Antique firearms (made before 1895 IIRC) are a unique case under the law. If one were to buy one from a dealer they don't have to do the paperwork that a modern firearm would have to go through and have the same requirements as a private party sale. Also firearms of that age can be shipped directly to individuals instead of having to be shipped to a FFL holder and transferred in person with the accompanying paper work. I actually did some research into this since I noticed that there were a number of Finnish M39s for sale over the internet that stated they didn't need to be shipped to a FFL holder first and I wondered what that was about.
Maybe not a wnoosh. There are a lot of people who think that firearms are actually fairly expensive. For example if one only sees the cover of the ads in my local newspaper for sporting goods stores they will usually have a fairly high end firearm on sale on the front. This would be something like a really nice semi auto shotgun with some engraving on the receiver, a really nice side by side or OU shotgun, a high end semi auto AR style rifle, or other such firearms with a sale price of $1200 and up.
If you want a cheap firearm start looking at some old Russian M91/30s or Russian M44s. I bought a 91/30 for $89 about 6 years ago on sale and while they have gone up in price since then $130 isn't bad for a gun that shoots real bullets. Hell even my Mossberg 500 shotgun that I got 7 years ago was only $225 new and it came with 3 chokes, a bird barrel, rifled slug barrel, and a 2.5x scope. If you wanted "untraceable" you could always go for a private party sale instead of buying from a dealer if you live in a state that allows transfer of firearms between 2 private individuals without having to register the transfer.
Well from my experience religion for the typical Israeli is much like religion for the typical American. It will run the gamut from atheist to crazy nut job Fred Phelps. Most of the Israelis I have worked with have been much closer to the atheist and what would be the Jewish equivalent of a C&E christian. As one guy put it "I can eat a whole fucking pig covered in cheese". Granted this was in the fairly cosmopolitan city of Haifa working at a place populated by engineers. That said there did seem to be a higher concentration of the more devout in Israel than I have typically seen in the US. The problems with the more devout are at worst minor rioting when different religions have conflicting holidays. For example I was cautioned one time I was there to just basically stay at the hotel over the weekend because Yom Kippur and the Feast of the Cross fell on the same day and these 2 holidays really are incompatible so to avoid some minor street fights or getting caught up in some stone hucking between the more orthodox followers of those religions. At this point I get the impression that these conflicts aren't all that different in scale than the Protestant vs. Catholic issues in Belfast now.
I really hate the phrase "accidental shooting" and don't believe in them. Given every thing that I have ever been taught about how to handle and use firearms every "accidental shooting" really is a negligent shooting. There are so many thing that have to go wrong when a shooting happens that I would support charges of criminal negligence every time. Lets take a couple of common examples. First and most trotted out one is a small child finds the parents loaded hand gun usually in some place like a night stand or purse. In this case there are 3 things that have all gone wrong: 1. The gun was kept where a child could find it 2. The gun was not locked with a trigger or barrel lock 3. The gun was loaded Avoiding any one of those things would have prevented the shooting but no 3 negligent actions all had to happen. Lets look at another common one, teenage kid shoots a fried with parents gun that was believed to be unloaded. Here again multiple things have gone wrong. In addition to the 3 mentioned in the previous example 3 more things have gone wrong. The first was that the individual who shot their friend was pointing a firearm at something they didn't intend to shoot. Second the individual handling the firearm was not handling it like it was loaded. Third the individual did not check and make the firearm safe upon picking it up. So in this tragic case we have a grand total of 6 negligent actions that if just one of them was avoided the tragedy wouldn't of happened.
All of that said I do believe in accidental discharge of a firearm as I have had such a situation happen to me. While out hunting in rather inclement weather I had some sleet land on the bolt face and temporarily freeze the firing pin forward so when I closed the action after loading my SKS it discharged the round it chambered. In this case because I was practicing proper handling the only thing that happened was that the bullet went into the ground about 10 feet in front of me. Immediately after that I went back to my truck and tore down, inspected, cleaned and oiled my sks to verify that noting was wrong with it and was able to get the pin to freeze forward again to verify that that is what happened. I have never had that problem since and now when I am out with it know to check it before closing the action in addition to all of the other safe firearm handling procedures.
Unfortunately you are correct. There are far too many negligent firearm owners. I would also like to see better training for firearm ownership, even if it does end up being like drivers ed in the US it would be better. Personally I would prefer training more akin to the BSA shotgun or rifle merit badges but even something like hunter firearm safety certificate, even if it is lacking compared to the BSA merit badges, is better than the current nothing that is the status quo. I say this as a firearm owner who owns a few long guns and a side arm and keeps them locked up in a very nice heavy fireproof safe that is bolted into the poured concrete floor and poured concrete wall in my basement.
