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Wow the author of that article is full of it. Bullet proof vest. $400 brand new at galls. Kevlar helmet. $230. Swat clothing. Available thousands of places online. Catch a sale, and not much of one, $80 for pants and a shirt. Ballistic underwear. $92. Basic ar. $750. 10 pack of at mags. $110 One beta knockoff 90 round drum. $140 Police trade in glock, less than $400. Remington 870 $450. Even assuming the 6000 rounds of ammo was all shotgun, pistol and rifle in centerfire calibers, we are under $5000, not $20,000. Doing a 10 month employee ga/ta stint plus research assistant by the hour, and taking unemployment insurance for the two months of summer. The guy wasn't necessarily a starving college student.

Hey there.. NOTHING? I may not have the most current version of the series of events, but the last one I've got has the bad guy going out and coming back in through a fire door. I'm pretty sure you could have the door alarmed with a buzzer and strobe and set to bring the house lights up if someone opens it. Stop using emergency exits as legit exits and attach some very attention getting warnings to them, and all of a sudden getting in and out with anything questionable is a lot harder. Thinking about it, that's the least hassle for the biggest payoff in terms of making the target less attractive that I could think of.

It has no rhyme or reason. Back before they dropped half their tall inventory, I easily dropped $400 a year on just clothes there. Never got one, barely even got catalogs. Now I only occasionally buy reloading supplies if they have it in stock and nobody else does. They drop every flavor of specialty catalog, the big book, and sale fliers in my mailbox for.a $40-60 a year customer.

Not really, the carbine length gas system is called that because it came about in order to make a carbine length at from the 20" rifle. Carbines are just shorter, usually lighter, versions of a rifle.

The blank firing gun is likely not a firearm if it can't readily be converted to fire real ammo. Attach the muzzle device that launches things, and it changes categories. No idea if batfe cares, but some states will move it into the firearm category. A federal equivalent would be the cartridge conversions for black powder guns. Buy it as a bp gun, it's not regulated. Buy the cylinder it's not regulated. Put them together and it's a firearm that is regulated.

I've got approximate round counts because I tend to shoot mostly in competition and focus on one gun at a time. I reload so I keep inventory. I jot down what I'm loading for what when, and if it isn't in inventory, it got shot out of a specific gun.

The ndaa only needed simple majority. Besides this can't run as a rider to a budget bill or any other fun stuff. It can't be put to a voice vote at 3am. Getting this to be a done deal is basically the same as repealing the 2nd without having to get the house involved. It is a very, very, very low grade threat.

He's speculating and placing it in venues to appear as reporting rather than editorializing. He's done much more unethical things than that lately.

The sealant will get cleaned off in the tumbler when you clean them. Check with a magnet. S&B now sells real brass ammo and plated steel ammo.

Just as a summary, this treaty process to date has been a farce as far as treaties go. First they had potentially infinite oepn ended meetings. Now we are in the preparatory committee stage after it looked like the infinite open ended meetings would actually go on forever without any consensus appearing naturally. The prep-com phase is four meetings deep, and was supposed to generate a preliminary document in February of 2012, and did not (it generated yet one more proposed document, but it is not a draft of a a legally binding treaty, just a scrum of regulatory ideas). On top of that, the Obama administration technically flip-flopped on the US position, but they required unanimous consent. Which means ANY one nation can tank the whole deal. On top of that, the UN put Iran in charge of the whole thing now, and they are one of the most cited for infractions in small arms dealings as they regularly supply terrorist groups and rogue nations with arms in a manner that meets no nation's import export standards. So yeah.. if you write a letter to your representatives, and if it is about this, you wasted time that could have been spent writing about any number of other much more pertinent issues, even for RKBA focused peeps.

Well except for the fact it is wrong about who is writing the treaty, wrong about the state of the treaty, and after the first paragraph, it is all pure speculation.

