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Anyone recommend a good folding stock AR-15 upper for those of us that have fresh form-1s?

FSU should publish how much they expect to make from the bowl and start a gofundme to make up for the bowl money and then cancel the bowl. I'd donate.

Clearly they learned nothing from the UCF debacle a few years go. The "strength of schedule" argument is BS and is an argument from silence. Until they get to the larger playoff format, the only focus should be determining on who is the best. No one cares who is second or third best. There should never be a D-1 undefeated team left out of the playoffs. I'm light years away from being a FSU fan, but they got screwed. I cannot ever think of a time that I would have ever even remotely considered cheering for FSU, but I hope they win their bowl and make the NCAA show themselves to be the bunch of clowns they are with a third (and completely avoidable) shared national championship.

So apparently the pistol brace rule has been tossed. It seems the common opinion is that if it was registered, the form 1 is still valid. Attached is a link if you second guessed your decision to get the form 1. https://thereload.com/federal-judge-blocks-nationwide-enforcement-of-pistol-brace-ban/ https://www.nationalguntrusts.com/blogs/nfa-gun-trust-atf-information-database-blog/removing-an-sbr-sbs-from-the-nfrtr-and-then-reregistering-the-sbr-sbs-process

I see the B-52 WSOs or whatever they're called are getting better at using the pod.

No way! They're the kind of guys that shoot you 5 times in the leg and once in the gut and it takes 30 minutes to die an agonizing death. If i'm in front of a firing squad, give me 5 bullets to the brain.

There are also places that ambulances are really hesitant to go to and normally require a police escort. This might be one of those neighborhoods. Possibly something to add to your flight planning.

I've always thought that if at the end of your tax return, you didn't end up paying federal taxes, you shouldn't get to vote (with an exception for CZTE). You shouldn't get to decide how other people's money is spent. Otherwise, as soon as 51% of the population decides that they don't want to work at all and they just want to vote for politicians that will pay them to watch TV, they'll get their way.

100%. Those hostages were killed the minute they were taken hostage. It is cold math, but negotiating in attempt to save them will only encourage similar actions in the future. In the long run it will result in more friendly and/or innocent deaths. We and/or Israel should attempt SF raids to rescue if it seems like there is a reasonable chance of success, but that seems unlikely in this scenario.

Israel needs to capitalize on the world's brief sympathy and wipe out Hamas once and for all. Bulldoze Gaza. It is clear that Hamas and Israel cannot co-exist peacefully.

They're both CJO's, so just like applying for multiple interviews, there is nothing that stops someone leaving AD to get CJOs from multiple airlines and picking the one he wants as he retires/separates. Two years out gives a bit more peace of mind than six months, but doesn't really change that much. This is a solid step in the right direction. An even better step would be to actively recruit guys that are at the 7 or 15 year point. Send them through indoc on a week or two of leave and then know that they're going to drop long term mil leave for 5 years. Then you have a 99.9% chance that dude is going to show up at your airline at the 5 year point. It is obviously not free but it's not that much either. With how much airlines are spending on trying to create their own pipeline, this seems like an easy answer to get some top tier candidates with a very predictable timeline.

That group better be careful before that dude pulls a Hugh Glass on them. I first read the headlines and thought, no big deal. If I'm hiking with a group of friends and twist my ankle in the canyon then sure, I'll sit on this rock for a few hours and you guys can pick me up on the way back out. But walking away from a dude that needs a helicopter evac? That's not cool.

The most un-American thing ever that somehow is still legal. Every judge that has approved this happening and every agent that has actively sought this should all be tried for felony theft. There is no excuse for this.

Assuming you are talking about the pistol brace form 1, I don't think that's an option anymore (at least not for free). I would bet that since you have a common name, your name threw up a red flag in the auto-background check, so it then has to be reviewed by an actual person at the FBI.

Worst part is she issued it knowing that the court would toss it. Politicians who do that need to be held personally financially responsible (or jail time) when the court tosses it. Put a little of their own skin in the game to stop them from knowingly tramping all over people's rights.

Not that small towns will look the other way with DUIs for locals, but I'd bet that everyone in the town knows him and would more than likely give him some leeway if there were any to be given. The fact that he was charged likely means it either wasn't his first time or the people of his home town know him and don't like him. Neither is good...

Nose gear should have also retracted if the gear handle had been lifted, assuming no other issues. Especially with the center line bag, the nose gear would have been more protected than the MLG and more likely to retract/collapse on landing roll since it moves up and back.

The AF needs to stop this "abundance of caution" BS. In this instance, the abundance of caution was the driving force in moving the aircraft from the runway. I'm sure the MX guys were happy that they could sit back and watch caution do the work. Mentioned twice in the same article, just absurd. The second WTF from that article was the photos were from a facebook page. AF needs to find that douche and put him on every night and weekend duty until he learns his lesson. Finally, neither main gear door is open. Not sure how a hard landing would cause not only both MLG to collapse but also the doors to retract. I suppose landing on the center line tank and nose gear could be deemed a "hard landing". Maybe the dude started to go around, pulled up the gear, and then hit (unlikely since the NG seems to be fully down). Otherwise there is more to this story than a bad landing.

That's messed up. And that dude was apparently so unashamed of their ignoring that woman that he posted the video online of him being a coward.

If you have to put any type of sauce (Ketchup, A1, etc) on a "steak", it is not a steak. It is a hamburger that someone forgot to grind.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-woman-accused-stabbing-online-date-avenge-irans-soleimani-dodges-jailtime Apparently more guys in America need to brush up on the hot vs crazy scale (a solid 3 the mug shot and obviously a 10 on the crazy scale). This dude messed up and apparently read the chart backwards.

I've failed my hearing test the last three years in a row. Each time the tech tells me "sir, you need to be back within 30 days to retest so we can reset your baseline." But no one has mentioned it again when I never show back up... Probably just a WOM, but I've talked to 3-4 guys that had the same thing, fell for the trick of actually going back, only to get 0% for hearing when they retire. They think the reset baseline makes it look like they've had zero hearing loss. Or maybe the VA hearing baseline is absolute and based on a retired artillery NCO.

Know what YOUR career goals are. Big blue has career goals for you and there's a 99.9% chance it's not what you actually want. Pretend it is your goal too as that will probably help you with your goal as long as they're not mutually exclusive. But don't ever forget you're working towards your goal, not big blue's. Just don't become the O-6 that has pretended so long they forgot they were pretending.

Good thing that's on tape! The judge would never believe that guy. "honest sir, I know we were having problems, but one minute she's yelling at me and the next minute a tiger is dragging her away".

Yikes. I sent in my fingerprints after I realized I had forgotten to and I received mine back spread out over the last couple weeks. --Edit to add, think mine were all approved around 50 or so days. They have to be most of the way through the pistol brace apps, I bet you get yours soon. Also, a friend told me that since the bottom of the approved form 1 had the restriction of something like 'IAW pistolbrace rule' that it wasn't a real full up form 1. I found this on the ATF website (always better to read laws/rules/bureaucratic junk from a .gov site rather than hearsay). Note question 12. Like any other form 1, you need to 'notify the NFA division' if you change the overall length, but I see some folding stocks in my future. https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/undefined/final-rule-2021r-08f-frequently-asked-questions-and-sba-compliance-guide-2/download