SpacemanFry

Like illegal wiretaps and planting evidence kind of investigation?

Here's a question for you LEOs that apparently think that a question from a LEO is just a question and not a demand. What happens if let's say I'm stopped at a DUI stop and the cop asks me where I'm going and I say "sorry officer I don't see how that's relevant to this stop"? If you answer nothing happens he just moves on you're delusional. 4 out of 5 cops will pull me over and harass me for a good while trying to find something to slap on me even though I have 0% alcohol in my system and I've done nothing wrong. All because I've broken his illusion he's the top dog. (I'm using "he" here but female officers are worse because they'll perceive that as a disrespect on them because I'm male and they're female)

I have to say, personally I really appreciate vlad's point of view (probably because if his screen name is any indication our backgrounds are similar). I can also understand how most people want to avoid any trouble and stay off the law's radar. The thing is that the laws aren't going to get better when everybody complies with worse versions of what's currently the law. If the law is vague, yes exercise caution, but if the law is crystal clear I would never fear overzealous LEO. If I'm not willing to stand up for my rights how can I expect others to stand up for them. Anyway, obviously do whatever you feel comfortable.

You don't have to be convinced of it as long as anybody ever considering it is convinced of it. Just out of curiosity, short of nuking them what exactly do you think a full on invasion by a modern military force would do in a country that has a terrain more forbidding than Afghanistan with people that are actually militarily trained marksmen and has mountain bunkers full of their own modern military equipment? Besides, what would be the purpose. Not like there are any natural resources worth fighting over.

Well said indeed. Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate (this or previous few elections) who doesn't piss all over the Constitution. You know what's sad... John Steward has done more coverage of the NDAA than most media outlets. Says a lot about the apathy in this country with respect to our constitutional rights.

Dunno if this is over, but I would most definitely be interested in this as well.

First of all, I'm of the opinion that a great majority of LEO and military would refuse to enforce this on principle and a good majority of the rest wouldn't do it out of fear. The great irony of the whole anti movement is that they are FAR less likely to have members of their family in the military. In fact if you look at the statistics the majority of the military comes from states that are quite pro 2A. When those states refuse to follow this do you believe that the military personnel originating from those states would go in to enforce something like that knowing full well it will come to a firefight? Confiscation is purely a hypothetical in the US. This country will have another civil war before it ever came to that. More likely are things like full registration and other such infringements and limits.

I could be wrong, but I think he's saying that if the gov ever decides to do weapon confiscations the least of ITS worries will be whether there are untraceable firearms... ie some serious **** will hit the fan if it comes to that.

Not going to get into the whole gun control / crime etc BS.... But as to Switzerland not being conquered, there are several factors at play. The most important is the terrain which is heavily mountainous with lots of narrow and precarious passes and quite heavily forested (used to be anyway). Then they have mandatory military service where they specifically train at a much higher degree of marksmanship than an average army. The Swiss are also very accomplished engineers and have had hundreds of years to build significant fortifications and tunnels through the mountains. And also the Swiss are very good about maintaining neutrality and have a long history of it, thus making themselves less of a threat.

Sooo cute... reminds me of our boxer when she was younger. Exact same coloration.

No problem

Assuming the pistol has a 15 round mag!

"Usually" it's done by retards who are pissed off that planes fly over their house or some bs and they think they're going to "teach" those damn pilots a lesson... Sometimes it's just retarded kids "playing" around with laser pointers. Yes a commercial plane up high is extremely hard to hit, but any plane is much easier to hit when it's landing or taking off (which just makes it that much more dangerous since those are also a plane's most vulnerable times).

You've been raving about it so much that I am actually wanting to try one now to see if I should put it on my list

Usually it's hard for them to maintain hitting the windshield but they are stupid enough and dickish enough to continue trying to hit the airplane with it. And like I said above there are plenty of particulars in the atmosphere such that you can literally see the laser line through the air so you can just follow it back to the source. Then it's just a matter of describing to police the house/place it's coming from and it's really not that hard from the air to either use gps + some landmarks or even just landmarks to pinpoint the location. Plus again stupidity enters the equation and the perpetrators usually keep doing it and the cops can see the laser beam in the air from the house.

There are usually plenty of particulars in the atmosphere so that the laser beam can be fairly visible through the air. Then they can see it glint off the aircraft especially if they use binoculars or something.

LOL, throw tantrum much?

My mistake, you're right.

Personally, I would be polite about it, but firm that he has no right to ask for anything. If he became a dick afterwards then perhaps I would too, but no point in starting off as the dick.

Not for handguns only long guns. Handguns have to go through FFL.

This was a disturbing story.... I have a question about this for those that may know. Can the accused sue the accuser for bringing up a false RO and causing so much trouble? Is there any way to punish someone for bringing up such a clear bs RO?

NRA seems to have 0 presence in states like NJ and NY... which is really annoying for those of us stuck here.

Perhaps some of the more lawyerly inclined can correct me, but since there was no crime permitted in the house the fact the cops were allowed in the house is purely a courtesy and they have no leg to stand on when it comes to doing any "searches" what-so-ever, right? So the owner was purely in his right to refuse to show the Sgt. anything regarding the gun if he chose. TacGuy911 good for you for actually knowing and following a citizen's rights.

Yes daylight or not has little to do with it (in all fairness I'm sure it's far more disturbing at night but it's equally blinding during the day). Lasers are coherent light, meaning that all the energy is concentrate in a "straight line" as much as that's physically possible with commercial hardware. They do have some slight divergence (lower quality laser the more divergence) which means that a couple thousand feet away they will no longer be a dot but anywhere from a 10 inches to several feet across of quite powerful light. When that hits the windshield of an aircraft which has many thousands of micro scratches from interfacing with the elements it will essentially light up the whole windshield and basically blind you. An experienced pilot will then ignore the visual and fly instruments until visibility is restored but it's still amazingly disorienting. As far as I'm concerned, assholes that shine lasers at aircraft should be hit with wasp spray straight in the face and see how they enjoy that.

What books are those? I'd like to learn more about reloading as well. I'm not at the stage where I can get into reloading yet (there'd be no room in my condo presently) but I know for sure I will want to get into reloading later and would like to read up on it now.