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Also make sure very first button on top row is not clicked to toggle BB Code Mode to off, grays out all the options.   - OS

  If still under NFA with the tax, probably not, even if gun itself didn't cost much/any more than semi version. Three shot burst AR, maybe, more tempting.   - OS

  And think how much more he's probably learned in the five years before this thread was resurrected! ;)   - OS

  I guess axes and hawks might be pretty gray. Has blade, but also fits definition of club.   - OS

  Name one federal firearm law. The only thing remotely "won back" were a few clarifications to our benefit within FOPA, which of course also included the opposite, the restrictions on pre '86 machine guns under discussion here in the first place, so quite the mixed bag there. If you mean Heller or MacDonald, again that did not change any laws. We were simply fortunate enough to get a very narrow interpretative victory over some basic principles. And these did not come from ground swell activist movement.   As far as regs, I can only think of the Thompson Decision 20 years ago which made constructive possession and making a firearm from a rifle much less stringent and clarified  Which of course didn't come from any activism at all either, but rather from a lawsuit with a commercial entity, so that SCOTUS had to explain to the government the actual meaning of the words as written in its own law.   That all said, I do believe for various reasons there's a reasonable chance to get both silencers and SBRs (probably not SBSs though) out from under the NFA in the foreseeable future if folks with oomph like Stamboulieh et al would focus on it.   - OS

  My take: if it causes any legislative change, it will be to amend 18USC 922 to make it clear that trusts and corporations are also banned.   I doubt there are 25 Republicans in the House or 10 in the Senate that would vote against that. Maybe if it includes raising the NFA permit to $5K or something instead of 200 clams, but I'd doubt even that having a chance.   Or just another "interpretive" Executive Order as stop gap measure at the least.   Hell, we haven't even been able to get federal switchblade law overturned - think they're gonna let everybody and his brother have an inexpensive tommy gun?   - OS

  I just don't get the logic and viability of going after the highest and most difficult to reach fruit on the tree first.   - OS

  Agree, machine guns are the absolutely scariest guns. Like switchblades quadrupled. Will be the highest hanging fruit always.   You can call it copping out if you like, but I'd jump at an option to nuke all federal firearm restrictions save the MG one. Matter of fact, if someone can point at the best movements to zap SBR and/or cans, I'll put some money where my mouth is.   - OS

  Yup. I "prefer" having my XD Subbie with 13+1, but since I have to more discreet than IWB some of the time, the Kahr PM9 has been in my pocket daily for about 4 years now.   I could carry the XD majority of time really, but I'm a creature of habit, don't like to have to think about wardrobe each day, and the Kahr hides in everything I wear, even the occasional dress pants. And though the XD ain't bad at all in my nice TT Gunleather rig, still can't compare to the comfort of pocket carry with the Kahr in a StellarRigs kydex, especially with all the walking I do.   - OS

No experience with them myself, but know that many swear by them:   https://www.primaryarms.com/Troy_Battlemag_30rd_Single_Black_p/smag-sin-00bt-00.htm   Just more indication of the glut of AR stuff. Everything's 'bout as cheap as it's ever been in real dollars, 'cept ammo.   (edit: I put 5 mags in cart, cheapest shipping is $11.12 to me, you have to weight that in price)   - OS

  Oh, I'd posit if she gets a million or more in her pocket, which seems quite likely, she'd disagree strongly with you.   - OS

  ???   It's a quite traditional kukri, used for both utility and combat. Apparently old enough to likely have been made in the original region of heritage.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri   You know many local blacksmiths or farriers that learned their trade in sight of the Himalayas?  :)   You can still get kukris made in Nepal, btw, this importer seems one of the best rated:   http://www.himalayan-imports.com/   - OS

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  Referendum is to let gov pick the Supremes, and legislature approve or not, which seems to be different from current practice.  What exactly does our Constitution call for?   - OS

  Downside is that the smarter criminals case a house to see activity pattern, and of course try to score when nobody's home. And a home where guns are likely to be the spoils is more attractive.   Same thing with vehicles with gun decals.   - OS

  Certainly overgassing causes more force than necessary. Odds are it'll be fine - no recourse from Plum Crazy if it ain't though.   Ever see the Plum Crazy "illegal" serial number prob? I guess if they were still in biz they'd have to have done something about it:   http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/03/30/plumcrazy-polymer-lowers-illegal-letter-batfe/   - OS

  Just reported, he tested negative.   Ya know, seems the real and present danger here is if Ebola takes hold in Central America/Mexico. All this airline screening is for naught when the infection can just freely walk in like now. And there would likely be a flood as folks flee the disease or come here for the free treatment they know they'd get.   Hell, maybe it would be a good thing overall, might finally be forced to actually close the border, politics be damned, eh?   - OS

  Actually, most common fail point from shooting, seems.  All the stress is concentrated right there from bolt carrier against buffer/spring.   Besides design itself or perhaps voids in molding, seems to be a fatigue factor with some polymers just like with some metals, too.   - OS

  Can take some of the fun out of life that way though. :dirty:   - OS

Well, plenty enough of the various brands have broken suddenly and catastrophically since they've been marketed. And Plumb Crazy likely has had as many as any brand, since I think they were the first out of the block weren't they? But seems the companies still making them have had enough failures to get it mostly right now through ongoing redesign. - OS

  Scariest part of that? You won't know until about 3 weeks whether anybody you holed up with has it or not! :panic:   - OS

  Biggest single club when I was in high school in McMinn County. I graduated same year as Methuselah, btw.   I recKon it waren't no Frenchie that named it QuebecK, though, oui?   - OS

  But but, they always speak so highly of you!  ;)   - OS

  How's prepping gonna help, unless you just mean hole up if it becomes airborne? And even so, if contracted, about all you could do is treat it like cholera if you had to handle it yourself. That would keep you from dying from the vomiting/dysentery part, hedge your odds some.   And btw, how many preppers know the simple treatment for cholera and have the ingredients on hand in quantity? If SHTF enough for sanitation to break down long enough, cholera will be a given. One of the oldest and most common scourges of mankind.   - OS

  Much easier than AIDS though.   Saliva, snot, blood, and semen can transmit it. They just don't count as "airborne" when coughed, sneezed, or puked, onto victim, who can get it from ingesting, touching hands to external mucosa like eyes, too apparently.  Unlike AIDS, almost certainly doesn't have to go only "blood to blood" or "fluids to blood" as it were.   Still harder to catch than the flu, of course, most strains of which really are truly airborne (meaning, aerosol suspension mist of <5 micron particles).   And that's the thing, the CDC has not been forthcoming about what "airborne" really means in the biologic lexicon -- most think that sneezing and coughing, maybe even projectile vomiting is "airborne" because it travels though the air, so that it can't be transmitted that way. Which is almost certainly totally false.   All that said though, all the Ebola strains are poor candidates for any kind of real epidemic except in countries where there are still more folks dying from bad water, malaria, and any number of maladies than Ebola daily in the first place. Hell, a lot of them don't even die from the Ebola directly but from the dehydration/electrolyte depletion associated with the dysentery part of it, something not faced here it you get it either. Same as with cholera, which is almost 100% survivable with simple treatment, but something like 60-70% fatal without it, 'bout same as this strain of Ebola.   Now here, if S ever HTF bad enough for social services and sanitation to fail widely, that's when we'll see all the Biblical disease plagues return, and with a vengeance. That's the part of EOTWAWKI that folks don't consider, and almost certainly the most lethal overall.     - OS