El Chapo
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Cop shoots own police car after an acorn hits it!
El Chapo replied to Itchy Trigger's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
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I saw a headline that said they're juveniles, which suggests that nothing that matters is going to happen to them.
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That they're accused murderers?
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Congress passed a law about 15 years ago that allows veterans to hand salute in civvies. I can't imagine having to remove one's hat is required in such a scenario, especially in light of the history behind the salute. https://news.va.gov/press-room/new-law-authorizes-veterans-salutes-during-national-anthem/ https://www.legion.org/flag/questions-answers/91119/can-members-armed-forces-and-veterans-who-are-present-not-uniform https://www.military.com/flag-day/rules-for-saluting-us-flag.html
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How would they do that? There are no records for buying ammunition. You can just pay cash for it and leave with it.
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You do realize that you can sign up for a garbage email address in less than 5 minutes at dozens or maybe even hundreds of places online, right? There's no reason you have to give an email address that you ever use or check.
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did you know they had East Coast and West Coast butter?
El Chapo replied to Alpo's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
I have seen one pound containers, but never in the shape seen on the left. -
did you know they had East Coast and West Coast butter?
El Chapo replied to Alpo's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
I have never seen anything like what is on the left in that picture, and I have lived in a lot of places in the USA, from Philadelphia and D.C. to where I live now, New Mexico. -
I'm pretty sure the Chicago police department as an institution is very familiar with what can happen if protests get out of control and I'm not surprised one bit. From a legal perspective there is little difference between a custodial arrest and a citation/summons, either way you have to come before the court to answer for the behavior or the judge will issue a warrant for your arrest.
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The internet is awash with people who hate the ATF and just want to make them out to be the enemy. The administrative side of the ATF are not gun-toting door kickers and they are really just expecting people to do their paperwork and comply with the rules. They are not looking to shut down gun retailers for minor discrepancies.
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I think the most my wife said she pronounced dead in a 12 hour shift was 11 people. The look on her face said it all.
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Is there anything that hurts worse
El Chapo replied to Oak Ridge Regulator's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
I got knee surgery a week ago today. I'm not sure it's the absolute worst pain I've ever felt, but it sure is persistently painful. I don't think I'm going to make it out to see my cowboy friends tomorrow morning. -
I taught college and the most impressive students I remember were from Singapore. They were sent here to get As in their courses and go to college at government expense. If they got a B, they went home. I can't imagine the pressure. But they did study, and they were smart. I did have a Nigerian friend when I was a college student, and he did study with me quite a bit, but his intellect was comparably unremarkable to my Asian students when I was teaching college. The Nigerian I went to basic training with, comparatively, was a total doofus and was constantly getting us in trouble. We survived though.
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It's okay if you like your situation, that's kinda what Stockholm Syndrome means in this context. But I share the sentiment of the other poster who questioned why anyone who has our common interest would want to live there, and your response doesn't persuade me otherwise, in fact, it shows quite clearly that you're content with what I think we all agree is a terrible situation there that isn't getting better. My property taxes are $1800 a year. I'm pretty sure I spent more than that on gasoline and Diesel this year. That certainly wouldn't be a consideration whether I stayed or went. The harder question would be what and where you could live and whether you'd be happy with that situation if $300k was the budget, and only you can answer that (but, fwiw, I would sell you my house tomorrow for $300k).
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If I had a paid off home in California, I could live like a king in Utah or Nevada, and maybe even rural Arizona. It sounds to me like you have stockholm syndrome, which I get, I grew up in Illinois. Escaping there was my best decision ever.
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I recall serving with a Nigerian. He would have gladly bled and died for this country and was so happy to be here. Never seen him since.
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That's not entirely true. The term "printing money" refers to loose monetary policy. It is not to be taken literally. Monetary policy changes happen with minor changes in some number and a mouse click. Whether increasing the money supply actually causes inflation depends on the velocity of money. MV = PQ.
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Those same components are going to enrichen the mixture a LOT when it's extremely cold.
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Here in New Mexico, it's a felony to carry a firearm into a liquor establishment, so Texas Roadhouse couldn't let you carry in there even if they wanted to, open or concealed.
