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Five Gun Law Myths That Can Land You In Jail
Reading the transcript it should be titled, "Five Gun Law Myths That Can Land You In Jail In New Jersey."
Or, "Five Specific Examples That Can Land You In Jail In New Jersey."
Or, "A short list of reasons to never enter the Gods Foresaken Hellscape of The Garden State."
Don't make tasers look like guns.
It's Murphy.
If a gun can be mistaken for a taser, a gun will be mistaken for a taser.
And they have been.
But I cannot help but think:
We didn't have all these problems with dead suspects when cops were burly men with nightsticks.
I know we pivoted away from nightsticks after Rodney King and the LA Riots BUT:
Rodney didn't die.
We still have riots from the Rodney's of the world interacting with the police.
What have we gained?
¡Sin trabajo, sin dinero!
Hillsborough County Florida schools are looking to clip 1,000 positions.
I notice that they imply that those positions are all teaching jobs.
I also remember how hard the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association fought to prevent students from returning to classes, yet also retain full pay for their teachers.
¡Sin trabajo, sin dinero!
Well, you succeeded in keeping things shut down as long as you could and it's splashed back on you. Congratulations!
I've long since lost all sympathy for the plight of public school teachers.
Pay and benefits for teachers are excellent, even if the pay alone seems lower than you'd expect for a college educated person. No contribution, no out of pocket healthcare? No contribution, 100% salary pension after 20? Take a 20% pay cut compared to your classmates from college?
Yeah, sign me up.
Preferences in loans and interest rates? Everyone forgets this.
Lots of teacher discounts at eateries and bars.
Yet... the budgets are going up faster than inflation, more staff is being hired, classrooms sizes are going down.
Scores are stagnant.
Even all that I could forgive.
But since the public school teacher is the nexus point where children get their very first dose of woke...
Fuck each and every one of them with something sharp and dirty.
Bernie, I know the very idea of how Mr Musk got rich is alien to the way YOU got rich.
I've got a suggestion for EVERY multi-millionaire socialist out there who want to tax unto oblivion millionaires who've actually earned their fortunes:
Why don't you spend your own damn money on these social programs you're advocating?
I know that you aren't because you not only own more property than I do, but my entire net worth couldn't rent your garage for a month.
I tell you, nothing disgusts me more than a rich socialist. Not even a child molester is so low.
I shared my pic of my XM177E2 clone and the S&W 15 to Arfcom and got an interesting reply,
Each guy was still issued a stainless model 686 in the early 90's when I first got to the Teams. Thank God they got rid of them! The intention was that they were stainless and more resistant to corrosion.
Down side was the geniuses in charge of acquisitions had no idea the level of asspain cleaning them was after being submerged in salt water (think side-plate removal for 16 Frogs just to get back in the water on a dive the next night) was compared to just rinsing and cleaning a P226.
-AZ5326X2
Thinking about it, ayup. There's so much more that's inaccessible in a revolver than a semi-auto.
JT found 32 (!) stored codes on The Precious!
He cleared them and the light, briefly, went out.
Then came back on when I restarted the car.
Down to one code.
B1001.
This code sets when:
Yes, but what does that mean?
The diagnostics aid says, "This DTC is an indication that an incorrect SDM is installed in the vehicle, or that the SDM and/or the BCM were replaced without reprogramming the BCM with the new information."
DING!
This connector has been faulty for a good long time. It's very likely that the SDM wasn't communicating when I had the BCM replaced and, thus, didn't get its number recorded during the BCM set up.
I feel better now!
Now I just need to find someone with a full Tech-2 and subscription to flash the SDM's information and all will be well.
Replaced the connector for the driver's seat airbag and seat-belt pretensioner on The Precious.
The light is still on and the service manual says it probably shouldn't be; but we've seen situations where you have to use the Tech-2 to clear the code before it clears despite the assurances of the book.
I am not sure what gun is appropriate here, but I'm pretty sure that a snubby .38 isn't enough for Them.
I do know; I'd have my whatever gun I had out and shooting... What have I to gain by saving ammo here?
I am coming to the idea that if the defense in a trial can use the evidence as presented by the prosecutor as their defense...
The defendant should never have been charged.
The Mosin-Crate apparently got in a shipment of FEG Hi-Powers.
