Jonnin

I mostly ignore the difference in primers so I got ... small pistol mag, large pistol mag, and small rifle (not sure), one of each.  He said it was his last small rifle though.

I didnt see you, and forgot to be on the lookout due to all the distractions this morning :(

chattanooga show, forgot there were 2 this weekend.   22 lr is going fast at $75 for 500.  (I lied, its mostly sitting on the tables at this price. )   The usual show, lotsa knives and gear.   I saw a number of ARs, at least 4 of which were "decently priced" in the 1100 1200ish range.  I saw a bunch of sks for fair prices too, $300 give or take.   Several AKs as well for too much (1k and up).   Plenty of older guns too, but I didnt see anything for myself, the one that I liked the look of someone had sanded and messed up the stock and it was too high for a worked on item.   I got 3k primers for $100, good enough for me right now, same price I have been paying for a while.    A good amount of 223 ammo but it was high priced (I load mine so I am not sure what is fair, but 200 for a case of some sort?)  and a fair amount of AK ammo.    You might find something you need there, but at best the price will be "tolerable".   Not everyone there is gouging for every cent they can get at least.

arrested != convictions, so the # of arrests is not a great metric for someone like a panhandler (police do tend to question the homeless more often, I have never been arrested because I don't go downtown in rags and aggravate people).    That said it sounds like he needs some of that "three strikes" justice, where they throw the book at him.

  History has shown time and time again that a lightly armed (rifles count) and determined population that refuses to submit is all but impossible to defeat. 

gotcha: you have to get all the rust dust off the gun asap.  Rust spreads itself.   Also, avoid actual steel wool.  While awesome, the *fine* grade polishing stuff makes dust that, being made of steel, --- rusts.     So use bronze wool, perhaps, and get it squeaky clean once its done.    Now, bare metal: it be blued for a reason.  Exposed, untreated carbon steel rusts in the best of environments.   It will need constant TLC to prevent this, like regular wipedowns of oil.   You really should get it refinished if you are going to do this.  Or, polish off the pits and rust and touch up the finish in those areas.    So, you do NOT want to make it a shiny gun with no finish that is a bad plan.   Only reason not to do it is if you wanted it to be original.  If its nearly worthless anyway....   If you want a shiny gun, I think you can get it nickel plated which will last forever, shine up nice, and protect the gun.

I would make some more of that awesome group stuff and shoot it and nothing else next time out.  See if it does anything different as the gun heats up.    Its interesting to note the second control group is better, I would say significantly (?).  Maybe YOU warmed up too, maybe the gun shot different hot, its hard to say.

my 12ga 1100 was under 300 used.  That was over a year ago, though, and could be out of date (??) for todays wild prices.

they added a 5 cent tax per bullet to the list to ensure that 22 lr shooters pay $25 in taxes each week.   Because a tax on a right is a great idea. 

  that isnt too hard to figure out.  Offer $100 for whatever people drag in. -Return stolen guns to owners. -Whitewash all the serial numbers out of the system. -Have a big auction, make much profit. 

  My cheap digital scale (and these are easy to find) is accurate to about 1/4 a grain which is plenty good enough to "get started" with anything except mico calibers like 25 acp.  It was $20 I think or thereabouts.   Dunno what powder device you are looking at but $20 is not likely to buy much, probably need 50+.   If no one said it you must have case lube for 223. 

yea.  I do not agree with what they did, but I see their point.  

That is OK.  It was the "he killed one of ours and is therefore to be shot on sight" that is wrong.  The LAPD is openly, without remorse and without shame, on a shoot to kill mission and that I have trouble with.  There is a subtle difference between the two.

  TWRA has a point though, people were increasing the problem hog population (in at least some areas) for hunting pleasure, the opposite goal.  Would be like some enterprising person down in FL starting a snake farm, growing them big, and letting them loose.

Its just a computer somewhere that is fubared due to trying to handle 1000X the maximum customer load that it was designed for.

I am NOT OK with it.  A victim is a victim, and whether its a $2 crack ho that was knifed or a medal of honor winner turned LEO, the effort to capture (not kill, capture) the criminal should be the same.  Anything else is part of a broken system.

If somone is worth shooting at, the back is as good as the front IMHO.   Trying to gin up sympathy for a criminal due to the age or where the bullets landed does not wash with me.  He attacked them, he got shot, cry moar.

they are shooting to kill without positive ID, chance of surrender or arrest or anything remotely police-like.    This case gets a little more stupid by the second.   I get a vibe he may do that thing like the whacko that shot the fire fighters..  such as report himself being at some place, then set up a nice ambush.  

looks exactly like it to me, yes.

looks like BP?  Nothing inside, proof marks when you tear it down?

must be trying to keep up with the NYC PD.  We got the guy... and 15 bystanders.

--There are some sick bastards supporting him on twitter     And I want it 100% clear that I do not support him, he lost all that by killing.  I just wonder.... what happened here, really.

ah, the anti  gun angle surfaced. 1) "we think he has an assault rifle" because that makes it news.   and some dimwit in florida weighs in: 2)JoAnn Lee Frank of Clearwater, Fla., also a frequent out-of-state mailbag contributor, says that while tighter gun regulations may not prevent ramapages by ex-cops, it couldn't hurt to find out if they would: "As the saying goes, 'You never know.' Indeed, who would have ever guessed that a disgruntled and mentally disturbed ex-LAPD cop would allegedly pull a gun on fellow officers? "Nevertheless, police say Dorner went berserk, tragically leaving a fatal shooting spree in his wake. Whether or not stricter gun-control laws could have stopped this rampage, I implore our legislators to pass them. Fewer guns equals fewer shootings. It's a matter of common sense."   And more of this sort are popping up.

kids die from being fatass, ban sugar and fast food and snacks. kids die in cars, ban cars. kids die from allergies, ban bees.  but none of the above are part of an agenda to hurt political opponents.  Cant ban cars, unions and all that.  Cant ban foods either (trial in NY isnt popular).  Bees would make the environwhackos mad.  ..... but guns, them are bad, republicans like guns.   Its just illogic from the left, nothing new or intersting.

  11 years service (and it said 15 but you know how the web news spews first and corrects later) and he had (again web news) a great record and (unspecified decorations).  11 years as an LA cop with a clean record up to termination event sounds like he might have actually have been a good guy (not counting snapping this week).   The one I read (again, garble time on the web) said his assistent got in the fight with a suspect and HE turned the other cop in.     Maybe was a good guy, maybe not, but its highly questionable that his accuser had so much power over him in the hearing.  Sounds like he offended someone and was railroaded, in some of these stories.    Agreed, killing those innocents makes him a murdering thug, that is, absolutely, wrong.   But it sounds like something very wrong happened to him reading between the lines.