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  ??? No Republicans, RINO or otherwise voted for the change. 3 Dems even voted with the Republicans against it. Final tally was 52-48.   - OS

  Everything I mentioned to lady I talked to, it was like, yeah that's normal, must be you. Definitely said that holding down button was way brightness changed. But of course Garufa and LumberJack's work click by click.   I had a feeling if I had told her the thing sang Dixie she'd have said, yeah, that's a feature we put in.   - OS

  Yeah, I'll call and see what the deal is. Already have return label, all orders come with them, but seems they want to charge $7.95 for it for any reason; or maybe they don't if it's marked defective, dunno. Will check it out.   - OS

  Sure do appreciate your dropping by, man. I think I'll actually just mark it as broken and return to Cabela's for a swap as they still show them in stock at regular full price now.     - OS

Update: Garufa and LumberJack both have looked at it now, and both said the dot and the brightness controls are aberrant. G has the red dot version and LJ has the red/green same as mine.   I'll contact Vortex again tomorrow.   - OS

  Just a note: SAFE is NY state, not CT, and wasn't Bloomberg's baby, but Gov. Cuomo's.   Here are some CT stories, with pix/vids of folks in line:   http://www.wfsb.com/story/24327384/connecticut-gun-owners-rush-to-register-weapons-ammunition   http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/26/connecticut-gun-owners-wait-in-line-to-do-something-many-gun-owners-hope-they-never-have-to/   http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/26/connecticut-gun-owners-wait-in-line-to-do-something-many-gun-owners-hope-they-never-have-to/   And whattya gonna do there? Register or become instant felon today.   - OS

  Yeah, I know. It's 26 actually. Quick Google seems to reveal that it is a mandate to insurers to do it if the family wants to.   Course, the best irony, every one is one less of the "young and healthy" they need to make the math work by buying their own individual coverage at a higher rate than the family coverage extra for him/her.   - OS

  Horse walks into a bar, sits down and sighs.   Bartender sez, "why the long face?"   ---------------------------------   Guy walks into a bar, there's a horse mixing drinks behind the counter.  Guy looks shocked.   Horse sez, "whazamatter, you never seen a horse tending bar before?"   Guy sez, "sure, I just can't believe the pig sold the place."   --------   Guy walks into a bar, has monkey on his shoulder.   Bartender says, "you can't bring him in here."   Guy says, "Don't talk that way, you'll hurt his feelings."   Bartender says, "I know, I was talking to the monkey."   -------------------   Ba da bing,   - OS

  Yeah, I don't get it either, especially assuming the kids are minor dependents. I mean, any health insurance company will sell ya a family policy. First thing they ask on healthcare.gov is whether you're applying for individual or family policy.   - OS

  Not sure ACA  mandates that insurance companies have to insure folks over 18 but not over 26 on parent's insurance? Meaning, it allows it, but companies don't have to offer it?   I could be wrong.   - OS

  Let's see, last two elections, you call any of these folks conservative:?   Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Fred Thompson, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Gary Johnson, Herman Cain, Paul Ryan?   What do they all have in common? Not enough votes to win.   So who ya think? Maybe Rand Paul, Ted Cruz? Huck again, Perry again? Won't get enough votes to win the presidency. And likely not even the nomination.   Problem is, the GOP can't win with a candidate that appeals to its most conservative base, but the Dems can with one that's the other extreme, and beyond. The reason? This country overall ain't nearly as right as some here would like to believe. Hell, Hillary might take TN for all I know -- after all, we went with her husband. Twice.   - OS

If you wear that for concealed carry you could put your HCP badge on the visible chest strap. :) Here's one with belly strap, very discreet too. :) - OS

  Looking since 1960, national turnout for presidential elections, was about the same as since 1968, that being less than 60% of voting age population. 2008 was actually highest since '68 at close to 57%, 2012 was back to about normal at less than 54%. Highest I see was 1960 at 63% (JFK).   How ya gonna change a 45 year trend? Elections don't get much more contentious than the last two and they didn't draw any better to speak of.   Think that's depressing, midterm elections are well under 40% of voting age population.   And on the other hand, why do you think the results would be different if 90% voted? After all, the Dems are better at getting out the votes than the GOP. Not to mention averaging more than one vote per person, too. ;)   - OS

Well, dunno what to think, folks.   Talked to Vortex, had me do a couple of things they mention on their troubleshooting section, like rotate whole unit to see if what I see stays same (it does). Sounds like the gal I talked to pretty much thinks it's pretty much astigmatism on my part.   Okay, maybe it is, dunno. Took online tests for I found on several sites, doesn't show I have any (I know, not very scientific). Had eye test about a year ago, all good cept for the farsightedness I've had since about 45 when I started toting reading glasses (yes, things could have changed). Did eye test to get CDL renewed in June, showed 20/20 and 20/25 without any glasses of course (yes, I know that's not a fair test of astigmatism).   Sooo, tried for over an hour to get a sharp picture of the red and green dots. Failure. No matter how I cheat things manually,  I can't get an actual pixel sharp shot of the dot area, as it "blooms". And of course, being a spherical camera lens, it blooms into a nice circle too. Unsharp, but a circle. And yes, I see it as a circle through the camera, which indicates I'm only seeing it as the lens does. I suppose I could mount a camera on the AR in front of the scope and use it that way, at least I'd see a circle dot. :)   They also said that yes, you have to hold down up and down brightness buttons rather than punch them (unlike one response here) but they seem to be very sluggish and finally "jump" to full brightness or dimness (and not even sure the bright is what it should be, fairly pale in full daylight).   Anyway, I honestly don't know what to think. I guess I'm gonna have to just let a couple of my Knoxville compadres who know red dots simply look through the damn thang and tell me. I'll make some calls tomorrow, see who I can catch free before they start tilting the elbow too much for New Years. :)   - OS

