I have found that functionality there isn't much difference between a hunting rifle and the evil scary looking assault weapon or sniper rifle. If it has reasonable accuracy for the distance you are hunting and shoots a properly sized and powerful round it will work. All of my firearms are military ones and they work well for hunting. My shotgun is a Mossberg 12 gauge (pump action same one used by the US military), my first hunting rifle is a Romanian SKS (still have it) and my preferred big game rifle is a decommissioned Russian M91/30 sniper rifle. The SKS with the 7.62x39 round will effectively take game up to a white tail deer while the M91/30 with the more powerful will effectively take all big game in North America. One of the guys who I hunt with uses an old Lee Enfield rifle from WWII and I hear that Mausers are still fairly popular to hunt with. Even the popular.30-06 round was a military round and is probably by far the most popular big game cartridge in the US.
In the USA depending on the gun store, the type of FFL they hold, and if you have gotten the tax stamp you can actually go and buy a fully auto or selective fire weapon. Granted these are retardedly expensive because of various bans on newer ones but ones made before 1986 (not entirely sure on the date and other details) you can buy. There is a gun shop about 2 miles from my work that can sell machine guns and has a few for sale right now.
Scientists Record Signal Of Distant Black-Hole-Consuming Star
A while back I was watching some show on astronomy (might have been The Universe on the history channel) where they talking about stellar deaths and stellar collisions. One of the scenarios was a neutron star (possibly a white dwarf I don't remember) passing through a regular start and resulting in a super nova.
How about using the great lakes as a storage basin, especially since the great lakes are actually slowly draining. This would also help with keeping the shipping lanes open as I know they have to do a fair amount of dredging. Of course that would need to be handled by the feds as it would also require cooperation by Canada. Another solution would be to dam off half of some old open pit mines and use those for pumped hydro storage. Some of them can be quite massive and the process of digging them out has already been done.
Actually I think it would likely have 535 amendments. As funny as your comment was (props to you fine sir) your comment really deserves a +5 insightful instead.
Sec. 17. Laws to embrace only one subject. No law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title.
The problem is that it requires that a judge find that the law or statute was illegally passed and then repeals it. This situation came up several years ago when the current version of Minnesota's carry law was passed. It was attached to an unrelated bill and a lawsuit was filed. The law was struck down and was re-passed the next year as a standalone bill. The problem arises when judges then won't overturn a statute that was passed using the same method which is what happened after this when it was discovered that the most recent (at the time) law raising the pay for state judges was passed.
If he is like me then I can understand why having a garage would increase your power consumption. Now granted most people don't have large compressors, welders, or other high current draw equipment (even my drill will draw 15 amps). For others substitute wood shop with a good drill press, table saw, lathe, etc all of which would be high draw equipment.
Sounds like when I took my father's old Nova (not the crappy 4 banger from the '80s) that use to be his race car but was street legal out for a drive. It is a fun car nothing practical about it with the race built 350 crate motor, 4.11 gears, turbo 350 tranny, and posi rear end. It is shit your self quick, will light them up in all gears, and will pop the front tires off the ground about 6 inches, but it doesn't brake well, turn well at all, and drinks down the gasoline. If you want a modern car with old style then go get your self a Morgan or modernize an older vehicle. When it comes to classic cars that are a few schools of though. There are the purists who think everything should be as close to all original as possible, there are those who want something to race originality be damned, and there are those who want to have something fun originality be damned. The latter two groups create some remarkable vehicles with the 3rd being the ones who will create a vehicle with much more modern equipment that reuses varying amount of the original vehicle. These include the people who do the hot rods and customs. I fall into the 3rd group with my father being in the second. I have a '68 MG Midget but am going to be putting in modern suspension and brakes as well as swapping the transmission (I want a 5 speed with over drive and synchros on all gears) and making substantial engine modifications (my goal is to see if I can get 250 hp out of that little A-series engine). When every thing is all said and done I will probably have $20,000 sunk into it yet it would only be worth $8,000, but I will have had fun building it and I wanted a fun car to drive which it will be. The people who do these kinds of things do it because they like to and as a whole I think we as a society benefit as is preserves our shared history.
