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Exempt are they? They sure get sued a lot for being exempt, lose a lot too.

Having researched the elcan looking for the one true optic, I came to three conclusions. 1) regarding optical quality and behavior, there are a gorup of people who think it is awesome and a group who think it is crap. 2) there is apparently a right and wrong way to set it up, and you need to read and understand the instructions, which a number of people who claim it is crap either have not, or used a gun they can't vouch for the setup on. 3) There is a lot of debate about issues with it other than optical behavior/quality such as the mounts, elevation and windage adjustments, weight, durability, etc. NOTE: in step 2 I'm not claiming everyone complaining has failed to follow set up instructions, and that if set up right it is awesome, I'm saying that if you take out those who admit they haven't seen said instructions, demonstrate they have not followed them, and those using someone else's rig, you are dealing with a very small group of people in both the awesome and the crap camp that have in theory done it correctly and still disagree with each other, and have thrown away the VAST majority of reviews, feedback, and opinions. I still think it sounds cool, but I'd REALLY like to see one in person before I committed any kind of money to one and I'd have to be able to return it. So anyone who wants to make that leap, I seriously suggest someplace like SWFA with a liberal return/exchange policy. Oh yeah and suggest that you let me play with it

the part of the spacer at the front, or the cylindrical part at the rear is what's moving. This is not a setup I would personally recommend. but it is entirely possible you didn't torque the tube enough, and it backed out of the lower, releasing the buffer retaining pin so that your buffer and the pin (or pieces thereof) are no inside the upper receiver where they shouldn't be. If the bolt moves, you can pop the take down pin out, and try slowly working the charging handle back until things like up right to separate the upper and lower.

The Woodbridge police department range is down by the dump/ recycling center in fords. Perhaps they were doing some low light stuff as it is outdoors.

Yes, except that the system doesn't work like that. From the sounds of it, if it weren't a cop, it'd have been 2nd degree murder (i.e. whatever the charge is there for non premeditated murder). Most places that isn't mandatory life. Mandatory life is a tacked on penalty for killing a cop, without that, he wouldn't have that sentence. If you really didn't care about that bit, you should have no problem with him being re-sentenced to something other than mandatory life. I've read of juvenile killings where it's clearly the end point of a series of escalating bad judgments. I've also read of ones where it appears to be remorseless evil for lack of a better description. In the former I will argue that there is the possibility, however remote, of the person learning to exercise better judgment. In many cases just making past early 20s and the end of the hormonally fueled growth period of adolescence will cut back on some of the risk taking and impulse control (some). In general I see mandatory minimums as a bad thing, just like zero tolerance at schools. We already spent the money to have folks in a room to exercise some judgment, if something has a penalty range of 25-life, I don't see the problem with letting the court decide where in that range it falls. I also don't see the problem with when you have a truly evil juvenile whose obviously way past the line, that they might be deserving of the life time end of that spectrum.

If you are simply populating a lower and attaching it to a pre-built upper, don't over think it too much. IF you are going to be assembling the upper as well, then you need to worry more about a number of choices. Right now for the latter, dawson precision has STI matched upper and lower sets for $233, which isn't bad. However they are stripped lower and stripped upper (i.e. not even a forward assist installed on the upper receiver).

IMO go straight to equifax's, experien's, or tans union's web sites and work form there, or use myfico. They are high up the food chain and are not fly by night institutions any more than the whole business is a shady made up thing that is deliberately obfuscated. The price differential is negligible. I've paid for scores form trans union, equifax and myfico over the years. I've worked directly though transunion, equifax and experien's sites fro the free annual report.

Good luck with that. Back when you could get a human on the phone you stood a chance on some things. Now it's almost impossible to get them to correct stupid problems. For actual account issues, you can always go through the people who have the account to try and rectify it. Every one of my three have something wrong about the dates where I have lived, and my dates of employment. I've had zero luck getting that kind of stuff fixed. The automated forms for disputing stuff are all geared towards incorrect account status.

Eww... No. As a broke ass college student that needs something cheap at 3am, it was some of the worst food I have eaten, and at that age I wasn't very picky about food being good.

FYI, I don't think myfico are real fico scores either. I did a score check there under that premise when house shopping. The numbers didn't match the numbers the mortgage company got at all. They were all lower.

Yeah, that's it. I just remembered as north of prtugal instead of south and was like screw it.. over towards the UK someplace. Yes, but bumblebees aren't affected, and they are more effective pollinators. Plus in areas where there has been increased reliance on background pollinators, you've actually gotten significnat growth in background pollinator populations, and increased health in the crops. As a a TEOTWAWKI scenario, it mostly applies to people who make money from honey bee goods and services. Implicated to date are electromagnetic radiation, neonicitinoid pesticides, a group of fungal infections, and over harvesting of honey using corn syrup as a replacement food. There is increasing certainty that it is not a single problem. See above. That has not been proven, but also has not been ruled out as a contributing factor. It also isn't game over for anything but the honey industry if the honey bees go TU. I think you may be a bit over trusting in the rank and file, but the folks using katrina as an example are also missing some important points. 1) Confiscations didn't really start until after outside LE assistance started coming in. There wasn't really much of anything for those LE to do once you had enough people to wrangle evacuees, unless they knew how to make the water go away. In a very real way, the confiscations were make work for these people. 2) In the wealthier neighborhoods, folks like blackwater had started showing up. 3) You had some shots fired at rescue workers in known bad areas presumably by gang members that claimed to control that area. All of these are symptoms of a common set of issues. A government that totally failed at its job, combined with ongoing public scrutiny, an ongoing set of physical conditions they could do nothing about, and excess manpower. IN the face of that, that excess manpower chose to make half-assed attempts at confiscation (they didn't get close to large scale success) where it would be the easiest and least threatening to their own well being. Then look at hurricane sandy. Getting police to deal with anything other than keeping infrastructure issues form getting out of hand was pretty damn difficult. We didn't get lots of outside LE assistance, and there was not a surplus of manpower someone would be embarrassed by not utilizing. On top of that had they actually shown up, there were jobs they could have actually done other than stare a giant lake that was formerly a series of exceptionally poor real estate decisions. For a large number of non-localized events, getting in to that setup is going to be a non-starter. Without water, sewage, food, and heat, your claims of keeping law and order won't be taken very seriously. I took all of about 4-5 days for that to start being the case with Sandy, and they were at least decent about keeping a minimal supply of potable water available. Now you want a new TOETWAWKI, you can deal with modern agriculture and our depletion of phosphates. They didn't disappear form your dish detergent just to save the fishies. It's also to control costs for high yield farming. It's one of a number of competing issues that look to potentially drive yields back to something like 1950s level yields. Even if the US circles the wagons and keeps domestic production at home, prices would rise a LOT, and it would have huge knock on effects to the economy and global politics. There is not currently even a reasonably convenient substitute on deck as far as I have seen. Closest thing to that is that rapidly rising costs will incentivize hydroponic and aquaponic type setups that don't just dump the resources in the ocean after a single use. There is a giant cost delta to that though.

