Everything posted by raz-0
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Gun Ranges open yet?
a safer society for my taste has fewer guns and not more guns a safer society for my taste has less freedom of speech guns and not more freedom of speech a safer society for my taste has less religion and not more religion a safer society for my taste has more warrantless searches and not less warrantless searches
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Reference Email Not Received
There's standard email retries built into the spec for email. The operator of the MTA sending the mail can set them to whatever they would like, but typically the last retry before promoting the temporary failure to permanent is within 7 days. So if your mail was broken for over a week it more than likely completely failed. At that point it would be up to whatever the exception process is in the fars process to add another contact or retry yours. IIRC there is a way to do that, but since I haven't had to do it, I don't know it off the top of my head. From the FAQ "What can I do if my reference hasn’t received the email or hasn’t submitted the feedback? top While the system sends two reminder emails to references who haven’t submitted the feedback, you can contact your municipal police department to request them to resend the email or to update the reference."
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school taxes
I don’t disagree that there’s going to be a reality check on getting blood from a stone. That’s why you are seeing the lefty media excoriate southern states opening up while their home states are doing the exact same thing despite having a lot more infected people. The bills are coming due and they have no money. There won’t be any savings being passed on to anyone. Because there are no savings, just fiscal holes.
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How to handle a FFL mistake........
It matters to someone. Went to a new FFL, and they did not log an AR-10 I had bought as 7.62x51 but 5.56. They had some other similar book keeping issues on used guns that passed through. They got audited and told to fix them. I got contacted by the FFL to verify info as correct. But yeah, in the end the only thing that really matters is the serial number.
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Gun Ranges open yet?
1) There are certain members here who are mouth frothingly screamy about the fascism of wearing masks. Just browse more. 2) If dipshits can't wear a mask properly, the problem isn't with the mask. 3) not sure where you are going with the rest of it, but in the end people seem to have a hard time processing the notion that the options aren't "safe" and "unsafe" we will be forced to pick between bad and worse on a lot of vectors with this one.
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school taxes
posting this again? The answer is the same as last time this was posted almost verbatim. There's likely not savings in busing unless the town owns and operates the buses as they have to pay out their contracts. There's no lunches, but both buses and lunch budget are going into the continuation of nutrition efforts. So no savings there and possibly increased expenses. They still have to pay the teachers, pay benefits, pay payroll taxes, etc. You might save some on HVAC, but it's the time of year that usually requires the least heating and cooling. You are probably also getting whacked with police OT as those who are not out sick are covering other shifts. And you will see the state and counties try to push fiscal burdens to the municipalities because property taxes are a "consistent and reliable" source of revenue.
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NYSRPA Ruled Moot by SCOTUS
If strict scrutiny was specified I don't know that it would be followed in every court, but it would probably not make it to scotus without it being applied correctly. Willfully dismantling strict scrutiny would potentially undermine to many other rulings. I think it would be wisest to be explicit and specify a test. You will note in abusing heller, they really haven't contested that handguns are protected. Because it was explicitly stated.
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Gun Ownership In America Since 1980
Specifically, Kentucky does.
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AG Barr on rights
Yup. I had this conversation with coworkers a while ago. My predicting was that we would definitely be closed until end of May, that the state would want to be closed through August, but that finances would permit end of June at most, and around mid may lots of people would start ignoring the order anyway. I was probably wrong on how long the money would hold out for the state.
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Transfer fee sticker shock - Northern middlesex county
I've got you beat if you count the ones I was unsuccessfully able to do business with. For those that actually completed a transaction for me, I'm a few short.
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AG Barr on rights
I didn't take it that way. If the question is what is his reason for doing so? 1) Rumor has it that some towns were going to start just ignoring the rules and reopening their own stuff. You can't pretend you are the boss if you have people ignoring you. 2) He has to start doing something now to justify doing more later. NJ is basically out of money. Even with freezing everything, this close to the end of the fiscal year most of the pools of money are near empty. And the lock down has basically killed all revenue. NJ will have trouble dealing with the liabilities created by the various aid packages in NJ even if there was full revenue. Expect to see some HUGE bond proposals on the ballot in November and to see Rutgers get the shit kicked out of it in the state budget (RU is basically the only entity that gets state funds that can float bonds without it going on the ballot, so they will force them to go into debt as well). This is all in line with the bullshit hick-shaming of the SE governors. Yeah they will reopen just a hair earlier than the NE governors, but they also have approximately 1 jillion less infected people spread out over more land mass. My $0.02 is the plan will roll out. We will reopen end of may, and finagling will be done to basically end the school year early so that there won't be backlash of not paying teachers or forcing them to be exposed to large groups. Parents won't TECHNICALLY be required to stay home with the kids because of school. They just won't be able to get them daycare or send them to summer camps. And they can go fuck themselves anyway, so long as the NJEA votes dem the machine doesn't need to worry too much.
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AG Barr on rights
because he signed an executive order this morning reopening parks? https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/coronavirus-in-nj-what-is-reopening-and-when-when-will-golf-courses-parks-reopen-april-29-2020.html
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Transfer fee sticker shock - Northern middlesex county
Historically, in my experience, the places that charge outrageous fees also won't try to get you what you want. Also they tend towards having shit taste in firearms, which is a horrible combination. Filling out the paperwork for something you stock vs filling it out for a transfer is the same, but you don't have to sink capital into ordering something for me or doing an internet transfer. I'll give a +1 to Monmouth Arms. They have predictable hours and reasonable transfer fees and will try to get you what you want if you ask. Presumably only current production stuff that distributors might have. The only warning I'd give is don't use the "just pick your FFL from the list" option on gunbroker with them as that will result in the seller trying to ship to their storefront address if the seller is automated. I've done both recently and have been happy with the experience.
