The firearms industry is not a big or powerful industry. It's mostly a bunch of small companies with a few medium sized ones. Ruger, for example, has about 400 million a year in sales. Their market capitalization puts them in the very bottom of the "small cap" stock class, almost a microcap.
And they are one of the bigger companies. It's just not a big or powerful industry. The lobbying power is not corporate in origin, it's from millions of gun owners donating lots of personal money to protect their rights.
A gun store at a gun show has to do a background check as well. Get your facts right.
A private individual can sell a gun to another private individual without a background check, which is true whether it happens at a gun show or not. There is no loophole, only the normal right to dispose of privately owned property as you see fit.
Crime has been falling steadily as gun sales have increased steadily. So apparently encouraging more gun ownership has a positive impact on crime. Doing nothing seems like a perfectly valid course of action in the face of the steady fall in crime rates.
The NFA doesn't ban automatic firearms. It just taxes them at the rate of $200 per gun for a one-time tax stamp (which in 1934, was a de facto ban). In 1986 they closed the registry to new tax stamps for full auto so all automatic firearms that are legal for civilian ownership were manufactured before 1986.
So, no, they aren't really banned. Legally taxed ones have almost never been used in crime though, and fully auto is very rare in crime overall, even counting illegal ones.
You must not travel much. Generally you want to pack enough stuff in your carry on so that if your checked bags are lost, you won't be completely fucked. So that usually means your toiletries go in your carry on. It's a hassle to have to buy little toothpastes and little bottles for shampoo that you have to carefully decant shampoo into, because a normal sized shampoo might blow the plane up or something.
On the same token, it's not like a would-be bomber would need a huge volume of liquids either. You can take a quart sized bag packed full of little 3 ounce bottles. Lets assume that you can conservatively carry 12 weight ounces worth of liquids on in that bag. That's 340 grams.
340+ grams of high explosive would be more than enough to wreak serious havoc. On mythbusters they used a 100 gram shaped charge on the side of an airplane and it blew a massive hole in it.
So what's the point? Would be liquid bombers are limited to 350-500 grams of explosives vs 1 kilogram? That doesn't seem like a very useful security measure to me.
You can sometimes recover overwritten data on media that has huge bits like old floppy disks. The "shadow" of the overwritten data will remain, or in some cases, tracking errors will leave an edge of the old data behind.
Scaling that down to the near quantum level that modern disks operate on is not really feasible though.
You can play semantic games with the word "species", but Google "hawthorn fly".
There's also been observed cases of hybrid speciation happening in nature (sometimes prompted by habitat changes created by man, sometimes not), where interspecies breeding creates a viable new species with distinct traits from the parent species and a strong breeding preference for the hybrid offspring rather than parent species.
There have been several types of speciation observed, both natural and man-caused, and there is significant empirical evidence for several types of speciation, though all the mechanisms are fairly rare in nature, since it requires an element of luck, combined with the right environment to foster a new speciated population that just happened to develop traits that fit into a distinct habitat niche separate enough from the parent species to create genetic isolation and discourage interbreeding the desirable trait back into the parent population.
Anyway, on another tack, we call dogs all the same species, but if we treated dogs like we treated most biology, we'd probably classify them as different species. There's no way a great dane can breed with a chihuahua. It's just not going to happen in nature. For all intents and purposes, they are different species, with vastly different traits, and no possible way to interbreed without some outside help.
(B) The term "armor piercing ammunition" means -
(i) a projectile or projectile core which may be used in a
handgun and which is constructed entirely (excluding the presence
of traces of other substances) from one or a combination of
tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper, or
depleted uranium; or
(ii) a full jacketed projectile larger than.22 caliber
designed and intended for use in a handgun and whose jacket has a
weight of more than 25 percent of the total weight of the
projectile.
No it's only for handguns. The thing is they make handguns in nearly every caliber, so it's somewhat moot, other than the exceptions for 30-06 AP and 223 green tip etc.
