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Nothing will be fixed for the Titans unless they get an offensive line that can show up on game day.  From establishing a running game, to keeping Marcus and his surprisingly frail MCL's intact while receivers work to get open, everything in offensive football begins and ends with a stout line imposing their will on the defense.   No less than top three rounds of the draft should be focused on that, and they need to look at trading out of the #1 pick to beef up the total number of picks they get to get depth and make training camp a real fight for a job on the o-line.

I would have ordered a few for my cousin. He loves his .40S&W Shield.

  In that scenario, they will simply decide you are "in business" and there could be tack on charges for misfiling taxes, or tax evasion for not reporting income from sales on a separate form.  Forget the Army, the FBI, or anything else, the IRS is the real enforcement arm of the federal government.

I wonder how many people have me blocked. :P

Yeah, this was the CYA aspect of it all, so that the administration couldn't be accused of any anti-veteran stuff.  Anything at all provided by the VA, even the pay-go style you have is good to go with the ACA mandate rules.    At the core of it, you actually do have health care through the VA, it's just not the traditional HMO plan, and you just have it subsidized based on income like you said.  Not a bad option for relatively healthy vets who come off of active duty after an enlistment or two.  They can use it until they establish jobs and get better coverage through an employer, or have it cover them if they have to go job to job for a while and can't get full coverage, such as they do when they go back go school.

I guess the take away from this thread is that the demise of  the.40S&W has been greatly exaggerated. 

I got one last month.  It's a great gun, the feel in your hand and trigger are as described.  If I have one 'downside' it's that the weight seems a bit off.  It just feels light up top, despite having polymer below the slide.  I'll admit that might just be me being too used to my Walther P99, but the weight difference is noticeable, and I really like that extra weight on top. 

Walther P99 that I've had for almost 12 years now. The round is fine, but I bought my first 9mm last month and am switching to that for carry since training ammo is cheaper and the JHP rounds have come as far as they have. The .40 will still be used for quick trips to the drive-thru late at night since I don't have a vehicle holster for it and is the pistol I'll stuff in a go bag as a backup to my VP9.

I was on this "experiment" of nothing but MRE's for 21 days...it was called the Invasion of Iraq in 2003.  Medical science didn't ask for a stool sample, however.   I didn't have a fresh meal (well a T-Rat, so fresh is a loose term) from the day before we crossed the berm in Kuwait until the Brigade I was attached to settled just outside of Baghdad and the field kitchens set up at the BDE and BN TOCs while we cleared Baghdad.         The Cheese Tortellini was pretty damn good with crackers mixed in.

  Yes they do...if I remember to tell them to hold the pickles. :P

  Registration would be a muddled issue and its legality under the Constitution (via the "necessary and proper clause" no doubt) is murky at best.  But even registration wouldn't be the death knell to the intent of the 2nd Amendment.  Hell, there might even be some dark humor in the government knowing just how Herculean a task the have if push comes to shove.   Like it was in Lexington and Concord, confiscation is where it all matters, where the line will need to be held if it ever comes to pass, and held with force.  A very unpleasant thought.  How many will be willing to defend that line is the $100k question, with how many willing to enforce it the bonus question.  Are people on both sides willing to give up a cush standard of living, to say nothing of putting their own lives and the lives of their families on the line for this?        As I understand it, legislative "intent" makes the deciding point on that.  Intent being wide open enough to park an 18-wheeler gives the onus to the legislature.  The ruling on the ACA subsidies for the federal exchange come to mind as a good example of courts upholding intent, and I know not everybody is on board with that standard.

  I don't remember a gate, but I moved out three years ago.  There wasn't any meth whores that I saw back then.    We just wanted a place that was close enough to post without living in a "hooah" area.  There were plenty of military around, but the rent was high enough to keep the party crowd away.  It was a nice quiet area in 2012.

  It was the apartment complex behind the hotels, they were actually pretty good living quality and people wise.  I was only there for about 10 months though.  It was just a temp place a friend and I shared between contract deployments to Iraq/Kuwait and Afghanistan.

  Like I said, I don't see background checks as an infringement, so to me, they don't represent an erosion of our rights.  What is an erosion of our rights is having to get special permission and pay a special fee on top of the market rate for some of the same individual issued equipment our law enforcement and military have, along with being told where I'm allowed to carry a weapon.  The keep and bear part.  I'd rather focus on fixing that.   If Title II gets stricken down, it would take 60 votes in the Senate in the worst case scenario to break a filibuster to put it back into place.  That's a protection I'd like to have, and if it means I can't meet a guy in a parking lot and buy a gun from him without the paperwork, I'd take that deal.    And I'm doing just fine here in TN, thanks.         The same way any law is truly enforced.  Haphazardly and through threat of punishment for non-compliance that can only be actioned after the commission of a crime with evidence collected to support a conviction.

