Jonnin

anyway, its another of her red herrings.   I do not think such a stock has been used in a crime to date.  If they were easy to use and useful for actual combat, the smarter gangs and criminals would have them, or even the mass shooter nuts, most of those may be nuts but they prepare well enough.

  It is likely to have a higher % of antiques / milsurp and its a smallish building.   Its not well suited for a gun show panic crowd of noobs.  I may wander by but if its crowded I will be going right back home.

does this mean I won't be getting daily whines for more money in my email for a few weeks?

I am sure it is more dangerous.   And I certainly am not saying the bafte is reasonable.   I could even accept a free set of papers and a no-charge conversion of the stock to NFA if other demands were met, for example dismiss all other bans/complaints against semi auto rifles including the mag limit.

I disagree.   If the idiot at sandy hook had had my bumpfire rifle, he would have had 2 choices.  1) try to keep it running (again, a push pull action) while waving it in an arc trying to hit everything in say a 60 degree cone in front of him (about 1 classroom worth).   Likely result: gun stops firing due to the 3 way motion (push, pull, and sweep, very difficult to maintain).   2) fire bursts at each target: likely result: dead kids hit 3-5 times each, identical to what he  did.   If he had had a true m16, the sweep would be much easier to do: hold down trigger and spray.  Likely result: many hit once quicky, move to another room to repeat.   Yes, it makes sense to call the bumpfire a machinegun like item.  Fine.  The BAFTE disagrees however, and THAT Is a MAJOR point.

some of these countries, its only a murder if the victim is "important" (sometimes that means male, sometimes that means well to do, etc).  Even here in the states a number of homeless/very poor/ mentally ill/ etc "vanish". 

obama can provide any insurance we need, let HIM take care of it.

I like to recommend a turret press.  It can morph into a single stage if you want, or it can speed up the process if you need bulk ammo that goes bang. Its a little more than a single stage but worth the money if you think speed over quality is useful.

My best advice would be to read the web on how to make competition ammo for bullseye.  There are tips and tricks galore if you read up.    No one can tell you what is best for your pistol.  Even 2 of the same type will be different, though someone may get you closer if they have the same model.   All I will say on it is to be flexible and open your mind.   It could be that a 90 grain bullet is the best in your pistol.  Or a 140.  Or anything else.  It could be that brand X powder is a better choice than brand Y with your equipment.   It could be that you need a load so light you need to put in a light recoil spring, or so hot you put in a heavy spring --- the best load is what it is and if a $10 spring lets you make a 1/2 inch group at 50 yards, you buy the spring.     Also, consider this: powder is measured.  Well, that was profound, was it not?  But all measurements are subject to error.   If your scale is accurate to 0.1 grains, then you cannot mess with 0.05 grain increments to try to tweak a load.   If your powder is measured by volume, airspace in flaky powders can vary some amount, and so on.   The hotter the powder, the more errors hurt you.  If your load is 3 grains of hot powder, vs 5 grains of slow powder, the .1 error from that scale will produce a tighter group int the 5 grain powder because 5 vs 5.1 is a smaller error than 3 vs 3.1 --- the .1 is a bigger % of the total, you see?   For high accuracy, everything has to be done precisely.  If you have your powder load down to the 0.001 grain but your OAL is all over the place, your ammo will still suck.  If you use bubbas bulk bullits that vary 5 grains from the lowest to the highest, your ammo will suffer.  If you weigh each bullet, and only load the ones that weigh exactly X for your precision ammo, it will do better.   If you crimp randomly, the ammo will perform randomly.  Etc.   Good luck with it.  It is very rewarding but very frustrating and time consuming at the same time.

Well, the warning points seem like they were applied after a rule change --- timeline, he posts, new rule created, he is warned over it?   I could see a valid complaint about the warning points.   However, due to his bad behavior (more to follow) I also would not remove them if I were in charge, just on general principles.    No apology is needed --- guy came here trying to rip off his fellows and if anyone needs an apology, its the members here from this seller.   And trying to shift the blame for his bad rep onto David is a sick joke:  the reason no one likes him is he tried to rob people, not because he has a warning point.   Duh.   I support David and honestly he has a lot more patience than I do.

Ok that was a serious brain meltdown. My numbers were all wrong and I have no excuse nor do I know what I was thinking about lol.   Its 2, not .2,  and I have no idea how the wrong number got in me head.    And the average seems to be 4 MOA.    on that note I better go to bed, if I am that far gone.

Better than most of his speeches but he is too dry and pulls his punches too much.  He should have at least pointed out that anti gunners have prevented the eddie eagle program in many schools, and that the ACLU and other liberals prevent mental health disclosure in some states which guts NICS. 

For 200 - 300 yards a 223 is a good choice, ammo is cheap and the caliber will put it there accurately, and it is a low recoil round so you can shoot all day.  It will teach you much on a windy day even at 300 yards.   Red dots, the dots usually fill some MOA.  The cheaper ones are 1 MOA and that means at 300 yards the BEST you can do is a 3 inch group because the darn dot covers that big an area on your target!   Being bright, it probably really covers 1.25 MOA from the light effect.   A crosshair on a standard scope, magnified 7X or so, would allow for a much better group at that range.   Red dots are for 100 yards or less rapid target acquisition and action shooting up close.   My expensive red dot on my pistol is .2 MOA and its pretty good at 50 yards and probably would be decent at 150 yards on a rifle if it had magnification, but a scope is still a better choice for that IMHO.  If you do want a dot, get the smallest you can afford.

