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No, that one is completely accurate.

Not surprisingly, the article is misleading. Remington was not held liable. They offered to settle. Bad precedent, yes, but the courts did not find them liable. Remington was reacting to the risk that they might. There is also this gem in the article: The rifle Lanza used was Remington’s version of the AR-15 assault rifle, which is substantially similar to the standard issue M16 military service rifle used by the U.S. Army and other nations’ armed forces, but fires only in semiautomatic mode. Kinda in the same way that a Toyota is 'substantially similar' to a Cessna, except that it can't fly.

Those do-it-yourself stippling jobs never quite look right.

Get back to us when HK has had a design in continuous production for 111 years.

New Biathlon results, through Sunday: In the Women’s 7.5 km sprint, Gold, Silver and Bronze went to Marte Roeiseland, Norway, Elvira Oberg, Sweden, and Dorothea Wierer, Italy, respectively. US finishers were Susan Dunklee (27th), Joanne Reid (34th) and Deedra Irwin (37th)—all in the top half of the pack. In the Men’s 10 km sprint Johannes Bo of Norway won Gold, Quentiin Maillet from France the Silver, and Tarjei Bo (Johannes’ older brother) from Norway the Bronze. US Biathletes Jake Brown, Sean Doherty, and Paul Schommer finished 36th, 47th, and 74th, respectively. In the Men’s 12.5 km Pursuit, Quentin Maillet from France took Gold, Tarjei Bo from Norway took Silver, and Eduard Latypov from the ROC team took Bronze. US athletes Jake Brown, and Sean Doherty finished 40th and 43rd. In the Women’s 10 km Pursuit, Marte Roeisland (Norway), Elvira Oberg (Sweden) and Tiril Eckhoff (Norway) took the medals. This was a brutal race, as it was run in heavy, wet snow. Ingrid Tandrevold from Norway was solidly in third place when she collapsed just 300 meters from the finish line. For the US Joanne Reid was 29th, Clare Egan 38th, Susan Dunklee 40th, and Deedra Irwin was 47th. This was the first time the Women's team had 4 shooters qualify for a Biathlon event. Here is a nice video summary of the Women’s 7.5 km sprint, with an emphasis on the shooting portion. Women's 7.5 km sprint Watch Eckhoff’s breathing at about 1:15, as she transitions from gasping for air at the start of her prone stage, to a rock solid hold, then back to gasping for air as she returns to the race.

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There is, or was, a NJ summer biathlon league (running/shooting) that shot at the Cherry Ridge range. It doesn't look like they've been very active in recent years. https://www.facebook.com/NJ-Summer-Biathlon-111322242229252/ There was also a standalone website for the group, but it's down. The PA summer biathlon league was still running matches as of last year. https://pabiathlon.com/events/ I've no experience with either one.

Yep. That's appalling, even by career politician standards. Which are pretty damn low.

Biathlon has not been a strong event for Team USA, and the results from the first few medal events reflect that. In the Mixed 4 x 6 KM relay, Gold, Silver, and Bronze went to the teams from Norway, France, and ROC, respectively. The US team finished 7th, a little over 2 minutes behind Norway. In the Women’s 15 KM Individual, the medals went to Germany, France, and Norway, in that order. Deedra Irwin from the US finished 7th, Clare Egan 39th, and Susan Dunklee 63rd In the Men’s 20 KM Individual, France, Belarus, and Norway took the medals, American’s Jake Brown, Paul Schommer, and Leif Nordgren finished 28th, 35th, and 87th, respectively. You'd think Leif would have finished with a medal, based on his name alone. There are seven more events still to come over the next 10 days.

This can become a six degrees of separation game. Who can figure out how to get a long gun to Kevin Bacon in the fewest number of legal in-family transfers?

Mostly. In this thread, the driver was called an ass, ass hat, asshole, jerk, idiot, Dumb F and probably a few other names, most used repeatedly. Those are gender neutral. Good Job! But jerkoff and dick were also used, so some of you are still making unsupported assumptions about what gender the driver might identify with. Off to the indoctrination camps with you!

