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Looks like the feds found bupkis. I'm just happy he didn't exercise the right to defend himself and his property against this act of aggression. http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/2014/06/19/valrico-agents-fbi-explosives-guns-weapons-search-prepper-doomsday-winters-daughters-glasser-wtsp/10904077/
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A winning formula can last for a long time, but eventually you gotta change or die. Harley actually reminds me of Smith & Wesson a bit. S&W revolvers which built the company, are still top notch and their wonder nines were solid as well. But without the diversification into the polymer pistols and the AR's over recent history, they would be a dying company falling into niche market status. It is time for HD to innovate or get left behind.
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Not at all, employers should be completely free to employ or not whomever they wish for whatever reasons they wish. But the next bit of that paragraph that you conveniently ignored already answered your question. Mere possession or use of an item does not necessarily result in an inability to function in life. Just as some folks can drink responsibly, some folks can use other intoxicants responsibly. I am stating that drug possession and other mala prohibita "crimes" aren't really crimes at all and should not result in a felony conviction. Mala prohibita IS mala en se. Putting a gun in someone's face is a choice. While addiction may be a reason someone chooses to do it, it isn't an excuse for the action and does not absolve someone from the consequences of that choice. Now, as far as the big gulp goes, the Bloombergs of the world say that obesity is a public health issue that has costs to society as a whole. Folks who are obese consume more health care. That raises insurance rates. Also, the poor tend to have higher rates of obesity. That means the government picks up their health care costs. In my view, if the government is picking up the tab, that means the government is sticking a gun in lots of folks' faces demanding the money in the form of taxation. So if you want to go down that road, what's worse? An individual putting one gun in one person's face and taking the risk of getting their just due in the form of an armed citizen defending themselves, or a group of people accountable to nearly no one sticking lots of guns in lots of people's faces and killing those who resist? You know my pick. All that to say that once again, you attempt to dodge the question. Justify the prior restraint on the individual's liberty that you advocate. What is the moral basis for denying someone the ability to make choices (even bad ones) for themselves that are not a direct aggression on another human being?
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Of those burglars, thieves and armed robbers, how many of them were locked out of the legitimate job market due to convictions for possession? Can you begin to guess at that number? Many folks can do the illicit drug of their choice on a recreational basis and maintain themselves as a productive member of society just as many people can drink alcohol and not end up on skid row hustling for spare change in front of Walgreens. The difference between the two is that if someone is a drunk they don't get thrown in jail on felony possession charges for having a 40 in a paper bag. That aside, I am still waiting for an explanation on how it is morally justified to tell someone what they can or cannot choose to personally ingest into their own body. I seem to remember lots of folks getting all up in arms about Bloomberg attempting to ban big gulps.
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Yes because treating a health issue as a law enforcement issue has been sooooo effective thus far. :lol: give me a ####in break. :lol: :lol: :lol: I have still yet to see how anyone can make a cogent moral case for exercising prior restraint on an individual's liberty because of what they "might" do at some point to abuse it. "Drugs are bad and will ruin your life, so if I catch you with them I will arrest you, throw you in jail, and ruin your life," has never made a damn lick of sense to me. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
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Well, ain't this a whole new wrinkle. http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/drug-war-blowback-vegas-murderers-were-police-informants/
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I like it. Good on Harley Davidson for not just sitting on their asses and churning out the exact same thing year after year. I'd like to see this actually show up in showrooms.
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Supreme Court Decision Yesterday!
Chucktshoes replied to Sidewinder's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
I recall reading about the addition at one point in an article that had the basic gist of your last post in that it was a question that the law doesn't address and that the ATF was basically making law by asking it. I very well may be mistaken, but I don't think so and am trying to track it down. I can't seem to find any scanned versions of the 4473 that predate the internet era. I believe the time frame for the addition of 11a was sometime during the Reagan administration. -
Supreme Court Decision Yesterday!