But see, here's the problem. The NRA has been been hammering this stupid treaty with minimal chance of becoming a treaty that there's an opportunity to sign, much less the US actually ratifying it and effectively making it the law of the land. Even THEN, you can pass a new law that makes it worthless, and our system says the last one wins. However, they missed the boat on most of the BATFE abuses. They missed the boat on the shotgun importation study that had the ability to effectively turn all shotguns into unregistered NFA items without ever having to involve congress. They miss TONS of these things and instead harp on one thing that is not particularly high priority. They aren't keeping a sharp eye on things. They aren't helping you do so either.

A well designed 9mm hp at a good velocity will perform much better than .40 plinking ammo. The cheap bulk stuff not only isn't designed with expansion in mind, it's also likely less than max velocity for the bullet weight. All pistol ammo can over penetrate.

The big square badger add on latches aren't really strong enough. You can bend them trying to clear jams.

You will make more money sorting it packaging it per 1k and selling it face to face. I believe their page is out of date as it has said $2.50 for a while. I'll use .40 as an example. Best price I have found for cleaned unprocessed brass shipped is about $42 lately unless you are buying a lot at once (like 4k +). .40 is about 10lbs per k. Sort it, tare your box, fill it until it is a bit over 10lbs to avoid arguments with anyone. Sell it for $30-35 face to face. $3-3.50 a pound. hit up a search engine, there are a number of places that list the weight of 1k of many calibers. Or you can weigh out one piece and do the math.

Why the rock river with the fal mags? At this point with a .308 ar, the dpms/knights pattern mags have won the magazine fight. Plus they aren't known for having a high rate of feeding issues like the bar-10/lar-8, and they aren't $55 a pop like the rra branded stuff that's legal here. (operating under the theory the rra sourced mags give you a better chance of no problems). You can also probably find one in stock someplace right now for the price of the lar-8. Btw from experience, rra is VERY optimistic on wait times.

Heh, no calluses means you aren't dry firing enough. When I practice as much as I should I get a real nice callous from my trigger guard where it rubs a little with a high grip. Also a bit of a callous ridge where the pad of my trigger finger gets folded against the first joint. Depending on the gun, I may also get a bit of a callous on the web of my hand, it depends on the gun, if it has a beaver tail, and how the beaver tail is designed. As for gloves, I use them if it is cold, I also use a glove on my off hand for shotgun if I'm going to flip it to reload. Rapid fire = hot barrel = you need a glove for that technique. If shooting an all day event with an ar in the sun where your gun isn't cased most of the time, a glove for the off hand can be a desirable thing if you have a black aluminum handguard.

I've bought a few things from them. Always check the prices, some of their sales are worse than some vendor's everyday prices. Some of the deals are good. Got a maxpedition jumbo versapack for $65 delivered recently.

Just FYI. Every weight on that chart I can compare to like parts I have weighed myself are wrong. My scale agrees with multiple other folks who have weighed parts individually that we have in common. Most less than an ounce. Some are right. Some match manufacturer numbers for something other than what that chart says it is.

Yeah, my Nordic is lighter than all my real uppers, so I'm not really interested in lightening it more. Just curious where the odd bits came from.

It's not hard, it's mostly a matter of a bit of money for parts and 20 minutes if that. It just can't be transferred to you until it is done. there are forum vendors who will do it.

No, not unless your FFL is willing to swap out the 8+1 mag tube to something that reduces it to 6+1.

Yeah, but my metric is to have it not hop off the sear while mortaring the gun like I might to clear a jam. Also, depending on what trigger you start with, who knows how much engagement you have and what clearances you get between after market safety A and your particular trigger parts. I know you SHOULDN'T be able to, but I like to test it doing the worst thing I can think of that counts as potential normal use.

The red spring is heavier. It does yeild a difference on some triggers. I put one in with my ALG trigger, and it went from about 6.5lb to 5lb. I ahve to test it still, but I suspect they mean it won't do jack if you don't have reasonably prepped engagement surfaces.

Actually, the realistic worst case scenario is not an EMP that takes out all electronics, but a flare strong enough to take out our really large transformers. We have like 90 or so of those transformers int he US, and the capacity to build 3 a year. So.... yeah.