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From the article . . . emphasis mine Because when you're tangling with a mountain lion a plain old Judge just won't do. You need to show him you mean business with "presentation-grade wood grips, a brushed hand-applied satin-stainless steel finish".

In the old Harding Mall in Nashville before its demise, there was a Weight Watchers literally between a Blimpie's Subs and a Baskin Robbins. I have no idea who was there first, but someone was a genius.

I'm not saying I'll get kidnapped by a dude in a dress and a 3-day beard, but if it happens, this is how.

Note: Today is the start of International Data Privacy Week . . .

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This has me wondering about other movie stunts that are inherently dangerous. If actor A throws actor B off a roof as part of the script and the safety harness or crash bag fails, would we be talking about how actor A is responsible? A stunt coordinator was supposed to setup the equipment properly. Why would we expect actor A to be knowledgeable about inspecting the safety gear? That's what the stunt coordinator is for. Or if actor A is handed a real knife instead of a collapsible prop knife and stabs actor B. Is actor A supposed to check the knife to be sure the spring works? Again, someone upstream is supposed to be getting all that stuff right so the actor can, you know, "act". Other than having different procedures for a gun vs. a prop knife vs. a fall harness, what makes an accidental shooting different from an accidental stabbing or fall for the actor? I get the negligence issues for the armorer and producer (and whoever brought the live ammo onto the set). Yeah, we all here on TGO know the proper safety steps with a firearm, but in that sense we're closer to being the stunt coordinators/armorers than we are being the actors. It seems that as an actor it's a stretch to charge him. In that situation, even if someone hands him a revolver on a set and says "cold gun" AND he checks it and see shells in the cylinders, I can see where he might still think they're dummy rounds so the gun doesn't look empty. The cylinders need to have "bullets" in them or we'd be the first ones pointing at the screen saying "stupid liberal! his gun's empty!" He may not have the gun knowledge to make that determination and as an actor he shouldn't be expected to.

That'll teach me to listen to the "legal experts" on the morning news shows.

In New Mexico a conviction on Involuntary Manslaughter carries the penalty of 0 days to 18 months in jail. Even if convicted by a jury, it's possible the judge will release him with time served, or he/she could stick him with the full 18 months. Either way, it would make him a convicted felon. He shouldn't pick up a gun for the rest of his life, but I doubt the BATFE would go after him if he's seen in a future movie with a gun in his hand.

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Here's a bump and reminder. . . If you're not a PAID member of the TFA, you should be. As evidenced by this thread, we have no one working harder on our behalf than John Harris at TFA. Support him as much as you can. My membership just expired and I'm on my way to renew it now.

Sure, you can give me $45 for it. For all others, the probably-soon-to-be-obsolete "ATF Compliant" logo is free.

With near certainty, "yes". Contact your local Sheriff to know for sure: Lauderdale Co. Sheriff - Steve Sanders (635-1311) or (221-3400)

Last winter I read an article where folks were stuck in their cars on a frozen Interstate for a day or so. The gas-burners were in real trouble and people were having to walk a ways. A guy in a Tesla was A-OK. Not so much because battery > gas, but because he started his relatively short trip with a fully charged battery because he always charges it up at home. Lots of the gas cars didn't start out full. That's not to say this is always the case for all people, but always starting your day with a full "tank" is a pretty nice thing to do. The article also brought up the fumes from the gasoline cars. Our cars are not air tight and all those cars sitting still and idling for hours is a concern. all that exhaust pools around the cars. Normally it's fine because we're all moving, but in an hours/days long standstill it can be an issue. I'd like to have one as a commuter car, but not as my only car. That's true of a gas or diesel truck too. The difference is that a full gas/diesel tank has a longer range than a fully charged F-150 EV battery, and refilling is a lot more convenient and faster.

Excellent. Good info.

If you want something solid instead of a faux vent, look for a plumbing access panel. This is a smaller one but they come in various sizes. I have a finished storage room behind my media room. I added those access panels on the storage room side of the wall so I have easy access to my in-the-wall cabling connections.

