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What are you going to do when they start tracking down the people who are buying stripped lowers to see what they're building them into?

Did this language make it into the final bill? The status of that bill shows it hung up in committee, but I don't know if it got merged into another bill down the road It sounds like the intent was to ban the manufacture of any firearm by a non-gunsmith: "Section 5 adds a new subdivision 8 to...

So we need a breakdown of what went into effect. The news articles highlight the "ghost gun unserialized receiver part of the language, but overlook the "finished receiver" language in the legislation. Also, what's the status of a non-gunsmith doing their own build?

And like I said, such incidents are unfortunate but its no reason to stop conducting no knocks. I believe that in most of these incidents that anti-no-knock people dredge up there were specific reasons why the mis-identification occurred and some agencies need to improve their practices to...

I've already covered this. The determination to use a swat team on a warrant service is done after evaluating the risk factors. Which has nothing in common with someone jaywalking.

We aren't talking about jaywalkers when we're discussing druggies

Maybe drug dealers shouldn't be dealing drugs. What a concept

We'll have to disagree. No knocks already constitute a very small percentage of warrant services. They're used when there is a perception of higher risks to the officers, the general public, and even the subject of the warrant.

Not a good outcome, but I don't see where a mistake being made is reason to end no knocks entirely. The world is not a perfect place. In a perfect world every house would be perfectly marked and easy to find. In the real world thats not the case. Should the people conducting a raid to their...

Not just over a " bag of weed". There are other elements at play that determine whether a swat team is utilized.

Its all part of the same drive thats been going on along with the "defund the police " movement, as I said. This whole problem started in late 2019 when they rammed the bail reforms through the state system. It's been downhill since then

No Knocks dont happen because "someone has a bag of weed;" they happen because there is an element of danger indicated with that particular arrest which is deemed to warrant that level of interaction with the suspect

Reforming the police is not just about defunding the police, it's about letting the recidivist criminal element free to roam the streets. The carjackers in one or both of these incidents MIGHT have stayed locked up in jail and would not have been free to carjack anyone, under the old protocols.

Don't give them any ideas

Was it at least good beer?

I've always thought that the people who whip out a cell phone to openly record are on one hand perhaps deterring some negative interaction because the other person knows that they're being recorded. At the same time, depending on who you're dealing with, it might be like waving a red flag at...

Talk to your neighbor and confirm the hunters had permission to be on their property. If you can ID the hunters, time to have a more than casual conversation with them about their practices, including the use of your blind without your consent. These guys are ruining it for any other hunters who...

Perfectly understandable. Like I said, winter hiking is something to start out slow with. Good luck!

My primary hiking group day hikes 3 x a week, 12 months a year. Very rarely do we cancel a hike; trees have to be falling in the woods around us before I'll pull the plug on a hike. If you haven't been hiking in the winter before, start out slow. Hike local trails, hike with a group whose...

When I was a kid we'd buy a half a cow, a whole pig and lamb per year, stored in a 1970s era chest freezer in the basement. I can't recall now what size freezer it was. Family of four, and we found that the half a cow would last us just about a year, with some left-over by the time we'd buy the...

I was telling my regulars over the summer to think about fall hunting ammo. Based on the number of frantic calls I'm getting these days, many people didn't heed my advice.

At least the family has closure

Figure that out ahead of time

I'm usually following the weather a week out due to organizing the hikes for my local hiking group. If I needed to check I suppose that I'd turn on a battery operated radio and tune into one of the local stations

I've had this conversation with my sales reps, specifically about hunting calibers. They call every few days offering me yet another variant of 308; I've run out of room on the 308 shelf and have started trimming down the numbers of cases they send me in that caliber. I'll probably regret that...

What little Remington I've been getting from my distributors in recent months has been what i think is new old stock; the fine print on the boxes doesn't indicate new ownership. Does the new packaging identify it as a Vista product?

