers in the street or while being carried alone in the van's compartment. I'm not medically smart enough to know the amount of trauma it takes to sever the human spine that much, but the fact that it happened to a man in police custody warrants an investigation. If there is anybody found to be responsible for negligence, intentional or accidental, there needs to be consequences. A community has the right to demand that.
-
scope or red dot with magnifier?
btq96r replied to maroonandwhite's topic in Firearms Gear and Accessories
Yup. Whel I ordered my EoTech, I took advantage of a Primary Arms promotion that added a maginifer and mount with it at a discount. Was getting giddy over having it all set up, then I saw how huge the reticle was under a magnifier and lost my chub for it. I ended up selling the magnifier and mount to a fellow TGO'er. -
Home Defense Shotgun - What is your take
btq96r replied to Pete123's topic in Handgun Carry and Self Defense
Best two comments in the thread here, especially the 2nd part. If you want to use a shotgun for home defense, you need to train as often- probably more- than you do with pistol and rifle. I'm man enough to admit that I'm nowhere good enough on a shotgun to use it in a home invasion scenario. So if I'm woken up in the middle of the night, I'm reaching for a pistol then and there, and my SBR if I exit the bedroom. I'll just add that if you're of mind to confront the danger rather than wait it out, you need to practice your clearing techniques and movement plan just like you practice the trigger pulling. If the first time you go through the motions of clearing your own home is during a home invasion, that's dumb on you. -
I've never been a fan of the exemption for dogs to make a sniff without probable cause or a warrant. It's a search, plain and simple in my mind, and one that is grossly misused via the war on drugs culture. SCOTUSblog is theorizing the court may be chipping away at it, and I'm all for it if true. I'm not at all surprised at Justice Thomas being in the minority on this. He's consistently voted in favor of law enforcement with regards to 4th Amendment cases that come before the court.
-
Rob, that is a true work of art. You are rightly proud of that beauty.
-
There are already a bit of changes from the books, most minor ones with a few major ones. So far, they all seem okay, but I'm withholding final judgement till I see how the changes play out with the stuff they kept.
-
Sorry to bring this back so many days after, but I had a weekend mostly away from a keyboard. I don't see the law as unconstitutional, thus it's two wrongs in my mind. I get that we disagree on that however, and I'm not trying to convert your thought on it. In his A View of the Constitution of the United States of America (1825), William Rawls wrote this: A disorderly militia is disgraceful to itself, and dangerous not to the enemy, but to its own country. The duty of the state government is, to adopt such regulations as will tend to make good soldiers with the least interruptions of the ordinary and useful occupations of civil life. In this all the Union has a strong and visible interest. I consider background checks in line with the the state adopting the regulations he was talking about. After all, if the person in question isn't qualified to serve as militia, why should they have a weapon to begin with? I wouldn't be opposed to it, but I not going to push for it. Consider me neutral on the subject. Though I can see the benefit of using a registry to trace a gun to determine if someone is buying guns for criminals once a registry has been in place for a while.
-
I get that this Sheriff's jurisdiction has a lot more important things listed on their priorities of work and can't go out solely to deal with this issue, but law is still law, and if a violation of such is in front of you, they you enforce the law. Two wrongs don't make a right. As mentioned earlier, I know I'm in the minority, but I don't think background check laws are unconstitutional as long as a background check can be run in what I'd call a "time now" fashion. If you want to become a criminal should something like this ever come to pass, that's on you. Going to a local gun shop, or any other FFL with access to TICS and the process is easy enough. Doesn't add a step that isn't already there for a LGS, or internet purchase. I'm not saying I'm in favor of this becoming a standard, but I'm not opposed to it either. My "Statism stops" when the government wants a quantitative edge over the population with regards to arms, because I think that's what the intent of the 2nd Amendment was about. If there are weapons banned for civilian use, they need to be banned for law enforcement/military use as well. If cops and troops have them, civilians should be able to get them on the open market and own them.
-
For a handgun permit?
-
I've only been to On Target a few times, but have never had any reason to complain about the staff. One time, they even helped me with adjusting a flash hider on an AR barrel for free. A simple turn of a wrench, sure...but since I don't have a garage or the tools, that small thing was a welcome help. I also like how late they stay open. I took my ex-girlfriend there to shoot for the first time in her life once on a date night. I'm romantic like that. I've never felt like an unwelcome customer in their business. Their fees for shooting are the only reason I don't frequent their establishment with regularity, and that's a shame. The costs are so prohibitive that I'll drive 30 minutes out to Woodbury and shoot at OK Coral after planning it out instead of a quick 10 minute trip to their lanes spur of the moment. I really think that if they lowered their prices, and used an online reservation system, they could fill enough time blocks with people on their days off, lunch breaks, and so forth to be profitable. Personally, I have two days a week this semester with five hour blocks in between classes where if I didn't have schoolwork to do, I would have considered popping down there to shoot a box of ammo. But, their doors are still open, so they're doing fine without my advice.
