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I don't get the Barrett boners. It's awesome for what it can do, but it's not a very practical weapon for anything else and the weight of it is up there. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk, because I felt that Oh Shoot wanted to know that particular bit of information.

One of these beauties could be our state gun.  Easy to set up since they are all safe and on display at the TN State Museum. http://s1279.photobucket.com/user/btq96r/library/TN%20Guns?sort=3&page=1

When I went to the TN State Museum a few months ago, I took a boatload of pics of the guns displayed in the TN State Museum from the settling of the state up until sometime after the Civil War.  If anything, it should be one of those classics.

  Public transportation in major cities that have it serves a few useful purposes that make it worth the investment. It keeps people off the road by giving them an alternate way to get to work.  Imagine if everyone who took the bus or train in NYC, Boston, and DC added to an already overcrowded commute. It helps people who can't afford a car, or would have problems with gas money when it spikes, get to work so they are actually contributing to society instead of sitting at home living only on government checks. It's helps tourism in cities that have it by giving visitors a way to get around easily. There are the carbon savings that come from keeping all those extra cars off the road, but I doubt many people on here care about that.

I love these threads.  It lets me imagine some of you frothing at the mouth as you type.

This isn't a "what's best" question.  There are too many variables, including how good is your eyesight.  That one has probably played the biggest role for me over the years when it comes to optic selection.

I don't know if campus LEO's have the same post employment threat that other cops have, but regardless, I don't like the idea of creating a special class for the practice of a Constitutional right.  No government employee or retiree should have any special exemption that the citizens don't have unless it is job related, and retirement doesn't necessarily count in my book.   We know the proper answer for this, but the issue being in New Jersey, we also know how it will play out.

Welcome to the board.  You have some niche shooting needs, but if some of the folks here can't square you away, the answer likely isn't out there.          Same here.

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I'd be skeptical about a doctor pushing any drug I see advertised on TV at regular intervals.    Look at lifestyle factors with some detail.  Sometimes it can be as simple as shifting a workout time a few hours earlier if possible, or not eating specific types of food after a certain hour.

  Having the ability to move things around (mostly on the bottom rail) is always good for the different types of support positions you might encounter.  The keymod/m-lok setup seems complicated for that.

There is a guy on another forum who was gushing over those rails when they came out.  He said they were the lightest rails at that level of quality, and I've not seen a bad review since.  I can't say I like the look of that whole keymod concept...but you won't catch me saying that BCM didn't make a quality product.  They are a very good "buy once, cry once" brand if you're not afraid of the price.

Sounded nice until the end where you find out the dog's name is Bushmaster... :stir:

Sorry to take up so much space with pics, but I wanted to show a before & after comparison of my SBR engraving tribulations. Thanks be to Mike of Law Enforcement Sales (username LawEnforcementSalesTN) for making my favorite gun right. Folks, if you're wondering who to go with for this kind of work, PM Mike with confidence, he'll get you squared away.

It'll do! Enjoy your range time with it. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk, because I felt that Oh Shoot wanted to know that particular bit of information.

      I've found this to be an good thing to do when traveling, or even living abroad where English is pretty widespread.  In places that have to deal with tourists and expats, knowing how to say simple things like please and thank you in their language goes a long way with the locals.

  I'd pay the extra money to upgrade to their Economy Plus or whatever it's called if they offer it to you.  It's worth it for a long haul flight.   United isn't too bad long haul all things considered.

  Try not to over pack your carry-on.  Some music, a book (or tablet), taking a few Advil when you board since you'll be stuck in a pressurized cabin for a good bit always helps me. Don't expect a power outlet for your laptop, hell don't expect any room to take it out really.  Dress in layers for the flight, there are never any fixed standards on how warm or cold a flight is.      What airline are you flying?       Same for me.  Coming west from Kuwait, I could land in the US anytime of the day and be fine until it was a normal time to go to sleep.  Going east, it always took me a day or two to get adjusted again. 

  Since this came from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, it applies to any state in their jurisdiction.  That covers Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.    Maryland is the only worry spot on that list, but like you said, their laws were horrible.  So, just the precedent alone of what this ruling says, basically tying the protections from Heller to "assault weapons," (and including magazines) gives us a whole new ballgame if this case law spreads.

  I've seen every Bond movie ever made and I have all the Flemming books on my tablet. 

The unspoken problem with the prohibition against college carry isn't specific to being unarmed on campus, though there is the obvious danger there, it's having to be unarmed while going to and from campus where plenty of crime takes place.  A lot of students live close by and walk to class to save money, and because parking on campus just sucks.  It's not uncommon at all to hear about someone getting assaulted on the streets around a campus, and I don't know any woman who would walk alone after the sun sets, they all use the buddy system or small groups.    I tried to do some volunteer work with Students for Concealed Carry, but had to give it up because of my class and work schedule.  Their a no joke grassroots group trying to make a difference.

I've been skimming the opinion, and so far have found some gems that are as close as poetic as we'll ever see from a court for gun rights.  Here are a few quotes that should make anti-gunners cry: In our view, “the right to possess firearms for protection implies a corresponding right” to possess component parts necessary to make the firearms operable. (This was in reference to the magazine restrictions) The State’s position flows from a hyper-technical, out-of-context parsing of the Supreme Court’s statement in Heller…The proper standard under Heller is whether the prohibited weapons and magazines are “typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes ”as a matter of history and tradition, id. at 625 (emphasis added), not whether the magazines are often actually employed in self-defense incidents. More importantly, it is the government’s burden to establish that a particular weapon or activity falls outside the scope of the Second Amendment right…Contrary to the district court’s conclusion, the fact that handguns, bolt-action and other manually-loaded long guns, and, as noted earlier, a few semi-automatic rifles are still available for self-defense does not mitigate this burden.     That would have been nice, but Maryland's laws were pretty bad, and this ruling did a lot to put them in their place.    While Maryland is the only egregious anti-gun state in the 4th Circuit, this ruling gives other courts a helluva lot of what is known as persuasive authority in legal terms for other courts to draw from.

Seeing the few Bond movies where Pierce Brosnan used a Walther P99 didn't make me go buy one, but it made me look into them.  After doing my homework, I liked what I saw and got the one that I've had for 12 years now.

  The Heller case is refereed nineteen frigging times in the opinion...this is awesome!

I'm still reading and digesting all the info, but this is a good day for gun rights, even if it isn't an outright denial of overreach since they only kicked it back.  It seems the aftereffects of Heller and McDonald are felt in this one.  Some very valid logic was applied, and it's worth special attention that the Chief Judge of the Circuit who wrote the majority opinion was appointed by President Clinton in 1998.     Read the rest of the story here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/appeals-court-decision-casts-doubt-on-marylands-assault-weapons-ban/2016/02/04/8a234240-cb59-11e5-88ff-e2d1b4289c2f_story.html   And the full opinion here: http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/141945.P.pdf     The politics/law geek inside me is giddy to dive into this one. ;)