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Paul Ryan is a very intelligent man. He has shown that he is not afraid to stand for what he believes. I am also convinced that he is honestly trying to work for the benefit of the country. That does not make him a good Presidential candidate. It's a good start. But there is a good reason why we rarely elect someone straight from the House into the Presidency. Being President requires leadership, management, and executive experience. When we elect Presidents without this experience, it shows up almost immediately. Obama has show this to us almost daily with his constant waffling and trying to avoid responsibility for tough decisions. It's one reason most President come from having been governor of a state. They have had to make tough, unpopular decisions and been in the position of having to make people do things they don't like. That's not to say that Paul Ryan could NOT do those things. But I will find it difficult to support someone for President until they can show that they CAN.

REALLY? How? You wake up to shouts of "POLICE! GET ON THE FLOOR!", and guys in black with guns running up your hall in poor light if not darkness. How can you immediately tell if they really are police? You have 1 second to decide. Choosing wrong could end with you and possibly your family dead. Again, I maintain that this is a failure of the police. Wrong tactic, wrong time. This is NOT a job for the SWAT team.

Blue or stainless? What's the current condition? I've seen them from $250 to $400 used lately.

:lol:Damn! I purely HATE having to clean coffee from the keyboard!!!

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there is still no excuse for this incident. The use of the SWAT team to break into the guys house with his wife and child there is reckless and unnecessary. Surely there are better, less dangerous ways to arrest someone suspected of violence? Why not a routine traffic stop? Why not have him come in for some routine reason and arrest him then? Without really thinking hard, I can come up with half a dozen ways to arrest someone without endangering the public or causing a huge scene. I understand the desire to keep a SWAT team busy. Those guys train hard, and it's hard to maintain a level of training and proper mental concentration if you don't actually use that training. But the SWAT team should be the LAST resort. Too often, tasking the SWAT team is the first option chosen. When you send in a SWAT team, it should be because the threat of armed conflict is virtually inevitable and other options are no longer valid. In this case, the individual who made the decision to deploy the SWAT team to deal with an arrest should be the one to bear responsibility for this man's death.

OK, listened to Palin's speech. She didn't say anything inaccurate. The British WERE going to Lexington and Concord to seize American arms. Specifically, several small cannon and powder stores. After the warnings given by riders from Boston, those stores were moved further away. Nowhere did she reference the 2nd Amendment. Again, rather than make Palin look stupid, the press just makes themselves look ignorant.

Seems that the book you linked to is based on climate data from NASA Goddard that they admit was inaccurate. In fact, most data that purports to show a warming trend over the past 100 years has been falsified (oops). Possible Conspiracy To Falsify Temperature Data Uncovered | NewsBusters.org Climate trends seem to be caused by several factors, none man-made. The most accurate predictor is solar activity. Volcanoes are another big one. Not much we can do to affect those factors.

Nope. They planned ahead and saved for their own retirement. Just like my wife and I are doing. What you want is for the government to go steal from somebody else to pay for YOUR lack of planning. (finger key back atya.) I'm all in favor of helping out the neighbors and giving a hand when it's needed. But getting the government to force somebody to do it is just legalized theft.

Catch-22. The country cannot afford to pay for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and all of the other corporate and social welfare programs we now have. But, so may people get money from those sources that the voters will never allow them to be eliminated. Somehow, there are a LOT of people in this country that believe that they have a right to other people's money. And make no mistake, the money that was taken from us in the name of social Security, Medicare, etc was not paid to the Feds for OUR care. It was a tax. Congress spent it. It's gone.

Thanks for posting that! Beautiful song, beautiful singer. I also had never seen that video.

I'm sorry , but the ONLY justification I can see for violent entry into a home is when you have a known active shooter (shots already fired) or a hostage situation. Otherwise, police should knock on the door and wait until someone answers it or they see obvious evidence of violence. For the police to be the ones to initiate violence like this cannot be justified except as a blatant exhibition of force. And how is the average citizen to know a police SWAT team knocking down his door from a gang of home invaders knocking down his door? It took me five seconds to pull up pages of examples like these: Fake cops in custody after home invasion attempt | abc13.com Fake Police Officers Stage Oakland Home Invasion Robbery - News Story - KRXI Reno Authorities search for 'pseudocops' in Edinburg home invasion : News : ValleyCentral.com How many of you guys can wake from a deep sleep in the comfort and safety of your own bed to correctly identify cops from crooks as they break down your door within 18 seconds? As they break down your door, will you gamble on not having a weapon in your hands? If it's cops, you die. Will you gamble on NOT having a weapon? If it's crooks, you AND your family are at their mercy. Tough choice. I'd love to hear from some cops on how the law-abiding citizen is to deal with this life and death conundrum.

