monkeylizard

The product Comcast provides has been excellent. The people I've spoken with are nice. They're either nice idiots or Comcast has some billing software designed by Satan. I have never not once no never ever ever been able to call them and make a change and the billing be done correctly. Without fail they will make the change I requested and add in something else that I didn't request. When I added HD service, I got HD service and 3 additional set top boxes according to my bill....erm....no...I didn't. I called once to report a service outage and ended up with an extra M-Card on my bill the next month. Seriously? I hate calling Comcast because I know that I'll be dealing with the fallout from that call for the next 1 to 2 months.

    Notice that nearly all of those "civilians" had prior military service.   My dad wants to be buried there (retired USAF) but I have my doubts there will be room when it's his time to check-in.

Roger that. Honda for the quiet. I was at a car show about a year ago where a guy was running a Generac 2Kw inverter, the one they made to look like the Honda EU2000 and basically claim it's as good. It was almost as loud as a regular generator. I almost tripped over a Honda EU2000 because I didn't hear it over the noise of the Generac 8 cars away.   I found a Honda EU6500 on Craigslist for an awesome price. Dude was moving to an apartment and had to get rid of it. I had to go to Knoxville to get it, but it was worth it. I watched Craigslist via www.searchtempest.com for about 2 or 3 months before it finally showed up. I was actually looking for either a couple of EU2000s or an EU3000, but when the EU6500 came up I had to grab it. I still think about grabbing an EU2000 at some point for the portability factor.   The Yamaha inverters are reportedly about as quiet as the Hondas and have a broader selection of "sizes".

I think that's urban legend. AFAIK the only non military in Arlington are the Kennedy family, crew of the Challenger, some of the PanAm 103 victims, and Thurgood Marshall. There are also a number of slave graves there marked as 'civilian' or 'citizen' from the land's days as a plantation. I think Charles Le'Enfent is there too. He's the Frenchman who designed the layout of DC.

  No.

Rides side-saddle

  No more sex swings in the TGO Non-Firearms Classifieds without a tax stamp and a background check.

  Sara McLachlan did a commercial for the ASPCA which is different than  the SPCA (aka SPCAI). The ASPCA is generally regarded as reputable, runs shelters, etc. It spends a large portion of its income on its actual programs, but like any really big organization also spends a lot of it on fundraising efforts. It's not the best charity in the world, but a far cry better than the crooks at SPCA who are intentionally counting on the average Joe thinking they are the ASPCA. http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3286

It isn't. The photo circulates around these here Interwebz claiming it is, but it's not true. Just a pretty girl in front of an as-yet-unknown year of Oldsmobile. My money is on a 1949 Olds 88.

You can sue someone for just about anything, but you won't win that one.

The machine he used for this is a higher end one. I don't recall the name but the MakerBot wouldn't do the job. Something about how the one he uses keeps the plastic at a higher temp necessary for the pressures this thing is going to be put under. I'm not all up to speed on 3D printers, but I think the jist of it is that this doesn't mean you can make one on a cheaper model and have it function...yet.   Second, it's not completely 3D printed. In addition to the metal plate added to meet the requirements of needing to be detectable in airport scanners, it also has a metal firing pin.   As for the OP's questions: 1) Once the longevity issue can be solved, I'd have no problem with a printed gun part vs injection molded part.   2) Definitely not at the current level. When they are as good or better than what we use today, sure.   3) No. I pay retail because multiple people have used their time, materials and equipment to design it, make it and deliver it. If I'm using my printer with my plastic and my time, I would only be willing to pay for the design efforts. Plans will become open source and crowd-sourced for improvements/perfection, eliminating the need to compensate anyone for their design time.   4) It's a legitimate concern that people who shouldn't have firearms can make them at home, but they can do that today. There's nothing that really stops a criminal from making a firearm now using old-school blacksmithing skills, but it's difficult, time consuming, and expensive. AutoCAD+mil/lathe makes it easier and less time consuming, but still expensive. 3D printing makes it easy, still somewhat time consuming, and cheap. In the end, no regular criminal is going to bother with a 3D printer when they can get a Jennings on the corner for $50. Why waste time and money on some printer, computer, special plastic, learning the software, then risk it blowing up in your hand? Just go steal a real one.   The bigger concern to me is someone defeating security check points, especially when multiple parties are working to do so. One perp carries a single bullet past the control point (probably not too hard) while another takes the firing pin and plastic parts, that thanks to limitless design capabilities may look nothing like a traditional firearm (.380 portable DVD player, anyone?). No one piece of metal is enough to set off the detectors, or if it does, is small enough to be hidden in a legit piece of metal (Zippo lighter, steel shanked shoe, jewelry...). Need more bullets smuggled through? Make multiple trips and stash them, or involve more people.

