Everything posted by raz-0
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NJ Law Re: Justifiable Need Expires Nov. 13th
It's not the law. It is the guidelines under which you will be arrested, charged, and prosecuted. The judge will work off the statutes. But if you view the time, cost, and trouble of those steps, yes, it results in your punishment.
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Tactical clownshoes
OK, You guys are talking about what I am assuming is an ND involving a trigger and a holster. My brian ceased up at the WTF at about 1:26. IT appears to me while doing the rear sight slide rack he puts a round into the ground because his technique slams his finger across the trigger. That's just a pile of stupid, and has nothing to do with a holster. I missed another one? This guy sucks so bad it hurts.
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Brick Armory Closed by NJ Div of Taxation ?
You buy the name. Although at this point, who would want to go into business with the baggage attached to that is beyond me.
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Precious metals getting hammered today
Well all commodities are taking a hit. The question is why. RIght now I think most of it is consumer demand and the big investors trying to get some cash to cover margin call and other fallout of the current hit to securities. Metals also had the chinese scam to get around lending laws shut down, and that gold, silve, copper, etc. That had to sit in a warehouse to play that game has to go someplace. Silver is pretty much at or below. If gold goes to $920-ish , you effectively shut down 28% of new supply as that drops below production costs for the African region. Drop to $800, and 46% of your supply is gone. Somewhere between those two numbers, there's going to be a scramble to get back on the upswing as at that point you have a lot of delivery contracts that in theory back the paper gold chasing WAY less gold, all the paper lease printers will see that it's a killer opportunity to shore up their metallic reserves and they are going to want to get ahead of the mining shortage as mines go offline and buy cheap. Add in all the gold bugs, and you'll have way more demand than capacity staring at the possibility of supply being off-line for a year or more.
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The Walking Dead
In theory, no. The spin off show is supposed to be set during the fall of Atlanta to the virus/zombies.
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How much walking during a USPSA match?
FYI. I got stuck running the ob match today. Total was just short of 12 miles.
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Tactical Sling Catch: Is there a useful application for this?
Some slings try to saw through your neck. So it's not absurd. Well done vs. well intended, no idea.
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223/556 recoil
He wans't wondering why they have free float tubes, he was wondering why they require it to be internal. Yeah, years ago, it had to "look like" something that was issued. They didn't really, and now you have stuff being fielded with rail systems. So there's this weird sort of make believe going on there that doesn't make much sense.
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Home insurance question
No it's not. But it's not because it is an act of god, but because the policy says.. this doesn't cover floods. It also has special payouts for hurricanes that differ from normal coverage. In no case to they resort to some form of theism to deny coverage.
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What big screen TV should I buy??
They last just fine. The blacks become less black though.
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223/556 recoil
No, there are some things that are not a matter of taste. There are some physics involved that are not really in the hands of the end user at all that one considers with end use, budget, etc. 1) Unless otherwise attached, comps need a threaded barrel. How and when in the manufacturing process this is done matters in terms of what it does to the barrel. For most barrels out there, they are cut as a last step, and this can result choking the bore down a bit where the threads are cut. This can negatively impact accuracy. Some barrel makers get around this by cutting to something bigger than 1/2-28 but the universally easy thing to do is just not have threads. 2) Putting a comp on the end means you slapped a weight on there. Which affects barrel harmonics. This can help, or it can hurt. There's ways around it, but I haven't seen any of them implemented on the AR platform. The Tubb ar-ish bolt action space guns, but not an AR. If you are shooting off a bench, doing the whole breath control bit per NRA rifle shootin' instructions and wind up taking a shot every 5 seconds or less, a comp is useless and can only really hurt your performance or at best remain neutral. If you are going to be shooting fast, shooting from funky positions, etc. Then a comp has benefits, a well designed comp especially so. IMO, felt recoil really isn't one of those things that come into the equation. A rifle built for accuracy will be heavier than one built for run and gun more often than not which mitigates felt recoil, and .223/5.56 doesn't really have a lot of recoil to begin with. Outside of that, IMO if it is threaded, put a comp on it. If you want max accuracy, get a non threaded bull barrel. It's less a matter of taste than of specialization.
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Police contacting "references" after FID card granted
The only thing that would even remotely make sense is if you have a relative who is a felon and they contacted as part of the investigation to make sure they would not have access (i.e. don't live with you). But if that were the case, it should have happened before approval.
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Factory Second Reactive Targets
I've bought factory seconds of these before. Both times the only thing different between them and normal ones was the adhesive. The seconds either had a different kind or were old or something, but were a lot harder to peel off the backing. Mostly a nuisance, occasionally tore one.
