monkeylizard

Here comes the first lawsuit. Probably won't be the last. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2018/05/15/nashville-waffle-house-shooting-family-victim-sues-father-accused-shooter-travis-reinking/611326002/

If you lost it IN the MGB, you're a god amongst men.

You didn't miss much with the Delorean. All the power of a lawn mower none of the handling. I heard the later ones with the larger motors were more respectable.

+1 to what has been said above. I didn't know about either legislative change.

I watched Punky Brewster as a kid where Punky's friend almost died hiding in an old fridge. I want to know how Indy got that door opened from the inside.

I don't know what "mistakes" you're talking about. Reinking never committed any violent crimes before this (that we know of). Illinois revoked his FOID because the FBI told them to after his White House trespassing, but Illinois had no right to seize his property. He wasn't a convicted felon. If anyone dropped the ball on this one it was his father and any psych doctors who determined him sane, but even that's a sticky one because he may have been in his right mind and fully functional during his psych evals. Mental illness is difficult like that.

I saw one of the IL law enforcement folks on the news last night. He said what I was thinking was the case: They had no right to seize the firearms any more than they had the right to enter the home and seize the refrigerator. The son had not been charged (much less convicted) of a crime warranting the seizure of his firearms. But his FOID was revoked so they couldn't give them back so they gave them to a family member. Think about our good buddy Voldemort. He had his HCP suspended because he showed what a judge (or TDOS official, not sure on the specifics) thought to be poor decision making in public with firearms. But his firearms weren't seized because he wasn't charged with or convicted of a felony. What I'm still unsure of is if the father violated any ATF regulations. I think it's going to come down to who actually owned the firearms and where the transfer of possession took place. I'm also not sure the son would qualify as a "prohibited person" under Fed laws. They couldn't give to flips about whether or not Illinois revoked his state FOID card. Form 4473 Question 11.f says: I've not heard any reports saying either of those is true. The civil suits will be brutal though. Negligence is going to be easy to prove in this one.

You would think so, but if they're wealthy, like for-real wealthy, then they'll likely have been smart enough to have assets squirreled away under different corporations and family members. Any wealthy person that has it all in their own name is a moron. Time will tell.

We could bring back Chief Serpas to make the crime stats go down. Crime itself wouldn't go down, but the stats would look awesome again! He had some Cajun voodoo going on with his book-cooking recipes.

I just saw Don Aaron's press conference. He said a neighbor witnessed him shirtless in dark pants behind the apartment building after the shooting. That's how they know he went back and got some pants. That was the last confirmed sighting. 3 long guns are accounted for but not a handgun.

Why not? It worked in Back to the Future pt. III . . .

He went back to his place and got some pants. Exactly how the police know this is still a mystery to me. Perhaps a neighbor witnessed it.

The bathtub protects from both grenades AND falling industrial light fixtures! Good to know. In reality, even an iron one doesn't do much but if it can take some of the energy off the bullet/frag then maybe it might make a hit more survivable? I guess it depends on what the shooter is using. Like most cover I'd guess it might stop or slow a .22 enough, but not going to do a whole lot against a .50 BMG with everything else falling somewhere in between.

I meant loaning them across state lines to his Tennessee-resident son, assuming he's a legal resident of TN. That would not run afoul of any federal laws about interstate transfers. There's still the whole issue of the son being a prohibited person, but that's a different issue than the interstate transfer.

That's normal, actually. It's like any other seized property in that if it qualifies to be returned, it is. But the SNAFU is that they can't return it to the owner because the owner isn't allowed to have them. So they return the firearms to a close friend or relative with the owner's permission. Often times the new owner will sell them on behalf of the original owner and give the money to the original owner. There's another option and that's to loan the firearms. No time period is required but the legal ownership stays with the father in this case. Lawful or unlawful transfer aside, I'm curious to see if the Illinois DA will bring criminal charges on negligent homicide. At the very least the father is going to lose everything in the multiple civil suits coming his way. https://criminal-law.freeadvice.com/criminal-law/violent_crimes/negligent-homicide.htm

Yep. It has been coming for a few months now:

The Clinton-era AWB grandfathered in all existing firearms. It was legal to own, buy and sell them. There was a specific list of banned new ones and all other new non-listed ones had to meet the ban requirements. If a semi-auto rifle or handgun had a detachable magazine, it could have no more than 1 of a variety of "assault" features. Semi-auto shotguns had a different criteria. Check out Section 2.1 of this Wiki page for details on those features. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban Because a pre-ban one could have all the "features" it wanted, they sold at a premium during the ban period. You still see folks labeling one "pre-ban" in some sales ads, but that means nothing right now and never will again. No new law is ever going to set the grandfather date at 1994. Inventive people found ways to work around it, like the thumb hole stocks. It gave the function of a pistol grip without actually having a pistol grip. This allowed one other feature to be added and not run afoul of the AWB. I'd expect a bump-fire ban to not have a grandfather clause. They'll either be legal without a tax stamp, or they won't. There will be no work-around/grandfather.

Some still stand and come up for sale from time to time. Here's an article on the fort array near Kent where someone with more money than sense planned to redevelop them into a luxury casino hotel resort. This was 3 years ago and I haven't heard a peep about it since then. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3100633/WW2-forts-built-protect-Kent-coast-Nazi-attack-turned-luxury-resort-complete-executive-apartments-helipad-spa-sea.html

If it has some fake ruby eyes, then I guess that's OK too.

Other than those two, I'm 99.995% certain that TCA is silent on all other blades, so yeah, a sword cane would be good to go. I think it shows incredibly poor taste if it doesn't have a cobra or a dragon as a handle, but that's just one man's opinion. Sorry for the multi posts, I couldn't get multiple quotes on a single post without it nesting one quote inside the other...

Plus you get some extra felony points if you use a switchblade during the commission of certain crimes

Certain specific (who knows why) types of knives are bad juju on school grounds ( TCA 39-17-1303 ( b ) )

In a serious SHTF with mass population migrations, survival rate won't be anywhere near 50%. But it's still an issue. A specific amount of land can only support so many people and if agriculture is the plan, that takes time to plant, grow, harvest, and store. SHTF in late fall, or winter, and kiss that plan goodbye.

...brass catcher, flashlight with switch, laser with switch, 45 degree irons, flip up sites, a new grip, a new stock, GoPro mount, a rail mount for a Glock, and believe it or not.....a battle axe