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I got a new Remora ostensibly to encourage my wife to carry her LCP on her body, but I find it makes it real convenient for me to carry at home with little effort.  I barely feel it compared to any of my other guns.   Besides stories like these, and some on the The Truth About Guns, was the fact that my "quick-access" safe (a Gunvault Microvault) was not consistently opening, which is somewhat important for a safe.  Kudos to Academy for taking back the safe that I bought 6 months ago; I told them that I couldn't trust it to work when I needed it.  I tried to call Gunvault first, but gave up after being on hold for 10 minutes.

  Currently I do that from home.  Georgia law allows three people (the bishops of their respective dioceses, two of which cover 99% of Georgia) to ban guns in Episcopal churches.  Rather than completely find a new church, I'm trying to change the law  ;) .   I like Dolomite's idea of pointing out that there is a criminal (now an armed criminal) that might be coming back to that store partially due to their policies.  I agree that if the store/management/corporation are rabidly anti-gun, they won't assume any responsibility, but if they are fence-sitters, maybe it will be a wake-up call.

I would to tell her that by following the business policy, and thus the law, that now a criminal has a gun that they would have otherwise not have obtained. You don't have to be mean or confrontational, but you should explain the facts of the situation to them. Maybe you ought to share this story with your legislator as a example that the sign law does little for the safety of the public, and in this case, has had a negative effect. I used a situation like this as just one of the reasons why my church should allow carrying (to no avail).

That seems remarkably short-sighted on his part.  I wonder if he thought it would go better by consenting?  

I thought printing falls under the newer exception about brief and unintentional showing of a firearm?  Or at least I thought that was the legislative intent, but it may not be enforced that way.

So do we assume that since the police had reliable witness information (his wife), they could legally detain and search him and it won't get thrown out?  What if some random person told the LEO you were carrying (as in, they didn't actually know and were lying about their knowledge of you carrying), does that give them probable cause to search you without your consent?

I forgot to add that neutering will definitely reduce the smegma from his prepuce; that is definitely related to testosterone.

The main reasons to neuter (castrate is a more specific term) a male dog is to decrease the behavioral problems associated with testosterone--marking behavior, roaming to find females, aggression.  With a 16 month old dog, he has already gone through puberty, so the decrease in these behaviors may be less marked than if he had been neutered before puberty.  Testosterone turns on certain receptors in the brain, and those receptors will still be present if the source of testosterone is removed.   Neutered dogs will not have benign prostate enlargement or prostate infections, but they can still get prostate cancer.     The traditional age of neutering was 6 months of age, but then the shelter advocates started clamoring for early neutering (you may have seen some commercials recently telling you to neuter at 4 months).  There is some research that suggests neutering after puberty (>6-9 months)is beneficial for preventing some orthopedic problems, but there are not widespread opinions as to whether that is true.   With females, there is a definite positive effect of early neutering--decreased rate of breast cancer later in life.  With males, the benefits are less defined.  Prostate enlargement, for example, can be reversed with neutering when it occurs.   So if he urinates everywhere or chases after bitches in heat, neutering may help that, but he may still retain some unwanted behaviors.  My sister-in-law's late-neutered male dog lifting his leg and peed on my wall within 5 minutes of coming into my house.

Having lived near Savannah and gone to St. Simons several times, I would suggest St. Simons over Savannah.  Partly for me is that the charm that people see in Savannah becomes mundane when you see it all the time, so someone who visited it as a tourist might have a different opinion.   Without a doubt, Tybee Island (so-called "Savannah Beach") is one of the worst beaches that I have ever gone to.  There was clay in the sand; it was weird.  They have a horrible parking situation and not much else to do.  Some of the locals call it the Redneck Riviera because those same locals go there for the day in the summer.  I can't understand it as a vacation destination, though, especially when there are other nearby places.   Amelia Island/Fernadina Beach is another location between St. Augustine and Savannah.  Its basically the first island on Florida's Atlantic coast.  When we stayed at Amelia Island, we would do a day trip to St. Augustine.  The one thing I remember about St. Augustine is it is home to the 'oldest everything" in America--oldest jail, oldest school, oldest fort, oldest city, etc.  If you like ghosts, it is probably a good city for that.   Come to think of it, all these beach towns seem to run together in my mind.  I think St. Simons is the ritziest of the them.

