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If you’re in need of a vacation, we got plenty of ammo down in Texas. Come get some! It’s expensive though. $40 for Remington green and white box .38+p?! Guess that’s the going rate for “no questions asked, no records kept”.

I don’t, but I ran into a lot of belted brass where I was in Texas, particularly .375 H+H and .300 win mag. Range brass is fun to look at. Brass for fat magnums, long magnums, even 54r is very distinctive and really stands out. Hard to tell why. East Texas isn’t wealthy (read: not a place which...

This could be entirely BS thinking, but I wonder if Bukele’s breaking the back of MS13 in El Salvador has created a bit of an underground power vacuum. The puzzle pieces fit, I just don’t have enough info to infer this as fact. Take it as speculation.

That’s an interesting one. I’ll have to check back, but I recall that “basic” illegal immigration is handled as a civil rather than criminal matter, so legally even if we assumed that an illegal were granted all the BOR protections, getting busted for immigration status would not automatically...

Eh? Advertising? No, I’ve just been more in touch with a community most folks aren’t. Not sure how that equates to mentally ill, which was my original point w/r/t trans kids.

While the pedo angle smacks of some wacko demagoguery, I don’t believe that irreversible or potentially irreversible treatments should be made available in this way. I might be more friendly to this but for the fact that trans identification seems to be almost kind of a fad and a poor diagnosis...

Sure, if it’s that specialized. I wouldn’t do it for a “one and done” rifle, but if it’s one for a specific purpose, why the hell not?

That’s a fake crime, as far as the guns go. Get on some juries and exercise jury nullification. Am I counting right, they managed 24 counts for four guns and five people?! Seriously?!?!???? Even if I do 4 times 5, that’s 20, so there’s a lot of overcharging here. The charges make the guns...

Well, a bit of a different angle, but I’m picking up what you’re putting down. Salt of the earth folks, it sounds like you appreciate that they feel grounded vs opining about first world problems. I agree.

Maybe it’s because I’ve lived in border states (California and Texas) my whole life, but I’ve lived and been around a lot of Latin communities. The notion that it’s a bunch of trashy bumbling hillbillyesque ne’er-do-wells isn’t really truth. Yeah, I’d like to see these folks vetted better who...

Oh the bill of rights is a core interest of mine politically, I just don’t tend to translate it in a way which makes adherents to the two old parties all that happy. Which is why pizza is easier :D

It’s a dumb idea. I don’t think we need to prognosticate communism and famine.

I’ll take a full auto, as long as it’s closed-bolt and isn’t a terrible semi-auto.

I’d rather talk about pizza than the politics. My (outside of the mainstream) politics aren’t popular. Pizza, however, is very popular.

Got my last deep dish passing through ChiTown on the way to Texas a bit back. I do love me some Chicago deep dish.

I’m snowflake offended! Chicago deep dish is my favorite! (seriously. It actually is my favorite, NYC style is actually my least. Buffalo style Is really good though.) I do need to get my mitts on some Chicago tavern pizza though. That’s what the locals are more into.

One word: popcorn.

Militia? I just like shooting. It’s good ole fashioned fun. And I like mechanical stuff, so guns are interesting the way cars and watches are for me. I like the click of pulling a hammer back or the nuance of cleanly slamming a mag home, the physicality of taking recoil gracefully, the zen of...

Well, crap. Now they have ammo (pun not intended, but I like it) to tell people that gun owners are pedos.

Agreed. It does strike me as a rather antiquated outlook. I commented on another forum that I find any kind of quid pro quo, especially in government, as an insidious act, but focusing on on the sex just doesn’t register for me. I don’t carry those same puritanical values, and in any case I...

I don’t think so. There’s a weak candidate who’s suffering from that bizarre succession episode, and although there’s a bounce from the abortion thing, Trump has very dedicated followers and the shooting only bolsters him. As much as Trump repeatedly (no pun intended) shoots himself in the foot...

Ditto. My search history alone probably gives me a pretty thick jacket. Never thought about FOIAing myself as above though. Fun side note, my Ma’s late ex-husband was stationed in Germany where she met him. He was a DLI grad and so was on intelligence duty, and was consequently watched at...

Dunno that I’d go that far, but definitely more like “I’m toeing my part of the line, g-man, I expect the same of you”. Anything you can pile on to make the juice not worth the squeeze is a win, no matter how small, for the citizens. If we won’t be our own check and balance on the government...

I’m not so doom and gloom, but no matter who is or isn’t in office, it’s still vital for citizens to know enough to keep the government in check. I’m actually not a big fan of how a lot of auditors behave, but I’m a huge advocate for people flexing their rights in everyday situations when...

Looks to me like the legality of such a thing is iffy, although having watched a fair bit of “audit the audit”, I almost feel fired up at the idea of having one, lol.

Looks like business as usual for the Demicans and Republicrats. Let’s be real, since Perot both have been pretty much in lockstep with destroying third parties, or at best using them as playthings to eke out any stupid little advantage they can, which is highly disrespectful. This kind of thing...

