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S&W tend to make mags in batches and you wind up with tons of 9mm mags and no .40 mags and vice versa.

I would vote along 2a lines if there was actually something that differentiated a candidate. It's not that people wouldn't vote on that issue, it's that as far as i can tell it almost never is an option. I can recall a couple times in primaries, but that's about it. And yes, I voted my single issue line.

By the rules max round count per stage is 32. Given lots of stages are not revolver friendly, optimal strategy may require dumping some loaded rounds on the move.

Also one of the signs of a well trained dog is that... you know.. they can sit on command, not just when they smell drugs or other things.

Bet it made you stop complaining about not feeling well.

Most bullpup triggers stink because of the design of the linkage. There really is only so much you can do about that without designing a stock from scratch.

A destructive device with an ATF exemption for sporting purposes. ALL shotguns are destructive devices, jsut most qualify for a broad exemption. Which was why the BATFE whitepaper on how to ban the import of shotguns that made the rounds a year or so ago was a pile of stupid. Yeah, Obama could ban import, but he'd have to rescind the exemption for all shotguns and turn every shotgun owner into a felon. SO....

Because it wasn't a shotgun and it shoots a projectile over .50 caliber. Which makes it a destructive device.

You'd be wrong. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state search for "BY 2010 RANK" to get the ordered list. Most of the states with lots of gun control are in the middle of the pack.

1) Facebook gets near 85% of it's revenue from ads. They are going to need one hell of a growth plan before I'll believe it is about something other than ads. 2) Facebook's marketing is really not very targeted compared to the search engines. Try going to this address https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/ . See how off it is. Facebook has tons of accounts with <13 year old kids at the helm, so their ability to target age is skewed. Gender they can do a bit better I suspect. Location is probably better served by geoip (where you are), than personal info (where you call home). The search engines have geoip, so does facebook if they aren't stupid. 3) The fact search engines get ads relevant to your guessed demographic in your face while searching for something subject related would seem to me a hell of a lot more useful targeting than getting your demographic correct. 4) In order to have a presence on facebook be useful, you have to drive people to facebook to interact with you. Hence the phenomenon of, for example honda, buying expensive tv ads, and spending 50% of them explaining you need to go find them on facebook. If that were really effective, they could just say go find our web page and lose less eyeballs in the translation. Then there's the school of though based on FB stats that people only relaly friend businesses for discounts and contests. So you have to spend real money to drive people to facebook, and to keep their attention there, you have to commit to less margin per sale for each fadcebook customer. Sounds awesome. 5) ALL ad based businesses are screwed long term, just ask CBS, NBC, and ABC how ad buys are going. The spaces to put ads has grown so much in the last 20 years, and the dollars to buy ads has not kept up. Traditional advertising channels get pilloried for not being able to provide the detailed stats of internet advertising. Internet advertising shoots itself in the foot by pointing out how effective advertising really isn't. Shove too many ads in someone's face and there is backlash on top of a bunch of other known effects that basically boil down to advertising's only net positive effect is to keep an item in their memory for when they say "hmm I need and X, what ones are out there to buy." We are reaching the point where to not be lost in the white noise of ads, you have to annoy your potential customer into hating you. It's pretty broken. Even if facebook ups it's subscriber numbers, they just created more slots for ads. They have to also make it better to pull ad dollars form other ad channels, or they are just devaluing the price of each ad placement.

You're concerned about ammo availability because you paid less than a buck a round for ammo that usually runs a buck a round? I think you might be overly concerned.

One shot spray or pump? If the spray, you will be experiencing stuck cases at some point. The lee expander is smoother, and probably dragging less on extracting.

I think you pretty much nailed it. You accidentally clicked a link. Or someone accidentally clicked a link. Or your wi-fi was open. You can always make a plausible argument for something where you aren't keeping a stash of downloaded porn, and the only records are ISP history of visited addresses and an identified modem. With the downloaded stash, the number of plausible stories goes down a lot because you have someone who owns a computer, and a pile of evidence that is most definitely NOT accidental. Most of the reasonable doubt circumstances that COULD lead to that scenario without the computer owner bieng complicit in the act will leave evidence usable in a defense, and claims to the contrary are possible to build a case against form a prosecution standpoint. My guess is that this is not referring to case law, but rather someone has gotten all pissy about a particular case or a successful appeal and are trying to claim it is the new law. The reality is the courts can afford to prosecute a common pattern of cases not likely to stand up on appeal. Edit: OK nevermind, for some reason when loading this only the first few posts rendered and I missed the reast of the posts.

Not really seeing as they were looking at not renewing the show. One of the pricier parts of that kind of reality tv is casting. This saves them casting dollars (probably other pre-production costs as well), and potentially gets the audience in on day one rooting for those they like based on existing previous performances. In theory.

