c.a.willard

I could be completely wrong, wouldn't be the first time wont be the last.  My theory seems to pass the common sense test but when has the ATF ever actually made sense.

    I'd have to dig into their rules but it stands to reason that if you cant purchase a firearm if your currently under indictment for a felony then you wouldn't be able to process the sale of firearms while your under indictment either.

From reading the article it appears that they are letting them out of the lease with notice, but that would still leave you on the hook for the cost of moving.

http://news.yahoo.com/colorado-apartment-bans-guns-205839502.html   I know we've had no shortage of the debate regarding private property rights vs 2nd Amendment rights, but this one is a little different.  This is an apartment complex that has banned all possession of firearms on the premises.  Forcing individuals to choose between their rights and their home.    I know the courts have generally held that apartment complexes have the right to impose reasonable restrictions, and like everything else reasonable is never defined.  I cant see though how this would be considered a reasonable policy because it will effect people who already live there and force them to pay the cost of moving or get rid of there firearms.

sorry lost job, was poor wording.  Loss of income would have been more accurate.

He also lost his job, and i'm sure his FFL is at least put on some form of suspension temporary hold since he's charged with a felony.

The right shoots itself in the foot over real scandals in the administration.  They do it every time they say something like this is a scandal while talking simultaneous about real ones.    It causes people that we should be trying to sway to be alienated and makes the right look like a bunch of idiots.

Im sure Leonard has no intention of trying to get the dropped any earlier than his court date.  In my opinion he's going to let it go to the court date just to rack up more "damages"

I would think if absolutely necessary it would not be terribly difficult to convert an existing hot water heater into a still to distill water with. You should be able to salvage everything needed fro your own home.

Ok i see what your saying now and can duplicate it with my rifle.  Just to be sure it only rolls when the rifle isn't charged correct.  When you charge the rifle and dry fire it doesnt roll.  So that's your first indicator that its probably a non issue.    But if im correct what is happening is your practicing rapid trigger pull on a rifle that isnt charged.  When you pull with that trigger finger in a rapid succession your entire hand is moving.  This is caused by a couple of things but the biggest two parts of it is the amount of force your gripping the pistol grip with and how much force your pulling the trigger with.  If i am correct what you are basically doing is using your trigger finger to pull your entire hand slightly forward.  Since your hand (upper part of your palm at the index finger) is being pulled into the pistol grip by your finger it is causing the rifle to roll in the opposite direction.   I would only be concerned if it happens during actual dry fire.   these three things may help you.    First don't apply much pressure at all to the pistol grip.  Your body and non firing hand should be supporting the weight of your weapon.  Your firing hand exists for one purpose.  Pulling the trigger the same way every time.   Second, make sure you are puling the rifle tight into your body.  It makes for a more stable platform and will minimize any movement you may be seeing.  In addition to this it will allow your body to absorb more of the recoil during rapid fire, minimize muzzle climb and all around make follow up shots easier and faster   3rd is to stop your particular method of dry fire practice.  Dry fire is an amazing practice tool when done correctly, but rapid pulling on the trigger of an uncharged weapon isn't giving you any training value.  At most its giving you a finger work out, but it may be training your finger to operate faster than what you can accurately.  It also doesn't allow for releasing the trigger enough for it to reset.    I

Ive heard the same thing about grandpa's dont recall seeing it posted though.  Been in there a few times usually on my way back home from post so never bothered to look.  I live a few blocks away though so tomorrow ill swing by and look.

Just out of curiosity where are you noticing the movement at.  Upper receiver, lower receiver or both.  And just to make sure i got it right you said it does this during dry fire practice too right?   Does it happen just with this AR or does it happen when you shoot others.  Just trying to narrow down possibilities.     If you ever make it up to Clarksville I'd be glad to work with you one on one with it to figure out the issue.  If i look around my house I'm pretty sure I still have one of Dolomite's trigger kits to throw in there for ya.    Not saying that will fix your problem but if you have a stock trigger its worth doing anyways.

I think dental and vision both go into health readiness. And as with any type of survival situation the better your overall chances of survival will be.    That being said being the healthiest person is not necessary to survive in a community setting.  Frequently it is what value you can add to the group.  If your nearly blind but you can perform tasks that are necessary for community survival then you have a better shot at it than a guy thats healthy as a horse that cant do shite. 

can you have a buddy take a picture of your stance with the rifle and close ups of hand positioning and positioning of the stock on the shoulder.  We may be able to give you a better idea if we can actually see what your doing.

It got rolled up into the current events forum

I think it would be very difficult to spray someones pizza on a traffic stop without the people in the vehicle noticing.  Some of the spray is going to get into the air and there is a distinct smell and feeling to just being in the area of OC spray.  OC is also a pressurized canister and makes a sound when dispensed like any other aerosol can.      If the kid was out of the car i'd say its possible, if he was in the car at the time i dont think it could have been done without the teen noticing.

