Jonnin

some of the foreign stuff is difficult.     Company Y is hired to do the work before the budget crisis.    Country has signed agreement with foreign government saying we will do it.  Everything is arranged and bam, we are supposed to cut it due to budget issue which   -- hurts company Y -- possibly costs company Y's folks (usa people here... ) their jobs -- damages relations with the country -- may prevent future contracted work in that country, or at least make our bids less competitive in the future -- wastes all the money already spent on the project (review process to select company Y, tons of paperwork, more) -- could get the govt in a lawsuit (Y sues govt over breach of contract) -- and so on  (and many of the same issues are present for already agreed upon contracts for domestic research and projects).   Some things are "already in the pipeline" and cannot be stopped without doing more harm than good.   What needs to happen is NO NEW COMMITMENTS SIGNED rather than breach of contracts and destruction of work/jobs/etc already expected and contracted for.

if that is the real list, it explains why we have not caught very many criminals.  I doubt its the full / real list, but if so, they need to hire someone with some sense. 

yes, all LEO should have a UV light.  Its used for tons of crap including fingerprint searching other evidence gathering.  I suspect most police cars have one in them at a guess (??).  They are fairly cheap items.   I do not know about the spray specifically but lots of compounds show up in UV, its not rocket science to mix one into a spray.  Heck most white particles, even dust, show up in UV like a beacon, you never played with one??

I dunno about that list Erik.  Its a good list, but there are alternative viewpoints to everything that exists lol.    1) Yes, you are correct.  But no, you are wrong lol.  That is, factually you are correct, but the race card can either be played (by the lawyers etc --- to most of the masses race is determined by looking at someone, period and it WORKS to play the race card here as it LOOKS like white vs black)  or it can be a hole card (stack the jury with racial sympathizers --- intentionally or unknowingly --- it has happened before).    2 a mild character builder (GZ is on the neighborhood watch, excuses a little bit of curiosity/policing actions and gives him a bit of a reputation boost as a good guy).  However back to the race card again:  this opens up playing it (he was PROFILING blah blah blah).  Its a gimme for the prosecution to go there....   3)  The key here is what happened when they met up and fought. Which may never be known.   4) biased presentation.   Devil's advocate says that GZ was injured after he attacked TM and TM defended himself, GZ gets the worst of it and goes for his gun.   I think this is BS, but PROVE it -- goes back to 3...   5) important, could resolve 3 & 4 if witness is credible.   6) Audio analysis is extremely good.  GZ lives.  It had to be one or the other.  You got a live person and a recording and a computer, match it up.  Probably (almost certainly), TM voice samples exist as well.  This should be easy to resolve.  I cannot blame a human for confusion here --- even with whatever agenda he could make a mistake.    7) That is the problem, GZ has a fair bit of questionable behaviors that are not helping his case at all.   Including trying to dupe the judge over his finances, duh?   8) The LEOs are witnesses to the "crime scene" (for lack of a better term) and will get their say if the defense lawyer has any sense.   But the real big one is the last: the jury does NOT have to prove murder 1 here.   You have other stuff, manslaughter for example, and the civil case that comes after can take all his stuff for the rest of his life.   You can prove the lower degrees of murder/manslaughter/etc without as much burden of proof...  the intent/motive/premeditation stuff is not needed for that....   So while its a good list, it does not change a thing.   Personally? I think it will be hard to prove even manslaughter.   But I expect the race card and a 3 ring circus out of this mess.  

Probably about 300 give or take.

this will continue to happen until we wise up.    Someone needs to leak them some plans of a plane that does not fly, let em build about 10k copies of those...

  ATM it was disallowed from the opening remarks only and subject to further discussion on what would be allowed later on.  So the data was not outright banned yet, it was simply delayed pending more thought.   We may yet see this stuff presented, or not.  

most scored targets are done so by counting a shot for the ring it "broke".   That shot broke the red "x" ring circle and would count by most people's standards.  

  I can only answer one of those.  Back when I was in it, we had a chaplain and there was prayer at the big week long camps and a sunday service.   The chaplain was another patch on that kid's uniform and an official thing.  So there was *some sort* of nondemoninational christian belief system back then.  This would have been the late 80s maybe --- they probably long since removed this sort of thing.  And to be honest, it was mostly symbolic back then --- 99% of the scouts behaved exactly like teenage boys who had been forced into church by their parents or something, cutting up and bored with it.  Most were not openly/loudly disrespectful but most could not have cared less either and would rather have been doing something else.   Enforced services are of little to no merit for kids of any age, and esp useless for teens.

I would put 45s in the 410 judge.  Probably a better one shot stop than a couple of pellets of buckshot.   You can upgrade the tube on most shotguns to hold whatever you want.  Mine is 10+1 (its a large gun, though).  I would ignore the capacity IF it can be modified later to hold 6 or 8 or whatever.     Not sure about those specific models. 

  Um, That IS american ingenuity, modern style. 

  Well that is easy.  I would shoot the guy if possible.  Its mighty hard to draw in that situation, but I would sure be trying to defend my self with whatever means.   But you can bet on it: I would not BE in that position due to having followed and confronted / started the fight. 

if you go a lot, shooter's depo is very nice.  It is one of the ONLY indoor ranges that makes even a pretense of ventilation.  Some of the others, one mag and you have to leave if you do not have an oxygen tank.     Its pricy for one trip, but a year membership is very reasonable (again, if you want to go often).   The only other places I would even think about going are outdoors. 