If...we were to immediately launch an all-out and coordinated attack on all their airfields and missile bases we'd stand a damn good chance of catchin 'em with their pants down. Hell, we got five to one missile superiority as it is. We could easily assign three missiles to every target and still have a very effective reserve force for any other contingency...An unofficial study, which we undertook of this eventuality, indicate that we would destroy ninety percent of their nuclear capabilities. We would therefore prevail and suffer only modest and acceptable civilian casualties from the remaining force which would be badly damaged and uncoordinated.
It seems he is getting to be more like General Buck Turgidson or Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper every day. I'm now just waiting for him to start spouting off about a mine shaft gap.
When I was there I didn't even bother to try to get close to either of those 2. I did take some nice pictures of both of them but then I just used a telephoto lens and a small tripod so I didn't have to use a flash. Then again I went to the Louvre to actually see the art and while I did take pictures of the things I liked I spent a lot of time just looking at the pieces I liked. There is a lot of really neat stuff to see if you go through the entire museum, and yes I did go through the entire museum and looked at everything on display, it only took me 2 days open to close.
I was thinking along a similar line but my suggestion would be to wait until they are almost 18 (allowing plenty of time for the paperwork to go through). Find out as many of the pros and cons as you can and try to provide them with the most data to make an informed decision. Keep their options open as long as you can.
This now makes me wonder what would happen if one where to try to use one of those high denomination bills at Wal*Mart. I know they have had problems in the past with the novelty $1,000,000 bills. Maybe Best Buy would also be worth visiting.
Never had a problem with the border agents on either side up by Grand Portage. Last summer brought the kids up to see Kakabeka Falls since it was just a day trip from where we were staying on the north shore. It may be more of a function of where the border crossing is as I seem to always have problems when I fly through Newark or JFK but never when going through Atlanta.
Hey I have always given truthful answers to those questions but with you provide an answer of 375,000 or 255,000 miles they no longer want to talk to you especially when the vehicles are 16-19 years old.
I wouldn't worry about seeing any $10,000 or even $100,000 notes as those reside in private collections and while still legal tender someone would be a fool to try an use one. I would however question where they got a $100,000 note and I believe that the secrete service would also have some questions as those were only used for inter-bank transfers.
Same here. It isn't like my job is so interesting and the drive to the local courthouse is much shorter than my commute. Granted the only jury I was on was a simple civil case that took about 3 hours from start to end so it wasn't one of those trial of the century type of ones where people end up being sequestered for months which would suck. Still justice needs to be carried out and it is my civic duty, I just wish I had been on a more interesting trial instead of one that was so clear it almost bordered on frivolous.
And you know what Lego sets my kids want more than any others? The Lego creator series since while they do come with instructions it seems to be for 3 different models and they come with a lot of pieces. Granted they have a number of star wars sets now but they have far more creator sets as well as Lego city sets.
Never thought of that, but to do it would take someone more ballsy than I as it seems to skate awfully close to the line where a judge would rule against you. That and I don't know where I would get IR absorbing paint like what is used on Minnesota's new license plates which are designed to be easily read by ALPRs with very high contrast in the IR spectrum. This tells me that the cameras they are using don't have IR filters and with enough power being dumped out around the plate it will hopefully screw up the sensor for all the other vehicles around as well.
Wouldn't surprise me especially since most of those devices for obscuring license plates are covers or paints and are easily dealt with in accordance with the law. For example Minnesota State Statute 169.79 sub section 7 states:
All plates must be (1) securely fastened so as to prevent them from swinging, (2) displayed horizontally with the identifying numbers and letters facing outward from the vehicle, and (3) mounted in the upright position. The person driving the motor vehicle shall keep the plate legible and unobstructed and free from grease, dust, or other blurring material so that the lettering is plainly visible at all times. It is unlawful to cover any assigned letters and numbers or the name of the state of origin of a license plate with any material whatever, including any clear or colorless material that affects the plate's visibility or reflectivity.
So in my state any cover one were to put over their plate, including those license plate frames dealers put on, would be illegal. At the same time if one were to rig up a system where one was dumping out massive amounts of IR around the plate in an effort to flood the image that would be legal. Also for the record there are no laws covering the IR emission from vehicles in Minnesota as all light emissions regulations deal with specific colors (white, blue, amber, and red) light, or with flashing lights.
