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If you have the money and someone has the gun, and they will sit on it for you until the permit is fully ripe and ready to eat, then I'd do it. Especially under current circumstances, I would not count on reliable and consistent inventory.

This is really concerning in context of other recent rulings. I don't think there is a more civil meeting of right and left than in the supreme court of the united states. And you can visibly see it falling apart. In all my recreational court watching, I don't think I have ever seen more names on more distinct opinions on decisions. I haven't seen the court tolerate more disrespect of their authority. And you have Thomas blatantly advocating the nuclear option of recognizing the privileges and immunities clause. That's basically saying "Screw it, blow up the courts, lets relitigate everything form the last 50 years it's less bad than letting this continue." I think Roberts has forgotten the point of respecting the law is to protect the constitution. Article III specifically is not meant to repeatedly protect behaviors/disputes that will repeatedly not persist the duration of the legal process. At some point they need to recognize that playing this game of promulgating a clearly infringing law and dragging it throught eh court system relying on time and limited capacity to get away with it for as long as they can it harmful to the law, the constitution, and the people. Roberts likes to think that "go to the ballot box" is a functional retort to him making the jury box fail. He fails to see that it says that the ammo box is the only recourse left. On a side note, OBRPC and world class steel made it into the dissent For example, Colantone registered to participate in the 2012 World Class Steel Northeast Regional Championship in Old Bridge, New Jersey—about 20 miles from his home in the City. Plaintiffs’ Memorandum in Support of CrossMotion for Summary Judgt. in No. 13–cv–2115 (SDNY), Doc. No. 44 (Plaintiffs’ Memo). But after the hosts of that competition alerted him that his premises license did not allow him to transport his handgun to New Jersey—and after Inspector Andrew Lunetta, the commanding officer of the NYPD License Division, confirmed this—Colantone pulled out of the competition. App. 32, 49–50, 55.

Stop using plastic where there shouldn't be plastic.

Who would imagine that if you take something apart, you have ot put it back together again correctly for it to work correctly? Youtube has definitely raised the quality of the wily e. coyote school of gunsmithing.

Gun control and crime rates don't correlate. There are states with lots of gun control and low crime rates, and states with little gun control and low crime rate. Also states with lots of gun control and high crime rates, and states with little gun control and high crime rates. And by crime rates, I mean violent crime rates.

These dies are for use on progressive presses. It is in fact relying on the powder drop to either dump it all or dump none of it. It is the suspenders to belt and suspenders. For me, it is something I put in place once I started getting a lot of crimped primer brass in 9mm. It'd hit the priming station, I'd have to deal with it, sometimes I'd overly focus on remediation and wonder if I had re-indexed everything properly, and be both paranoid and delayed dealing with it. IMO, unless dealing with REALLY compact powder in a big cartridge, it'll stop double charges, no charge, and for some cartridge/charge combos catch it if you substantively sling powder out of the case in a progressive. The other reason to go with one is ergonomic. lock out function aside, it and the hornady powder cop let you replace looking into the case with watching a rod move up and down. Because I find the lock out die does not work very well with .223, I use the powder cop there. It's a pain in the ass, even with a good press light, to see the powder and make a determination on how full it is. And with rifle, you have a long powder column. So if it's less than 50% full, it doesn't move. With my powder selection, there's not enough room to overcharge the case without seriously impeding seating. A double charge will make a huge mess. So it's good enough. Prior to using the powder cop, I've gotten a couple of squibs. Since going to it, I've had none, and it has caught a couple. Another benefit, at lest for my LnL-AP, is that it catches it earlier than my eyeball. Due to the shape of the press, without it I go size->prime->powder->nothing->seat->crimp. And you can't apply the old mark 1 eyeball prior to where I seat due to the press support. When it does catch something, there is one less case with powder to deal with, and simpler remediation is always better. It's harder to screw up simpler. Another benefit beyond that, at least to me, is that the mechanism tamps the powder down. With flake powders, I find that depending on how the flakes fell, stack, and bind, there can be significant variation in the visual appearance of a correct charge. The mechanism of the lockout die tamps it down a bit and makes visual presentation much more uniform. Which makes my visual check more effective. No more tapping the occasional outlier that looks overly full to see if it settles or not. Which speeds things up. I've got over 120k rounds reloaded. I've never had powder stick in a drop tube, much less stick and drop free later. I suspect that is because anything that might do that will meter like crap and self-selects itself out of contention as a usable powder. What you can use it to protect against varies greatly with the powder in use. But for me, I always adjust it so that it is just shy of locking out from overcharge with my actual intended load. As a note, adjustment should periodically be verified it can drift a bit over time, especially if you adjusted it to the ragged edge of locking on your expected charge.