They sold out in four days with a $399 price point.
He had about 60, as indicated in the vid.
I wonder if Tisas is up to speed with their clone yet.
Mr Willard is the generous benefactor who got me the center diamond style magna stocks for my Model 15.
After, of course, I'd put in a bid on some correct-for-the-gun-but-not-for-the-period no diamond stocks on ebay.
If he had not given me the diamond grips, I would have been outbid and had to keep dealing with the too-narrow, too-square "Smith & Wesson Factory Grips S&W K, L-Frame Square Butt Checkered Dymondwood" I got from Midway.
Since he did, I won the auction and will have a set of no-diamond stocks for a K frame without a K frame to put them on.
THIS IS DANGEROUS! A Model 19 is a K frame... I don't have a service size .357...
WHY GODS WHY!?!
Finally got a genuine Peanut Butter Pietro Beretta magazine for my 1951.
Got an issue lanyard for it too! Man, that's a shitty quality lanyard.
The pistol itself was an Israeli police gun once upon a time and I've seen pics of them using that self-same shitty lanyard. Go figure.
The PB marked mag is a definite step up from the, by all appearances, Triple-K brand ones that came with the gun.
You can do something with your "more regulated than firearms" uterus that you can't do with a gun...
Keep it with you when you go to jail.
The XM177E2 clone is a genuine, registered short-barrel rifle.
The Model 15-3 has diamond magna grips to make it a clone of a period correct Model 15-2.
I have both of these guns because I'm a tactile type and became fascinated with them during my tenure a s a playtester for GURPS: SEALs in Vietnam.
Update: Bonus Pic!
EMF Hartford clone of a Winchester Model 1892 and a Taylor's Outlaw Legacy in .357 Magnum as befits a brace for The Lovely Harvey.
The lever wrap is a work in progress...
An impossible combination historically. The Winchester 1873 didn't get chambered for .45 Colt for a variety of reasons until very recently.
While both are models of 1873, the revolver is more appropriately from 1898 after being refurbished at Springfield National Armory.
In the sidebar someone made an equivalence so false as to make Venezuelans the same as Mexicans because they're both Hispanic.
An equivalence which would surely piss off the person who made the original error.
I'm being deliberately vague because I really don't want to find all the references needed to fully back my assertion as would be required by commenters.
It's an age old question.
One might even say it's a treacherous question.
Then, once you've answered: Is my picture art?
An M1881 holster altered to accept a .45 Colt New Service will also accept a S&W Model 29.
Plus, when your supply of .44 Magnum runs out you can still pack .44 Special.
1957 made Ruger Standard. Note, that's not Mark I or A100; neither was an official name for the first Ruger .22. Though it makes sense to call it a Mark I because it was refined and modified and introduced as the Ruger Mark II... then III then IV... The stocks are not stock, and were a pain to find because there's not a lot of support left for the old Standard, and starting with the A100 frame, the magazine follower button is on the other side making the wood incompatible.
1994 made Ruger 10/22 with factory Mannlicher style laminated stock. The stock is slowly turning yellow-green with age. It was nearly the color of the stainless when The Lovely Harvey bought it new.
Grampa's 1938 made Remington 341 Sportsmaster, I am the second owner. He was a farm-hand for many years and shooting rats in the grain bins brought a bonus to payday.
The Colt Challenger is a pawn-shop find that didn't have grips. I adapted some aftermarket Woodsman stocks.
Alcee Hastings burns in Hell tonight.
That he had a political career after being impeached (and convicted) for bribery and perjury says all you need to know about the depths Democrats will plumb to put a butt in a seat.
Does DeSantis get to appoint a replacement?
Today my county administrators decided that we wouldn't have to wear masks anymore.
So I blatantly ignored...
Zero signs because every single business I went to had taken down their mask signs already.
Ruger Totally-Not-A-Deerslayer "carbine" and a S&W Model 29-3 4" bbl. With genuine S&W holster!
All .44 Magnum, all the time.
Ruger Blackhawk in .30 Carbine with an M1 Carbine out of Israel.
The M1 carbine isn't really a carbine because it's not the short version of a rifle.
There's a part of me that wants to deck out the Equinox with all the sovereign citizen indicators so that when I get pulled over I can be totally cooperative with the officer and have all my proper paperwork in order.
