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I'll be there too. Minimum preach knowledge: guns arrive cased, and unloaded. No snap caps, no laser bore sighters, no spent casings, no dummy rounds, nothing. Don't uncase the guns unless gearing up at the safe tables, or under the direction of an ro when it is you turn to shoot. No ammo or loaded mags at the safe table. I.e. Don't dump your gear on the safe tables. When you sign up make sure to tell the sign up guy you are together.

Steinbeck, old yeller, take your pick.

Also cost benefit. Nature gave us a live test run. You only need to set some small forrest fires to shut down the west coast grid. It is pathetically fragile. Why steal a plane and try to fly it in with everyone looking while securing a nuclear device when you could just.. you know. Have a couple of dudes on tourist visas go on a hike with osme matches and make a "mistake". While trying to come up with horrible scenarios, how about this. Dig up as much radioactive junka nd waste as you can. Load up the plane to the gills and wire it with explosives. Get it into the jetstream in the right place, and detonate. Really big, spread out dirty bomb. Given the limited volume, I'm sure it wouldn't be as bad as mt. saint helens ash, but I'm pretty sure it would make a ground level version look like a fun time in comparison, and youprobably don't even have to enter airspace to make it pretty awful. My bet is still that it was stolen for money. It's an expensive plane.

The guy takes half an hour to make 6 points. What's number five, or better yet a bullet list. This is a perfect example where text would beat video in terms of not wasting my time.

that's too many evil features I think. detachabel mag, lug, and threads. grind the lug or permanently attach a muzzle device, and it would work.

IF you live in coal powered areas, yes. The bids post coal fines hae already been done. They are still bidding below what our region has been bidding at for a while, because our generation is from more expensive sources.

Like if you are shooting in the cold and the gasses from the gun fog up your aimpoint. Oh wait, co-witness doesn't help there.

As far as I can tell, after reading the stupid warrant package. (I'll agree with the ATF agent, paperwork sucks, that thing is stupidly long winded) The only reason I can fathom for that justifying a raid of ares armor is that, as some have stated, Ares supplied LCG with 80% lowers, and they are chasing the trail back to someone who might have more records of what LCG was doing. Anything else IMO would boil down to these guys were doing bad things and these other gusys were doing other bad things, and these guys around here were facilitating similar or worse bad things between these individuals. In which case, one would think that Ares is on the line for building a conspiracy case, however, you would think that the warrant would require some evidence they were involved or likely to be involved in the conspiracy. FRom my perspective, all these folks were doing it and since they proposed a similar model of business and asked permission before being told no, they must be too. If there is a BATFE einterpretation coming to screw with people, after reading the warrant package, it has nothing to do with polymer, and it has everything to do with redefining manufacturing. The law states NOTHING about 80% or 94% or whatever. The law states that if something IS a firearm, it must follow the rules, and if it is NOT, must be made by a licensed manufacturer and be serialized before being sold on to anyone. What's in the package would imply that they have a sizable list of people who were playing games regarding taking possession of something that at some point went from being a lump of metal or plastic to being a firearm, and did so in a rather cavalier manner regarding how the law applies to that. There were also folks whose best defense to their actions would be to describe their acts as gunsmithing rather than manufacturing, and if I were a gunsmith, with an FFL or without in those states that permit such, you couldn't pay me to work on a modern non-serialized receiver. However, it is totally unclear from that document that ares was involved in anything other than having asked if they could provide access to cnc machines and operation instruction without being a manufacturer and the BATFE answered no. No evidence is provided beyond that. Between that letter and other content, it would seem the BATFE sees there being some undefined line which can be crossed, and minor hand holding to facilitate you pushing a button on a cnc machine crosses it. Does giving the person a sit down in a classroom on how to use a jig cross it? renting unaided access to a non CNC machine cross it? No idea. PRobably the absolute worst part of this is that regardless of the findings against Ares, this process of investigating them in connection with a criminal activity that passes msuter for a conspiracy leaves them exposed to the pitfalls of RICO. Which means that if they investigate you three times, they can seize all your assets without a trial. Yay fun.

Yes it can. Do it all the time.

