Still hand Bill
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55 minutes ago, Alpo said:
Aside from, as one of the commenters said, it's fear-mongering, he's giving false information.
Little table he's got down there says that every time you go anywhere with an SBR you got to fill out that ATM form 5320. That's bull.
I live in Pensacola I can go to jacksonville, I can go to Miami, I can go to key West. Take my gun with me. I live in El paso, I can go to Amarillo or I can go to Houston or I can go to Port Arthur. I live in Atlanta I can go to Savannah. No problem.
You got to do it when you're crossing state lines. That is nowhere near the same thing as "when you travel with it".
He also makes it sound like you have to fill out a new form every time, but the form can be good for up to a year. When you fill it out you tell them how long you want it to be good for. I want to take it to Atlanta for a week. Fine. I tell them a week. I want to take it to El Paso five times in the next year, I have it good for a year. Fine.
Makes me wonder how much else is wrong in that article.
You can also just convert back to its pre sbr configuration and then travel with no forms. Sbr’s are different than silencers and machine guns in that they are configuration dependent to be a sbr. If I assemble a contender (originally a pistol) as a pistol, it’s a pistol, rifle its a long gun, if a pistol barrel and a stock a sbr. Really time to do away with the whole sbr designation.
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First let me say this is horrible and those responsible should be prosecuted and punished. It is a bit ironic that Australia is held up as the model of how to prevent such attacks by banning most guns and for its famous buyback. Guess it didn’t work and they will have to ban all guns now.
used to work with some Aussies and they loved guns, just had a hard time owning them. Also many were hidden and not turned in during the buyback.
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On 12/12/2025 at 11:00 PM, El Chapo said:
Citizenship is an entirely different category from immigration. If it were up to me, we would abolish naturalization completely. It's a farce to me, a person who comes from another country is never going to be loyal to ours, yet we create this fiction in our heads as if that's a reality.
Many, perhaps even most, of the undocumented, do not care at all about citizenship. They come here to work and support their families, not to participate in civic life. They are not jumping any line toward naturalization, because they don't care about citizenship at all.
I know several naturalized citizens. They are all very grateful and proud to now be called a us citizen. They left their home countries due to being persecuted for being Christians. One of them had to leave everything behind and completely start over. They are also very much against illegals.
Other countries are quite strict about immigration and visa’s. Unfortunately the USA doesn’t have desire to follow suite. having been in China a lot, they don’t mess around with foreigners. If you get close to overstaying your visa they will politely ask you to leave. I also had a friend who wanted to move to Australia (married to an Australian), but couldn’t as he didn’t have a college degree.
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27 minutes ago, Tell Sackett SASS 18436 said:
Personally I don’t want CRIMINALS to have ANY “rights”, much less the right to a gun!!
Honestly, that is a very slippery slope. Most people break multiple laws every day. Roll a stop sign, You are a criminal, speed, you are a criminal, doing something someone things is illegal should not remove any of your rights. Imho You should only lose rights when you show you can not respect others rights.
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The only people I know still watching the news or even TV are my parents (boomers). Pretty much everyone else has turned off TV and gets any news via internet sights. This does not bode well for legacy media.
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Klaus on Netflix is pretty cute for animation. Lots of big names for voices.
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3 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:
Watched an interview with the guy who was arrested -- there's a bit more to the story.
He's an IT developer, has a client who owes him a significant sum. He sent a message to the client saying that if the client didn't pay up, he would take 'strong measures'. Somehow or another, it seems the client connected the picture of the man holding a gun (and the guy never mentioned online that he was in Florida when he was holding the gun) with the warning about paying up, and notified the police.
Do I think the UK's laws making online speech a crime? Mostly, yes. But there's a bit more to the story than initially explained.
Even so, after seeing the photo it was obviously taken on a sporting clays course. Which was invented in England.
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The monitors were a definite innovation at the time and probably quite effective when used correctly. Unfortunately they suffered in rough seas. I can see how the gun turret monitor morphed into the battleship based on how the later monitors were used for shore bombardment.
