Mark@Sea

Front sight - focus on it!

Too pansy to shoot the Cricket, sweetheart...

All I'll say is that some folks should be awful careful about opening their Christmas gifts... Just found some magazine subscriptions you might find interesting, SunTzu... PM me your mailing address, hey?

The "logic" behind it was this: Originally the NFA included pistols (Yep, they wanted to treat them the same as full autos), and Congress wanted to make it difficult/illegal to simply cut a rifle down to a pistol length barrel. The "pistols" part was tossed out in the drafting stage, as Congress didn't want to deal with the tar and feathers thing. The language making it illegal to cut down a rifle to a pistol-length barrel remained, however.

Thanks so much. That coffee cleaned my sinuses right out.

There's a cure????

When I first moved to TN, fellow asked if he could hunt my land (while he was hunting, he was kind enough to stop by the house). I said sure - as long as he wasn't too close to the house and didn't disturb the wife. So he hunted. At 2 or 3 A.M. With dogs. Within a couple hundred feet of the house. Guess what?

If you want an issued piece, have patience. Lots of it. Scour pawnshops, yard sales, estate sales. Put the word out. Eventually (within a couple or three years) one is likely to pop up more or less in your back yard, and if you're quick and the seller isn't, very, you can get it at a good price. Very probably, you'll have to replace the aftermarket grips, maybe the trigger, but you'll have an original. If you don't have that much patience, the Colt O1918 is definitely the way to go. There are about 3 very minor (and fairly nit-picky) differences between Colts' offering today, and the pistol they produced in 1918. If you shop around (I'd suggest starting with dealers that are prominent here on TGO, hint hint) you can get it for less than 1K. If you don't have either the patience or the extra scratch, there are some very good alternatives - Argentine Sistema 27's, for example, or simply the Springfield GI (good gun, but I don't really care for the Springfield Armory "Billboard" emblem on the slide). Before you start this whole thing, though, you might want to think about where it can lead...

City of Norfolk has paid tens of thousands to an individual who open carries "to the terror of the police". Not once, mind you, but at least twice to the same guy. The attitude/belief that "Officer safety trumps everything, including constitutional rights" is making that guy rich. He would, I think, have a very good federal case against the individual officers involved if he chose to pursue that angle. Some language about "depriving civil rights under color of law" comes to mind. No immunity under those circumstances, the officers involved could and should get hammered. I find it sadly funny that people on this board are so easygoing about surrendering personal rights in order to make life easier. Wear your chains lightly, but I'll pass, thank you.

Five pallets of ammo? Hmmph. Slacker.

Strick, American culture is "the melting pot". But what happens when you put something in the pot that doesn't melt? Reference what happened to Great Britain.

It's culture war. We are in an undeclared war, not only with illegal immigrants that don't want to adopt american culture but replace it with their own, but with the socialists and democrats (I know, I'm repeating myself) who facilitate this "immigration" for votes or in aid of their long-term goal of destroying America.

Considering the funding, training, safe-haven and operational links between Hussein and Al Queda, I'm certain the situation was a little more complicated than you think. You're entitled to your opinion, though, just as I am entitled to think you're wrong about it. I'm pretty happy that we took out Hussein. It wasn't exactly "his daddys' feud", but I won't go into that. BDS isn't something I am even remotely qualified to deal with.

Sending troops to afghanistan wasn't my first choice. A nuke, now...

A closer look at it reveals that it federalizes many crimes, allows the Fed to re-prosecute cases ( so much for double jeopardy ) and pursue cases when the state felt there wasn't enough evidence to procede with prosecution. Bad juju, in a dozen different ways.

Carry it with confidence!

Heck no, I want a conservative. Gotta clue you in, here - the Joker poster was made by a democrat. The only racist statements I've seen are the accusations from the left. Apparently, any opposition to Obamas' policies, appointments, or tactics is racist. Well, to be honest, the 'birthers' may have a point. The guy was born in Kenya, his father was not an American. There may well be a legal challenge to his eligibility, but all I've seen to counter this position is scorn. Now granted, it isn't a position I'd bet more than openers on, but as a legitimate constitutional question, it deserves at least a legitimate investigation. Huh? Frankly, the guys' own policies are a pretty effective counter to any swing voters making that mistake again. The economy is going down faster than the Hindenburg (Or, to put it so StrickJ gets it, faster than Linda Lovelace). Unless the GOP actually nominates Satan, they've got a shot at it. What, exactly, makes them irrelevant? Opposition to legislation and appointments that at first blush are bad, but on deeper study are clearly disastrous? Not so, Grasshopper. Conservatives were screaming about bank bailouts long before the Tea Party movement formed. Conservatives were just as unhappy as liberals over some of the Patriot Act provisions. The only people who can claim straight-faced that all this "new-found" opposition sprang up overnight (due to racism, no doubt) are either completely clueless or obamabot plants. As for taxes, don't know about you, but I'm paying more in taxes already, comrade. Of course, I'm an evil smoker, so I probably deserve it. Ever heard the term "separate the wheat from the chaff"? Active how, since Tea Parties, "Town Hall" meetings that have RHINOs and Libs in hiding, supporting Palin, and holding (some) rep's feet to the fire don't seem to count? You've made a blanket whine about whining, but failed to hint at any plan more than to "get active". Looking around, I see the conservative base more active than it has been in the last 40-some years.