You made no comment, but you realize the article is calling uber right wingers the "dumbest" segment of America, right?   All of these points, according to article, are examples of "ignorant bigoted delusions":   "Christians are persecuted in this country. The government is coming to get your guns. Obama is a Muslim. Global Warming is a hoax. The president is forcing open homosexuality on the military. Schools push a left-wing agenda. Social Security is an entitlement, no different from welfare. Obama hates white people. The life on earth is 10,000 years old and so is the universe. The safety net contributes to poverty. The government is taking money from you and giving it to sex-crazed college women to pay for their birth control."   Myself, I only see one of them as completely beyond the intellectual pale ("10,000 years"), and all the rest as either quite valid in toto or at least to a degree allowable under the blanket of effective linguistic overstatement, meaning that the trend of the statement is more valid that not in an extended sense.   - OS

In further evidence of my statements there, I forgot to even mention that the attestation you sign on the 4473 itself includes: "I further understand that the repetitive purchase of firearms for the purpose of resale for livelihood and profit without a Federal firearms license is a violation of law."     Yeah, I think now you've pegged a more likely possible illegality in the endeavor.  Besides setting up all the sales in advance would be definitely throwing up a flag, the act of soliciting a commitment for bucks before the transaction may well fit under the circumstances of the straw purchase thang.   As a matter of fact, the example of someone giving you the money in advance for your doing a 4473 and then giving them the firearm is given on the instructions for the 4473 itself as an example of a illegal straw purchase, and no mention that the recipient must be prohibited from owning a firearm for it to be considered thus.   Now, in the case of these Mosins, if the guy has a C&R license, then he wouldn't necessarily be actually submitting a 4473 to receive them, so there's a gray area I suppose, as for one thing he would not be falsifying the 4473 by attesting that he is the actual purchaser on question 11a. On the other hand, the conditions specified on the 4473 seem as if they would still apply.   Obviously, one's best course would simply be to buy the dang things, and then sell them individually after the fact of receiving them. Assuming you could reasonably demonstrate that the money received really did go back into "enhancing your collection" you'd be perfectly legal doing that. But soliciting sales upfront is a whole 'nother can of worms, not to mention the sheer chutzpah of publicly showing yourself as an obvious nail begging to be hammered down. :)   - OS

No court decided that. That's the rub. It was merely a ruling by a department head, in reaction to a letter from a cop/bureaucrat. (And incidentally, he didn't lose it for the Radnor Lake incident, the letter was from the Belle Meade chief regarding the incident there). Now in all fairness to Leonard's idiocy, he didn't show for the HCP appeal, which would have placed the outcome under an actual court decision, in the same way Yeager did. - OS

    Yep, if BHO is still on the ropes by then, her campaign will be a "new New Deal" push. Basic brunt being that BHO was well meaning and all, but just didn't have the experience and smarts to effectively accomplish their shared goals -- and implied of course that she should have been elected in the first place, so let's get it right this time America.   - OS

  I don't think Christ himself could have won running under the GOP in '08.   But the GOP got the '12 election back on a silver platter -- except the candidate winds up being one of the few men on the planet that enough of the electorate found to be at least as untrustworthy and a whole lot less personally likeable than BHO.   - OS

So so sorry to hear that.   Don't know if it's any comfort, but a certain percentage of canine pancreatitis seems to be "idiopathic", meaning cause unknown, so it may well be that it was beyond anything you or any vet science could remedy. When bad things happen to good people or good dogs, sigh, just another vale of tears in this life.   - OS

    I think TDR meant the notice that he's folding, not the junk about you.   I mentioned it in some thread myself at least a month ago myself (that he was closing).   - OS

  Jacketed can cover entire bullet including base also, eh?. Sometimes called FMJE (Full Metal Jacket Encapsulated) or MC (Metal Cased) depending on manufacturer.   - OS

  Sure, same thing as always with folks walking around with guns for sale/trade. It's always been thus that private sales are always the best way, just that gun shows brings all the folks together in one place.   - OS

Folks, "intent" to resell firearms has nothing to do with the federal legality of this, and making a profit doesn't necessarily enter into it either -- you can "intend" to resell or give away any firearm you buy at any time and even indeed resell it immediately for more than you paid and not necessarily be in violation   What's illegal is "engaging in the business" of selling firearms without a license, simple as that.   As per USC 18 922, "in the business" means:   "as applied to a dealer in firearms, as defined in section 921 (a)(11)(A), a person who devotes time, attention, and labor to dealing in firearms as a regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit through the repetitive purchase and resale of firearms, but such term shall not include a person who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms"   And   "The term “with the principal objective of livelihood and profit” means that the intent underlying the sale or disposition of firearms is predominantly one of obtaining livelihood and pecuniary gain, as opposed to other intents, such as improving or liquidating a personal firearms collection"   So actually, it could be perfectly legal to buy a crate of Mosins and sell most of them off immediately, assuming you don't break any other federal or state laws doing it. The stickler is that of course it's not your call as to how BATF might see your transactions if you come under scrutiny. I have no idea what the burden of proof on BATF's part might have to be to convict you, but of course it could 'bout ruin your life proving innocence, too. And it certainly wouldn't be the wisest thing to send up flares on the public airwaves even if your intentions are well within the law. Some old adage about baiting the bear or somesuch, I believe.   Anyway, there's also no "intent" involved in what's generally referred to as "constructive possession": you have either made an NFA firearm or you have not, and it doesn't take actual assembly to have "made" one, and requires no "intent" to do so either. That's another area of firearms law where folks will do certain things with a collection of parts to show no "intent" to break the law -- which doesn't get you out from under in the least, push come to shove.     - OS

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