I got a hold of one of the plated combat triggers a while ago. As far as what it is looking at what is in the bag. It appears to be a nickel teflon plating on the pins and hammer like they say, and something else for the trigger (they say nickel boron, and I have no reason to doubt that). From the looks like what they have done to some regular trigger components is this. Take the hammer, polish down the sear engagement surface slightly, and coat the whole thing. Take the trigger, put the whole think in a tumbler to smooth off the edges of everything (it looks like it has had a very mild melt job done it), then polish down the sear surface to not go below the dips in the original grind. Then plate it with nickel boron. I think the net effect is that they are removing a very small amount of the sear engagement by tumbling that rounds over the normally very sharp corner at the top of the sear. Then they are polishing both engagement surfaces slightly. The springs looks and feel jsut like what ships with gieselle triggers, so they are pretty beefy. The disconnector looks nicer than what comes with most trigger kits. Almost as nice as the EDM cut disconnector you get with JP triggers. From the looks of things, they are sourcing quality parts, but nothing exceptional just shopping form the upward slope of the bell curve. Net results are that if you plop the trigger gauge in the middle of the trigger it pulls about 7.25lbs. If you get it perches all the way on the very tippy end of the trigger, it pulls 6lbs like they say. It has a decent amount of takeup/creep like a stock trigger, but it is smoothed out a lot. Compared to my $200+ triggers it's dog vomit. There's no free lunch, don't think you are getting an awesome trigger for cheap. That being said, I think it is an incredibly good value. Buying a "stock" trigger group runs about $40 by itself, and $20-30 when bundled with a LPK. At $65, it is better and I suspect significantly more consistent than the best generic $40 stock trigger set I have encountered. I see it as a good value. Add on some JP springs, and if they light off all your ammo, you probably ahve a damn good value and I'd guess a 4.5-5.5lb trigger. Mines going into a lower I'm building for my wife who finds my good triggers a bit unsettling. If you don't know what you want, I think it'd make a nice trigger to get by on and give you better perspective on if that aftermarket trigger is worth the price tag on it.

Introduced 1-25-2011 with ZERO co sponsors. THIS legislation won't get passed. It won't get out of committee. If something gets passed, it will be a new submission.

I agree with this a whole lot. If you catch good prices in general, stock up as much as you can afford. There's been very little in the way of ammo and components I have picked up that wouldn't have cost more to replace even over just a year or two. Sales, group buys, etc. are all usually worth buying into as much as you can afford is youw ant to keep your total cost of shooting down.

Objectively, yes, it should. BArrels aren't that hard, and air cooling anneals it, so I'm guessing it isn't that big a deal. Going by research I did regarding some DIY knife making, 1095 annealed hovers in the RC30 neighborhood. Most barrels are RC20-30. Even so, you may want to use some form of heatsink. It will likely discolor the barrel regardless of precautions. I don't know why Echo Mirage thinks you can't use a propane torch with a decent nozzle design. They get more than hot enough. Worst case, get one and use MAPP gas instead of propane. And yes, they come in sticks, but how do you get stick into the threaded area? You don't. which is why you use something liek this http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=6647/Product/STL-1205-SILVER-BRAZE Or this stuff (under hard solders there are syringes with pre mixed contents with specific melting temps, not the stuff at the top of the page). http://www.shorinternational.com/Solders.htm Another factor is that although brazing may have the least tool investment, it's a bit of work to undo should you need to repair something. With a pin and weld, especially if you go small with the pin and not too hard, you can mill out the pin and do it agin with a slightly larger pin. Or jsut cut the muzzle device off carefully with a dremel. Brazing, you ahve to reheat the thing up again sufficiently and get it off while it is hot.

Well with a muzzle device, you usually buy the correct silver solder paste and use that. Still have to heat things up to over 1000 degrees.

They have before with Obama based demand and BIG military contracts with relatively short delivery times. Last big shortage, you had fiocci and precision delta making components for major USA manufacturers to keep the machines running. Also winchester contracting to s&b to keep white box inventory available. If you know the demand won't be there in 18 months, you just jack prices, you don't build more factory that will then sit idle.

You then have to ask what nearby DMV offices they shut down.

If things were really as dire as those "up the food chain" say, I would expect to be at $400+ for a case already. My guess is they are at 100% allocation of production, which means the mom and pop places get to suck it. I'm pretty sure the supply chain saw us coming this time and is making a buck from day one, which should actually help in sustaining availability.

Definitely this. They are pretty lax for the most part. I showed up with my extra long mohawk in a ponytail, wearing a jacket with a bunch of art painted/stenciled on it way back when. I didn't get hassled. The guy with the F the police shirt however almost wound up getting himself in contempt of court.

Hey, I'm into photography. There's situations where you can be tossed for something that would be legal on a sidewalk in the city. My scenario is based in reality, some venues regard all images of the event as licensed ot them and thus control who can and can't take photographs so they can get a contract signed. Those places will toss you on trespassing for violating the terms of your admission. You don't go and they will call the cops. Not because you are a perv, but because you are now trespassing. In NYC, the second a tripod gets involved, you need a city permit for a "film crew" and the permit is for shooting at a particular location. The NYPD are the ones who are supposed ot enforce this. Both examples ARE the law, actually. Now here's a question for you. Your scenario, do you hassle the guy not breaking a law anyway?

Not necessarily. If a private facility has a public event with admission policies with regards to photographing the event, he may be in violation of them and consequently guilty of trespass. Or if the event is in a place with, for example, a permitting requirement for "professional" photography that uses possession of certain types of equipment as the deciding factor, he might be in violation if in possession of that equipment. The real perv will just have a bridge camera with a 36x zoom, rather than an expensive hunk of glass that's like a 4x zoom but gathers lots of light.