fire4effect
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On 3/12/2026 at 9:49 AM, FourFans said: Sure, but I don't see behind any curtains anymore. In short, Russia is a dog we cornered that we have to be very careful with. We're probably doing this for the same reason the US Government limited Ukraine's starlink access as they tried to advance into Russian territory: Russia have nukes on functional ICBMs pointed at western nations.
Cutting off Venezuela and Iran in Russian oil calculus has made our sanctions that much more effective. I'd imagine we now have to carefully meter just how tightly we squeeze. Too hard and we get nukes airborne. It's a position of power that has to be carefully managed. Again, that's from my non read-in perspective. If I've learned one thing, it's that open source media is never privy to the behind the scenes negotiations that end up changing all the diplomatic calculus of how, precisely, the US is screwing over other countries. I'd guess this article is us seeing 10% of what's actually going on.THIS!
Unfortunately, the 10 percent is what the public sees and forms their opinion. People see gas prices and not much else. Taking out Iran's oil industry is really the only option at this point. Turn off their cash flow. Even if they hit their Gulf neighbors they'll watch as everyone else rebuilds and restart production while they sit on the sideline. They will run out of missiles and I'm sure most if not all of their manufacturing capability is a pile of smoking rubble at this point.
On a side note, harsh sanctions against Japan in the 40s pushed them to attack Pearl Harbor and we all know how that movie went.
They also had no hope of competing logistically with the US and after 1942 more and more of their assets were the start of artificial reefs with no way to replace them.
History repeats.
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NRA-ILA
NRA-ILA | By George! Washington, D.C.’s Magazine Ban Inva...
Even as its formerly more liberty-loving neighbor, Virginia, goes down the tyrannical path of unconstitutional bans on firearms and magazines, residents of the nation’s capital last week gained a measOf course, the anti-gunners in DC are crapping themselves pushing hard for a stay on the precedence and an en-banc review. If this stands it could give a circuit split (however this works in DC) and then on to SCOTUS which is absolutely the last thing any libs want to see.
BREAKING NEWS! DC DECLARES EMERGENCY OVER HUGE FEDERAL COURT DECISION!
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1 hour ago, FourFans said: Outstanding. The dude has no LEO experience, and I'll genuinely believe he'll do a great job. Character matters. AR has a long history of power hungry and otherwise low-professionalism cops. Let's hope he can clean house.
Especially in rural areas. It arguably has improved a little given social media/cameras are more prevalent unlike years past. Drug Task Force in Crittenden County made some cops quite a bit of money on the side over the years.
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1 hour ago, B52gator said: 3 Strike Eagles down over Kuwait. Blue on Blue. All made it out. Some wild pics and vid out there of the crews.
Good to know all those seat inspections from a few years back seem to have been successful 🤔
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Romantic tryst led to Mexican cartel leader's capture, death | Reuters
Who are we kidding? I think we've all paid a price in our lives at some point because we thought with a certain body part to the exclusion of all else.
Sometimes the price can be pretty steep.
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23 hours ago, Clark Griswold said: Getting spicy in Mexico
Breitbart
Mexico Erupts in Flames After Death of Largest Terrorist...
Cartel gunmen have begun carrying out terrorist attacks in various states in Mexico in response to the death of the country’s most powerful terrorist | Border / Cartel ChroniclesGB News
El Mencho killing causes chaos as gunmen storm major inte...
El Mencho was killed by military forces on SundayI hope Claudia Sheinbaum authorizes us (not that the current administration would really care about asking if it came down to it) to use everything in our arsenal including Hellfire's to assist. Not surprisingly the Cartels are as heavily armed as any insurgency with armored vehicles and RPGs
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6 hours ago, ClearedHot said: I read that to mean the evidence he did see on things like the tic tac video indicated they were something else...as in of this earth.
I guess it depends on his definition of contact. Does flying through a fleet exercise count as contact or does it require landing on the White House lawn?
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/14/havana-syndrome-cia-norway-experiment/
BLUF: some guy in Norway did an experiment on himself to disprove Havana Syndrome and likely fried his brain in the process.
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15 hours ago, Boomer6 said: Surprised this isn't getting more attention. Maybe it's BS.
Seems like I've seen this movie before
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13 hours ago, Smokin said: Would be interesting if the dude filed a lawsuit against the ATF and the individual that denied it. Might give other bureaucrats pause when they're about to deny someone their rights if they know that they might lose their house.
Imagine any other right being treated like the 2nd... "no, sir, I don't consent to you searching my house because it is my right to not consent." "Sorry, but simply exercising your right doesn't justify exercising your right, so we're going to search your house."
It's funny but suing anyone in the federal government as an individual is usually futile. It seems the only time a federal employee is considered at fault as an individual is if it's a violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act. I'm sure most on here remember a briefing on that at some point in their careers.
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32 minutes ago, ClearedHot said: The ATF still being the ATF.
I'm really concerned that the whole NFA fiasco is going to remain a CF long enough to allow a new Congress to make the tax 5k. On another note judges are experts at creative writing when they want a certain outcome. We the people be damned.
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29 minutes ago, arg said: Mine’s not gas, it’s diesel.
The downside to a diesel is warming up the glow plug before firing
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In other news.
“Shall not be infringed” right Jeanine?
I have a hard time trusting the government no matter who's in charge because of statements like this.
