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The terrorists have known that for quite some time. Look up the Athens airport attack in 1973, Rome and Vienna airports in 1985, Glascow airport in 2007. All were front-side attacks. You must know the official TSA Motto: "Protecting you from yesterday's threats...tomorrow!" They're doing it again here.

Plenty of low-level drones out there as well. Many PD's are buying small electric surveillance drones that fly low and slow.

That's a great way to dilute the hazmat fee!

Yep, symbolically, it sends the right message. Much like the towns that have passed ordinances requiring gun ownership. It doesn't really change anything, but it lets a local government make a clear statement of what they think.

Marijuana is also schedule 1, which leads one to ask what the DEA/FDA were smoking when they made these lists. Heroin is also schedule 1, however. Cocaine is schedule 2. Vicoden is schedule 3, Valium schedule 4, just to provide a bit of context

The goal is to be sure that the ICBM pieces fall harmlessly into the sea. We're fortunate that so far, the North Korean missiles do this on their own.

I think it will be interesting to see how history judges Snowden. I've not made up my own mind yet--I think it's too soon to have perspective. I think the US has to pursue, and has to attempt to prosecute him; that he violated the law seems clear. However, the government violated/circumvented the law as well, and I'm glad we now know more about that. And I'm rather pissed about what the government was up to. I think Snowden followed his conscience; he knew there would be life-altering repercussions, which he was prepared to accept, and he wasn't looking for financial gain, nor particularly interested in the fame or infamy that resulted from his actions. One of the things that makes law enforcement hard--by design--are the rather severe restrictions that we the American people have chosen to place on the enforcers in order to preserve some of our freedoms. Would the massive, secret collection and analysis of phone and internet data make it easier to catch terrorists? Almost certainly. Would allowing warrentless searches of homes, cars, and offices result in more criminals being caught? Almost certainly. Would giving the local police departments the right to tap phones at will and without judicial oversight make their work easier? Almost certainly. Do we want this? No.

Good plan, though I've been amazed at what (safes) professional movers were able to get in and out of basements with seemingly difficult access. I've no particular advice on a source; I will repeat the oft-repeated advice that if you want it to hold 18 long guns, you need to get one that claims to hold more than that.

Might be a fun project to geotag the homes of all of the legislators who vote against gun rights.

From the link: "Cops also recovered from her an expandable baton, a red folding Batman knife, a hatchet, a Taser, 13 bullets, a bag of syringes and eight pills, police said." Batman knife??

Mine is better than commercial, but I only reload for me.

I don't know exactly, but they've done these reports before for other administrations. CDC isn't new to this.

1911, if it fits you. And I'd suggest that ergonomics are VERY important if you are interested in accuracy. If a gun doesn't fit your hand, you can only compensate up to a point. That's why target grips look the way they do. Actually, my first bit of advice is to buy a handgun and not let the P2P expire--they're too hard to get. It would be a shame to get a long gun now, and let the clock run out on your P2P.

They're a fine choice for getting in practice. It's a target bullet--they're very accurate, at least to 50 yards or so, despite the weird appearance. You wouldn't typically load them to particularly high velocities (especially hollow-based wadcutters), so you wouldn't experience magnum recoil...but that's a good thing while you gain proficiency. They also suck if you're trying to load them with speed loaders, but it doesn't sound like that matters right now. Buy a lot, and shoot 'em up!

No, feigning interest is sufficient.

There is nothing morally or legally wrong with buying clones based on expired patents. The patent system grants exclusivity for a period of time, in exchange for the invention being disclosed so that others can use it later. I think design patents are commonly 14 years, use patents used to be 17, now are 20 years, and in every case there are ways to extend, at least for components (e.g. significantly improve a part, and you can patent it even if it is going into a design that is otherwise off-patent). That's why anyone can build guns based on original 1911, AR, Hi-Power, or other older designs. You just can't do it with newer designs, or with some gee-wiz wonder part that someone invented and patented recently even though it drops into one of the old classics.

If they're making unlicensed clones of weapons still covered by patents--and I suspect they are--that's another reason to ban import of those models. Not a factor for 1911's and other old designs, but I suspect Sigs and some of the others may still have patent protection.

Spitzer and Weiner are both running for office in NY, and you can be sure they'll oppose such a measure there.

I'd not heard that before--is that recommended more for heavy loads? I've always heard taper crimp only, but then I mostly load bullseye and IPSC loads in .45. It's an purely academic question for me. Can't run two crimp dies in a Dillon 550 anyway.

Glaser Safety Slugs in a revolver. You only need to shoot a few to sight in, and you don't have to worry about feeding issues. They feed fine in many/most autos, but it would get expensive to shoot enough to know they feed reliably in the auto you happen to be using. And you don't want them in your auto if you haven't shot enough to be sure they feed.

Good advice, but gunbot.net is the correct address.

This could be just the excuse I need to get my commercial pilot certificate! OK, it's not a cost-effective path to a gun discount, but still...

Lotta fussin' here over dust and dander and pollen. How many of you wear a dust mask and latex gloves when reloading or at an indoor range? (I don't; I'm just suggesting that our beloved hobby probably poses a greater environmental exposure risk than having the wrong filter on the AC unit.)

That may be correct, but you'll encounter different interpretations from different agents. I've been send to the airport travel shop before to buy an extra non-TSA lock for the outside of the suitcase, because they insisted that just one on the inside gun case wasn't sufficient. I'd bring along an extra lock or two, TSA and non-TSA flavored (because the TSA seems to cut off TSA locks about as often as they open them with the TSA master keys). Also, the posts I've read all refered to ammo in 'factory boxes'. Most (all?) airlines accept 'factory boxes or equivalent', so reloads in MTM or similar plastic boxes should be fine (I wouldn't mention they are reloads, though it shouldn't matter).

This further points to the ambiguity in the NJ laws, but I really hate to hear a response like that from a cop. In fact, it's the cop who would make the call in the event you are stopped. It's not expecting too much to ask them how they would make the call.