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I think 9mm reaches 180+ sometime after the slide locks back on a .45 since the 9mm isn't done at that point.

So, that legislation I mentioned a few posts back is clear of Congress, and on it's way to the White House for the President's signature or veto. We'll see if he's still wanting to drain the swamp, or sign a bill to help out those poor, beaten down, cable companies and ISP's.

^^^This^^^ I couldn't fathom buying a government surplus HMMWV without having my old battalion maintenance section to go along with it.

It's only official with "Period" at the end if Sean Spicer/Melissa McCarthy says it. As to the debate, you can debate pros/cons of penis size...I mean caliber...all you want. Shot placement is the beginning and end of the conversation. People don't focus on that issue, and I don't mean in a slow rate, no adrenaline rush, controlled fire safety of your lane on the range kind of way. You can have the golden gun from James Bond, but if you aren't ready to put rounds where they need to go, it won't matter much what you're firing.

My condolences on the loss, to you as well as his family.

Oh, fantastic. The one argument that can get more heated than "Trump: Greatest President Ever, or Jabroni?"

I think "developing the situation" is warranted to try and ascertain the info. I still default to a citizen on their property, with their legally owned weapon isn't a threat in and of itself. I think we're getting too comfortable with officers inferring a threat before one is demonstrated. Armed citizens being treated as a default threat where opening fire is justifiable isn't where I want things to be. Not assessing blame on the individual officers in this situation, but bringing up my usual questions about the system and rules they are using in these situations.

I dunno...I can't fault her for wanting to stay away from Washington, or her husband. I remember her saying she wasn't thrilled when he decided to run in the first place, so this could just be her way of coping. The cost of securing Trump Tower full time would still be a decent bit, though not nearly as much if Melania wasn't there in residence. How this is being a burden on the city is something I'd like to know. If I were NYC, I'd tell the Secret Service to take 100% of the security and have the officers back in the precinct. That has to be biting the NYPD budget and officer scheduling pretty hard to support the effort. One semi-gag column I read opined that NYC should use eminent domain (oh, the irony) to seize Trump Tower under the pretext of it being a public nuisance due to how much it's costing the city and how it's turned that part of 5th Ave into a traffic jam since Trump was elected President.

I know this incident was a confluence of unfortunate events...but my mind says a man on his property with his weapon isn't a threat until hostile intent is demonstrated. Not assumed, demonstrated.

Dayum...that's speedy customer service! My pleasure. As much you and I butt heads politically, supporting this site is one thing we are in lockstep agreement on. I actually do annual renewals on the premise that after my renewal in 2018, I'll be past 4yrs, and any renewal after that will kick more to the site than a lifetime membership would have otherwise netted it going forward. So, in other words, you're stuck with me.

Gah, disregard. Found it under Store> Manage Purchases. This is either different since an upgrade, or doing it only once a year doesn't make me remember the process.

@TGO David I saw the message when I logged in that my membership was back to basic and when I tried to get a fresh 1-yr benefactor setup, I got this error message. Please advise.

While I still don't think the Barrett .50cal is the best thing since sliced bread...there is no doubting the awesomeness of the guy who fielded the call for this Marine unit when they needed him. What a credit to the Barrett organization he is. http://tribunist.com/military/barrett-50-cal-wont-work-so-these-marines-called-customer-service-during-a-firefight-video/ Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk just to give Oh Shoot something to be grumpy about.

That law with the required info on the ticket is nice, but it's missing any clause that invalidates the ticket for not having it. These cameras are pretty much an ATM for local governments, and the contracts with private vendors is a disturbing issue in itself. That said, while they won't come after you for failure to pay...they won't forgive or forget the money you've been assessed as owing city hall. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk just to give Oh Shoot something to be grumpy about.

If he's lucky, he owns the range...otherwise he won't be allowed to shoot or train there if the proprietor has the common sense this guy lacked when putting his finger on the trigger right before the shot went off.