  It is neutral.  Nowhere does the constitution weigh in on mandated purchases; you could call them a tax and wrap it up as very constitutional.  If you want to go the absolutist route of saying if its not in there, its illegal --- well that battle was lost when jackson was in office I think, or before, with the federal bank?   Some things I am ok with the government saying to buy.  For example, children's vaccinations (not up on the exact laws here but I think all kids have to have them to go to school or something).   Its a slippery slope, but some things actually ARE for the public good, and disease control is one of em.  MOST things are NOT in this sort of category.

they have to follow the laws for producing foodstuff, which include using preservatives.  I do not think you could home-can foods to sell legally, could be wrong but as I recall its not legal.   Obviously its mass produced and not home made at all, though.  Its probably jiff relabled or something via an agreement.    I hate to say it but I have little respect for the amish.  They have cell phones and ipads and all kinds of stuff tucked away even as they stress the appearance of being barbaric.   Its almost commercialized --- they dress up and play pretend at living some sort of different lifestyle in order to be able to sell their furniture & such.  They make use of the modern anywhere it does not show.  The woodworking may still be mostly by hand, but they buy the nails and glue and so on....  

the internet, you can find people that sell used brass.   Personally I pick up most of mine; plenty of folks leave it on the ground but it depends on where you shoot what you can get away with.      Ok well bench side equipment aside, a bullet is made of only a few things.  A case.  Powder.  A bullet.  A primer.  So you need those 4 things.  Pistol and rifle are not really interchangable --- you will need 2 types of powder, 2 types of primers, and obviously the cases and bullets are different from a 45 and a 308 :P     (note, you can "probably" interchange the primers, but you will want to read up on that topic, I cant remember but I think large rifle in a pistol needs a load adjustment and large pistol in a rifle may not ignite well, they are different heights, and really only go there if you are very, very desperate).   for the 308 you will need a case trimmer.  These are like 10 bucks if you use the hand held ones that work with a cordless drill.  Its fine for a few cases (like 25-50 a day), if you plan to make enough to take panama, you need a more pricy model or a lot of time and strong hands.   Your manual will have powders suggested for various bullet weights(and types) in the 2 cartridges.  Any powder listed will do, and some not listed will also do (for example I load my 308 light with a powder made for 223s because I have it on hand, its not ideal but it works).     45 is the place to start.  Its very easy to load, its big so no trying to deal with microscopic components or fractions of a grain of powder.   Its straight so no neck/trimming aggravations.  

do you have anything at all?  Press, dies? 

I am going to try to make mine with my 9x18 dies & bullets.  Its on the to-do list, but it *should* work.  Found 4 or 5 boxes at a gun show so I have the correct brass.   I think the lighter mak bullet & a reduced load should be fun.   Have to see if the bullet will go down the pipe....  its a little bigger but not much & the barrel is worn enough.

There is a process for changing the constitution.  It involves a supermajority vote and is extremely difficult (by design).     The crooks that go around the above process by making laws that weaken the constitution have broken the law by doing so.    At that point, in my eyes, they ARE felons. 

the dumb crook thing is a constant source of amusement for me.    This last week, a couple of dumb guys hit the panic dial 911 on their phone and 911 got to listen to them plot out their crime spree and then traced the call & sent a LEO over to have a chat with them.... it was awesome.   http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/Bumbling-crooks-accidentally-dial-911-during-crime-208132671.html

on a budget you might get the action out of a military rifle for not too much.   Some of those are of superior quality for a super low price.  Just try to find a scrap rather than bust up an intact gun if you go there.   As you said a mauser would work --- there are literally millions of them out there, someone has to have an intact action with a little R&D. 

Most systems classify the kingdoms into plant, animal, and other (mostly a bunch of groups of microgranism groups).  An insect is an animal in those systems, though it is not of course a mammal.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_%28biology%29 shows some of the methods used but they boil down to plants, animals, and weird stuff.     This is a good case of "what in the heck is wrong with the idiot teacher today" syndrone, which is becoming a serious problem. 

  That is the winner.   The insurance if the treatment fails to stop them.... that is a good investment if your home has much wood in it. 

  Yes.  But a disconnect remains here --- if you stood outside a church on sunday morn and asked for the 10, you would likely get them in archaic english more than half the time.  They are almost always printed up in archaic as well for any sort of display.   Odd that a set of rules to live by are memorized in a way that is incomprehensible to the person doing the memorization, but that is what happens very often.

  You cannot tell by looking.  (and the word is suspect.  I am suspicious of the guy that looks like a thug.  The guy that looks like a thug looks suspect.  If and when the guy that looks like a thug looks suspicious, look around to see what it is that is bothering him, its probably dangerous!).   Language aside though,  anyone buying a gun person to person could be a thug.    Look at the (not after his police beat down) pictures of jesse mathews.   Tell me what red flags would have gone off if you had walked by while he was trading guns with someone?  He looks like any redneck around here --- white, a little overweight,  mid 20s to 30s, has guns and wants to trade them.   May have had an accent that might prompt a close observer to note that he is not southern, but otherwise.... ????    Conversely one of the guys that used to shoot 3 gun with us "looked like" a criminal 2 days after escaping from the pen.   And is one of the nicest guys there.   You simply cannot tell.   Guy at work said I look homeless after a week without shaving, for that matter.   He was only half kidding.