Oh Shoot

Don't understand question. Gas system (pistol, carbine, midlength, rifle) is determined by gas port location on barrel, i.e., how far the gas port is from breech. Any given gas block can fit any of them. - OS

  I said from early inception of the Tea "Pary" thang, that they'd have to become an actual solidified third party to change things, that the GOP would just isolate and dilute the elected folks they sent to DC.   The various orgs within the Tea Party movement have definitely had an effect on local and state politics, but they'll never change the national GOP juggernaut from within to be anywhere in the ballpark of the goals both they and I deem necessary.   And no, Rand Paul doesn't have a prayer of being elected president, because he doesn't have a prayer of getting the nomination as a Republican, and there's no real national Tea Party either.   - OS

  If not the cat's pajamas, even. :)   Twenty-three skidoo  to ya, daddyo. :)   - OS

  Beretta sucks on warranty stuff. If you can't get the gun store to send it for you, you have to pay the shipping, and it doesn't even go to Beretta in MD on the first go round but to a "service center."   And more confusingly, there are two different pages of these service centers, and they don't jibe with each other.   - OS

  So ya think we'd shoot down a Russian airliner?   Dunno anything about exact air routes, but a line from Moscow to Cuba/Central America goes over many European countries. Then again, is our intelligence hip enough to actually know when he gets on a plane at this point?   - OS

  If you're interesting in ever making a buck off ads from your own vids, or actually finding a pertinent informational vid on most any area of personal interest,  there aren't any.   - OS

If Zim is convicted it will be sort of an opposite nullification by jury.   There is simply and absolutely no preponderance of evidence that his actions were anything but self defense, so even if he's found guilty of some lesser charge, it will be an emotional verdict rather than a logical one, and in this case the "judgement by one's peers" principle will have miserably failed.   - OS

If you do the dummy gas block, use one with a front sight rail, and then you can get the longest sight picture possible with your irons. If you do that, though, get one that's the same height as the rail on the upper or a standard height picatinny front sight will be too short to match up with the rear one, although they do make taller ones too. Top upper in this pic is a dedicated .22LR one, so the front gas block is obviously a dummy. (handguard is actually rifle length). Since it doesn't get hot, I was able to put a Magpul polymer sight on it too. Dunno though if one on a .223 would get too hot just from heat transference from barrel to necessitate a metal sight or not, but I'm guessing not. - OS

  Cool, some of the SpeedSafe Kershaws have one, some don't. I've got 4 or 5 of them, but not the Blur, so didn't know.   - OS

  There's a separate detent to hold blade closed on the Blur?   - OS

  No. Appointed in 1999 by Jeb Bush.   - OS

  Yes, that's what the motion is, for acquittal from the bench, making defense presentation or jury deliberation unnecessary.   - OS

  Jury is not in courtroom for the acquittal motion, btw, so they're not getting educated yet. Too bad, it would be like a double closing argument. :)   - OS

  I guess you could argue for a partial sentence if convicted. :)   - OS

  First owner can almost always be found by simply going to manufacturer/distributor which leads to FFL who sold it, and the 4473 on file there.   Plus, the ATF National Tracing Center has records of all closed FFLs which are put into database. Also, multiple handgun purchases are also sent to the NTC on separate form, which includes name and address of buyer and gun info.     Absolutely wrong. Personal sale of any firearm between residents of different states is a felony offense as per federal law.   In all cases, they must be transferred through an FFL. In the case of long guns, federal law permits the transfer to happen in either state; in the case of handguns, must happen in state of the recipient only.   - OS

    It actually turns into a Tennessee Black Panther at 5 years old.   - OS

  Their training site is the only one I know that has always been active:   http://www.firearmsclasses.com/   Mike is still listed as lead instructor regarding the various courses, I just don't know his role in actual retail store operations now, or even in the past actually.   - OS

  I wonder if he is still involved there?   (last appearance here was Jan '12, btw).   - OS

  edited further: site is down. Your one inquiry must have crashed it!   edited again: one of the rare sites you have to use www. with, and it works.   - OS

So, this is a new one from Kahr/Auto Ordnance, or oldie, or what?   Is the woodwork and metal really gray, or just way off color balance in the pic?   - OS

And was it really TSA or was it DC LEA that might have taken it if he had to claim his luggage before boarding the other flight?   Or was it possibly a Customs issue?   - OS

  As long as you have no reason to believe that he is a resident of a different state, or prohibited from owning a firearm, nothing is required in TN. Not even the handshake. :)   Oh, and in TN you cannot sell a firearm to a minor.   - OS

  The 30 year is for stipulation of victim being a minor, as I understand it, which is why it would be pretty much same bad news as murder 2 for Zim in this case.   - OS

All the 4473s that are turned into ATF from FFLs who close shop are indeed put into database. The operation was detailed on some documentary I watched, showing the conversion from paper to data. The ATF was very upfront about it, ATF spokesman was on camera explaining it.  Constant backlog, and they even had to store records off site until they could get around to them. Even showed poring through water damaged 4473s from one FFL that closed after a fire, etc.   So the "no data base" only applies to the background checks, and obviously not to the 4473s themselves.   As far as FFL's only having to keep them for only 20 years, I'd opine that most simply keep them for the entire life of the biz, since it would be extra work to periodically purge them. Same with the 5 year span of the denied ones.   Now that there is some provision for electronic record keeping by the FFls, I guess it would be easier to purge them that way, but don't know the specifics of how that works.   Cannot remember where I saw the documentary, but it's done by the National Tracing Center of the ATF, and outlined on this Wiki:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Tracing_Center   Edit: Oh, here, from the horse's mouth at: http://www.atf.gov/publications/factsheets/factsheet-national-tracing-center.html   "Out-of-Business Records: Federal firearms licensees (FFLs) that discontinue business are required by law to send all firearms transaction records to the NTC. Out-of-business records are integral in the firearms tracing process. The NTC receives an average of 1.2 million out-of-business records per month. Since 1968, ATF has received several hundred million such records. ATF's Out-of-Business Records repository is the only one of its kind in the world."   "Records Search Requests: ATF utilizes out-of-business FFL records to assist in the investigation of firearm thefts when incomplete identifying information is available. ATF receives thousands of such requests each year from law enforcement jurisdictions where an individual firearm owner has no record of the firearms identifiers and the FFL from whom the owner purchased the firearm is no longer in business. These records have proved pivotal in other criminal investigations as well."   Edit 2: Still not complete doc I saw but found vids:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lFdLaYcDNQ   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Ef1kMrUXU       - OS

  There's the succinct pith of the matter. I haven't called BHO the Antichrist purely in jest.   Just because I'm agnostic doesn't mean I don't believe that evil exists, and it has always manifested itself most effectively through political power -- history is replete with the documentation. There's no reason our short experiment will be immune.   - OS