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My issue with it is that the only benefits it theoretically has is that 1) it doesn't go twang (I can fix that for you with some grease) and 2) you can use them without the buffer retainer, which means no buffer retainer failures. The down side is that they are heavy compared ot a normal buffer setup, and are expensive. They are also spruing for a low mass operating system, which tells me they might make a full mass carrier feel a bit harsh. The JP low mass buffer and their centerless ground spring weigh 5.2oz total. The captured spring system with spacer for a rifle length stock weigh in at 10 oz, and the buffer alone is 9 oz.

Lets see. #1 normal. It's only making the news because we have better observation platforms in place, and because it has been marketed to get those platforms attention and make them seem sufficiently important in the public's eyes. #2 You can wring your hands over it all you want. Until someone actually decides to do something, it's not news. #3 Perhaps they are too busy covering the fact that the volcano in mexico city is getting all irritable. It is much closer to us after all. #4 As for the ring of fire activity, "half the planet is really very dangerous and could up and kill you any moment without warning" really pushes past news on to a metaphysical conversation about human existence. Note: one could argue that #3 and #4 are being discussed in the media with news about research regarding earthquakes and how they are seasonal. #5 The media covered that last bajillion rises in food prices. It's old news and expected at this point. #6 The US credit rating has been all over the news. maybe the article writer went on vacation. #7 The money for hiring IRS agents to enforce Obamacare fines has also been all over the news. #8 The arizona law infringing free speech has been on the news #9 The passport thing was the first thing on here that I hadn't heard about. #10 Seriously? What news outlet HASN'T covered escalating tensions in the persian gulf. I mean seriously the author of that article links a frikin BUSINESS magazine article, the only way to get more complete coverage is to have an article about it in people magzaine and the weekly world news. #11 The author is about a year late to the "mass deaths" meme. He's also way wrong about there not being sicentific explanations. For the most part the mass deaths are normal and the only thing odd is them being bundled together to imply they are related and somehow mysterious and scary. #12 monetizing the US debt.. It's been on the news. What hasn't been on the news is cogent discussion of it's implications. The news hasn't had cogent discussions of the implications of anything pretty much as long as I have been alive. #13 there has been no coverage of the great sinkhole conspiracy because there isn't one. The dude links to a story of a giant sinkhole from a mine collapse. I mean is that really a global mystery that if you dig lots of holes underground too big, they might collapse? Build roads over swampland, they might not be terribly durable? It's liek reporting water is wet. #14 as noted previously, there actually HAS been news coverage of it, and ongoing research regading earthquake "seasons". #15 If you think fraking hasn't been in the news cycle, you need to stop taking so many naps in a day. #16 I'll give him that the school evacuation practices haven't been news. The quesiton is if they should even be news. #17 Strange noises. Internet attention whoring shouldn't be global news. I'll point out that the only reason he knows about it is because news outlets jumped all over it, and then people started paying attention ad realizing there are noises in every town theat they just ignore as background noise. #18 the high number of tornadoes this year has been all over pretty much every news outlet. Once again, he needs to nap less or something. #19 Obama's executive order certainly did get lots of media attention. It might not have been the 6 o'clock news, but it got lots of attention.

I'm with you on the light weight and simple, but I've gotten way too much POI shift using braced positions on something without a free float tube. There are a bunch of good lightweight options out there. For the same length, the troy TRX extreme rails are almost the same weight as the MOE, and no delta ring. Lancer systems has light stuff. Carbon arms. Loki weapon systems. Sampson. Etc. It's not a short list these days. for example, Loki's carbon fiber one mounts to the stock barrel nut, is removable for maintenance, and is 5oz for the 12" rifle length at $159. Not a bad deal, although I don't know how rigid it is. In theory they ahve a non-shiny version in the works.

Dude, you do realize in free America, those thing stay I place just being screwed on. Maybe with a little lock tite.

If you don't want to pay a vinyl guy, you can just buy some frisket film and do the same.

