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during the federal ban, most everyone turned the front part of their barrel to a specific diameter unless it was a bull barrel. There were muzzle devices that fit on and you would rill detents for set screws. I have such a setup.

BAH! I tracked down the padlocks approved for padlocking up shipping containers full of classified stuff. They were about $1800 a pop IIRC. Yah, here it is http://www.gokeyless.com/product/1373/sargent-greenleaf-951c-high-security-padlock

Yeah it was so frikin fast that Obama went BACK IN TIME to make it happen. "The main reason the arms trade talks are taking place at all is that the United States - the world's biggest arms trader accounting for more than 40 percent of global conventional arms transfers - reversed U.S. policy on the issue after Obama was first elected and decided in 2009 to support a treaty." Stop illustrating just how much you haven't been paying attention to the issues supposedly so dear to you. This treaty is so far form done it's not even funny. Notice in the OPs article it refers to draf repeatedly? Yeah there's no treaty. There's not even a ratified draft. Heck, they couldn't even get a draft out the door without rewriting the rules and saying they weren't going to ratify it, but wirte something up, throw it up for a vote, and have it be official if it passes. The way it was SUPPOSED to have been done was come out of committee, get approved, and then go to a general vote. The broke the rules to go to the general vote with a draft that has not been ratified. They expected the last 14 versions to pass the committee. If it doesn't pass the general assembly, they will throw another draft at it until someone tells them to stop. Did the draft suddenly get better for all the countries that previously shot it down to approve of it? No. In many ways it got worse. They never appoved of the draft, all they did was say go ahead with your changing of the rules if you think that will help. When all the major arms exporters but one say that, and the treaty will drastically impact that trade, why do you think they said go ahead and try it? Then of course, there is what happens with it if it is signed by the UN... why nothing does. It ahs to be ratified by the senate to be binding, and it needs 2/3 majority. Do you think they are oging to get that? If they could they could just repeal the 2nd amendment. FFS worry about stuff that actually matters, or at least stop posting really old news there have been threads on repeatedly jsut because Reuters feels like filling some column inches.

First response would be "but does it have lower death rates overall?" Look at homicides and suicides per capita. If the number isn't lower than other states, does it really matter if a firearm was involved if you didn't stop anyone form dying? The reality is that states with both lots of gun control and little gun control occupy positions at the top and bottom of the scale for homicides and suicides. If you want to look at the source data, most of it comes out of wisqars. http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html over on the left you will see options for specific data. Unfortunately it is getting out of date as there has been no update since 2009. It used to only be about 2 years behind for finalized data and one for preliminary. The CDC tried to threat gun deaths and injuries as a disease and after many years of pushing that agenda, came to the conclusion that dealing with those issues under an epidemiological model was pointless as there was no measurable correlation of "treatment" to outcome. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5214a2.htm As for the chart first mentioned, the majority of deaths by firearms are suicides. Suicides who use a gun really mean it, and it tends not ot be a spontaneous cry for help, but the end of a long drawn out depression. Putting up time consuming hoops doesn't necessarily take a lot of entries out of this column. Of the homicides, most of them are criminal on criminal, then criminal on bystander, then there are LEO on criminal, LEO on LEO (friendly fire), and LEO on bystander. All of which have nothing to do with gun control laws which are not applied to the shooter in those scenarios. Those are the forces that even things out. Where you will see a bigger difference is firearms related injuries which are also in the chart. Without a high rate of ownership, and without a lot of hunters, you don't get a lot of accidental injuries. Since a lot the states with lots of gun control tend to be more built out, with higher population density, and they usually have more hospitals and faster response times. That means more injuries stay injuries, and don't become accidental death by firearm. Also in states without a lot of gun control, there's also likely more justifiable homicides as self-defense with a gun is a greater possibility. Those are the forces that unbalance the chart against low control states. As for stats about who shot who, there is poor reporting done on that, and it is of limited availability. The best that is reliably available are the FBI crime statistics. http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/crimestats When you drill down, you will get to here (2011 linked as example) http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-offense-data For the various violent crime types, click on the weapon tables links. So for example form the link above, the chart for hoomicide by wepaons is here.. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-20 There you will note fun stuff like illinois doesn't provide all their numbers, so they get an asterisk.

Other than the gate we don't need anything. But with all the hubbub about member vs nonmember accounting, the club might make it an issue.

No idea, but a recent news article quoted her on not being ready to retire yet.

