Still hand Bill

With the recent SC ruling on bump stocks this may hold up and not make it to the SC.

I am not defending Baldwin, but as my grandpa the judge used to say, truth comes with a point of view. We all know he had to have pulled the trigger. A single action simply won’t fire any other way without being broken, damaged, or modified to do so. The FBI has verified all three of those did not happen. He probably believes that he didn’t pull the trigger. Thus not lying, he doesn’t know that his memory of the event is not what actually happened and the actual events should come out during the trial. Ie he made the gun fire by pulling the trigger and pulling back the hammer, with a loaded round and pointed at a person, killing them.

I tried one of the universal bars and had issues with it sticking. Went back to mec bars and the press ran much better.

I think emission systems are 100k warranty. The evaporative emissions can be as high as having the car running. To combat that they implemented the purge valve, carbon canister, etc. it’s a pain as the system is quite complex.

Looking at the data, death by firearm for under 20 is the leading cause of death. It’s only slightly above motor vehicles and only did so in the last 3-4 years. Even then I think it’s less than 500 people per year. Hardly an epidemic. if you look at under 18, then the leading cause of death is not firearms. About evenly split for suffocation and motor vehicles. So yes, it’s mostly about talking points and not backed up by data.

The only thing that makes in a big number of deaths is inner city violence. If they solve that, it won’t be an issue. But I bet no one does anything to address that problem.

I expect this is going to happen a lot in some states. California recognized this was an issue 40+ years ago and had prop 13. Now you can even sell a house and buy a new one in the same tax area and keep your old tax base. That came about due to retired people getting stuck in huge houses with low property tax. Could not afford to sell the house as taxes on any new house would be too high. I am worried about this where I live, taxes are high and property has been going up a lot. My taxes are 8k and property value has gone up 50% in less than 5 years.

I believe if you move into the state all have to be filed with the state, but if you have been there the entire time you don’t have to, but you can only buy ammo for calibers the state knows you own. CA has a gun confiscation division and made 25k contacts and confiscated just under 2k guns. So no way they can contact every gun owner.

It does pose the interesting problem of what to do with exiting units if made illegal by congress. One good outcome would be to open the registry and add bump stocks and other devices (forced reset triggers and binary triggers) as machine guns. There are only about 400k transferable machine guns. Increasing that number would be great and hopefully drive down prices. Also once it’s a machine gun, you could just convert to a full autosear. No need to keep it as a bump stock if it’s a nfa machine gun.

Unfortunately I don’t agree on the rule for sales. I believe the statute is not as clear as the machine gun definition and may allow the atf to write the rule. I think there is still a chance the sale rule will get thrown out, I am not sure this case will help. The biggest argument against the new sale rule is that it has no clear metrics for what constitutes engaged in the business. That is problematic as the potential criminal has no idea they are breaking the rule until they get charged. Ie leniency is going to the prosecutor not the accused.

I don’t oppose background checks, I oppose having a record of every transaction so that a database of who owns what is created. Unfortunately they both go together with todays 4473. No question that’s why your name and gun information are on the same page of the 4473 now. Much easier to scan and record the data.

Yes a good thing. I agree that actual bump stocks are sort of silly, but the ruling says the atf can not interpret a law differently than it’s written. The whole case was about atf reinterpretation of the law and banning things that met the letter of the law. The dissent was basically the laws intent was to ban rapid fire, thus the reinterpretation is ok. Problem was the law said nothing about rate of fire. It simply says a machine gun will automatically fire more than one shot with each function of the trigger. A bump stock does not do this. congress can easily make a law to ban bump stocks and that I believe would be legal. This ruling clarifies that the president can not have agencies make new rules/interpretations when they can’t get the law passed.

I remember reading about someone who built a 50 bmg pistol. The photos showed some pretty impressive fireballs.

While people may be unhappy and there is a huge political divide, most are happy enough to not give up what they have. People will need to be a lot more unhappy to get a full scale war going.

Same as in Colorado. Water boiled at 200 at our house. I just set my kettle for 199 so it would reach boiling. Worked fine for pour over, although extraction might be slightly different. Run the kettle at 205 now at a lower elevation.