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Uh I put 180k on 90s 4 banger turbo and sold it running pretty well. The issue with that car wasn't the motor, it was durability of the transmission vs the motor. The technology dealing with engine management now was there then. Heck, the GDI engines with variable valve timing and turbo charging them were around then, just not in the US and not many of them. The only issue with turbo motors is that the turbo is indeed a wear item. You can't expect otherwise form something that spins at hundreds of thousands of RPMs. For a single turbo engine, it's not that horrible. If you avoid dealer pricing. $500-1000 + labor, but then again so is your front bumper. Twin turbos double that easily and the fancier they get with the plumbing, the more labor costs go up. As for the small sun.. be serious. Yes, it's hot, you don't want to touch it. You don't want to touch your headers either. They have gotten better about managing it these days as most cars now are dealing with ventilation of the engine bay seriously even in normally aspirated cars due to decreasing frontal area and aerodynamics. My turbo ride from the 90s did a pretty nice job on the under hood heat shield. My 2005 turbo ride you cna barely tell it is there. other than the intercooler.

No, every firearms death IS investigated as a homicide.

No need to wonder. You can't get .223 brass, or bullets, or primers. you can't get dies. Every place I have looked, presses are out of stock or in limited availability (it would probably be worse if the components hadn't run out first). If you are thinking about it now, you have already failed to avoid scarcity.

By definition they have picked a much bigger fight than they have anticipated. They really did think they had a bigger ground swell of support than in 93. The reality is in 93 they had 70%+ polling for more gun control. While Sandy Hook was still basically the entirety of the 24-7 news cycle, they got between 53-54% polling for more gun control. They believed the MAIG numbers that 74% of NRA members want lots more gun control, and expected the NRA to be spending it's time with internal squabbles like they did in 93, but to a greater extent. They expected pro RKBA politicians in congress to have to amke a call on pissing off their base or voting pro 2nd. They also expected the antis to actually show up and donate money and vote and protest. I've seen all of two protests, the one outside the NRA press conference, and the one in NYC on the bridge. Both looked like they attracted about 30-50 people. So far I have seen on pro-rkba protest, and it attracted over 100. The reality is that the average anti's position is that SOMEONE ELSE should be making this problem go away so they don't have to think about it. They are mentally primed to delegate basic survival to someone else, why would they be that keen on putting in effort towards something that doesn't affect themselves or the people they know? And that's the reality of the lie about "gun violence", it's not that common. Heck, look how little you can get people worked up about HIV/AIDS these days, and NOBODY comes out defending a retrovirus, and nobody's life is improved by a disease, and you have 58,000 or so new cases a year and an existing infected population of over one million.

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How does a car "mysteriously" run off a road. I can't think of one. I can think of a jillion perfectly banal ways for it to run off a road. Idiot texting, drinking, falling asleep, failur of a number of mechanical components (I mean like that would be really frikin mysterious on a ride form 1984), tried to avoid a collision with wildlife, etc. As for the guy form FPSRussia, he made a LOT of enemies by being more than a bit of a scumbag, so...

Even elmer fudd had a double barrel shotgun and would have been a felon under this bill's rules.

Keep coming up with excuses not to. It's a nation wide thing. If people don't show up, it'll be noted. If you think this is going to be done with gun owners just getting off their ass for one single thing, you are mistaken.

IF that is what you bought, the price is a bit gougy. 4 months ago, probably $80-125 max. REgardless, you need a lower parts kit, buffer, receiver extension, buffer spring, and a stock. Then you need ot put it together which requires a hammer and a couple punches.

