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Appreciate all the fine offers of help fellas, I may take one of you up on it.  I've got a estimate request out to a service shop that I put in before reading all this, and also my father gave me something to think about.  My truck is 13yrs old, about to hit 80k, and it's never had a real inspection/tune-up, so I may want to think about sucking it up and having it done so that it will last me for a good while longer.  Might be time for some all around preventative maintenance to keep it running for another 80k.

Speed, audacity, surprise; use all three as best you can.  They're expecting the crowd to run away in a panic.  Don't do what they expect, and you can earn enough of an advantage to do what you can. 

Loved his music as a teenager.  STP was, and still is a band I listen to often.  I may have the VHS of the concert they did before he had to self-surrender for his jail sentence in the late 90s.  I'll have to get it converted to digital format when I dig it out someday.   Can't say this is shocking.  He was stuck in the cycle of drugs that lifestyle enables.  Sorry for his family, friends, and fans.     This is one of my favorite STP songs.  Not many casual fans would know it, but it was Scott's measure of therapy in dealing with his heroin addiction and bipolar disorder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUrk1lrGNp8

  Trust me, you can laugh away and I'll not care...not that you would.  I just came here to get some info since I know you guys a bit better than whatever a random Google search brings.   For me, having a truck that has been paid off eight years, and is still a smidgen under 80,000 miles isn't worth the risk of screwing up by finding out how to do this from a YouTube video or something and getting it wrong.  I'll give some business a bit of work to bill me for and be done with it.

  Dude, you're talking to the guy who would buy a mechanic lunch on days I was stuck at the motorpool because our unit required a vehicle operator to be on hand whenever it was in the bay.  :)

  There's a healthy difference between military tactics when trading fire with a threat, and military tactics when dealing with the population at large.  As long as the .mil TTP's stay reserved for contact drills I'm fine with that.

I'm not thinking this is something I can take on with my lack of knowledge. That belt looks like it's in there pretty good. My truck is the 3.0L...I think.

  The entire post was spot on, but the part quoted above is what it all comes down to.       Pretty much.  You could grab a fire team at random from any of the infantry battalions on Fort Campbell, and have them take care of the same threat in about five minutes.  From Paris to California, too much risk aversion, not enough fire and maneuver is becoming the norm from the response teams.   I'm not trying to bash the police in this at all, but we need to be able to deal with these threats a good deal more proportionally.  Sooner or later the other guy is going to figure out just how much police manpower they can tie down with one event and plan multiple attacks in the same area based on that.

I'm no expert on the proper twist for subsonic .300BLK, especially with a can on the end.  Dolo would be the one to get into this thread for that.  I'll be lurking to see what comes from him or others as a .300BLK upper for my SBR is on the shopping list when I can set aside enough for a can.   For what you linked though, despite not getting a commission from it, I'll shill for Primary Arms here and ask you to look at this if 1:8 twist is good to go: http://www.primaryarms.com/radical-firearms-85-300blk-quad-rail-upper-receiver-without-bcg-or-charging-handle/p/kt-rfupperv1.0.85-300/

