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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...

When I was I NY in mid-Feb, fuel was around $3.50/g. I took a few days to drive back to TX, and when I got here it was hovering around $3.10ish at my local cheap station, which as of last night was $3.199. It’s going up everywhere...and won’t stop for a while. Somewhere in the $4 range it will...

Diversity is a big thing for me; I don’t feel as comfortable in homogeneous settings as I do in well-mixed ones, just because of where I grew up; except for precious few areas, you weren’t likely to be anything more than a plurality of any demographic grouping. But it was organic diversity and...

Well, I was being a bit facetious and satirical, but on the other hand a lot of what I want to say wouldn’t apply if she weren’t a...she.

Hell no we shouldn’t just blindly support cops. A lot of the ones where I’ve lived both in CA and TX have been mainly focused on traffic enforcement. Anything between that and murder and they look like Keystone Kops. Many have been straight up dicks, like the Milpitas, CA cop who pulled my...

I struggle to come up with anything which isn’t a bit sexist other than that I rarely hear anything from her pontifications which makes any sense to me. I’d rather her be a guy so I don’t have to be afraid of being cancelled!

I mean, of course the State of the Union speech was full of bluster and baseless optimism. That’s just how it goes. His speaking gaffes were numerous. I even saw Pelosi’s eyes flutter a bit in...disgust? Annoyance?...at one of his gaffes. I’m not one of those people who even remotely thinks I...

Well that’s why I say the Russians will win the battles - and take Ukraine - but ultimately it will be a costly boondoggle as it’s clear the Ukrainians want no part of it. Already it appears that the Ukrainians are a dangerous combination of brave and scrappy. My hunch is that even if/when...

I gotta say... ...I’m not comfortable with commentary on minorities and/or females getting on the gun train. It’s nice to see, but from my view those traits are irrelevant. People are people and we pretty much want the same thing. Now that’s not what makes me uncomfortable. What makes me...

Exactly. Ukraine may not have been a model of good governance, but that doesn’t give nearly enough cover for Putin to do a boo-boo. Ukraine wasn’t really threatening Russia except in Putin’s own mind. I’ll say this for Zelensky: what he may lack in thoroughly clean governance, he is now making...

I dunno about THE Ukraine, but I support Ukraine. Putin is a backwards-thinking dictator. He has a nominal democracy supporting him, but we know how false that is. I can see why he thinks the way he does, but on the same token, he’s stuck in his East Germany KGB days to do so. Ukraine is only...

I’ll check out The Firing Pin. I do have one guy I’ve known for a good while - probably about six years - he’s a neighbor to my in-laws. He’ll be reference number one. I’m not looking to take shortcuts - I don’t want to be that guy on the news. I don’t mind shipping from FFL to FFL. It’s...

Didn’t even think about my M, I’d like that too if I get a scooter....

Another question, one which I already think I know the answer to: I won’t be able to file anything until I have established residency and have a NYS driver license? I’m going to have to see if I can “transfer” my CDL up here. Oh boy this will be a barrel of monkeys.

Ok cool. Won’t be in Rochester proper, we’ll be out in Greece. Thanks for the extras and the encouragement.

*sigh* ok. Thanks though. I mean, it’s a .22 and a .38. Not like it’s some kind of big time dangerous stuff.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that this sucks. I love the help but it’s frustrating that the laws make y’all basically kinda useless as far as solid advice.

Awesome, so I have one. I’m a bit vague on whether they can be related by marriage? I think no. Sad that it’s so convoluted here.

She’s already there

Closest I have is a guy who helped the City PD where I’ve been living with their firearms training. He did a fair bit of training for me, and I know he’d write a letter on my behalf, but I don’t know that it would do any good whatsoever.

If only... ...family is first for me and that’s why I’m up here to begin with. But man, it would be nice to have those in charge actually treat me like a human and assume I’ll have a gun around in good faith. Texas does, and I’ll wager there’s a lot more folks whose family trees have no...

That’s the part I don’t quite understand. I have deep(ish) family roots here, I have one reference I think I can get right off the bat, who’s not related by blood or marriage. If I need others who can be so related, I have all the ones I need. They don’t even like guns but they know I’m not the...

I’m moving here in the next month or so. I’ve asked before, but now it’s crunch time. I have a shotgun I’m just going to bring up here. Double barrel, kind of an Elmer Fudd kinda thing, should be fine, IIRC. I’m up here in Rochester until tomorrow when I return to Texas to pick up our stuff...

