Chucktshoes

19th century thinker/writer/philosopher. You should look him up. He has some excellent ideas on the legitimacy of government.

Have you ever heard the name Lysander Spooner?

I wouldn’t have made that trip to Memphis in the first place because I understand the high risk of waking up without the car. Thats the kind of risk assessment I’m talking about here. Did she cause her car to get stolen? No, but I hope she wasn’t surprised that it happened. https://wreg.com/news/investigations/driving-crime-more-than-22000-vehicle-thefts-in-memphis-in-2-years/ In Memphis, the risk of vehicle break in is so high as to be nearly a guarantee. So leaving a firearm in the car is tantamount to intentionally arming a criminal. When I lived in Midtown in Memphis, I had my car broken into 5 times in little over a two year period. If I left a firearm in my vehicle and it got stolen, any reasonable person would say that it was an entirely predictable outcome. This is honestly a very weird surprising take from a group of folks whom mostly carry guns because of the possibility of encountering someone who means them harm. I mean, I shouldn’t have to carry a gun everywhere I go, but I do because I’ve made an assessment of the risks and act accordingly. It’s kinda amusing since the odds of me having to use my gun are waaaaaaay lower than the odds of my car getting broken into in the Memphis metro. Folks can live in the world they imagine exists inside their mind, or they can live in the one outside their front door. I choose the latter.

Thats all nice and fine, but here in the real world, risk mitigation is a part of life. Failing to take reasonable measures to operate in the world in which we actually live only makes one an attractive target for the criminal element. At some point, it’s just acting as an accessory to the criminals by enabling them. Reminds me of the meme about the guy talking to his neighbor who says “the coyotes keep eating our cats.” ”Where do you get the cats?” ”The animal shelter.” ”Sounds to me like you’re just feeding the coyotes.” Then the guys kid just runs away crying

This is a BS excuse and always has been. A criminal who breaks into a car and steals a gun is 100% responsible for their actions. That doesn’t absolve the person who engages in a behavior with a predictable outcome for their poor decision making. A woman should also be able to go get blackout drunk without the fear of being assaulted. That said, I’m going to educate my daughter on why she should never engage in that sort of behavior because a bad outcome is entirely predictable.

Your. Car. Is. Not. A. Holster!

I had the same experience, and regret.

This is a serious deal on ammo that’s excellent for a short barreled HD rifle/pistol. If I had the spare cash I’d’ve already snatched it up.

I think this is pretty much what most people are going to do. I wish them all the success in the world as I would love to see the NRA become what Giffords and Brady thinks it is. The linchpin of everything is to keep an eye on if they are taking action to reduce the size of the board. If no action is taken to reduce the size of the board to a proper level, then you know they’re full of it. The entire construction of the current NRA board is to enable graft and prevent accountability. Without fixing that, there is no fixing the NRA.

Depending on what the gun is and what the can is, will have a great impact on the best way to go. I will forewarn you though that with the current wait times through e-forms for the purchase of a new suppressor or the creation of a new SBR, it is going to be very difficult to make attractive a long wait by way of the required paper forms for a individual to individual form 4 transfer. Odds are very good. You were going to have to take a hell of a haircut to get somebody to deal with the wait times. Alley cat makes a very good point that if you created the SBR by way of a form 1, your best bet is to remove it from the registry and sell it parted out.

This really feels like a very “feel good” bill that moves the needle very little to none at all. At most, hopefully most of the schools that say no won’t announce it publicly like Memphis did because that removes even the last bit of deterrence factor that there might, just maybe be some sort of armed resistance.

I’m a huge fan of hockey tape. It’s cheap, and it’s effective. Basically all my guns get wrapped in it now if they’re gonna get used off of an indoor range. Since we are talking about shotguns here, I’ll share a pic of my 1301.

I use them in the attic and kept them in the storage unit we had for a while.

Nah, I won’t do that. I like you.

Yes it is.

Nope. It was posted by the official Navy social media accounts yesterday, was picked up and then they deleted the posts. They have even acknowledged the deleted image in the current reposts without that image. It’s 100% real. That was the skipper of the USS John S. McCain in the photo. The official USMC social media has trolled the Navy about it too.

The memes about this have been phenomenal. I can’t imagine how many people no longer have asses after allowing this photo to be taken and disseminated. The gunners mates involved are probably dead.

Congratulations on having your rights restored. I truly mean that as I am a firm believer we should make that process easier instead of creating a permanent class of second-class citizens. Honestly, though, I have to say that I am most impressed and interested in your use of GPT to assist with what would’ve been the work performed by a paralegal in the past.

Bump w/price drop.

Not to be too mean, but this story really makes it seem like his opposition is based upon his own inadequacies.

I’ve always read it as “as much as we can get this time before we start in asking for more next go around.“

Hate to break it to ya, but that page of history has already been written. Our kids and grandkids will get to live it because we gave away everything in search of cheap crap to buy at cheaper prices and the illusion of always fleeting power. The locus of global power has shifted eastward already and we are doing nothing but continuing to impoverish ourselves with our foreign and economic policy and focusing on an irrelevant European continent. China, Russia, and the Islamic world doesn’t have to do anything to destroy us other than not get in our way.

If we stopped all the foreign funding and aid, maybe we could have nice things for ourselves too. Like good roads and infrastructure. I know Europe’s real proud of that universal healthcare subsidized by American taxpayers in the form of NATO security guarantees.

I’ve never considered a brand new car a good buy, but these days it’s just insanity. Especially trucks.

Yeah, and the western leg of the 695, which is 3 times the distance of the leg that the FSK was on is about to get a whole lot more congested with trucks.