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A big part of that is that there's no place for live ammo on a movie set. You can accidentally shoot anybody if Andy didn't give you any bullets.

Sabotage is a possibility, but stupidity is far more likely. Many mistakes were made by many different people. But in the end, Baldwin pulled the trigger.

I just keep thinking that it all would have been avoided if the AD had actually checked the gun for ammo before handing it to Baldwin & saying "cold gun". That single step would have broken the cycle of live ammo being on set being an issue. As @OLDNEWBIEpointed out, not just one problem with this movie but many(!) people doing many things wrong & that cascade of sloppiness, willful misbehavior, & failure to follow standard protocols when an actual gun is used as a prop led to one persons death & another being wounded. Seems like there is a lot of blame to go around but the fatal mistakes were made by the assistant director (Dave Halls) not checking the loaded status of the gun before declaring it safe & Alec Baldwin cocking the hammer & pulling the trigger of the gun while it was pointed at a human being when that was not in the script (he was just supposed to draw the gun & point it @ the camera.)

So many players, people walking off set, the AD, the Armorer, whoever was plinking, the actor/producer, the victims, the mystery person who brought/bought real ammo on set, the other person who had gun safe access, the person who last loaded the gun and probably half a dozen more assistants and gophers who might have had a chance to access the gun. Hints coming out this loaded gun might have been done on purpose to what end? Lots of possibilities. Gotta be multiple charges coming up, can't imagine the money and resources thrown at this. A nightmare hassle for the law.

Got this fat little 6 pt last Saturday.

Ruger American Predator .204 Ruger

1:10 Do not Recommend. I noticed a little back ache yesterday around 5:30am I figured it was trapped wind. By 7:15 I was in the ER & getting IV painkillers (they say that laughter is the best medicine. It's not. Dialaudid is the best medicine!) CT scan confirmed a 4mm stone above my left kidney. Came home with enough Hydrocodone to fell a zoo full of elephants. I usually refuse any kind of opioid, but this time out....gimme. First time in my life (including the gunshot wounds) I've ever vomited purely from pain. Guys. Eat healthy, cut down on the bourbon & salt & drink yer water. I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

Leroy, If you don't already have a bare 10/22 to start with and plan on customizing anyway, a Brownells 10/22 receiver and Ruger completion kit (bolt, charging handle, pins) is a cost efficient way to start your build. But search around and you might find a complete rifle (used) for not a lot more. I used the Brownells receiver to build a 10/22 pistol as it had never been configured as a rifle and didn't want to pay the price of a Ruger Charger since I was going to replace many of the parts anyway. I've not had and major issues with it in several thousands of rounds.

Darrell is 100% right, just thought I would add this graphic so MAYBE it helps. Oh and KE4PJR Ridgetop, Tn.

The frequency is in the two meter band, and accesses a repeater. The offset is a difference between the receive and transmit frequencies, and the tone is something that tells the repeater that you're talking to it. If you transmit on the repeater's frequency without the tone, the repeater won't open. Two meter radios are often very low power hand-held "walkie talkies" with limited line-of-sight range. Repeaters are typically located on a hill or tall building and by using a repeater one can communicate over greater distances. The repeater literally repeats what it hears in near real-time. To the users it's virtually undetectable.

This. Except instead of an ice pick, mine felt like a rusty bayonet. Jesus, that thing hurt. I was lucky enough to pass mine late that night in the hospital. It was about the size of a BB, I think?

I did one earlier this year, or last. Kinda simple. Hogue stock, Ruger trigger, Clerke barrel, extended bolt handle, extended mag release. Probably more I am forgetting. I put a UTG lighted scope on it and at 25yds it makes one itty bitty hole.

Well 41-17 Georgia final onto south Alabama and hopefully a win

I'd get a box of each and see which your gun prefers.

Part of the problem that led up to Kyle defending his life was that Gutless Governor Tony Evers told the Kenosha and the Sheriffs Departments to stand down when the rioting started. Fire Departments were told to stand ready and they would be told when they were to come to the scene. Did not happen. Kenosha has had a history of problems. How do I know? I lived there 45 years. Got friends in the Police and the Sheriffs departments. Have sons in them also. Gutless Govenor Evers is a Dummycrap if that tells you anything. Look at other Dummycrap run States, Washington, Minnesota, New York California...... A child pedophile was shot while trying to touch a minor, give Kyle a medal and we can all go home.