I find it interesting that private schools have no trouble recruiting and keeping good teachers while usually paying less than government schools. Perhaps tenure is less about keeping 'good' teachers than it is about protecting union members. Most private schools in TN are church or community schools with per-student expenses of between 1/3 and 1/2 that of government schools. Student performance and SAT scores are much higher on average as well. It seems that the concept of tenure for government school employees is not one that benefits students. And if it does not benefit the students, then it is an unnecessary expense.

Here is a good article on Planned Parenthood's services. Must-see graphic: Planned Parenthood’s Abortions vs. Adoptions | CatholicVote.org Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger with the expressed purpose of racial eugenics; aborting all non-white and 'defective' babies. They have been very successful in promoting abortion as a form of birth control. While they are expressly forbidden from using Federal funds for abortions, it merely means that they can use Federal funds for all other expenses including pre- and post- abortion care and counseling.

Early WWII .50 BMG. We shot some of that a few years ago and each round looked like it was shooting black powder. Huge brown powder smoke clouds! After a 5rd burst from Ma Deuce, we had to wait for the smoke to clear so we could see downrange. But it all fired reliably, and seemed accurate enough. The good thing about recoil-operated firearms is the powder residue doesn't get in the action as much as with gas-operated weapons. It still took forever to get that M2 clean.

Aguila is the former Remington ammunition plant in Mexico. I haven't had any bad Aguila ammo yet.

Since the main problem for you will be pulling the slide all the way to the rear for loading, two general rules are going to come into play here. The first is that the more powerful the caliber, the more powerful the spring. We are going to assume that you are looking for a locking breech pistol, not a pure blowback with a fixed barrel. A 1911, Glock, or similar has a locked breech where the barrel recoils with the slide for a short distance before unlocking. The second rule is that a shorter slide needs more a powerful recoil spring(s). Applying those two rules, you can see that the Glock 17 full-size 9mm will be easier to load than the compact Glock 29 in the powerful 10mm. I am using Glocks as examples because they are common, well-known and easy to compare between models. With that knowledge in hand, my advice would be to visit a large gun shop when they are not busy and get a salesman to spend some time letting you handle as many models as you like. Test the pistols for how easy they are to load, how well you can move the controls (safety, slide release, etc), and how suitable the weapon is for your favorite mode of carry. go when they are not busy so the salesman can spend some quality time and not feel like he is torn between customers. If possible, try to get to a range that rents the model you are interested in. Rent the pistol and see how well you like to shoot it. You do not want to spend a lot of money on a pistol that you hate to shoot or cannot comfortably operate. I would concentrate on 9mm models. The 9mm is probably the cartridge which will give you the greatest choice of pistols which can be comfortably operated by you. There are some really excellent 9mm+P defense cartridges available these days. And 9mm practice ammo is less expensive than most other rounds.

Perhaps it might be a good idea to make an example of the offender. "According to Section 6b of Appendix B of the Ethics Provisions Provided by Stature, the TCA views “the unauthorized exercise of official power [and] acts exceeding one’s official power” as Class E felonies."

Barrel length is not an issue for accuracy. the only way it affects accuracy is if you are using iron sights, then the increased sight radius is more accurate. It is an issue for velocity. So our main question is what will you be hunting? Personally, I prefer the 20" barrel for all-around use. There are some critters out there that I like to have maximum velocity when using a tiny little .22 slug. Hogs come to mind. Velocity also gives a flatter trajectory if you are killing woodchucks out to 200 yards with those little 45gr varmint bullets. The only advantage I can see to the shorter barrel is for comfort. It's lighter. Unless you are hunting in buildings or from inside a vehicle, I'd stick with a 20" barrel. Longer barrels have less muzzle flash and blast as well!

