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What I’m trying to say is if you have ever had a background check/bought from an FFL, there is a paper trail of you being a gun owner. Now sure you may have lost that specific firearm, had it stolen, or sold it privately. But, they still know you’re a gun owner as a general statement. There is no hiding it unless 100% of firearms you’ve acquired over your lifetime have been private.

Guns are like any other investment, you should diversify! Thank you private sales and boat accidents.

Maybe multi-member districts, but the EC is critical to stop the coasts from running the entire country (which they basically are at the fed level) and fucking over everyone who doesn’t live in CA or NY.

@pawnman While I agree with the spirit of that cartoon, the reality is the gov knows every time you get a background check. It’s not a secret that M2 has hundreds of guns about to suffer a horrific boat accident. They know who has guns. I’m 100% against an official registry, but let’s not also be naive about the unofficial ways to know who owns guns in this country. If 10% of my stock is NFA, meh.

I know nothing about the specifics of how airbosses run air shows, so please excuse the following ignorance. Why are demos like this ran by a guy telling everyone what to do? In the mil we execute far more complex shit with far greater risks and way more aircraft, all without anyone directing our every move. We plan, brief, and execute with a decon plan. Seems the airboss directing things should be only as required to avoid an impending safety issue or gameplan about to go awry. The actual show execution should be done without airboss inject and IAW a plan that includes contracts and decon.

How do we create a viable 3rd party. Not one that just siphons votes, one that actually wins elections. I wish I had that answer.

And that’s the excuse you tell yourself to feel better. Despite this entire reply I disagree with, I will give credit to you changing your viewpoints over time. I am not including you personally (I know we had several back and forth in the past) in my above comment. In fact, you are the opposite of the people I described. To you’re overarching statement that it was pure guessing optimism with no info (paraphrasing), completely disagree. It was critical thinking based on observation, data (yes there was data that was rapidly coming out by summer, but it was suppressed heavily), and unemotional/logical thought process. Throughout the first 2 years tens of millions of people called it 100% time and again, they were labeled all sorts of things. No, it is not logical for you to argue all of them had no SA and just got lucky that they were completely right, it is logical they executed as stated above and everyone else made errors in judgement (trusted garbage lies, illogical arguments, etc.), thought processes, and allowed emotion to rule over logic. Zero stones cast at those who came around and acknowledged what had transpired.

Are you saying if registering as an individual, they won’t collect the tax stamp fee, but if registering as a trust they will? Edit: Just did some reading, and the answer is yes to my question above. I also think the trust has lost its luster for me (my current can in jail is individual purchase), so fuck it, thanks for the free SBR ATF!

@FLEA I remember summer 2020 talking about these aspects of Covid - it’s amazing how so many people said I (and others like me with critical thinking capability) we’re out to lunch, dangerous, etc. Complete silence from those same people who have been proven 100% wrong. I don’t hold grudges, so whatever, but I’ll still remember how some individuals in my life were horrendously wrong, shit on those who disagreed, and have made zero acknowledgment about it. Says something about their character.

The answer is because he’s a Democrat/not Trump.

Wow, didn’t realize it was 12 weeks. Totally agree, but I still feel like a CC can do the same thing. It’s “hard,” but it’s also the right thing to do in light of the fucktards in MSG world constant failures.

So why don’t guys just not come to work for 2 weeks, no paperwork, nobody cares. Problem circumvented. 100% agree on your point though.

You’re as welcome to your opinion on this topic as a flat earth-er is to theirs, but your both objectively wrong. Start talking about the topic from a position of facts and logic with stronger historical knowledge (and logical application of said knowledge) and then you and others can have a meaningful conversation on this topic.

Well the facts refute your emotional claim. Plenty of incentive combined with exceptionally great training programs and safety culture handed down is why we have a microscopic amount of accidental gun deaths. You clearly know almost nothing about firearms, the industry, or the related laws (thousands of them by the way), while simultaneously painting half of America as idiots who are reckless, don’t care about safety, etc…based on emotional conjecture and wildly inaccurate assumptions. Good work. You mean the one where the govt has to approve you to buy a firearm and you have to beg them to allow you to defend yourself with a firearm? Yeah, zero support from me on that bullshit. Go back to my previous post on history repeatedly demonstrating why 2A is critical to our country’s survival.

