Oh Shoot

  Just about gotta be gassing prob then.   Were you able to shoot same ammo before, or did you only shoot 5.56 or a different brass .223 ammo than the 'Mericun Eagle?   - OS

  Besides, financial meltdown (especially hyperinflation) is a quicker way for it foment, and much more likely than from "patriots".   If other factors haven't intervened first, the day OPEC demands payment in something other than USD will likely be the kickoff.   Myself, I'm thinking about picking some more Hi-Points for hyper-hyper-inflated pricing to suddenly former progressives. :)   - OS

  Still confusing.   Are you saying that (1) spent casing stays flush in the chamber or   (2) the carrier pulls it out part way, with extractor still grabbing the round?   If (2) and   - you can not extract it fairly easily by pulling charging handle, sounds like some sudden gnarly buildup in chamber seizing expanded casing   - you can extract it fairly easily by pulling charging handle, sound like gas prob as Dolo suggested. If so,  is gas key on top of carrier still firmly socked down? Is gas tube still straight and seems to go into the key? You didn't stick anything up in gas tube during last cleaning, didja?   - OS

  No private handgun sales allowed, so would have to be 21 and go through FFL. No private sales at all at gunshows, but private sales of long guns otherwise okay.   There's a purchase "certificate" necessary for handgun purchase too, like NC.   So far, all of the deaths at the school have been attributed to the Bushmaster by medical examiner up there. Be surprised if the shooter used it to off himself, though, but maybe. CT also has a "partial assault weapon ban". Can only have x number of features, basically, unless it's an intact rifle made before the orig. federal cutoff in '94. No hicap mag restrictions, though, for pistols or rifles.   - OS

  Yeah sort of need the basics, sounds like it started all at once, so something changed.   1. You don't say, but is the round being extracted from the chamber at all, or getting stovepipe jam after extraction, does bolt carrier not move backward enough to get next round to even cause a jam,  or what?   2. Are the extractor and ejector indeed still intact in the bolt?     - OS

I think it's safe to opine that few if any federal firearm law changes will be determined by logic.   - OS

    I'd recommend at the least ensuring your income tax history is impeccable.   - OS

  Also amazing how many become incredibly shrewd investors once they've been umm "approved" by their party there. And of course that pales to how much more they somehow quickly learn about the art if they make it to DC.   - OS

Congrats.   Remember Tom Hanks in Dragnet? "It'll grow back".   http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-FIFUt2nthJt7/dragnet_1987_sgt_friday_and_streebeck_see_the_lion/   (sorry, little commercial at head of it you can't stop, couldn't find it on YouTube)   - OS

Besides simply having more surface area for the surfaces to grab, Weaver, especially if you mean Picatinny compliant, allows mounts such that the scope mount screw anchors in between the slots, absolutely preventing forward/backward movement.   I had a tipoff rail on one of my 10/22's and the scope would walk off the back over time regardless of tightening to max, loctite, whatever.   I replaced it with a Weaver type base that had the cross slots and Weaver type rings, problem solved.   - OS

  Airline industry agreed. And they have children under their care too.   - OS

  Well, I certainly agree that some know more than others -- evidenced by someone's claim that it's illegal to gift a minor a firearm by paraphrasing only a part of TCA 39-17-1303 in post 14:     or claiming that TCA 39-17-1319 prohibits gifting a minor a firearm in post 16:     Yes, it is a pretty easy read. For most.     Since you only increased the arrogance quotient without even accidentally tripping over one factual point, I've been hoping you'd be done disputing it for some time now -- and I'm guessing I'm not the only one. :)     That would have been excellent advice for one person I can think of in this thread to have followed before he did indeed interpret. Over and over. ;)   - OS

  Hmm. Well, now I see gray box around quoted content in editor window, but not the tags. So that will work fine, as a matter of fact is a fine improvement, as can't zap the quote tags now accidentally unless I were to switch to non BB Code mode. I've noticed few other things like the new wingding next to the post number, this "mark solved" button, and a couple of other markers in some other folks' posts, guess they all happened at same time....   edit: and duh, yeah if I'd read announcements, I wouldn't have had to post, eh? Much obliged, David. - OS

  Your permit is no good in CT and it's not even a "shall issue" state.   Probably saving lives with your gun would just be a good deed that would not go unpunished there -- at the least, the liberal spin would likely manage to lump you into being part of the mindset that caused the event in the first place.   - OS

Couple days ago, when I quote a post to follow it, I don't see any tags anymore in posting field, just indented content of the previous post. So makes it problematic sometimes in cutting out some of it, as it will also delete the quote tags without knowing it. Only way can see it is to turn BB Code off. This something new, on purpose or a glitch in some update? Win XP and Win 7, happens in Firefox and IE, although IE shows a gray field around the quoted part. - OS

    Don't recall any at all.  Just millions scrambling to stash survivalist stuff. Which has never stopped since.   - OS

  But will BHO give me one? That matches my phone? ;)   - OS

  Here's what directions to FFL for 4473 says:   "If the buyer is a member of the Armed Forces on active duty acquiring a firearm in the State where his or her permanent duty station is located, but does not reside at his or her permanent duty station, the buyer must list both his or her permanent duty station address and his or her residence address in response to question 2."   - OS

Nope.

Let's see: according to the various "who should vote" threads:     1. I'll have to own some new property, even though I have in the past.   2. Since the economy has tanked on my investments so that I'm getting close to the no income tax line, may have to go back to work to make sure I pay taxes, even though I've paid them most every year since I was 16.   3. Will have to find a way to stop social security benefits   4. And learn to use a slide rule.   It's true, the country has really changed!   - OS

  Both. Separate paragraphs in 18 U.S.C. § 922 make private interstate transactions illegal from both parties.   Didn't comment otherwise because I don't understand the military legal residency thing. Still don't for sure. :)   - OS

  Yep, on one hand the TN statute says that school property must post, even specifies minimum sign size and wording.   On the other hand, there's nothing in the statute saying that their not posting exempts you from prosecution for breaking the law in the first place, unlike federal statute for carrying in federal facilities, for example.   - OS

  Dunno about Oodles, but Market Square itself just another public area in Knoxville.   However, the city has previously purported to ban all weapons there during organized festivals and has even apparently confiscated otherwise legal pocketknives during such events.   - OS

  Dunno what they restrictions CT has, but hicap mags for pistols or rifles aren't among them.   edit: they're saying now that all the weapons were legally "registered" to the guy's mom. Obviously, a person commandeering another's legal weapon isn't going to be prevented by existing laws, or even by more stringent ones.   Even if you make not securing firearms a crime (which it might already be in CT for all I know, it is some states), punishing the person who let it happen still does not absolutely prevent it.   - OS

  Well, thanks for that, but I don't deserve it -- I try not to "interpret and advise" regarding the numerous gray areas of TN (or federal) weapons statutes, merely state the obvious parts that seem to require at most a grammar school education level to understand. :)   - OS