R_Bert

  This is exactly the problem.   Planners plan a response to a specific threat, then bad guy does something entirely different.

and expect the threat.

  My point is that it is not only possible, it can be probable.   I understand your frustration regarding schools, but the argument comparing  air transportation is in fact not valid.  But to answer your question, when I (inadvertently) bypassed security at a major international airport (twice, two different airports), I had about 150 lbs of equipment with me, and made it all the way to the gate from the ticket counter.  I was discovered only as I was boarding the plane, when I did not have a stamp on my boarding pass (with planning could be forged).  I am sure a few procedures were reviewed because of me.   It is theater. Doors and walls provide at most 30 seconds of delay.  They do not solve anything.    Remember, a 80 yr old nun and two hippies breached the most secure facility in the eastern US a while back.

  to dispel this myth -   I have over a million miles air travel under my belt, and I had ties to the security industry (In a former life I used to teach port security training and other safeguards measures).   Passengers are not safer than anyone at a school or a mall.   There are probably dozens of ways to bring a weapon into an airport, still.   -TSA staffer was killed only a few weeks ago.  - I myself have managed to forget prohibited items in my bag, only to find it at the gate after passing through security. - I myself completely bypassed security checkpoints only a few years ago because I went in literally through the exits in reverse (could not read the signs) - employees are not given same scrutiny at checkpoints - I have watched DC insiders bypass security at Reagan National. - cargo is pretty much not scanned at all (and transported in the hold of commercial airliners) - and of course insider threat allows access through staff/personnel  doors.      The list goes on.  It is referred to as "security theater" for a reason.

Apologies to OP for sort of hi-jack.   I am interested in the Troy Alpha and a similar look as OP (may have a Magpul CTR or a Ace Skeleton on mine).    I saw the Syriac blocks, and they are high on my list, especially if they will fit under the Alpha.   Building a .204 Ruger in what I guess is mid-length or carbine.  Looking for 18"-20" heavy bbl (will have a .936 block) and the hand guard to cover as much bbl length as possible.  I am hoping that I will be able to access/adjust the gas block through the side of the rail. 

What gas block did you use under the Troy rail?   And for anyone else, which adjustable gas blocks will fit under there? 

done.

Anyone try the Jard triggers?   various models & price ranges.  The guys over on .204Ruger.com seem to like them   http://jardinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=2&Itemid=27

You narrowly escaped - http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/12/09/3-hurt-in-hatchet-attack-at-east-texas-wal-mart/

OK then -   Another Gun Free Zone....with  no guns involved. Seventeen (yes, 17 !) injured & treated.   http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/12/13/police-man-breaks-into-chelsea-h-s-sets-off-fire-extinguisher/  

    I guess I should have gone redundant on this one  :whistle:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24721367/arapahoe-high-gunman-held-strong-political-beliefs-classmates A gifted and popular, gun-hating Democrat-viewpointed Bible thumper. Oh my. How to spin this one.......?

I would match the AFG, flash hider, and front sight for some balance and call it done. Maybe the rear sight, but not the upper.

You need to add an option - "Because other forums don't let me in!"

I just had a buddy call me -   he is trying to create a first-time TGO account, and is using Win 8.1 and IE 11.   He sees the form ok, but does not see the Captcha spam puzzle (and thus cannot complete the TGO registration).   any ideas?

I have been deleted before......  oh. wait.  that was banished.  never mind...

I think the general concept is disengaged, detached, and disinterested, eventually denial.  Raising kids in some cases like this one and Lanza was by remote control, and substitution..."anything to occupy the kid so I don't have to spend time with him". The remote-control options were simply fewer in the '70's.   Parents were more involved minute-by-minute (but still less than generations before). As we became more affluent & modern, it was easy to become more self-interested and self-indulgent.  There is always something standing by to fill in the gap between parents and kids.   last, in my generation, when they were loony, the parents committed them to the bin, reform-school or the military. Can't do that any more. Now they run wild.

I made a USB boot drive using Ubuntu, then copied the data off to an external drive.   http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop   Be sure to read the instructions, but it is easy - http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/install-desktop-long-term-support

If you work even one day in NYC, taxes are owed.  I am  beginning to wonder when they will start taxing business travelers in transit through JFK Airport.

Yes. Same rules as for other centerfire ammo.

BTW, Dolomite, I do strongly agree that the young parent-raised/enabled monster should be the one actually accountable.   But as it is playing out, the only person paying for the crime is the victims, especially the man who lost his family.

  because in court record, they accepted blame - and he escaped a murder or manslaughter rap as a result  - http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/11/texas-teen-kills-four-in-drunken-crash-but-gets-probation-after-parents-wealth-blamed/

It is rare to see a civil rights charge like this one prosecuted, but wow.  Look at the mug-shot into his eyes.   I am guessing he plead "guilty with attitude" too.   http://www.local8now.com/home/headlines/Jackson-man-pleads-guilty-to-defacing-Torah-235494371.html

The parents should be serving time..........     http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12/affluenza-defense-probation-for-deadly-dwi_n_4430807.html

In his case, might ought to stick with Memorex, and not live.   I hear they do great things with polymers nowadays.