Windows has to be shoehorned into a 16 GB SSD with extreme difficulty, and there won't be enough space to download updates so it becomes unmanageable pretty quickly, but 32 GB is enough. Add a fast SD card and/or a Samsung Fit drive (I can't recommend the SanDisk Fit, it overheats and disconnects when writing for more than fifteen seconds or so) for data and application installation, and you'll be set.
Misses still leave lead in the environment. That's why there are increasing restrictions on the use of lead bullets in hunting, jacketed or not.
USA: Ammunition other than lead required for waterfowl and when hunting with a shotgun (not including slugs) on wildlife refuges and waterfowl production areas.
Alaska: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required in Unit 18 when taking game under the provision of a hunting or trapping license with a shotgun and in Unit 26.
Arizona: Non-lead ammunition is encouraged when hunting within the California Condor's range in Arizona (Game Management Unites 12A, 12B, 9, 10, 13A, 13B). For more information, click here.
Arkansas: Migratory birds not considered waterfowl (doves, rails, woodcock, snipe, moorhens, gallinules) can be hunted with size T and smaller non-toxic shot or size BB and smaller lead shot.
California: Non-toxic ammunition required in the eight-county historic range of the California condor. There will be a complete ban on the use of lead ammunition for any hunting purposes anywhere in the state by July 1, 2019. Click here for more information.
Colorado: Non-toxic shot required in the Alamosa/Monte Vista/Baca National Wildlife Refuge Complex and when hunting ducks, geese or coots.
Delaware: During the month of September, all hunters must use non-toxic shot when dove hunting in State Wildlife Areas. Non-toxic ammunition required for dove hunting in Wildlife Management Areas.
Illinois: Non-toxic ammunition required for dove hunting on some public lands.
Iowa: Non-toxic ammunition required for all game in wildlife management areas except for deer and turkeys. No person may take ducks, geese (including brant), rails, snipe, or coots while possessing shot (either in shotshells or as looseshot for muzzleloading) other than approved non-toxic shot. For a list of approved non-toxic shot, click here.
Kansas: Non-toxic shot required for hunting of all migratory game birds except dove and woodcock. At least 17 state wildlife areas and refuges require non-toxic shotgun load for upland game birds such as pheasant, grouse and quail and other small game.
Kentucky: Non-toxic ammunition required for doves in 13 wildlife management areas and national wildlife refuges.
Louisiana: Non-toxic ammunition required for doves at Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area.
Maryland: Non-toxic shot is required for hunting rail and snipe.
Minnesota: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot must be used for sandhill cranes.
Missouri: Non-toxic shot for shotguns required in 21 conservation areas. For more information, click here.
Nebraska: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required in some state wildlife management areas, as posted.
New Jersey: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required for rail, snipe, or moorhens on all state and private lands.
Nevada: Non-toxic shot required for ducks, mergansers, geese, swans, coots, gallinules or snipe.
New Mexico: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required for common moorhen, sora, Virginia rail and snipe. Non-toxic shot is also required on all State Game Commission owned or managed areas when hunting with a shotgun (slugs excluded).
New York: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required for snipe, rails or gallinules.
North Carolina: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot required for the taking of captive-reared mallards on shooting preserves, in field trials and during bona fide dog training activities.
North Dakota: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required for sandhill cranes and snipe.
Ohio: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required when hunting with a shotgun in Metzger Marsh, Mallard Club, Pipe Creek
Like any set of observations taken from a distance, you can't eliminate confounding factors. You can only check for them and compensate accordingly. I mean, I suppose the CIA could muck about in Brazil's internal process to steer things the way it wants, but then you just have a different set of confounding factors (not to mention it's unethical -- not that this ever stops them). Are you seriously proposing that because it's impossible to run a control country where the laws don't change, no conclusions can be drawn from what happens?
Brazil's violence problem largely stems from the complex social issues that either define or often come along with being a third world nation like massive wealth inequality, extreme poverty, and incredibly corrupt government.
