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Those are with a mill or EDM wire cut. I've seen a drill press lightening job. You can do it as long as all you want are circles. For the OP, he might be able to do a glock style hole in the top is he does two drill holes, and has a lot of care and patience with a mini hack saw or cutoff wheel, and files.

The slide is not a firearm. Be sure you presented the issue to them properly.

What's are you loading them with?

My general plan of attack is to politely nag the crap out of them as they delay. The focus is generally on offering up the possibility that it is something other than the repsonsible party at the town level causing the problem (because they will tell you that anyway) and focus on the theoretical delay caused by the third party and how you can both facilitate making this work. Preferably by a method that requires the person on the other end of the phone to perform some simple, mundane and tedious task while on the phone, or to target you at some 3rd party in a manner that may come back to them and make their life more annoying. Remember, when they are being a giant PITA and dragging their feet, they are trying to make you go away and/or reduce their workload while looking like it isn't them. Your goal is to make that not happen. I usually try to give them a week of peace an quiet as a reward for completing each step. Examples at the various stages. Forms - I know what goes in there. I've done this tons of times. I'll download them and fill them out, and also print out a blank copy. sure. IF you are the Critically Important Little Old Lady , I'll cut you some slack and hand them in. If you are an officer who is going to make me make an appointment for this, I'm making it, and I'm going to do my best to force you to get me copies of the form and fill them out in front of you. You know.... because no two municipalities seem to do things the same way, and that always seems to be the reason for delay, so we are going to ensure this is done correctly once. Remember be polite!!! We are going to beat this as a TEAM!!!! Reference letters - IF the person form step one wasn't a jerk, I give them a business week to mail them out and verify with the recipients if they have them by day 9 (roughly), which is more than enough time to get around to mailing them out and for them to arrive. Ask them if they have gone out because your references have gotten nothing. Do they need the names and addresses again. Ask them to verify if they instantly say no. The point is to politely request them to do annoying work. When your references send them back, give them time to arrive. I give them 2 business days. Then call to ask if they received them. No? give them 2 more. Repeat. Call at different times of day and from different numbers. One of your goals here is to find the times of day when they seem most annoyed by your call, but also actually do stuff. If they were annoying, I start this whole process with a much shorter and more frequent schedule. Morpho - you will very often get ambiguous instructions, or conflicting sets of instructions as to what to do about receipts for this. Even if they explained clearly, call them and verify the set of instructions you are following are the correct set (i.e. turn them in or don't turn them in). This is usually good for 2 calls, because you need to be really, really sure. If they do require you to turn it in and it necessitates an appointment, ask them for a fistful of handgun permit forms while you are there. Time it to be annoying and reinforce that you guys are a TEAM!!! working an uphill battle and that every possibility exists for working together more and more frequently in the future!!! Background check - I've had them blame the NJSP and the FBI on this one. Ask them who you can contact there. Insist there has got to be something. They won't want to tell you, and you don't care because it's only an excuse to spend time with your new team member!!!! Of course, you know what office deals with it at the NJSP. So call them and ask them why are they screwing with your new best bud. Drag this out and turn it into a call every 2-3 days that is the equivalent of middle school girls calling each other up to talk $hit about some other girl not in the conversation and then devolve into a 5 year old asking if we are there yet ever few days. Police chief's signature - now it's just waiting for this a-hole, that is probably nothing more than a secretary with a rubber stamp waiting for said a-hole to say yeah stamp that. Is it done yet? No, how about now? Hmm.. perhaps I should make an appointment to discuss this with the chief directly, I know he's your boss, so there is only so much you can do... who do I make an appointment with. Etc. You may not be able to do much here other than nag about "is it done yet, I just want to make sure it isn't signed and sitting there" because lots of times that will happen too. Some places like to let it rot there as the last stop to denying you. i.e. if you can't be bothered to pick it up, you shouldn't own a gun or whatever reasoning they have. At this point, you can actually try to make that appointment with the chief, escalate to the mayor, bring it up at the town council on a slow night, etc. The usual stuff. A secondary goal of all of this is to actually get some straight answers out of them to make your life easier. One place I lived, my cavalcade of positive and helpful annoyance got me the answer on what day(s) of the month it was best to submit my forms because they admitted that they processed stuff only twice a month for anything other than forms getting added to a particular pile. Getting the timing right on submission and reference letters cut time from mid 60s to mid 40s. One place I lived, the outbox was infinitely deep, and they weren't going to call you to ocme pick them up no matter what. being persistent cut that from infinity to 2 days.

