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John Kloehr

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  1. I would dig deeper, but took a quick look and found this: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/23/senate-john-cornyn-bipartisan-gun-deal/
  2. Second year in a row, there is also a companion bill in the house. Hopefully both stay stuck in committee. I wonder if shrinks performing such evaluations would have civil liability for being "wrong" on an assessment. Separate question is if this is just moving "may issue" from government to the private sector.
  3. 1.49 is the same effectively the same as 48.8%. I applied the given significant figure (3 vs 2) and expressed it as a percent. So 48.8% is 1.488 times the original price. Even then, we are actually not at an inflation rate as we think of it. We think of inflation annually. So if something doubles in price over 6 months, and doubles again in another 6 months... Well, neat data at: https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_gas_price Pick your dates and calculate your rate.
  4. How to calculate inflation: https://www.rocketmoney.com/learn/personal-finance/how-to-calculate-inflation-rate Subtract an item’s original cost from its present cost. Divide the result by the original cost. Multiply by 100. So: ((3.23-2.17)/2.17)*100=(1.06/2.17)*100=0.488*100=48.8%
  5. I'm NRA trained and an NRA Instructor. If he is NRA trained, his certifications should be revoked. In addition to the error muzzling the judge, he did not personally verify the firearm was unloaded, he showed the bailiff it was unloaded. He should have verified it was unloaded before showing the same to someone else. The bailiff likely was NRA trained.
  6. Never tipped one, but understand you first need to get very drunk before sneaking up on the wily sleeping cow before tipping it. And on topic, recently watched a bit of a documentary on the change from shooting from the 2 point line to getting beyond it. Statistically, better to go a bit long for the extra point. The reality is an increase of 10% distance will reduce accuracy 10%, but increase point value 50%.
  7. Short sleeve shirts prohibited, but no requirement for a shirt at all. And that is a vest because it has no sleeves, even if it was made from a shirt. Even if it was made from a short-sleeve shirt. Frankly, I'm surprised but must side with legal costume. I find only one possible restriction in the rules, all clothing must be "typical of the late 19th century, a B-Western movie, or Western television series." I am not qualified to say this vest does not comply with those restrictions.
  8. Your comment makes me wonder what suppressed childhood traumas I might have with eggplant and okra. Yuk on both.
  9. We in the US tend to think everything tastes like chicken. When KFC opened its first restaurant in Australia, it offered free samples. The most common comment from Aborigines was that it tasted like snake.
  10. The 28 GA was invented in the 1880s, but did not really get to the US until the 1900s. It was originally a black powder shell. Still needs to knock down targets, it is a low-recoil load popular in skeet.. There has been a resurgence in popularity since 2006, perhaps because it was Dick Cheney's round of choice for shooting his hunting buddy. https://freerangeamerican.us/the-magic-28-gauge/#:~:text=The first accounts of the,years of the 20th century.
  11. Hit and run. Well, hit and hit and hit and hit and more and run. After I got out of the seatbelt and onto the headliner, I started moving to the back of the car and going for my carry. I had no idea who this was (still do not), and did not know if he was going to stop to finish business. No doubt this crossed the line for risk of death or serious bodily injury. As I reached for my holster snap, I did register I had two and then three friendlies outside the car. One managed to pull the passenger door open and help me crawl out. It was late Thursday before I processed enough of the events to come to a really nice realization... One of the items spilled from the trunk (trunk was blown open on the first strike, so could not see anything out the rear view mirror) was an empty kitty litter jug. It had a target pasted over the front and riddled with holes. Which lead to a discussion about firearms. And what each of them was carrying. Those that stopped had my back and it took me a day and a half to realize this. I thank them from the bottom of my heart.
  12. Officially a hit and run, though the insurance adjuster clearly did not find this a routine accident report. It really did not look like a patrol car, no lights or holes from them, no push bar, no spotlight. Have other reasons to not think it was linked in this way, but the details get close to what only the sheriff needs to know at this time. And white is not a color for any of my local cities and counties. We just laid a local sheriff to rest, and there was a 5-day (successful) manhunt to get his killer. While the criminal element might want to act out, this event does not match how it would play out. I was in a place I frequent often, but was an hour earlier than I would normally be there. This was random, wrong place at the wrong time. Maybe the biggest notable factor is it took a mile or more to come to an end, most cars would go off the road after the first hit. An event such as this would be a simple hit and run. Doc it, log it, tow it, done. Not many who would work to control the vehicle and keep it on the road. I just had no good place to wipe out without predictably bad injuries. I do thank God for ending it where it ended. Minimal injuries, and no other innocent parties hurt. I want the driver identified, arrested, charged, and convicted.
