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Bullets don't "bounce" off body armor.

.45s make bigger holes. That is the extent of my reasoning. Bigger holes means better chances of hitting stuff that it vital. My 1911 holds 8 +1 and is a nice slim grip. Hopefully I never get into a machinegun toting juggernaut wearing level 27 body armor. I guess if I do I'll be screwed, but I'm sure I'll be okay.

Dunno, but you can buy aluminum powder off the shelf at a paint store. Maybe even at Lowes, I'm not sure. It sensitizes the AN and makes it detonate when struck. I wouldn't necessarily call it a desperate explosive though. AQ used it a lot in their car/truck bombs in lieu of conventional munitions or plastic explosive. It works well for collapsing buildings or knocking over armored vehicles. I remember one in Mosul in a dump truck that caused a few buildings to collapse and took out everyone in an MRAP. In fact, we often used ammonium nitrate to collapse enemy structures as C4 wasn't very effective in taking the building down unless you used a buttload. A 10 gallon jug of anfo would push the walls right out and collapse an average sized building, whereas C4 had to be strategically placed in order to take it down.

I'm certain the thugs already know how to get things anyway. I wouldn't call it "skirting" the law though, it's straight breaking the law. What felons are doing to acquire firearms is already breaking the law. No loophole exists. It is no different than me going out and buying cocaine. It is illegal to do no matter how easy it is to buy it.

I think the Internet has changed the traditional gun shop haggling. Now you have a more educated customer that can find a deal online from a wholesaler, which makes it difficult for a physical store to bring them through the door, let alone price their stock in such a manner to account for negotiating it down at sale time. It's a tough spot for the store and the customer. Some folks out there still feel like haggling is standard, but when there is barely any markup how could a gunshop do this and stay in business? I hate buying a new car for this reason. I don't enjoy haggling with a sales person because I feel like we're both full of sh** as we dance around a conversation and pretend to be pleasant to one another. I simply give a reasonable offer and tell them they will absolutely make a sale at that price. Chances are I'm getting screwed at that price anyway. It isn't as if I don't have experience with it. I've spent many years in the Middle East where everything is haggled over; it's just part of their culture, and being American doesn't help as the starting price is gonna be two or three times what their normal starting price is. It's a pain in the butt and my tactic is to simply walk away when they don't come down to a price that is still way higher than what it normally sells for.

If a shop puts a low markup on the sticker in order to make it more attractive to potential buyers I don't see how there would be any wiggle room for haggling anyway. I wouldn't take that as them being rude about it.

That's the reason I don't think anything is gonna happen. Not much happened after Oklahoma City in regard to ammonium nitrate. It continues to be legal to purchase and make into explosives despite the fact it was used in one of the biggest terrorist attacks on our soil. A bunch of bubbas on YouTube blowing up beaver dams with it ain't gonna create a larger media footprint than that.

You can legally buy the components separate just like any other explosive, combine it and detonate it legally. Where you detonate it, transport and storage is a different story.

Crazy that a person can buy ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder is much larger and cheaper quantities at rural king than buying it pre packaged as tannerite. It's the same stuff yet all off a sudden it's a problem because its being marketed as a target. God help us if they discover you can get the same ingredients in a cold pack at Walgreens.

Here is the video I was talking about. Can't see that she did anything wrong other than be too weak to manage the recoil. Almost killed her or one of the people around her. If I see someone shooting one of these on the range I'm done for the day. I've fired one before but the compensator was decent enough that the recoil was straight back. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wCzOLEoko6o

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d8NDGxzlfo4

There's a video on YouTube where a woman is shooting one. The video is slowed down so you can see it. The recoil is so great that it flips back towards her face and fires again because her finger is still on the trigger. It happens so quick there is nothing she could have done to prevent it. Women shouldn't shoot these guns, it's that simple.

I'm glad you liked it. I don't recall from the article and the OP didn't include it. Also, you seem to have a misunderstanding as to what agencies fall under the DHS. Those organizations have missions that don't involve terrorists flying plans into buildings. They have been enforcing these laws in the same capacity long before DHS was even a thought. I've written that several times in here and you've chosen to ignore that. Go to the DHS wiki page and educate yourself if you want to understand reality versus your incorrect assumption of what the sub-agencies of the DHS do. Also, there is no way to debate with you why stealing a trademark is theft. You don't get it. I think that has to do with some kind of resentful attitude towards successful businesses based on your previous posts. I'm betting, however, if you worked hard to create something only to have it stolen by counterfeiters or if you purchased a $500 item only to find out it is worthless junk, you would have a different opinion.

You could not be more wrong.