Count me in with the rest of this bunch. Not a penny.

TN's new 39-17-1313 law (not yet effective...goes into effect July 1, 2013) is not specifically related to the employee/employer relationship. It simply says that HCP holders can legally have their gun in their car in posted lots so long as they meet the specifics of the new law. The areas of properly posted property outside of the HCP'ers vehicle is still properly posted. This means places like Cool Springs Galleria mall and the 100 Oaks movie theater will be OK to leave it locked up in the car but you still can't legally carry it in. Having it in the car will no longer be a violation of 39-17-1359.   The 2nd thing that 39-17-1313 does is remove civil liability from the property owner/employer if the HCPer goes on a rampage. That could open the door for some employers to revise their no-weapons policies if the only reason they had it was for liability insurance reasons. I expect that to be a very small number of employers, if any.   My employer prohibts firearms by policy, and does not have postings on the doors or parking lots. I can carry in my office or have one in my car today and not break any laws. I can do the same on July 1st and not break any laws. Both instances can get me fired. Even after July 1st, it's still no guns for me during the week.

What year is that Oldsmobile? It looks like about a '51 or '52, but the grill doesn't look right to me. I don't remember a model that had those vertical posts beside the license plate area that went up that high.

Only 3/4 empty? That's optimistic.

John, anyone can become a Benefactor by clicking the "TGO Store" link at the top of the page and selecting a 6 month or 1 year membership. It comes with some nice perks in addition to the Benefactor label under your avatar. An Admin (or possibly sitegod TGODavid himself) would need to be involved to add you as an "Authorized Vendor".  

An example of what would be a long-term change would be a law passing that severely restricts all ammo importation. Then all the cheap Wolf and Tula supply for .223 and 7.62 would dry up. Winchester, S&B, Federal, Hornady, etc. would then add real long-term capacity to produce more .223 and 7.62 to meet the already present demand that was formerly being met by imports.

Adding a 3rd shift increases production, but not enough to fully meet demand, so supplies continue to dwindle. To really keep up the manufacturers have to add new capacity in the forms of newer equipment, additional factory floor space, and more people. When supply catches up and the panic dies down and demand goes back to what it was before, they're left with an oversized factory, business loans on new equipment, and too many employees.   A manufacturer will expand capacity only when the new demand appears to be sustainable long-term, or when the short-term profits are so high that they're worth the expense of expansion followed by contraction. Neither applies to ammo manufacturers right now.

I'm not usually a big fan of the stuff they build, but OCC built this one for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation and I kind of liked it. Certainly not the first/only "roll on and ride" design, but I think it has better proportions than the Chris Trikes linked above. This one has kind of an old Roman chariot feel to it. I'm guessing it would blow your budget, but it's still cool. Personally I'd have liked to have seen them do more body panels to cover the "cage" area. Maybe some farings to match the tanks and fenders.

  This x1000.   I've long thought that my local Wally might get in 2 or 3 boxes of .22 bulk packs a week. When they have 10 in stock, sell a few, then get a few in to refill the stock, it all works fine. When the shelves are bare and they get those same 2 or 3 in, they get snapped up and the shelves remain bare. Eventually the guys snapping up 5000+ at a time will (1) have a stockpile they're comfortable with and stop buying more or (2) have sold to everyone willing to buy from them at crazy prices and stop buying more. The question is how long until both of those things come true?

but...but....Glenn Beck...but...WND...but....     Seriuosly though, I'd like to know if that's true more-or-less across the board with ammo manufacturers. I don't know ATK's sales mix, so gov't contracts might be a small part of their production, but a major part of company X, who was a major civilian supplier but now isn't. I really don't know, just wondering.

+1 for Chip Cain. Standup guy. When I'm ready to take the NFA plunge he'll be doing my trust. bonus: He's a TGO Authorized Vendor that helps keep this place going.     Patrick Stegall is a TGO Benefactor and an attorney. He does NFA trusts too and he's in Memphis, so closer to you than Chip in Nashville. http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/user/8320-stegall-law-firm/

3" looks good.   Question: Does anyone know what about these guns makes them illegal in California? If I thought you could have anything in the PRC, I thought for sure it'd be a .38 revolver.

mmmmmm....lead paint.....everywhere....   I'd guess that removal of that and probably a boat load of asbestos will set the buyer back some money.