  13. It is good this ended where it did. I was trying to figure out any sort of escape or evasion and had few options. Further down the road the valley gets crowded with businesses and more traffic, I did not want to lead mayhem into it. There is a very rough patch of ground just past the barn on the left, and I would have had to cross traffic to reach it. If there had been oncoming traffic, I would have had to commit to going further and the options to end this would be few and small. I might have opted to just hit the brakes assuming there was a point with no oncoming traffic, as this would send me in any direction. Really do miss the car. I renovated it over the last year since getting it. My lady found it but could not afford it at the time. I bought it for fun. Massive parts replacements. Former police Pursuit. Cop suspension. Cop brakes. Cop seating. Some popular after-service mods, I bought it from a young officer. This was a nice one, no serious damage history, never had the cage or fiberglass seats with pockets in the back for cuffed wrists, the dash was not hacked, it had the Pursuit center console, never had a push bar or top lights so not punched full of holes. It had good seats and carpeted floors rather than rubber mats. Going to be tough to find another like it. Hemi with AWD. I can't think of any car which would have served me better Wednesday morning.
  14. I got rear-ended Wednesday morning. Then a second time, and a third, And a few more before the vehicle behind me succeeded in pitting me. Spun and flipped. I'm home, police report filed, seen the doc, got meds, insurance claim opened. So one might call it road rage, except road rage requires provocation, some reason to trigger an event. I did nothing to provoke an attack. It was an attack. Letting the Sheriff work it, providing what info I can. Today is a good day to be alive.
  15. Just felt like getting out of the house, I can shoot in my yard. But all things considered, 2 cylinders of .22lr combined with the drive to the range was enough for today. I'll post up a bit on this in a new thread. I think I'll title it "A Good Day To Be Alive."
  16. Well, one misfire. But found out the gun needs cleaning, the cartridges are not easily dropping in the cylinder bores. SA still runs fine, (sample size one cylinder), DA had one misfile which went bang on the second try. I'll clean the gun and try again, and may also try shimmying to 0.3mm after that. I will also post up pics of the hammer, breech, etc to see if one of you spots something. This might be as soon as tomorrow, Long video (3:30) from the test firing, have a good laugh at least watching me fumble with getting rounds in and out, and forgetting if I was trying to shoot DA or SA: IMG_2689.mov On edit: The second strike on the last round was exactly on top of the first strike.
  17. Update: Alibaba delivered. On time, as promised, and my payment account has not been hacked. Dimensions are as advertised, I checked both sizes: And installed a 0.2mm washer: This was so much easier than buying shim stock and cutting and drilling my own part. Next up, does this solve the problem and does the gun run well now... Will update again soon.
  18. I would send in this or a bubble mailer, but it may show in a small box:
  19. Common sense dictates bandoliers are worn over the shoulder. Common sense also dictates belts go around the waist.
  20. With that clear, I understand you as the lawyer can not lie or misrepresent truth, your job is to represent your client as best possible. So if you know Alpo killed Hoffa, you can not claim he did not nor can you allow Alpo to testify he did not. You can, however, maybe bring in mitigating factors such as self-defense or something else which would tend to show the killing was not criminal as long as you did not know those claims were also false. But if Alpo told you he just chose to stand over Hoffa and empty his gun center-of-mass because Alpo simply did not like him... How would you represent him? I also do not think you are allowed to tell the judge you can not represent Alpo because he is a lying murderer. Please correct me where I am wrong.
  21. If it replaces a banned item, it will be banned for being a replacement for a banned item. Consider thumbhole stocks, which complied with the non-effective Federal ban, and are now on every ban list. Yes, something the Fed did not ban is now on every ban list.
  22. There aren't that many supermodels here...
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