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Somebody went off the deep end...

A good place to start would be both the actual laws, and case law. The Supreme Court has ruled on the 8th Amendment multiple times, and other federal courts have ruled on it a bunch. So maybe the three-pronged approach to determining whether it is cruel and unusual as prescribed in People v. Almodovar. Garnett v. Coyle states that you cannot treat prisoners in a way to cause unnecessary pain contrary to current standards of decency. Do you still want to ramble on about how cutting off someones legs is constitutional? So at one time capital punishment was deemed unconstitutional, but you think cutting off someones legs wouldn't be? You make me laugh. Well it might not be knee jerk, but it certainly is one of emotion and not logic. We can all argue there are flaws in the system, but if your solution is an eye for an eye punishment system, you'd fit right in, in Saudi Arabia and Iran.

One round magazines???

18 USC § 2331 - Definitions (5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that— (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended— (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and ( C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.

Well if it isn't unusual then it must be usual. If it is usual to amputate peoples legs as punishment for a crime in the US, you should have no problem citing an example of this usual punishment. However I know you cannot, because you are talking from your behind. Again. Ah, a digression to irrelevancies. It is one thing to say "I wish we could just do x, y and z", it is another thing to try and pretend like x, y, and z are in line with the Constitution. You would make a great politician with the garbage you have been saying.

I used to love combat flight sims. I used to play them all the time. Had a joystick and throttle setup. I haven't played them in years. The improvement in technology is crazy. I almost never played online, because I just didn't have a good enough internet connection for it. Sounds like a lot of fun. I used to like flying the A6M2 and A6M5 Zero's the most, for whatever reason.

Right............

The MK III series pistols have a magazine disconnect that subsequently prevent the magazine from dropping free after the last shot. Yes, they should drop free. That would be nice and make sense. However as a factual statement, they do not.

Got to run to the store real quick and get some popcorn. It is always fun when someone who doesn't use proper grammar and capitalization criticizes someone for their inability to spell. This should be fun.

1:48 for the most incredible and incredibly creepy chuckle. Seriously, just close your eyes and listen. Just remember to open your eyes back up because she jumps on the trampoline right after.

You learn something new everyday. Today I learned that peoples, or rather that NJ firearms owners, fingerprints change, usually about every five years. Now I would think having changing fingerprints would defeat the purpose of being fingerprinted, but what do I know.

I know, I know, I am about 100 posts late. But anyways... I believe I already addressed this. "You can not understand or agree with science and still be atheist. That would make you an idiot but nobody is arguing that stupidity is a religion." I didn't say I thought you had a problem with atheists. I said that atheism is not a religion. Which it isn't. And besides your cute little picture and some non-sequitur about global warming, you haven't even attempted to say why you think it is. On the other hand you did attempt to point out how wars involving atheists have caused more death than 'religious' wars, which implies that atheism is NOT a religion......

SB 567 seems to make any firearm now a shotgun. Pistol, rifle, shotgun, they are all shotguns. If California has in their own laws restrictions that mirror federal law (like barrel length and OAL), then that would make all pistols and all rifles with barrels less than 18" illegal. If they don't, I'm not quite sure what it changes. The storage bill, unless I'm reading it wrong, does not require firearms to be locked when you are home. It says they must be if you are "outside that residence", which pretty much means your property.

Science is real, not supernatural. You can not understand or agree with science and still be atheist. That would make you an idiot but nobody is arguing that stupidity is a religion.

1. Faith and religion are separate. You can have faith and not be religious. 2. Your funny little picture is just that, a funny picture, that does nothing to prove anything. 3. Religion, by definition, requires a set of beliefs, usually a belief in some supernatural being or god, and some sort of philosophy of life or moral code. Atheism has none of these things. All that is required to be an atheist is to not believe in any god. A disbelief in god is certainly not a religion.

Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. Atheism is very certainly not a religion.

You'll leave tactical decisions to terrorists who hunker down for a living???

Excellent post! As you have illustrated, police aren't trained on every scenario, and this is one. And as such, you can see why people would be concerned about revealing too much (if anything), when this may be a new situation for the officer. Since the officer doesn't have specific training, may err on the side of caution for him/her. That generally means it is bad for you. This is why it is best to avoid the situation entirely.

If I was in an area where they have reason to believe the perp is there, a search would not be unreasonable. Now I don't know if they did/do, but it would make sense that they may actually have had some sort of blanket search warrant for the area looking for the guy. Now as some of you may know, I am a huge believer in the US Constitution, and have spoke adamantly out against violations of rights. But even if they didn't have a warrant, I'd let them in for the sole purpose of looking for him. Considering what is going on, I find it difficult to believe they would do anything more than look for him too. Of course I'd have told them first if he was here, either he would have killed me, or I would have killed him by now, but sure, come in and look.

Really gives new meaning to the phrase "shooting your tits off". That is a phrase right?

Turtle face, lol.

I believe the ATF has stated that selling off a collection or selling firearms you no longer want is fine and does not require you to have a FFL. Edit: Looks like I lied. It is right in the federal code. 18 USC § 921 - Definitions (21) The term “engaged in the business” means— (C ) as applied to a dealer in firearms, as defined in section 921 (a)(11)(A), a person who devotes time, attention, and labor to dealing in firearms as a regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit through the repetitive purchase and resale of firearms, but such term shall not include a person who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms; (D) as applied to a dealer in firearms, as defined in section 921 (a)(11)(B), a person who devotes time, attention, and labor to engaging in such activity as a regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit, but such term shall not include a person who makes occasional repairs of firearms, or who occasionally fits special barrels, stocks, or trigger mechanisms to firearms;

Want it now, need it now, same thing right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgUG9IWe6L4

Well silverado, fortunately the M&P22 has an adjustable rear sight, so, you know, you can adjust it. Sometimes the sights are in fact, simply off. If you are hitting at your POA with other firearms, and not with one particular one, there is a good chance the sights are off. Either that, or the trigger is the most awful trigger ever made, or all your other firearms have the most incredible triggers, and the discrepancy there is enough to cause you to now suck.

It has been 3 days. Did you really expect that they would have this whole thing solved, with the culprits in custody, and with confessions already? Maybe...just maybe, they are still working on things and don't want to tip their hand immediately? Not everything is super complicated and full of deceptions. Sometimes things are exactly as they seem.