TNTITAN, thanks for the heads up. I think. That was expensive...

1) Basic 1911 - Colt WWI repro, say 2) 12 ga. - tough call between the '97 winchester or the 870 3) M1 Rifle - 'cause if I can see it, I can generally make it pretty nervous - or really really calm. 4) M1 Carbine - great lightweight longarm, suitable for home defense, varmint duty, marksmanship training, introducing youngsters or ladies to centerfire rifle, and it worked for Audey. 5) Colt woodsman - will stand in for the .22 rifle, good for pistol practice, etc. If I owned 5 guns, those would be it

Was the earth warmer at one time? See Greenland, Viking settlement of. Not many Vikings in Greenland these days. Not a heck of a lot of green, either. The big, big driver for global temperature is that great big lightbulb in the sky. Not technically complete by a long shot, but sunspots are an excellent marker for solar activity. Anyone else here on the board track solar weather? Sunspots are not nearly as active or numerous as expected, and haven't been for a couple years. Short answer; fewer sunspots indicate decreased solar output, which means less solar wind, more cosmic rays hitting the upper atmosphere, more clouds. More clouds = cooler. Record lows are being set all over the place, all indications point to a long, cold winter this year. Lots of climatologists are saying that manmade global warming is nothing more than a touted up hypothesis. What degrees, exactly, does algore hold? How about James Hansen, the NASA geek? What, not climatology? Go figure. But the global warming cult has computer models! They can't forecast the weather a month from now with any accuracy at all, but we should heed their 20+ year predictions? The greenies and the commies have found something to agree on. One set hates all mankind, the other hate capitalism. Doesn't take much digging to figure out that what they are saying is that capitalism causes global warming. Personally, I think they should go irrigate some standing rigging (rope for you landlubbers).

The full AAR is a heck of a read. One of the SAWs that failed apparently had a bad barrel - after the action the barrel was replaced and it functioned fine. The other had a 'febreeze' bottle of CLP poured on it and still failed to function. The one M14 in the fight was destroyed early on by a near-direct RPG hit. There is a lot of chatter about fire discipline - the M4's that failed did so because their cylic rate was exceeded (by which, I mean they were fired faster and longer than the platform is rated to perform) - except for the one that had an AK round through the receiver. From survivor descriptions, this wasn't because of "poor fire discipline" or lack of training - they were fighting at what was described as "belt-buckle" range. It was shoot-or-die time. At one point in the fighting, it may have been 3 US troops (all wounded) against 100+ insurgents. They were tossing grenades right over the sandbags. So yeah, the guy that got mad and threw his non-functioning weapon down? I'd say it was understandable. 9 KIA in that action. God Bless our troops. They fought brave, fought hard, and stood their ground. They fought harder than the tools they were using could handle. As for developing a new weapon system here at home; Kind of hard to do these days. Legal restrictions pretty much guarantee that if the next JMB tries to develop a new system in his garage workshop, he'll spend a lot of time in prison. Our best and most successful designs have in the past come not from corporate research, but from individuals. No, with notable exceptions (Ronnie Barret, for example), most of our new "innovations" are parts swapping, more or less, on the AR platform. Even the piston vice gas-tube designs are pretty much a 'module change' rather than a new idea. The AR system (full disclosure here; I have never been a fan) is versatile enough that it has been around for decades. For decades, it has been reported as failure-intensive and lacking stopping power. No getting around it, we need a new system - there just isn't anything new available - only incremental improvements.

DailyTech - Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1220052/Austria-sees-earliest-snow-history-America-sees-lowest-temperatures-50-years-So-did-global-warming-go.html?ITO=1490# No, we'd never see news manipulated across a broad front in order to advance political goals - can you say cap and trade?

Do you know what a straw man argument is? 'Cuz you're doing it. Question back at you, strawman. Has anyone brought up your sexual preferences? No? Sorry, that must put a real crimp in your debate plan. I'm calling you evil because you stand up for fascist ideals masquerading as human rights. See "Canadian Free Speech Commission". I'm calling you evil because you have not attacked my position, you've instead chosen to attack my integrity. It appears to me that you've done this intentionally. You've discarded truth for emotionally charged attacks on the board as a whole, used flawed 'guilt-trip' accusations instead of actual debate, and attempted to crucify dissenters as evil-doers. If it were my board, which it isn't, I'd have already banned you and your NAZI (its' called history, look it up) tactics. As it is, I will just proclaim my abhorrence for liars and add you to my ignore list. Insert personal insult of your choice here, and have a nice day.

Yeah, couldn't prosecute it as assault, right? I must be planning on doing it myself? You must be lying deliberately. I'm way past tired of the liberal tactic of saying "support my legislation or you're a racist, a criminal, etc. etc.". I'm completely done with being called intolerant by people who use this mechanism to stifle dissent and opposition to deeply flawed legislation or deeply flawed political goals. Please know that it isn't sorrow that I feel for you as a liberal. I don't like your tactics, your political ends, or your hypocrisy. I am beginning to think the old saw is true. Liberals aren't good people with bad ideas, they are bad people with evil ideas.

You are entitled - and welcome - to your opinion. I certainly don't want it. Is there any way in which I can enhance your disgust?