They're meant to lessen you developing symptoms serious enough that you would need Until you're one of the 1% and then it's a bad day. But we're off topic

They're meant to lessen you developing symptoms serious enough that you would need to be hospitalized

Whatever label we want to use, the point is to reduce the frequency of them.

My consumption of sugar isn't going to harm you This regulation is intended to limit the number of accidental shootings, which is a good thing You're tilting at windmills here

If I am in the woods during gun season, even if I am not hunting, I am wearing orange as ways to protect against the lazy hunters who shoot at noises and unidentified movements. So are the people with me. Better safe than sorry. The burden to wear the orange is on the hunters, but anyone...

I'm not worried. I'm more worried for the anti-vaxxers in general

I don't think that its a huge issue, and I think the safety aspects outweighs any inconvenience. Last I knew people don't hunt naked; you're going to be afield in some form of clothing, and if you're hunting that should include old school safety orange or the more recent, now-authorized...

Without a doubt..but stuff like blaze orange reduces the possibility of such accidents. I've been wearing blaze orange anytime I enter the woods during any big game season. If I don't have orange on, I stay out of the woods. One of those things that was drilled onto e as a kid by my parents from...

I got my shots because organizations I belong to were requiring that we get them in order to transition from zoom meetings back to face to face meetings. Besides, despite the gloom and doom from some about the side effects some people have, in general I believe that the shots help more than they...

I can't believe someone objects to wearing hunter orange or pink while hunting. Target misidentification is one major reason why people get shot during gun season

So you're mad because hunters are required to wear orange or pink while afield? Seriously?

Orange or pink as opposed to what? What exactly are you objecting to?

For those of you who are interested in starting their own prep/ survival PDF collections, I'm still cloning copies of my personal collection for interested parties, but am no longer sending out my own external drives due to the on-going problems of some drives not being returned to me.

Maybe so. But there has been a steady decline in FFLs in my county. When I was a kid you could buy guns at Woolworths, Fays, Kmart, a couple of small shops around the county. You could go up to Ithaca Gun on the hill and order anything in their product line in just about any configuration you...

After nearly 30 years as an FFL I will probably NOT be renewing my state dealers license when it expires at the end of the year. All because of this bill. A $20 transfer or a few cents made off the sale of a box of ammo are simply not worth the associated no-end date liability to myself because...

I don't see prices going back to pre-Covid for a very long time, at least while Dems are in office. There have been multiple price increases to FFLs from the distributor level this year alone. Some of the stuff I got in this last month went up 3 or 4 dollars a BOX from the last time I got the...

Cuomo's already trying to get a tax passed on gunowners to fund the state ammo background check system.

I would rather have the state play nice with the FBI so that the hardest permit to get in the country is a valid alternative to needing a background check. Half of the permits in the country are a day or two to get and they are NICS alternatives.

I let my 20-something year membership lapse and took down the NYSRPA membership enrollment cards from the wall of my FFL business because of Tom King.

Of course there are some places, but my group hikes three times a week. We burn through the handful of "safe" hiking locations in a matter of a handful of weeks. Long before the extended months and months of hunting are done. We wind up doing road walks in order to be able to get miles in, which...

I'm glad that it works out for you guys in your area. Around here the forests pretty much get left to the hunters until the hunting season ends. Adding more weeks to the season just means that the forests here are cut off for non-hunting uses for the duration of that added time.

AS far as the chaffing goes, I've found from years in the military and backpacking that boxer briefs with an 8 inch inseam protects the parts of my inner thighs that would chafe when wearing other types of underwear. I don't use any sort of fancy backpacking brands for underwear, just OTC...

I'm semi-retired now, so I don't go long distances from home. AS a result the bags I keep in the car are not particularly expansive in their contents. Some basic supplies of food and water, some additional clothing items, personal hygiene items, basic medical items, etc. There is always other...

Are you forgetting the French and Spanish? They both had their day in the sun as dominant world powers, or at least as far as "the world" was then known. I suspect that the next world war will go nuclear multiple times over and it wont matter after that.