I'ma t the 21 month mark for severe schedule alteration. In the last month I have been able to get more gaming time, but not much. So I tend to stick with things that let me game in small chunks. LAtely it ahs been pressing the lever for the Borderlands2 flavored food pellet.

Why do you think that, because of advertising? Most justices in relatively recent history have served into their 80s or 90s. They get some insane health care, on par or better than sitting presidents. To sit out a 4 year term, the oldest conservative justice would be 81 or 82 by the end of Obama's term. For strategic retirement, ginsberg and bryer are more likely to go. For kennedy and Scalia to go it would likley have to be death that gets them out. Kennedy has been a swing vote going both ways on issues. Replacing him with a hard line lefty would get fillibustered, and getting 3/5ths to break it would be hard as you likely wouldn't get unanimity form the democrats. Scalia would probably roll in there running off a heart and lung machine rather than let Obama pick his replacement. ginsberg is saying she doesn't want to retire yet, which would indicate at best a strategic retirement year 3 of his term, but in 2014 the senate puts 33 more seats up with 20 being dems and 13 being republicans. With his last two nominations, he went into debt with the party, and asking them to carry water on anything too extreme is unlikely. Keep in mind we ahve had left leaning judges appointed by right leaning presidents in the past and vice versa as well. Circuit court appointments are MUCH more critical than worrying about the SCOTUS, and he can't choose a solely anti 2nd tact with those appointments either. It'd backfire. Lets say by the end of 2014 we've had scalia and kennedy get replaced with lefties as well as ginsburg, AND he stacks circuit courts. It means the circuit courts are stuck with SCOTUS rulings to date as without conflicting rulings at the circuit level, nothing would likely get to them. We could get stuck treading water, but losing ground would be harder. Which leaves us in a better position RKBA wise than I have seen in my entire life. There would just be no SCOTUS fueled deus ex machina for the PRNJ.

Now now.. they aren't as stupid as you think. The problem is that you can't be shocked at how much the government is taking if you can't find a job that pays enough for that number to be big enough to bother you. You don't miss X% of way more than I need to be comfortable. You also don't really miss X% of it wasn't enough in the first place. You only really miss it if X% is the difference between getting by and not getting by or lots of options and no options. As fro the electoral college stuff. The electoral college is wand was broken, kind of like a nation wide popular vote is and was broken. THe electoral college just happened to also fix a number of problems modern technology make easy to work around. Conducting the vote pre-industrial revolution was a MUCH, MUCH more daunting task than conducting it post punch card and adding machine. It permitted the nation to not be in a questionable state for any longer than necessary. Jsut look at election numbers. Under the electoral college, about 40-45% of the popular vote doesn't matter. Under the popular vote, about 48% of the popular vote doesn't matter. WHen you have roughly 30% voter turnout to begin, and THEN have it come down to 1-2% every time, it isn't how you count the votes that's broken. It's like having the oxygen masks drop cause your plane is going down, and complaining to the waitress that the crackers you got with your cocktail were stale.

If the weather and status of the club permits, we'll try to put one on. PS. does anyone have my craftsman screw gun from last CJ match. It has gone missing.

Retail outlets will see a jump in reloading component prices. The high volume component sellers and component manufacturers that sell direct usually try to contain the price as long as raw materials, labor, and energy aren't going up. They do however start having inventory issues. I think their prices will rise though unless we see some major recovery of the economy or really bad news for other large economies. A weak dollar isn't good for commodity prices. Also, the 2015 bidding price for coal powered energy based on Obama's punitive policies will see folks enjoying cheap coal power having their electricity cost go up 3-6x current rates and the cost will be passed on.

Why spend much on a lock when you can climb over the fence or cut the fence? The outdoor rated master locks with the hexagonal profile hasps and combo are hard enough to pick and shim proof enough that it'll do the job. The reality is anyone really trying to steal something protected by a fence is not going to be deterred by a padlock on the fence, and you can have your stuff stolen or you scan have your stuff stolen and your fence destroyed. All you can really do is discourage the lazy. Now for something like chaining up a generator if you make cutting up the generator frame the easiest path, you can force them to make some noise etc. by getting a good lock.

The cerakote oven cure is a nice finish and pretty durable. Surface prep matters a lot regardless of finish.