Welcome from unincorporated Catoosa (between Ringgold and Ft. Oglethorpe).  Do you actually live in Rossville, or in the part of northern Catoosa that the Post Office gives a Rossville mailing address to?  I lived in Ft. Oglethorpe once, but the mailing address was Rossville.  It caused some headaches when I was selling my house.  Ft. Oglethorpe is a much different selling point than Rossville.     Have you heard about the petition to overturn the gun ban at Camp Jordan?   Edti:  After going to the other thread, I see you have.  Is that your shop on Mack Smith?

Maybe this was the JV squad that Obama was talking about? Since they were in France and knew there would be no armed victims in the office, they could afford to send the "B" team.

Another thing about Chinese chicken jerky--the Chinese government apparently requires that all of this type of product be sterilized by irradiation. I have no problem with using irradiation to sterilize things, but there is speculation that perhaps the irradiation process released a chemical from the plastic packaging and contaminated the chicken. It's not that it makes it radioactive, but the energy could inadvertently affect the product, perhaps. Look on food (human and pet) packages for this symbol: It means the food has been irradiated. Somewhat misleading, isn't it?

So vets have been hearing about chicken jerky causing kidney disease for some time now--first in Australia, and then in America.  Up until recently, most of the chicken jerky was made in China; one reason that was suggested is that China has a surplus of white meat because they prefer dark meat.  Regardless, vets like me have been telling their clients to not feed chicken jerky for years, but it was only recently in the last year that the FDA has even issued a warning to consumers.   Part of the problem is that no one has determined precisely what the problem is.  Different labs have found different substances, but they have not proven that those substances are the cause (one was an antibiotic prohibited in chickens, but it shouldn't have cause kidney disease in dogs).  Since the FDA has made their announcement about jerky-related illness (http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/SafetyHealth/ProductSafetyInformation/ucm295445.htm), I have noticed that many of the brands now say "Made in the USA."  However, I still warn owners to not feed chicken and duck jerky since we don't know if it is inherently safer being made in America.  For all we know, it could be something that occurs as part of the jerkification process, in which case it may not matter where it is made.   I have seen several cases of dogs with unexplained liver and kidney enzyme elevations that resolved when jerky was discontinued.  When you think about it, chicken jerky seems unnatural, and it is a relatively recent invention.   So my advice is to not feed any poultry jerky at all, regardless of who makes it or where it is made.

That Johnny Seven gun looks like the coolest toy ever.  When I was young, I might have seen parts of one in some kid's toy bin, presumably from a broken hand-me-down.   My brother had a double-barrel sawed-off shotgun that shot suction cup darts; it was great for playing Mad Max.  Together we had lots of toy guns; his friends would come over to play A-Team.

  Has this been posted anywhere else?  Every news story that I have seen hasn't specified the caliber or the model.  Not doubting Patton, but I'm on another site where no one knows what type of gun it was.

I have a whole-house antenna in the attic, and I have Amazon Prime. However, the three shows that I watch from cable networks are part of Amazon Instant Video ( I pay $1.99 per episode), so Prime is not required. Prime is more like a bonus to the free shipping. My son misses Cartoon Network, and I have to wait until the next day to watch shows like The Walking Dead, but cable just wasn't worth it to me. Charter constantly calls trying to get me back. Their $29.99 deal is really a bait and switch (that's the price each of separate phone, internet, and tv services when bundled, and they charge $5 per box). I think their minimum cost for cable only is $70. I saw some type of HBO Go thing being sold in Costco last week; I assume it might be a stand alone subscription that bypasses cable.

  Did you literally laugh in their face?  Because honestly, that seems like the only appropriate response to that kind of crap.