We're getting there on the wealth inequality, and the government is rotting from the head down. That same government would also love to enrich their "base" even if it means poverty for more people -- or maybe especially if it means poverty for more people, because it can then pin the blame on "the Mexicans" and "the Muslims". You know Doctor Smallglove would enjoy starting the pogroms.
In other words, I don't think we're more than a few missed meals from becoming Brazil.
90-10 Bismuth-tin bullets are a good lead replacement for hunters who don't like poisoning themselves. They fragment rather than deform because they are brittle, but this means no lead dropped in forests and no lead in your venison. It seems a fair trade.
People generally kill other people one or two at a time, with or without guns. The totals of those homicides are far higher than all the mass shootings put together.
Seriously, let's let Brazil run the experiment, since they seem eager to do so. If they loosen the restrictions on gun ownership and the murder rate goes up and stays there after a decade, well then you have your strong evidence. Likewise, if their murder rate goes down and stays there, you have your strong evidence. Chances are it's going to be a mixed bag, but even then, there should be enough data to prove something.
I'm not saying this to be a hard bastard. We have no control over what Brazil wants to do internally (or we shouldn't have, anyhow -- who knows what the fuck the CIA is doing). All we can do is learn from their successes and failures alike.
Good, since someone is actually reading this, I'll provide the backing for my numbers.
Here are the least populous 14 states, all with a population under 2 million each. Nebraska 1,920,076 West Virginia 1,815,857 Idaho 1,716,943 Hawaii 1,427,538 New Hampshire 1,342,795 Maine 1,335,907 Rhode Island 1,059,639 Montana 1,050,493 Delaware 961,939 South Dakota 869,666 North Dakota 755,393 Alaska 739,795 Vermont 623,657 Wyoming 579,315
16.2 million people in all 14 states combined, and they have the power to block any constitutional amendment (on any topic, not just gun control).
Conversely, an amendment could be forced through by ignoring the will of the most populous 13 states. It's unlikely to happen, but possible nonetheless. California 39,536,653 Texas 28,304,596 Florida 20,984,400 New York 19,849,399 Pennsylvania 12,805,537 Illinois 12,802,023 Ohio 11,658,609 Georgia 10,429,379 North Carolina 10,273,419 Michigan 9,962,311 New Jersey 9,005,644 Virginia 8,470,020 Washington 7,405,743
These 13 states have a total population of 201.5 million. The remaining 37 states have a population of 123.5 million. That means 38% of the population can overrule the will of the other 62%, because that's how the Constitution is written. This is a feature, not a bug. It was written that way on purpose, or rural and small states would not have ratified the Constitution. Unfortunately, we're still stuck with the compromises (including some of those made to protect slavery) to this day.
Forty-two percent of Brazilians believe gun ownership is a citizen’s right, according to a November survey by pollster Datafolha. That’s up from 30 percent four years earlier. And of the lower house lawmakers who have expressed opinions publicly, slightly more than half support the proposed legislation, according to a scoreboard maintained by Peninha’s staff.
Fellow lawmaker Bolsonaro, a former Army captain, has been preaching the gospel of gun rights as part of his law-and-order pitch to voters. In polls he trails only former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who will likely be barred from running.
Brazil’s gun policy needs to change, Bolsonaro said at an event in Congress on March 7. He drew cheers from his supporters when he joked that the so-called “bullet caucus” of lawmakers united by their tough stance on crime should be renamed the “machine gun caucus."
“Dictatorships only take root after disarmament programs,” he said.
How about Brazil? Their homicide rate is 55 per 100,000 -- a whole order of magnitude (and change) greater! And they have strict gun control, but that only applies to the law-abiding. Criminals, meanwhile, are getting their guns from the police. Now there is a movement to basically scrap it and go with an American-style right to bear arms.
I deliberately linked NPR, not a gun advocacy site, but the articles really aren't that much different between them.