Many events far worse than Sandy Hook have happened in America for hundreds of years with firearms involved, at the hands of the US govt and military. Ooof, history is a real inconvenient thing for the anti-2A crowd. The problem is that crowd is generally very ignorant of history, emotional instead of logical, and for some reason has a completely baseless, yet steadfast, trust in the govt (see first problem listed). Completely agree, with the exception of your “many abuse” statement. No, I don’t believe many do, just the occasional dumbasses you remember more. Kind of like how your “average drive” in golf is 290 yds, but really it’s probably about 69; you’re just selectively remembering the ones that “stand out” and that’s what your perception is built upon subconsciously. Same comment as above. I know you can point to stories of jackasses with firearms, but it’s incredibly insignificant numbers. Less than 500 people die per year in the US due to accidental gun events. That number means nothing in the grand scheme of things, especially when we’re talking about constitutionally protected rights.

If the squadron says no age waivers over X, and you’re over X, then not worth your time to visit. But, if < X, or they invite you to come out, definitely go visit. Not saying you should advertise “old age” in conversation unprompted, but your birthdate has to be somewhere in the packet, right? I don’t know how a board interviewed you with zero clue on your age.

Invalid, unscorable at 6.

Remember the good old days when a paper slicer to the header/footer and some sharpie solved a lot of problems…

I believe you experienced all of that, but what you’re describing is not the norm and an extraordinary string of horrible luck. I’ve been through airport security all over this country around 100 times just in the last 6 months, maybe one time I saw a pre-check line as you described (and since I get randomed 90% of the time, I see pre-check lines all the time). Flew out of IAH end of Nov on a weekend at peak travel time and waited approx 3 min in the pre-check line. I get the point you’re trying to make, but it’s inaccurate to paint that picture as “normal.” I like the trains in Japan and Europe, but reality is a system like those in the US just isn’t feasible on a grand scale. Even regionally is very difficult due to first, cost and second, culture. It makes sense in theory to have a high speed run a circuit DCA-NYC-BOS-IAD or something like that, but that’s not an easy feat, in fact so far from easy there just isn’t a strong enough appetite to start doing it in any meaningful way.

Well yeah, since it’s impossible for anyone to quantify leadership capability using any metric on paper. Leadership is only truly assessable in person, by watching and listening. And of course, it’s subjective mostly (though positive leadership traits are generally agreed upon). Seen a lot of great leaders who are enlisted without a bachelors, meanwhile the absolute worst leadership failures have resumes like Milley. AADs are retarded and serve almost no purpose in developing true leaders. There are far better avenues to develop one’s leadership than masters degrees.

Not to mention that comparing the US to Europe, Japan, etc. is nonsensical. “But Japan has amazing public high speed rail system, it’s ridiculous we don’t have the same!” Oh yeah, well Japan is smaller than CA, and people argue we should have similar level of service across multiple states. Start with CA, and we’ll see how that goes. Here’s your sign…

You have some massive rose colored glasses, but of course I completely agree with this statement. However, just because we’d rather be American than Chinese does not mean we aren’t a complete fuck show right now. Those are two independent things.

I think we’ve sent too much money and materiel, but I also generally agree with nsplayr’s statement. If the current state of our own country wasn’t such an epic dumpster fire of a crisis, then I’d have less fucks to give about UKR support. It was smart to do so for a while, but we’ve gone too far given the state of our own house.

Never seen someone not get out of one, but it does require TAG approval. One dbag TAG could fuck you, but unlikely from what I’ve seen (but our TAGs have been pretty good).

Solid info. There’s also Tier 1/2 bonuses for higher amounts if you’re confident you’ll be full time for greater than a year. If you want to stay a free agent after a year of orders, then stick with tier 3.