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I don't know if that is true either. Inflation is caused by bad monetary policy. The current fed chairman was put there by Trump and kept there by Biden. Considering those are the only two people who had any hope of winning the 2020 election, I don't think more voters or interest would have made a difference there at all. We were getting the same bad monetary policy regardless of who won that election. Gas prices are a market equilibrium, with fuel being both fungible and highly competitive in our economy. Fuel is the virtual definition of a competitive market. There is virtually nothing that any politician can do to make a meaningful change in that. I'm sure you're going to cite some sort of regulatory decision some President made as contrary, but given the size of the worldwide market for oil, those decisions have a minuscule effect on gas prices compared to market forces. The media just wants you to be enraged so they talk about those regulatory decisions. Those who buy and sell crude oil for a living view that as noise compared to how much oil is being produced and what the demand is for it. Some people, maybe the people you interact with, pay a lot of attention to sports. I recently started a new job and my boss and his boss talk about sports all the time, right from one sports season to the next. Almost all of the other friends I have from virtually every other aspect of life seldom ever talk about sports or have any interest, to include SASS. I can't recall anyone ever talking about the outcome of a sporting event at a match. I can recall many occasions where they have talked about the culture wars, economy, and other matters of political interest, regardless of whether it was an election year. I think you just have sample bias. Sports are of wide interest to many people, but they are nothing compared to what people think about matters of law, morality, the economy, and the ability to make a fair living. Our country thrives despite, not because, of its government. I think you're giving government far too much credit. Interestingly, there was a time in my lifetime where a President very sternly told the camera that the role of government was to get out of the way. Now we blame every consequence of everything that happens on the government. I really can't point to where that changed, but I find it tremendously strange that people blame so many things on the government. Short of there being a war, most of what the government does is an insignificant and immaterial waste of everyone's time and the productive people's money.
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I don't know about the people you interact with, but while I have friends who are serious about sports, most all the people I interact with care a whole lot more about politics than sports, even the ones who don't talk about it.
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I'm talking about in terms of the law, which is the question presented. I think we all know how the "no" followed by racial slurs would be considered. The law has a way of changing people's minds over time. The people who wanted to put up that sign in the 1950s probably still want to put up that sign. They don't because public accommodation laws, which were considered an insult to property rights in their time, are now considered the norm and all decent people agree that it is not permissible, perhaps even immoral, to be outwardly discriminatory. There have been high profile incidents of people and their families murdered in front of them because they left their gun in the car to respect someone's property rights. It only takes a few of those before the public starts to understand and minds change. Property rights, for all of relevant legal history, have been shaped by what the government wants to let you do with your property (or not). One big example in the last 20 years alone is smoking inside bars and restaurants. What was once the norm is now not just unacceptable, but banned. Even in just the last 10 years, the overall attitude of jury panels in my community toward carrying guns in public has changed remarkably. Just like Brown vs. Board of Education changed the world in 1954, decisions like Heller, McDonald, and Bruen have influenced moderate people's thinking even if they weren't paying attention to the legal changes as they happened. But to respond to your point more directly, property rights do not really care if you can change the characteristic or not. If you came to my house and I asked you to leave, it matters not whether I asked you to leave because you had a darker suntan than I do or because you're carrying a gun. I have basically an absolute right to require you to leave immediately or you can be arrested, and depending on the circumstances, I might even be privileged in using force against you to make you leave if you refused to leave. My hypothetical simply proposes that me asking you to do so at my business, motivated by dislike toward those who carry a gun might someday be viewed similarly to those motivated by racial animus or discrimination against intellectually disabled people. People certainly have changed their mind about race and disability, and they implicate the same rights.
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While I generally frown upon people asking for legal advice on a public forum, I wonder if the answer to these questions would be the same if they posted a "no (insert racial slur here) or "no idiots," etc. I think one day we will see a time when a no guns sign is about as socially acceptable. It's probably 50 years away or more, sadly, but our country does become more and more gun friendly every day, even if it doesn't seem like it because it happens so slowly.
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WTB Low Wide Hammer for Cimarron/Uberti SAA
El Chapo replied to Sinagua Ranger's topic in SASS Wire Classifieds
I just ordered two from Cimarron this week for my Piettas, but they also carry them for Uberti. As of last June, the Uberti ones were: $95.75 for case colored $129.36 for stainless steel The price was unchanged for the Pietta hammers when I ordered them so these prices are still good if it goes the same for them. Sorry I do not have the part numbers for them as I only asked for the Pietta part numbers.