SpacemanFry

I think Top Shot people or somebody should start a camp where you get to shoot some of the same stuff they get to shoot. I'd pay quite a bit for a 1-2 week experience like that where I'd get to shoot all the fun stuff in all those scenarios they come up with on the show.

The bigger clubs like OBRPC and CJRPC let you do this. At CJ you can get an allowance to holster draw once you've participated in 3 matches. Also CJ has general purpose pits where you can set up targets like in the matches in practice. You can also practice holster draw and dry fire at home.

I love how when a innocent citizen claims he didn't know the law LEOs jump all over and say "ignorance of the law is no excuse". But the other way they are so quick to forgive most cops not knowing the law. In fact the whole cops not knowing the laws seems to be some funny joke that apparently I'm not getting. I thought knowing the law was part of the job description. In most other jobs if you don't know your job you will most likely get fired. In most other jobs if you don't know what you're doing and you cause harm you get fired and sued or worse. For LEOs it seems they get a paid vacation suspension. As far as I'm concerned with greater power comes greater accountability, and if it were up to me the cop involved here would be fired at a minimum. Just as there are greater penalties for assaulting a LEO there should be greater penalties for abusing LEO power. This is not LEO bashing (though I'm sure all you LEOs reading this will get all riled up and think so). I respect LEOs, I just don't respect the hypocrisy, double standards and attitude that get brought up in cases like this.

I watched 2 episodes last night for the first time and I did see this part. Unfortunately the way the camera did not catch exactly what happened (or they edited it out) and he was very vague about it. Any which way I can imagine it happening would just be incredibly retarded so I don't know what happened I did not think the show tried to portray the people either as gun nuts or crazy, but some of them did come out a bit like that simply because they are quite kooky. In fact there was one guy where the "experts" told him he needs to get some firearms for protection to round out his plans.

In all fairness, quite a bit of the show is very different from the comics.

According to the comics, no main characters (other than Rick) are ever safe. Of course the show hasn't exactly followed the comics closely. Possible spoiler alert (highlight the next few lines to read): For those of you (if any) that have read the comics, I have a theory about how Merl will come back in the future. I think they've set him up to be the Governor and also give him a compelling reason to cut "someone's" hand off. end spoiler.

Good for him. Hope he sues the people involved into oblivion. Until there are consequences for blatant disregard of the laws by the power that be, things aren't going to change.

Holy sh*t, I spent a lot of time in San Clemente for work over the previous 2 years. Not that it's relevant to this, it just struck me.

Great post, thanks for taking the time to do the write-up. I've been wondering about the procedure for taking firearms on airplanes as well.

I didn't say they weren't there. My point was exactly that by doing the kind of ridiculous witch hunt that McCarthy, Hoover and other retards like them did, it made it that much harder to truly find the real spies and collaborators. You cry spy/communist at every innocent person and nobody is going to believe you when you find the real ones.

Then you should have no problem with the Pledge being returned to its original phrasing and you can say "under god" when reciting it all day long. Or is it only ok when it's the other way around?

What has been shown is that not a single true spy, infiltrator or collaborator were ever found out due to McCarthy's bullsh*t style investigations. Instead thousands of honest Americans were harassed, the entire population was set on edge, and Hoover's FBI gained the kind of power that makes the Patriot Act look like kid's play. Do you also think the Japanese internment of WW2 was right because there were clearly a few hundred spies or sympathizers in the entire community?

What lunker & mcbethr said. Also a good blog post regarding something similar by a writer I like: http://mzmadmike.livejournal.com/111699.html

The silo property is very nice. But it's actually $1.7mill for the property + the airstrip & surrounding land. Wish I had that kind of money, it's beautiful up there in Adirondack country.

Definitely. The thing is built like a tank. I was really impressed with the built quality of the Hunter, even more so that the regular Mark IIIs. And it shoot like a dream. I love it.

So what you're saying is you don't have a good argument and resort to insults? Well what can I say I'm floored by your well thought out argument. What exactly qualifies as a local PD? Are you saying NY, LA, Boston, Newark, Trenton, Camden, Philly, <insert town with over 100k pop here> can't afford this? There already were several PDs that used drones in some limited fashion. It's ok though, feel free to come back with another well thought out point as you've clearly showed so far, I can use the amusement.

Given that this is a totally public forum probably most people won't be comfortable posting something.

That's the press I'm pretty sure I'm going to get as well. I'd really appreciate it if you post any thoughts, hindsights, tips as you start with it.

Just wanted to chime in about the whole "Ruger Mark III is hard to take apart" etc. since I just got a new MarkIII Hunter and just took it apart and cleaned it last night. I believe this gun has built that reputation from people whining about their first few cleans. The gun comes from the factory very tight and does require a rubber or plastic mallet to take apart. The other thing, as mentioned, is that people don't realize the hammer has to be in the fully forward position when you pop in the spring mechanism back in. As mentioned the Ruger manual instructions are severely lacking, but if you watch someone do it once (in person or youtube) you see how easy it is. Also after a few times the parts slide out much easier.

How many local PDs follow NJSP laws regarding FIDs & P2Ps? Please get back to me.

I'm confused as to what you're trying to ask. I'm not sure what NAS means (I'm just a lowly private pilot) but I'm gonna assume it means national airspace. Are you trying to say that they will always fly in controlled airspace? What exactly is your question/comment/etc?

Think of flying UAVs are flying under IFR and without any onboard air to air radar or any other sensor to tell you what's in the air. Though I guess that's not entirely true because you do have the sensor pod that can slew around to look at your airspace, however, 99.9999% of the time the cameras are trained on the ground. So, most of the time the big UAVs fly under ATC. The small UAVs they don't even bother because they assume nothing is under the 1000-3000' ceiling those things have (in Afghanistan etc it's a good assumption). If you want more details than this PM me.

Absolutely not. None of the current UAV have that high of a ceiling. It's not like it's classified, you can look up the specs for most of them. Mostly this is because all the UAVs are prop based for longevity so that limits their altititude right there but also the higher they go the more atmospherics they have to deal with for the optics. Even the high end UAVs don't usually fly above 15000' AGL and generally they hang around 10000 AGL. Of course there's a whole slew of smaller UAVs that have much lower ceiling and range, and worse of all they are usually far too small to be picked up by a tower. Right now since none of the UAVs have any on board air-to-air radar or collision avoidance or heck even cameras to watch for other planes (other than the camera on the gimbal that is usually used to watch the ground) the only way to ensure they don't crash into anybody or anything is to have them under ATC so the ATC watches over the traffic or to simply assume there is no local traffic below a certain ceiling as is generally the case in places like Afghanistan. Nothing good can come of this bill....

Any spots in this class?

JFC will the stupidity out of DC ever end. This irks me on 2 levels. First as a citizen I find the idea of further surveillance with little or no oversight extremely troubling, especially by local LEO agencies that seem to have trouble even following state laws. And second, as a private pilot it scares me that soon there may be UAVs sharing the save airspace with me with idiots behind the controls that are paying more attention to the ground than the airspace around them. And if there is ever an accident they are probably just going to blame the private pilots and further limit general aviation.