They were also doing mechanical fuel injection but still I would be willing to bet there are a number of places that would source you a new cam and have it out the door within a day for certain values of reasonable. In this case an old Mercedes is more like a specialty piece of equipment a better comparison would be to a '63 Ford, GM, or Chrysler. Parts for those things are common as hell and most auto parts will have parts for them at the warehouse and can be delivered same day if they don't have it on hand. Even for specialty vehicles if they have a following, like old British cars with the A-series engines, there are plenty of sources for components granted you won't find them at the standard auto parts store but then again those who run in those circles know where the local sources are.
So that everyone actually has some reasonable figures to look at you can see the federal budget breakdown in some very detailed manner various places with nice charts and graphics.
Yes we spend a ton of money on military related spending but contrary to what people think or have been led to believe it is not the majority of the total federal budget. Even if you include stuff like veterans affairs or civil benefits for the military (pensions and health care for retired military) it still isn't as big as people make it out to be.
You missed an important aspect of their argument. The term assault rifle is not actually used as only those who have the tax stamp can legally own them but instead they like to use assault weapon which makes people think you are talking about assault rifles when you really aren't. Reading through the old assault weapons ban that had previously expired was quite humorous as all of the things described where cosmetic in nature for a semiautomatic rifle. So something like a M1 Garand was not classed as one while something like a SKS is. The biggest differences between them was that round (the Garand fired the more powerful.30-06 while the SKS fires the 7.62x39 which is comparable to a.30-30), the capacity (the Garand holds 8, the SKS 10), and the fact that the SKS has a bayonet lug. They are both semi-automatic military rifles with integral magazines but one was classified as an assault weapon and the other wasn't. Strangely the one was extensively used in various conflicts was not the one classified as an assault weapon while the other one that saw only limited use mostly by irregular or forward scout forces was.
The extended mags really do suck when I bought my SKS it had one of the AK style 30 round duckbill mags and it would fail to feed quite regularly so I went out a bought the correct style mag and it now feeds like it should.
To answer those who will question the usefulness of something like a SKS or semi-auto AK, they make wonderful entry level deer guns, much like the.30-30s of old. They fire a comparably powerful round, have good enough accuracy, and are relatively inexpensive. They also make a great coyote or varmint gun.
This I can attest to. A while back I got a pretty deep large cut on one of my fingers enough so that it did a fair amount of nerve damage and now have no feeling on the top part of that finger. I don't feel when things touch it, hot, cold, etc. Because of this I have accidentally gotten some bad burns and not known about it. Granted this is nothing compared to those stories that come up every so often of the poor kid who doesn't feel any pain that really would be hell.
At least she knew how to operate the machine. While on the light rail in Portland I overheard an individual reciting a story about how she couldn't get hired as a cashier because she couldn't do simple math (like making change) and was offered the use of an adding machine. Her statement back to the interviewer was "How am I suppose to know how to use an adding machine if no one has ever taught me" at which point the interview was ended. She then waxed on about how unfair the world is and how she has been wronged because she can't get a job to support her self after she quit high school because they didn't teach anything useful.
Sadly this type of thinking seems to be more common that most would realize. While in high school and college I worked at a gas station and had worked my way up to assistant manager (not all that difficult) and got the joy of interviewing people. The high school dropouts were the worst as they seemed to believe that the world owed them everything and it was a terrible affront to them that you would ever be asking them to do simple math or expect that they show up to work. My favorite thing to ask when interviewing for the gas station was "Tell me why I shouldn't hire you." Which produced some interesting answers such as:
I do a lot of drugs.
I can't cont.
I will only show up if I feel like coming into work.
I like to steal.
I can't really read.
I only plan on working here until I can buy.
There were others but these were both fairly common, highly humorous, and very telling. By the way if you really want to screw with a cashier hand them $10.03 when the total is 9.28
I have looked at them and they might actually be water proof after they have been through a fire as they just have a plastic shell that would melt and the 2 halves would basically settle together. While probably not water proof I would assume they provide enough water protection from the fire hose. The fire proof ceramic seam cross section always looked like they would interlock.