I can think of a couple scenarios. Batfe does the footwork on the 4473s to determine the firearms were not purchased from an ffl by the two guys. Two guys say it was a legal face to face, but can't produce a receipt or other record on the spot. Guns a seized as evidence for a straw purchase investigation, guys are let to walk because they probably weren't a straw purchase. Or because you have people stealing inventory from ffl A, and selling them under ffl B's license. Seized as stolen goods, but not previously reported, as they only came up as missing due to batfe compliance audit. The guys had no knowledge they were in receipt of stolen goods having made a legit purchase with 4473s and the batfe knows it so they walk.

No idea, they are new. But their auto popper knock off is $212. That's WAY more than the original from MGM, and I can pick up two colt speed plate shaped ones from bunker hill steel and have $40 left over for ammo. The bunker hill one is ar500, theirs is unspecified.

You can pick up, at least you could. Call them.

Or cornmeal. But not real ammo, which isn't really shooting IMO. Maybe it's just me.

DO you mean the new JP captured spring thing? That doesn't need a buffer as far as I know. If you mean their centerless ground flat wire spring, it's nice, but then I ahve to ask what spikes buffer? You need a rifle length buffer, and as far as I can tell, spikes doesn't make one. If you want to spend money, spend money on a really good trigger. Next up spend money on good glass. That heavy barrel is probably capable of a lot more than the fixed 3x magnification of that scope.

speedwell targets in union makes all sorts of targets. Theri USPSA targets aren't totally to spec and aren't official, but they are close enough for practice. http://www.speedwelltargets.com/cart/index.php?main_page=products_new

Not necessarily. IT also depends on the policy you choose. If you don't choose the limitation of liability option or whatever it is called, your rate nearly doubles. My mom always insisted on this, once I was able to separate into my own policy, the savings to me were DRASTIC, and I certainly was not in a lower risk pool at that point. Insuring a brand new 1997 Eclipse turbo cost at least $1000 less than the 88 toyota camry I had had the old policy choices on. I don't recall how cheap the camry got when I got on my own policy, I just remember all the dire warnings about how much it would cost to insure from my mom and the fact that it was less than what she had me set up for with a sensible car.

http://www.pocketcannons.com/ As an item, I don't think it is illegal in nj. Correct me if I am wrong. I cna't go over the river and buy one, its availability is limited. I don't believe I can mail order it legally in NJ. Can an FFL just mail order it? Would it require NICS etc. and thus cost more to transfer than to actually buy?

Like I said, with ICS, they are approching parity with usability. They do some things different, and either will seem harder coming from the opposing platform you are used to. For someone who is a blank slate, it should all be about the same. My main problem with android is summed up in this chart. It's a bit dated, but the problem hasn't gotten much better. http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphans-visualizing-a-sad-history-of-support

Apple doesn't do flash. Flash sucks on android though. Yeah, for websites that still rely on flash for basic things they shouldn't like menus, it's nice to have. That's not very common anymore. It helps a little with embedded video that is flash based and not using HTML5 as a wrapper. That's only a little more common now. The main thing it helps with are flash graphical elements on product pages. Pretty much everything else flash you cna see on android, but the flash isn't coded to dealw ith teh touch interface. For exmple, truecar.com ahs a nice flash interface. Iphone can't see it. Android can, but can't manipulate it properly due to touch. Flash is less of a killer app on android than it should be.

I retract my previous statement, as that compartment was NOT what was on the stock I handled. That's much more like what I expected. It looks like it in all other respects, and yours has the amount of storage I would expect from the external dimensions. Wonder what the stock I handled was?

I've got android devices and phones (work) and an iPhone (pay for it myself). Android has gotten better. If you do go android, 100% get something running ice cream sandwich. It's approaching good enough that you don't care if upgrades are coming. Because they probably won't and if they do it probably won't be in a timely manner. Most of the android ecosystem is effectively treated as an end of life product somewhere between day one and six months. My android phone had crippling bugs on day one, and has had all of two updates. One of which is a giant pita to install requiring downloading a pc program, finding a windows pc running 32 bit xp or vista, installing the right drivers for the phone, and crossing your fingers and hoping you don't get the magic driver error that makes it think the update is not applicable to the phone. Then you are stuck trying to clean out the registry after uninstall so you can try again. The manufacturer moved on after six months and is never going to finish fixing the software problems. ICS is way less broken, and the marketplace is maturing nicely. On my transformer prime I can live with it. The tricky part is finding hardware that doesnt have a sneaky issue like a crap gps antenna, wifi antenna, etc. The iPhone will be better supported over the full two years. iTunes is a turd, but it isn't really needed anymore past activation of the phone, and even if you do use it, it is functional but awkward, not completely broken. My 3GS got updates the whole 2.5 years I had it.