I thought Form 5 was for an unserviceable item. Isn't Form 4 to transfer to another person ($200 tax required)? I'm not an NFA aficionado so I can't say for sure. I do know that you could set up a trust and transfer it to the trust (not sure if another $200 is required or not) and make her a responsible person on the trust. Then she has just as much legal access to it as you do both now and after your passing, hopefully many years from now. The other option is that after your passing she can have it removed from the register and return it to a "normal" non-NFA item by notifying the ATF. Sample letter here: https://www.nationalguntrusts.com/blogs/nfa-gun-trust-atf-information-database-blog/atf-letter-requesting-removal-of-a-sbr-sbs-title-2-status That can take a few months for them to process the request and notify her the lower has been removed from the NFA registry. Then she'd either put a longer upper on it or sell the upper and lower separately.

New in box SB15. Get it now and save $200 in taxes on your SBR! $40 in Nashville, anywhere between Bellevue and the airport. I also go to Cool Springs often enough.

I'm sure a fellow denizen will correct anything wrong here, but this is how I understand it. A trust is setup by an attorney and you transfer the property (firearms in this case) into the trust. The trust now owns them, not you. You name yourself as a trustee so you maintain the ability to sell them as you please. The main advantage is that you can name multiple trustees or "responsible persons". Any of those people can can possess (and sell) the item legally without you needing to be present. You all essentially have co-ownership. One reason to do this is to help prevent being charged in an edge-case in the law around who actually has possession of an item. Let's say you buy an NFA item in your name and put it in your safe. Let's also say your wife has the combination to your safe. She technically has possession of it the same as you and since her name isn't on the registration form, she's violating the NFA any time she's at home and you're not. It's not something I think anyone has ever been charged with, but by the letter of the law it's a problem. A trust solves that by making both of you legally able to possess the item. Every responsible person listed must submit fingerprints. Before some time in 2016, trusts didn't have to submit fingerprints and this was a major reason to use them. They also didn't require CLEO sign-off on every purchase. Individuals did. Today the CLEO requirement is gone entirely and since all responsible persons in a trust need to get fingerprinted, trusts are less useful than they used to be. Depending on your circumstances, a trust can make estate planning easier or harder. Remember that you don't own anything in the trust. The trust owns the items. The trust has trustees and it has beneficiaries. Beneficiaries don't have to submit fingerprints, but they can't take ownership of the items until all the trustees die. Then the transfer to the beneficiaries happens outside your will since the items aren't your property. This may be a pro or a con, depending on your personal finances, the value of the items in the trust, your will's beneficiaries, any co-trustees and the beneficiaries of the trust. Say you name your brother as a trustee because ya'll go shooting a lot and then there's no question about if he can have the NFA item or not. You die and he survives you. You might leave everything you have in this world to your spouse (or kids, whatever) but your brother gets sole control over everything in the trust because YOU don't own anything in the trust and neither does he. But he now controls the trust and everything in it. Maybe that's what you want. Maybe not. But it's a factor to consider when establishing a trust and naming the trustees.

I've never sold one I regret selling because I wish I still had it. I've regretted one or two because they've gone up in value so much since selling that I wish I had waited to sell. A LNIB Norinco SKS with ~50 rounds of ammo for $100 and an M44 Mosin Carbine for $200

I was replying to @tacops who said he installed PVC vent pipe for his neighbor's dryer. Not a great idea. @Snaveba I understood what you meant with the 2" as a stick for the shop vac to clean out the ceiling cavity. Good plan.

PVC's not a good choice. https://homeinspectioninsider.com/pvc-for-dryer-vent/ It's a code violation in most places that have building codes. YMMV. Rigid aluminum is the way to go.

That depends on the size of the collection. One gun becomes two, then becomes four. That's doubling each time, but hardly a hoarding problem. Collecting is what I like to think most of us do. Hoarding is an actual mental health issue. Check out the Mayo clinic's description here: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hoarding-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20356056 From the link: It's not necessarily about how much stuff you have or whether you can afford it or not. It's more about that stuff having an unreasonable hold over you, preventing you from enjoying other things, negatively impacting your relationships, etc. It's not unlike an addiction to drugs, alcohol, tobacco, etc. A severe case looks like what we've probably all seen on TV shows. Milder cases are less severe.

XDsc .40 > G26 > Kahr PM9 Double-stacks don't work well for me. Too much bulk to wear comfortably even with a good holster.