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I kinda want one just to support that ad.

I mean...stripper clips aren’t the best, but if you have something designed to use them, it’s actually not a terrible alternative to detachable mags. In some ways it might even be better, as you aren’t carrying the weight or volume of entire mag bodies around your loadout. I’d call fixed mag...

Funny, last time I dropped my wife’s rings off to get cleaned, that was the only watch in the case which appealed to me (OK, not sure it had the atomic complication). I kinda wanted it, but my wrists are too dainty for anything much bigger than a low-40mm case. I’ll probably stay Seiko next...

I wouldn’t even give myself the horologist label. More of an enthusiast. I can brag about having a mechanical watch because I snagged a Seiko SNK805 for $75 :p When we took a trip to the Johnson space center, I of course had to go out of my way to get this shot: Hype or not, an Omega moon...

Shame it won’t load for me. I’m a low-key watch/timekeeping nerd, I’d love to see that. I daily wear a mechanical watch :) Here’s something I bet is pretty unique: Memories of growing up in California back when it was more Red Hot Chili Peppers and Sublime than it was The Internationale.

Yeah, but I’d like to go above and beyond. I’m not talking about military training so much as combat experience and the ability to suppress an adrenaline dump when the chips fall here in a defensive carry scenario:

I don’t think it’s about knowing the rules are dumb, I think she’s just elitist and used to a certain level of privilege. Rules don’t apply to me, I make the rules!

Aw crap, I don’t have pics. Anyone have a Llama Comanche .22lr? 6” heavy (non-tapered) barrel, at a casual glance has Dirty Harry’s .44 Magnum presence. Was a steal for $75, I traded my Tec 22 for it. Also: my Philco cabinet radio. Allegedly a 1947 model. AM/FM and police band. It’s beautiful...

Yeah there’s that, which if I elect to actually carry I would require myself to do. Also would kinda like to do a few two-gun matches or something similar to add a bit of physical stress plus having to do things under a timer. I don’t think a responsible carrier would tell me to carry in my...

Thanks. He’s 80 next year and a remarkable man. He expected to die in Vietnam, actually almost wanted to. So, he’s not putting any extra sadness on us if and when he goes, he’s made his peace and I’m trying to too, in whatever way I kinda can in advance.

All this and it looks like our move is delayed. My Pa is having some heart issues, it looks like we will be staying in Texas for a while now.

Dang, that is a great reason. Wasn’t arguing that you (the royal You, not you specifically) shouldn’t carry, I’m just not a fan of the constant suspicion and fear I hear about. I speak only for myself when I say that my lack of military/combat experience makes me hesitant to carry. I don’t want...

Eh, hard to tell. I do think he galvanized the racial elements to get back into politics, the perfect example being BLM. But I think despite my objections as a free trader, his moves against the CCP in trade relations was having an impact. “No new wars” isn’t quite good enough, but a lot better...

**Presume

That’s what I’m talking about. Assume the better in people, and you’ll get it boomeranged back.

Again. That crap exists. It isn’t the pervasive thing which makes constant fear necessary, though. We’re not the Wild West.

I suppose I don’t really deal in absolutes like that. There are bad actors and folks I don’t like, people who want to harm me for some reason, and crazy people, but they’re flawed people more than they are evil. People are people, and they come in as many distasteful flavors as more flavorful...

Yup. It might be the main reason BLM pisses me off. I’ve been interested in justice reform for about 5ish years, and any meaningful, articulate debate on that has been set back by decades, on top of the rioting and looting and the re-racialization of politics and interactions, cancel culture...

Then maybe that points to a larger issue, not just guns. That’s where BLM maybe had a point once upon a time, and squandered it by going...sideways? Out of bounds? Not sure how to describe that, but I still don’t know how anyone lets today’s BLM happen.

Of course it is. Just not as close as you might think. My cousin (wife’s cousin? Does it make a difference? I have trouble with family classifications like that) kind of put herself in that position. She made bad choices which caused other actors to make bad choices. I’d like for her to have had...

I do agree there. A lot of the sane left isn’t biting on the orange man bad stuff, as it should be. That’s why, gun to my head, although I don’t like Trump, I’d rather swallow his bleach than the DNC’s hemlock.

Maybe so. I’m not aware that it was proven that Martin was a robber, unless my attention dropped off afterwards and something else came up. Part of my reticence comes from my Pa, a Vietnam vet and while not technically an SF operator, was partially SF trained and ran with some SOG guys as an...

Kinda plays into my point though. Almost nobody ever needs any kind of defensive or offensive weapon. I can think of two times where anybody in my fam or extended fam ever used or needed a gun: one was my Pa, who racked his 20ga and scared off some alleged robbers some time before I was born...

Yeah, that enters a rabbit hole I am entirely unprepared and uninterested in pursuing. But you also didn’t need a firearm that day.

Completely right. But I also chafe at the misanthropy that kinda prompts. I do deliberately choose to stay away from urban centers, and my company has done a good job at threading that needle as well.

Yup, kinda where I am. See above with shotgun in truck.

Not entirely incorrect. I posted a thread here toying with the idea of toting a scattergun in my truck. It’s on my mind, but I feel there’s also a lot of fear which isn’t warranted for a huge number of folks.

That feels a bit like a demagogue thing. I go almost everywhere without a gun. I don’t sense unrest or weirdness generally. This stuff is real and is happening, but it’s not next door to the vast majority of Americans.

It’s the leftists, not liberals who pose a threat. I’m basically a never-trumper who doesn’t give into the wokeness. It’s just that the old parties won’t concede that they’re past their sell-by dates, and convince us that it’s an existential crisis if we don’t vote for one or the other, then...

I mean, there’s a long rabbit hole of utter crap going on here which extends centuries. I just wish there were neither looting/rioting nor loss of life.

Gotcha. At the deciding vote in a deciding state with the electoral college, that makes sense. However, faithless electors? My next jaunt in podcast land is a pair of oral arguments from Washington and Colorado in the SCOTUS to try and understand why they upheld that states can bind electors...

I’ll bite on your hypothetical - I won’t neg it now that I’ve listened to enough SCOTUS oral arguments and I now kinda like hypotheticals - and say this: first, the electoral college would almost certainly sort that out. Second, if you put that aside, I might drink the Trump cup of bleach...

I vote for the first candidate who will buy everyone an ice cream cone. At least then, someone will be happy.

Oh, this fight again. Lol

Maybe. I’m kind of in a weird in between world where the flag is just a piece of cloth to me, an arbitrary design where what matters are the morals, ideals, and actions backing it up, and not so much the flag itself in whatever physical form it takes. What small quirk in history would it have...

TF? That’s some Dino shyt...but I’m also a bit of a puss puss with regards to nature. Gun may not be the right tool, but keep that thing away from me!!!