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8 hours ago, WD Farren said:
The real killer is the property taxes.
These are the staggering expense of renting your home from the county.
When CA takes away our Prop 13 tax protections, our generational family home taxes will be $55,000 per year.
We will of course, have to sell the property.
This is becoming an issue lots of places. My property taxes have increased by 30% last year. I am now paying as much as my mortgage in property tax. I expect more states to implement something like prop 13 or people will be forced out of houses they own.
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7 hours ago, watab kid said:
exactly what my thinking was , 20 years ago my NIL sold his house in california for over a million dollars - it was a 1200 sf two bedroom bungal , - thats what i bought for 35k in 1974 , granted it was a nice house and it lived well , but i was aghast at the west coast cost
i bought my current home in 91 for less than market value as the property had just been annexed and was facing a utility and road reconstruction assessment , it only cleared from the tax roles a few years ago and we just this summer had a total utility changeover as well as road replacement , they did replace half of my 60+ year old driveway but im on the hook for extra taxes another 20 years ,
both my kids bought 3/4 million dollar homes on very nice property - both have great jobs as well as their spouses , but i just cant imagine the numbers today it would scare me to death , i realize its because i grew up in the 50s-60s and was raised by parents that grew up in the depression then fought a world war , my siblings and i were raised frugally , my wife was a 50s-70s navy brat - she too was raised that way , we still live that way ,
my biggest extravagance in my life was a 67 mustang convertible that cost $2500 in that year - brand new off the showroom floor , ive never spent like that since , dont get me wrong , my wife and i dont do without these days but we worked very hard to get here - i just cant imagine buying into a mortgage with those numbers
Times have changed. My dad’s first house was 25k and he made 3.5k per year. Our current house cost 2.5 times our yearly income and is taxed value is now 5x. So in multiples of yearly income it’s similar, just the numbers are much bigger. Inflation at work.
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24 minutes ago, watab kid said:
im sorry - those numbers are staggering , i have always understood this mortgage system , but my first house was 35k , my current one was 91k , i cannot fathom a half million dollar mortgage ,
both my kids have more than that in theirs but i just cant wrap my head around these numbers
I recently asked a cousin who bought a house in San Diego, for a 3 bedroom typical suburban house, 2 million. I bet their mortgage is over a million. 500k won’t buy you much in many markets. In other markets you can still get a house for a couple hundred k, but the jobs won’t pay 6 figures.
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1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:
One thing I've been told is that when you jump another vehicle DO NOT start your own car. For the reasoning of the electronics. Most vehicles that have an actual manual will state the proper procedure for your vehicle.
Only problem with that is it probably won’t start the other vehicle without the source vehicle running. Voltage is only 12.3-12.5 v and will drop under load. When running it will 14-14.5.
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1 hour ago, sassnetguy50 said:
Does that mean Ruger will be sued next or is that part of clone different?
If it’s a clone as many are, then any gen 3 slide will fit. The switch is a really simple device, just a wedge that moves the transfer bar to reset the sear and then releases it. It attaches to the back of the slide on the little part that holds the striker spring. Since it was patented, you can look up how to make one. Not hard, but a felony to have one.
i am not a Glock fan, but did build a p80 to see how the Glock worked. Actually a lot of nice engineering went into it. Simple design, but works well. It has several safeties, the sear can’t drop until the trigger moves back. Also a striker block that’s activated by the trigger, so it’s drop safe. The reason the trigger is not crisp like a single action is the striker is held only partially compressed until the trigger is pulled. The take up in the trigger moves the striker to the fully compressed position and then the transfer bar/sear moves down, releasing the striker. Very few parts. The magazine catch spring is simply a short rod that slips into the right spot, all molded in to the frame.
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There are plenty of Glock clones out there that people will be building gen 1-3 Glock clones for a long time. You can build a complete gun without any glock parts, so why will this matter.
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There has to be some recoil as recoil is conservation of momentum. Essentially the mass of the bolt x its speed, plus some from moving the limbs? Not sure how long launching a bolt takes, but that would spread the recoil out over time. Probably longer than a firearm making it seem like less recoil in addition to the levels being a lot lower.
