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Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619

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  1. A detailed article on that specific subject in today's NYTimes: What the ‘Rust’ Shooting Trial Told Us About How Live Rounds Got on Set - The New York Times (nytimes.com) If you can't get to it, should be available from other online sources in a day or two.
  2. That will be up to a different jury. I'd be willing to put up several dollars that he'll be acquitted when it goes to trial. He has pretty good defenses, and just acquired another one with the conviction of the armorer.
  3. I never did it and I don't remember anybody else doing it in court. In depostions I may have heard it a few times. I never did there either-- why remind them? As for'strenuous' objections, yeah, you do hear that a lot. But not nearly as much as, "I'll be brief, your honor"....
  4. His testimony was in the armorer's trial, not Baldwin's, which hasn't happened yet.
  5. She put the live round into the revolver; it ultimately came down to that when all was said and done.
  6. I suppose with airplanes he would have conquered Gaul. Which he did without them.
  7. Three miles of 'light rail" in my city has taken at least that long.
  8. I had it on videotape years ago. It hadn't been forgotten then.... [I didn't play the link; I remembered the episode...]
  9. I have two (actual) Stetson fedoras, one black, one brown, that each cost about $350, marketed (and marked) by Stetson as 100% beaver felt, a claim that I have no reason to doubt. Weather has no effect on them, unlike lesser hats I've owned. [I say 'actual' because the linked article, and other places, seem sometimes to use 'stetson' as generic for cowboy hats, rather than the brand.]
  10. Exalauno Day is March 4th; a pun on the Greek verb 'exalauno' meaning "March forth", recurrently used in Xenophon's "Anabasis of Cyrus", (often translated as The March Upcountry or the March of the Ten Thousand). ' Xenophon's story is quite true, about the long escape of ten thousand Greek mercenaries from the heart of Persia after their leader, a claimant to the Persian throne, was killed. Took place in the generation before Alexandert the Great. I read it a few years back after a respected acquaintance described it as 'the greatest true adventure story ever written'. It qualifies, and it is not a hard read. Roxbury Latin School invented the holiday a century or so ago, and it makes the news now and then....
  11. You get quite a bit of latitude on cross-examination, but there are still limits....
  12. It was total war. Same thing happened at Hanford/Tri-cities Washington.
  13. So it's temporary. You're coming back. This is a local and limited emergency. So you take a handgun, a rifle, and a couple boxes. This is not a SHTF scenario...
  14. Yes. The 'fines' assessed against LaPierre and others are to be repaid to t'he NRA, not the state. That was the jury part of the case. The case is now before the judge on future governance issues. He long ago dismissed the AG's attempts to dismantle the NRA. Probably the only way to get rid of the current board and reorganize the governance will be by the Court. The board will never do it itself.
  15. 'Geometric' basalt pipes are found lots of places; Washington state has loads of them. When thick basaltic lava cools, it contracts. Geometric 'pipes' are produced. Think of similar formations in drying mud. Haven't seen those cubic formations before, though. I would guess a similar process.
  16. Amazing price; they usually cost more. +pistol bras - Search Images (bing.com)
  17. I would call it interesting speculation! We do often think of a lot of 'might-have-beens' in life....
  18. The M3 Grant/Lee gave good service. They shipped a lot of them to Russia, too.
  19. Staple of time travel SF for a long time. One of the best examples is Delenda Est, an 1955 story by Poul Anderson, which has time travelers killing Scipio Africanus with the result that Hannibal eventually defeated Rome. What ensued was a Celtic/Carthaginian culture in place of a Greco-Roman one for Europe. The Time Patrolmen have to straighten it out..... Many tales along those lines. Pick any important battle. What if Harold Godwinson defeated William of Normandy at Hastings? And so on.....
  20. Didn't used to like Costner. As he got older, he got a lot better, and I changed my view. Hope this is a good one.
  21. While we think of the Vikings as Atlantic raiders mostly, at the same time they were heading down the Eastern European rivers en masse. Usually called Varangians in that context. Russia ultimately was founded at Kiev by Rurik, a Varangian. Scandinavian soldiers guarded the Emperor at Constantinople. There is famous Viking rune graffiti in Hagia Sophia. They could have come into contact with Moslems in many ways in those times.
  22. What I would like to see soon would be an article in the next American Rifleman, or maybe the next after that, that has a full account of the facts; honest, detailed, without embellishment, rationalizations, or spin; one which also might point the way forward. And which contains no plea for funds whatever. Won't hold my breath. But something like that should happen soon.
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