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Interesting. I thought the weight limit only applied to modified guns. IPDA has way too many rules.

All that's necessary to ban bump stocks is for the ATF to change the rules. There is no legislation or voting inherent in that process. The ATF publishes proposed rule change for public comment. Then they publish a final rule. "Public comment" doesn't mean anything anyone says will cause them to modify the proposed rule, its merely the time period in which they're obligated to accept comments. They are in no way obligated to act on those comments. https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations

How is it not legal for IDPA?

Stick with it. It's unpleasant, bit worth it.

Same as the "when children are present" school zone speed limit signs. How am I supposed to know "when children are present" when my kids don't go to that school? And what exactly does "present" mean? When they're outside, in the building, or what? I think the laws are intentionally vague to permit selective enforcement.

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https://www.atf.gov/questions-and-answers/qa/how-may-unlicensed-person-receive-firearm-his-or-her-state-he-or-she

A classic.

You have to take/send the gun to an FFL in their state to accomplish the transfer, or have an FFL here send it to an FFL there.

He and Kane would make a fun pair.

Cashe of seized weapons is my guess. Looks like a grenade launcher in the box.

Yes, very reasonably priced and 20 mins from the house. That's hard to beat. One of the instructors is a coworker and I attended with another coworker. We tried to talk a 3rd into coming, but he had family stuff to attend to.

I attended a training class held by T3 Concepts here locally. http://www.t3concepts1776.com/ I really enjoyed it. Sad as it may be to admit, I haven’t had any formal training in years. My primary take-away is that I’ve gotta practice more. Even 5-10 minutes at the house drawing, gripping, reloading, and failure drills a couple times/week would help. I’ve read several books and practice stuff on my own occasionally, but for me, there’s no comparison to having an instructor hovering over your shoulder with a shot timer in his hand. Which isn’t to imply the instructor (James) put a lot of pressure on the students, quite the opposite. The instruction was clear, friendly, encouraging, and generally pretty laid back. Options were presented for several techniques and the students could to pick what they liked best. It was definitely not a “my way or the highway” sort of environment (unless it was safety related…). The class was called “fundamental handgun” and that’s exactly what it was, solid fundamental instruction with simple drills to reinforce good habits. We started with basic draw stroke and grip, then moved to maximum accuracy. I learned that when the instructor says “take all the time you need to be as accurate as possible”, that’s exactly what he means. Three shots in 6 seconds isn’t slow. Three shots in 30 seconds is slow. Focus on the front sight during recoil and adjust your grip pressure until it tracks straight up/down. Don’t break the trigger until the sights areexactly where you want them. That’s harder than it sounds. From there we worked to build speed. Watching how group sizes open up and fundamentals break down as you increase speed from slow, to fast, to too fast, was clearly demonstrated. If you don’t push yourself into the “too fast” realm, you’ll never get faster. We also covered reloading techniques, which convinced me to change how I carry spare mags and that I should carry one more often. We also did some failure drills with simulated FTE and double feeds. Stripping a flush fit mag that’s jammed with a double feed is a pain. Having to do that while someone was shooting back would really suck. Virtually all my misses were low-left. I now know why it happens and how to fix it (grip pressure), but actually fixing it will take time and practice. At the beginning of class they were 6” low-left, at the end of class they were 3” low-left. That was encouraging. I’d really like to take this class again, maybe 2 more times before moving up to the next level. T3 also offers an intermediate level class that is going to be changed slightly and called “everyday carry”. I’d like to take that, their medical class, and send my wife to their women’s class.

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Happy birthday! Best of luck with surgery. Do the rehab, it hurts but it helps.

Sometimes you just can't fix stupid.

Any other general recommendations? I've been considering cameras with a DVR system for a while. Are the wireless cameras reasonably secure? I've heard the stories... I was also considering POE cameras as the locations I've got in mind are reasonably accessible.

No reason you can't till a raised bed, I do. Use a board as a ramp and drive the tiller up in there. Turning around can be pain, but it's doable. I'd till the area before building the bed, build it, add the dirt and stuff, then till it again. It takes a few years to make good dirt.

Paging @dralarms...

Yep. Set the tiller for the max depth and let 'er eat. Pile it over with leaves in the fall and till them in too. It'll take a few years. Edit... you can also send in soil samples for testing. Tell them what you want to grow and they'll tell you how to amend the soil. https://ag.tennessee.edu/spp/Pages/soiltesting.aspx

Make your own.... amend the dirt with mushroom (or home-made) compost and sand, about 50/50 until it drains well enough, then just compost. Ashes are typically good to add as well.

Right turn Clyde!

If only it was illegal to break the law....

Because "assault style rifles" were already less than 1% of their sales. It's a PR move with no impact to their bottom line. Whatever sales they lose from one side they'll likely gain double from the other. Similar to the wedding cake company not selling to a gay couple. SCOTUS has already ruled that to be discrimination. We'll see if those 18-20 will be considered a protected class.

I can't like this enough times. I was standing in line for BBQ on Sunday and a lady behind me had a diabetes dog, at least that's what the vest said. I overheard her telling another lady that the dog can sense her blood sugar drop about 10 minutes before she can, which I don't doubt. Except that the dog wasn't paying her any mind at all, it was wandering around getting petted by whoever would pay attention to it. She even said "yeah, he doesn't act like much of a service dog, but we're working on that." How/where did you get a "service dog" that isn't trained to act like a service dog? On the flip side, one of my kids' scout leaders has a PTSD dog that's also in K9 training. He was an infantry medic in the sandbox so yeah, no issue there.