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tactical pen
Rotring rapid pro. Mechanical pencil beats the pen, but both are good. Koh I noor lead holders have a number of tough options as well.
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gun guild easton magnet testing ammo now
The other risk with copper washed steel jacket is sparks and unburned powder on the range.
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Best Indoor Hearing Protection
electronic muffs over disposable 33db NRR foam plugs. It's the best I have come up with for reducing noise and still being able to react to the speech of others on the range. I still wouldn't want to shoot rifle indoors with it more than absolutely necessary, but it tames comped open pistols shooting close by pretty well.
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The Walking Dead
So did anyone stick around until after "scenes form the next walking dead"? I was not expecting that, but think it will be awesome one way or the other. This was a pretty awesome start to the season IMO. I think having it be the big show of the network now that breaking bad and mad men are out of the way has been a huge benefit. The reason for season 2 being practically a one room play was almost totally financial. The end of last season and the beginning of this one seem to show a nice mix of talent on screen and behind the scenes. Hope it holds up.
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Curious to what you support?
I can value it without believing that I have a right to dictate to others how they use that life so long as their choices do not directly impact my life.
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What sights are you using for comp?
warren tactical u notch rear, or bomar style with truncated corners on the rear. In general nothing with a forward slope, and no serrations unless the rear sight is straight up and down. Thin fiber up fornt on a post jsut slightly narrower than the rear notch.
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Curious to what you support?
I'm for self determination. I don't get why there is so much intervention in suicide. As for medically assisted suicide, now you are actually talking about creating a form of justifiable homicide IMO. I think there is a solid argument to be made for a humane end.
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A very interesting video on Netflix
Yes, I'm aware. When I bring this up, I'm talking MUCH more dangerous at the high end of the range, and much more independent of the supply chain with much higher quality at the low end of dangerous. As for the barrel being printed, last I saw that 1911, they hadn't said if it was or not. As far as I can tell they still haven't said what pressures they have tested it at. But I know you ahve items out there like the S&W bodyguard that have a sintered metal barrel.
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What big screen TV should I buy??
THe new vizeos use full array backlighting at very nice prices. They are worth a look. Most of the name brands don't suck in terms of image quality and colors. It'll mostly be about software and backlighting. I can't say I've been shopping, but if my current set went toes up, I'd be looking at the vizeo sets due to the full array backlighting. I'm not liking the corner bleed that is almost universal with edge lit sets.
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"High Steel" shotshells
Only pink shotgun shells I know of are the federal top gun target loads. They are not high brass. I have seen white high brass shells which you can probably hit up with vinyl dye to get a non flaky pink out of, but to the best of my recollection they are all brass colored, not some form of white metal. That being said, most of the brass looking case heads are really some form of alloy that is white and plated, so a dremel and some polishing compound might get you silver and shiny.
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A very interesting video on Netflix
Well, it's not making handguns disappear, but making guns not appear in the first place. Someone did a laser metal sintered gun, everything but the barrel. However, there are MIM barrels in production guns, so I don't see why this isn't within reach soon, if not now. That pretty much leaves powder and primers as things remotely controllable in terms of regulating interstate trade without resorting to banning general manufacturing technologies, generic raw materials, or knowledge. As for cost? I dunno where that is at comparatively. A machine that can spit out finished and rifled handgun barrels through stock removal methods is still around the $100k mark and doesn't have a lot of pressure to move that price point. 3d printing does, and thus potentially lowers the price point to be self supplying outside of the regulated channels with nearly zero skill. Not that I think this is awesome or not, or this form of political commentary is helpful or destructive, but it underlines what I have been saying for a while, which is that increasingly the capacity of small business sized organizations down to individuals is going to have increasingly more access to self manufacturing ability and materials technology in general that means everyone is capable of being really quite dangerous to a large number of people. We will have to learn to get along or bad things will happen. Bad things include powerful idiots doing horrible and ultimately futile things to try and stop that progression.
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What to download?
I've got a solar rig that will run my 4 bank battery charger and recharge anything usb. It works reasonably well for that. Recharging laptops is another matter. Most of the fold up solar dealies put out 12v and/or 5v, which your laptop may or may not like. I've seen everything from 12v-24v over the years, and an even wider variety of power draw. The simplest solution to that is one of the battery packs that is known to mate to the laptop of your choosing, or one of the ones that have 120v output. I may try that in the future, but my goal was to have a means of recharging my batteries for light, cell phones for communication, and a tablet to keep the little guy comforted and busy/distracted.