  That was before my time here.  Considering I had to spend an extra 30min in traffic on Chic-Fil-A Appreciation Day, as my apartment at the time was behind the Chic-Fil-A off Exit 4 in Clarksville...you can guess what side I would have come down on.  Plus, they put pickles on chicken sandwiches, which is just wrong.

I've only seen the 1st season, but I think it's a great show.  William H. Macy is great in it.  Plus, Emmy Rossum...so 'nuff said. 

The President will huff, and puff, and not much will be done in the end.  I do think that the intransigence of the gun community, along with the interest groups (NRA, GOA and the like) have brought us here.  We're holding onto the fish too tight, IMO.   It's been obvious that the leaders of the Democratic party have wanted background checks expanded to the point of universal.  But we've "held the line" because apparently that's important.  What it's also done has reduced any progress at the federal level in the last ten years to nil.  We're doing great in the states where we can (CA, CT, MA & NY are too far gone right now), but that only goes so far.  So, what could be done?   Ask yourself how much of an impediment a background check is.  I wouldn't call it an "infringement" and let's face it, neither would any court.  They aren't going away anytime soon.  So, why not accept it and trade it for something better.  If the community and interest groups gave them the okay, Congressional Republicans could offer universal background checks & closing the "gun show loophole" for something far more valuable to the shooting community: gutting Title II of the NFA.   If there was a deal on the table that exchanged universal background checks for removing SBR's and suppressors as Title II firearms, making an SBR something you can buy as easy as a 16" AR, and a suppressor just another item in the counter at your LGS, I'd take that deal any day of the week.  Democrats would be forced to take what they have been campaigning to get for decades, or explain why they said no.  But the current political climate has put any chance for a deal like that into the not happening category.    To me, the most important intent of the 2nd Amendment is that private citizens are able to own firearms of equal capability of the military and law enforcement that could be turned against them, thus creating a check of power.  If they have "assault rifles" those citizens who want to own one should be able to as well.  SBR's, suppressors, ect...the intent of the 2nd Amendment was for a citizen militia to be well armed enough.  I'd rather focus on that as priority #1.          And it's too easy to do that.  I bought my VP9 from a guy on M4C, had it shipped to my FFL and it took all of ten minutes to get a 1st time GO while I browsed their gun rack.

The Kim Davis gay marriage thread on top.  With the ninja cop disarming a motorcycle rider during a stop and Jade Helm (all threads combined) tied for 2nd.

  Yeah, I had an H2 buffer there, so I tried a carbine buffer and no joy.  This is the only BCG it's had in it, and it's run fine until recently.  Gas key is still good, and this is the upper I had the pinned on A2 sight/block taken off of.  It was shooting fine for a while, these problems are recent.  Gas block still looks like it's in good position.  So, I'll try the gas rings and see if that works.  Hoping it does.

I already ordered a four pack of replacement rings off of Amazon for like ten bucks.  Figure I'll swap the current rings with a set and see what happens.  My next step after that is to replace the gas block and tube.   Just a bit disappointed that it happened so fast.  Maybe because I've used this BCG in both the 16" and my SBR before I bought a Spikes BCG for my SBR?   OhShoot...the problems are off and on.  What I've found is the more I'm shooting that day at the range, the worse it gets. 

  With Japanese subtitles on the broadcast I trust?

So, I've been having some issues with my 16" AR recently. Basically a mix of failure to eject, failure to cycle properly, and failure to lock back after the last round of a mag. I tried 55gr, 62gr, 20rd mags, 30rd mags, carbine buffer, an H2 buffer at the range to troubleshoot it...and nothing. Today while cleaning it, the bolt caught my eye, and I think I found the problem. So, for those who see distressed AR's more than me, how the hell did this happen? It came new with a BCG in a PSA upper last year, and somewhere between 500-1000 rounds through it (I don't keep round counts, just a wide estimate). This seems way too soon for something like this.

  I've seen it.  But one movie over 45 years ago compared to the litany of books, movies, and TV specials in the last ten years doesn't compare.  Plus, the whole Bin Laden mission is still in the public mind.   Like Spots said, incredible people, but there are guys all over the SOF community doing just as much to keep the country safe, while not getting the same level of PR from it.  And that's how they prefer it.

  They aren't as well published, or Hollywood ready.

Communication breakdown between the source and the people writing the script.  They heard ammo, but what was really said was hair gel.