They've made barrels that are a sleeve of fairly thin metal wrapped in fiberglass before. I think it was mostly a gimmick and never caught on though. That'd probably be the minimum amount of metal you could get away with in theory, a sleeve for the chamber and rifling, wrapped up with reinforcement.
According to the ATF it does. This has consequences in the types of bullets that can be used. If something can be chambered in a pistol, generally you can't easily get armor piercing ammo for it for civilian use.
On some guns the upper section is considered the firearm. It depends on the gun. On the AR-15 it's likely the lower because the lower houses the fire control group (trigger/sear/hammer), which defines important traits such as whether the gun is full auto or not.
The plus side to this is that you can often take a fully automatic lower receiver and use it with different uppers to effectively create different kinds of fully auto guns without needing to get separate tax stamps and avoiding the 1986 prohibition on building new machine guns (with some legal caveats, do the research if you intend to do this).
If you mean "origin evolution", then yeah. If you mean "evolution" as a widely accepted thing that actually happens all the time and is a major basis of all biology, then that's of pretty obvious value.
To a first approximation, something made out of used parts with 10 times the performance of a golf cart should only cost about 10 times as much as a used golf cart
You are not very familiar with how pervasive the counterfeit problem is. We aren't talking about little companies, we are talking about companies like Digikey, Mouser, etc.
Many big distributors have been found to be unknowingly distributing copious quantities of counterfeits.
The standard climatologist assumption is that technology will remain exactly where it is today, that people are too stupid to move away from water coming at them at a rate of a few inches per year, and that the market won't switch to other energy sources when fossil ones get expensive.
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The firearms industry is not a big or powerful industry. It's mostly a bunch of small companies with a few medium sized ones. Ruger, for example, has about 400 million a year in sales. Their market capitalization puts them in the very bottom of the "small cap" stock class, almost a microcap.
And they are one of the bigger companies. It's just not a big or powerful industry. The lobbying power is not corporate in origin, it's from millions of gun owners donating lots of personal money to protect their rights.
If you think liberty comes without any costs, then I don't believe you know what liberty really is.
A gun store at a gun show has to do a background check as well. Get your facts right.
A private individual can sell a gun to another private individual without a background check, which is true whether it happens at a gun show or not. There is no loophole, only the normal right to dispose of privately owned property as you see fit.
Crime has been falling steadily as gun sales have increased steadily. So apparently encouraging more gun ownership has a positive impact on crime. Doing nothing seems like a perfectly valid course of action in the face of the steady fall in crime rates.
The NFA doesn't ban automatic firearms. It just taxes them at the rate of $200 per gun for a one-time tax stamp (which in 1934, was a de facto ban). In 1986 they closed the registry to new tax stamps for full auto so all automatic firearms that are legal for civilian ownership were manufactured before 1986.
So, no, they aren't really banned. Legally taxed ones have almost never been used in crime though, and fully auto is very rare in crime overall, even counting illegal ones.
You must not travel much. Generally you want to pack enough stuff in your carry on so that if your checked bags are lost, you won't be completely fucked. So that usually means your toiletries go in your carry on. It's a hassle to have to buy little toothpastes and little bottles for shampoo that you have to carefully decant shampoo into, because a normal sized shampoo might blow the plane up or something.
On the same token, it's not like a would-be bomber would need a huge volume of liquids either. You can take a quart sized bag packed full of little 3 ounce bottles. Lets assume that you can conservatively carry 12 weight ounces worth of liquids on in that bag. That's 340 grams.
340+ grams of high explosive would be more than enough to wreak serious havoc. On mythbusters they used a 100 gram shaped charge on the side of an airplane and it blew a massive hole in it.
So what's the point? Would be liquid bombers are limited to 350-500 grams of explosives vs 1 kilogram? That doesn't seem like a very useful security measure to me.
You can sometimes recover overwritten data on media that has huge bits like old floppy disks. The "shadow" of the overwritten data will remain, or in some cases, tracking errors will leave an edge of the old data behind.
Scaling that down to the near quantum level that modern disks operate on is not really feasible though.
