Oh Shoot

  Committee hearings 4-5 years ago addressing bill on this very subject, the revenue loss was clearly addressed as an issue. One plan was to raise the price of the permit to compensate for lost revenue. Somebody even came up with some kind of estimate of how many guns per year the average HCPer bought, which of course was pretty much a WAG.   - OS

  I'm wondering if The Donald counts as "red". Seriously, I have some doubt he'll carry TN.   TN went with Hillary's hubbie after all. Twice.   - OS

  There ain't no "best" in sight for the election. Looks like it's just only gonna be a pro-firearm vote on my part if The Donald is my option in the general, but dunno if I can actually pull the lever for him.   - OS

  Well, we both mentioned it, mine was just more succinct so it stuck. :)   - OS

  He was a member everywhere. At one time. ;)   - OS

Both Adele and Celine have fantastic pipes and can both really sell a song too.   That recording in first post sucks for quality, just ambient audio grab with phone or cam.   - OS

The "new" R51 still figures prominently on Remington's site:   http://remingtonhandguns.com/r51   - OS

  I'd be leery of using an accountant any more, might mean you can't handle your own financial affairs, and hence are too demented to own guns too.   - OS

  If your biz is illegal,  simply paying taxes on your income doesn't make you not still culpable for the crime, eh?   Murder doesn't become legal just because you paid taxes on your income for it, ya know. If you are engaged in the business of selling firearms, you need a license, or it's a felony, simple as that, ever since 1968.   - OS

  Yes.   I've heard it all today, including (both on FOX no less), that:   - all sales at gunshows will have to go through background check - all sales period will have to go through background check,   - OS

  You sure they actually did TICS, or did you just fill out a 4473?   It's my understanding that no background check is run for NFA transfer to an individual (since not required federally, since already done), but that for trusts at least TN has started doing the checks, since the individual receiving the firearm may not be anyone who has ever undergone one.   In all cases, FFLs must do a 4473 for NFA items to keep on file however.   - OS

  A suppressor is most assuredly a firearm under federal law.   - OS

  When was it not politically tinged at heart? It has upheld slavery, then "separate but equal", then finally "equal".   What part of "all men are created equal" did SCOTUS miss for over 150 years, and  "equal protection of the laws" for about 100 years of that, eh? Just as egregious as "shall not be infringed".   - OS

  Yeah, he is wrong.  There is no change whatsoever regarding selling firearms in BHO's directives. FOX is getting it wrong over and over this afternoon on that particular issue, keep hearing "experts" talking about how all "gunshow transactions" will have to have background checks, or all transactions period, stuff like that.   As far as the trust issue, it's my understanding that unlike an individual NFA transfer, TN already requires TICS on whoever actually picks up the firearm transferred on a trust, changed in the last year or less,  yes?   - OS

  Recent "assault weapon/highcap mag" ban. They let it stand by not hearing it.   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/us/supreme-court-will-not-hear-challenge-to-assault-weapons-ban-of-highland-park-ill.html?_r=0   - OS

    Andrew goes all Uber Minuteman at the drop of a (tricorn) hat. I've heard him wax completely elegant and completely wrong about existing firearm law for some time, not to mention the firearms themselves.   Best summation of the dealer/background check issues were actually on MSNBC right after, from a former ATF agent -- ie, that it didn't change anything at all with regards to those.   Whether adding a few agents, whether they actually ever get to do, will result in any closer enforcement of existing law remains to be seen, but would have to be negligible nation wide even if they do.   - OS

  The standard that must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt is in post 109. If you fit that, well...   I have always thought and even said here that if one turns as many firearms per year as some I see, one should document where the bucks went to cover ass just in case.   - OS

  It doesn't say or even suggest that at all. Though BHO will be pleased if you think that way.   - OS

  Perhaps why Huskies aren't generally considered as sheep dogs?   - OS

  If you were a TFA member you'd be in the loop on state level effort, just sayin...   - OS

  The CFR can only be modified by the procedures called for in the Administrative Procedure Act, which generally takes minimum of 90 days, although it is true that there is an "emergency rulemaking" provision in there also, not sure regarding details on that.  All subject to judicial review btw, assuming anyone files suit claiming that the proposed rule change is improper in some way or other.   I do think he can go pretty far and get away with it though, what with the feckless GOP, the overall liberal bent of the federal court system,  and also the overwhelming support nationwide for the universal background check thang, logic of effectiveness against gun crime be damned.   - OS

  The "metric" is a general one, no real specifics. But anything more specific would seem to have to at least undergo the process to be included as interpretation in the CFR, rather than by EO.   There are two criteria for being a dealer "engaged in the business" in 18 USC 921 (and the corresponding 27 CFR 478.11)   -- ...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.   -- 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.   - OS

C'mon .. she didn't "make up" any of it, just read how it occurred:   "We presented her with a script drafted by NOE and allowed her to improvise during a series of brief daily video discussion sessions. The result was edited from a number of separate takes, for brevity and continuity.’ The spokesman said Koko had to learn ‘a few new signs’ for the video including ‘protect’ and ‘nature’."   - OS

  Yeah, "reciprocity" is often incorrectly used as being synonymous with "recognition". Just because any two states recognize each other's permit doesn't necessarily mean they have an actual formal reciprocal agreement.         Quite unlikely law would be changed. We already honor permits from ten states who don't honor our own. 'Course, I guess this could piss off the legislature in a special way, dunno, but we'd only be punishing gun toters like ourselves, not the Gov.   - OS

He was a prime attraction of watching Cashin' In too.   - OS