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  It may drop from 4G to 3G, but yeah, I'd assume so.        Where did they actually interfere?  Was it enough to stick in court, or would a judge most likely throw it out as a nuisance arrest?  The LEO's were going to keep an eye out anyway, good SA demands no less.  The got close sure, but didn't cross the line as they never physically tried to stop the officers from making the arrest.  The only one who interfered with the arrest was the guy who was arrested with his bit of resistance to being put in the car, so the DA can tack that on if he wants.       Facebook comments are the apex of how stupid we truly are.  People hiding behind a keyboard or mobile phone who say things with a lot of bravado, and others get drawn down into the argument at that lowest of levels.  If there is life beyond our planet and they survey us while deciding to make first contact, I'd imagine they would monitor the internet and based on Facebook commenting alone, decide we aren't advanced enough for their attention.

I didn't see a thing wrong in that video from either the officers or the onlookers.  I wouldn't agree with the demeanor or the language used by the crowd, but they have the right to be there, and say what they want to say.  If their actions stepped over the line, there would be a need for consequences, but they didn't.    I get that LEO's have to deal near exclusively with assclowns, but if they didn't know that going in, or can't handle it after doing the job for too long, they are free to quit.  We pay them- that's right we pay them through our taxes- to behave professionally at all times.  The officers in the video didn't demonstrate restraint to me, they did their jobs.  As it should be every time.   Also, the onlookers have the right to film the police officers.  I have a live video streaming app on my phone for that purpose as well that uploads a video as it records, so I can access it later if my mobile happens to have an accident.  You can be damn sure it gets turned on every time I encounter an LEO.  It's for my personal protection, because quite frankly, I feel the need for that insurance, not because I'm for hoping to catch a cop doing the wrong thing.  Thank all the officers who do the wrong thing for destroying my trust in the system.

  Those Nikon mounts I mention earlier in the thread are working fine after learning the complex trick of reversing them. :dropjaw:   They aren't QD, though.  Not sure if that was something you wanted to have.

  Thanks for the info.  Just added those to my cart on Amazon.  Bushnell should just get rid of that ugly cover they ship it with and add those.

I see by the booking photo he's dropped the weight his lawyer had him put on to look like an easy victim during the Trayvon trial. 

As I said in the other thread...   Isn't the point of stacking guys at the entry point for them to actually go in?  Firing from the breech point isn't very tactically sound, IMO.  Movement is your friend.   Plus, that's way too many dudes to take down one guy.  I could have sent a five man fire team from the 101st in there and gotten the same results.  Sooner or later the bad guys are going to take a head count of resources deployed to handle one or two guys and plan follow on attacks based on everybody being somewhere else to handle what will be later determined to be a diversionary attack.   I'm glad the bad guy is dead, but there should be a lot to AAR from this.       Ricochets seemed to also be a big danger in that soup sandwich.

  I wish I had done what David suggests.  Reference my disappointment here.

  I'm with you there.  Being out of class for the last month with the gym on campus being closed has made me lazy.  Normally I walk the mile from my house to class and back, plus try to hit the gym when I can and mix in some biking on the weekend for variety.  But with the cold weather, and the holiday schedule, very little has actually gotten done.  Hoping to ramp it back up when the gym opens up again on Monday.     As to the original topic, rifle, I consider myself UC in the functions department, but not on marksmanship- especially on the move.  Time, cost of ammo, ranges not generally liking such things factors in.  The most I can walk & shoot is the assault rifle pit at OK Corral.  For pistol, I'll go with CC overall, but I think with more practice I can get up to UC easily enough.  Again, time and money being the biggest constraints.    Overall though, I'm confident in home defense and while carrying out and about.  That's 90% of the requirement, IMO.

Today it's an Airsoft show in Japan, but the next step in this sequence of events is him doing his moves for bachelorette parties at a male strip club.

  I've never been into the velco on a hat and too many soldiers and contractors just wore out the look for me while I was living OCONUS.  Call me old fashioned, but I'm a fan of low vis and velco on civilian kit isn't very practical for that.   But a black or khaki cap with the logo from the top left of the website on the front and the bullet logo on the back would be badass, IMO. 

I thought this was the limit of how far his cult of personality would go...I forgot Japan is the X factor in all things. I'd sell my truck for a hot turkey sandwich before I resort to...whatever that was.

I'm in unless my girlfriend has an opening in her schedule.  Since she is a night shift ER nurse and has kids, I'm at best, #3 in her scheduling priorities and I give her first dibs when I have no firm commitment.

