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Does"legally blind" prevent one from owning firearms? I am certain that a legally blind individual could safely handle a firearm and use it in self defense

As you said earlier, "It is complicated." I do not like the idea of using one criteria or test (or five for that matter) to determine when to curtail someone's human rights. And there is a difference between someone using an investment advisor or financial planner to decide asset allocation, insurance needs, etc. and one who needs a trusted agent or POA to manage every bill and every check. Where I live, surrounded by 55+ communities, everyday I see people who should not be driving. And every few months you hear of someone being killed, or backing through the neighbor's living room, or something like that. I would favor curtailing driving privileges before I would favor curtailing individual human rights. One issue I see in NJ and many other "liberal" states is the laws that make it very difficult to transfer a handgun between individuals. If you think your relative should not drive, and you can convince, finagle or trick them into giving you their keys/car, you may be able to keep them off the road. If you do the same thing with a handgun (correct me if I'm wrong) you have committed a felony.

And BTW, what a CF the whole "Wide Receiver" and "Fast & Furious" were. You'd think people would have gone to jail!

And it seems like the abusers of the so-called loophole are few.

I completely agree with this. And I thought the private sales was all the so-called loophole amounted to. But the stuff Mike Detty describes in his book seemed a little over-the-top for a private sale. I think I would be a little angry if I were an FFL, had jumped through all the hoops and whistles to obtain and maintain my license, then see someone doing the same thing under the guise of "private sale." It makes me wonder if this is common, or if Detty was overstating the issue (and he really did not make a big deal about it in his book, just mentioned it briefly). It seems like every state law passed to combat the perceived problem only serves to interfere with much more legal activity that is deemed evil by the authors of the laws, than stopping any illegal activity.

Back then there was not so much hysteria about guns, and BB guns were kind of looked at as a toy--which is not a good thing! We are lucky we never lost eye-sight or got injured doing stupid things with BB guns, firecrackers, M80s, etc.

I will start this off by saying that I know very little about the so-called gun-show loophole. I understand that it is a loophole (or maybe not) and it really applies to any private sale or transfer. I understand it to allow private transfer without the requirement of a NICS check. And I do not have a problem with it for truly private transfers. Obviously laws like the new Nevada and Washington state goes too far I just finished a book written by an FFL who was recruited into Fast & Furious (Mike Detty) and he makes a comment in the book without really taking a side. But he is selling at shows and, as an FFL, is required to do the 4473 and NICS etc. But there is a guy set up next to him, with a similar inventory and sales, yet he is a private seller and is exempt from having to perform NICS and I believe exempt from form 4473. Obviously the "private seller" has a competitive advantage over the FFL. So regardless of the argument on background checks, should these "private sale" guys be allowed to sell in shows and at similar quantities as the FFL? When the FFL is subject to greater ATF scrutiny, regulation, and audits? I would think the FFLs would be up in arms about this and calling for some kind of reform.

So straight razors are pretty popular for shaving now, sounds like those are all illegal in Philadelphia too. Is the international airport within this jurisdiction? I fly out of there with knives all the time (checked of course).

If it is against the mall's policy, then how were the perps able to carry?

Oh and I think you need a metronome with the tuning fork so you can time the "beats" produced by the different intervals.

If you have a decent ear with good relative pitch, and a tuning fork you could do it yourself. For a cheap piano I might recommend it as a learning experience, but I would not touch a nice Steinway myself. Hire a pro!

Or maybe no mortgage interest deduction after Trump tax reform--but to compensate you will (hopefully) see an HUGE increase in the standard deduction, so it won't really matter.

Try attic or rooftop antenna first. Cable is good if you've got money to burn

The nice thing with a construction loan is that you own the property from the start, you have access and can do things during construction that a regular builder would typically not allow. Like adding wire chases or conduits before sheetrock, painting, etc.We could hire our own contractors for some of the extra work we wanted, do our own flooring, etc. I was surprised our builder actually encouraged this. But I still wish I'd spent the "out of budget" money on a larger, jetted master tub (or a Japanese style ofuro) and a bilco door. Because those are a PIA to retrofit. OTOH I had it all paid off rather quickly, and that is nice too

I felt the same way twenty years ago when we put up the 20% down (to avoid PMI), had banks going through our"private" financial history, signed reams of paperwork and entered into a construction loan and mortgage agreement.Seemed like so much money,such a huge commitment. But now it doesn't seem like that big of a deal. What the hell was I worried about? My only advice if you're buying new, get any of the major extras you might want. Any upgrade that would require a good bit of tearout of existing to do later, do it now. Even if you think it blows the budget, so much easier to do it now. Congrats

