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As to the OP's post, Royal Tiger Imports still has some of their last batch of M1 carbines left in stock. They got these in with the fairly large cache of weapons imported from Ethiopia last year, along with a bunch of other obsolete arms. While I haven't kept up with any comments regarding these, folks who bought some of the other types of rifles they've been advertising have stated that the condition varies greatly, and their reactions have been anywhere from pleasantly surprised to PO'ed that their rifle was essentially a parts gun. Luck of the draw with this batch it seems ...

Correct. Of course it makes sense it had to end at some point. WWII ended over 75 years ago, a lot of the cheap milsurps dated from that era. The great rearming with select fire and automatic weapons was well on the way by the late 50's, leading many countries to either divest their older, bolt action and semiautomatic weapons or mothball them for a worst-case scenario. Most of these stored weapons got released during the last great flood of imports in the 90's and early 2000's after the fall of the old Comm-bloc governments. There's been a slow trickle of available milsurps since then, but stockpiles of these have either dried up completely or are no longer available to the US market for a variety of reasons, only a few of which are our own doing. It's nice sometimes to reminisce about the "good old days" of cheap milsurp weapons and ammo, but it was a perfect storm of events that allowed that in the first place, and that sequence that will never be repeated ...

Then you really don't want to know about the days of mail order arms shipped directly to your house, often for $10-20 per rifle ...

You guys are screwing up a perfectly good rant interjecting all these facts ...

Beat me to it ...

Can I just be whipped with a rubber hose instead ...

Spent the night in a hotel in Jackson. Just got home (Weakley Co.) and my power is finally back on after being out for 24 hours.

While I agree on the prices, in my one stop there on a trip through middle Tennessee I found their staff to be courteous and helpful. They had one of the best selections of C&R guns I've seen in years in a gunshop, but unfortunately they were well ahead of the market in pricing ... In terms of their asking prices on milsurps, they were definitely well over the top of the market. They had a nice selection overall, but nothing that I saw that was so rare or unusual as to justify their pricing structure, at least during my stop there. It was a cool place to visit, but I left empty handed ...

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My guess is that Baldwin, or more likely the insurance carrier who provided coverage for the production company, will ultimately be out quite a bit for damages in related civil suits. I'll be shocked if he is ever charged, let alone convicted in any criminal complaint ...

Probably the same way most automobile liability statutes are enforced - as long as you don't get involved in a wreck, your lack of liability coverage isn't noticed. I guess they could adopt the same posture on post-incident enforcement as in auto liability cases, i.e. if you don't have the insurance, you're automatically the party at fault ...

News stories about this mention that he made the dean's list with high grades. I wonder if he was majoring in business, and just decided to get a head start ...

This guy was probably the absolute master at scamming the scammers. It's a long read, and dates from the days when email was still the primary means of electronic communication, but it still cracks me up reading what he was able to get this "Nigerian" guy to do ... https://419eater.com/html/okorie.htm

I would think some well-placed rifle shots through the cameras would solve this problem ...

He was also one of those exonerated in the Innocence Files database, for the crime he was falsely convicted of in the 80's. After his release, he committed the murder which landed him back in prison ...

Be careful about using a Netflix, or any other TV series as a source for information about what's going on in the criminal justice system. Those shows are designed to inflame your opinion, by showing only what the director wants you to see about these cases. A good example of that was the series "Making a Murderer", that ran a few years back. While it was an entertaining show, and did a great job of leading the viewers to a definite conclusion about the case, it was sorely lacking when it came to presenting the facts of the case in an unbiased light, omitting or glossing over a lot of evidence pointing to Avery's guilt, while concentrating only on the inconsistencies that exist in virtually every investigation ...

Reading a little further about this case, the murder occurred in 2000, the trial in 2003. Garrett entered a guilty plea to involuntary manslaughter to avoid a possible death penalty, was sentenced to 15 years and released in 2011. The TBI information showing a possible link to the the real killer's DNA was provided to the prosecution in 2004, but nobody ever bothered to follow up on it. During Garrett's original interrogation, investigator's lied about finding Garrett's DNA at the crime scene to try to coerce a confession from him ( courts have repeatedly ruled that during interrogations, police are generally under no obligation to tell the truth to potential defendants and are essentially free to lie). After Garrett's release in 2011, it's taken another 10 years for the real killer to finally be charged and arrested, finally leading to Garrett's original conviction being thrown out last year, thus the lawsuit filed recently. I would say he has a pretty good chance of winning this one ...

Much like the early days of fingerprinting, the technology to perform DNA testing existed before such evidence was ruled admissible in court, and before that evidence was considered reliable. I don't know the exact date when this occurred in Tennessee, but the use of DNA evidence as definitively exculpatory is a relatively recent phenomenon ...

You're quite likely going to bump up against that limitation regardless of what type of portable rig you buy - see the earlier post about line of sight vs. "skip" transmissions and the frequencies involved. From what you're describing, I would talk to local fire/ranger/rescue officials and find out what frequencies/bands they routinely monitor, and go with something with that capability. I also wouldn't be surprised if their recommendation is to carry a cell, and perhaps a PLB for extreme emergencies ...

In another life, many years ago, I had fairly extensive experience selling, installing and working on CB radios. At the time, they were a useful tool for what you're describing. I've been out of that market for a very long time, but from the posts of many here it sounds as if 2-way communications over the road has gone to pretty much cellular only. It really doesn't matter which type or band you choose if nobody is actively monitoring anymore. You're best bet is probably to adopt one of many traffic and notification aps made for cellular devices, and dealing with the periodic signal outages these occasionally have. If you're concerned about true emergency operations, location services, etc., check out personal locator beacons as these work quite well and can be activated and heard practically world wide ...

I thought of this thread when I read articles about this kid today. He's on to something that would be far more profitable than primer manufacturing ... https://thenewstack.io/meet-the-college-student-who-makes-his-own-chips/

I take it you're saying you wouldn't recommend State farm then ...

This is the south - after 45 years, you're still the "new guy" ...

And now you have your answer. According to the article, they've already spent $100 million, and that's using an existing facility already set up for manufacturing ammo and components. They have yet to make the first primer there ...

If it's produced by oceanic processes, which seems to be the most likely explanation, then sure. It is possible that oceans from eons ago had either more or less biologic activity which could affect the rate of production, but there's no reason why those processes aren't continuing today, albeit at possibly a different rate. It's also possible that the relative positions of the continental land masses have affected production rates, as it seems that most of the biologic activity which ultimately results in petroleum deposits occurs at or near shorelines, thus movement of continental plates can have a role in determining how much and how fast oil deposits are laid down. While there's no reason why current conditions planet wide should have stopped petroleum formation, it is possible that previous events in earth's geologic history made production more favorable than today, it's also possible that we may be living in a "golden age" of oil formation. Unfortunately the time it takes for oceanic silt deposits to transform into usable oil reserves means that we probably wouldn't recognize that favorability for a very long time, if ever ...