For a light-weight (free-hand rifle) this started life as Thompson Center TCR/22 that went through *several* revisions over time. It now has a Kidd 2-stage (3oz/3oz) trigger which is very touchy... which I like on this rifle. The Fab Defense folding stock isn’t the lightest possible, but works well and is reasonably light. Not the most accurate, but is lightweight, it has a Whistle Pig barrel. You won't be stacking rounds in the same hole, but with reasonable ammo (CCI SV) it's capable of your target grouping from a bench. Optic is a Leupold VX-Freedom 1.5-4x20 with Aero Precision Ultralight mount. You can build a lighter 10/22, but I don't think the nominal weight difference / cost would be worth it.

Inflation on food prices has gotten serious. My wife just announced that the "3 second rule" for dropped food has now been expanded to six seconds in our household.

KC7TEN The call sign was assigned while I lived in WA, but I won't change it to a 4 now that I'm in TN. Extra license from back when code was required, but I've not set up since moving here. I was working on clearing an area to put up an end-fed wire antenna this morning.

Saw this a day or two ago. I'm shocked they would doctor the crime scene before the cops got there. Shocked, I say. Story

Aren't you just a ray of sunshine.......................

Is this still available?

And reduce/eliminate unnecessary trips through woketopia jurisdictions if at all possible. If forced to use a gun there, one is more likely to face a prosecutor feeling political pressure or jurors who frown on people having the audacity to defend themselves against criminals.

And expected quality control.

The filter on TGO blocks the words I have for Tom Cotton. Amazing how they forget how much debt was added from 2016-2020. Even Rand Paul admitted there is no difference between the two parties when it comes to spending.

6% Anyone believing it's only 6%, well I got this bridge...

Not that we may not already be doomed as a country, but if there is not at least 1 person on that jury that has the sense to see this for what it is, we are worse off than I thought.

I have avoided posting about this case, but now that the case is almost over (closing arguments start tomorrow), I thought I would share some thoughts: 1. Rittenhouse testifying -- in the vast majority of self-defense cases, there is no choice. The defendant has to say he was in fear for his life. The Defendant is the ONLY person who can say what was in his own mind. Yes, the overwhelming amount of evidence here points to self-defense and this case has video evidence and witnesses that most self-defense cases will never have. Nevertheless, only Rittenhouse can say he was in fear. So, I suspect the defense attorneys felt they had to follow the normal course. Now, with that said, the attorneys may have had Rittenhouse testify about too many issues. On cross-examination, the prosecution generally is only allowed to cross-examine on the issues Rittenhouse testified to on direct examination. Had Rittenhouse just gotten up there and said "I was in fear" and then ended the direct examination, he might have avoided some uncomfortable cross-exam questions. That said, with the publicity and scrutiny on this case, I think the attorneys wanted to get a lot of details in that only Rittenhouse could testify to. While we would love to believe that juries follow the judge's instructions and only look at the evidence that was actually presented at trial, they DON'T. Juries always have questions in their own minds they want answered. If the attorneys don't anticipate those questions and put the answers into evidence, the juries WILL fill in the blanks with their own thoughts. I've seen it happen too many times and I've talked to too many jurors who say they do it. So, I am sure the attorneys felt the need to have Rittenhouse answer those questions. Normally in a criminal case, you do worry about the defendant testifying, but as I can tell, Rittenhouse didn't have any skeletons in the closet other than some really bad decisions. 2. General Thoughts -- this case should be a wake-up call to anyone who even thinks about using a gun in self defense. The current political climate is making even clear-cut self-defense cases hard. What I see as problematic in this case is that Rittenhouse inserted himself into a volatile situation. Should he have even been there? Whether you agree with Rittenhouse's decision or not, you have to know that some jurors will see those decisions as contributing to the situation. As we say in the legal profession, "bad facts make bad law" and this may be a classic example. Had Rittenhouse been in his own home and defended the home in the same manner (i.e., going outside, engaging the protestors, etc.), I think this situation would have been totally different. But he purposefully put himself into a situation where (i) he felt the need to have a gun to defend himself and/or property and (ii) he knew (or should have known) that violence was already occurring in that location. Therefore, it should have been foreseeable that force might be used at some point. Like it or not, there are jurors everywhere who will hold that against him. In short, be very careful about the situations you get into. Do everything you can to avoid HAVING to use a gun. Circumstances change in an instant, often with no ability to control it.