Depends on what you mean by manual. 1) If you mean something like the sierra manual, where it is mostly just load data... not really. 2) If you mean a reloading manual as far as a how to guide, then yes, physical books have their place. The lee is a good all arounder in that regard. I've got a few other old ones that talk about ALL SORTS of interesting stuff like reloading during recessions/depressions, and what you can get away with in gas operated guns in terms of lead, guidelines on reloading steel cases, how to reload berdan primed stuff, stuff on casting and scrounging alloy, making your own jacketed ammo out of spent brass, etc.

Well it usually costs more because less demand, so they have to ahve bigger margins to jsutify making it. It also goes away in any shortage scenario because any machine making .380 can make 9mm. Guess which one they wil turn out in a shortage. You must have missed the last .380 shrotage. $50-$70 a box of 20 high quality SD rounds was not uncommon.

If the price is right, I am in need of some .40 to replace losses in my stash.

DOn't bother counting, just weigh it and go a little over weight to deal with any dirt or debris. As for packing, something along the lines of gallon ziplock bags nto so full you can't fold the top over and tape them. OR something similar. Stick in flat rate box and tape the crap out of it. I suspect if you hit a price that equates to about $35/k shipped the .40 will go like that. With pricing similar to current, for .40 brass just sorted, I've paid about $30 face to face and $35 shipped, and there were at least a few folks lined up behind me if I didn't want it. The .45 will be more. THe only two places I found it in stock is $79 and $99 per k mixed yellow. DAYUM! I guess it doesn't come up at government auctions, which is a source for a lot of this in bulk. Also 9mm is going for more than .40 everywhere. Between $45 and $55 cleaned, sorted, and delivered. Knock 10% off and there are plenty of folks with tumblers who'll take the 10% for having to do something they are doing anyway with their range pickup. jsut put once fired brass <insert caliber here> in google or bing or whatever and click through to a few of the sites and se what the places who claim to have stock are charging. I'd use brassmanbrass.com as a reality check. They ahve been around forever, and there isn't usually a market for significantly higher priced brass than they carry.

Depends on the state. Some states like CA do not let cities do such things. Hence why SF gun bans have been overturned repeatedly without leaving the CA court system.

flexible body armor needs support behind it to work right. Which is why when they test it, they do so by installing it on a large block of clay. No support, and all sorts of rounds will go through.

It isn't like an Ar barrel. You'd have to headspace it every time you swapped. ALso, buying the stripped action from midway might be a PITA. I know an FFL tried to procure one to be built up, and midway said no because NJ forbids manufacturing without a license. Which is a stupid argument, but was they one they had with him.

Just FYI, the JP springs are very nice, but they are increased spring rate over standard. Maybe 10%, not sure. I had a build that had some issues, JP springs made it stop working 100%. Not that the springs are bad, jsut that they can confuse diagnostics if you aren't aware they are a different spring rate, which I was not at the time.

AP custom carbon fiber free float tubes. Lightest forearm for the money $125 for the midlength at cactus tactical (dunno if it is the best price, they don't sell direct anymore it seems, and it was on their vendors list and I ahve done business with them before without issue). But I have an aero precision upper with ar15performance lightweight 16" barrel (25oz), a yhm gas block flip up sight combo, mid length ap custom handguard, ARFX skelton stock (a1 length), rifle buffer, MIAD grip, drop in trigger pack, and a semi auto BCG setup, and magpul MBUS rear sight. COmes in at about 5lobs 9oz IIRC. Under 6lbs.