Nobody really answered the damn question. *sigh* OK, the 1934 NFA stuff really got put there for a handful of reasons working together. First, like there mostly still is today, was the general notion that armament wise, law enforcement is relegated to the cast offs of the military in terms of armament, technology, etc. They are an early downstream recipient of the benefit of military advancements, but still downstream. Leading up to the 1934 act, bolt guns, shotguns and revolvers were good enough for the military for most tasks, and thus the police got the same or worse. At the same time, you had the firearms industry producing all sorts of advanced armament that the military market was not biting on, nor was the LEO market. So they targeted civilian sales because they had a product they wanted to sell. Then you had prohibition in there which turned a lot of legitimate business men into crooks overnight, told the consumer they couldn't have what they wanted, and generally set the populace at odds with the government in general, and law enforcement in particular. This lead to a fairly vigorous conflict between LE and the newly minted criminals in which the criminals took full advantage of their bank accounts and went out and bought arms that were not just revolvers and shotguns. And remember that this was also the dirty thirties of the great depression. Then prohibition got repealed in the end of 1933. You also had the new deal being pushed in 1933. With being busy with making a bunch of work, firing a bunch of armed tax men chasing down illegal booze probably didn't seem like a great plan, so why not stick with the plan to get at organized crime they created through prohibition and shift all those guys policing alcohol sales into guys policing firearms sales. Huzzah, busy work. Fast forward to 1986, and you are deep in the middle of the cocaine trafficking heyday. The cartels were moving into the US, and Miami in particular. They were incredibly violent, and they were using a lot of illegally imported machine guns they had brought in along with the drugs. Thus, in the grand ideal of NJ, the way you deal with people forming death squads in US suburbs with a highly functioning supply line that extends to south america and brings in illegal drugs and guns in prodigious quantities, you pass another law that will give you a few extra years of charges to tack on to one of these scumbags, and along with it, criminalize a demographic of law abiding citizens that votes for the other party. Thus fixing nothing. Also in fine NJ tradition, you bend and break the rules of law in order to get it passed by having it amended to a bill you would rather see die in general at a late night session with a voice vote that you call as a win for you depsite the ffact that the video evidence doesn't really back it up. Nobody gave up anything, it was taken.

HE didn't rule out some of them being full on stupid either. So there's that possibility.

I'd verify they aren't really 16 rounders. Inaccurately described cz-75 pattern mags are pretty common.

In a place of public accommodation, you can't deny service to a protected class. No protected class is based on employment.

It is quite soft shooting. It does recoil though.

Not is the geologic structure of the area likely to provide anytime soon. Otoh there is the risk of the cliff face in the uk calving and causing a big tsunami.

OK, Vlad is going to be out on this match. So all the extra help I can get the better. I'm going to try to make it 6 stages, but we might have to cut it down to 5.

I have one in .357. mkXIX. For now.

Your math is meaningless if you reload. IF you reload, the .44 is a very flexible platform.

This is my best recollection on this topic, my numbers may be off. Celestial event, EMP, or sabotage. We have about 90 really big transformers in the US power grid that are hard to replace. By hard, it means about 1-2 per year are produced to deal with global demand, and capcity to produce more does not exist. To the best of my knowledge, this is domestic production, and not global, worldwide we can produce IIRC about 9. When speaking of "it's not if, it is when", you are dealing with the celestial event end of things. Likely affected areas is between 25-50% of the surface area of the planet. Worst case scenario for US exposure to such an event, assuming current political standing and purchasing parity, we are looking at approximately 12 years to restore the grid to the current state. That's some pretty simplistic math, as likely there would be serious incentive to both ramp up production capacity in face of such an event, and to rebuild the grid in a different manner with more local co-gen, higher interconnectivity, etc. But you'd be looking at at least 5 very hard years for the nation. Also zombies are a metaphor for people who just want to kill you for something you have that show up in relatively large numbers. At the most basic level, this would be nutritive value.

W2 can be oil quenched depending on the size of the piece. The manufacturer of the steel recommends brine quenching. It in theory rusts easier then D2 tool steel. AS far as I can tell. It is getting to be hard to come by, and as far as I can tell it's main desirable property is having a pretty flexible heat treat process while still being able to get pretty hard and be differentially heat treated. So it's liked by people who do actual blacksmithing as it is easier to work with. In terms of benefit to the customer, I don't see it offering much to the consumer. For comparison, depending on what carbon content the specific lot being worked with actually has, it basically like 1095 but can get a teensy bit harder, and is more brittle.