  Dolo...I love you long time, brother, but that's not exactly how it all went down.   Whoever that guy is in the video is right that Islam has been on the march since the time of Muhammad.  After Muhammad consolidated Islam in what we now call Saudi Arabia, they kept expanding after his death, going around the Byzantine Empire, but taking most of North Africa.  Great pic of it here, and if you look at it you can see that it’s very similar to what ISIS is trying to get done.  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Age_of_Caliphs.png   At this point Islam as a hybrid religion/empire were so widespread that they actually took over most of the Iberian Peninsula and pushed into France, until they were stopped and rolled back at the Battle of Tours in 732 where Charles “the Hammer” Martel basically saved the rest of Europe from becoming Islamic.  This also serves to rally Christians against Islam.    So, we can safely say that Islamic expansion has been a thing for a while.  Not that it was any different from most countries back then, they were just very organized and efficient.   They did force conversion of Christians in the lands they conquered though,  and it also served to scare and demonize those Christians in lands that Islam hadn’t made it to.  So I consider that era the real beginning of the religious wars.      Fast forward to the Crusades…   Pope Urban II had various reasons for calling for the First Crusade that historians debate, but call for it he did in a very deliberate manner in his speech at Clermont in 1095.  All this enlightenment of love and peace Christianity has apparently wasn’t there yet by the accounts of the speech.  The remission of sins was promised for anyone who went as a recruiting tactic.  One of my history professors is in the camp that the Seljuk Turks greed in charging Christian pilgrims to view their holy sites was a big enough factor, and since enough modern wars come down to money reasons, that’s easy enough for me to believe as a major contributing reason.  Another reason is that the warrior caste of Europe (knights and such) was fighting each other too much, and the Church wanted to give them an outward target to focus on.  Since that happens in modern day times as well, easy enough to believe it happened then.  Another theory has a plea from the Byzantine Emperor who had to deal with the ever-encroaching Islam on their borders, but that had been going on for a while.  Regardless of the reasons, after it all got started, the primary goal became the reacquisition of the Holy Land for Christians.  Might as well if you’re going to walk or ride all the way there, right?   Not exactly the defensive war he tried to make the Crusades out to be, and damn sure not trying to "free their Christian brothers and sisters from Jihad" since it came 400 years after Islam conquered what he deemed to as the "Christian Middle East."   Anyway, the barbarism of the Christian Crusaders is pretty well established.  On the way to the Middle East, the Crusaders who travel through modern day German actually victimized Jews along the way as well.  This was never an official policy of the Church, just something the Crusaders did.  Maybe they hadn’t read the message of love Jesus preaches in their bibles yet, who knows.  Wikipedia actually has a decent read on it if you want to catch up on this side story.  Once the Crusaders got to Jerusalem, the massacres that took place there are easily a matter of historic record, only their intensity is debated, though any serious historian doesn’t deny it was brutal even by the standards of the day, with more anti-Semitism when they burned down a synagogue with Jews sheltered inside.  That was the First Crusade.  And from there sprung the tales of how Christianity wanted to destroy Islam, because at the time it was more or less true, but they only had the mission and force to do what they did.   The second crusade was no less violent, but saw the Muslims regain control of the Holy Land.  The Crusaders did manage to take the Iberian Peninsula in a secondary front, however.   The third crusade was a counteroffensive by the west, with Richard I (Lionheart) fighting well enough to force Saladin to work out the Treaty of Jaffa, where pilgrims were given safety to visit the Holy Land again.   The 4th-6th Crusades I’m not that spun up on, though I know they were as much internal as external.    Guy in the video said that the Crusades were short and ended centuries ago. They actually lasted from 1095 until 1244 in the Middle East when Jerusalem was captured again by Muslims and that stayed the norm until World War I.  To Islam, our meddling in the region is the modern day equivalent, never mind the geopolitical realities behind our presence there.  He also mentioned tried to compare the amount of battles, but since the Crusades were expeditionary in nature, and Islam's march were the full expansion of an empire, that's not anywhere an apt comparison.    So yeah, that guy in the video isn't exactly an honest broker on all this.

  I'd give your son my business if I was close, but I'd be looking to get this fixed in the Murfreesboro/Smyrna area.

  Replaced?  Umm...unless that comes with an oil change, I'll guess never.  It's a 2002 Ford Ranger, and I'm closing on 80,000 miles if that helps assess the situation.   So, at a decent repair shop, I'm looking at what, $120-$150?

  My SD3G came in last night.  Snagged it from Primary Arms for $182, which made me a happy boy!

  I've been telling people that for a while now.

Since I'm not a car guy at all, I was hoping some of you can help me out here.    My truck has some kind of squealing for lack of a better word every time it rains.  No idea what it is, what needs to be done, or how much it's going to cost me.  Any input would be appreciated.

So, what did I miss?  Aside from the word terrorism being misused and overused as per usual.

Beat it up at the range, use CLP to wipe down the exterior after.  Repeat many, many times, and any lower will be smooth as your face after shaving for the first time in a week.

The same logic behind the miniscule stats representing a problem needing solved were used in the push for voter ID.

  Yeah, it's more a rough idea than anything.   Do you think a single TICS background check transaction/confirmation code could be used on multiple 4473 forms if the person makes multiple purchases at the show?

I know this idea will be a non-starter for the group here, but there is a fix for this that can keep the gun shows, and take away the liberal talking point of a "loophole" being present.    TBI checks are $10.  Whoever is responsible for putting on the gun show has to have an FFL, and say five computers to run checks on people who want to purchase a firearm at the show where they can charge the $10 there, or more if they want to recoup costs.  See a gun you like, agree to buy it, then go to a counter near the front, get your check, and have a confirmation number that can be put on block 21b of the 4473, and that gun, and any others you buy at the show can be on the same 4473.    Not saying I'd advocate it or want it mandated, but I'm a big fan of taking an opponents gripe and proposing a solution they can't talk around.

If gun shows had anything worth going for, I'd be upset about this.  But as it stands, this is like getting upset that banks have less people working as tellers when the ATM works just fine.

Rain is annoying, but whatever.  I'm not in the Army anymore, so I can use an umbrella.  I wish it was snow though.  Then I could get the entertainment of people losing their minds. 

Sad that on the surface ISIS has more gun freedom that we do, huh?

  Same here.  I even kept one I picked up in my truck with a bandoleer of mags during the invasion until my wad of a platoon sergeant told me to get rid of it a few months later.  Apparently my reasoning that it would have been good backup if the SAW ever went down or ran out of ammo wasn't good enough for him.  I'm guessing it's still at the bottom of the Tigris where I chucked it.

  I've had some kind of credit monitoring since I left the Army, but I knew that information was as secure as the lowest bidder could make it.    The fingerprints aren't a big deal.  Best guess, the Chinese want to have them for their own databases to be able to check for our spies in their country.