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58 minutes ago, ClearedHot said: Electronic Form 4 with a TS/SCI took 17 days...Guy with no clearance submitted same day, same shop, 9 days.
Anyway, my new Spartac 5.7X28. Integrated suppressor, WICKED light even with a 32 round mag. Optics and foregrip on order.
I like the brace. 👍Have one myself. How hard is it to find ammo? I've always tried to keep all my firearms in the more commonly available calibers. I've liked 300 BO for a long time, but I had to convince myself before I bought the platform it was finally mainstream enough that it would stay in production.
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Rahimi United States v. Rahimi - Wikipedia is the case I think you're referring too. Merrick Garland, I believe really pushed it I'm sure in part to give the libs on the court another bite at the gun control apple. Rahimi was hardly a sympathetic defendant and I'm sure that was the point. The whole "bad facts make for bad law". This touches on another issue. When any current DOJ/AG goes to SCOTUS they seem to jump to the front of the line when it comes to getting SCOTUS to grant cert.
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This could probably be discussed in more than one thread given current events.
New Assault Weapons Ban & Magazine Ban Is Coming!
Rhode Island made it a Felony in 2022 to even possess a magazine over 10 rounds no matter when it was acquired and SCOTUS has denied cert so far on the subject in the relevant cases.
Fortunately, Rhode Island is way outside of my normal area of travel, but we could all find ourselves one day with our trusty Glock 19 and its 15-rd. supplied magazine as newly minted felons. Would we meekly submit to handcuffs and fight it out in court since that what the "Law and Order" crowd would espouse? From what I've seen it doesn't appear the courts are going to be any help at all on this particular subject at least for the foreseeable future. Honestly it appears what constitutes law and order depends greatly on a person's world view.
Truly interested in the BO community take on this.
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21 minutes ago, ClearedHot said: In short - judges must now use the test of "totality of the situation" rather than what happened in a split-second decision.
Judges will probably worry about the nuanced difference. As for the average juror, they'll still have their own biases as to what they consider more relevant and will probably vote accordingly.
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2 hours ago, uhhello said: 90% of these issues would be prevented if these state/local govts would just cooperate with DHS and hand over the convicted criminals with detainers already. It's all planned.
I think most in the country agree with this. They should be removed ASAP. I suspect somebody in the administration is briefing a daily PowerPoint slide with a removal number and the bigger the number the happier the administration. We've all been tasked in the military to brief a metric that frankly means nothing in the infinite scheme of things, but we do it because that's what the boss wants. I will say catching the bad guys is hard. ICE can probably roll up 10 illegals with just an immigration violation just trying to scratch out a living in the time it takes to track down a one really bad guy. Truthfully the bad guys know ICE has come to town and beat feet right away to Vegas while waiting for ICE to move on to another city. The locals are usually in a position to give good intelligence on the bad guys but if you make them afraid to come forward things tend to dry up. This sounds so much like a movie I lived before in faraway places. If they are criminals convicted of anything serious, they're probably already serving their sentence in prison.
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6 minutes ago, busdriver said: I think both incidents change in my mind depending on where I put the "start of the incident."
In the second case (keep this shortish). If I just focus on this: a dude gets in a physical altercation with cops. One sees he's has a gun, then a gun shot is heard. Pretty hard. I think by most precedent, that's a lawful shoot. BUT. I think in this case, you could argue that the cop started the physical altercation by shoving the woman into the ground. If you buy that, then the premise of self defense falls apart. Basically, what is a proportionate response by law enforcement to people standing in the street and getting in the way?
All that said, the protestors are clearly engaging in civil disobedience, not just protest. Given the the history of successful civil disobedience hinges on getting the state to respond with disproportionate force, this should have been entirely predictable. ICE has handled all of this very poorly. If the goal was lots of deportations, this will end up being a failure. If the goal was a political show of force, it has backfired.
In any event, physically getting in the way of law enforcement and not expecting force is just dumb.
I think your absolutely right that "start of the incident." is where a lot of opinions diverge. Was filming "interference"? The statute on interference seems to leave a lot of room for interpretation. Kind of like "disorderly conduct". Pretty easy to charge but in the end will it stick? From a cop's perspective it just made somebody's life miserable justified or not and nothing will happen to the cop. You can beat the rap but not the ride. I don't see any justification for shoving the woman to the ground and Mr. Pretti came to her defense and right or wrong it cost him his life. Either way I don't see shooting Mr. Pretti in the back while he was on the ground as justified and certainly not the next multiple rounds. Of course, the agent(s) has probably already sat with an attorney to come up with his statement on what he needs to say and not say and what he "perceived" at the moment. No way to prove otherwise and it really can justify just about any use of deadly force. I'll tell you this I trust federal law enforcement no matter who they are a lot less now. Very hard to hold them accountable. Not absolute immunity but from a practical standpoint pretty close. State and local law enforcement have their leadership in reasonable proximity to who they serve and can answer to the actions of their employees. Federal not so much. I don't see any federal charges against these agents if for no other reason than I'm sure they'll get a pre-emptive pardon. In my mind DHS is coming very close to a national police force that can be used against anyone depending on the political winds.
The Iran thread
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Actually I was referring to Russia. Sorry I wasn't clear. I was making the point how a country might feel backed into a corner and feel like they have no choice but to go on the attack.