That's kind of my point. Phones in general are not something I see a lot of hardware issues with that are eligible for warranty coverage. Mostly impact and moisture damage with some handsets. Everything hardware related that I have encountered is not a matter of defect but poor choices in engineering like my samasung galaxy S and it's worlds worst wi-fi reception and totally messed up GPS. One consulting firm for british telecom found the hardware related support incidents (in 2011) for andorid to be 14%, windows phone 7 9%, iOS 7%, and blackberry 3.7% over a sample of 600,000 incidents. They grouped by OS. IF you decide to count the iphone, a single model of phone, against any other single model of phone, and then count pure number of issues, you will likely come up with the most returns as it has outsold every other model significantly until the galaxy SIII. Failure rate tracking is also not necessarily indicative of what a customer will run into as they may divide up their perception of the world differently. For example, they ask for the most reliable phone, they don't want the OS, they want a make and model they can go out and buy, but they will probably pester you for a recommendation of a platform and want you to tell them android, iphone, or blackberry.

Well the question is how good of a shot are you with irons at 500. You say you are, but is that hits on a 6 foot square, or a 5 inch plate, or somewhere in between? IF it was closer to the 6 foot square, were you relying on the elevation markings on your irons to do holdover? If you have good eyes without an astigmatism, a 2moa dot on an aimpoint without a magnifier is going to be usable out to 350 yards or so on 10 inch plates. It starts to get challenging with an unmodified RDS in my experience at around 250 or so, but I don't have the best eyesight. After that point, you have to see the target, deal with reduced contrast of the target to background, start dealing with holdovers bigger than the dot, and start using actual technique. A true 1-4x magnifying scope is MUCH faster than an unmagnified red dot, and IMO still likely faster than a RDS + magnifier for most people due to it being less of a compromise. Regardless of optic, dealing with just the platform, barrel choice, and the cartridge, for anything run and gun, the generally accepted 3 gun limit for not building a stage lots of people time out on is 4moa targets, and I tend to agree. Me and irons cease being on friendly terms before 200 yards for shooting something small-ish, and an unmagnified RDS (with a 3.5moa dot) hit on a 10 inch target at 350-ish is an achievement for me. However, with a good comp on my gun and 8 inch plates at 50 yards, the limiting factor on how fast I can hit them is how much I get the plate dancing. RDSs are definitely fast. However, once you enter the ranges where sight offset above bore becomes a meaningful factor, tilting the gun .45 degrees and essentially aiming down the barrel is faster, especially for multiple targets. Most of the speed picked up is due to easier transitions with both eyes open and no tube. Both eyes open, transitions to the left aren't so bad, but transitions to the right meaningful blind spot due to degree of focus down the tube and the tube wall. With proper technique on the gun, I can hit a 6" steel plate at 100 3 out of 4 times off hand with a 3.5moa RDS. For a torso sized are, it should be cake and damn fast.

I would think with your citibike frequent rider card, you would be able to upgrade to a large capacity assault beverage.

No, they took into account limitless deficit spending, electricity and pumps in some locations.

Yup, I've seen that as well as requiring they have to know you for at least X years. Sometimes combined, which seems really sketchy.

I think you may be mistaken. Based on previous accounts of people getting snagged for this at gun shows, and the whole mess with gunsmiths = manufacturers if they work on more than X guns in a year, BATFE seems to approach this stuff with the attitude that the crime is to fail to comply with regulatory limits, and their definition of said limit is a magic number they have in their heads but won't share with you. The gunsmith thing eventually resulted in enough POed business people with lawyers they divulged the magic number, but for stuff like this, I suspect it is whatever they say it is until you win in court. If you are going to flip something, flipping it for profit will look worse than flipping it to get your money back. Businesses run to make a profit, if you aren't profiting, the business potion of the accusation may be more defensible. Things you have taken out and fondled are probably better described as like new in box or mint than new in box. And very low round count might be better than saying never fired. Use some common sense.

The op is correct. If you are flipping guns regularly, you can wind up on the wrong end of the ATF if they notice.

Sounds like kdcom.dll got corrupted or maliciously modified. It is critical to booting apparently. Emergency boot disk and replace it plus scan the ssd for malware and you might be back in business.

Seriously look at the tear downs of the air and both retina MBPs. They might use commodity chips and controllers, but they are proprietary form factor. As for stats, the Verizon guy might be measuring the abusiveness of his customer base. Like you, we run various platforms without hardware issues outside of drops and such, and our policies don't encourage lying about damage. I'll bet yours are probably similar. We both don't have many issues. Look at a population of the lowest common denominator encouraged to lie about causes of failure, and the rate shoots up.

The man embodied everything that is wrong with politics. I find it very hard not to take some joy from his passing. Avoiding reveling in the suffering of others is one of those rules I try to adhere to thoroughly, but he was one of those that makes that difficult. My condolences to his family, but I'm not going to mourn his passing even a little bit.