In case you hadn't noticed, We have a bit of a thing going on that has folks concerned about governments both failing to keep order and becoming authoritarian monstrosities. So the panic is now. Lots of ammo makers expanded after the 2012 panic and were regretting it in the last year. If you noticed a bunch of new brands of bulk ammo, that's due to manufactures renting out capacity. Right now, they are short materials to feed the machines and people to run them. Until those are solved there will be no more capacity brought on line. Even when the machines are at 100% you won't see more capacity for a bit as they build up the war chest to weather the next storm. 22lr capacity won't be built up because it has high cost to bring on line and low margin and requires more skilled labor.

Just like every time, 9mm and .223/5.56 will be the first to get production volume dedicated. It's pretty damn scarce right now across the board. Nobody who wasn't going to increase capacity before the rush is going to increase capacity unless demand is sustained. With the low ammo prices prior to this, lots of manufacturers were concerned that they had overexpanded. The more resources it takes to make and the more niche it is, the later it will be addresses in producing product.

I've got a new reloading room setup on the horizon. I think I'll have to steal that t-track idea for the new bench. I already have a swapable setup, but the machine spacing is fixed.

I don't think you can have a valid plan. for what is coming. I don't think you can get hyperinflation unless it is a brief period before TEOTWAWKI. TO get something like post WWI inflation in Germany or zimbabwe style inflation, you need to have a great disparity in competing economies, and there aren't countries escaping these issues. You might see it if say the US was seriously considering sheltering in place for 18 months while china said fuck it, if they die they die. But as I pointed out. We don't have one side considering staying shut forever and the other opening up tomorrow. We have both sides trying to figure out just how early they can open and the NE dems screaming orange man bad because if they were honest and we opened up what we could... it wouldn't be most of the NE. It definitely wouldn't be NY and NJ. And the last thing they want is Trump being vindictive on top of good sense and making their bad situation worse. Even if they kept it honest, showing red state flyover country get back to normal while populous urban shitholes fester is at it's core a very anti-democrat message because said urban shit holes are very blue. Hence the poo flinging. It's covering up that the NE dems are really discussing opening up too early by all models for the shitstorm going on here. What is likely on the horizon fiscally is following up the LAST lost decade to to a massive recession with ANOTHER lost decade. Which I don't think we have seen anywhere, and thus don't have an idea of what the challenges of such are. Probably with a sharp, although possibly brief uptick in homelessness and food insecurity. This is an example of where I tend to not be in line with a strict conservative political line. Fund SNAP, avoid fraud and abuse, but fund it. I don't mind paying taxes for services that provide me with a useful shared resource. Keeping pissed off hungry people off of my lawn is a useful service. However, you can print money for SNAP all you like. if it just increases the pool of money chasing scarce food supply, all you get is inflation, not more fed people. The same number of hungry people an siphoning cash out of other parts of the economy is not really a good thing.

