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Right you are Z! Our first house at the bottom of a hill had two sump pumps that ran continuously even with 1" of rain. So when I had an 'opportunity' I took it. Follow up. When we had that 18" dump in the 00's, about 12 hours in I said to my wife 'I wonder if there's any water coming out that pipe'. So I walked out back and then over toward the hill slope. And as I was walking I heard this foreign sound. 'What's that?' I thought. Oh yeah... that's the sound of water GUSHING out of the pipe!

When we built this house on the edge of the hill I made sure a 4" drain pipe ran from the gravel base under the concrete basement floor, under the foundation footing, and out to the edge of the hill. A giant gravity drain. No flood issues here. The proof was in the early 00's when we had that giant rainstorm that sat over Sussex County and dropped something like 18" of rain in less than 36 hours. That pipe was gushing water but the basement was dry. Now loss of electric might be different story. We are plagued with it up here since we're at the end of about an 18 mile primary feed. The generator stands ready.

Both my NJ and PA FFLs are members of the Gallery Of Guns network. So I've frequently used them if, for nothing else, get pricing. And of course for ordering if the price is right. Somewhere in a post last week I mentioned GoG being out of stock on a lot. So I decided to check back today. I searched for semi-auto pistols in stock, period. Here's what I found: Beretta - 0 CZ - 3 P10s and one Shadow at $2K Glock - 0 H&K - 0 Kimber - 0 (for some reason Type is not available for Kimber, so I assume it includes revolvers) Sig - 0 S&W - only Victorys in .22 That's a lot less than even slim pickings. The I searched on Gun Broker for a Glock 21 Gen4. There was ONE listed, at a starting bid of $800. That's 35% more than I paid for my last one. If anyone would like to add info on popular guns they do or don't find in stock somewhere, feel free. I think it's going to be like this (or worse if possible) all the way through the election. And then, if by some act of Satan Biden wins (and can still speak), it will remain this way in perpetuity. Also, if anyone has actual info on current factory production numbers at the other end of the pipe, I'd like to know what they are. Note: The July numbers are in, and the first half of this year has seen more background checks than any year since 1999. By a lot!

Yes, it did always say PRINT. But it's not tin foil to notice that when all the info you want is in the same image it's easy to optically scan, recognize characters, digitize and shove into a database. Having to turn the page, scan a second image, and then locate both sections and do the same thing is tougher. But the really hard part is getting the scanning done with the previous form. You couldn't sheet feed it, and you'd need a lot more manual labor. Also tougher when you multiply by approximately 3,000,000 forms a month. As we're now seeing. And no, it won't matter. Until they pass a law demanding gun registration. Retroactively.

I just looked on the TSUSA page and 9mm Gold Dot is in stock still for .80/round. So they have it and they're not gouging. That's what it was six months ago, along with HST off-sale. Then I looked at the 9mm out-of-stock items, and they're listing them at .16, .17 etc. Faint hope when they come in!

The best I ever did on 9mm was just under .15/round on TSUSA Prime Ammo. And then yes, with the Black Box rebate program it was even less. Of course there was a limit to that rebate, which I hit. And now I'm glad I bought the HST I wanted when it was all on sale for .40/round.

I know we've discussed the new 4473 before. And yes there's the new 'Binary' sex option. How nice. But today someone pointed out to me a layout change as well, and I don't remember this being discussed before. Take a look. At the bottom of the post I'll point out what I'm referring to. Wasn't the firearm listing section previously on Page 2, as in turn-it-over? Why, yes it was. Now why do you suppose they moved that section forward to the top of page one? Perhaps so that when it's received it can be scanned in one move, optically read, and then plugged into a database? After all, it does say PLEASE PRINT.

"Jesus H. Tap Dancing Christ! Yes, I have seen the light!" Joliet Jake, The Blues Brothers

JHTDC! At TSUSA!

.30/round in this market is reasonable. Just to clarify, when you say it's FM's 'new stuff' you mean it's their product made with new brass, and not used brass? I shot their reloaded brass for several years before the price bottomed out in the market and never had any trouble with it. (Like 15,000 rounds worth.) So if it's first run brass it should be fine also. I'm up in north Jersey or I might consider it.

You know, it wasn't until July that I realized I was actually clairvoyant.

Click on the picture.

I want the Biden campaign to use the Clown Mobile with that mind-numbing tune on it. "Over here little progressives... right over the cliff!"

The next Day Of The Triffids.

Ahhh... it was a methane, not gas, explosion! Haven't seen one that big on since the college dorm.

So it was! Here's the story.

I wonder who was recording the event. And why.

Pistol permit delays? How about delays in getting your PA LTCF? PA is a shall-issue state, but Philadelphia can pull the same crap as New Jersey. Note that there's only one place in Philadelphia to apply, and they recently moved that location from somewhere downtown to (on of the) the absolute armpits of the city.

Start running BGP on all the routers. That'll fix it. /SarcOff/

Once in a while things do jump, even up in Sussex County. Then the excitement moved on.

Locate a more reliable friend or family member?

"Expected availability: 8/10/2020" Although they 'won't charge your credit card until the item ships". Fair enough. .24/round is a very fair price in this market. Earlier today TSUSA had the same ammo in Federal at .36/round. Now it's out of stock.

Calling all COBOL programmers... Actually, if it's the database, it's probably System R.

It would be a likely candidate. But I'm not sure the actor quality today would deliver equivalent results. THEM! (exclamation point) is in my Top Five monster/science fiction movies of all time. Given the premise, it couldn't have been much more realistic. The direction and dialogue was also totally believable. Another of my Top Five movies is The Day The Earth Stood Still. The remake had great effects and a good story line with some enhancements. But they just had to include the race relation twist in the cast, and Keanu Reeves could have played the robot.

It's the 2020 version of THEM! OK, they're not as big. But there's a ton of them!