Did you separate it by caliber? I can tell you right now that .40 is going for between $42 and $52 sorted, cleaned, and shipped. Once fired .223 is going for $80 - $86 per k. Here are cartridge weights per 1000 380 Auto- 8.5 lbs 9mm-9 lbs 357 Sig-10 lbs 38 SPL-10 lbs 357 Mag-12 lbs. 10mm-11 lbs. 40 S&W-10 lbs. 45 ACP-12.5 lbs 223 13.25lbs You want to sell me unprocessed unsorted brass, you better not charge much over scrap prices. You sort it, and scrap isn't even close. Scrap is $1.40 a lb (and good luck with that, some places give you less than market due to them having primers in them, some will only give undifferentiated scrap prices because they claim they are hazardous or some other BS). Just take .40 for example. the large flat rate box will hold 4k. You offer it shipped for $140, someone will probably take it off your hands pretty quick. Thats about $3.12 a pound for the brass. about 2000 .223 will fit in there. Sell it for the same 140, that's $4.70 a pound. Mixed up, you better be able to specify a rough percentage of what calibers, and offer it pretty cheap. Nobody is going to pay a premium for a pile of brass that nets them a quart bag of this and a quart bag of that that and they are only going to use one of the many varieties. Mainly because it is not worth shipping the quart bag anywhere as it makes the brass too expensive. You can sort a pretty large amount of brass in one evening by hand with some nitrile gloves, a file folder box top, and a handful of cardboard boxes.

Just out of curiosity, when they say they are calling for a specific employee, just say you are talking to them. Find out step two. Perhaps you can get more info, or shut it down by demonstrating nothing profitable will come from it. Tell them the leg breakers from your bookie get your paycheck before you do.

Zero?

And my argument isn't about logic other than playing politics. If it just required a vote where a bunch of them could jump into the water without checking how deep it was as a group, I'm sure we'd be there already. AS I see it, the problem is someone will have to put their butt on the line to make it happen. Even if you get a dem gov with a disposable AG appointment, they have to rely on the circuit court to put their kiesters on the line ignoring the heller decision almost verbatim. Our ciruit is kind of awful, but I don't think they are quite that far out of whack.. yet.

I've gone through thousands of rounds of the stuff and never found one that was not annealed, staked, crimped or anything other than very slightly tarnished bullets or brass. Since to sell it can't be military contract ammo, it is just "overrun" I.e. planned usage of the facility to make commercial ammo. I also suspect that they may not perform the mil-spec accuracy checks and power checks at the same intervals they would for contract ammo. SInce in every regard including price it appears to be the exact same stuff as in american eagle boxes, I would suggest it is as reliable as any high volume, lower priced commercial blasting ammo. BAck when they had the PD boxes, people got some funky stuff. I even got some seriously dented and banged up ammo out of that.

An aluminum brake? Yeah, that won't erode fast or anything.

I can't believe it either. Given that the manufacturer posted pictures of him stocking it, he's SOL. He might as well find a new line of work unless he has lots of sweet juicy LEO contracts. As for is it real or isn't it, I don't know. As for will it pass muster with the law? One can only speculate, so I will. We have had the gun with an enabling accessory model for some time. 1) They did not pass muster back then, someone would have to take responsibility for a change in this direction. 2) There have been a number of LEO gorups reviewing the technology, this specific method was branded as unacceptable whereas things like the grip pressure biometric were labeled as "we'll have to see" more or less. That leaves them in a position of justifying why this is not a flawed approach to the problem whereas with a new unevaluated approach, they would say we've got the new solution and it must be awesome. 3) The law pre-dates heller. Anyone telling her anything other than "we have to wait for a center fire version in a reasonable cartridge" would be a moron. You have a clear right to defense int he home by SCOTUS, and limiting people to this gun, both price wise and caliber wise. IMO RF isn't going to cut it primarily because it has to be an FCC approved device. Which means that as a retail product, it pretty much has to accept all sorts of interference. Which means that it has to ship with a failure state looming over it. This means it either fails functional or fails non-functional. I'm pretty sure your average firearm will function in the presence of a buttload of FCC compliant RF which means it won't pass the sniff test of functioning as well as another gun. In general, without electric primers in play, I don't see ANY gun that functions in anything resembling a traditional manner passing the test once it hits market. It'll simply be too easy to bypass. In the end, you will have a mechanical part you can either wedge in place or block, or you will be able to take the smarts out of the circuit and bridge a power supply via a switch in the correct off/on state. I do not think this will pass the "not readily deactivated" requirement of the law. Also, IMO you won't be seeing anything less "Awesome" and integrated than the grip recognition technology. No pins, no fobs. Why? Because it would require lots of career politicians to either explain why they waited so long, or to accept having the finger be pointed at them for same by a newbie. They NEVER hold themselves accountable for jack. SO....