Lord Ratner

Jesus Christ, Dibs!

Post a video you think sums it up well. It'll be good for others to see, and I could use a refresher. Just goes to show how unsettling "settled science" usually is.

How unfortunate that starting with Kennedy and ending with Reagan, the United States basically closed down all the insane asylums. It would be a pretty handy place for all of the drug-ruined homeless, in addition to women who lose their mind and kill their children.

It wasn't postpartum depression, it was postpartum psychosis. And there is a well-documented history for this woman of battling it. Obviously everything about it is a tragedy, but this is a textbook insanity defense. That doesn't mean she should walk free, but she should not be put into a prison with rational actors that made criminal choices.

That's fair. You need something to clean the guns with.

Honestly, get both. Not just because more is better 🤣😂. You're getting too fundamentally different shooting experiences with the two suppressors you mentioned. With 22 you can have the spooky silent experience, which is really neat. Especially if you put it on a bolt action rifle. My buddy and I were out at the range recently and it was quieter than a normal volume conversation. 556 is supersonic, so it's not going to be quiet per se, but it does dramatically improve the shooting experience. You'll still want hearing protection on if you're the one shooting, but when my friends shoot suppressed 556, as long as I'm 10 or more feet away, hearing protection is optional. If you insist on only getting one, get whichever one you shoot more. My intention is to convert as many of my weapons over to suppressed as possible. It's just more enjoyable to shoot suppressed. Kind of makes me angry, because if the NFA hadn't included silencers for the last hundred years, it's crazy to think of how much quieter all firearms would be in general as suppressor technology would be incorporated at a base level. Oh well, at least now that can happen.

https://archive.ph/ Though in this case I did not need a subscription to CNN to read it

Now all the prices are going to skyrocket for a while I suspect as everybody scoops up the existing inventory. But once everything balances out this should be a fantastic win. I'm one step closer to an FRT Tommy gun...

There's another danger. The ruling is based entirely off tax collection. And as everybody knows, our taxes are done through the incredibly fuzzy process of reconciliation. Unless something is done to modify or repeal the NFA, Democrats will only need to reinstate a $1 tax on short barreled rifles and suppressors to put them right back under the NFA. Now, 2 years of unrestricted sales of these firearms would do a lot to make it less likely to change back, but the ruling is only useful if it is one step in a continuing process of deregulation.

I have flight attendants who weren't alive for 9/11 and we're just now getting the barriers. We're a joke.

Christopher Nolan has always had the most realistic take on the balance between freedom, ignorance, and safety. The Dark Knight was another excellent metaphor.

Shit man, I passed every class this semester

I think as long as you're willing to buy a bunch of guns, which obviously most of us are, 5'7 is a cool round to add. I loved the pr-57 from Kel-Tec, and they have another cool gun that uses p90 mags. The round is finally catching on and unlike so many others, it offers something unique ballistically to add to the collection

It makes all the sense in the world. That being said, I would never ever do it. You don't want to be in front of a jury having used a gun that is anything but a normal, boring gun. No punisher decals, no quippy phrases, and no "scary" accessories.