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Fortunately, that is so obviously unconstitutional by Heller's standard.

None required there.

Despite the article that is saying that the gun control faction is in disarray, that by no means that this threat is over. If the Feinstein bill -- or even a gutted shadow of it -- passes and is signed, it will still be another significant move away from a crucial right. Stay on the pressure to your elected representatives, ESPECIALLY now what the summary of Feinstein's proposal is out. She basically proposes limiting gun owners to choose from anything designed before 1900. We're all going to be able to "bear arms" like the Colt SAA and the Winchester 1894 lever action, and that will be called "sensible restrictions". The Cowboy Action Shooters and the hunters will shrug their shoulders and not care about the loss of ability to buy or own a Glock or AR....right up until some idiot shoots up a movie theater with a pair of six-shooters, and then the leftists will be asking for another round of "sensible restrictions" on the "high power handguns" that are only "designed to kill people". They'll be playing the clip from Dirty Harry in an endless loop, showing how we need to get "the most powerful handgun in the world, the .44 magnum" off the streets! DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN!

Probably a lot more than you think (and not just for what you are saying about common criminals and gang bangers) -- nice article on that here: https://reason.com/archives/2012/12/22/gun-restrictions-have-always-bred-defian

Pretty bad taste, and obviously done with a huge anti-firearms agenda and bias.... ...but that's 'freedom of the press' for ya.

How is it that we have raised aviators that think like this?

And yet, they still have great fundamentals and have been making a bazillion dollars this year. Ruger's special dividend hurt it a bit, too. It was paid to all stockholders as of 6 Dec...and as you can see, the floor fell out on the 7th after everyone collected their dividend and dumped it.

CTD pissed a lot of firearms owners off during the 2008 feeding frenzy by jacking up their prices in what a lot of folks felt was an unreasonable way. Apparently they did the same thing a day or two ago, and the reaction has been, shall we say, negative. Stopped by my local Wally World tonight, and while the shelves in sporting goods aren't completely bare, all the reloading stuff is gone and the ammo has been decimated.

Just as an aside, there is no such thing as a Medal of Honor "winner" (as in the caption to this thread). it isn't the Olympics.

Is there such a thing as preparation not in advance? The thing about durable goods like firearms and ammo is that they're pretty much timeless (ammunition shelf life is longer than most of our lifetimes) and prices generally only increase over time. Thus, if one sees a need for either in the future and isn't buying them now, then you are throwing money away.

Well, who knows what the price of components is going to be in the future, but I've been reloading .223 for about $0.20/round....I can see it getting more expensive than that soon, though.

Smoke 'em if you've got 'em. If you ever wanted an AR or AK, or any double-stack handgun with a normal-capacity magazine, go buy them ASAP, else face at least seriously jacked up prices very soon.

She? Or a significant American freedom?

ADCs aren't attached to your command, either -- and that is intentional. It isn't the fear of Command influence that should motivate someone to hire a civilian attorney; it is for their wider range and depth of experience than the SJA prosecutors they will be up against. In my narrow experience in this area, the correct civilian attorney (especially those who are former SJAs) can run circles around most ADCs and SJAs.

The crime-and-punishment actions are completely separate from anything flying related, including Q-3s and FEBs. While information from UCMJ or NJP actions can be used to influence decisions made about a pilot continuing to fly (like an FEB), it most certainly is not an automatic process (at least so far as acquittal goes). In other words, acquittal at the Court Martial means zero in terms of going back and overturning a Q-3 or stopping an FEB.

There is only one side to the 'privilege' contract, just like a lot of things with the military.

Given the types of "combat" the USAF has been engaged in for the last 6-9 years, I think there is still quite a ways to go. Most leaders in the flying community are trying to duel each other for who can make the most conservative decision "just to be safe". Until we are in a situation where taking that conservative answer actually costs troops lives, the pendulum will continue to swing toward total risk aversion.

Great news if true. The only thing the news outlets are currently reporting is that the jury is deliberating.

Fortunately for folks stationed outside AFCENT.....

I'm talking about the atmosphere at UPT in the 1970s, 80s, and early 90s (the pre-Clinton era, basically)....not 5 years ago. The culture of risk aversion on this stuff seems to be a product of the post-Tailhook, post-Clarence Thomas, political correctness wave that started in the mid/late 90s and went full retard post-9/11. BTW, my understanding of the current wave of 'search and destroy for offensive material' does not have any punishments attached to anything that is found or anyone whose command it is found under. A significant component of this is supposedly the reports back up the chain of what is found, for data collection at HAF.

There was no such 'approval process' back in the day...so, no, you're not going to see any accountability from leadership for these patches. Back then they rightfully let students represent their classes however they pleased without getting the SJA and a Staff Summary Sheet involved.

Where did you get that ol' dad had 'recently' died? She stated to the officers that it had been 'sitting in her closet' -- there was no length of time given that she had it. None the less, that is still possession of an unregistered, un tax-stamped fully automatic weapon. Folks have ended up with federal convictions for significantly less. ATF agents are federal officers. They likely aren't going to care about a local peace officer's vouching for her, other than that he can positively identify her as being the individual in possession of the unregistered, un-taxed automatic rifle. Unfortunately, the ATF has proven time and time again that 'intent' means nothing, and the fact that it was non-functional also means nothing. Let's remember this is the same organization that determined that a string is a machine gun. Logical, rational thought is not applicable:

What happened to the posts from the "Off DZ" jumper?

The woman whose closet it came from -- the one in possession of the unregistered machine gun.

RAB obviously has no idea about the sacred trust and responsibility that AF aircrew have for the ground-pounder brethren we support. RAB also has no idea that many of us have been in plenty of life-or-death situations as aviators where our on-the-spot judgment and decisionmaking often meant the difference between living or dying, either for ourselves/our crews or for the ground forces we were supporting. RAB clearly has no understanding that when events turn out on the "death" side of the fence, how heavily that weighs upon us.