I have done some digging into seeing if flooding ALPRs with IR is possible and while some people seem to say it isn't it seems like their efforts have been fairly half assed. They only put out a few watts of power instead of going for a few hundred watts of power. I want to build a frame that covers no part of my plate but will draw 20 amps at 12V and dump it into a large array of these IR LEDs. From the pictures I have seen where people photograph a 100 equivalent watt bulb showing that even that doesn't flood the image they just didn't take it far enough so ~200W going into some IR LEDs would be about as bright as a 1000 watt bulb which now is starting to get up into the range of back lit by the sun range type of power which will mess with the picture.
Personally if we really wanted to mess with them set up a bunch of disposable e-mail addresses over the course of a week using open WiFi connections with a computer running ToR and then periodically e-mail random data attachments back and forth. Hell I've done this for shits and giggles, when I am at the bank send off some random data since I can connect the Starbucks WiFi across the parking lot, at the used book store connect to McDonalds WiFi next door. Poisson the well make their mining of data useless and make them waste resources trying to decrypt output from/dev/random. The e-mail address are just first names of people in groups (the Beatles, the 12 apostles, Metallica, the US senate judiciary committee, etc) with random letter/number combination passwords. After a couple of months stop using those e-mails and then after a bit create a new set of accounts but a different number of them rinse and repeat. Being a white male with US citizenship, born in the US and residing in the US offers a lot of protection to do this but I wouldn't recommend anyone with a suspicious* background to do this.
* By suspicious I mean someone who might have ties to any protest organization, be a naturalized citizen, have visited any strange countries, be a minority, committed a crime other than a traffic/parking ticket, or any other group the government may want to target or would be ignored by the news media. Basically it would be similar to driving while black, or the opposite of being a young white girl who gets murdered or put on trial in a foreign country. I hate to say it but it is sadly true that the general population would't care about your plight if you could be painted as an undesireable.
I would love to find this out as well given the silly offers I have gotten. The worst offer I got was for $35,000 a year which being someone with 10 years of experience with securing industrial control systems and 15 years experience as a software engineer which I laughed at. Most of the unsolicited offers I have been getting have been for $50K-$60K but frequently there are the stupid low ones.
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Antique firearms (made before 1895 IIRC) are a unique case under the law. If one were to buy one from a dealer they don't have to do the paperwork that a modern firearm would have to go through and have the same requirements as a private party sale. Also firearms of that age can be shipped directly to individuals instead of having to be shipped to a FFL holder and transferred in person with the accompanying paper work. I actually did some research into this since I noticed that there were a number of Finnish M39s for sale over the internet that stated they didn't need to be shipped to a FFL holder first and I wondered what that was about.
Maybe not a wnoosh. There are a lot of people who think that firearms are actually fairly expensive. For example if one only sees the cover of the ads in my local newspaper for sporting goods stores they will usually have a fairly high end firearm on sale on the front. This would be something like a really nice semi auto shotgun with some engraving on the receiver, a really nice side by side or OU shotgun, a high end semi auto AR style rifle, or other such firearms with a sale price of $1200 and up.
If you want a cheap firearm start looking at some old Russian M91/30s or Russian M44s. I bought a 91/30 for $89 about 6 years ago on sale and while they have gone up in price since then $130 isn't bad for a gun that shoots real bullets. Hell even my Mossberg 500 shotgun that I got 7 years ago was only $225 new and it came with 3 chokes, a bird barrel, rifled slug barrel, and a 2.5x scope. If you wanted "untraceable" you could always go for a private party sale instead of buying from a dealer if you live in a state that allows transfer of firearms between 2 private individuals without having to register the transfer.
Don't worry we can still hate them all for being douche bags.
White collar crimes are almost never enforced unless there is a major collapse of a market... then someone gets scapegoated.
Often times not even then.
Well from my experience religion for the typical Israeli is much like religion for the typical American. It will run the gamut from atheist to crazy nut job Fred Phelps. Most of the Israelis I have worked with have been much closer to the atheist and what would be the Jewish equivalent of a C&E christian. As one guy put it "I can eat a whole fucking pig covered in cheese". Granted this was in the fairly cosmopolitan city of Haifa working at a place populated by engineers. That said there did seem to be a higher concentration of the more devout in Israel than I have typically seen in the US. The problems with the more devout are at worst minor rioting when different religions have conflicting holidays. For example I was cautioned one time I was there to just basically stay at the hotel over the weekend because Yom Kippur and the Feast of the Cross fell on the same day and these 2 holidays really are incompatible so to avoid some minor street fights or getting caught up in some stone hucking between the more orthodox followers of those religions. At this point I get the impression that these conflicts aren't all that different in scale than the Protestant vs. Catholic issues in Belfast now.