Actually I paid for both. I want to protect my firearms from those who would want to steal them and from any from the potential for fire or water damage as well as protect others from their misuse. They may not be expensive ones but they fulfill their purpose and are of good quality.
A real gun safe weighs 300 lbs. and cannot be opened using any of these methods.
I would say that is the bare minimum weight. Also when bolting to the floor drill out the holes in the floor first and put in some concrete that expands some when it sets so it locks the blots in instead of using those cheap plastic anchors. Just stuff the bolts into the partially filled holes before the concrete sets and you are good.
This is what I am working on with my kids. The oldest is 3 and has become aware of guns at a surprisingly young age (I don't think I knew about them until 1st or 2nd grade) from other kids at preschool who "play" guns. As I have firearms he has been introduced to the concept of them and has seen what they are capable of (milk jug full of water meets 12 gauge slug). As I don't want him to have an innate fear of them I have also started teaching him about them and how to handle them even though he is still too small to hold one himself. He already understands the basics of proper handling such as point in a safe direction, only point it at something you want to shoot, always treat it like it is loaded, etc. He has seen me use my target air rifle (.22 cal 1200 fps) to take out yard pests. When he is big enough to actually handle one I will get him his own BB gun to learn with and then move up to a real firearm once he has mastered that. All of my guns (1 shotgun, 2 rifles, and 1 air rifle) are kept in a real gun safe (cost more than all 4 guns combined) along with other valuables for the protection of my kids as well as for the protection of the firearms
You're doing it wrong. Since at that point you are stating that you are willing to destroy the safe why go after the strong parts when you can attack the weak lock. Just break the lock and be done. As far a humidity in the basement they sell humidity control devices like larger sacks of those moisture absorbing silica pellets and you can reuse them once they are saturated by tossing them in the oven for a couple of a few times a year. If you have lots of humidity in your basement or a large safe toss a couple of bags in.
So your stack-on cabinet has a lock with a tumbler, my solution would be to take your provided screw driver a hammer I have and a large pair of vice grip pliers and then hammer the screw driver through the key slot on the lock. Then I attach the vice grip pliers to the shaft of the screw drive and turn until I break the pins in the tumbler. Better yet is the device the guys used in the movie Heat to break into the back door of the precious metal repository. Same general principals but a slightly more elegant solution.
Depends on the safe, cheap crappy ones are placebo, slightly better ones are for fire protection so lets call these what they really are fire chests, really good ones do all of that as well provide real security instead of just theater. A good safe is water proof, fire proof, heavy as hell, thwart most drilling attempts, thwart most cutting torches, thwart all handheld crowbar/pry bar attempts, and will be secured to the floor. No safe is impervious to all attacks but a good one requires that someone have access to a forklift, thermal lance, oxy fuel torch with lots of gas, some pretty serious drilling equipment (think the movie Heat), etc. The whole point is to make it not worth the effort for most people. I had a shitty safe once (slightly better than a fire chest) and one of my sister's boyfriends broke into it (I was away at college and it was at my parents house) and I ended up with a loss around $16,000 (I collected paper money and had some going back to colonial times). That safe succumbed to the crowbar attack.
Sounds like you have a guns safe much like mine. Granted I could have gone with one of the el-cheapo ones or none at all but then then I choose to be a responsible owner. I have never liked the el-cheapo ones as it seems the easiest method of getting around the simple pin tumbler lock would be to drive a big screw driver through the key slot and then just turn it isn't elegant but it is effective. Sadly I paid more for the safe than the firearms contained within, but then again it also is a great place to store documents that I don't want to loose either.