People have been reporting mountain lions in the Southeastern states since they have been declared extinct east of the Mississippi (other than the Florida panthers in the Everglades).  Not too long ago, a security guard took a cell phone picture of a mountain lion sitting on a couch, outdoors, in a trailer park, in Rossville, Georgia.  If you know Rossville, you can completely understand how appropriate this is.  I saw a dead one on I-16 in south Georgia around 1990, and may parents saw a dead juvenile on a different part of the same road several years later.  If you ask the Georgia DNR, they basically say you couldn't have seen a mountain lion because they don't exist around here.  They place panthers/mountain lions/pumas sightings as slightly more credible than Bigfoot reports, unless you say it was black, in which case they act like you reported an alien.  (BTW, there is simple biological phenomena called genetic drift that could explain the presence of large black cats).   Some say that the various wildlife agencies (state and federal) have a vested interest in officially keeping these cats extinct in these states.  If they were officially recognized as having breeding populations, then they would have to protect them, which means lots of money they don't have and headaches they don't want (like the spotted owl).   In this case, they killed it in case it were to escape.  That logic might hold for a pet, but if it was a wild cat, then it had already been living in the area without a fuss.  That would be like killing a bear just because it's a bear, even if it has been avoiding humans.  I think that they could have waited a little longer, even in the dark, for the tranquilizer gun to show up.  Surely they could keep it illuminated with lights.  It really seems more like they killed it because of the potential for danger, rather than actual known danger.   I think in the past when an escaped panther was found, they could tell it was a pet because the teeth were filed or it was declawed (I feel sorry for those guys also).

Seemed a little heavy-handed, slap you in the face, type of symbolism.  I mean, Milo literally yells, "Jesus!" at the guy sacrificing himself with his arms spread before him.  I was a little bothered by the obvious CG right before the crash; seemed out of place on this series.   I didn't bother to count, but I bet the number of crows that flew above the cop convoy equaled either the number of current SAMCRO members, or equaled the number of dead SAMCRO members.  Now that I think about it, dead ones would make more sense.

I thought Nero was going to find something in the garage when he went looking for tools.  Maybe the tool line was just put in so that he could later use it as an excuse to go to TM.   There did seem to be a lot of things inserted into this episode, like the bum leg, the homeless woman, and Michael Chiklis.  I kept wondering if Chiklis was just there because Sutter promised that he would put him one episode (like everyone else from The Shield), or if he was going to have a bigger role, or if Sutter just used him as a red herring.  If Murgatroy is right, then Chiklis might be driving the truck that Jax hits.  He did taxi Gemma to her date with death; maybe he will do the same for her son.    After looking it up, apparently the homeless woman shows up whenever Gemma or Jax makes an emotional decision.     I like your idea about the bum leg causing him to crash and die before the mayhem gets carried out, but I would like to know what exactly it is.  I can't remember if he could have injured it while running from the police.

Just came back from shooting it.  Went bang when it was supposed to, and bullets came out the right end.  Didn't have any rear sights, and the red dot that I put on it from my Mini was too low.   Thanks for everyone's help.  I don't know if I would have had the nerve to build one without your input.

The tube is not bent, it was rotated.  In other words, I just needed to unscrew it a quarter of a turn so that the stock would be straight, which released the cover plate and the spring must have went flying.  I didn't actually see the spring fly.

One question--I found different opinions on greasing the buffer tube threads for the castle nut.  Some recommend Aeroshell 33, some moly-based wheel bearing grease, some just oil, some nothing.  I had bought some EP Moly Lithium grease from O'Reily's, but after more research, I didn't use it.  I used some Outer's Choke Tube grease on the threads instead.  Since I will be taking it off again to straighten it and get the spring in, is there anything else I should do?

Success!  I stayed up to 1 am last night moving furniture and looking for the spring.  We have a 4 story rabbit cage in the basement that was in the general direction of where the spring flew.  The cage had hay in dishes on multiple levels.  I removed all the hay, but saved it, and then went through the cage with a flashlight.  I gave up last night in exhaustion.  This morning I started going through the hay one pinch at a time and found the spring.  It was almost literally finding a needle in a haystack.  I had to go through enough hay to fill a 27 pound Tidy Cat bucket before I find it.

If the takedown pin can't pull compleyely out, does that mean the detent is still present?