And shortly after writing my giant screed about demonizing one group vs another for the exact same thing. Here's a politico article https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/04/21/southern-governors-create-a-covid-19-coalition-and-experts-fear-a-perfect-storm-1278753?fbclid=IwAR0qufIsGJCZiQNzTX1pE5TI9exU1gOjZmvFjlFlsPqpEayfbXYUkM-TwC8&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark Summary is basically coalition of southern states banding together to develop a plan to reopen are a bunch of hicks who will kill us all, and that the norther coalition of governors banding together to develop a plan to reopen are noble saviors. Because they are democrats and thus not stupid hicks. Sorry fat, stupid, diabetic hicks. Because the difference between NJ's 27.7% obesity rate and Georgia's 31% obesity rate is so vast it will prevent the apocalypse. I mean they have numbers.. Numbers from SCIENTISTS. Except their numbers are from a group started by the very unbiased.... The Atlantic. Oh shit they aren't unbiased. Not even a little, sorry. And the article claims that georgia, according to the numbers form the atlantic have only tested one hundredth of one percent of their population. The article was written yesterday.. by smart people.. who can't fucking do math all the time, because while Mississippi does have a testing rate of 1.7%, Geogra is at 0.8%. The very not apocalyptic new jersey is at a whopping 2%. NY leads the pack at 3%. But trust the smart journalists. Because their testing rate for the northeast coalition is also wrong. I just think they don't know how to calculate percentages. Or maybe they don't know how to look up population. But They definitely said making a plan to reopen geogria is bad. Georgia with about 1% of the population tested. Making a plan to reopen NJ is definitely good. That is despite the fact that - GA has about a 28% positive test rate compared to NJ's nearly 50% positive rate on tests. -That unless GA is rolling back testing their daily rates of new positives are dropping a lot. (peaked on 04-14, and has fallen off significantly. NJ also peaked 04-14 and has.. well fell off a teeny bit and is holding a plateaue. -The vast majority of infections are in 6 counties out of 159 covering more land mass. The most population dense counties. Using similar metrics (i.e. most infected county plus all counties own to 1/3 of the peak infected county) for NJ, you have 9 counties out of 21 and betwen 1/3 and 1/2 of new jersey land mass. Does it mean that it is safe to reopen georgia? No. A number of counties without a large number of infections have a a high per-capita infection rate. If you are turning symptomatic people away from testing in those counties due to lack of medical infrastructure, then you may be masking a hazard. This however IS an answerable question. New Jersey on the other hand has more data. If it is possibly not safe to reopen GA, it is DEFINITELY not safe to reopen NJ. It may be possible to alter policy safely in both places. But even if you doubled all of GAs numbers and weighted it towards "oh shit people be dying" they'd still be better and more spread out than NJ. ANd have one major airport in the whole state instead of 3 of the busiest in the country, the NE corridor, every major east coast interstate, significantly more utilized mass transit, being sandwiched between NYC and Philly, etc. But no.. NE = brilliant non-trumpian strategists. SE=stupid hicks.

God, I'm going to feel skeezy semi-defending greenday's point. So let me preface it that no.. dumping expensive bio fuel on the market won't be some genius move. Nor is investing in alternative energy right now going to be a profitable move. That being said, if you are an oil company, this is a pretty solid warning that it might be time to diversify and spend some of the war chest on something less prone to volatility than oil. More specifically, moving into energy production that might not have as much upside but has more consistent demand and can't just turn off over night. The energy powering transportation can do that. Things like household heating and electric are less likely to do that as bad. Like maybe you do some really weird shit and build the oil equivalent of water batteries. Have more storage, and when shit like this goes sideways you sell buffering capacity to the grid. I mean you have to pump it into the frikin tanks anyway. But I don't work in the sector. Maybe they already do that.