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9 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Does that take calculation take into account cylinder gap?Probably not. I have not tried QL with pistol cartridges, just rifle. For subsonic rifle loads it does not work well. It overestimates velocity by quite a bit. Seems drag from the bullet to barrel is not accounted for correctly at slower speeds and low pressures. It may work fine for pistol loads, but it does not for slow rifle loads.
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1 hour ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
The “black activist” of today DOESN’T WANT things to change!! If the things that they say are wrong were to disappear, their gravy train would jump the track!! They wouldn’t have those perceived discriminations to shout about and they would have to find other means of financial support!!
They are nothing more than RACIAL CARPETBAGGERS!!
You can say that about all politicians. They don’t want to solve the problems, just look like they are doing something. Also why not do something instead of worrying about a message.
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Have seen this on packages I have shipped. It was going about an hour east, instead it went south, then 4 hrs north, then back south, then 6 hrs east, then delivered. I asked our local postmaster why service was so bad and she said they are trying to cut the number of trips that they make. Ie used to bring mail in the morning and pick up at night. Now they only bring and pick up in the am with the same truck. So I think the back and forth is packages that don’t get unloaded. They just stay on the truck, hence the multiple trips. The single trip per day also slows down service.
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9 hours ago, John Kloehr said:
Took a look at the actual text. Departments are exempt, but individual officers are not expressly exempted. Also personal purchase is not exempted, only for official use:
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convertiblemachinegun-convertible pistol to a police department, sheriff’s office, marshal’s office, district attorney’s office, the California Highway Patrol, the Department of Justice, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or the military or naval forces of this state or of the United States for use in the discharge of their official duties.Interesting, if that means an officer can’t buy them, that will make for some unhappy cops. I bet it gets changed if it’s signed into law as it would mean no cops can buy a semi auto. Only an issued duty weapon.
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Probably has an exemption for Leo. Then they can sell them and make lots. Amazing that they go after Glock, yet Glock didn’t invent the switch.
better not tell them about forced reset triggers. Those are becoming the thing to have now. A machine gun without being a machine gun. Most pistols can be converted, so if the law doesn’t call out Glock by name only, most semi autos will become illegal.
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Many chemical processes use chemicals that will burn, are toxic, corrosive, or are explosive. The difference is in an industrial setting the equipment is set up to make sure it doesn’t go boom or kill people. A guy cooking meth in a stolen trailer doesn’t take those precautions. They cut corners and hope it all goes well. My brother used to work at a plant that makes polypropylene, lots of dangerous chemicals. Think of the union carbide leak in India of what happens when it goes wrong.
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Supposedly that distinctive sound is due to the rotor tips getting close to or even breaking the sound barrier.
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Went to pour over (chemex) as that’s what my brother the coffee snob uses. He roasts his own beans and has a 2 lb roaster.
I have a small chemex style carafe from eBay/ amazon, added a burr grinder, scale, and kettle. If doing a single cup, 20-22g of beans to 300g of water. For two cups, 30/500. Have a bigger carafe for company and more than 2 cups.
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6 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
I'm sometimes amazed at what some call a restoration. I don't recall the details, but maybe a dozen years ago I read an article about a crash site find. Something like, "We're really excited! We found a data plate, an oil pressure gauge,a landing gear strut, and about two square feet of fuselage skin. I think we can RESTORE it. Does fabricating 99.9% of the aircraft from new metal count as restoration?
We run into Thesus' Paradox
That’s about what they did for white 33, the p38. I expect the P47 will be similar. Almost a complete new build. I am just glad to see another one flying.
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Shotgun reloaders: Who uses the auto primer add-on to the MEC press?
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I had a mec grabber. Originally it had the pull chain primer feed. I replaced that with the newer style and it was a vast improvement. Can’t imagine running a progressive shotgun press and dropping primers by hand. I eventually moved up to a pw. While it’s nice, I wish I had spent the extra and got a spolar.