Oh Shoot

  Assume you mean GFSZA, and that is correct. However, it only prohibits possession for elementary and secondary schools, not college.   - OS

  Saw the belated like on this, so thought I'd note that the "city/county park" statement is no longer valid. :)   - OS

looks more like  2.25Hasselblad, archaic Swiss chambering   - OS

  They give you a list of places in your area at the DMV when you submit app. Usually UPS Stores or  whatever that do them electronically. They give you a receipt with app number on it, so the place does electronic prints and beams them straight to TNDOS connected to your app number you don't have to go back to DMV.   You can even call ahead to the place and make "reservation" if you want, but most just go on over and drop in. Mine didn't take 5 min best I remember, and was at a UPS Store.   Has been procedure since I got mine anyway, that was umm...almost 7 years ago.  Your permit way before that, maybe back to hard copy fingerprint days?   - OS

  You're really quite the charmer ... so glad to have you aboard.   - OS

  You belong to Bloomberg's group?   And btw, you have to have that lifetime permit for ~40 years before it's a price break.   - OS

    EXACTLY what I thought of when I heard it.   - OC

  Hell, he was just a whippersnapper compared to me when I first saw him on screen. ;)   Seriously, it's always sad to see one of the film greats I grew up with passing on,  regardless of their main genre.   Ever see the original The Wicker Man? A somewhat offbeat role for him, and a good all around flick too.   - OS

  ?? Click Spec Sheet beside any given model, for the .300blk   http://www.ruger.com/products/americanRifleRanch/specSheets/6968.html   "the threaded barrel is cold hammer-forged, resulting in ultra-precise rifling that provides exceptional accuracy, longevity and easy cleaning. (1/2"-28 thread pattern on 5.56 NATO; 5/8"-24 thread pattern on .300 BLK.)"   - OS

  You still don't have to do the online registration even then. I think its only real advantage is that you can check on progress once everything is submitted and see when approved.   edit: and yes, as per Chances R, you do have to physically show up at a full service DMV to submit the app and class cert, then go get electronic fingerprints elsewhere that are matched to the application number -- none of that is an online process if that's what you are somehow thinking.   - OS

- you don't have to do the online "pre-registration".   - not a definitive answer, but Frontier around here does classes for those not yet 21 ("Courses are open to men and women who are within three months of their 21st birthday"), so seems clear you don't have to be 21 to actually take the class and submit the certificate later   - call HCP office to see if she can take the course and it be valid for the whole six months before she turns 21. I imagine the answer will be yes.   - or just call a couple of the places that do the course and ask, I'm sure they know too   - OS

  You can bet your bippy that if ammo were nixed for shipping, same would apply for primers and powder.   - OS

  ???  Manchin-Toomey was defeated in Dem majority Senate, House never had to act.   - OS

Have read over and over, here and elsewhere,  that with a certain diameter bullet, the microgroove barrel does great. Can't tell you what that diameter is for .357 though, but Caster or Dolo or someone here will I'm sure.   - OS

  Rifled slugs are designed to compress via the "fins" on outside of slug which make the actual contact with bore, okay to shoot through full choke, though accuracy might or might not be as good as with a looser one. That's why there aren't any warnings on ammo packaging.   To quote Remington's Slugger packaging for example: "Slugger rifled slugs are designed for optimum performance in smooth bore barrels. Rifled slugs may be fired through any choke; however, improved cylinder provides best results".   Note that some folks however report better results through tighter chokes, so YMMV.   - OS

  Actually, seems Depends are recommended for a number of TGOers regarding either snakes or spiders. :)   - OS

  .45 colt is larger diameter bullet than .410 bore.   Handguns like Judge and Governor have .45 bore, not .410, and chamber is modified to accept both, not even sure .45LC will fit in regular .410?, but if it does, don't fire it.   Even if it were safe, which it's not, the bullet would come out of it like a knuckle ball, yaw and/or tumble all over the place.   - OS   edit: Garufa beat me tuit.

  A separate valuable items policy always requires detailed description of the contents insured, whether they be firearms, jewelry, artwork, collections, etc. I don't know any way around it.   Btw, SAFECO insures firearms on homeowners and rental policies as part of the entire blanket coverage, no separate policy required. But even they want the detailed listing, otherwise a claim would be pretty iffy.   Doesn't bother me, but perhaps I need more tinfoil. ;)   - OS

I generally like to play. ;) Even with the low rez, I seem to see fairly distinct banding, so if it's indeed a "water snake" , my bet is the relatively common Northern Water Snake. Shading/banding can be distinct or more subdued, and vary in exact color. Then again, most every snake will get in the water once in a while depending on circumstances, so fact you saw it in the rivulet isn't necessarily conclusive or anything. Maybe higher rez rendition will reveal more. Northern Water Snake More pix: https://www.google.com/search?q=northern+water+snake&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CIMBEIkeahUKEwjz767UuITGAhWCNqwKHZNMAP8&biw=1430&bih=683#imgrc=WIzyQsR-A_psSM%253A%3BzA_UAvNFildgHM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fsrelherp.uga.edu%252Fsnakes%252Fpics%252Fnersip3.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fsrelherp.uga.edu%252Fsnakes%252Fnersip.htm%3B300%3B225 - OS

You might want to consider a conventional contemporary build for your first foray into ARdom, just a thought.   - OS

All these claiming of "rights" supposedly granted by either a caring supernatural being or the uncaring natural cosmos itself are fine fare for highfalutin philosophy. But Dolo and Hozzie are spot on -- there's nothing inalienable about anything that can be denied by force, whether "legal" or otherwise.   Certainly, even with a specific Amendment assuring us that our keeping and bearing arms cannot be infringed, that promise has been largely proven false. Indeed, that least favorite member of the Bill of Rights could be modified or repealed entirely.   Just as when we depended on what we could wrest and protect with our own sinews, the principle of "might makes right" is no less valid today -- it's just that the might is not in our own individual hands anymore.   If it pleases you to believe you have these rights by default right before you're shot dead or put in prison for exercising them, I suppose you do have the inalienable right to feel that way.   - OS

What's mystifying is that as part of Heller, the "unloaded and locked" provision required by DC was struck down, and then McDonald supposedly incorporated the same decisions in Heller to the States.   Also, can't find it right off, but I believe MD's similar law was vacated by a US District court, though it wasn't appealed.   - OS

  Yes, that's an often espoused sentiment, full of all the noble thoughts and words. However, I'm a realist -- if you can't exercise a "right" without punishment, you don't have it.     But you just said, we still have them, whether we can freely exercise them or not, given by this God feller you speak of.   - OS

  Just a note: I don't know about FL, but once you get to TN, you already do not have the right to carry a loaded AR on your person in general public here.   - OS

  Oh, if needed, if this were the only new requirement, there would of course be any number of workarounds ... probably folks would start making lowers with a grip frame cast in, like maybe 1911 style or something. Just need a set screw channel to hold safety detente/spring. Select your own grip panels, cool. ;)   Would all just be a huge headache and mean more money one way or the other needed to have one. Like the whole administration, just another step in the exact opposite direction of the way things need to go.   - OS