I'd wondered about the O2 thing. In an unpressurized aircraft, the pilot must be on O2 whenever above 12,500 for 30 minutes or more, or at any time above 14,000. The rules are very different for powered parachutes, so O2 probably not a requirement, but 17.5K is pretty far up there without any significant time to acclimatize. In addition to the thin air and cold temps, I suspect he picked 17.5K as his max target because he knew he couldn't bust Class A airspace which starts at 18K, and altitude from a GPS isn't legal for determining where you are in relation to restricted airspace--the FAA only recognizes barometric altitude, which can be fairly different from what a GPS tells you.

I've been very happy with NJM for auto. Only two claims in 20 years, but they paid fully and quickly. Claim one occurred when my car was stolen on moving day. They paid without blinking, on a policy that was 6 hours old. Claim two was when I was rear-ended by a College Hunks Hauling Junk truck. The company self-insures, which is to say they were uninsured. NJM paid their portion of the claim, then hounded the company for almost 8 months to get my deductible reimbursed. The only reasons I don't have homeowners through them is that they require a home visit/inspection, and we have an old garage with structural issues, and I think my reloading room would freak them out.

The Winter Olympics are here, so I’m posting a short summary of what to expect from the only shooting event contested in the winter games: Biathlon. I’ve no direct experience with the event—I had some discussions in college when the US Biathlon Team was considering recruiting rifle shooters and teaching them to ski--but I think everyone realized the skiing skills were ultimately more important. Team USA has 4 women and 4 men representing us in China. All have good international experience, five of them are returning Olympians. https://www.teamusa.org/US-Biathlon/Teams/2022-US-Olympic-Biathlon-Team They’ll be competing in the five Biathlon events: Men’s and Women’s individual, sprint, pursuit, mass start, and relay events, plus the mixed relay. The events take place between Feb 5 and 19, and the schedule can be seen here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon_at_the_2022_Winter_Olympics Most years, the Biathlon does receive some TV coverage, and I believe all of the events are available to stream. There is a very nice promotional video for the sport--best one I've seen--here: Biathlon The shooting portion of the event is done from the prone and the standing positions, in five shot strings, at a distance of 50 meters. The prone targets are 45 mm across (1.77 inches), the standing targets are 115 mm (4.53 inches). Pretty small, when you’re shooting them in the middle of a ski race. Targets are reactive, so hits and misses are visible to the spectators. Depending on the event, each missed target either adds a fixed amount of time to the skier's time on the course, or requires the skier to ski around a penalty loop before continuing on the course. Rifles used must be .22 caliber, generally with a straight-pull action. Iron sights must be used. The most popular rifle in recent years has been the Anschutz 1827 Biathlon rifle, about $5500, once the right bells and whistles are added to it. I won't be posting daily updates, but will try to put an occasional summary up in this thread as the games progress. Go Team USA!

A big contributor to Facebook's losses was a little change Apple made to their iPhone operating system last year. Now, when you launch an app for the first time, you see a dialog box like the one below, for Facebook (the image is copied from MacWorld, as i'm not on Facebook). Anyway, making it so easy to opt out of allowing Facebook to track your activity across all other apps and websites is apparently costing Facebook about $10 Billion a year in lost revenue. For many users, I'd imagine seeing that pop-up was the first inkling they had that Facebook was tracking their activity across all other apps and websites. Users blocking tracking on iPhones costing Facebook $10 billion a year