Here's the thing. You know when this thing will end? The second that the politicians run out of money. Right now, they think they can pay for their rules, and they have done so while amassing more power than before and tossing out the bits of the state constitution they don't like. They really don't care if you live or die other than that it will be bad press for them and potentially negatively impact revenues and campaign contributions. And all of the above is clouded by the fact that this disease is problematic. It's more than likely less dangerous than the flu, but significantly more contagious and that combined with a hospitalization rate high enough that when combined with those other two factors means we are running hospitals in population dense areas at 100% or more capacity. What we are seeing now is that the numbers are rolling in and there is a genuine point to debate. Life saving policy caused economic upheaval. Politicians could mitigate this by running the printing presses. It gets them good publicity and they look likethe domin they did something good. However, you now see that the policy is impacting supply chains. Most importantly food supply chains. Starvation has a lot higher mortality rate than this disease, and starving people like hanging politicians more than voting for them. Right now, staying home seems like a viable option. But you have to imagine the world 3 months... 6 months.. a year from now. Right now in a very real way we are setting up the situation where we have more money than food to buy it with. This leads to inflation of food prices, which we are already seeing. Part of that money chasing food is government bailout. That is going to run out and then you have inflated prices on scarce food with 10-20% unemployment? Right now, we have policy based on the notion that this disease would be worse than it is and that most people who were out of work would go back to working when shelter in place was done. A lot of them won't be. That reality is sinking in and policy is going to have to adjust. Greenday can sniff his own farts and feel smug all he wants. But the reality is you have Trump saying we need to open up or we will have a pandemic and a depression and possibly food riots because this is not a functional model for long term behavior of human society. Then you have.. lets say all the democratic governors in the northeast who say that the orange monster is a tyrant that will kill us all and is advocating an apocalypse. While also planning THE EXACT SAME PROCESS being advocated by Trump. There's only minor differences, and the motivating reasons are exactly the same. But the publicity game is all about people pretending that if it weren't for the other guy, we could have gotten through this without harm. And everyone wants to pretend this shit has something to do with an inherently superior set of ideals. It's not. Dairy farmers are dumping milk because their customer base and volume shifted radically and milk spoils faster than you can shift that process. Once you get past schools and restaurants closing and trying to pretend that one side wouldn't have done that (because both sides did), ideology doesn't come into it. Then look at the yeast situation. Demand shot through the roof. Manufacturing can actually make a shit ton more yeast. But they can't get enough of the right packaging, and without the right packaging the yeast doesn't live long enough to traverse the supply chain. You can pretend the problem is because the packaging comes from India. The real problem is that there is no secondary source of packaging that isn't also affected by the pandemic and has the capacity to meet that demand. Unless you change policy to allow more people to work on that problem, be it here, India, wherever, you won't meet the increased demand. And create scarcity and inflation. It isn't the trump bucks hitting people's bank accounts that is going to cause inflation. That's mostly filling a hole created by lack of employment. The uncontrollable path to inflation is going to be all the imbalances in supply and demand. Where an american was spending say 10% of their income on food, and now will be spending 30% in part due to less income and in part due to competition for scarce supply. And what about all the issues with rent and mortgages. Rent especially. You aint paying, they can't evict you, and you have lots of people being dumped on the street the first day it is legally possible.And they all start competing for what housing will have them. And what happens when you get competition for a scarce resource? And it won't just be shuffling of tenants. A lot of those vacancies won't be back on the market. Definitely not for people who didn't pay then, but a lot will be taken off the market if fiscally viable, go into foreclosure because the economic damage was to significant to the landlord, aren't where the demand is because the main employers in the area didn't survive this economic mess, etc. If something isn't done to mitigate it, which is why despite the theatrics and finger pointing, you have diametrically opposed leaders going through the EXACT SAME PROCESS to figure out when they have to cry uncle and reopen. This is because once Greenday gets done with his fart sniffing, and AVB realizes he's a lot more financially well off than most of the US and thus isn't facing the same problems, that the choice ISN'T how many corpses is it worth to save people from boredom, but how many dead sick people is it worth having to prevent stacking corpses from political unrest, or what the exchange rate is between covid-19 deaths and half the country slowly starving to death. It's going to be a choice between two flavors of shit sandwich. Not do no harm and fuck it all up. And to be fair, there are people here who will be saying we should never have taken measures in the first place and be borderline psychotic about it. They aren't right either as they are pointing at numbers that are the result of HAVING DONE SOMETHING when they say it isn't bad enough to justify this. The thing is the majority of people making those claims are viewed as idiots. There's lots of people pushing the Trump fucked it all up and all democrats are saints narrative being treated as if they are the most reasonable people in the room rather than liars who are also full of shit. This ride aint going to be fun, and neither party has a plan that will skip it. Everyone is trying to figure out how to make it shortest and everyone is working with estimates on how bad each bad thing is with spreads that are vast. It'd be nice if the monkeys would stop flinging poo while doing it, but pretending it isn't what it is on both sides of the aisle is bullshit.