  Got a comtrust credit union near?  Ours does not have a gunbuster, and it took me 4 days last year to refinance (they had the original loan though, might speed it along).  I dunno if they offer credit card services to businesses, and no clue if they would do it for a gun company.  I suspect they would not discriminate.

  Protip: do not get the name of a living person put on you next time!

How much you clean it aside, I was trying to answer the cost of brass question, which is the only difficult part of the question, since it can vary from brand new brass for each and every bullet to free brass picked out of the dirt.  When I gave a middle path example of dirty once fired brass (the most common stuff for sale online), the dirty was unrelated apart from the fact that a few people will clean it for you and charge you a little more for the "service".  Some will prime if for you as well, and also charge a premium.      I can't tell any difference between loading a 9mm and a 380 as far as difficulty.  I have fairly thin & nimble fingers though. 

But was she shot in the back 30 times with a rifle?  No.  Once with a pistol, from the sound of it.      Senseless violence of any kind is senseless.  I hope they catch the shooter.    But if she had not just been at the big block party for our glorious leader, would it even have made the news?  Just another day in that lawless, corrupt city.

Now lets talk about other calibers.  380 was $15-18 a box, I can make it for $3-4 with lead or $5-6 with jacketed.   Other higher priced rounds like 44 mag, 10mm, or obscure rifle rounds save a TON.  My mauser runs me at the cheapest nearly $1 per shot if I buy it.  I can make it for a fraction of that, not sure the exact number off the top of my head but its nowhere near a buck a shot!!!

Depends on the caliber, a LOT.    But lets take a standard 9mm.  1 pound of powder was $20.  That is 7000 grains, easily 1000 rounds for a fat powder or 2000 rounds for a hot powder, but let us say you picked a fat one. 1000 primers was $30.   Cases are tricky --- mine were all free, picked them up off the ground.   Also, each case can be used many, many times for typical handguns.   So while buying 1000 new shiny cases would be pricy, buying 200 and reloading each 5 times is a lot less, see?  Or getting free cases off the ground...  but lets go middle of the road here and say you bought 500 dirty "once fired" cases online for $30 bucks or something and reloaded each case twice.   FMJ bullets were about $40 for 500, or $80 for 1000.    So you are looking at  160 bucks for 1000 rounds.  Or 100 rounds for 16 bucks, and a box of 50 for 8 bucks.   The bottom shelf junk ammo at that time was $10 a box, $12 for brass cased decent stuff, roughly, so a modest savings here.     However with lead bullets and free brass, the costs plummet.   I can make 50 9mm for $5 or less per box if I buy lead bullets and have free brass.  They can be made cheaper still if you cast your own and have a source of free or very cheap lead.  You can also use lighter bullets; it does not *have* to be a 120 grain bullet, the cost increases by weight.....

  "Republicans" in NY are 100% responsible for the PASSAGE of their new gun law last month.

  Oh but they DO.   Its a no questions asked payday that destroys the evidence for you if your gun has been used in a shooting.   You can also, if you plan ahead, steal some guns to turn in so you can buy some more meth.   I would bet that in the major ghettos, these buybacks net any number of stolen guns, some of which may have been used for harm.   And they also net all sorts of junkers from people wanting to make a buck.  And the rest are turn ins from idiots that do not know what they have --- hey, this is a great time to get rid of great great grandads revolver so the kids don't get hurt, derp.

mmm I want a 44, may have to take a look.

the slide issue:  at home, as noted, you can have it ready to go and should never have to rack the slide.     But you were not going to just load up a gun, hang it by the door and leave it at that, were you?!  No, surely you were going to take the lady to the range and have her shoot it at least once a month so she has the confidence, skills, and familarity with the gun to use it if need be.   Part of the confidence bit is being able to load and operate it without a man standing there to do it for you.    There are ways to rack the slide on even the toughest guns without relying on brute strength.   If you show these to the shooter and have her practice them, it will not be an issue.   She should also be able to load up the magazines, and there are tools for this if it is too hard (some normal capacity guns have stout mags).   I have to use the "women's method" or whatever you call it (as opposed to the slingshot method) on my 44, that thing has the mother of all recoil springs.   As I get older I will probably have to do it on some of the stouter 9s too.  Its a good thing to know, for anyone --- there is nothing sacred about using brute force on everything.

Its a pretty neat design, would love to see how it manages 4 moving parts.     I don't get the 2 shot derringer thing though.  To gain just a tiny bit of size reduction you give up 4 or more shots & the ability to reload normally (spare mag) over the modern tiny 9mms.   I am all about going smaller up to a point but diminishing returns here... giving up too much for too little space, for me.   If someone gets one I want to try it though, I think it would be a hoot in 45.

I am a big fan of the turret press as well.   As someone said, if you still have your gear, it has not gone bad so use what you have and buy more if you NEED it.   Turrets really shine on pistol as you do not have to take the brass off the press from start to end.  Necked (a few pistols, but rare) cases have to come off to be trimmed and make the turret less useful, but for like 9mm,  spent (clean) case goes on and a ready to shoot round comes off, in just a few seconds.