I knew who he is, that he's still alive, and a bit about his career with Crazy Horse, Buffalo Springfield, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, but found a lot of stuff in his Wikipedia entry that I didn't know. "Neil Percival Young OC OM[4][5] (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer, musician and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Since the beginning of his solo career with his backing band Crazy Horse, Young has released many critically acclaimed and important albums, such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After the Gold Rush, Harvest, On The Beach and Rust Never Sleeps. He was a part-time member of Crosby, Stills & Nash & Young. Young has received several Grammy and Juno Awards. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him twice: in 1995 as a solo artist and in 1997 as a member of Buffalo Springfield.[6] In 2000, Rolling Stone named Young No. 34 on their list of the 100 greatest musical artists. According to Acclaimed Music, he is the seventh most celebrated artist in popular music history.[7] His guitar work, deeply personal lyrics[8][9][10] and signature high tenor singing voice[11][12] define his long career. He also plays piano and harmonica on many albums, which frequently combine folk, rock, country and other musical genres. His often distorted electric guitar playing, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname "Godfather of Grunge"[13] and led to his 1995 album Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam. More recently he has been backed by Promise of the Real.[14] 21 of his albums and singles have been certified Gold and Platinum in U.S by RIAA certification.[15] Young directed (or co-directed) films using the pseudonym "Bernard Shakey", including Journey Through the Past (1973), Rust Never Sleeps (1979), Human Highway (1982), Greendale (2003), and CSNY/Déjà Vu(2008). He also contributed to the soundtracks of the films Philadelphia (1993) and Dead Man (1995)." I'm also 61+ and know what Spotify is!

Some years ago, my wife, oldest daughter (maybe 10 at the time) and a friend she was visiting in NC were walking in downtown Chapel Hill, when a man emerged from a bookstore onto the sidewalk in front of them. My wife's friend whispered "I think that's James Taylor". Daughter, who hadn't yet developed a volume control, asked "WHO'S JAMES TAYLOR?", whereupon James Taylor turned, smiled broadly at the group, and continued on his way.

I was at Smuggler's Notch on Saturday, and Okemo on Sunday. Both had plenty of snow, but wind kept the big hill (Madona Mountain) closed at Smuggs nearly all of Saturday.

I got outta Dodge before the storm hit, heading up to Vermont to ski (the trip was planned before the storm was on the horizon). As luck would have it, Vermont did not get a solitary snowflake over the weekend. Fortunately, they already had a pretty good base down, and with subzero temperatures all weekend, the snow wasn't going anywhere. And I didn't have too much snow to deal with in Morris County, once I returned home.

If this request is over and above their annual budget, Schumer's wet dream would roughly double ATF funding. Nothing good would come of that. Their 2019 budget was about $1.27 billion ( 2019 budget) and their 2021 budget request was for $1.67 billion--not sure what they actually got (2021 budget request).

I remember at least one state of emergency/travel ban for snow in the late 80’s, so they’re far from new. My site didn’t close, and the local cops sat at the entrance ticketing employees as they showed up for work. Eventually, the company agreed to reimburse employees for the tickets.

That's a cool reference. You can sort right in the wikipedia table. If you click the arrows next to the H/R header, it separates the entries into Handgun and Rifle, much like you can click the arrows on the date column to sort by date introduced. I'm not completely sure I believe the '# of factory loadings' column (or maybe I misunderstand how it is used here), but it shows the 9 x 18 Makarov of having the most of any cartridge, at 10, followed by 10 common rifle calibers (30-06, 308, .223, etc) each having 8 factory loadings available. Dozens and dozens of oddball cartridges have no factory loads available.

.380 has been around for quite awhile, though never used widely. I think the .40 S&W might be one of the more recent introductions. And there are rifle wildcats-gone-mainstream that are newer still.

I don't see much need for it. It's no great shakes ballistically, and as a reloader I have no interest in finding and stocking 8 mm bullets. I'm glad it's unlikely to see much use, since the cartridge case is the same length as a 9mm. It would be a huge pain in the butt to separate that from 9 mm brass when scooping up range brass. This might, barely, be more annoying than finding .45 small primer brass mixed in with your .45s.

They would have, but this thread was resurrected on Monday because that deal fell apart. Sportsman's Warehouse is remaining independent.