Chucktshoes

This one is my fresh OC.

I’ll have you know I’d never put that in my body. Vaping is for douches.

It makes me wonder if maybe my guns aren’t all inaccurate turds after all. Maybe it really is the Indian and not the arrow?

I took it for like 3 years. Would not recommend.

Well, this is @TGO David’s house. When he, or those whom he has entrusted to help look after things, find someone is making it just too unpleasant for the other guests, they get shown the door.

In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have to ban folks, because they could argue it out amongst themselves reasonably. Or if we were other message boards we could only care about engagement and clicks because of the massive about of ads all over the place. The reality is that this place is about building community. That means that sometimes some folks are just too toxic and disruptive to stay around. I’ll point you back to David’s post a bit before yours. Back in ‘14 if I remember correctly the politics section had been allowed to run wild for a while. It was much like The Bog of Eternal Stench in the movie Labyrinth. Foul, rotten, and full of never ending strife. It also regularly spilled out into the rest of the forum at large. It was a very bad scene, trust me on this. The only way the mods at that time were able to clean it up was to go through and ban a whole host of folks (my memory says a dozen, but I think I’m inflating that number a bit) whose sole purpose seemed to be to sow discord, or who had lost the plot so badly that it was all they did anymore. Even then, it took a while (and several times where the politics section was locked down, deleted, or hidden) for us to get it to where it is now. Nobody who was here then wants to let it get back to that point ever again. If action had been taken sooner, maybe only a couple of folks would have gotten the boot. Some lessons are learned hard, but those are also the lessons that are last forgotten. It’s good to remember that we are first and foremost a gun forum with some other parts bolted on as a bonus, not the other way around.

That article lists the price of the Mode 3 as being between $37-55k. So, I’m confused by what you are meaning? *Just saw your next post. Nevermind.

True, but I’m gonna give this trigger a shot (pun intended) and see how I like it. https://www.rarebreedtriggers.com/

Actually, we do use an antenna for local channels. Otherwise there is nothing on live TV that we can’t watch after the fact.

I don’t. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yes. That’s a thing. The ATF raided one of those companies as well. They’re going after everything that folks have been doing to walk the lines of legality over the last decade.

It’s in the complete story linked. - The Texas AG's office has identified ammunition as a necessity and, as a result, is arguing that those price hikes were against the Texas Business and Commerce Code. The code forbids businesses from "taking advantage of a disaster" by selling "fuel, food, medicine, lodging, building materials, construction tools or another necessity at an exorbitant or excessive price."

Texas AG lists ammunition amongst the other items on the necessities list. The precedent was set prior to this by regulating those other items you listed. If the government can regulate price gouging on anything, it can regulate it on all things.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has accused the Fort Worth-based website Cheaper Than Dirt, which primarily sells firearms, ammunition and hunting gear, of price gouging at the start of the pandemic. The AG's office identified over 4,000 sales that involved price gouging and has directed Cheaper Than Dirt to pay $402,786 in refunds to consumers, according to court documents filed this month. Over 100 people have complained to the AG's office about Cheaper Than Dirt, the Houston Chronicle reported earlier this year. The same week that Gov. Greg Abbott made a pandemic-related disaster declaration in Texas, ammunition orders to Cheaper Than Dirt substantially increased. In response to the increased demand for its products, the website raised the prices on hundreds of its products, according to the AG's office. https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2020/12/16/gun-website-price-gouging-pandemic/3932523001/

I think you misunderstand me. This topic shouldn’t be controversial, but it is hot button. The new section is set up to limit input from those who maybe haven’t garnered standing through participation here. @TGO Davidalready banned someone who just joined only to immediately post in this thread using a proxy IP. Pretty sure it was one of our recently departed “friends”. My thought behind moving it was in the hope of possibly improving the signal to noise ratio, not hiding it away.

Am I alone in thinking this thread should move to the new “Controversial Topics” subforum?

I wouldn’t think that you’d need to do anything too drastic just yet, but maybe stripping anything off of it that might meet the secondary criteria would probably be wise just to be cautious. Things like secondary grips, LPVO, etceteta. Make it as demonstrably designed to be fired with one hand as possible.

They’re making moves against more than just braces. It is being reported that they raided Diversified Machine, a maker of parts for form one suppressor builds. https://www.facebook.com/200640669947740/posts/3880980461913724/?d=n

John Patton spoke with Alex Bosco from SB Tactical tonight.

Considering the unique nature of your situation, I would say yes. The risk versus reward equation is just way out of whack for you.

Me too brother. Meee toooo.

Yup. I wear that one like a badge of honor.