I think claiming to be tutors is odd. Especially for a firm in nj with it being verifiable they aren't expected to be doing such at the school they said. What they had on them were firearms I'd expect on a law abiding Ccw holder. Looked like a baby glock, ruger lcp, and a small frame revolver. Only odd thing there were the 30 round mags. On top of that they were compliant with the law, and didn't have a record to prevent them from being armed. There also appeared to be no reason to involve the batfe. It's odd. They might be crooks who are very good at skirting the law, but I could definitely see it being someone trolling for a lawsuit.

Not just that, but were stopped a second time the next day, and let go again to sick the BATFE on them, who ALSO let them go. There's some odd behavior and story telling there, but they obviously don't have a record, and haven't been caught doing anything chargeable. Given the 30 round glock mags on the baby glock, and the sum of cash being just a bit under $9k, about the only thing that I could come up with after them clearing a cursory investigation three times is the are just trolling the cops.

Lights mounted on the gun: the main problem with them is that if you are using the light to identify someone or thing, you are pointing a hot weapon at something you ahve not yet identified as something you don't mind shooting. That's generally a bad practice. If it is something you don't mind pointing a loaded gun at, then it works fairly well except for lighting up what is usually something hovering around your vitals. Lasers mounted on the gun: About the only pro is that under stress, lots of people go to a target fixated focus. The laser allows you to still aim with a target fixated focus. For me, when I have tried lasers on the range, I found them awkward as heck, and seeing what shake I had with them would result in a negative feedback loop for me where trying to reduce it just made it worse. That was with slow aimed fire. With rapid aimed fire, the dot just becomes very hard to track quickly and slowed me down. I didn't find it that useful, but that was also in comparison to having skills I have practiced I could substitute. I can't say there isn't some point where it is a useful crutch rather than mild hinderance, depending on skill level. I also didn't find it that hard to ignore it unless it was dim enough that the contrast between the gun's silhouette and the target got crappy.

OK, triggers. If you want something that feels like a 2- 2.5lb 1911 trigger, get an ar gold trigger. If you want durable with a decent feel, get giessele. If you want a drop in trigger pack, Chip McCormick, timney are decent at this point. I'd probably go timney first becuase theirs is a bit nicer feel. The CMC one had to bump up the weight to avoid reliability issues. Wilson combats trigger packs look good, but I have yet to try one in person. If you go with a drop in trigger pack, if it does not come with anti-walk pins, or some other form of pin retainer, GET SOME.

No I mean the people demanding someone's head on a platter, or felony charges for things that aren't felonies. While there are cops that have done things worthy of hard time who got no more than some unpaid time off from work, I'd like to see the law enforced like it would be for joe average. You or I get busted for 110 in a 65, we aren't doing hard time either. With a clean record, lots of fines, yanked license, pay a lawyer, etc. and they should be subject to similar. Get busted racing the company car on the street, you probably get canned.

looks are not deceiving. All the SIR like tubes are heavy. 14.50z without any of the rail segments attached, and the bottom half that can be removed for m203 compatibility is plastic. So... just saying. I like ARMS low profile back up iron sights. Not so much the rest of their stuff.

In some states, no not to work on state residents firearms (at least that's what I ahve been told). In NJ, definitely yes, as you need a permit or an FFL to affect a transfer. Regardless of the actual limit of the letter of the law, you save yourself problems with just getting the FFL that outweigh the hassle of getting the FFL.

They aqren't there to get out of the hood. They are there to chane the voting profile of the district the housing is in.