Oh Shoot

  Probably not.  Not necessarily  a lot of rhyme or reason to it, seems.   - OS

Pert cool, if you just had to do it.   Reckon steel content is such you could harden it some too?     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNGnq9A-cFE       - OS

  Yes, I know. Civil disobedience MEANS breaking the law.   Somehow though, we don't get Rosa Parks type results from a single or even group protest. I think the problem may just be that we need larger participation, and with some movie stars or something to lead it. Where is our Martin Luther King? (and no, it ain't The Nooge).   A few thousand rank and filers is just too easily dismissed as The Lunatic Fringe.   - OS

I'm gonna replace my plastic fantastic pistol lower with it, I think.   - OS

  Well, however we feel about it, it is illegal.   Illegal right here in Tennersee, too, assuming there's ammo involved. What would the Nashville police do if we made it plain we were showing up there with loaded ARs?   - OS

  Ever watch the Watter's Word World segments on O'Reilly?   The absolute dearth of knowledge about our country, current events, issues, and freedom itself is absolutely appalling among younger folks, and if anything it's actually worse the more educated the interviewee.   - OS

One problem with the whole thing is a legal one.   While DC is a "federal district", it is also a municipal government, and it is under the municipal realm that carry and certain firearms/mags are banned. Sort of like trying the same thing in NYC as far as that goes.   I halfway hope it happens and has a huge turnout, but I halfway fear the worst, and overall losing ground in the aftermath. Have to admit that mine and Alex's sentiments are in sync on this one.   - OS

  Probably became such a massive database it would create big system hit when it had to send out a bazillion emails.   - OS

FWIW, new story from FoxNews on the ammo shortage:   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/06/bullet-blitz-demand-from-public-government-leaves-ammo-shelves-empty/   - OS

Saxby Chambliss was in the group too ... and got a hole in one!   Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar and a round of golf is just that, guys     - OS

His mom wants the body shipped back to Russia.   So if they execute Dzhokhar, okay to bury him here I guess, like any other US citizen that also happens to be a mass murderer?   - OS

  No telling how many rank and filers defected from the US Army too. ;)   - OS

  Well, much of the CSA leadership was part of the US military.   - OS

  Obviously, effective nationwide armed revolution would not, could not occur unless a large percentage of those two factions jumped in with the "resistance".   They are, after all, us.   As far as the military, simple majority desertion would swing the balance as long as it included air units.   - OS

  Yep, every county has a "potter's field".   - OS

  I ban all waste on my body 'cept for one unavoidable outlet, just sayin... ;)   - OS

  A virgin lower is just a lower, "other firearm".   If it's built as a pistol first, it can back and forth from pistol to rifle to pistol at will. If it's built as a rifle first, it must stay a rifle.   Here's a spin, too. Since federal law does not denote a barrel length for a rifle, if you build an AR of any length, it's a pistol until you add the stock. So if you add the stock last, you built a pistol first, eh? (not legal advice).   If you have a legal SBR, you can simply shoot it without the stock, and you have a "pistol" even though it's actually just a rifle without the stock, but you don't have to worry about barrel length or overall length or vertical forward grip, because you've already have a stamp that covers all that. :)   Where you could potentially get stuck legally is with a used lower. If it were first transferred as a complete rifle, you could not make it a pistol, and there would be a record of that on manufacturers records and the original 4473. Even if the first owner had bought it as only a lower and had made a rifle, still wouldn't be legal to make a pistol of it, although there wouldn't be an actual written record of that as in the first case. Could get sticky I guess if first owner later transferred it on a 4473 as complete rifle, assuming they ran that down.   - OS

I saw over all drops in pricing, many ARs by half from the peak full tilt bozo crazy.   All Russian 7.62x39 you wanted for a bit less than .50 round, same in .223 for a bit more than that. Still high, but it was there. Heck, Georgia ammo still had 500 bulk packs of .223 for about that same .55/round (plus tax), and of course it's brass and better stuff.   No .22LR to speak of, except a few with absurd pricing on 500 rounds (70 clams).   Enjoyed seeing the various TGOers there, haven't been to a show in some time. As always, thanks for your generosity David, and I finally met Sam -- and Rocco. :)   Only thing I bought was some 1.5" strapping and fittings to make another AR 1-2 point sling.   - OS

  Magpul itself is not a really a manufacturer. 200 folks at their facility doing assembly, packaging, shipping, accounting, etc but all the actual molding/fabrication is done by contract with other companies.   Their largest molder is in Colo, though, and they were "talking" about leaving the state too, but haven't heard any more about that.   - OS       - OS

  Yeah, wasn't thinking .. forgot PP account apparently no longer necessary to use credit card through seller's PP account these days?   You never see that option if you have a PP account as it only lets you go through it.   - OS

http://trib.com/business/hiviz-shooting-systems-to-move-from-colorado-to-firearm-friendly/article_a91d8691-f2b4-58dd-9238-c30b21b4b2dd.html    

  The official status of the Chilhowee Park area seems to be rather fluid. Certainly owned by the city, but not listed on their city parks page:   http://www.cityofknoxville.org/parks/   It even has its own website, which doesn't clarify its status either, beyond "multi-use venue".   http://www.chilhoweepark.org/default.html   But they allow guns there for gun shows, and there's nothing in the City Code I can see that allows that exception regardless of exactly what they call it, as it certainly fits the definition in the ordinance as "a Park means a park, reservation, playground, beach, recreation center or any other area in the city owned, leased or used by the city and devoted to active or passive recreation".   - OS

Primary:  Ruger 10/22 with ammo Secondary:  Semi auto .22 pistol of choice Melee: both,  with LOTS of ammo   All you'd need, firearm wise.   - OS

I dunno, I tend to like "gray man" stuff. For example, I carry this: In this: 'Course in TN that's legal on my person with an HCP, whereas the rifle wouldn't be with any ammo in case or on you. - OS

  Nifty story, but not an analogous one unless OP's service does indeed require a license under the regs.   But I suspect ATF will say it does, just as per ATF's simple statement here:   "Q: Is a license needed to engage in the business of engraving, customizing, refinishing or repairing firearms?     Yes. A person conducting such activities as a business is considered to be a gunsmith within the definition of a dealer.     [27 CFR 478.11]"   http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/gunsmiths.html#license-activities   However, that CFR only verbatim echoes the USC definition of the gunsmithing aspect of dealer which I already quoted,  "any person engaged in the business of repairing firearms or of making or fitting special barrels, stocks, or trigger mechanisms to firearms", and again I don't see what stippling has to do with any of that.   But doesn't much matter beyond what the ATF is willing to come after you for, I reckon. Took a damn SCOTUS ruling in 1992 to make them stop flogging folks for most cases of "constructive possession", after all.   - OS