Dolomite_supafly

Come hang out sometime, I am welding on stuff pretty regularly. I am far from a professional but I can lay a bead and you can use anything I have.

I bet he will throw out the "I was bullied" defense.

But why risk it. If you are arrested I can guarantee you will be out thousands of dollars in legal fees, even if it goes in your favor. Anyone going in front of a judge without a lawyer standing next to them will likely have a very bad day. I know I wouldn't go in front of a judge for anything without having an attorney present, especially if I was accused of breaking a law. Even if you are in the clear your arrest will always show up in a background unless you pay thousands to have it expunged. Another thing, any cop that shows up will not let you try to convince them the sign is wrong if they believe you have broken the law. Most cops will not know what the correct language of the sign so to them you will have violated the law by walking past the sign. Now a lot of cops will probably just tell you to leave but all it takes is one and you will be hauled away in handcuff, starting your long expensive process of proving the sign was wrong and that you were in the right for carrying past a sign whose intent is quite clear. To a jury of 12 you will be painted as a renegade gun owner who willingly violated the intent of the law despite being in compliance with the letter of the law. Best case scenario you will be out thousands, worst case you will be out your freedom and when you get out of jail you will not be the same person as when you went in. My freedom is not worth the risk of walking past any posting and my money is more valuable than to give it to someone who doesn't allow me to protect myself.

Regardless of what the sign says or even if there is a sign you cannot carry on someone else's property against their permission. The property owner can dictate what conditions must be met in order to be on their property. They can say only Nerf guns are allowed or that you must wear a pink tutu and you must abide by their wishes if you want to enter. Property owner rights trump any rights a visitor might think they have on the property, including the right to free speech.

7.62x25 Tokarev is what the cartridge reminds me of. I have a lot of time with the x25 and believe it would make one of the best self defense calibers in a modern pistol design. This one is a bit hotter than the x25. If you haven't looked at the x25, take a serious look at it because it will do a lot of what this one will at a fraction of the cost. At one time you could buy drop in x25 barrels for 1911's chambered in 38 super. In order to reduce felt recoil they have to add mass to the gun. It looks heavy so that might be how they are doing it. 880 ft pounds of energy with felt recoil of a 45ACP is a pretty neat trick if they indeed pulled it off.

Get yourself one of the many "braces" being introduced and get the same result but with it being accurate. The Shockwave brace is about the best one out there. Shockwave, as well as a few others, are introducing a "brace" that is adjustable and fits a standard collapsible buffer tube. I would rather have an accurate "pistol" with a "brace" I can shoulder than a smoothbore that is nothing but a noise maker. They have taken a modern firearm back a few centuries and charge a premium to do it. I keep looking at the calendar and trying to figure out if today is the first day of April because there is no way they can be serious about selling that. But fools will separated from their cash quite easily if they think they can stick it to "the man". To say an 11.5" barrel is only good to 50 yards anyway is idiotic. He is obviously either a lousy shot or catering to others who are lousy shots. I can promise you that most people can shoot better than 4" at 50 yards with a rifled 11.5" barrel. I guess that standard for what is accurate has really dropped. To me this is nothing more than a gimmick to pry the cash from those afraid that our government plans on taking their firearms. But even so this isn't free from the standard process of buying a firearm. It is still regulated like any other firearm. If they ever outlaw certain firearms I would put my money that NFA items will be the last to be taken, machine guns are the case and point. Machine guns have been illegal to manufacture for over 30 years and are illegal to own or possess without being properly registered before the 1986 ban yet they remained during the AWB and will likely remain long after all other guns are banned. None of the national firearm bans have affected NFA items in the least so dare I say it but the $200 stamp is also protection against the government taking your NFA item. I remember a manufacturer trying to get around this by producing a straight rifled barrel, I think it was the Taurus when they were getting approval to produce the Judge, and the ATF opined that "rifling" without a twist was still considered rifling. I bet Taurus is pissed over this recent opinion. They wanted the Judge to be a .410 pistol rather than a 45 LC pistol that happens to shoot .410. Imagine how different the Judge would be if it did have a smoothbore.