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AG Barr on rights
Especially given that as of 05-02-2020 8am, parks and golf courses are being reopened.
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Jericho from cowboy bebop fame
Take down on the baby eagle/jericho is pretty straight forward. line up the two dimples, pop out the slide stop. take the slide off, take out spring and guide rod, take out barrel. Assembly is reverse. They tend to be accurate guns. They are heavy though.
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Gun companies switch gears and make PPE
A fully tested N95 mask isn't guaranteed to protect you either. So I'm guessing no. The virus doesn't just float around the concern is aerosolized spittle, which even a simple barrier like a hom made mask helps with significantly. The other use for home made masks and non-n95 type surgical masks is to cover your better protection underneath an keep it from getting contaminated while letting you reuse it.
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MTM Cases
That box must be reaching way back there.
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MTM Cases
Like an extra sentence would have helped clear that up. Was plano ever not an import though?
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NJ needs COBOL programmers
IBM literally said we won't sell you more mainframes. Then customers kept on trying to buy them and at some point not upholding your fiduciary responsibility as a publicly traded company is bad for you as an individual. So now they sell them again and have spent time room to figure out how to integrate then into a modern environment better. Internally it seems to be converging on simply a specialized version of modern architecture being presented via clustering as a traditional mainframe. Not because it is better but because there is money in enabling the mindset of maximal neglect.
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Is there any difference between
p320 x-compact is the subcompact slide and barrel on the compact x-frame. It won't be more concealable. The slide is shorter but the grip is bigger and has more heel. If you have bigger hands, the x-frame will likely be more comfortable than the standard medium sized compact frame. It has the straight trigger, which you may or may not like. It is not the straight trigger with altered geometry that the x-5 legion has. It will not be able to accept 15 round mags with the standard baseplate as it can't accommodate the side tabs. the x-compact has a removable sight plate so you can install a micro red dot. They have different night sigts. the x-compact comes with only the sig xray up front and a tritium rear. The compact can come with a full set of siglite tritium sites, or just plain 3-dot steel sights. Depends on whcih SKU you are looking at.
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Confused about self defense laws if someone breaks in
The bar for lethal force in NJ is in theory a credible threat of risk death, disfigurement, maiming/crippling, or rape of yourself or another. Outside the home you are obligated to retreat if you can do so safely. If you cannot do so safely, or cannot do so without credibly abandoning another to such a fate, you can use lethal force in self defense. Inside your home in NJ, you have no obligation to retreat. Regardless of what happens, you will likely be prosecuted because NJ views bot you and the dead/injured guy as chattel of the state, and you must answer for harming their property. At which point they may decide they gave you permission to harm their property in the course of their property trying to harm you.
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MTM Cases
Uhm you don't like plano now, soo... congratulations? Not sure what kind of virtue signaling you are trying to do, but sure.. congratulations.
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Just How Bad Is The Ammo Shortage?
Because handguns aren't small and concealable. You are a moron. In just my lifetime, the democrats have tried to ban -guns that were too cheap. -guns that shot to fast -guns that shot slower, but still too fast. -guns that were too accurate -guns that were not accurate enough. -guns that look kind of like military guns. The most lethal school shooting is still virginai tech and was done with 10 round mags and a handgun. The #2 mass murder event was done with a gallon of gas an a pack of matches.
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NJ needs COBOL programmers
BAHAHAHAHAH!! 100s of millions of transactions a day!!!!! Oh my god sooo many transactions. This is the funniest shit I have seen all day. You do realize that it isn't even rounding error on google's volume right? If you don't have coherent work to perform that exceeds the capacity of a server then something bigger is stupid. You can go mainframe, or you can go clustered. One will be IO limited though. Which is why most new mainframes/supercomputers look a heck of a lot like server clusters when you cut them open and look at the guts. As an employee of a business that STILL buys mainframe crap from IBM after they said please stop buying mainframes, I will tell you that it sure as shit isn't outpacing our non mainframes. We've been bottlenecked by them for the last 20 years. Nursing them along has just been cheaper than doing the right thing and replacing them. Until now. Not because replacing them got cheap, but because the cost of the things they could not do well got to expensive. Really big computers don't have much purpose other than trying to undermine encryption or doing really massive simulations. Also, the argument of "what's going to happen when we need language X programmer in 40 years" is the worlds shittiest argument in favor of mainframes and cobol. Whatever happens, it literally can't be worse than what has happened with that combo. Which is having massive amounts of neglected systems running it with nothing but a few boutique shops of legacy developers essentially doing forensic maintenance. At least with current stuff, if people aren't fucktards about data preservation, you will have version control left, and with cheap massive storage, the odds the digital devleoper docs and such won't be tossed in the dumpster. But even if both fail? Right where we are with cobol.
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NYSRPA Ruled Moot by SCOTUS
The city can't on its own. The state could permit it. The state could also just enact an executive order and ignore the state. The state would then have to do something about it. They wouldn't other than finding people prosecuted not guilty. The process is the punishment.