MacGyver

Inexpensive guns are often hard to find on the used market. At that low of a price to begin with, people rarely sell - the just keep them around for a rainy day.

Either party being too comfortable in power seems to create an environment that's ripe for corruption. Simply look at the number of GOP congressmen in heavily gerrymandered districts that are "retiring" this year.

Seeing the expungement agreement as a part of her plea deal yesterday definitely made me think we’ve not seen the last of her. I hope I’m wrong about that. The affair is really between her and her husband at this point. While I hope they’ll seek counseling or whatever they feel is appropriate, I’ll extend some grace there. The breach of public trust, misuse of the office for her own gain, corruption, and theft of public funds should prevent her from ever holding office again.

Those look great!

He’s still around. Just not online as much. If you need something let me know and I can get you in touch with him.

I flat out love the Ti3. There’s no telling how many of them I’ve bought. But, Surefire is my go to when I know it’s going to get used hard.

The results look like they speak for themselves.

It’s pretty well verboten all the time.

I’m probably lucky that I live in a place where I don’t have the need to think about filming stuff. Or maybe it’s a generational thing. But I’ll tell you, it wouldn’t have crossed my mind in 100 years to pull out my phone and fIlm. I suppose it could just be me, though. Other than someone driving unsafely while my kids are nearby, I can’t remember the last time a stranger really offended me. Life is really short.

You wound up feeling kind of bad for her - in a "that was a really well taught lesson" kind of way. Even the employees who were going to be bearing the brunt of cleaning it up were laughing.

Heck, I generally like seeing even poorly behaved dogs most of the time. I saw someone's "service dog" with a vest going absolutely bonkers in Target the other day. biting on it's leash, pulling, jumping, dashing in every direction. I chuckled to myself at the owner's frustration over her lack of control and thought, "I bet you're really rethinking bringing your dog in here with the vest you got off eBay." About that time, the dog pooped right in the middle of the aisle. The lady bent down to try to address it with the dog's leash still in her hand. About that time the dog dashed towards something that caught it's eye and the lady found herself flat on her back having fallen in poop. It may be childish - but I laughed about it most of the afternoon.

“I think they should have taken them away - whether they had the right or not.” Obama (or Hillary) would have known better than to say this out loud.

Seems like there are some old morality tales about the perils that come along with getting exactly what it is you think that you want.

People probably shouldn't get too worried...yet. I'm not convinced that what we saw yesterday was anything more than the DACA "negotiations" a couple of weeks ago. And, you see where that went. I have no doubt that the NRA is out there manning the phones this morning reminding every single member that they've contributed to that they have a list of names waiting to primary them. Yes, hard line positions are out of sync with most of the population. But, most of the population doesn't vote in primaries. That is the ground game that then NRA excels at. Trump is really a non-entity here. Sure, he'll do just about anything to move the "they like me" needle. He lacks a fundamental understanding of policy. But, he doesn't make laws - he signs them after Congress passes them. There are 535 people who have to come to consensus before you really have to worry about what Trump is going to do.

Had Obama said “take their guns first and worry about due process later” violence might have erupted and the GOP would have tripped over one another trying to vote for articles of impeachment.

Will DSA not exchange it? Seems like you could mic it and send a picture and they ought to replace it. Better than getting sued later on because an out of spec receiver injured someone.

I wonder if you could reach out to a smaller manufacturer to get them to undersize the receiver so that you need to chuck it up in the lathe and hone it to fit.

The CMT uppers I’ve built have required cooling to get barrels in the receiver. On my .308, I think it would take a signed note from Congress to get it back out.

You know when Noah built the ark...before it started raining.

To add on to this, when I hear people say this, I wonder how much time they actually spend with kids? Yes, there are some examples of people making poor choices that are amplified by social media - and a traditional media run by an older generation. I expect every generation has those. People just have more public platforms to capture their mistakes these days. But, I’ve got to say that I’m long on these kids. Some of them are among the smartest kids I’ve ever met - and with tools like have never been seen before in history. I often kind of find myself envious of what they’ve got at their disposal. The world has changed more in 50 years than it has in the last 50,000. It shouldn’t be surprising that a lot of people find themselves confused by it. But, give them a chance. Every generation has to find its way as it matures. I’ve no doubt that this one will come into its own. Their solutions won’t look like those of previous generations - but look at where those have gotten us.

But regardless of collectors value, we’d still like to see pics.

This is the thread I was thinking of: It doesn't look like he's been on for a bit - but you could shoot him a note.

Yeah, I remember we had a member who had a plasma cutter and was going to try to give sign making a go. I'll see if I can find it.

This is exactly what they mean when they talk about affairs being potential blackmail material. That he took the pictures without her knowledge and transferred them to another device means he thought he might need them later. “Clocked in for overtime” is a pretty good euphemism.

Those are pretty.