This is something that frustrates me horribly. There won't be a clear "hey everyone this is it!" moment. Seriously, there wasn't one the first time when we had the revolution. The civil war was clearer because the states decided to pick a fight with each other according to the general conventions of war at the time which still involved running big crowds of guys at each other with weapons most of the time. Even with the revolution it wasn't like everyone got the memo that as soon as they do X, everyone meet up here and the revolution starts. Step one, much like the small revolutions in the war on drugs, begins with simply ignoring the laws. That started long ago. I guarantee you there are plenty of machine guns not on the registry. When you read stories about finding a pile of really valuable WWII NFA covered items dumped someplace or handed in to a police station by a widow, you know it was going on. You also know that sometimes when the guy who was hoarding them kicked it they weren't ditched or turned in. There are also people out there making FA weapons out of legal semi-autos since some of them get found regularly by law enforcement. How much do you want to bet during the AWB, people manufactured new high cap mags from rebuild kits, or that they didn't pin or weld muzzle devices, or they built an AW out of a not previously assembled old lower? How much do you want to bet people sell guns to people they know without following the law? The question really is how much of the norm does breaking the law become, and how hard does law enforcement push back and what happens then. Look at the drug war, you spawned a whole bunch of gangs. They aren't lawless, some have pretty complex founding documents and laws. They just aren't the laws of any official government. They have land the police won't travel onto and do anything about anything. The people who live there know who is in charge there. They get more and more each year. And what is the barrier to entry of that? We ALREADY live under a state of rule where you are probably guilty of some life ruining infraction you don't even know about. If it can't put you in jail for a year or more AND financially ruin you, it can at least financially ruin you.. hard. They keep cranking it up, and there may be little difference in the end result of punishment if you fill out paperwork wrong compared to what was done to the DC sniper. Except he knows where his next meal is coming from. IT won't be like some big social event. It will be more like a really good sale. THe govenrment can't afford ot actually enforce anythign really draconian universally, so you live in peril. Except they do this with a whole bunch of things. AT some point the risk for everything you do will be so high, there won't be a difference between shooting someone in the face, and some other violation of the law that should simply never been put on an equal footing with murder. For more and more people the math will be "at these prices how cna I NOT afford to shoot the guy in the face?" PErsonally, I'm shocked there hasn't been more violence towards the government after the last time I got a ticket for speeding. Immediate cost was about $380 when you added everything up. Ongoing cost has ballooned to over $2000. I make significantly above the median income in NJ, and I felt it in my budget. I could have always jettisoned some non absolute necessity expenses. If you are making near the median though, a simple 1-14 over ticket could have you getting booted to the street or driving around in peril of a series of escalating infractions you will likey never be able to dig yourself out of. (at least by my estimate, ahd a friend who did that with suspensiona nd whatnot.. eventual cost was 4 years of no driving and about $13,000 to get everything set right at the end of it and get insurance again, and that was well over a decade ago when my speeding ticket would have cost me a sum total of about $800 long term). The grossly disproportionate penalties have actually creeped pretty low. Deep down you know this. The situation is degrading and getting worse. What you are really asking is when will it be my turn to tell them to screw off, what form will it take, and how many other will be doing it at the same time.

The yelling fire thing is actually apt. There are ZERO laws about yelling fire in a theater. You don't need a permit, nobody tries to pre-emptively prevent it other than telling you it would be a bad/stupid thing to do. You simply aren't shielded form the consequences. You don't go to jail for illegal speech, the result is somewhere between being ejected form the theater for being annoying, and being charged with a crime due to deliberately creating a situation that caused injury to people.

Just out of curiosity WHY are you people upgrading membership? Membership dues can't be used for lobbying. Unless you have a non voting membership and want a voting one, there isn't much reason to form an activism standpoint. You are better off taking the cost of upgrading and cutting a check to the NRA-ILA who CAN use that check to lobby. I'm not sure if membership dollars can now be used for PAC stuff, but it is not an election year.

Pretty much everyone has that now. Amex actually ahs a higher threshold than my other cards. The other are $1. Amex it's $10. Still I have caught a few things. For people who like ugn stuff, one of the problems is that you go through a small business which may have set upa cart badly (call it tier 1) , a cart (tier 2), which may be vulnerable , the card service the cart is attached to (tier 3a-3z as there might be more than one layer of these), and the actual card company (tier 4). In the last year there have been several large compromises at the tier 4 and 3 levels, and tier 1 and 2 are constant risks. I had one vendor who I got what with fraud EVERY time I did a transaction with them, which unfortunately I had to do three times to complete my custom order or not get might product and lose my deposit. You need to check your statements. Every single time my cards have been compromised in the last 3 years there have been low dollar value tests that you could catch. $2-40. Usually it is easy to sort out. For some reason they fought me tooth and nail over a ~$20 charge for yahoo's premium mail service and a charge to an internet dating site that even the search engines had barely heard of.

It was in the 80s, and was a combination of deregulation of media outlets in general, and television in particular, as well as changes in technology, namely new ratings gathering equipment used by nielsen, and the advent of the 24 hour news network as permitted by cable. Deregulation allowed for consolidation of news outlets under one owner, which drastically reduced the variety of sources for editorial opinion influencing the new report. Then you had the new ratings gathering technology which made everything's ratings go down by being more accurate and thus less inflated. Then you had the fallout of that combining with the consolidation of ownership. Previously with lots of owners, news was expected to have ho hum ratings, and since everyone was strategizing and funding on their own, AND there was the threat of the fairness doctrine, there wasn't a huge battle for numbers. With bigger players with more outlets nationally, that started chanign, and then the fairness doctrine got killed. Which meant you could turn it into a politicized circus of infotainment rather than aim for impartial coverage.

