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What's your budget? Are you planning on buying through a local gun store?

Only if he was drinking a 27 oz soda while he was eating the Big Mac.... oh wait, Big Macs have transfats right? Then yes, blood would indeed be on Ronny's hands.

There was a national poll like this on Yahoo the other day that was going similar (65-35) against further gun legistation when I voted. Interesting considering the current climate.

I dunno, it seems that if the seller turned down the offer from the gun store it would be fair game since there isn't going to be any transaction anyway. I think it would be wrong to interrupt the deal with a better offer, but if the guy leaves after turning it down I don't see anything wrong with that since it would be the buyer initiating contact and not the seller. Now, if the seller was outside of a gunstore trying to sell his firearm to potential patrons that would be a different story.

If only they made it illegal to shoot 70 unarmed people in a movie theater this could have all been prevented.

I really, really hate this guy. He just doesn't get it. I respect what law enforcement professionals do and recognize that I do not have the patience or strength to do that for a living. With that said, my rights are more important than their safety. That is how it works. Life would be much safer and easier for law enforcement if we did away with the majority of our inalienable rights. Bloomberg is a Napoleanic egomaniac. His philosophy on the role of government is so incredibly dangerous and I don't get how people up there accept it, but they do. It wouldn't bother me, since I think New Yorkers deserve the overreaching nanny government they elect, but Bloomberg repeatedly tries to extend his power beyond the borders of his tiny little utopia. He is a very dangerous man.

I was referring to portable immarsat devices which have ground stations that terminate outside our borders. Stuff that gives you global internet connectivity. Lotta freelancers and globe trotting adventure types have that stuff.

Keep in mind also that there are thousands of freelance "journalists" out there that have their own global internet capability via satellite commo. There is nothing that could go on here that couldn't be broadcast to the outside world if the situation arose.

I was on a range with a buddy 5-6 years ago shooting factory winchester 9mm ammo out of one of those Walther plastic guns. A hot load blew it up causing the lower receiver to explode out the one side. Luckily he was wearing leather assaulter gloves at the time but it still stung. Never seen anything like it before.

I would happily support enforcing the laws we currently have. It won't stop every bad situation from happening, but if we actually started enforcing gun laws that target criminals there would be a significant reduction. Every time I see a local story about a shooting involving some thug the charges are reduced or completely thrown out in exchange for plea deals that never put gun crimes on their records. Florida has the 10-20-Life law which references crimes committed with a firearm. First one you get 10 years, second is 20 and third is life. Instead we have bleeding heart liberal judges. A couple years ago in Clarksville a man shot three people and was charged with three counts of attempted murder. It was all reduced to one count of aggravated assault, even though two victims were wounded in the head and a third in the chest. He walks free amongst us today and will probably contribute to gun crime statistics in the near future, even though it is illegal for him to possess a firearm. This is why we have high gun crime.

Well, to put it in perspective, most everyone has some sort of internet service provider. Does a gov need a "kill switch" if they declare martial law and order all commo services to go offline? History would say not. Syria and Egypt are examples. Of course, with the amount of technology out there that folks have, plenty of people would have internet access that is not provided by an American ISP through satellite based internet with terminals in other countries. I dunno, it just seems like a myth that such a thing even exists, but if it does it would seem unnecessary for a government that has assumed supreme power anyway.

It continues to amaze me that such a minority of Americans have been able to arrive at this conclusion.

Eh, the government also has a nuclear arsenal capable of extinguishing all life on this continent. Not that I am all about the government having more power, I just don't know if that is the intent of whatever they're up to with these policies. I read the story, but there isn't anything concrete in there that says what these policies are or that such a capability even exists. There is one part in the article that the writer believes references a "kill switch." Then again, as we've seen in Egypt and Syria, a government is capable of shutting down all internet, phone and cell commo if they want to even without a "kill switch" as it were.