The beretta version of the cougar before the tooling went to stoeger was easily one of the softest shooting guns in .45 I ever used. It was a rental with broken sights do I can't speak to accuracy. I have a baby eagle in 9mm. In .45 I'd probably take the cougar.

Well, one thing I had confirmed is my camp tramp beats the crap out if a hatchet. A knife intended for chopping is only slightly lighter and has a MUCH bigger sweet spot which keeps you safer when tired. With one tub, and your heat and hit water working, the water bob is a hard call. I need to consider something beyond the rotating cases of water for water. Keep more emergency cash in small bills. I didn't run out of small bills, but I thought my shtf cash was well denominated and got damn close to using up the small bills. Many of my neighbors were not so lucky. I need a bigger battery charger for my rechargables. I ran into issues getting much of my aa stash back in service while at work. More things are getting UPSs. It's convenient for dips, but they were critical in keeping the cells charged. I need to finally figure out what I'm gonna do about a generator. Toddlers are HARD without power, they don't understand and aren't inclined to accept adjustment to their routine too well. After a week he's adjusting and I'm curious to see if going back in the morning will be easy or hard. Entertainment. Books and a deck of cards only goes so far. Once you find out everyone is alive, turn off your cellphone when you can. You really don't need to know how stupid your family really is in an emergency, so minimize the opportunity to have it illustrated a hundred times a day. There's a reason you don't live with them anymore. Headlamps really are useful enough to outweigh their dorkiness. There are probably a ton more.

I've got my ultralight set up. A vtac polymer mount with a modified insert and a 4sevens single 123 quark tactical. Something like 5oz. Twist between high and strobe, push for intermittent, click for constant, use it like a gas pedal when not operating it.Like 150 lumens for the generation I have. Total cost about $80 for the light and mount.

Partisan fear mongering, the only things I can think of that the executive can do without congress would be import restrictions and expanding the definition of destructive devices or AOWs. I think there would be serious repercussions to both of those.

From a meteorolgical standpoint, it was a post-tropical cyclone long before it got near us. All that means is that the primary energy source stopped being water temperature, and started being temperature differential of the air between the storm and surrounding weather systems. Last I saw in the papers was as quoted above. Not a hurricane despite meeting the metrics for it, so no hurricane deductible applies.

It's a hell of a hike if cherry ridge is close, but CJRPC does an all gun day open to the public. All the heavy lifting is already done. It's in the spring sometime forget when exactly. I ran the USPSA booth there one year.

We have one guy in the neighborhood who has been running 24-7 since the morning after. He has gone through a buttload of fuel. He has some more for a while, but what he doesn't have is a spare generator. I don't think the duty cycle on that thing was 72 hours running the whole house without a break. Walked by with the kid while he was refueling. From the looks of it he had about 80 gallons of fuel to start and was at least 50-60 gallons through his stash. There's no cable and no phone if you have heat and his household has two adults and 4 dogs. Could have been comfy for another week with anything resembling some smarts. In general, my reply would be "I don't have enough to even remotely make a dent running it 24-7, I don't even have enough to make it through the weekend running it one in every 4 hours to keep stuff frozen and let the furnace fire up."

Dunno who told you that. 3 weeks from when it arrives at USPSA HQ is more the norm. Some get it faster. Then there is when we get it out the door, which can take some time depending on how screwed up the logistics are for that month. At least we throw in a free match. In general, if you are the type of person who has to have stuff ASAP, don't go for the free match with signup option. Pay the right now tax and sing up with USPSA on the USPSA web site and deal with the "gotta have it now tax".

Well, I can say in sayreville, that at least the convenience store a block down from me got broken into and had lots of goods stolen last night. we've had some people fighting over gas, but not too seriously as far as I have heard. Got heat and hot water cause my systems are old school, and marginal coverage on the verizon cell int he house. as good as none with the AT&T cell. Someone at JCP&L needs to be shot for not powering off the substations prophylactically. Now they are toast.

Sure, which particular BSA optic crapped out?

Are you dependent on the drug or the medical care? If they changed your scrip would you be taking it or would you take what they told you?

Sorry Dave. Should have asked for advice on something cheap but ok first. There's nothing wrong buying a $5 knife because that's what you can afford. Paying $5 for a $0.75 knife is something you should avoid if $5 is all you can afford. Dollar for dollar you can't do much worse than BSA. It'll look nicer than a nc star or leapers, but I honestly think they might be worse. I own a few cheap optics, the couple of BSA ones both just fell apart with normal use.