The first one sucks real bad. My first one hit me while I was a LEO working a parade. My PCP was open that day, so I went to him after the parade was over. On my way to his office I felt the stone shoot into my bladder. I passed it into a filter screen at the doctor's office. I have had many since then, and I drink approximately a gallon of water each day. That, alone, is not enough. I was kicking out stones like a Pez dispenser. Besides drinking water, you can reduce your risk by not eating food with high oxalate levels: Beans (low-calcium types) Beer Beets Black pepper Chocolate Coffee Cranberries Dark green vegetables Nuts Oranges Rhubarb Soda (cola) Soy beans Sweet potatoes Tea (black) Tofu Wheat bran You can also increase items that fight oxalate absorption like high-calcium foods: Broccoli Watercress Kale Okra Kidney, baked, & navy beans Chickpeas Supplements high in calcium and citrate help as well. I supplement with calcium citrate pills.

I heard some of the grilling by the prosecutor trying to get Rittenhouse to admit to using explosive hollow point rounds and Rittenhouse telling him they were not explosive and did he mean expanding and the prosecutor saying no explosive. It went on for awhile could have almost been a comedy act with the prosecutor being the joke.

I find they run the gamut from shouldn’t have a gun to expert marksman just like the general population.

The last 2 years during hunting season I've passed up a lot of nice young bucks looking for a really big mature one. But after being told I have stage 3 kidney disease I decided to enjoy this years deer season. I told myself I was going to just go hunt and enjoy life and not worry about anything while in the woods. So today I did just that and harvested this beautiful wide 6 pointer with my CVA Muzzleloader pistol. Hunting isn't always about who can kill the biggest deer. Enjoy the hunt because you never know what life can deal you. P.S the bibs are from my fatter days .

Haynesworth was a dirty player. Stomped on one of Dallas' linemen, pulled similar shenanigans with another team also, maybe Washington. He's no longer around. Simmons isn't that dirty, thankfully. Titans D accounted for 1/2 of the scoring Sun.

Then he shouldn’t have a firearm in his hand. I don’t much care whether it was sabotage, bad judgement, or what, if he pulled the trigger, he owns the bullet until it comes to rest.

Yeah, back in the 1970s the Clinic Bowl was played there as well. Back then it was the east & west division of Nashville's NIL league championship & not a state championship game. Winner of the Clinic Bowl moved on to play whomever. Since it was an all-Nashville game, the crowds were pretty large. Of course back then the stadium was only around 20,000 or so. I went to my first Vandy football game in the mid-1960s, before the expansion was built. I remember thinking how shocked I was as a kid seeing that many drunk people in public. Prior to that I had never seen a drunk person.

So should Glocks...........................

Dang, I misread the topic, and went out & put air in my tires......

My Boxer sure hopes so. He's not to fond of the new rule.

If inflation proves to be transitory as is reported, will you revert back to the old rule?

Since china covid, they don't want anyone else touching their tablets & stylus'. I can sort of understand that. *I* would've been doing that a long time ago as *I* don't like strangers touching my stuff.............................. Unless they're female, of course.

My last big one looked like a wad of fish hook in the bottom of a dirty tackle box. But it did cause some interesting swelling. Might have been handy on a honeymoon!

A buddy of mine went to the ER for one and didn't know it was a stone. He just knew he couldn't piss. He told them in the ER that. They hooked him up to an IV with fluid. Anyway in a little while, he's about to explode. Finally he passed it right there in the room. Said he must've pissed 12 feet.

You know what they say, the scariest words in the English Language are, Trial By Jury.

A couple of years ago during a routine exam a couple of things weren't looking right. An X-ray discovered a large marble sized stone had almost blocked one of the ducts into my bladder. I never even knew it was there. They had to do arthroscopic surgery and cut it up with a laser to take it out in pieces. They did the surgery by shoving a camera tube up my urethra. Not a good experience.

I am an actor. Just putting that out there for any investigators. You know,.....just incase I accidentally kill someone some day.