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Yeah, he didn't think that thru. Alienating a key demo right up front isn't a great way to get their support. But if they stayed long enough to listen to the rhetoric, they probably didnt notice it at the part he got them foaming at the mouth mad. The only thing I took away was, hell, I want to know what the rest of the house looks like.

I have OSP and RDP variants. I agree its snappier than anticipated for its size. I was disappointed with the effectiveness of the comp on the RDP. Its only slightly noticeable. For comparison, I notice much more of a difference between my G19C with its factory barrel vs non comp barrel. A function of the short lever arm. But I will disagree about its accuracy / groupings. For a 3" barrel, I thought it was excellent. When you have the sight picture down, no problem consistently hitting full sizes silhouettes @50yds or keeping 4" @ 15yds firing at a decent pace. However it is much more demanding on the basics to get there. Not an "easy" gun to shoot, does not suffer lax grip or inconsistent grip and trigger placement. It will reward very deliberate handling. And as others said, you may have to adapt to its slide catch. I think its fair to say you have to treat it differently. Unfortunately those things may not make it the ideal carry gun in a pressure situation. You'd have to spend more range time with it than you would other guns in your rotation.

I'll propose another possibility, new person could be an out of state person moving or passing thru. The Google pointed me to this very thread when I was researching trailer tags after receive a notice from CA that my trailer was due. If you google TN trailer plates this thread is indexed there. I had zero intent of every giving CA another time of my money. They charge $10 for a 5 year tag. I saw that TN didn't require it so I never thought. But DMV recommended getting one as adjacent states are trailer ticket happy. So, thought fair enough, I'll get a TN plate. I was blown away by the fees!! 3x what a vehicle tag is?? That's simply out of line for a light weight utility trailer that mainly sits and causes far less road wear. At that point I was very happy to pay CA my $10 for the next 5 years. As much as I dislike things CA, what TN is doing with trailer plates is far worse than anything CA DMV was doing in general. And my $40 TN truck reg was $600 in CA!

That is a good analogy, and a bit of both, or between. A very short stroke bumpfire trigger. But so is the Geissele AKT in am AK platform, though not quite as extreme easy enough from the shoulder. Errr.....I mean to say, or so I've been told. I'd neeeever..... I suspect the next step, and why RB is still up, is they are fighting this being owned by a lawyer and all. And the ATF knows it. But like Joe buddy knowingly signing illegal vaccine mandates, if you can sucker some into giving in, they will get some. In this case, if one is stupid enough to call the ATF as the letter suggests. "Best if we take a look sir, we'll have an agent by directly to discuss it with you. We are here to keep you safe"

Or as in this case, creatively re-interpreted by the ATF via a ruling to fit their re-imagining of the law as its to inconvenient to get it changed. And they are given the ability to do, basically what they want. Clever to introduce the word "continuous" along with some other mumbo jumbo to say that is how it violates they existing 'a single function of the trigger', or the rifle's requirement 'single pull of the trigger'. But...the most interesting thing to me about this is that Rarebreed, when I looked, had these available for sale on their website.

Amen! Sometimes I wish I could try that out.

Did you take a look at some of the other things this 'winner' has bought very recently? All relatively pricey, several thousand range! Same pattern, comes in last day willing to pay more than anyone else would. Could be washing his cash no doubt, crypto millionaire , recent stocks or ???. Whatever it is, it actually looks legit we just cant relate as we have a pretty darn different relationship with money than he seems to. Here are a couple examples https://www.gunbroker.com/item/924751177 https://www.gunbroker.com/item/923926327

Seems pretty much every type / brand specific forum has a core dynamic driven by the loyalists and the ownership/mods. arfcom and the akforum are a great example to me of how 2 different places you’d expect to be similar are anything but. Gun communities that are not brand aligned have their distinctive flavors to. Larger seems to mitigate the old guard clique issues and less sensitivities. It’s good to have options!

If it helps anyone else, I picked up NordVPN yesterday. Playing with it still, but after adding to Desktop, iPhone, and Firestick its seems pretty good. Not seeing any decrease in speed to my fiber connection on speedtests. Love seeing geoblocking is no longer a worry. Uncensored news and the UK library for TV streaming! Look forward to the roadracing season starting up.