I've seen lots of them with AKs in Iraq. The Iraqi Popo and Army guys would buy ammo off the market because they were generally not issued more than a couple of mags of ammo in the first few years of the war. You could immediately tell by the sound of the discharge; it would almost sound like a blank round or a firecracker, but there would be no recoil at all. I've never seen one actually cycle the weapon, and most of them would lodge just beyond the chamber so that you couldn't even chamber another round behind it. The round would dislodge easily from the barrel by dropping an AK cleaning rod down the muzzle and smacking it with a full AK mag. Doing this with an M-16 cleaning rod will just break the rod. I don't know if any of them were able to fire a round behind a squib, but due to the number of times I've seen squibs on the range (a couple of dozen) I would have to believe they've done it before when I wasn't close enough to hear or when I wasn't around. Never heard of one blowing up, but then again, I wouldn't want to find out.

I only grow mine when I'm away from the wife. She hates facial hair, but I hate shaving. After two months of growth I gotta start trimming it though or else it bothers me when I'm trying to sleep.

A government granting a business license isn't "supporting" it. To suggest that you would have to assume that every abortion clinic is supported by government, when they are clearly not. You would have to assume that somehow governments support titty bars, Bible stores, sex shops, gun stores and so on. The government shouldn't be supporting or not supporting any business beyond the possibility of creating jobs for their citizens. This is a just a restaurant with owners that believe in the Bible more literally than many Americans. If this was a Muslim owned business that happened to make a public statement regarding their beliefs and a local government refused to grant them a business license based solely on that belief people would be outraged. I know I would be. This is America and folks are entitled to their beliefs without prejudice or punishment from the government. The free market gets to decide whether or not such a business is patronized.

Well I agree on both accounts there, but in regard to religion that is the reason this company has this stance. According to the Old Testament homosexuality is a sin. This company bases itself in Christian ideals. It is not the place of the government to punish such an organization for their beliefs. It is fine for folks to boycott, or even politicians to publicly denounce it, but to use government powers to discriminate is wrong and should be challenged in court.

That isn't discrimination anymore than a company taking a stance in support of gay marriage and calling Christians who believe that homosexuality is a sin are automatically homophobes. Both are opinions, but not discrimination by definition. What would be discrimination is the government refusing to allow that business to operate based solely on those opinions. Besides, I'm certain there are more Catholics in Boston than gays. I'm not condoning or condemning Chick Fil A's stance. I'm merely pointing out that believing in a religion isn't grounds to deny business permission to operate. If this were the reverse, such as a southern town not allowing a gay business to operate based on principles of he community there'd be national outrage with people marching in the streets chanting "we shall overcome" and making a spectacle out of it. Why are there two different acceptable reactions to the same injustice? Objectively.

When did Chick fil A discriminate against gays? I thought they just donated money to anti-gay marriage causes. They were very clear that they do not discriminate against gay employees. Besides, that would be illegal.

ZZZIINGG!

Where is the ACLU on this one? A business to be denied a permit to operate based on its religious beliefs? Sounds like a legitimate civil liberty issue.

I read the online version just to keep an eye on what's going on with the local gov and events. A few months ago they started requiring money just to read their online version, even though they have tons of those obnoxious ads that pop up and drive across the screen while you're trying to read. Once you've accessed their page a few times they'll lock your IP from reading stories. I find it hard to pay for an online news source that only has a couple stories a week I want to read at the price of what a daily physical paper costs. Now I have to use an IP hopper to access their page.

I thought I was the only one this happens to. My wife gets soooo mad when she finds rounds in the dryer!

I've shot a lot of rounds over the years and have had countless misfires. I have never had a "hangfire", as is described by striking the primer and there being a discharge of the powder later on. The closest I've had to a hangfire is what was described above using some old ammo for a mauser, which had about 1/4 second between primer strike and discharge, if that. I the primer doesn't set off the cartridge immediately clear the malfunction and continue to shoot. Afterward either dispose of it or try to fire it again.

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