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You take their money, you take their rules.

Not just AR sales, but more or less the firearms online retail sector. Can you see Palmetto State Armory, or Primary Arms running their sites by ACH transactions? The only winners would be local gun shops who can do great local marketing campaigns to a population of shooters needing supplies.

Wow, great luck there. Can't say I'm in love with the paint job, but a rifle that good for free is amazing. Seriously, the build is wish list worthy. What BCG is in there?

Buying an AR is the gun owning equivalent to hitting puberty in biological development. Welcome to the next phase of your life.

The kid was told to go to study hall if he wasn't joining the protest. That is well within the school's authority to make such an edict, and suspend the kid when he refused to follow instructions. I get that he was trying to find the happy middle ground, but administrators and teachers get to tell students where to be on school grounds, so the kid deserved his suspension.

Meh, people can look it up. No reason against increasing general knowledge while lamenting the erosion of civil liberties. Hey, OS...this post was sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk.

Because this lawsuit isn't really about the age to buy firearms, that's just the pretext to get it into the courts where a fight can still be waged. This is really about the NRA trying to check a politician they thought they had in pocket at a moment where they can't afford to be seen as weak. All the NRA has is their clout, and if the Republican Governor and legislature can get away with ignoring their edicts, their wasta is at a huge risk in every other swing state.

This is the real problem. Congress doesn't want to be bothered with the details, so they just delegate authority to the agencies. Very neat and tidy for a group that needs time to fund raise throughout the year, but it's the root of the issues we tend to get from ATF.

Released on a Saturday? Wow. Usually the rubbish gets dumped at 4pm on Friday in Washington. Guess they really didn't want anyone who wasn't looking for this note to find it.

My gut is telling me that with the speed of the plea and resignation there was a lot more on hand or being developed from the investigation. They may well have gone to her with this deal and told her it's a one time offer to get her out of the way so Nashville can move on.

St. Jude's for me via Amazon, and I use Lyft's round up program to donate to the USO. Great ways to donate routinely, and like you said, they add up.

Hmmm...very little of the "would of been worse with Hillary" train of thought at the moment. Probably because at least with Hillary, the Republicans would still have been the opposition party and felt a need to hold the line on this. Now, they're stuck in the dilema on what happens if they take a position opposite of a President who wouldn't hesitate to cut them down to size in a very public way if he felt undercut. If there is more than a token challenger in the 2020 primary for him, I'll be surprised. One of the more interesting things over the last 18 months or so is how Trump has remade the Republican party in his image. Some of that was expected when he took the White House based on his grassroots support, but the alacrity with which the party has bent the knee is noteworthy. He even got the head of the RNC (Reince's successor and Mitt Romney's niece) to drop her maiden name and go from Ronna Romney McDaniel to Ronna McDaniel in all public matters. He even has Lindsey Graham kissing his ass on Twitter from time to time recently. The position may be closer, but position isn't the metric to go by...enthusiasm is. Anyone can be for or against something, but it's those who are willing to make it their single issue that determine if the topic will have any real change. Right now, the numbers for enthusiasm in the pro gun camp outnumber the anti gun camp. That's why Bloomberg's groups and the rest can huff and puff, and we still have all our guns (for the moment).

A lot of time, weight, and hair ago for me.... Mosul Iraq, Summer of 2003. Outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, Spring 2002.

So in roughly a years time...we went from optimism about national reciprocity, silencers coming out from under the auspices of the NFA, and the rest to a Republican President calling for a bump stock ban, and a Republican Congress casually looking the other way? #Winning