They'd have to be braced for all manner of bullshit and to suddenly have a compliant and cheerful citizen surely would make their day.
Just helpin' to make your day a little more surreal, Officer.
The reason we do not stand up to injustices by our government is that we know they can, and will, use deadly force in the end. And as of YET no one has wanted to start a shooting war.
-Sumdood on Arfcom
As often as I've seen trap shooters with their muzzles resting on their feet, I have to assume that they are willing to destroy their tootsies and are comfortable with the ground as a backstop.
On the other hand, if you want to avoid stigmata on one foot... Read this!
The Cadillac XLR and C6 Corvette have a common ailment.
The airbag light will come on and stay on.
This is because the plug for the seat harness can be caught by the seat and the wires bent back and forth until they fail.
There's a service bulletin about this.
I've been looking for that bulletin for two years now.
I finally got the correct number from an absolutely buried thread on The Corvette Forum.
I've got the parts ordered.
Soon my light will be shut off.
Finally got around to putting a good scrub on the Kiv.39's chamber.
It had the typical "need a cheater pipe" hard to open after firing that's too stereotypical of the Mosin action.
Getting a good look at the chamber is not easy on a Mosin, but once I had the angle you could see a ring of black where the throat of the case was.
It was decades of lacquer accumulation.
Not horribly difficult to remove, but not something that would get much touched by the normal cleaning regimen.
The action cycles dummy rounds much easier now! I even tried before and after cleaning to see if would have any effect.
Now I have yet another gun to drag to the range to see if it's running better after getting something changed.
When something goes wrong and you can't go hang with your friends and you happen to be having a depressive moment, you wonder if they are affected by your absence.
They, of course, don't go out of their way to say, "we sure missed you last night."
This leads to a self actualizing condition where you begin to think, "I couldn't make it and I wasn't missed, so no reason to bother going next time."
Social media tends to reinforce the idea when your friends post what a great time they're having.
So you implode and just don't bother getting dressed. You log out of chat engines. You put your phone in airplane mode. You don't matter to them, so shutting off all these means of communication won't affect them because they aren't even going to try to use them. Notice how clever this part is? They CAN'T get hold of you to ask if you're OK and you use this as proof that they didn't ask as a justification to withdraw further.
Add in the double whammy of lack of sleep thanks to the wonders of recurring nightmares and you just barely drag your ass out of bed, go to Easter lunch, don't talk to anyone and crawl back into bed.
Where you wonder if your presence was even noticed or if your lack of interaction noted with sadness or gratitude.
Iowa is now the 19th state to pass Constitutional Carry into law.
I'm old enough to remember when it was called Vermont Carry, because that was the only state that didn't require some sort of "mother may I?" to tote a weapon.
They might not be the last state to do it this year either!
Florida has bills languishing in committee for Constitutional Carry, but there's scant hope of them making the floor thanks to RINO capture of the leadership in Tallahassee.
Delta Airlines continues to charge rates for tickets which could make it harder for many Georgians, particularly those in our Black and Brown communities, to exercise their right to travel.
See how easy it is to make your, rational, decisions racist in the current paradigm, Ed?
By the way, Ed, you're white too. So your decision to ID and charge black and brown people to fly on your planes is inherently racist and indicative of a systemic culture of racism at Delta Airlines.
By the way, what is the ethnic, racial and LGBT make up of your board?
What's the procedure for when your guns age into C&R status?
Doesn't matter until you sell it?
I think I've already spotted a potential trap with purchasing a gun you don't realize is C&R because you're assuming it's not old enough and thus skipping entering it into your bound book.
Checking my list of guns and I noticed that several of my guns have entered Curio and Relic status by becoming 50 years old. Guns which weren't C&R when I got them.
That's 1971 and earlier now.
I've yet to own a gun from new that became C&R. Twenty years to go on that Glock 21!
I've owned that pistol for thirty years? Where did the time go?
Willard snagged me himself a S&W Model 66-2 for me himself.
I was surprised to see how similar in size it is to a 640-3.
The J-frame is just a little smaller than the K-frame in pretty much every dimension, but only a little smaller.
But you need to add every millimeter to get that extra shot.
