[Colorado AWB update]

36 minutes ago, Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life said:

Simple fact, all the imports into Denver lean left, and they bring their liberal BS with them. Denver by itself outnumbers the rest of the state all by themselves so what Denver wants, Denver gets. Throw in Golden and Boulder and they become a superpower. There are 64 counties in Colorado, 59 voted against marijuana legalization but it’s here. 58 voted against wolf reintroduction but we have them. 52 voted against magazine capacity limits but guess what! Pretty sure this ban will become law because the Denver community wants it. The lefties there don’t care, understand or know how to live in a free society, and believe that only under complete and total government control can they go about their lives. 
So tired of all the demo BS 

Gateway Kid

This is the problem with a democracy, most votes gets to dictate to everyone else.  If there was a one vote per county, Colorado would look a lot different politically.    Honestly glad I left Colorado.  It is lost to the left now.  

[School shooting]

I just read something today where China is having to post guards at schools to stop school knifings.  No one wants to address the root cause and until that is done they will continue to happen.  

[CEO killed]

22 minutes ago, watab kid said:

you have been proven correct - not a pro ., a freeking kid with a manifesto that seems a bit unhinged 

 

we shall see on the 3d printing of the gun and silencer but it functioned well enough to kill and the LEs that arrested him are calling it a ghost gun 

It does appear to be a 3d printed chassis for a Glock style pistol.  Not really that hard to do.  
 

I am more interested to see how he got the silencer.  As someone who has gone throught the process it has been quite long until recently.   Also it has to go through a background check with the fbi, not a simple nics  check.  Thus any background 
check obviously won’t stop someone.  If home made it just shows how laws making things “illegal” don’t stop them from being used.   The silencer had no effect on the lethality of the attack and probably made it less so as the gun jammed repeatedly, probably due to not having a booster.  

[Suppressor Aquisition]

14 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

Knowing nothing of the process, I'm curious ~ do they have to be registered for a specific firearm?  Can you use them on multiple guns...?

Suppressors are their own entity and are considered a firearm.  So in short, they are not registered to a gun unless it’s integrally suppressed.  They can be moved between guns at will and provided they are in a trust can be used by anyone listed in the trust.  if an individual, then they can only be used under that individuals control.  That means no shared access to the storage location.  
 

if a trust is used, each person on the trust has to submit for each submission.  Not a big deal, but it slows the process down.  Also I believe there is a political reason to slow down trust approvals.   
 

 

[Suppressor Aquisition]

Depends.  A friend got his in less than a week from scheels last week.  Individuals without common names are being approved quickly, ie hours or days.  Common names may take up to a couple months.  Trusts are slower.  My last 3 were all about 3-4 months from submission to approval.  
 

as far as time for approval, there has never been a better time to buy a suppressor.  
 

Fyi my longest approval was 14 months, but there were several missteps in the process.

[P-47 Razorback Thunderbolt Aerobatics - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2023]

There is an operational one at the ww2 air museum in Colorado Springs.  They are planning a restoration of a second one.  As others have mentioned they are big compared to other ww2 fighters.  
 

I found the super/turbo charging makes them quieter than a p51 or F7.  P51’s are not very cool sounding at idle/taxi speeds, but at full song are amazing.  F7’s sound great even at idle.  My distillery was right across the parking lot from the museum and I would hear them do run ups pretty regularly.  Little Crow (Jack roush’s p51) was there for a few weeks and they flew it quite a bit.  They used to chase it with a Lear jet, I assume so people could watch it fly.  

[Elon Musk and His Secret Agenda]

7 hours ago, bgavin said:

Several states are charging a tax along with yearly tags to cover that revenue.  
 

the real problem with ev fires is they are a metal fire and fire departments have no idea how to fight a metal fire as it’s not something they normally do.  They even make special fire extinguishers for metal fires.  

[Right to an AR-15]

10 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Only 200,000? I think it's a lot more that that! I've heard estimates on over a million at least! 

Considering the AR pattern rifles are the best selling rifle in the us, they probably sell close to 1 million per year.   

[Motorcycles]

I know two racers who were killed by tank slappers.  Both had them so violently that the pistons in the brakes were forced back into the caliper, resulting in no brakes at the next corner.  In both cases it was initiated by a wheelie and not setting the wheel down straight.  Scary stuff.  

[Charge Bar Sticking When Dropping Shot With a MEC (problem solved)]

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