Oh Shoot

  They're all "3 day" AFAIK.   It's just that Fridays are sort of iffy, not all the vendors have necessarily set up -- and doesn't it open at noon for buyers?   - OS

  I take full personal responsibility for it.   Though some progress seems to have been made recently, your generation will have to deal with an overwhelmingly activist progressive bevy of justices on every level of federal courts, including SCOTUS, so bad on y'all I reckon.   - OS

  Range requirements aren't in the statutes. They are just in the rules written by TNDOS to the vendors. They aren't published anywhere I can find either. And no, the instructor PDF on site there doesn't show them either, beyond some basic safety requirements.   - OS

Perfect flu factory, too. As much as I'd like to document the frenzy, I'm reconsidering the Typhoid Mary environment. - OS

All news to me. I thought we had armed guard in all elhi schools already. - OS

  Well, there are already about 15 states where there are partial or total bans on private sales, none found unconstitutional, so I don't see how a federal ban on that could be either.   - OS

  Private sales don't generate any money for any lobbyist group, so no pressure there.   And if several polls can be believed, even the majority of NRA members think ending the "gun show loophole" would be fine, so not sure if that would be too much of a worry about  being defeated in 2014.   They can all tout that they saved your guns, you just have to jump through an extra hoop to sell them, plus you should feel all honorable and all because you won't be able to sell them to a criminal.   - OS

Can tell you I love the 9mm version. Cons: rather fat Pros: everything else - OS

  Not so much against an equally determined crowd.   - OS

  Just a note, hasn't ever been but one Constitutional Convention called by the States, the original one.   The way all amendments since have been done is first by 2/3 vote in both House and Senate, and then ratification by 3/4 of the states.   All but one of the amendments have been ratified by state legislatures, although the 21st (to repeal prohibition) was  done by each state holding a convention.   Congress determines the method for ratification of any given amendment, and in the case of state conventions the rules for those are handled according to each State's laws.   - OS

  You'll be undergunned against the roving hordes (your neighbors) after The Meltdown. ;) (only half jesting)   What makes you think that in the long term your "sniper rifles" won't be banned?  Maybe only double and single barreled shotguns with 6 birdshot or smaller only? Maybe possession of all handgun mags over 10 rounds banned. Maybe over 6 rounds, go back to revolver six gun standard.   Point being, reacting to something that's completely up in the air is a total crapshoot. The AR pricing may actually fall way back in just the next week or two, who knows, could be that there were actually a finite number of idiots willing to pay 4 times what they were worth two weeks ago and prices start falling tomorrow. Only thing sure is that top price on ARs over the last 8 years or so seems to be right now, this day.   - OS

Hard to know...   By keeping my ARs, I'm betting the eventual outcome will be a relatively superficial public relations type legislation, where the House gives up one sop, like end of all private sales (which I have been expecting will happen,even before CT).   It makes sense because none of the mass killers got their guns that way, and DC legislates with anti-logic.   My take on "profitable" is to sell them now, if profit is what you want. Not sure when the exact height of sales value will be, but it's plenty right now, and at some point it will crash, either because of legislation or because of the lack of it.   - OS

  Recess appointments.   Already been a big flap over this, BHO appointed a bunch of federal judges best i remember when the Senate was not officially in recess -- although in fairness, it has become the habit of the Senate to not officially do so even when they in reality do, they still have some silly deal where someone gavels it to order and then dismisses it each day, or some such.   Doesn't affect Presidental Executive Orders, Determinations, or Memoranda, though.   Looks like Dubya had the record for EO's, but BHO has already exceeded it.   - OS

Myth. He's done 150 or less since he's been in office. You can ferret them all out here:   http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-ordershttp://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders Likely confusing various new federal regulations written for all branches of government, of which there have been thousands, and many recently. - OS

Works same as always. Use picture icon, paste in link. Or manually add img tags before and after image. Nice heater, btw, but sooo scary looking, shiver.

Things that aren't broken don't need fixing. Starting to see BCM's with "black extractor insert" being advertised, etc. Just strengthens force on extractor lip, but if more force ain't needed it ain't needed. BCM already uses a different post and stronger spring in the thing, even without the o ring. - OS

FOX update: Guy just identified by LEO spokesman, 62-year-old William Spengler, felon, served 17 years for manslaugher of his grandmother, came off supervised parole in 2006.   Killed himself. "probably a rifle" used on firefighters.   I guess he sort of you know, ignored the law about felons possessing firearms.   First link I see that has appeared:   http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_22253768/firefighter-shot-at-scene-blaze-western-ny         - OS

  You  mean "high powered sniper rifle".   - OS

  Mine just don't seal well around ears, so it doesn't matter what the NRR is. Would have to press them into head with both hands to utilize it. Cheap WalMart muffs work much better, but of course they stick out too much to even get a cheek weld on some rifles.   My Leight model also has mini plug for audio input. No big deal in total scheme of things, but with apparently no mini amp in there, can just barely hear my Sansa cranked all the way up, so it's a worthless feature.   - OS

  Why Dubya went into Iraq.   - OS

  No, not the model I have, but don't have them with me out of town here, so can't tell you which they are.

  Yep, 10 rounds and less. And of course before the CT shooting you couldn't even find a hi-cap ad on there, or if you did, it was nuked before it went to completion. Just like the first one mentioned in a thread here on TGO.   I know they're overwhelmed, but wonder how the listing filters aren't catching these, as many say "30 round" in the description. I'm just wondering if they've given up or will do some slapping later.   - OS

  I hope they don't follow up after the fact and nuke your account for that.   - OS

  Just couldn't make sense of the arrangement of words, maybe just me.

    My AVG didn't complain.   InfoWars and Snopes are quite common destinations, maybe NRA had a short-lived set of AVG definitions that gave false positives from their black list or something, has happened before.   - OS