We have this little structural problem: ratification of Amendments requires a 3/4 supermajority of states (NOT population - they're treated like individual countries in this respect) to ratify. That's 37 in the current scenario. That means it takes 14 states to block one -- and the least populous 14 states make up 5% of the national population. They're also the ones with the most open space, where owning a gun is not only not much of a problem, but a necessity for some. You only need a bit more than half of those in each of those states, but even if you count all of the people in those states, that's still the tyranny of the 5 percent nation.
Then why is the murder rate in Brazil ten times that of the U.S., while they have strict gun control? Many of the guns used in homicides end up being traced back to the police, and if you think we're somehow more immune to corruption than they are, you haven't been paying attention to the current state of the Federal government, or to the past (and to a degree, present) history of rural and small-town police forces.
Guns don't cause violence, but they do escalate it once someone decides to go that route.
It is notable that Brazil has strict gun control laws, which it actually enforces, yet it has a murder rate per capita that is ten times that of the U.S. It also has a major problem with "leaked" guns -- many of which are coming from the police. Clearly the cause of their problem is systemic, but maybe ours is too.
Laws or no laws, there's no putting the gun genie back in the barrel. We could ban all guns outright, and five, ten years down the line it still won't be that hard to get one, just because there are so many out there. After that, consumer-grade CNC mills and 3D printers will be able to make them at home.
If you restrict everyone to the levels that the "dumb" bettors are ponying up, the "wise guys" will be more than offset. This doesn't require identifying them, just accepting the fact that unbalanced bets mean excessive exposure. The whole point of a sports book is to pull the same amount of money to each side of the line so the losers cover the winners, and skim off some vigorish along the way. If a bet is too large to be covered on the other side, then it should be acceptable to refuse it.
5) I wonder if shooters like this grew up surrounded by crowding and/or constant loud music. I can't imagine a kid who plays on swings, makes forts out of snow or cardboard boxes, and lies on his back looking at clouds, growing up to be a killer.
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Lead is banned in all ammunition used for hunting in California starting next summer.
Windows has to be shoehorned into a 16 GB SSD with extreme difficulty, and there won't be enough space to download updates so it becomes unmanageable pretty quickly, but 32 GB is enough. Add a fast SD card and/or a Samsung Fit drive (I can't recommend the SanDisk Fit, it overheats and disconnects when writing for more than fifteen seconds or so) for data and application installation, and you'll be set.
So do Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, so long as you flash the firmware.
If you're worried your Pixel is a paperweight, I'll trade you a pre-flashed Acer C720 for it.
You also have to take off the back and remove the write protect screw if you want to use MrChromebox's UEFI firmware (which you really should).
Misses still leave lead in the environment. That's why there are increasing restrictions on the use of lead bullets in hunting, jacketed or not.
USA: Ammunition other than lead required for waterfowl and when hunting with a shotgun (not including slugs) on wildlife refuges and waterfowl production areas.
Alaska: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required in Unit 18 when taking game under the provision of a hunting or trapping license with a shotgun and in Unit 26.
Arizona: Non-lead ammunition is encouraged when hunting within the California Condor's range in Arizona (Game Management Unites 12A, 12B, 9, 10, 13A, 13B). For more information, click here.
Arkansas: Migratory birds not considered waterfowl (doves, rails, woodcock, snipe, moorhens, gallinules) can be hunted with size T and smaller non-toxic shot or size BB and smaller lead shot.
California: Non-toxic ammunition required in the eight-county historic range of the California condor. There will be a complete ban on the use of lead ammunition for any hunting purposes anywhere in the state by July 1, 2019. Click here for more information.
Colorado: Non-toxic shot required in the Alamosa/Monte Vista/Baca National Wildlife Refuge Complex and when hunting ducks, geese or coots.
Delaware: During the month of September, all hunters must use non-toxic shot when dove hunting in State Wildlife Areas. Non-toxic ammunition required for dove hunting in Wildlife Management Areas.
Illinois: Non-toxic ammunition required for dove hunting on some public lands.