I'd may be helpful to get specific timeframes on the anecdotes. The only time I hit up Walther was after ordering a new standard barrel to swap into my Q4 tac when I found a problem with it. They asked for a pic, sent me label within the hour, and a new barrel arrived 3 days later. Around Nov '18. Generally had pretty nice service within the industry for the handful of times I've had to deal with something. Overall I have found Springfield to be the most consistent overtime, always top marks for me. Sig is the most spoty, base on who you get and day they are having. S&W wheel guns are not something I will buy online anymore, only in person with feeler gauges in hand to check their barrel fitting since they no longer seem to check forcing cone gaps or if a barrel is clocked right. Generally it does seem that QC in the last 3 to 5 years has slipped. But to be fair, I have bought a lot more guns over the last 3 years compared to the prior 10 since moving away from a restricted blue state where I could not buy those guns.

Looking at adding a VPN service. Would love some recommendations from those who have tried various providers. Considering Nord, Express VPN, and the like. Friend was telling me that the downside he has seen is around subscription services that you pay for legitimately rejecting IP's if its one they recognize as associated to one of the VPN providers. Any other downside by provider you have experienced would be helpful. Appreciate insights.

Yes, HK. P30 or VP9. Most are 17 rounds so maybe an older one?

I wouldn't mind picking up another if came across the pistol version. The only thing that is slightly unfortunate is they have a proprietary trigger so you can pop in the AR upgrade options. The factory trigger is decent however.

That is either modeled after our licensed by Ares / Fightlite. They use a modified carrier that has a tail that works with a Mossberg style recoil system. I have an Ares rifle and they run a less than a third their ridiculous price. They stocks are swappable for most any nice Mossy custom stocks and you can run any AR upper using the proprietary carrier. Gives lots of great options. The JJ version must be meant for the types that would buy Ed Hardy shirts and have all the traits that go with them

Damn! That is some really vivid imagery you painted in so few words. It striking how close to death you can come just by circumstances and how a few seconds difference in timing of things could have played out. I wasn’t there, but will carry the images for awhile, it’s impossible to imagine how indelible it is to you. Almost dying and then moments later having to do what you did probably mostly negates any good feeling you could have had from narrowly surviving. Glad you are talking to someone, hopefully they can help give you some peace after 40 years. Kudos to the bravery and sense of duty the aviators showed in their final moment, sticking with their wounded bird to save others knowing they would likely be making the ultimate sacrifice.

Love it! I really wanted one of these, but nearly impossible to get were I was at the time. Nice lucky find They were, around 2013 or so. Share some lineage and parts but if I recall the receivers are different and the most recent was a modified M70 slanted receiver. The beauty part on the mags was you could file down the tab of M1A/M14 mags and they worked perfectly. Had plenty of those so no spendy proprietary mags to buy.

I had one and can highly recommend them. I found it to be surprisingly accurate, but no doubt that was in large part due to better quality 308 than the usual x39 steel case Russian I put thru x39. If you run accross one that is still configured with the thumbhole at a deal, jump on it. I sold mine since I bought a Galil in x51 and it is the best of all worlds IMO. Much better ergos than the M77 though I didnt bench it the M77 to compare accuracy. Seems close enough. If you get a deal on a Galil in x51.....really jump on it.

Midway USA. And they qualify for free shipping @ $50+ https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1021435015?pid=803179 Now that pandemic fueled shortages are turning to excess stockpiles, nice to see some nice deals coming back. Unfortunate we started a deals section at a point when events caused all sales to disappear.

I think there is a positive in this that may go unappreciated. This could have gone a number of ways at the point the original screws were successfully removed and new non factory screws installed with one broken off. I am not hearing that S&W questioned a number of things here, and are instead standing behind their product in good faith. As unfond of S&W one might want to be because of turnaround and diminished QC for throughput necessary to meet high demand , sounds like they are taking care of it without a hassle. Sounds like as much of a win as one could get given the situation. FWIW, I’d be willing to bet if it were a couple other companies I won’t name, they would have responded much differently, possibly with some finger pointing. Sorry Mr. Dave, but I trust you’ll get a outcome your happy with. Good luck!