Huh…Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and WV…interesting. I’m almost offended Texans don’t own more guns!

Well, that’s the longer version of what I could say. Everywhere I’ve lived is a mixed bag, but I was able to adapt much more easily than I can in NY. I do have plenty of things I could list in the “awesome” column in NY, but I’m very much a fish out of water there. Employment is tough when...

Dunno about civil war. Unrest is probably a better term. Although post-Brexit vote, I’ve noticed that the tone coming from the UK has been a lot less jovial. Both there and on the continent, life in general has gotten a lot more serious and dour. My Ma is from Austria and all her family is still...

Raynaud’s disease limits my time outside regardless. Also, driving in snow isn’t as terrifying as it was, but it’s not something I do for leisure time. Y’all grew up in it, and it’s a skill you take for granted. This old dog ain’t picking up the new tricks too quickly.

At some point I plan to. In NY for family reasons. Not that there’s nothing I like in NY, but it’s not my kind of place. Hell, I don’t have winter skills, either. That’s a waste of half a year right there. Growing up in coastal California, snow was this thing on TV. Or you could drive three...

Visiting the ole homestead in Texas. Planning on making some boom happen, so I bought the ole girl some fresh food. Been exercising constitutional carry with what’s left of my green and white box UMC. Man it feels nice to not ask anybody to carry. It fits nicely in a backpack as a “truck” (car)...

Dunno. The guys in the burbs tend to do that, NYSP seems as aloof as RPD does. I haven’t seen many people pulled over, and I also see repeated violations right in front of them which they repeatedly and regularly let pass. In this light, I feel like this pair had to have already been actin’ a fool.

I’m very OK with this. Treating humans as humans expands everybody’s rights. Not sure what folks are scared of here. A good proxy for my thoughts here would be “A Renegade History of the United States” by Thaddeus Russell. In short, he outlines how prostitutes, drunks, slaves, and more afforded...

Well, possession of stolen goods would be sensible. Beware pink .22s! What I wonder is what they were doing to get pulled over. You almost have to WANT to be pulled over for it to happen, at least around roc. State troopers don’t even do much but sit in the median while people zoom by at +15.

Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. -Carl Sagan

It’s so true…I found myself carrying the scanny gun at work like this.

Not this libertarian. I may not actually vote libertarian, but not since 2008 have I put in a POTUS vote for anybody from the old, corrupt broken parties, and I am not motivated to start now. Both parties could help themselves a lot by not courting idiots. Look at the candidate pool in the last...

Oh, Fashion is another quirky thing up in NY. Now granted, I come from a hot climate, so I chuckle when clothes become really minimal when it’s, like, 78* in NY. Y’all can’t handle heat :D I’m down in Texas visiting my Ma and mowed her lawn in muggy mid-90s down here in Texas. Try that! But...

My observation as a newcomer to the state is that by and large, folks have a cultural aversion to challenging authority. That fealty seems just incredibly embedded in the culture in NY and the northeast in general. This is why you have to pay a nickel per shopping bag, gas heat is going the way...

My Pa had a Kimber made right in the middle of that move. Didn’t notice where it was made, but it was an excellent pistol. Can’t speak for new Smitty revolvers, mine is IIRC a 1987 manufactured one. It is sweet as is - not fancy, but beautiful bluing and a better trigger than almost any factory...

Oh, good ole Rochester. although she’s not that close to the park, my sister lives in the Maplewood district. It’s a bit ghetto along Dewey, but between her and some ex-co workers who also live in Maplewood I found it’s mostly one of the more quiet and stable poor neighborhoods in the city. For...

I’m living this nightmare. As of around 1400, my wife was given a 10% chance of surviving the night. Being in your mid 30s and thinking about being a single dad isn’t pretty.

Eh...just drill here and be insensitive to what everybody else does with oil. $4 gasoline hurts even though I average around 45mpg. We have lots of dead dinosaurs down there, take advantage of that...please.

Oh no! The sky is falling! Bubba and Billy are gonna carry their guns next to their 30 pack of Bud light in their El Camino.

Nah. Then your frustrated neighborhood thieves just drill your tank instead.

All things considered, we ain’t that far behind you. And I’m gonna be driving a Uhaul towing my Civic in this mess. Oh boy, oh joy.

Doubtful. 155mpg?! Maybe on UK gallons...I could see 110 or 120 MAX, and that’s merely plausible not probable. I’m damn sure not buying new though...I’d be buying the cheapest one I could get. Sub-$1000 for a rideable one isn’t out of the question...or at least, it wasn’t before dead Dino juice...

FWIW, I was too young to know what was going on during Gulf 1, but we were requested to intervene, so while I don’t support foreign interventionism a la John Quicy Adams’ warning not to seek foreign monsters to slay, it was at least not a clusterf**k of questionable decisions. Gulf II was not a...

I agree but that ship has sailed. Even if the Feds released every shackle they have on oil production, it would probably not yield palpable results until around the end of this year. In the meanwhile, yeah, I’m willing to absorb the costs if it means we aren’t lining Russia’s (Putin’s) pockets...