Iowa: Non-toxic ammunition required for all game in wildlife management areas except for deer and turkeys. No person may take ducks, geese (including brant), rails, snipe, or coots while possessing shot (either in shotshells or as looseshot for muzzleloading) other than approved non-toxic shot. For a list of approved non-toxic shot, click here.
Kansas: Non-toxic shot required for hunting of all migratory game birds except dove and woodcock. At least 17 state wildlife areas and refuges require non-toxic shotgun load for upland game birds such as pheasant, grouse and quail and other small game.
Kentucky: Non-toxic ammunition required for doves in 13 wildlife management areas and national wildlife refuges.
Louisiana: Non-toxic ammunition required for doves at Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area.
Maryland: Non-toxic shot is required for hunting rail and snipe.
Minnesota: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot must be used for sandhill cranes.
Missouri: Non-toxic shot for shotguns required in 21 conservation areas. For more information, click here.
Nebraska: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required in some state wildlife management areas, as posted.
New Jersey: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required for rail, snipe, or moorhens on all state and private lands.
Nevada: Non-toxic shot required for ducks, mergansers, geese, swans, coots, gallinules or snipe.
New Mexico: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required for common moorhen, sora, Virginia rail and snipe. Non-toxic shot is also required on all State Game Commission owned or managed areas when hunting with a shotgun (slugs excluded).
New York: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required for snipe, rails or gallinules.
North Carolina: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot required for the taking of captive-reared mallards on shooting preserves, in field trials and during bona fide dog training activities.
North Dakota: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required for sandhill cranes and snipe.
Ohio: In addition to federal regulations, non-toxic shot is required when hunting with a shotgun in Metzger Marsh, Mallard Club, Pipe Creek
Like any set of observations taken from a distance, you can't eliminate confounding factors. You can only check for them and compensate accordingly. I mean, I suppose the CIA could muck about in Brazil's internal process to steer things the way it wants, but then you just have a different set of confounding factors (not to mention it's unethical -- not that this ever stops them). Are you seriously proposing that because it's impossible to run a control country where the laws don't change, no conclusions can be drawn from what happens?
We're getting there on the wealth inequality, and the government is rotting from the head down. That same government would also love to enrich their "base" even if it means poverty for more people -- or maybe especially if it means poverty for more people, because it can then pin the blame on "the Mexicans" and "the Muslims". You know Doctor Smallglove would enjoy starting the pogroms.
In other words, I don't think we're more than a few missed meals from becoming Brazil.
90-10 Bismuth-tin bullets are a good lead replacement for hunters who don't like poisoning themselves. They fragment rather than deform because they are brittle, but this means no lead dropped in forests and no lead in your venison. It seems a fair trade.
People generally kill other people one or two at a time, with or without guns. The totals of those homicides are far higher than all the mass shootings put together.
Seriously, let's let Brazil run the experiment, since they seem eager to do so. If they loosen the restrictions on gun ownership and the murder rate goes up and stays there after a decade, well then you have your strong evidence. Likewise, if their murder rate goes down and stays there, you have your strong evidence. Chances are it's going to be a mixed bag, but even then, there should be enough data to prove something.
I'm not saying this to be a hard bastard. We have no control over what Brazil wants to do internally (or we shouldn't have, anyhow -- who knows what the fuck the CIA is doing). All we can do is learn from their successes and failures alike.
Good, since someone is actually reading this, I'll provide the backing for my numbers.
Here are the least populous 14 states, all with a population under 2 million each.
Nebraska 1,920,076
West Virginia 1,815,857
Idaho 1,716,943
Hawaii 1,427,538
New Hampshire 1,342,795
Maine 1,335,907
Rhode Island 1,059,639
Montana 1,050,493
Delaware 961,939
South Dakota 869,666
North Dakota 755,393
Alaska 739,795
Vermont 623,657
Wyoming 579,315
16.2 million people in all 14 states combined, and they have the power to block any constitutional amendment (on any topic, not just gun control).