How many amendments have banned guns (yet anyway)? Alcohol? Prohibition history pretty much answers it I think. Good example of effects of widespread beliefs on an entire society. While not a prevalent, the same drivers exist to today, just more localized and 21st prevents them from going full nuts. You see it in other aspects as well, such as recent events in TX. Here that first part on guns is true, but in other states you cant sell without at least going thru a license holder. Prevailing majority opinion driven by ideology by region. But, you can consign liquor to a licensee for sale. Essentially the hoops that those people in gun hating states have to go thru are pretty much the norm for alcohol in most places. Welcome to a taste of blue state garbage, sucks right? Zealotry by geographic area is more diverse, maybe that is good. You can escape to some degree, but tradeoffs no doubt. More zealots hate alcohol as its to blame for mans woes, but they sure don't seem to have that same hate of guns. Heathen blue states have soccer moms to fill the void of do-gooders who want to impose their wills / beliefs on those things and people they see as evil or moral in danger. But those soccer moms drink like fish. So they usually don't like booze restrictions / blue laws. They are just looking out for your moral character and society's well being after all. I mean come one, if you could buy and sell anything freely, just think of all the bad you would be doing.

Come on now, don't y'all feel safer. Thank you TABC for protecting us! Seriously, this is rooted in something deeper than money. It all about control. The tax bit is just a surface item to pay for the enforcement. As pointed out there is not cut in these scenarios. Alcohol laws have a lot of history around social norms and their religion based drivers. In this case, they would go on about a licensee having he burden to ensure they are of age and so on. Keep you safe....whenever you here that garbage....its just someone wanting to control. This community completely relates to anti gun activity as govt over reach, politicians pandering to their majority. Maybe you have to be from one of the no blue law heathan states to appreciate it. Blue laws in the bible belt are just another form of government over reach imo. I was really blown away by things like dry counties and finding out I could not get certain beverages shipped to me here. Or that you cant buy a car on a Sunday. Folks love to weaponized their belief systems onto others if they can get a quorom on like minded together. Its not human nature to live and let live. We must save you from yourself. Whether that be guns or alcohol or whatever.

Here is something of a family heirloom item. My dad bought this at Fort Ord in '74 or '75 . I came into possession of this bottle in 2018 after my father passed. As part of my childhood, I am glad its not one of the items the step family stole as they worked over his possessions before we got down there. Some keen eye will notice scotch tape around the cap. Yes, there is a story. First the pic for those that dont care to know that story. My parents like to have cocktail parties. Thought it was cute to have me try things. My dad really liked bourbon and 7's. So I got that taste way to early on. Around 1980 I started going thru their booze cabinet after school. It was just regular stuff, noting special. I would eye that beam bottle that sat with a couple other bottles on a display shelf. I had the sense they were off limits so avoided them. Thinking it was just that they were just really into league bowling back when we lived on base years before. But the curiosity of 14 to 15 year old me couldn't take it. Why was it special other than the novelty bottle, which I didnt understand at the time. So 40ish years ago I cracked that bottle open. Smelled it. Didn't smell special. Realized better (waaaay to late!), and put the cap back on without having any. Then of course, dumped in my pants because I realized that I had broken the seal. Well, you cant see it from the front I thought, so I should be good because because I didnt take any and the level of full. Just a few days later I found out just how wrong that thinking was. Mom noticed it dusting since she dusts under things (didnt think of that). And the words, "just wait till your dad gets home". I had not seem dad that PO'd and I got it pretty good. He put that tape around the neck and told me in no uncertain terms what would happen to me if that tape ever showed being tampered with. Apparently these were also something that he had run into back in Vietnam so that was part of the reason he got one later, not just that they were into bowling at the time. Tape is still intact 40 years on. Any value it have had as a collectible was destroyed by me all those years ago as a teen. My wish was that when we landed out here in 2018, we would finally open it in enerst. But unfortunately he passed 6 weeks prior to my arriving. My next trip down to South GA, I plan to take this with me at pour one out at the grave site now that probate and the mess down there is finalized.

Good scotch or the $40 kind? joking. I love me some monkey shoulder. Next time someone is at Trader Joes, great bottle for $30 Only $50ish at Total wine for the 1.75l

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Best of luck with your test result. While I agree the media / drug company driven fear around exposure is overdone, appreciate your concern around being an unwilling spreader and trying to ensure you aren't that guy.