Send it back. I just looked at both of my 9mm Witnesses. One is older (1992 TZ-75), and one is newer (2005 Witness). The throat is about .1" according to my tiny ruler and a strong light, but noticeable. And the rifling is a definite ramp as opposed to starting out with full-depth rifling. Your pistol should work like both of mine do; with pretty much any factory 9mm I have ever found. (Israeli SMG primers are too hard, and British L7 is made for arctic use and develops very high pressures in normal temps) These are not finicky guns. They should work with anything made to US SAAMI or NATO specs. Send it back.

Ammo is rare and generally considered a collector item. It used a special cartridge that looks like a short .30 carbine round. The French actually liked the cartridge and adopted a modified version of it as their service pistol cartridge as the 7.65 Long. The Springfield 1903 MKI rifles are not really scarce, and are easily recognized by the oval ejection port on the left side of the receiver. Every now and then you find the 40rd magazines for sale as well as the tan canvas pouches for the magazines. The US Gov't made over 100,000 of the devices, and in the late 1920s decided to destroy them all (except a few for museums and reference). The accessories (mags, pouches) were sold as surplus which is why they can still be found. A few enterprising individuals saved some from the bonfire, and these are the ones in private hands. If someone did make a replica, I'd grab it in a heartbeat if I could afford it!

Looking into the barrel, does the rifling begin immediately at the end of the chamber? It sounds like the barrel was made without a throat. The rifling should have a ramp-like area that starts about .3" after the end of the chamber. If your barrel is not properly throated, you need to send it back to EAA. Sometimes serious competitors will order a barrel with no throat so they can set it up themselves for their pet load. Your pistol may have accidentally gotten one of those barrels. Quality control should have caught it though.

Here is the question that each of us must ask ourselves: "What qualities MUST I see in a candidate for office in order to earn my vote?" For some people party affiliation is enough. For others, a candidate must meet some very specific requirements. Obviously, the second group is very likely to be disappointed. The political process is one where your choices become more constrained by time. This Spring, we have had the chance to choose between a dozen or so Republicans. Many of those have already been weeded out. We may see some more appear on the scene, but the choice is likely between four or so between now and November. By next March, we will likely be down to two. So, if you have a favorite, support them NOW, or the chance to do so may be lost. Remember, if you cannot find a worthy candidate now, it is very unlikely one will magically appear in the next several months. You can afford to be picky now, but as time goes on your choices will be fewer. Do you want another McCain? And by next summer it will be the Republican candidate or Obama. And while Obama looks likely to lose now, do not underestimate his campaigning skills, fundraising ability, or the legions of dedicated supporters he has.

As usual, the Commie Appeal mis-states things a bit. Part of the problem was the NRA-sponsored one-size-fits-all 34-page parking lot bill. It was poorly written to mesh with existing TN laws. This caused a lot of confusion and led to it's not passing. The school-carry bill the CA refers to was a situation where the sponsor was promised plenty of votes to get it out of committee, and then back-stabbed by a RINO. It might have helped if gun owners had been more vocal in their support of these two issues. Other good bills were treated in similar fashion. The 2012 session will be better and you should expect to see both parking lot and school carry bills pass. Our new leadership had a lot to learn about how the legislature works and got sandbagged a few times by sneaky RINOs. Still, if you have not contacted your state rep and senator about these issues, you need to show your support.

I'm sorry your pistol has had issues. Since it works well with factory ball ammo, I suspect it's just a break-in thing. A couple of quick questions. Are the problems all failure to feed? Did you clean and lube the pistol before going to the range? Sometimes the preservative grease makes imported guns gummy. My first CZ75 had similar issues because I was too impatient to shoot it and didn't get the preservative out of it first. If it coninues to give problems, don't hesitate to send it back. EAA has a good warranty, and has been pretty responsive lately. It may be a rough feed ramp or chamber since it won't even feed some ammo. Last possibility is a bad magazine. Did you try it with both magazines? Was one better than the other? MecGar makes great magazines, but you still may have gotten one with bad feed lips.

For me it's very simple why we should support Israel. They are the only 'sane' country in the region. No dictatorship, reasonably free country, free press and speech, hard-working people, an example of what hard work and dedication could make EVERY country in the Middle East into. Flying into Israel in the Spring is an eye-opener. Brown as far as the eye can see except for Israel. You can tell where the borders are from 32,00 feet by where the land is green and where it is desert. Look at Israel in Google Earth for a graphic display of this.