No, the Feds were involved in this before DHS was a twinkle in GW's eye. DHS incorporates the organizations that have traditionally enforced these laws.

These laws were being enforced before there was a DHS. I'm not sure how that has anything to do with this. They weren't kicking down any doors either. They sent an undercover in, bought a counterfeit purse and then arrested them. I can't believe that any rational person would consider counterfeit items as legal. It is stealing property. It may not be physical property, but it is intellectual property. Let us say that you decide to start making quality holsters in your garage one day, then over time your brand is established and trusted. Then someone comes along and decides to do the same thing and puts your stamp on his holsters in order to leech off your hard work. That is stealing. Quite literally it is stealing. No different than someone stealing your car or money. It is a crime, should be a crime and should be enforced by an agency which has jurisdiction in all states. It is not logical to say this is the responsibility of individuals to deal with theft of intellectual property and enforce the law themselves.

Right on. You have to understand though, when reading a story like this it generally is a person who was out looking for trouble and found it. It seems nowadays everytime a person is "defending" their rights it is a person that went and did something they knew would elicit a response, then are indignant that they got the response they were looking for. We have a guy in the Nashville area that is famous for it. YouTube is full of these idiots. This particular story has many of the same elements. Perhaps this guy was really minding his own business and wasnt looking for trouble. I don't know. But there is a reason the immediate assumption was what it was. There are folks who OC everyday and never have a problem, yet once a person has a video camera or other recording device they just "happen" to get hassled by police. As it turns out it's always some activist who was looking to make the papers or a few hundred thousand hits for his YouTube channel and be the champion of the 2nd Amendment. I'm glad he came here and gave his side of the story. It all still seems a little suspect to me. Sure, the police messed up and it seems they lied. Their actions are not excused. But the individual in question should know that OCing in certain areas is gonna scare the sheep. Yeah, we can debate that all day, but the fact is when some soccer mom is taking her toddler to the park she is going to be frightened by a person toting a gun. That's just the reality of it. It would save a lot of drama and show consideration to simply take a shirt and cover it up. When a person refuses to empathize with people who don't share their life experiences, like a young mother with a child on a playground, and instead justifies their actions with an argument about "rights" misses the whole point of consideration and lets me know exactly the type of person they are and what their intentions were.

Tried some of the Devils Cut last night. Not as good as JD single barrel, but a hell of a lot cheaper. Not bad. I'm not a huge fan of JB; it just doesn't finish well. This stuff kinda finishes the same but has good flavor and is pretty smooth enough.

Wow. Is that normal? Seems like a lot of space gets wasted in the carboy by leaving room for fermentation. Does it need an airlock for primary fermentation? What about using a bucket first and using the carboy as a secondary? I'm working on some wine right now, but when my carboy gets emptied I'm gonna try brewing beer for the first time.

These folks selling counterfeit no darn well what they're selling. The folks that got busted were Chinese, so I'll assume their merchandise was being shipped directly from a contact in China. I don't think this was a "door kicking" operation. Coach had their own private investigator do the leg work, then turned over their evidence to the authorities. They verified the evidence and made an arrest. That sounds like the way it should work. I'm sure if mom and pop stores were cranking out trademarked items that other people were copying they'd be doing the same thing. There are a lot of smaller scale operations having this problem in nearly every industry. Take a look at counterfeit EOtechs coming from China. It's a problem. As a taxpayer, I expect law enforcement to enforce the law. If no me enforced the law then everyone would be cranking out counterfeit items in their basement without fear of the law, which would I turn undermine the industry they're counterfeiting in, and lower sales for fear of being duped.

Yeah, they've long been going after counterfeited products from China as it enters our ports. This case was handed by the secret service if I remember correctly. I'm assuming because it's on the shelves rather than our shores. You may think they are nothing more than a menace, but these laws exist for a reason and need to be enforced for a reason. Unbridled thieving of intellectual property is bad for capitalism.

Not at all. Counterfeiting products is a criminal matter and the Secret Service has been enforcing it for s long time. The only difference is now DHS exists and the SS falls under DHS. Then, when you start a thread invoking the name of DHS it makes it sound all sinister and Gestapo-ish, as if this is a new thing that the DHS is getting their claws into when that is not the case at all. I'll add to that, from what I remember about the story, Coach sent their own private investigator who collected all the evidence for these people selling counterfeit. It appears all they did was contact the SS who then made the arrest after doing their own sting. Not a lot of work on their end other than booking these people.

I just picked up some Devil's Cut earlier. Gonna give it a try later this evening.

Sudden influx of Georgian folks becoming new members in the past 48 hrs.

So no one should be enforcing copyright infringements and counterfeiting laws?