Anyone trying to claim that is a fool. Your PHI was subject to unapproved sharing to verify if you were eligible to the programs in question that did not include everyone. Now everyone's info is out there, becuase everyone is subject to evaluation for obamacare. They haven't been doing something like this. not even close.

I agree on the lee in .223. Mine had to have a burr taken off the seating plug. The seating plug also wouldn't center. I had to modify it so it was centered and wouldn't mar the bullet. After that it was ok. I use a redding match seating die now

what are you trimming your case length to? Also, load a dummy and see if it fits your mags and chambers in the gun without contacting the rifling.

Well, yeah, because he was supposed to be the golden boy with the name on all the gun control bills to usher in a new era of enlightenment.

Will it be painful? Yes. But there are only a few things that drop a person instantly or close to it. For a gut shot, your only path to that is to hit the descending aortic artery sufficiently to cause very rapid blood loss and send them into hypovolemic shock. With an anterior hit, you basically have to penetrate almost all of the belly to get there. So a target between 1-1.5" somewhere in the middlish portion of the torso as viewed from the front.

The real issue I suspect would be penetration and a quick death prior to the critter stomping your butt into a mud hole or eating some critical portion of you.

Gunbroker is no more risky than any other place. Probably significantly less than a lot of small firearms oriented gun shops.

Dress codes have been upheld. Singling out political speech has not. I suspect officer contempt of cop is going to garner a lot more negative attention than he planned on.

Sure, I'll take applications. You have to understand the scoring system, do the intiail data load, bring stuff to the match charged, get back, do the data pull, and then unless you want to put the cost on your CC, hand it to Vlad for the final post and upload to the mothership with the appropriate sums of cash to get classifiers posted. You also have to be at EVERY SINGLE MATCH, or arange to get all the gear to someone else who WILL be there without exception day of with everything prepped. You are also free to take over the match. I've had more than enough of it.

Yeah, they charge a premium for not blowing up in your face. Shotgun barrels are cheap.

Vlad has them. He's still winding up some serious house repairs, which is why he wasn't at the match.

I understand your perception. The panic WILL be over before that happens though. That's going to linger for at least a bit due to how distrubtor and retailer back ordering occurred. Unless everyone thinks it is clear enough that they agreeably cancel orders and let them be canceled. That I don't see happening any time soon.

Why is it irresponsible. IF they were abiding by their claim that they are only getting a little bit of over spray, it well and truly would not matter. We all know they are not. With RICO cases in the 80s, and the RICO act is what the patriot act was modeled off of, they regularly tapped whole neighborhoods under the notion that the bad guy could borrown anyone's phone for a minute. That was egregious then, AND was a lot of work. Now it's EASY to do far, far more, and you know they are. I mean those guys aren't even really the bad apples, they mean well and everything.

Who cares if it is their personal desire? The answer is nobody. If the root of their actions steams from loving to be an oppressive thug, or simply form trying to keep management off their back and keep their job, it doesn't matter. The net result is the same, and that is what they will be judged by. It doesn't even need to be about guns. It's getting to the point where a simple traffic stop for 6mph over can cost you $300+ up front and another $500 a year in insurance. For a lot of people that means the difference between making rent or feeding the kids. The minimum shake down for revenue keeps rising to fill the misspent coffers, and the number of employed and their income relative to expenses keep dropping. It doesn't really matter that the cop would rather not. In the end, if his/her choice to keep the boss of their back means they are making your kid go hungry, you are jsut the person starving your kid. I can empathize that it is a suck situation for the officer, and I've seen them try to hand out smaller citations than what they could because they know it is getting severely punitive. The reality is they are picking a side, and that side is ever increasingly sticking it to everyone they interact with on a daily basis, and it is hitting the point where it is getting bad enough it is harming the majority of the people, and doing so to help nobody but themselves. The job description, regardless of why the person in the uniform got into that job, or believed the job to be, is increasingly to be a thug that shakes you down for money and is permitted to exercise no judgment or discretion while abusing the crap out of anyone that questions (or more importantly, it is also increasingly even those who don't question) the powers that be. If that is what it is becoming, and you choose to keep that job, you get what comes with that job, and it is not sympathy. Some cops see that and are trying to draw a line. They aren't just walking off the job. They are getting political and resistive, and for those officers who are putting it all on the line in a manner that isn't simply about risk of violence, they have my gratitude and respect. They are trying to protect and serve regardless of what the politicians tell them that is supposed to mean, and they are doing something to stop it form getting so bad that the system breaks down.