Jonnin

The last rating I saw was too old to include those votes but showed a 10+ year list of A's. The actual NRA site is so poor, though, I found it elsewhere, could be wrong. I could not get the NRA site to cough up a rating to save my life.

Unless they are wealthy, ride it out. Full auto or bump fire or whatever, a few weeks of burning out 1k rounds of ammo at several hundred bucks a day will eventually grow tiresome to all but the most well off folks. I just got a bump-fire stock for an AR, and as soon as I have tested it and figured out how to use it, its going to be put away for special occasions only.... reloading that quantity of 223 or buying it is not for me. I had been on the fence for getting one for a while and found a used one marked "demo" that a store was letting go

yea but a 4th grader can't really understand it when you say it that way. The above was for the child.

1 grain is nothing. I do not know if the powder charges are different, but I cannot tell the difference between 90 and 95 grains in a 380, or 90 and 115 grains in a 9mm. The error in powder measure for mass produced ammo is going to have more effect than 1 grain of lead.

tell her the truth --- that school teachers are human and do not know everything. Then explain that global warming is very new and that the exact causes and effects are not known, and that her teacher has to give it her best guess but that you and many others think differently about it. In the end, she has to regurgitate whatever nonsense to pass. That is just how school, at every level from cradle to PHD and beyond, is.

You going to carry the LCR? If not, the S&W is better in every other way apart from concealment. The LCR is small and stout 38s are pretty rough shooting it, 357 is downright abusive, all it is good for is defense. So the only way *I* would trade them would be if planning to carry the LCR. If you want it that badly and would not use the S&W, or whatever other logic, if it makes sense to you, trade.

the point was, if you are sitting in or near poverty, would you take a pay cut to get off your backside in hopes that 5 years from now you might beat the handout level after a couple of "promotions"? You might be willing to do that, but many people would not. Throw in the person just scraping to get by, 2 kids and single parent, starts that job and gets a pay cut on top of now needing to pay daycare... that job still looking attractive? Also, some promotions are bad --- say the person gets in as a waiter, does great, gets promoted.... loses the tips, so the actual pay increase and promotion = actual net loss of income. That happened to me the last year I was a bag boy (thankfully just a for fun job as a kid) .... forced to promotion, I lost $10 an hour in tips to gain $2 an hour in wages, doh. I quit not long after. Basically, lot of things broken at the bottom of the barrel --- some folks, try as they might, just never get any traction, and give up. Its actually set up this way, to keep people in poverty, which encourages voting a certain way.....

2 thumbs up to some good engineering.

beretta nano is lefty if wanted. CZ 82 or 83 are very lefty friendly. Many striker fired guns and DAOs are, just look for reversible mag release and if it has it, it is fine. Revolvers in general are ok left unless you want to carry/speedload, then the release is on the wrong side. For a carry revolver, look for a break-top. They just don't get it. The mag release (or revolver release etc) is the #1 for a lefty carry gun. You can rack the slide to release it. You only hit the safety once and can wing it. But reloading is crucial to be left friendly because you are already in the fight and need to go fast at that point. Edit: forgot to say. Makarov! Mag drop is on the heel of the gun, its hand-neutral. Safety is useless, its a DA/SA gun and can be ignored. Slingshot the slide and its perfectly usable by a lefty. And the mak was my carry gun for over a decade, just moved on to better triggers and lighter frames the past couple of years.

I just used excel and saved it as a CSV so I can always import it into just about anything, at worst even notepad.

that almost sounds intentional .... no job intentionally to avoid the payments, bitter over the court results maybe? Seems fishy --- I know my share of lazy people but zero income is not sustainable, something going on there. That or no reported/legal income?....

I cannot use a LH rifle either, too many years of right handed junk. But I really like a LH pistol.

so, you are mad at the dad who, by extrapolation, can earn more money sitting on his can than by getting a crummy job? If I could get paid more for sitting at home, I probably would. Who would not, its logical to accept the best payment you can get, whatever the source. Double so if your work load is decreased while your income is increased: it would be idiotic to pass that up. The system is broken, yes. But I cannot blame someone for logically taking the best paying situation they can get. Fix the system, make the job more attractive than the handout, how hard can that be? Morality and right/wrong do not enter into it. Start throwing those around, and it comes back to the absolute wrongness of government taking money from anyone to give it to someone else --- that is the job of charity, not government, and once that enters the discussion, morality is already thrown in the trash: it is stealing, a sort of legal robin hood setup.

this is not the first case of LEOs being shot as they arrive. The cowboy that shot that guy .... the thug was ready for the police to arrive and had the LEO in a bad way before epic long range pistol skills took over. Also the guy that shot up the indian religious place was waiting and ambushed the responding officer. Seems to be a trend of blowing the place up then getting in position to take out the responders..... LEOs gonna have to be careful going in.