Just finished "Guns Across the Border" by Mike Detty (https://www.amazon.com/Guns-Across-Border-Government-Smuggled/dp/1620875993) Really eye-opening account of an AZ FFL who had some suspicious customers (buying 10 or 20 lowers at a time and wanting more, and multiple buyers that were obviously working together). He reported the sales to ATF and was recruited as a CI into what became "Fast & Furious." Which he claims he knew nothing about--ATF told him to sell and that they were tracking the guns and working with Mexican authorities to take down the cartels. When in reality it was a ploy toward increasing gun control and to try to reinstate AWB. Eye opening.

You can run it to multiple tv's, but each splitter will diminish your power.May not be a problem at your distance if you're using a decent antenna. You may not even need the preamp. When I set up mine I had reception with the antenna only, but it was weak and inconsistent. I got the preamp and reception improved significantly. If you do have problems splitting to too many sets you could get a distribution amp which basically splits the signal into several feeds while maintaining the original power level to each feed.

Antennaweb will also give you advice for antenna selection and tell you what channels you are likely to pull in.

Sorry, I meant Roxborough https://billypenn.com/2015/10/05/those-giant-antennas-in-roxborough-the-secret-home-of-philadelphia-broadcasting-on-tv-and-radio/ If you enter your address at thise site http://www.antennaweb.org/Address it will give you distance and vector to each station. The Philadelphia stations are about 46 miles from my location.

If I were over 50 miles from Roxbury (the location of Philadelphia broadcaster's antennas) I would go for the DB8e and I'd get a pre-amp (such as Channel Master Titan 7777). But I would first try a homemade "bowtie" antenna (http://buildadtvantenna.blogspot.com/2009/07/exact-step-by-step-homemade-dtv-antenna.html) placed in the attic if possible. I have pretty good results with this setup and a decent pre-amp and I am almost 50 miles out! It is a very low investment and will tell you if you really need a fancy store-bought antenna, and how much antenna to buy if you do. I would not mount my home built antenna outside (it would not last long in the weather); However, a friend of mine made a weatherproof model using PVC instead of 2x4s and it works well.

In the attic I have a 2x4 with four modified wire coat hangers that are connected, via a BALUN to a ChannelMaster 7777 preamp (about $60) and about 20 meters of RG6 down to my TV. I also have an FM dipole antenna up there to bring in ABC (Channel 6, WPVI) and PBS (Channel 12 WHYY) because they are in VHF band. I am 48 miles from the Philadelphia broadcast antennas and I usually get pretty good reception. Lately I have not been getting WHYY and some of the smaller indie broadcasters (WYBE). Sometimes reception is bad due to thunderstorms, solar flares? and C-17 overflight from JBMDL. I am sure that if I put a nice fringe antenna on the roof with a rotator that I would get much better reception and more channels. But I get the major networks pretty reliably and I think it is a pretty decent ROI. Unfortunately this does not include anything from ESPN so I was not able to get the college FB games that I really wanted--like the Peach bowl--so I had to settle with listening on SiriusXM.

I saw that and I have a sample of it on my Kindle--but I need to wait until I can set aside large blocks of time as this is the type of book that I will keep me up reading until 4AM. I would say Pillars is one of my top 5 fiction books.

According to the fake news (AKA CNN) the perp walked into an Alaska FBI office in November--leaving his gun and a newborn child in the car--and stated that his mind was being controlled by U.S. Intel. The FBI took his gun and ordered a mental health eval. Apparently he was deemed mentally fit (Mind control and judgement of the capabilities of a newborn notwithstanding) and his gun was returned a month later. I know this is coming from HRC CNN, so it is a hypothetical. However, do you think someone who believes U.S. Intel is controlling their mind is mentally competent to be carrying? I understand the essential liberty, and I do not know what came out of the mental eval, but hypothetically, at what point does the citizen forfeit this particular liberty?

I will check this out. I read Follet's Pillars of the Earth years ago. Different genre but what an incredible read. I also liked On Wings of Eagles, which documents the Ross Perot rescue of his EDS employees from Iran.

Wow, that is all the endorsement I need. I will definitely buy this. Just finishing Dinesh D'Souza's What's so great about Christianity now