I think that this desn't pass the logic test.  For starters we have to consider that the 1.6 billion rounds is spread out over a period of several years.    Lake city alone manufactures over 1.4 billion rounds a year themselves even prior to the ammo madness.  The U.S. ammunition market is huge.  Even taking the lowest numbers of US produced ammunition and assuming all 1.6 billion rounds ordered are supplied in one year it is still around 10 percent of the total  ammunition market.   The last estimate i saw with all factories running full steam ahead is roughly 1 billion rounds a week total in which case the DHS purchase would be around 3 percent of the total market.   Even if it was done with the intention of limiting supply the most the could hope for would to be to limit the supply over the short term.  AS with anything in capitalism demand will drive the market to produce more.  So even if the government created a false shortage eventually that shortage would be overcome by additional manufacturing.    I think given that Americans were buying up roughly 1 gun every 1.5 seconds has more to do with the ammunition shortage.  That's nearly 395,000 new guns sold in the US in the last 12 months.  All these guns require ammunition along with every other gun we own.  we are creating our own ammunition shortage.  The manufacturers know it and are putting out rounds as fast as they can.  Some may even be considering using this as their opportunity to expand while others are probably reluctant to do so because eventually the ammo bubble must pop.

my votes for the  M&P shield 9mm, but there are so many good small 9mm pistols out now.  You really cant go wrong with any of the above

Well when it comes to NFA stuff until he proves that he was the legal possessor of the item its a criminal charge.   Whether that's morally right or wrong or should be that way is an entirely different conversation.  But with the way it is set up now with NFA stuff the burden of proof is pretty much on the person possessing the item to prove that they are legal.    For Tennessee the way i understand it is that the law starts with the premise that possession of a suppressor is illegal.  It is an affirmative defense if the item is properly registered under the NFA .  In cases of affirmative defense the defendant has the burden to prove that he legally possessed the item based upon a preponderant of evidence.  In the case of a trust.  I don't think the tax stamp alone would in fact be a preponderant of evidence he would additionally have to prove that he is a trustee on the trust the suppressor is registered to.

He does have the SOT to deal in class 3 items.  It seems more likely to me though that he would use his personal property for this type of thing.  I think it would be safer for him in the long run.      Either way if it was a trust or his FFL owned he would still require 2 different documents to show legal possession.  For the trust it would be the tax stamp and paperwork showing he is a trustee.   For the FFL he would have the document showing that the suppressor belongs to the FFL and then he would have to show that he holds the FFL that the suppressor belongs to.    From leonard's account of it it appears like there was one form in the case but likely not the other. 

I wonder if it has to do with his suppressor being in a trust.  So not only does he have to show the paperwork for the suppressor he has to show that he is a trustee in the trust that is listed on the form 4.  I'd be willing to be he had the tax stamp with the gun but not the trust information to prove that he could legally possess it.

http://www.atf.gov/publications/factsheets/factsheet-ffl-revocation-process.html   Just for those that are curious.  This is the ATF fact sheet on the FFL revocation process.   I am not sure what their recourse would be or their full guidelines, but i guess this is good a place to start looking, for those that are interested, as any.

It was probably something along the lines of an omega rifle chamber lock  http://www.gunpartscorp.com/Products/1166080.htm

      I'm not sure exactly how long the search took. total just that it took about 2 minutes to get to the point they saw the suppressor.  They may very well have been able to access the trigger in a matter of seconds.    More importantly i was listing that as one of several possible exceptions that the police have.  Again the one they will most likely claim is a public safety/officer safety exception.  Separating the case from his reach does not necessarily negate the officers ability to search it.  It was within his reach when they took possession of it.  And i'm sure there intent was that if there was no danger to return it to his possession.  The only way for them to determine that Leonard was not a danger was to search the case.     As i've said before Leonard has no interest in having the charges immediately dropped.  If he did the DA's office would have received a copy of proof that he legally owned the suppressor.  He wants to make this take as long as possible in the hopes of a nice fat lawsuit.   Which he's guaranteed to loose, if nothing else because the officers will likely be covered under qualified immunity.    For the officers not to be covered they would have to reasonably have known that there actions were unlawful.  I think if you poll law enforcement officers; you will find some that agree and some that disagree with the lawfulness and some that just aren't sure.  But in cases like that where it is an iffy judgment call benefit of the doubt goes to the police officer.

You dont have to open the chamber.  only be able to access a weapon.  For a kydex case like this if you can pry it up at all and touch the gun that can loosely be viewed as access to a a weapon.  More importantly if you can pry it up enough by hand to access the trigger area you can fire the gun and that is definitely access.    I don't know for sure if this is the case with leonards kydex contraption but from viewing photos i think that it is a possibility that he could access the weapon even while locked.     I am trying to remember the particular case.  I remember that it was a supreme court ruling originating in NY.  Ill have to look it up for more info.     More likely than all of this is that the officers will claim a public safety officer safety exception to the warrant requirements.  In that they were dealing with an individual in body armor with access to what appeared to be a loaded rifle i think the courts would grant that.  Again none of this is materially important because lenny will eventually provide the paperwork and the charges will be dropped.    He is probably waiting for as long as possible on that so that he can rack up damages in the form of his business being temporarily shut down.   Terry V Ohio  “Though the police must whenever practicable secure a warrant to make a search and seizure, that procedure cannot be followed where swift action based upon on-the-spot observations of the officer on the beat is required.” The officer for safety reasons was justified in conducting a limited pat search of the suspect’s outer garments for a weapon"   Although this search is obviously more than a pat down search, the event was still a public safety issue that required swift action based upon on the spot observations.  Since they were attempting to limit their search to ensuring only that the weapon was unloaded.  I think it would sill fly.  But IANAL  (had to put that in the :)  )