My doctor allows firearms in his office, most times he is carrying one. And he DOES take Medicare.

Why spend money at a business that does not believe you have a right to defend yourself with a firearm? Take your money elsewhere.

Just because someone retires doesn’t mean they are cut off or have no friends still in the industry. And someone who had spent their lifetime in an industry does so because they enjoy it, not because it is just a job to them. I was in government contracting for only three years but I still talk to friends about the industry regularly 10 years later. If we continue to minimize and blow off potential attacks to our freedoms we have no hope of success. Our representatives are not pro 2A, they are unwilling to do anything for us despite being able to make more advancements than we have ever seen. And a lot of my fellow members are perfectly fine with letting our gun rights be taken, without objection, so long as what is being taken isn't being taken out of their own safe. I would trust this guy more than the NRA to advise on ATF matters. The NRA has helped most of the anti gun legislation get passed in the last 50 years.

I misquoted the definition, it is a single “function” of the trigger.

Wonder when someone develops a “machine gun” that only fires when the trigger is released or pushed? After all the definition specifically mentions a single PULL of the trigger.

I doubt that. I believe that most people who vote republican these days vote only because of the "R" next to their name on the ballot, not because they like what they are doing. And if conservative voters do not like what a candidate is doing they just stay home, and pout like a two year old, instead of actually doing something to effect change. Very few voters know anything about those they elect or where they stand on the issues, again they vote according to the letter next to their name. The representatives we have elected have no desire to do anything to help gun owners. They could easily do things to help gun owners and conservative values but they won't because they just want to lay low until after the mid terms. They will not take a chance on loosing votes from both conservative as well as from liberal voters. I recently read an article where the republicans were trying to figure out a way to win over liberal voters and I think this is one of the things they are doing to get more liberal voters to keep them in office. But it really doesn't matter because, as I said earlier, Democrats and Republicans are different sides of the same coin. They both want to control us and will use force to ensure they have that control. In New Jersey citizens are going to become felons overnight for possessing a bump stock and that was put in place by Chris Christie, a person that a lot of people propped up on a pedestal as a conservative Republican. But he is not the only one, Paul Ryan is also a turn coat who refuses to do anything to forward our gun rights or conservative values at all. I could keep going down the list of members of Congress and say the same for the majority of those who claim to be conservative. If I could make one change to our voting system it would be to remove party affiliation from the ballot. That way people would hopefully vote for those that best represent them and their individual values instead of voting along party lines. But most people would be against that because they are too stupid or too lazy to actually research those they are voting for. Do you think it is a coincidence that any ban that will go into effect will go in effect AFTER mid terms? They did it intentionally so voters will have already voted and so most voters will have forgotten about, or gotten used to the idea of, the ban by the time the 2020 elections come around. The time frame was planned to gather the largest amount of votes. Look at how easily definitions are going to be changed, without a vote, to turn a law abiding citizens into criminals overnight because they own a firearm accessory. Any, and every, law can be changed by changing the definition of what it affects and they can do so without so much as a vote.

I have been doing something similar for a while now. I go to Home Depot and buy a strip of metal that is as wide as the door is thick. It is ~4' long. I drill holes about 6" apart then make a hole for the dead bolt. I then screw the metal strip into the door frame. Only way to kick the door in is to kick the entire door frame out.

I came out early saying the NRA was throwing us to the wolves. I was mocked, ridiculed and told I wasn't smart enough to know what was going on. I was told it is just a stock, what does it matter. Well now we are going to see how broad this is going to be because the NRA got involved. The NRA wants turmoil in the gun community because it generates revenue. That is why they asked the ATF to review this, because it generates turmoil and income. Time and time again the NRA has taken a side counter to their members. If you are a member of the NRA, leave. Join another group because the NRA is no longer pro gun, they are in business to make money and turmoil in the gun industry makes them money. The NRA has been instrumental in every single law passed restricting our gun rights and this one is no different. Those we have elected have no desire to represent those who elected them. They refuse to listen to us and do not care what we have to say. They will not take a stand either way because they want any vote they can get, even at the cost of OUR Constitutional rights. We have a super majority yet we cannot get one single thing done that is positive for gun owners. National reciprocity, I can promise you that is never going to happen and to be honest why do we want the federal government involved in state issues. All they are doing is passing laws to further restrict our rights. Those we have elected are nothing more than 80's Democrats. They are weak kneed pansies and should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen to our country. Imagine if our founding fathers were so week kneed. Send emails and makes calls to your representative to let them know you are going to vote them out of office. They only care about remaining in office so when you threaten that they will act. If they do not listen then back up your threat and vote for anyone other than an incumbent. WE MUST COME TOGETHER OR WE WILL BE LEFT STANDING ALONE. We are getting closer to the tree of liberty having a growth spurt.