Chucktshoes replied to Sidewinder's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
I'm trying to track down what year it was that it was added, but question 11a was not always on the form. It was a later addition by the ATF. -
Walgreens Pharmacist Fired
Chucktshoes replied to spikehunter's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
I recently left walgreens after seven years with them as an assistant manager. I too was subject to and understood their no firearms policy. I carried every single day. I understood that were I to ever need to use my gun that I would be looking for a new job. I was ok with that as hopefully, I would still be alive to look for one. For those of you saying you won't go back to shop at Walgreens anymore, good. Not because of this, but because it is a terrible, terrible dishonest and unethical company that treats its people worse than any group of evil bastards I have ever had the displeasure of working for. There are plenty of reasons not to shop there. They are a terrible company run by terrible people. If one day they made the national news because somebody snapped and went full in postal at corporate headquarters I would understand and wonder what took so long. -
USPSA cheating scandal breaking.
Chucktshoes replied to Chucktshoes's topic in Competitive Shooting Sports
Haha, well it is the Doodie Project after all. It isn't for everyone, that's for sure. -
http://doodieproject.invisionzone.com/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F1758-huge-uspsa-cheating-scandal%2Fpage-6 Halfway down the page, post 112 lays out the details. It appears that Paul Hendrix is involved in some activities that can possibly have a serious impact on all of the individually timed shooting sports. This might just be a really big deal.
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I wish him success in his future endeavors.
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"What are you so afraid of that you have to carry a gun?"
Chucktshoes replied to daddyo's topic in General Chat
The course of the day's events may necessitate that I shoot somebody. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD -
Permitless carry in vehicle
Chucktshoes replied to TripleDigitRide's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
[quote name="Dustbuster" post="1159335" timestamp="1402861614"]Do yourself a favor though keep it out of plain sight to avoid being drawn down on during a traffic stop or accident. I just hope Voldemort or the like don start riding around looking to test this :-/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.[/quote] Oh, he will. Of that I have no doubt whatsoever. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD -
Is there any way to do something about that? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: (I have much lower impulse control than you do broox.)
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Point of correction. The French were instrumental in providing support to the colonists in their fight. The likelyhood of success without that help would have been very slim. Much of the help was provided through unofficial back channels as overt help from the French Monarchy would have cause full out war with England. Still, the French used the 1st American War of Independence as a proxy war against England much the same way we armed and assisted the Mujihadeen in Afghanistan against the Russians.
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Hey, multiple threads are just more opportunities to argue about the same subject. :rant: :rant: :rant: :rofl:
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About threw up while coming back from St. Louis into Illinois.
Chucktshoes replied to Wyldk2's topic in General Chat
[quote name="Oh Shoot" post="1158267" timestamp="1402619505"]Maybe you saw exit for Barack Obama [i]Avenue[/i] in East St. Louis? There's also a BHO [i]Boulevard[/i] in St. Louis somewhere too. There is a BHO [i]Parkway[/i] in Orlando, though. All presidents get lots of stuff named for them. Bet none of them beat Martin Luther King in total number though. - OS[/quote] If you ever find yourself on MLK, don't pull over and stop because you are in the wrong part of town. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD -
[URL]http://c4ss.org/content/28140?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+c4ss+%28Center+for+a+Stateless+Society%29[/URL] Here is another article with a slightly different perspective than the one I posted before. Still from anarchist position but offering a different a view.
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It sounds like a gas issue to me. As in no gas. If it is not even attempting to eject, it is getting little to no gas. I have a sneaking suspicion that gas block to port misalignment is the issue. Is it the set screw gas block? The gas block may have shifted and if it is hidden under the handguards, you may not have noticed.
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[quote name="TMF" post="1157712" timestamp="1402521522"]AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! Blasphemy!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk[/quote] I like my whisky Irish or Scotch in origin. That Tennessee and Kentucky shit, y'all can keep it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
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They're both garbage, so who cares?
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M&P Shield will be released with no thumb safety
Chucktshoes replied to maroonandwhite's topic in Handguns
No street date just yet. Details were leaked early. I would expect it to start hitting stores in the near future. -
M&P Shield will be released with no thumb safety
Chucktshoes replied to maroonandwhite's topic in Handguns
My understanding is that it isn't that the thumb safety was a source of any problems, they are just responding to the customer's desires for a model without a thumb safety. I've been planning on buying one but just haven't gotten around to it yet. I was just going to remove the thumb safety and put a plug in the hole, but this will now save me the trouble.