-
The only reason to consider the lifetime permit is to avoid the DMV line. I spent almost two hours just sitting there on a random day in August when I got my permit last year. Added up over the lifetime permit, I could literally save a day or two of my life for something more productive. If the NRA/ILA is doing anything in those states besides court fights, they are wasting their time, and their members money. IL is the only one remotely ready for any legislative agenda campaign to improve gun rights, and even then it's a helluva fight with Chicago sending the level of representation it does. If they really focused here in Tennessee they would get another state to add for Constitutional carry. campus carry, ect... and add a fresh win going forward to others.
-
I'm not really digging this...I personally don't see a background check as an infringement on 2nd Amendment rights as long as it can be done at the time of purchase. I'd also be worried about a local government official picking and choosing which laws they enforce, when a state law clearly supersedes a county one. If state preemption of local laws can be ignored for a pro gun stance, they can be ignored for an anti-gun stance, and that's one can of worms I want to stay shut.
-
Cops are representives of government, and deserve the same scrutiny we give to any other government agency. Possibly more so when you consider the powers and responsibilities they have. When they are out of line- as the officers actions and the equipment in this situation were- they deserve the reaction they get from the public.
-
HBO took hits for using a lot of female nudity that wasn't in the book as well. They do it to advance stories, as a setting for dialogue that the book has somewhere else that makes building a new set impractical, or to condense info from multiple characters into one TV role- like they did with that prostitute who left Winterfell, worked for Littlefinger's brothel, then became a spy for Varys before she was turned into an arrow target.
-
ATF Comments at NRA Law Seminar
btq96r replied to cannoncocker's topic in National Firearms Act (NFA) Regulated
Should probably change your link with this direct one, as new posts to the blog will bump the NFA one down. http://blog.princelaw.com/2015/04/10/shocking-statementsconcessions-by-atf-at-the-nra-firearms-law-seminar/ The quality of invalid trusts from low quality preparation is a great point for the ATF to bring up. Here on TGO, we've had discussions about using our two resident attorneys to draft a trust versus just buying one off the internet. I saw the bit of extra money spent going to an attorney as an investment for protection when entering a world full of federal regulation. But, this being America, if you can get a low enough price to show up on page 1 of a Google search, you're going to get people's business. I also think the sheer number of Trusts popping up will keep ATF from implementing 41P. For the purposes of saving face, they won't officially back down, just keep pushing the timeline for a final decision to the right, requiring more research, implementing a study...but in the end a bureaucratic surrender is good enough for our purposes. -
Jade Helm is just a training exercise. The Special Ops guys are trying to get back to some core skills that are perishable and suffered from repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. If you look at the maps where they are training, it mirrors the challenges/differences in geography and size that running missions in the Middle East and Africa bring. It's as much an exercise for the staffs, planning, and logistics folks as it is the guys at the pointy end of the spear. As to the cops being dressed for battle...they think they're bad ass. Simple as that. I think a lot of the "mentality" could be cured by making LEO's go back to a standard uniform set. City cops- black, blue, some solid color based on the season if desired. County Sheriff- Tan or Green. No camouflage whatsofuckinever as there is really no call for it in a law enforcement setting that I can see. Even a SWAT team has no real need for camo. Unless someone can tell me how woodland camo for a city environment makes sense for an element that isn't trying to hide. Were I ever in charge of a LE agency, I'd also take care to look at the kit they use. Level II-IIIa soft armor should be enough for daily patrols, hard armor should only be worn during high risk situations, the everyday threat it's made for just isn't there. Perception matters when interacting with the public and I'm sick of seeing Americans subject to the same styles and techniques we used on Iraqis and Afghans.
-
Small correction to that- the people with the itty bitty star in the lower left represents military service, and a badge icon represents police service. Both are for current, retired, or in between. I only did 8 1/2 years in the Army, so I didn't retire, just "got out" of the military.
-
Jade Helm is just an exercise for SOF troops who actually need the training in varied operating environments to keep sharp. These LEO's are just dressing up in whatever looks good from the latest tacticool catalog, purpose immaterial. That's why you see things like the shoulder protectors meant to protect from shrapnel from IED's. It's a joke to those of us who can pick apart their kit and configuration. Their desert boots will be replaced by clown shoes should they ever need to put their fashion into action. I especially love how the guy I posted the pic of has an admin pouch over his mag pouches. $5 says he has Snickers bars taking priority over magazines.
-
I'll go one further. If I'm ever stopped by a team that looks like that, I'm not saying anything, at all. I'll hand them my license, registration and insurance as required by law on request, and sign a citation if given one. But I won't answer any questions, or say anything else to the officers. If that's policing, I'm not cooperating with it.
-
Judas Priest. An armored vehicle for a traffic stop? As if the whole thing didn't have enough of a Fallujah vibe to it, check out how one of the officers was decked out for battle enforcing the law. That’s a US Marine Corps camouflage pattern under all that body armor designed to protect against IED shrapnel, which I’m sure they see plenty of in Gainesville, Florida.
-
It's just immature. Besides if an officer can't summon the patience to deal with someone flipping them off and "wouldn't take it very long," I don't want that person wearing a badge, and the powers that come with it.
-
My local Walmart at least is still selling AR's. However at those prices, for those brands/models, they aren't selling them to me.