I really hate the phrase "accidental shooting" and don't believe in them. Given every thing that I have ever been taught about how to handle and use firearms every "accidental shooting" really is a negligent shooting. There are so many thing that have to go wrong when a shooting happens that I would support charges of criminal negligence every time. Lets take a couple of common examples. First and most trotted out one is a small child finds the parents loaded hand gun usually in some place like a night stand or purse. In this case there are 3 things that have all gone wrong:
1. The gun was kept where a child could find it
2. The gun was not locked with a trigger or barrel lock
3. The gun was loaded
Avoiding any one of those things would have prevented the shooting but no 3 negligent actions all had to happen. Lets look at another common one, teenage kid shoots a fried with parents gun that was believed to be unloaded. Here again multiple things have gone wrong. In addition to the 3 mentioned in the previous example 3 more things have gone wrong. The first was that the individual who shot their friend was pointing a firearm at something they didn't intend to shoot. Second the individual handling the firearm was not handling it like it was loaded. Third the individual did not check and make the firearm safe upon picking it up. So in this tragic case we have a grand total of 6 negligent actions that if just one of them was avoided the tragedy wouldn't of happened.
All of that said I do believe in accidental discharge of a firearm as I have had such a situation happen to me. While out hunting in rather inclement weather I had some sleet land on the bolt face and temporarily freeze the firing pin forward so when I closed the action after loading my SKS it discharged the round it chambered. In this case because I was practicing proper handling the only thing that happened was that the bullet went into the ground about 10 feet in front of me. Immediately after that I went back to my truck and tore down, inspected, cleaned and oiled my sks to verify that noting was wrong with it and was able to get the pin to freeze forward again to verify that that is what happened. I have never had that problem since and now when I am out with it know to check it before closing the action in addition to all of the other safe firearm handling procedures.
Unfortunately you are correct. There are far too many negligent firearm owners. I would also like to see better training for firearm ownership, even if it does end up being like drivers ed in the US it would be better. Personally I would prefer training more akin to the BSA shotgun or rifle merit badges but even something like hunter firearm safety certificate, even if it is lacking compared to the BSA merit badges, is better than the current nothing that is the status quo. I say this as a firearm owner who owns a few long guns and a side arm and keeps them locked up in a very nice heavy fireproof safe that is bolted into the poured concrete floor and poured concrete wall in my basement.
Well it isn't like NSA Director Mike Rogers isn't a caricature of General Buck Turgidson....
Well shit we're fucked.
If...we were to immediately launch an all-out and coordinated attack on all their airfields and missile bases we'd stand a damn good chance of catchin 'em with their pants down. Hell, we got five to one missile superiority as it is. We could easily assign three missiles to every target and still have a very effective reserve force for any other contingency...An unofficial study, which we undertook of this eventuality, indicate that we would destroy ninety percent of their nuclear capabilities. We would therefore prevail and suffer only modest and acceptable civilian casualties from the remaining force which would be badly damaged and uncoordinated.
It seems he is getting to be more like General Buck Turgidson or Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper every day. I'm now just waiting for him to start spouting off about a mine shaft gap.
When I was there I didn't even bother to try to get close to either of those 2. I did take some nice pictures of both of them but then I just used a telephoto lens and a small tripod so I didn't have to use a flash. Then again I went to the Louvre to actually see the art and while I did take pictures of the things I liked I spent a lot of time just looking at the pieces I liked. There is a lot of really neat stuff to see if you go through the entire museum, and yes I did go through the entire museum and looked at everything on display, it only took me 2 days open to close.
I was thinking along a similar line but my suggestion would be to wait until they are almost 18 (allowing plenty of time for the paperwork to go through). Find out as many of the pros and cons as you can and try to provide them with the most data to make an informed decision. Keep their options open as long as you can.
This now makes me wonder what would happen if one where to try to use one of those high denomination bills at Wal*Mart. I know they have had problems in the past with the novelty $1,000,000 bills. Maybe Best Buy would also be worth visiting.
Never had a problem with the border agents on either side up by Grand Portage. Last summer brought the kids up to see Kakabeka Falls since it was just a day trip from where we were staying on the north shore. It may be more of a function of where the border crossing is as I seem to always have problems when I fly through Newark or JFK but never when going through Atlanta.
Hey I have always given truthful answers to those questions but with you provide an answer of 375,000 or 255,000 miles they no longer want to talk to you especially when the vehicles are 16-19 years old.