Conversely, an amendment could be forced through by ignoring the will of the most populous 13 states. It's unlikely to happen, but possible nonetheless.
California 39,536,653
Texas 28,304,596
Florida 20,984,400
New York 19,849,399
Pennsylvania 12,805,537
Illinois 12,802,023
Ohio 11,658,609
Georgia 10,429,379
North Carolina 10,273,419
Michigan 9,962,311
New Jersey 9,005,644
Virginia 8,470,020
Washington 7,405,743
These 13 states have a total population of 201.5 million. The remaining 37 states have a population of 123.5 million. That means 38% of the population can overrule the will of the other 62%, because that's how the Constitution is written. This is a feature, not a bug. It was written that way on purpose, or rural and small states would not have ratified the Constitution. Unfortunately, we're still stuck with the compromises (including some of those made to protect slavery) to this day.
You think historically corrupt "Boss Hogg" jurisdictions aren't a risk to do the same here?
Perhaps we'll get hard data. There is a movement in Brazil to grant private individuals the right to keep and bear arms, based on the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
I'm not trying to "sell" the U.S. I'm trying to demonstrate that strict gun control can, in fact, aggravate the problem rather than decrease it.
Here's an editorial piece from Bloomberg, since the NPR article doesn't reference the "leaking" of guns from the police to the criminal sector.
How about Brazil? Their homicide rate is 55 per 100,000 -- a whole order of magnitude (and change) greater! And they have strict gun control, but that only applies to the law-abiding. Criminals, meanwhile, are getting their guns from the police. Now there is a movement to basically scrap it and go with an American-style right to bear arms.
I deliberately linked NPR, not a gun advocacy site, but the articles really aren't that much different between them.
We have this little structural problem: ratification of Amendments requires a 3/4 supermajority of states (NOT population - they're treated like individual countries in this respect) to ratify. That's 37 in the current scenario. That means it takes 14 states to block one -- and the least populous 14 states make up 5% of the national population. They're also the ones with the most open space, where owning a gun is not only not much of a problem, but a necessity for some. You only need a bit more than half of those in each of those states, but even if you count all of the people in those states, that's still the tyranny of the 5 percent nation.
In case you hadn't noticed, we're well on the way to that kind of income inequality.
Then why is the murder rate in Brazil ten times that of the U.S., while they have strict gun control? Many of the guns used in homicides end up being traced back to the police, and if you think we're somehow more immune to corruption than they are, you haven't been paying attention to the current state of the Federal government, or to the past (and to a degree, present) history of rural and small-town police forces.
Guns don't cause violence, but they do escalate it once someone decides to go that route.
It is notable that Brazil has strict gun control laws, which it actually enforces, yet it has a murder rate per capita that is ten times that of the U.S. It also has a major problem with "leaked" guns -- many of which are coming from the police. Clearly the cause of their problem is systemic, but maybe ours is too.
Laws or no laws, there's no putting the gun genie back in the barrel. We could ban all guns outright, and five, ten years down the line it still won't be that hard to get one, just because there are so many out there. After that, consumer-grade CNC mills and 3D printers will be able to make them at home.
If you restrict everyone to the levels that the "dumb" bettors are ponying up, the "wise guys" will be more than offset. This doesn't require identifying them, just accepting the fact that unbalanced bets mean excessive exposure. The whole point of a sports book is to pull the same amount of money to each side of the line so the losers cover the winners, and skim off some vigorish along the way. If a bet is too large to be covered on the other side, then it should be acceptable to refuse it.
By doing what, exactly? Not paying to get through their paywalls? If that's "voting with my wallet", then I'm already doing it.
5) I wonder if shooters like this grew up surrounded by crowding and/or constant loud music. I can't imagine a kid who plays on swings, makes forts out of snow or cardboard boxes, and lies on his back looking at clouds, growing up to be a killer.
Right.
That's 25 more seconds to think about what you're doing.