We MUST come together, if we don't we shall all be criminals at some point.

Here is an ATF employee discussing the plans on how the ATF is going to use the bump stock ban to affect ALL semi autos. We have "conservative" leaders who are going along with this. We have a super majority in Washington and they could end this instantly but they refuse to. Washington I s corrupt and broke, they no longer work for the people. There is also no grandfather clause either, legal one day then you are a felon the next unless you turn it in. They are trying to set an arbitrary rate of fire. Fire too fast and you are a felon even if you do not use any device. Sickening. NOW IS THE TIME TO STAND UP!

bumping this up. If nothing else I will make the trip to Nashville myself, need to meet some members there anyways.

Not going to be able to make it, still frozen in.

What time you leaving?

I have something that needs to go to Nashville, will gladly pay for your gas and time.

Just throwing out ideas, not saying it is fact. We shall see, perhaps it is the crack in the NFA dam that will lead to its collapse.

Here is one of the definitions of a "firearm" and my take on how they did it. § 5845(a)(4) — The term “Firearm” means a weapon made from a rifle if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length; § 5845(a)(4) — The term “Firearm” means a weapon made from a rifle, which this started out as because of the stock. if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches, because it is not required it doesn't apply. or a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length; This has a barrel of less than 16" . So if it starts life as a rifle and is then modified so is has a barrel less than 16" it becomes a firearm. No mention of the need to remove the stock or making it so it can't be shoulder fired. It just has to have a barrel of less than 16" OR (not and) an OAL of less than 26" to meet the definition of a "firearm". It is a modified "rifle" and has a barrel less than 16" . Now if it started life as a pistol and a stock was added it would not be a "firearm". If it was originally anything other than a "rifle" and it was modified it would not meet the definition above for a "firearm". Because it is modified from a "rifle" it meets the above definition of a "firearm". I believe they played the word game and won. Good for us is we can take any "rifle" and make this but if you built a "pistol" first, like we all do, then you cannot just add a stock.

Looking for some 2.3 Ford parts.

The only problems I have ever heard about is some of its pistol ammunition but that was at least a decade ago. PSA just had Federal 55 grain for $109/420 after rebate.

Name one ban import ban related to firearms or ammunition that has been lifted? There has been an import ban on Chinese ammunition and firearms, other than "sporting", since the 90's and it will remain that way until well after I am dead and gone. And since then we have had several presidents that could have reversed that but Bush decided to actually keep it in place and I bet the Don will too. If contend that if we can buy other Chinese goods then we should be able to buy all Chinese goods but it is our government who is deciding that stuff related to guns is verboten. They claim to do it in order to hurt them financially but if that were the case then we could ban the import/export of other things, instead of firearms and ammunition, and have a bigger impact. Our government is anti gun and they will continue to chip away, little by little, at our gun rights until we are left with nothing more than our fists to defend ourselves. If the metals market has bottomed out why is ammunition still climbing? Perhaps it is because manufacturers know that is what the market will bear. When cheap ammunition goes that will only increase the price those manufacturers can charge. If our government lifted ammunition bans from every country in the world the ammunition market would tank and we would see prices drop to ridiculously low prices. The exact same thing has happened to the AR market, as startups flooded the market with cheap ARs the prices dropped. The same exact situation could happen with ammunition if those who purport to be our allies would lift the bans in place but I have a better chance of hitting the lottery.