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I'm pretty sure they are.

They are a real problem for pilots...much more so than the imagined threat the .50 BMG round would ever be. I think the legislation came about because of numerous incidents targeting police helicopters. Those tend to get more attention from the congresscritters.

That's an ergonomic and aesthetic disaster of the highest order... But I support your right to have one if you want. :-) (I can't comment on the legality in NJ)

I'm too new to the platform to weigh in on the parts list, but more experienced builders are about to offer a lot of opinions... The brake must be welded or silver soldered in place. Epoxy or regular solder aren't acceptable means to pin the brake in NJ. I don't recall what pin depth is recommended; I've seen instructions and videos on the 'net, which I'm sure you can find. I do recall that using a short piece of coat hanger wire (which is pretty tough stuff) to make the pin is a common solution.

A dozen years ago I spent a week on Blackbird Caye/Turneffe Atol, about 25 miles off the coast of Belize. Loved it!!! It's a diver's paradise, closer to the barrier reef than the other, larger cayes. It wouldn't be a good choice for non-divers, as there is only the single diving resort on the Caye and nothing else to do there but watch the salt water crocs come up to the dock at night. I had a few hours to spend in Belize city on departure day, it was fun, but I don't remember any specifics to recommend. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to get into the mainland jungle, or do any of the ecotourism stuff the country is known for.

I believe that is exactly the response he wants. :-)

I agree, it would be a shame to be limited to shooting rounds like this at only 25 yards--but any round is decelerating as soon as it leaves the muzzle.

The Belgians would disagree with you.

I recently visited Jays, in Panama City, FL. http://www.jaysgunsonline.com/pc.html Paid $20 for the range fee, and $25 per 25 round magazine to shoot a suppressed, full-auto MP5. No extra charge for gun rental, it's covered in the ammo cost. Great fun!

It's not a stretch to call it a French company. It's a glaring, factual error.

Agreed! Diving the cenotes is one of the most magical things I've ever experienced.

Dewalt. Oh, wait...

Sanctum was pretty awful. It didn't help that I saw it with my SCUBA club.

This goes back a few decades, by my gold standard for worst movie I ever sat through remains "Terms of Endearment" (This wasn't a movie selection I made...) It won a pile of Oscars, had a great cast, and was based on a book by an author who has written some things I like...but gawd....I couldn't stand the film.

Not necessarily. NRA insurance, for instance, only requires you to list the more valuable guns...I think the cutoff may be $1500. Anything worth less is covered by the aggregate insurance amount, but they don't have any specific info on them. Hence the importance of keeping model/serial number records somewhere safe.

Olive Garden? (ducking for cover)

Model 70 Winchester Model 870 Remington Model 1911 Colt pattern Model 586/686 S&W

The advice I was given when I moved to the state was that the voluntary form was a handy way to record model and serial number information...which you then put in your safety deposit box. What you don't want to do is turn the form back in to the police after you fill it out.

That's a helpful link--thanks for posting. Though I don't recall seeing--or needing--my SS card for the last 40 years. Maybe I won't rush to order a replacement.

Look for the upcoming announcement of the electric HumVee ("HumVolt"?) Goes nearly 18 miles on a charge, topping out at 21 mph. Recharges in just 16 hours, when hooked up to it's 3 acre solar panel array.

Fair point. Those 'must own a gun' laws that I've seen always have an 'unless you don't want to' clause buried in them, which is why I consider them symbolic, rather than intrusive.

One or both of them was missing a wallet after that encounter...

I don't know where to start. No, the people who travel every day don't like what they do, and no, they should most certainly not be expanding the scope of their duties. They need to be dialed back--significantly. Now. I'm not going to bother posting the hundreds of links that even a perfunctory google search will turn up. TSA is the worst at what they do, though perhaps part of that is due to budget reasons--screeners are not paid well, turnover is huge, training is minimal, they perform miserably at finding real threats while individual screeners make it up as they go along and confiscate allowed items by the thousands. The 'bad apple' rate is in fact significantly higher than that of real LEO agencies. TSA fought for--and won--permission to hire convicted felons as screeners. That's comforting. We have the most intrusive, least effective screening force in the first world. If the best we can do for now is keep the screening clerks bottled up in the tiniest possible part of the airport, so be it. We need to resist their ongoing attempts to spread-like a cancer-to rail and automotive and small plane and pedestrian traffic. I'm sorry if I'm offending some TSA folks here, but this is big-government, big-brother intrusiveness at its worst.

It shouldn't have happened; that's why the crew will be getting grief for the rest of their careers. It does happen from time to time, however, and I can make some guesses about what happened here. The two airports are 5.5 miles apart; Mac Dill Air Force base has a control tower, and the C17 would have been in contact with them, and would have received clearance to land. The smaller, commuter airport (Peter O Knight) is un-towered, so no one on the ground there would have been talking to the C17. The main runways at both airports are perfectly aligned. If the plane was approaching from the northeast (likely, due to prevailing winds), once it was lined up to land on runway 22, it would have been flying a magnetic heading of 220 degrees. The chart would indicate that just before reaching the runway, the course would take the plane over a bit of water (Hillsborough Bay). I suspect that the confusion came about because the main runway at Peter O Knight is also just past a body of water (a much smaller mouth of a river), and it also aligns perfectly with the runway at Mac Dill--both are a on a magnetic heading of 220 degrees. So the pilot had a clearance to land, he was flying 220 magnetic, saw a runway dead ahead of him just past the water, and he set the plane down. He completely missed the facts that the airport was 5.5 miles too close to him, and much, much smaller than the one he should have been aiming for (which may or may not have been visible--it looked like a clear day, but they get a lot of haze in the Tampa area). You can visualize it from the navigational charts by going to skyvector.com or airnav.com and typing in KTPF (Peter O'knight airport) into the airport search, then clicking on the nav chart window.

This may be a less impressive video, but if you've ever wondered how they got the Lockheed Constellation into Greenwood Lake airport, here is a link to the video originally shot in super 8 in 1977. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RkC-a4jjxU The Connie wasn't known as a short-field performer, but after one go around, they stuffed it in on the second attempt--knowing it could never fly out again. It's been a display piece there ever since. Beautiful aircraft, powered by 4, 18-cylinder radial engines!