My $0.02 and worth about that on a good day. The statute seems to indicate the illegal act is obtaining parts used to create an untraceable firearm (and oddly, I think if it ever comes to it, the fact that isn't defined anywhere will come into play as to what that means). If you have a fully built and functional non-serialized firearm, you have clearly obtained the part to create it. More importantly, that firearm could be taken apart and used to assemble a whole other firearm. It'll get hard into the semantics of constructive intent and what is is.

Beer can burgers can be good. I usually do a Thanksgiving in July beer can burger. Bacon, ground turkey for the burger, stuffed with stuffing and mushrooms done in the grill. Then gravy over top when serving.

German measles is rubella. Measles is rubeola.

The flu vaccine less effective because it's a guess at what it vaccinated against. This would target this specific Corona virus so efficacy against this virus would be much higher. Kind of like the measles vaccine. Even if it were only 38% effective, it'd cut down on mortality and hospitalization rate by more than one third. Which would make it a much less disruptive disease.

frikin swipey keyboard and it's laggy word replacement. It was supposed to be driving around four to a car.

Well, I WAS wearing masks last week. I wasn't wearing a mask a month ago, but a month ago, we weren't at or near peak infection, but were reducing people going out and people were keeping their distance and WE WEREN'T NEAR PEAK INFECTION. Which means we had to contact a lot more people to statistically run into an infected person. The math on that is a LOT more unfriendly now. As the rate of infections drop, then the odds of encountering infected people drops, and we go back to not having to take as many precautions. I do not know what's wrong with you. If you wanted to rail about freedoms and the man, it'd make a lot more sense about using police powers to curtail freedom of assembly than people being prepared to say you are trespassing for not wearing a mask. Or even the stupid rule about no more than two people in cars. Yeah, the local teenagers are driving around in parked cars. But they aren't my teenagers and if you raised stupid ones.. well it might kill you now. But they aren't putting the general population at risk. But for a family of four who are locked in together anyway. Making me interact with a higher risk individual because the rules were written by morons seems counterproductive. But no.. you want to die on the hill of fuck you I'm not wearing no mask. Despite the benefit to you if you are disease free of reducing your chance of infection form those who are not.

And since it can be asymptomatic AND transmitted, I'm sure you are regularly testing daily to make sure what you say is true, right? Also do whatever you like that just endangers yourself. Also stop putting words in other people's mouths. You said you don't understand how it protects us. I explained. The fact you are foaming at the mouth and dumb as a bag of rocks is beside the point.

Jeez. You wearing a mask makes you safer. If you don't get sick, you can't get anyone else sick. This makes me safer. It is both self interest and mutual benefit.

Point the gun at the camera and by extension the viewer. You do know that pictures and video can shoot you, right?

Low on milk but dairy farmers are dimming it by the truckload.

My election year shopping was done but small pistol primers. I delayed a bit and caught some of the panic on them. Everyone had large pistol primers, small though... nothing. I snagged some small pistol magnum match. By the time hazmat and shipping was done.. $45 per k. :P But literally, that's like 2003 pricing, or whenever that huge ammo order went in for the military under Bush. Went from like 19.95 per box to $30 per box in a couple of weeks.

Could be but I doubt it. For example thehospitals have to buy n95 certified masks. kn95 which is a foreign certification can not be used, even though they are better than the offered alternative to the N95... a surgical mask or wrapping a t-shirt around your face. But kn95 masks can be used as long as they don't pay for them. As donations, the FDA stays out of it. But it's donation of product, not cash. Also if they purchased it, donated it, and comingled it with existing supplies without involving the admin that could be problematic in a lot of ways. OSHA stuff, not sharing with other departments kind of politics, etc.