It’s a 1972 build, has pretty wood furniture. Not gonna do pics tonight but it’s otherwise a nice gun. I put maybe 300 rounds through it. It hates 150 grain, prefers 125 first and foremost, and is pretty passable with 175, both near max pressures. Doesn’t rupture cases, functions smoothly...

Wouldn’t mind unloading my Marlin 336 for cash. Honestly, get whatever cheap lever action you come across. I’d argue they’re less obsolescent than a bolt rifle, and I was MOA with hand loads. Get one and have fun. I’d never buy another one in anything but a pistol chambering though. 3030 kicks...

Now that is pretty awesome. M1 Carbine doesn’t get the love it maybe should.

I put it through a bunch of times, like a kid hungry for “ooh! Gun! How does it work?” and also showed my daughters how it works. They liked the loading gate, and especially how far it could get ejected. Dummy rounds are fun.

This whole moving thing is treating me well. I found a second round of .38spl, and a dummy round of .30-30 I made back when I had a reloading rig. You can see the striations where I cycled it through my Marlin 336 tonight. Pictured are my “ammo finds”: Side note: someone slap me upside the...

Yeah. Thanks. Found out a couple of days ago that on top of his AFib, he has esophageal cancer, stage 3. So that’s not going to turn out well. Needless to say, I am pretty firmly anchored here for the time being.

I’m the same way. It’s why I’m such a fan of Ian McCollum. I’d have much more fun shooting a G43 or a Tokarev pistol or something else more truly obscure than the ubiquitous ARs or Glocks. Aside from that I love cars, that’s probably my main thing, plus watches, food, and talking about cities...

I’m probably among the most lenient on here when it comes to trans people, but I do think the line needs to get drawn at sports. There are inherent physical characteristics which even hormones/hormone blockers won’t overcome. I know Rogan has been saying this for a while. Even top-tier female...

I agree, though, drop Russiagate. Don’t counter stupid with more stupid, pretty much nobody wants to keep hearing about it. It’s sounding like your wife bringing up how you left her favorite hairbrush at home in your honeymoon a decade ago, hearing it again and again and again...get over it. As...

I’m going to go to sleep. But I’ll tell you about John T....maybe not tomorrow, as I’m going home for the night, but maybe a day or two after. Night y’all.

Hey, why not? It’s a dumb gambit by celebrities - who almost by definition shouldn’t matter in politics - but hey, why not take your clothes off?

Hispanics, like anyone, aren’t a monolith. If I take her family as an example, even the apolitical folks feel obligated to vote, and do so against Trump, rather than for Biden. There’s always going to be those who say otherwise. My Ma is among them. All I’m saying is that the messaging is...

If they’re leaving a socialist hellhole, they probably aren’t finna recreate it. Also, while our culture is basically all Western, it’s still a smorgasbord of different parts of that. Just because Europe looks pretty homogenous to us today, doesn’t mean it was always so. Italians, Jews, and...

Yeah, but what I’m talking about is the tone and timbre of that. No matter what was said, he came off in a bad way. I’m probably coloured in a lot of ways. I grew up in a suburb where Asians were a 3:1 majority, split among mostly Chinese, then Indians, Filipinos, Vietnamese, and Japanese...

Hey I mean, since I get negged for not overlooking a few things the Republicans do...why this? In all honesty, I’m so disconnected from the pulse of politics now that it’s so damn toxic, that I don’t even know if BLM is a libertarian thing. I hope not.

Well here’s the thing that the right here doesn’t grasp: they have sounded xenophobic for a long time, arguing about how our culture will change, or most pointedly how our President campaigned on what kind of dregs we’re importing. If that’s not what Republicans mean to say, then they need to...

Yup, and I don’t have a problem with that. Where I do have a problem is in the assumption that immigrants are troublemakers. I’m not sure how to explain where I am, but I am perfectly OK with border controls, just not if they are enforced with the basic mindset that immigrants = bad.

No, I wouldn’t say that. I think it’s a goal to aspire to, but the human condition right now won’t allow that. Open borders is either 100 generations away, or will need some aliens to land before it’s any kind of a workable or practical thought. I’m absolutely for border controls and a good...

I guess I vaguely knew that? I don’t know squat about Hasidic Jews, aside from pictures like those, least of all how they behave/vote. I guess I hung out with secular Jews, and I still don’t know what that means. One of my friends in high school was red headed and liked his Jewfro? This must be...

Now that I think about it: here’s an oldie but goodie: