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And 80s.

FDR was a commie and he filled the federal bureaucracy with like-minded comrades. All of that is immaterial to the point that I was making regarding the facts around the creation of the federal minimum wage. I’m quite familiar with the arguments surrounding the concept of a minimum wage. I wasn’t making any sort of argument for or against what a minimum wage should be, should provide, or even if it should exist. I’ll be honest, I’m not even really interested in engaging in that debate at the moment for the simple reason that I have fairly conflicted feelings about the whole matter. It is difficult in that I’ve long been of a broadly and even at times radically libertarian economic worldview. At the same time I am cognizant of the reality of our oligarchic crony capitalist system in which free markets are truly more of a myth than a reality. How things should work and how they actually do work are diametrically opposed, and I don’t know a good way to fix it. At least not in a way that doesn’t involve great risk of losing what little window dressing of liberty we have left.

All my modern AR’s get the Radian Raptors. Only time they don’t get that is when it’s a retro/clone build. The ergos and reliablely smooth function make it an excellent choice.

It’s a common view, and why I mentioned what it should be now being a different conversation than what the intent was at its inception.

I see this brought up quite a bit and have been guilty of making this argument myself in the past. That said, it just doesn’t jive with the words of FDR at the time of enactment of the first federal minimum wage. "It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white-collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living." http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html And from this famous speech “A Fair Day’s Pay for a Fair Day’s Work” “Today, you and I are pledged to take further steps to reduce the lag in the purchasing power of industrial workers and to strengthen and stabilize the markets for the farmers' products... Our nation so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied working men and women a fair day's pay for a fair day's work... All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of manpower, government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor.” Whether or not we think it is the proper policy 85 years later is a different question entirely, but the minimum wage was intended to be a living wage at its inception.

I primarily use Hornaday. Critical Duty in the full size guns (>4” bbl) and Critical Defense in my sub/micro compact (<4” bbl) guns. That round choice split is based on the manufacture’s documentation in how they were designed for best function and performance. (The names are a hint.)

This pdf directly from the horse’s mouth lays out the rules on the matter. https://www.atf.gov/file/58681/download

If he is a resident of a different state than you, he will have to transfer through an FFL with a 4473 completed. Whether a sale or gift is immaterial. It’s the interstate transfer that’s the key point.

That’s true for the majority of the place. But where it ain’t, it really ain’t.

That’s gorgeous. GLWS.

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New Mexico has been getting wiiiild. Increased cartel activity plus low population density results in sky high crime statistics.

I agree with the overall sentiment here. I was never advocating for criminalizing the victim of property crime, but there are other ways to enforce societal norms and discourage poor behaviors. One of them is shame and public condemnation. Just because an action shouldn’t be illegal doesn’t make it a good choice that shouldn’t be roundly discouraged.

The sensors on the phones will produce a much better image than your eyes can see.

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.