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I have found that functionality there isn't much difference between a hunting rifle and the evil scary looking assault weapon or sniper rifle. If it has reasonable accuracy for the distance you are hunting and shoots a properly sized and powerful round it will work. All of my firearms are military ones and they work well for hunting. My shotgun is a Mossberg 12 gauge (pump action same one used by the US military), my first hunting rifle is a Romanian SKS (still have it) and my preferred big game rifle is a decommissioned Russian M91/30 sniper rifle. The SKS with the 7.62x39 round will effectively take game up to a white tail deer while the M91/30 with the more powerful will effectively take all big game in North America. One of the guys who I hunt with uses an old Lee Enfield rifle from WWII and I hear that Mausers are still fairly popular to hunt with. Even the popular .30-06 round was a military round and is probably by far the most popular big game cartridge in the US.
In the USA depending on the gun store, the type of FFL they hold, and if you have gotten the tax stamp you can actually go and buy a fully auto or selective fire weapon. Granted these are retardedly expensive because of various bans on newer ones but ones made before 1986 (not entirely sure on the date and other details) you can buy. There is a gun shop about 2 miles from my work that can sell machine guns and has a few for sale right now.
You could probably get a better yield if you used copies of Gigli, but for the ultimate bomb you would need to use copies of The Hottie & the Nottie.
Q: Why do the British drink warm beer?
A: Because Lucas Electric makes refrigerators
Norton sucks like a black hole with daddy issues
Of all the days to not have mod points.
Scientists Record Signal Of Distant Black-Hole-Consuming Star
A while back I was watching some show on astronomy (might have been The Universe on the history channel) where they talking about stellar deaths and stellar collisions. One of the scenarios was a neutron star (possibly a white dwarf I don't remember) passing through a regular start and resulting in a super nova.
How about using the great lakes as a storage basin, especially since the great lakes are actually slowly draining. This would also help with keeping the shipping lanes open as I know they have to do a fair amount of dredging. Of course that would need to be handled by the feds as it would also require cooperation by Canada. Another solution would be to dam off half of some old open pit mines and use those for pumped hydro storage. Some of them can be quite massive and the process of digging them out has already been done.
Actually I think it would likely have 535 amendments. As funny as your comment was (props to you fine sir) your comment really deserves a +5 insightful instead.
Sec. 17. Laws to embrace only one subject. No law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title.
The problem is that it requires that a judge find that the law or statute was illegally passed and then repeals it. This situation came up several years ago when the current version of Minnesota's carry law was passed. It was attached to an unrelated bill and a lawsuit was filed. The law was struck down and was re-passed the next year as a standalone bill. The problem arises when judges then won't overturn a statute that was passed using the same method which is what happened after this when it was discovered that the most recent (at the time) law raising the pay for state judges was passed.
If he is like me then I can understand why having a garage would increase your power consumption. Now granted most people don't have large compressors, welders, or other high current draw equipment (even my drill will draw 15 amps). For others substitute wood shop with a good drill press, table saw, lathe, etc all of which would be high draw equipment.
Sounds like when I took my father's old Nova (not the crappy 4 banger from the '80s) that use to be his race car but was street legal out for a drive. It is a fun car nothing practical about it with the race built 350 crate motor, 4.11 gears, turbo 350 tranny, and posi rear end. It is shit your self quick, will light them up in all gears, and will pop the front tires off the ground about 6 inches, but it doesn't brake well, turn well at all, and drinks down the gasoline. If you want a modern car with old style then go get your self a Morgan or modernize an older vehicle. When it comes to classic cars that are a few schools of though. There are the purists who think everything should be as close to all original as possible, there are those who want something to race originality be damned, and there are those who want to have something fun originality be damned. The latter two groups create some remarkable vehicles with the 3rd being the ones who will create a vehicle with much more modern equipment that reuses varying amount of the original vehicle. These include the people who do the hot rods and customs. I fall into the 3rd group with my father being in the second. I have a '68 MG Midget but am going to be putting in modern suspension and brakes as well as swapping the transmission (I want a 5 speed with over drive and synchros on all gears) and making substantial engine modifications (my goal is to see if I can get 250 hp out of that little A-series engine). When every thing is all said and done I will probably have $20,000 sunk into it yet it would only be worth $8,000, but I will have had fun building it and I wanted a fun car to drive which it will be. The people who do these kinds of things do it because they like to and as a whole I think we as a society benefit as is preserves our shared history.