You can play semantic games with the word "species", but Google "hawthorn fly".
There's also been observed cases of hybrid speciation happening in nature (sometimes prompted by habitat changes created by man, sometimes not), where interspecies breeding creates a viable new species with distinct traits from the parent species and a strong breeding preference for the hybrid offspring rather than parent species.
There have been several types of speciation observed, both natural and man-caused, and there is significant empirical evidence for several types of speciation, though all the mechanisms are fairly rare in nature, since it requires an element of luck, combined with the right environment to foster a new speciated population that just happened to develop traits that fit into a distinct habitat niche separate enough from the parent species to create genetic isolation and discourage interbreeding the desirable trait back into the parent population.
Anyway, on another tack, we call dogs all the same species, but if we treated dogs like we treated most biology, we'd probably classify them as different species. There's no way a great dane can breed with a chihuahua. It's just not going to happen in nature. For all intents and purposes, they are different species, with vastly different traits, and no possible way to interbreed without some outside help.
Legislators are worse than coders
(B) The term "armor piercing ammunition" means - .22 caliber
(i) a projectile or projectile core which may be used in a
handgun and which is constructed entirely (excluding the presence
of traces of other substances) from one or a combination of
tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper, or
depleted uranium; or
(ii) a full jacketed projectile larger than
designed and intended for use in a handgun and whose jacket has a
weight of more than 25 percent of the total weight of the
projectile.
Its all in the definition of AP
You write this as if speciation has never been observed.
No it's only for handguns. The thing is they make handguns in nearly every caliber, so it's somewhat moot, other than the exceptions for 30-06 AP and 223 green tip etc.
It's in section 922 of title 18 chapter 44.
They've made barrels that are a sleeve of fairly thin metal wrapped in fiberglass before. I think it was mostly a gimmick and never caught on though. That'd probably be the minimum amount of metal you could get away with in theory, a sleeve for the chamber and rifling, wrapped up with reinforcement.
According to the ATF it does. This has consequences in the types of bullets that can be used. If something can be chambered in a pistol, generally you can't easily get armor piercing ammo for it for civilian use.
On some guns the upper section is considered the firearm. It depends on the gun. On the AR-15 it's likely the lower because the lower houses the fire control group (trigger/sear/hammer), which defines important traits such as whether the gun is full auto or not.
The plus side to this is that you can often take a fully automatic lower receiver and use it with different uppers to effectively create different kinds of fully auto guns without needing to get separate tax stamps and avoiding the 1986 prohibition on building new machine guns (with some legal caveats, do the research if you intend to do this).
If you mean "origin evolution", then yeah. If you mean "evolution" as a widely accepted thing that actually happens all the time and is a major basis of all biology, then that's of pretty obvious value.
Never heard of interference?
The UI was, and still is, terrible. I'm a web designer and I still can't tell you why there's two different ways to view your own profile.
Facebook really succeeded in spite of itself, I can easily say it's probably the worst design for a major website in a long time.
A couple small hills or stoplights can affect the range more than that.
Dealing with stall currents is tough on EV design.
To a first approximation, something made out of used parts with 10 times the performance of a golf cart should only cost about 10 times as much as a used golf cart
The first law of engineering is "nothing scales".
You are not very familiar with how pervasive the counterfeit problem is. We aren't talking about little companies, we are talking about companies like Digikey, Mouser, etc.
Many big distributors have been found to be unknowingly distributing copious quantities of counterfeits.
That's what they want you to think.
That guy that claimed to resolder his modem to get more bps would probably be a meme these days.
Occam's razor. Mod parent up.
Consider how many "US company" parts are actually counterfeit chinese parts, I'd say there's probably no device without Chinese parts in it.
A recent audit of military jets showed a huge percentage of the parts were Chinese counterfeit.
The standard climatologist assumption is that technology will remain exactly where it is today, that people are too stupid to move away from water coming at them at a rate of a few inches per year, and that the market won't switch to other energy sources when fossil ones get expensive.