  It isn't even limited to their Special Operations units.  When the French committed a combat brigade to Afghanistan in 2009 the only "national caveat" they had was to be given their own battle-space like a US Brigade has to manage.  There was none of the 'can't fight at night' 'won't participate in offensive operations' restrictions more than a few members of ISAF had.

I'm in for a morale patch, whatever size you feel is best.   Any hope for getting TGO ball caps or polo shirts someday?

  Quick point...the 1st Amendment doesn't apply one bit internally on TGO.  It only applies to government repression of free speech in our country.    You pointed out that in the other thread that TGO has a code of conduct in the other pitbull thread.  If Ron is abusing anything, it's that code of conduct, not the 1st Amendment.  The Admin team and Moderators make that call and they will step in should they think Ron is out of line. If you feel the need to get their attention on this so they can adjudicate that sooner rather than later, use the Report button on the thread that you feel is over the line.

I'll reserve final judgement until I see some backwoods militia III%'er make a YouTube video about there usefulness.  Then and only then will I know how useless this product is.

  I worked with a guy in Afghanistan who was based in Alaska when back home.  He said their meth situation was getting bad.  But like most things in that state, it tended to fly under the radar on the national level because of their distance and low population.

I'm probably the odd one out in that I don't keep my firearms loaded in the strict sense.  I do keep a mag in the well, or shells in the tube, on all my weapons.  It takes me but a second to get a gun ready, so unless I wake up with the bad guy right on top of me, I'm still ready to go in sufficient time.  I do this so there is no confusion of "is it loaded" when I'm still waking up, even under adrenaline fueled conditions.  I'll make sure it's loaded by doing it myself then and there.  This works for me, but I'm not about to prescribe it as the method anybody else should use.   As to the racking of a shotgun being a deterrent...in my opinion, it can't hurt things.  Home invaders are mostly looking for things to steal and want to be in and out with whatever they can carry.  They are the types who thrive on easy targets, and hearing a shotgun racked will let them know there isn't an easy target to be had in this house.  I wouldn't rely on it being enough to make them fly away, but I also won't underestimate the advantage that changing an invaders mental condition brings.

I don't care how many people come to the defense of pit bulls.  Every instinct I have tells me they are dangerous animals and I want nothing to do with them.  I'm sure some of you who own pit bulls are wonderful owners, but there is always the potential for things to go bad, and I'm not about to lower my guard because a few people on the internet tell me they're good to go if you just train them right.  There is a lot of documented risk with a pit bull and not enough mitigation available to contain it in my eyes.   I won't go so far as to say that people shouldn't have them, but I can understand why come communities would want to designate them a dangerous animal.  I would also be on edge if any of my neighbors had one, especially since there aren't an abundance of fences around properties where I live and anybody can make an honest mistake that would result in them being loose.

  This is the truth here.  The cable companies want you to think you need their massive download speeds to stream.  On multiple devices, perhaps, depending on what you are doing, but for one or two devices anything from 10-25 Mbps is plenty to cover your needs.       Sounds like you need to go into the settings of your router and limit the bandwidth to some of those devices.  You might have to manually assign IP's for devices and separate them into different IP and bandwidth ranges, but it's not too hard.       This plan is for small households (single mom with 1-2 kids), and unmarried people living alone.  The kind of people who may have already cut the cord and are living off of OTA and Netflix.  They figure at $20 a pop, it's not too much for most consumers, where service somewhere around $75-$100 is out of reach to bring them back into the fold.    For houses like yours, this plan isn't the target demographic, but maybe in the future some plans will develop you can live with.

Jackasses will be jackasses.  Fully concur that city hall or the local police department should be where there protests take place.         Yeah, that's wrong in my experience.  I'm actually embarrassed by all the attention veterans are getting these days as I never expected anything except my pay and the life experiences for my service.  Even my father has commented on all the attention my generation of veterans has gotten and finally feels like he can wear a shirt highlighting his own service, which he was never comfortable doing after Vietnam.

I still chuckle a bit whenever people get so involved in college sports.  To me it's the equivalent of being ramped up over minor league baseball.

Dish finally did what every other provider was afraid to do.  They're going to get interest in it, and I expect to see the other providers like Charter and Comcast bundle it into their internet packages instead of a box and 100+ channels.   It has my attention as an addition to my OTA antenna and Roku options.

Oh Shoot has it right.  shotgunshooter, search some of the threads on here and you can learn the true story of how a bill to allow open carry in Tennessee without a permit died with a wink and a nod last year.

  Admittedly, I don't have, nor want any light/laser on my pistols, so for me it's just not important, and I wouldn't even call it nice to have.  I really don't care either way, but as you pointed out, a lot of pistols are made with them, so they're just there.  It wasn't even much of a thought before this thread.