They were also doing mechanical fuel injection but still I would be willing to bet there are a number of places that would source you a new cam and have it out the door within a day for certain values of reasonable. In this case an old Mercedes is more like a specialty piece of equipment a better comparison would be to a '63 Ford, GM, or Chrysler. Parts for those things are common as hell and most auto parts will have parts for them at the warehouse and can be delivered same day if they don't have it on hand. Even for specialty vehicles if they have a following, like old British cars with the A-series engines, there are plenty of sources for components granted you won't find them at the standard auto parts store but then again those who run in those circles know where the local sources are.
So that everyone actually has some reasonable figures to look at you can see the federal budget breakdown in some very detailed manner various places with nice charts and graphics.
There is the XKCD Money chart
The NY Times "Obama’s 2012 Budget Proposal: How $3.7 Trillion is Spent"
The NY Times "Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal: How It’s Spent"
The NY Times "Four Ways to Slice Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal" best when viewed by department as it is pretty worthless otherwise
The U.S. National Debt Clock showing the 6 largest budget items.
Yes we spend a ton of money on military related spending but contrary to what people think or have been led to believe it is not the majority of the total federal budget. Even if you include stuff like veterans affairs or civil benefits for the military (pensions and health care for retired military) it still isn't as big as people make it out to be.
You missed an important aspect of their argument. The term assault rifle is not actually used as only those who have the tax stamp can legally own them but instead they like to use assault weapon which makes people think you are talking about assault rifles when you really aren't. Reading through the old assault weapons ban that had previously expired was quite humorous as all of the things described where cosmetic in nature for a semiautomatic rifle. So something like a M1 Garand was not classed as one while something like a SKS is. The biggest differences between them was that round (the Garand fired the more powerful .30-06 while the SKS fires the 7.62x39 which is comparable to a .30-30), the capacity (the Garand holds 8, the SKS 10), and the fact that the SKS has a bayonet lug. They are both semi-automatic military rifles with integral magazines but one was classified as an assault weapon and the other wasn't. Strangely the one was extensively used in various conflicts was not the one classified as an assault weapon while the other one that saw only limited use mostly by irregular or forward scout forces was.
.30-30s of old. They fire a comparably powerful round, have good enough accuracy, and are relatively inexpensive. They also make a great coyote or varmint gun.
The extended mags really do suck when I bought my SKS it had one of the AK style 30 round duckbill mags and it would fail to feed quite regularly so I went out a bought the correct style mag and it now feeds like it should.
To answer those who will question the usefulness of something like a SKS or semi-auto AK, they make wonderful entry level deer guns, much like the
This I can attest to. A while back I got a pretty deep large cut on one of my fingers enough so that it did a fair amount of nerve damage and now have no feeling on the top part of that finger. I don't feel when things touch it, hot, cold, etc. Because of this I have accidentally gotten some bad burns and not known about it. Granted this is nothing compared to those stories that come up every so often of the poor kid who doesn't feel any pain that really would be hell.
Are the Russians interested, or do you mean Guantanamo?
Yes.
At least she knew how to operate the machine. While on the light rail in Portland I overheard an individual reciting a story about how she couldn't get hired as a cashier because she couldn't do simple math (like making change) and was offered the use of an adding machine. Her statement back to the interviewer was "How am I suppose to know how to use an adding machine if no one has ever taught me" at which point the interview was ended. She then waxed on about how unfair the world is and how she has been wronged because she can't get a job to support her self after she quit high school because they didn't teach anything useful.
.
Sadly this type of thinking seems to be more common that most would realize. While in high school and college I worked at a gas station and had worked my way up to assistant manager (not all that difficult) and got the joy of interviewing people. The high school dropouts were the worst as they seemed to believe that the world owed them everything and it was a terrible affront to them that you would ever be asking them to do simple math or expect that they show up to work. My favorite thing to ask when interviewing for the gas station was "Tell me why I shouldn't hire you." Which produced some interesting answers such as:
I do a lot of drugs.
I can't cont.
I will only show up if I feel like coming into work.