Is that code for "when it didn't fit in, I pushed it harder, when it wouldn't come back out, I got the really big hammer"? For 99+% of gun issues, team push it harder does not have the answers.

Depends on how much of the women and democrat positivity he wants to keep post sandy.

I heard about this early on more by coincidence than anything. Every place originating the details of an execution were tin foil hat type blogs. This has since changed, but most of the details echo the original blog postings, so I'm going to assume it's internet echoes. Actual news released by the police was that he was found with a single gunshot wound to the head, they made attempts to revive on scene, he was declared on scene, and that like any violent death it was going to be investigated as a homicide until ruled otherwise. I have trouble with considering noveske a conspiracy. I've met far too many folks in the shooting world who are like "you can't tell me to wear a seatbelt or helmet, I know better!"

She thinks she has a reasoned viewpoint. Make her prove to herself otherwise. Usually one of the best first steps is to ask them what the current laws are to actually procure a firearm and ammo. MAke them tell you what they think it is, and then when they get it wrong, tell them the potential jail time for their version vs reality, the liklihood that you would have just been told no, and then get them back on track with the correct next step. Especially for NJ, fill in the timeline. Have her role play someone intent on comitting a crime, or better yet, role play a whole restraining orde against a crazy violent person who is stalking them. THe lowest hanging fruit is why the need to limit the purchase of ammo? How will those regulations impact crimes? Ask for an example of a crime it would have stopped.

You can wind up with that issue with aluminum lowers. My noveske is tight on everything I own. Needs tools tight. My firebird lower is the sloppiest fit on everything until you tighten up the set screw.

YEs, there's the official way which is onerous and difficult and basically requires a lot of congress and the supreme court to get it done. Then there's the practical way, which is that EOs are guidance to the executive branch and departments. The EO goes out to a department and they do something congress doesn't like, write a law spefcifically restricting that action, or just write in defunding said department into the next spending bill that hits and send the president a memo to go F himself.

Well form day one they said they would consider executive orders and other non-legislative measures. I've seen this pushed both pro and anti, and all that has been done is that a statement made on day one has been reiterated. As for making things NFA, that would require legislation as the definitions of title I and title II items are part of the NFA legislation. It would be hard, if not impossible to cram semi autos or magazines into any category of title II stuff without violating the verbiage of the legislation that grants BATFE the ability to regulate NFA items. He can use the executive order to interfere in manufacturing of firearms and ammunition via the recent updates to the emergency powers. He also can interfere with distribution via guidance to the BATFE regarding licensing and handling of FFLs. Probably the worst thing I can imagine is him using the office to bully the large stores out of the firearms business like wal-mart, cabelas, etc., and then mandate storage, fees, or other requirements onto the licensing of FFLs to make it untenable for anyone other than the large businesses he forced out of the market. This would of course come with MASSIVE backlash form both constituents and politicians. That's the closest thing I can imagine to a ban beign enacted by EO. NExt most onerous thing I could think of is creating a new class of FFL that you ahve to be to sell semi-automatic firearms, but I have no idea if creating a new defined class of weapons is within the purview of the BATFE. However, anything the BATFE does that way can simply be repsonded to by budget riders like the tiahrt amendments were. Act like a douche, get your budget yanked.However, given that we ahven't had an actual budget passed in forever, I don't know if the strategy would apply to the spending bills we do pass. I don't see why not. In which case if it does, the opportunity would appear with every spending bill. He does have a wide degree of latitude regarding import and export. He could shut down both for civilian commercial purposes, which would have a negative effect on the industry and the market, but wouldn't really achieve much in regards to the types of things available. He could also basically cut of mec-gar's manufacturing from access to the US, which would seriously screw up the supply of OEM magazines for most guns. Of course, he can try making stuff up and shoving it in an executive order, but congress would have to sit back and watch there branch of government become effectively obsolete. However, I suspect that anything in an EO will go after manufacturing and distribution. They just don't have the manpower to impose something on owners directly.

Urban ert in a 1/2 point convertible setup with mash hooks.

Noveske's were $249. Everyone who usually gets just stripped lowers had bumped their price to $289-$299 before sandy hook. $299 with no transfer fee would be a good deal for nj even before all this stuff started.

Man that seatbelt must have been uncomfortable. Hope he at least had arrangements made so his company survives and his family is provided for. It's the right size for probate laws to really screw it over.

Yes, he has said that to get the reset he wants, his guns come out heavier than stock, but smoother. He also has a rig mounted to his dash or something like that do he can practice trigger pull while on long trips.