Doctrine has fallen off as much as the tools. Air Defense has had their advancements and employment, but at the higher support levels. Patriot batteries are actually the most deployed units in the Army from what I heard in a symposium talk from the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations earlier in the week. Another GWOT tool, C-RAM (land version of the phalanx system), is great for fixed sites like large bases and how the Israeli's employ it for Iron Dome...but isn't feasible as an enabler for brigade down to company levels where troops need air defense again. After the Iraq invasion we pretty much ignored any kind of planning and tactical consideration of enemy air assets. I'd hope the Army got back to it as part of full spectrum ops, but I doubt the skill set has been built back up to match the current threat. In combating off the shelf drones, the tech for target tracking is there to put something like a 240 and it into a system that can target and engage drones. That system could be put onto a few vehicles for every maneuverer company and operated by an attached ADA team or cross-trained with infantry or other combat arms units. It won't be a 100% solution, but could help close the gap some.

The air and movement aspects of a drone are the issue here. A jammer bubble only goes so far up and out. Off the shelf drones are already capable of a decent altitude if you get the right model. Even if that limits/negates the attack ability, it still leaves a reconnaissance/surveillance use for the other side to have. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk just to give Oh Shoot something to be grumpy about.

In Iraq and Syria, ISIS is using Radio Shack quality remote control drones to carry munitions. I saw video of it in a PBS Frontline episode. This is going to become a standard capability threat from the bad guys that will need to be planned for, countered, and doing it with Patriot missiles just isn't affordable, it's not practical considering how many we (don't) have to deploy around the world. Time for Stinger/Avenger equipped ADA units to get out of detainee ops and the guard towers, and back to the drawing board on how to support Brigade and Below from this kind of threat.

That's one of those military moments where you can hear the Looney Tunes theme playing in your head as you do what you're told.

While all the USMC units I've seen have been frugal and make the most of what they get (sometimes past the point of common sense), the Corps as a service also greatly benefits from having the Army being the lead proponent for research and development costs for shared items like weapons, vehicles, artillery systems, and other big ticket items that get rolled into the Army budgets. The Marines also save big time on paper with their size of their force being a fraction of the Army...one thing that rarely gets discussed is how personnel and family support costs are almost 50% of the total DoD budget. Regardless, we're certainly getting our money's worth from the Corps. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk just to give Oh Shoot something to be grumpy about.

Yesterday I saw a tiny bit of white on the top of red lights. That's the extent of my snow experience this weekend. I'll take the colder temps for a while, but I think winter, as little as we knew it this cycle, is over. Wondering what 2nd and 3rd order effects the summer will bring.

The internet is the way information will flow, and people will be cataloged for the rest of the century. I'm quite concerned with it considering I plan to live at least halfway through it. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk just to give Oh Shoot something to be grumpy about.

The FCC administrator President Trump has in place has been quite busy and flying under the radar. He's already gotten to work tearing up the track that was going to unlock set-top boxes so consumers wouldn't be stuck "renting" a box from the cable providers if they wanted an alternative. Along with withdrawing the FCC's position about phone rates for prisoners making calls, and he isn't a fan at all of the 2015 decision to treat and regulate broadband as a utility. Some topics about the new FCC chair for discussion with your friends. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk just to give Oh Shoot something to be grumpy about.

I'm quite a proponent of safe, common sense open carry. Problem with that is the level of the latter in the population at large.

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-115sjres34is/pdf/BILLS-115sjres34is.pdf Don't let the term "Joint Resolution" mislead you, this legislation is being done through the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to reject a proposed rule by a federal agency if the joint resolution can pass within 60 legislative days (ie: Congresses own calender is the timeline). And this is what Senator Flake (and a lot of other Republicans) want to block from being implemented...at the behest of the fat cat ISP companies (Comcast, Google, et al...) filling the party, campaign, and PAC coffers https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-12-02/pdf/2016-28006.pdf The reason this is only being done now as opposed to all the time when one party controls the legislative branch, is that in order for this process to work, Congress needs the President to sign these joint resolutions, or have enough strength to survive a veto. So, with a Republican Congress, and a (sort of) Republican President, they're going through a lot that falls within that "60 legislative day" window...and there is a lot of real time covered since Congress didn't actually convene very much in the latter half of 2016...to roll back some of what the Obama administration pushed through the federal register in their final months. Now, we can debate how that's a good thing for a whole host of other issues (specifically any ATF efforts), but the reason I bumped up this old thread is because I was specifically refrencing the internet privacy implications this would have. "Big data" is big business, and the ISP's want Congress to take down barriers between them and your private information so they can churn it into cash.