monkeylizard

EUTimes is a conspiracy site, but sometimes even the conspiracy sites get it right.   You'd think that a flag officer would be smart enough to watch porn on his personal phone instead of the DoD system, especially in this post-Snowden age where everything gets monitored. It's not too far of a stretch to think that he asked the wrong questions and got canned and the porn-story is a cover. Then again, maybe he just can't get enough of the ladiez.He wouldn't be the first person in a senior management position who got caught doing that.

      +1 on both counts.   I'm never letting my Gallatin membership slip away unless I someday have my own land where I can shoot at 300 yds or more. But I'm in the same 'hood as KahrMan and it's an hour each way to GGC. After work is an option now that the new parking lot laws are in effect (less risk of getting fired), but that's only an option in the summer with later sunsets and even then it puts me home at 8pm or later. I suspect I'll be going to Gallatin as much as I do now, but will fill in some time at the RR guntry club with a few visits a year. AFAIK, 60yds is the longest indoor range in the area.

  Some people can't breath if they're not complaining about something.

  Ouch.

  I can't speak for Bullet280, but mine are the 3 C's   Condoms, Cat litter, and Claymores. Don't ask about the cat litter.

  If you think 300 rounds is a large number in a single visit, then you haven't been to the range with a lot of TGOers.  :)   You'll be fine. If you were shooting north of a 1,000 between cleanings, then it might make a difference.

Remington UMC is the dirtiest I've used. Sellier is some of the cleanest. That said, it doesn't matter to me. 1 round of clean stuff or 1,000 rounds of dirty stuff....the gun still gets cleaned.

Or his bicycle helmet.

  The fair board did that. The mayor has no official vote on that board. That is to say that officially, no, the mayor did not do that. It's speculation to think she had a hand in it. Reasonable speculation, but still just speculation.

  GnL Hendersonville has bars on the windows and doors. It still happened to them. http://wkrn.com/2015/11/16/firearms-stolen-from-hendersonville-gun-store/ . Bars on the doors/windows will keep a human out, but usually not a car/truck. Pylons would help. I haven't been up to GnL lately so I don't know if Dennis had some installed afterwards or not.

  Use coupon code BRADSHIP for free shipping.   Here's where I found it: https://www.slickguns.com/product/223-rem-55-gr-wolf-gold-fmj-1000-rounds-42000   Brass .223 for 30.8 cent/rd is pretty hard to beat. I know I saw it dip to 28.9 around Black Friday, but that was the anomaly.

Sportsman's Guide has the same Wolf Gold for $308 delivered, but you need to be a member to get that price, as usual. $325 for non members so pretty much the same as SGAmmo. http://www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/wolf-gold-223-ammo-fmj-55-grain-1000-rounds?a=1581231     Use coupon code BRADSHIP for free shipping.

  That's a good definition of "Militia". Now define "well regulated". We have all 3 words to contend with in the 2nd A.

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/93507-permit-required-for-shooting-at-twra-ranges/?hl=%2Bwma+%2Brange

  FIFY. [/Pedant] :)   More important than which one any of us would choose, is which one do we think the current SCOTUS would choose. I know I don't want to roll that particular die.

Of course not, but the way cases work, we're going to get small pieces of progress and retreat and not some big sweeping announcement from SCOTUS declaring that any free citizen can have any old thing they want.   As far as why the SCOTUS didn't take up the Friedman and Jackson cases, I suspect part of it was because of Heller and McDonald. They probably think they've ruled on enough cases in that area of the law for a while.

  You forgot about 10mm. It's like the fist of God.

  Ah-ha! And that is the argument the antis use to say the 2nd should be repealed.     If the right to keep and bear arms is predicated on there being a Militia, and the existence of the Militia is predicated on it being necessary to the security of a free State, but that same Militia is no longer necessary for the security of a free State, then *poof* the justification for the people to keep and bear arms is gone.

  Maybe. Maybe not. I could see a ruling that strikes down all personal firearm ownership except for persons who are members of a well-regulated militia, and having "well-regulated militia" defined as one regulated by the state or local government. If a state or locality refuses to authorize a militia (or has crazy stupid requirements for membership), then persons in that area are screwed. In that sense, what's going on now is a whole lot better.

  I'm not sure I want SCOTUS ruling on that. In the same breath they can rule on what part of "A well regulated Militia" is unclear?

SCOTUS doesn't just look at a law and say "Yea" or "Nay". A case has to be filed in a local state or federal court, then have the judgment appealed through all of the levels of the appellate system. The parties in the suit can then petition SCOTUS to hear their case. SCOTUS can't do much until all of those things happen. Then 4 or more of the 9 justices have to vote to hear the case. In addition, SCOTUS only hears cases to resolve a conflict in the law, are a result of a lower court disregarding a past SCOTUS ruling, are important, or are of some special interest to enough of the justices such as a case about a specific part of the law that they like (let's say several are former immigration lawyers then a case on immigration might get in before one on bankruptcy).   Here are two in the recent past that they did hear (and in fact decided in our favor): D.C. v. Heller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller McDonald v. City of Chicago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_v._City_of_Chicago   And two they have recently rejected: Friedman v. City of Highland Park. https://reason.com/blog/2015/12/07/scotus-refuses-to-hear-2nd-amendment-ass Jackson v. City and County of San Francisco Jackson v. City and County of San Franciscohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/06/09/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-second-amendment-case-over-dissent-of-two-justices/   As for SCOTUS hearing a case on gay marriage having a lesser Constitutional impact, that's very much a Constitutional issue. It goes to the 14th amendment and equal protection under the law. That's why they heard it.

  FIFY! :up:

Jade Helm FTW

I have no doubt they each go through thousands of rounds per day when doing live-fire training, but do they do that every day of the year? Surely they spend some days not shooting stuff. Don't they have demolitions training, foreign-language classes, leadership training, mission planning skills training, foreign culture training, heavy equipment training (like how to rig up an electric genny and water pump to help a village in the back end of nowhere, or drive a bulldozer), plus general physical fitness stuff like running a marathon with a pregnant wildebeest on their backs while doing the NYT Saturday crossword puzzle?   The vehicle mounted stuff that Sam1 mentioned could account for the discrepancy in the math.