monkeylizard

I agree. I give One Second After 5 stars, One Year After 4 stars, and The Final Day 2.5 stars. I'm glad I read it and wrapped up the series, but it's not as good as the first two by a country mile.

Several newspapers in the state have reported this. Either believe them or don't. I doubt any of us will be getting our hands on copies of the contracts any time soon. Here's one: http://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/football/2017/10/08/fire-butch-jones-buyout-contract-tennessee-vols-football-ut-volunteers/739577001/

Same here. I only had 1. I replaced the others with "real" ones a few years ago.

Knowing you're all safety minded folks and probably have fire extinguishers, check this site to see if you have one that is being recalled: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2017/kidde-recalls-fire-extinguishers-with-plastic-handles-due-to-failure-to-discharge-and

The Final Day is definitely the weakest of the three. It's forced and rushed.

+1 to that. If you have access to Ft. Campbell, you won't find a cheaper deal anywhere. My dad built several pieces of furniture over the years in base wood shops. You could just buy it for the price of some of these workshop monthly membership fees. I miss the days of $5 for an hour in the auto hobby shop bay with a full lift and all the hand tools I needed. I would do an oil change at a leisurely pace with the car up on the lift and easily do a thorough inspection underneath while it drained. Now it's nearly impossible to find access to a lift for any DIY work.

Wow....those membership rates make me glad I have a garage of my own, and make me miss the dirt cheap rates at the military base hobby shops.

Hire McElwain . . .

Did you learn that lesson the hard way?

Well we all know it's .45. Anything less and you're tickling the perp, but a .45 will vaporize at least half their torso.

Here's a link to a WKRN story on the crime: http://wkrn.com/2017/10/27/most-wanted-man-surrenders-in-deadly-shooting-of-former-tsu-officer/

There's some value in using what the cool kids use. I don't have the resources to torture test dozens of types of firearms over years of harsh conditions. Operators operating operationally do and they learned what works and what doesn't. When choosing something I'm betting my life on, why not take advantage of their experience?

I like to meet at the police station for Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace deals. So far, so good.

I also own a Beretta 92FS/M9 and that steel frame makes the Beretta easy to shoot accurately. With some fat Hogue rubber grips that thing soaks up the recoil. But next to a G17 or G19, it's a boat anchor. There's no way I'd carry it. Even if you consider them equally reliable, there's no getting around that extra weight. Besides that, there's no safe way to carry a 92FS/M9 cocked and locked and no trigger job in the world is going to make that first DA pull consistent with the subsequent SA pulls. Finally, I don't want an external safety on a defensive carry gun. Ever. Glock wins the carry argument over the Beretta for me, hands down. For a range gun, I prefer the Beretta. The Glock's not harsh, but the Beretta is almost marshmallow soft. Plus when my wife shoots it, it's so bit that it looks like she's working a Desert Eagle.

I have yet to find any actual blemishes on PSA blem AR lowers. I wonder if their AKs are the same.

I don't think I've ever had anything from HF last a weekend. When I get coupons for free stuff at HF, no purchase required, I still don't bother. Even at free I feel like I got ripped off.

They're as exciting as dry white toast and as common as sand on the beach, but they're about as reliable as it gets. Kind of like Honda Accords. There's some truth to the adage "Have a Kimber to show your friends. Have a Glock to show your enemies." I agree that some others have come on the market in the past few years that rival Glocks in reliability and simplicity without being uglier than the girl nobody wants to admit they made out with. The Smith & Wesson M&P line comes to mind and it's cheaper.

There's always the Toilet Bowl.

As for Kennedy, Raoul is right. Kennedy followed FDR, Truman, and Ike. Three much older guys that, though different politically, were from another generation. Kennedy also benefited from following Eisenhower's boom years. Think Obama without the 2008 market crash, or Clinton without the Bush 41 recession. Things looked great in the economy, and Kennedy's youth and charisma made them look even better. He took a different path with the Soviets than his predecessors, more akin to Reagan than not. Instead of matching them the way Ike did, Kennedy wanted to surpass them. That's what the moon shot was all about. It had far less to do with exploration than with showing Ivan who had a bigger rocket in his pocket. Add in the Cuban missile crisis where he and his cadre almost killed us all, but managed to spin it like he saved us all from the bomb (and in some ways that's true), and you end up with a huge up swell in national pride, mostly associated with Kennedy. He did have some real accomplishments in his relatively short time in office. In addition to starting the moon shot program and resolving the missile crisis, he also established the Peace Corps and finally got the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed in 1963, though it was something Ike had been working on for many years prior to Kennedy. It was significant in that it was the first arms reduction treaties between west and east and paved the way for all that followed. In reality, it didn't do a whole lot because the parties had already voluntarily stopped atmospheric nuke testing once we all figured out just how bad that was for ourselves. It wasn't all success though. Don't forget about the Bay of Pigs. Ike authorized the CIA to plan it, but Jack gave the green light to execute.

That was his predecessor, Ike in his farewell address:

Fixed it! At least that's how I operate. . .

As OS said, you attach rails to the MOE hand guards using MOE rails. then you attach whatever you want to the rails. Basically the same as M-Lock, but different rail pieces made for Magpul's proprietary MOE slots.

Do you go to a Stylist named Zohan? I always tip my barber, who I call a barber.

You can put an AFG on it. That's legal. That can help with the fore grip. Some people like them, others don't. On an 11.5", I think it's optional to have something that works as a hand stop, but if yours is shorter then I highly recommend getting something to work as a hand stop. I have long arms so it would be real easy to get my hand too far out front so I keep a Magpul AFG on mine, even with an 11.5" bbl. Something I don't know....would it be legal to mount a VFG on the side of the hand guard? I'm thinking 90 degree mount, like what you'd commonly find on an angle grinder or hammer drill. The device is sold as a vertical fore grip, but if it's mounted horizontally, is it still a vertical fore grip?