I wouldn't worry about seeing any $10,000 or even $100,000 notes as those reside in private collections and while still legal tender someone would be a fool to try an use one. I would however question where they got a $100,000 note and I believe that the secrete service would also have some questions as those were only used for inter-bank transfers.
Same here. It isn't like my job is so interesting and the drive to the local courthouse is much shorter than my commute. Granted the only jury I was on was a simple civil case that took about 3 hours from start to end so it wasn't one of those trial of the century type of ones where people end up being sequestered for months which would suck. Still justice needs to be carried out and it is my civic duty, I just wish I had been on a more interesting trial instead of one that was so clear it almost bordered on frivolous.
And you know what Lego sets my kids want more than any others? The Lego creator series since while they do come with instructions it seems to be for 3 different models and they come with a lot of pieces. Granted they have a number of star wars sets now but they have far more creator sets as well as Lego city sets.
What makes her email any different from everyone elses'?
The clout to have it buried or lost.
Never thought of that, but to do it would take someone more ballsy than I as it seems to skate awfully close to the line where a judge would rule against you. That and I don't know where I would get IR absorbing paint like what is used on Minnesota's new license plates which are designed to be easily read by ALPRs with very high contrast in the IR spectrum. This tells me that the cameras they are using don't have IR filters and with enough power being dumped out around the plate it will hopefully screw up the sensor for all the other vehicles around as well.
All plates must be (1) securely fastened so as to prevent them from swinging, (2) displayed horizontally with the identifying numbers and letters facing outward from the vehicle, and (3) mounted in the upright position. The person driving the motor vehicle shall keep the plate legible and unobstructed and free from grease, dust, or other blurring material so that the lettering is plainly visible at all times. It is unlawful to cover any assigned letters and numbers or the name of the state of origin of a license plate with any material whatever, including any clear or colorless material that affects the plate's visibility or reflectivity.
So in my state any cover one were to put over their plate, including those license plate frames dealers put on, would be illegal. At the same time if one were to rig up a system where one was dumping out massive amounts of IR around the plate in an effort to flood the image that would be legal. Also for the record there are no laws covering the IR emission from vehicles in Minnesota as all light emissions regulations deal with specific colors (white, blue, amber, and red) light, or with flashing lights.
I have done some digging into seeing if flooding ALPRs with IR is possible and while some people seem to say it isn't it seems like their efforts have been fairly half assed. They only put out a few watts of power instead of going for a few hundred watts of power. I want to build a frame that covers no part of my plate but will draw 20 amps at 12V and dump it into a large array of these IR LEDs. From the pictures I have seen where people photograph a 100 equivalent watt bulb showing that even that doesn't flood the image they just didn't take it far enough so ~200W going into some IR LEDs would be about as bright as a 1000 watt bulb which now is starting to get up into the range of back lit by the sun range type of power which will mess with the picture.
I think the answer to this is that kittenwars.com would become the number 1 site returned in all searches.
Personally if we really wanted to mess with them set up a bunch of disposable e-mail addresses over the course of a week using open WiFi connections with a computer running ToR and then periodically e-mail random data attachments back and forth. Hell I've done this for shits and giggles, when I am at the bank send off some random data since I can connect the Starbucks WiFi across the parking lot, at the used book store connect to McDonalds WiFi next door. Poisson the well make their mining of data useless and make them waste resources trying to decrypt output from /dev/random. The e-mail address are just first names of people in groups (the Beatles, the 12 apostles, Metallica, the US senate judiciary committee, etc) with random letter/number combination passwords. After a couple of months stop using those e-mails and then after a bit create a new set of accounts but a different number of them rinse and repeat. Being a white male with US citizenship, born in the US and residing in the US offers a lot of protection to do this but I wouldn't recommend anyone with a suspicious* background to do this.
* By suspicious I mean someone who might have ties to any protest organization, be a naturalized citizen, have visited any strange countries, be a minority, committed a crime other than a traffic/parking ticket, or any other group the government may want to target or would be ignored by the news media. Basically it would be similar to driving while black, or the opposite of being a young white girl who gets murdered or put on trial in a foreign country. I hate to say it but it is sadly true that the general population would't care about your plight if you could be painted as an undesireable.
I would love to find this out as well given the silly offers I have gotten. The worst offer I got was for $35,000 a year which being someone with 10 years of experience with securing industrial control systems and 15 years experience as a software engineer which I laughed at. Most of the unsolicited offers I have been getting have been for $50K-$60K but frequently there are the stupid low ones.