I like to steal.
I can't really read.
I only plan on working here until I can buy
There were others but these were both fairly common, highly humorous, and very telling. By the way if you really want to screw with a cashier hand them $10.03 when the total is 9.28
I have looked at them and they might actually be water proof after they have been through a fire as they just have a plastic shell that would melt and the 2 halves would basically settle together. While probably not water proof I would assume they provide enough water protection from the fire hose. The fire proof ceramic seam cross section always looked like they would interlock.
Actually I paid for both. I want to protect my firearms from those who would want to steal them and from any from the potential for fire or water damage as well as protect others from their misuse. They may not be expensive ones but they fulfill their purpose and are of good quality.
A real gun safe weighs 300 lbs. and cannot be opened using any of these methods.
I would say that is the bare minimum weight. Also when bolting to the floor drill out the holes in the floor first and put in some concrete that expands some when it sets so it locks the blots in instead of using those cheap plastic anchors. Just stuff the bolts into the partially filled holes before the concrete sets and you are good.
This is what I am working on with my kids. The oldest is 3 and has become aware of guns at a surprisingly young age (I don't think I knew about them until 1st or 2nd grade) from other kids at preschool who "play" guns. As I have firearms he has been introduced to the concept of them and has seen what they are capable of (milk jug full of water meets 12 gauge slug). As I don't want him to have an innate fear of them I have also started teaching him about them and how to handle them even though he is still too small to hold one himself. He already understands the basics of proper handling such as point in a safe direction, only point it at something you want to shoot, always treat it like it is loaded, etc. He has seen me use my target air rifle (.22 cal 1200 fps) to take out yard pests. When he is big enough to actually handle one I will get him his own BB gun to learn with and then move up to a real firearm once he has mastered that. All of my guns (1 shotgun, 2 rifles, and 1 air rifle) are kept in a real gun safe (cost more than all 4 guns combined) along with other valuables for the protection of my kids as well as for the protection of the firearms
You're doing it wrong. Since at that point you are stating that you are willing to destroy the safe why go after the strong parts when you can attack the weak lock. Just break the lock and be done. As far a humidity in the basement they sell humidity control devices like larger sacks of those moisture absorbing silica pellets and you can reuse them once they are saturated by tossing them in the oven for a couple of a few times a year. If you have lots of humidity in your basement or a large safe toss a couple of bags in.
So your stack-on cabinet has a lock with a tumbler, my solution would be to take your provided screw driver a hammer I have and a large pair of vice grip pliers and then hammer the screw driver through the key slot on the lock. Then I attach the vice grip pliers to the shaft of the screw drive and turn until I break the pins in the tumbler. Better yet is the device the guys used in the movie Heat to break into the back door of the precious metal repository. Same general principals but a slightly more elegant solution.
Depends on the safe, cheap crappy ones are placebo, slightly better ones are for fire protection so lets call these what they really are fire chests, really good ones do all of that as well provide real security instead of just theater. A good safe is water proof, fire proof, heavy as hell, thwart most drilling attempts, thwart most cutting torches, thwart all handheld crowbar/pry bar attempts, and will be secured to the floor. No safe is impervious to all attacks but a good one requires that someone have access to a forklift, thermal lance, oxy fuel torch with lots of gas, some pretty serious drilling equipment (think the movie Heat), etc. The whole point is to make it not worth the effort for most people. I had a shitty safe once (slightly better than a fire chest) and one of my sister's boyfriends broke into it (I was away at college and it was at my parents house) and I ended up with a loss around $16,000 (I collected paper money and had some going back to colonial times). That safe succumbed to the crowbar attack.
Sounds like you have a guns safe much like mine. Granted I could have gone with one of the el-cheapo ones or none at all but then then I choose to be a responsible owner. I have never liked the el-cheapo ones as it seems the easiest method of getting around the simple pin tumbler lock would be to drive a big screw driver through the key slot and then just turn it isn't elegant but it is effective. Sadly I paid more for the safe than the firearms contained within, but then again it also is a great place to store documents that I don't want to loose either.