I'm all for some good food stamp reform, but this plan ain't it. Besides the already mentioned logistical challenges, perishable foods are the good kinds of food we should be expecting people on the programs to have, not the junk food (see rant below). People should use the food as a tool to teaching themselves to meal plan with their portions in the fridge, not just crack open the next can of high sodium chicken chunks as a means to shut up their whiny kid when they think they're hungry. In addition, I'm pretty much presupposing a restructuring like this will have crony capitalism, along with fraud, waste, and abuse all over it. My biggest question is who gets rich from the change...from there, my opinion will form over how noble a change this really is. I'm not sure when it changed either, but big companies were very much behind it. Walmart is probably at or near the top of the list of the lobbying. If food stamps are cut, their economic outlook is hit, as was foretasted in this investors report.. Add to that, all the big producers of junk foods have a financial interest in making sure their products can be bought by SNAP funds. Frito-Lay, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and every other company that has products in the isles, not along the wall of the grocery store where the "real food" (for lack of a better term) is kept are going to lobby behind the scenes to keep the SNAP funds open to anything edible.

I was an absolute mess before I decided to take ownership of my culinary skills. Research and practice make perfect. It took time, but I'm very much an example of being able to cook your way to a high standard.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a16720630/browning-hi-power-production-ends/ End of an era here. I first saw this legend in 2002. Was the issued sidearm of the Canadian battalion I was working with. If you own one, the gun itself will last into the 22nd century with proper care, but mags maybe hard to come by, so I'd get a few more.

They should drop DPMS, Bushmaster, and Tapco faster than GM dropped Chrysler, Pontiac, and Saturn for their '09 bankruptcy restructuring. I'm sure some of the others wouldn't be a huge loss either. Marlin can stay. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk. OhShoot very much likes to know when we're using Tapatalk.

It's also a quantity thing. "Acme USA Co." may be able to make a product, but they may not be able to make it in sufficient bulk to meet a large purchasing order. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk. OhShoot very much likes to know when we're using Tapatalk.

This. I'm not sympathetic to the point of propping up a company just to keep a name in business. I want quality gun companies competing in the market, not famous names that are raided and reorganized to maximize shareholder benefits above good products and customer service. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk. OhShoot very much likes to know when we're using Tapatalk.

Going to be interesting to see how they define "safe". I wouldn't put it past retailers to push to include what are in reality gun cabinets to the exemption. It's arguable that they prevent gun accidents by curious kids, which is a clear intent of the bill, so I don't think I'd mind. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk. OhShoot very much likes to know when we're using Tapatalk.

I think within a generation, we'll see football tackling be more like rugby tackling. How they massage that in with the speed and flow of the game, I have no idea.

I think football (like any other team sport) has a lot to teach kids. Football especially is great for young men who need some discipline and focus, not to mention an outlet to vent aggression. But tackle football is probably best delayed until high school knowing what we do now. Even then, there should be someone looking out for the players that isn't tied to the coaching staff. Hard to see how that is worked at the high school level aside from places like Texas where HS football is a community event that can command the resources as such. My biggest worry is the college level. They're not in the same lens as the NFL players with this issue, but they hits they're taking are adding up all the same. When you think about how many play across all the schools, but don't make it to the NFL, we have a lot of potential CTE cases out there, which is a risk to them and the community in a way.

The superior/subordinate relationship comes into play here, but it's somewhat of an indirect route. While it doesn't take a block and line chart to show the head of a protective detail for the Mayor in essence works for the Mayor's office, it's not exactly the powerful figure sleeping with the powerless employee we see in the normal affair scandals when it's a man in the position of power. I would find it hard to think that the Sergeant was in fear of denying or ending the affair, which is what I view as needed to have an abuse of authority...but I'm open to evidence to the contrary on that. That said, the existing professional relationship would have left the Mayor and police Sergeant vulnerable to blackmail, which is where I actually care about what went on. Consenting adults can do what they want and face the consequences at home all they want, when those consenting adults are an officer of the law and a the mayor, we run into situations where "I get this contract with the city or I call channels 2, 4, &, 5" or "go into the records and tell me [insert privileged info here], or I call channels 2, 4, & 5" come into play. That's where we need to actually have ethics standards for public officials. Not sure how deep these standards in Metro law, but where they exist, they need to be enforced, up to and including termination and removal from office.

Beautiful baby. Obviously gets that from the mother. Congrats, man.