You are 100% correct. However in that same law all things that people do not NEED that are even remotely dangerous should also be banned including sports cars, swimming pools, pool tables, celluar phones, TVs, ..... well actually everything except food, clothing, and shelter is not NEEDED by anyone and should be banned because no one needs such a thing. Second, what assault rifles? Most civillians do not have a class 3 and even the ones who DO cannot get a modern assault rifle, only antiques. There are ZERO modern assault rifles in civiliian hands that you could ban ANY Mag for, because the guns do not exist. Try again?

If you are worried about it, and ultra paranoid, a virutal machine is about as bulletproof as you can make it. If you treat the VM like your real hardware PC (that is, virus scanner, router, secure browser settings, etc), then even if you do get something you can just kill the VM session and start again, the virus is gone. Only a couple of viruses have crossed from VM to host, most cannot do this. Another bulletproof trick is to use your older computer (whatever you last had before the current one) to browse, and do not browse with your real PC. A browser only computer gets infected, you restore it and ignore it, there is no real harm done. There are guidelines for making a secure computer for government work. I think anyone can read those? Take a look at some stuff like this... http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/casestudies/connecting-classified-network-internet-case-study_694

My ruger single 6 has signs of gas cutting on the bar over the cylinder.... I do not use it as much anymore. It is not dangerous yet but for a supposedly indestructable gun.... I think (not 100% sure) its the one I learned on, and has many, many thousands of rounds thru it.

All my guns would be left handed if possible. Far, far too many cannot be fixed. A pistol has to have the mag release, slide release, and safety release all on the left. Only a very, very few can do this --- my nano works because it has no safety or slide release and the mag drop is swappable.

I saw this on another forum. Many assume he had no holster, which is interesting. Maybe he did, maybe not, but it does not say. Could have worked loose in a pocket holster --- if you turned me upside down and shook long enough mine would eventually fall out too. Also curious what he had that went bang when dropped.... and did minor damage ..... thinking a .25 junk gun? (not all 25s are, but there are some).

Just a thought, but *presumably* the lightly loaded rounds that left no powder burns in the "suicide" ruling would have been on par with handloaded practice ammo, not handloaded SD ammo. IE if you handload at all, and someone in your home decides to off theyself, you could be in the same situation --- no matter what you pack into your carry gun. It just did not sound like a "carry gun" type situation to me from what little I read of it. It sounded like what would happen if you shot a cowboy action load or similar underpowered wadcutting plinker load.

Fair enough, I only did a quick search on her, and did not see the other offenses. With those on her record "anyone else" looks like a more reasonable answer after all. As noted I did not look hard at all, my recommendation was simply to review her record with the one bill ignored. For the record, the jab at religion ties in because the original posted article had several remarks on that subject. I stand by it: laws that enforce religion and/or morality are as bad as gun control. And quasi-off topic so I will leave it at that. Lately it seems like we need list of the few "good guys" to keep rather than who to replace.... it would be easier to keep track of...

This is why I still have mine --- people do not want to buy a good looking ML, they want a plastic one to get a jump start on deer season. I will hang mine over the fireplace before I let it go for pennies. I think we have the same one, or very close anyway.

welcome! Sounds like you have been doing homework -- its even more expensive if you make impulse buys!

I kind of like what you have as it is, that striped wood is attractive and it looks to have been put together with some thought instead of a hacksaw and drill. There are much uglier chop jobs. Dunno, try the gunboards forums? Half the members there seem to have a box of parts for every rifle made from 1890 to 1950.

Adding up the "cnn guess map" mitt would have to win nearly every "contested" state to win. Not worth much, but the solidly one or the other states is probably correct. Its the contested vs leaning states that could be way off.