mgconnor13

Once 3D printing becomes capable of high strength alloys I'd like to see the government attempt to try to restrict/ tax/ regulate the production, and possession of anything.

I've already contacted the offices of my Senators and Representative to voice my displeasure.

Remember cars cause drunk drivers, spoons make you fat, pencils are the reason you miss spell words on your spelling test and the camera makes you say stupid things on air. The networks don't care how much hate mail you send them, they do care when you send hate mail to their advertisers who then pull their money from the station.

If energy weapon every make it out of the lab you won't see any man portable versions any time soon, just don't see the power supply being small enough. Firearms will continue to evolve and will remain the go to weapon for some time unless a huge advancement is made in power storage is made.

I agree that the industry will be our greatest friends in this fight because it is what they do for a living. Buying does two things, puts more ammo/ guns in our hands and gives the industry more money to lobby and lawyer up.

I use the free version on my computer at home all the time and I really like it.

BE A HARD TARGET!!!! lock your doors and windows, light your property, alarms the door and windows. Always think PREVENTION!!!! PREVENTION!!!! PREVENTION!!!!!! if you are too hard a target they most likely won't bother you. Think in terms of is the risk worth the reward? Most criminals are scavengers and only go for easy pickings. Walk around your property and try figuring out how you would break into your property, then fix those weakness. Counter your enemy by learning to think like them. Also draw our your property and ID all the in/out routes, hiding places, fields of views and points of i

Tourniquets and Israeli bandages are life savers. Some duct tape and a plastic sheet can be used to seal a sucking chest wound if you have nothing else. Keep a tourniquet on you like the shoulder strap of your bag/ body armor or on your butt stock.

Ammo & mags for the weapons you already have

been playing with the idea of a brake that will only allow the target to move a little at a time until it tips over. Also looking at a racket with a cam. Each hit would rock the target moving the ratchet,turning the cam till the cam depresses a latch allowing the target to fall.

When I was in Baghdad we where in an old office building near the edge of town. The cafeteria was separate from the main building with a breeze from the second floor over to a stair case that lead down to the cafeteria/ make shift gym area. Every one through the breeze way at night was creepy (maybe it was all the bullet hole in the wall about head level) We had the building fortified pretty good with cameras, 24 hr guards, and 20ft walls with razor wire around the whole place, etc.... I lived down in the basement with the rest of my team, another platoon lived on the 2nd floor. The guys on th

Amazing how labels change perception. If you give something a cute, fun name and people will eat it up. Seeing how the AR platform is the most common center fired rifle in the US I would say the "Evil Black Rifle" has found a place in the hearts and safes of most red blooded Americans

The idea is to make a target that is as real as possible. I thought about a steel plate with accelerometers mounted to it to register hits with a solenoid that releases to allow the target to fall. Possibly a ball joint so the target can fall back, spin, fall forward etc.. to add to unpredictably. I have the mechanical part figured out but the electronics is what has me stumped.

The 40S&W is based off 10mm that they tamed down. S&W did there home work designing the round and there is a reason it now dominates the LE market. 40 gives you almost as much capacity as a 9mm but gives you heavier bullets with a larger diameter similar to the 45. Glocks use what is know as an unsupported chamber which early on contributed to brass failure. 9mm and 45ACP are much older cartridges compared to the 40 S&W so manufactures already have lots of designs, research and tooling dedicated to 9mm/45acp. Personally I really like 40S&W because it gives me almost as much

I've seen the balloon idea but I was looking for something that is random. 1 good hit might do it or you may get "PCP setting" and have to mag dump to kill it. Ideally a steel of a plastic target for training.

I've seen targets that fall after one hit but does any one make a target that falls after a random number of hits say 1-7 hits? Real world people don't always go down after just one hit. I've seen targets systems that are mounted on robots with "kill zones" that activate a kill switch that stops them but nothing that provides realistic shooting where a undetermined number of direct hits will drop the targets forcing the student to keep shooting till the target goes down. The idea is to get students used to not just double taping but rather being aggressive, aware and actually shooting dow

When I was deployed running out of food and water would have killed us a lot quicker then the enemy ever could have which is why we spent so much time fighting to keep supply convoys on the road. If you have accesses to drinking water and food to last you at least a week ( and I don't mean an easy week I mean you busting your butt 12+ hrs a day), you have a decent cushion to buy yourself time to find more supplies. Fuel is important too, being able to keep yourself warm and cook/ boil water is key. Having a propane grill with several tanks is an easy fix for cooking. Do a few simple thing

We started to stocking up food at our house and it came in handy when my wife wasn't working and our income was cut almost in half. Now that she's working again we will stock up on food again in case something else happens.

Apple has mastered an almost cult like following of there products and have done it by shaping the image they want their products and user present. Any one remember how the IPod had white ear pieces and apple products where the only ones that had that? I was all about shaping an image to promote there products. Every time you use an Apple product in public you are advertising for them. Also Apple has set up there system so you have to commit to the apple way of doing things which ultimately leads you to using more apple products

I said green because the tritium sights on my pistol are great in low light

The shipping container is a good idea. Dig a hole, poor a slab, drop the container and encase it in cement for your own fall out/ tornado shelter. Realistically a good safe bolted down, an alarm system and some heavy doors with dead bolts would probably be the easiest thing to door. You could line the room with heavy duty "book cases/ shelves" that have expanded steel bolted to the back and bolt those to the floor as a way to reinforce the walls. Dogs are also useful to have around, and insurance. Personal article policies are fairly cheap, I have all my high value items insured against da

Only reason reason I said quad rail is YHM makes a carbine length for $100ish. I have looked at the Troy and it's on my short list

Well the best way to keep mud out of your barrel is a rubber band and a condom/ plastic bag. I've seen people rubber band a cleaning rod to their hand guard if they didn't have a good place to put it. Otis makes a cleaning kit that fits into M16 pistol grips. GI kits are pretty versatile and you can always strap them to something if you don't have a spot to cram it into

If you have a basement I would put a safe room down there bolt your safe to the floor with an alarm system for the house. Liberty Safe also makes walk in vault doors if you want an actually turn a room into a walk in safe. Looked into Kevlar "plywood" sheets? DuPont makes boards for storm shelter rooms. Also get a personal articles insurance policy so if anything happens your high value items are covered.

I have 3 ARs in 5.56 so I have plenty spare parts, mags, to run them and I can cannibalize one if I need too. My wife wants a pistol in 40S&W probably a Glock so we can share mags/ bullets. You can never have too many of the same guns/bullets, always lone them out to friends/family if SHTF. Commonality is cheaper/easier and requires less training so in the long run the more your collection has in common the easier it will be for you.