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  1. I suspect we are being played.

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    The same exact thing happened four years ago. I remember buying 1,000 rounds of 7.62x39 cheap from my uncle last year because he was hoarding it ammo in 2008 and he just wanted to get rid of some.

     

    People will get scared, drive prices up for a little while, then things normalize when they realize that we have the same president that we've had for the last four years. If you feel like paying premium for something that can be had cheap a year from now though, I'm sure the gun shops will appreciate your impatience.

  3. Foolish teacher arrested for firing blanks at his students

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    That shows how stupid the "gun free school zone" law is.

     

    I remember in high school, for the first three weeks of class every year, idiots would keep bringing guns and knives to school. Then they'd get expelled and we'd just be left with the kids who would fight every day. Watching faculty beat the shit out of teenagers never gets old. Hell, if that guy worked at my old school, he might have gotten a raise. On the bright side, its easy to score an eighth when every third kid is a drug dealer.

     

    Going to school in the ghetto is a laugh riot.

  5. Cyber War

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    A friend of mine is an electrical engineer and worked for a brief period as an intern for a western US power grid management consortium. I would have lunch with him sometimes when he was working from home. He had his computer logged into their VPN (in non-tech terms, this means he was remotely connected to their internal network), and he was able to view and even modify the status of various electrical substations of the western continental power grid extending from California into Canada. It was his job to design/streamline the flowchart templates that were used for the monitoring system, and so he was given access to the operational system.

     

    They gave him the capability to reroute and even disrupt power transmission in major metropolitan areas. As an intern. Fortunately, he is an honest guy.

     

    It's hilarious how wide and gaping some of the security holes are in the world's infrastructure, all of them ranging from technological to human.

     

    Yet we still have to take our shoes off at the airport. Way to go DHS.

  6. In an emergency, would you give a gun to an untrained loved one?

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    For the record, I would trust the person I know more than the intruder I don't. However, it would be a tough call for me. If I make that decision and they accidentally kill an innocent bystander, or are otherwise screwed by the courts due to my decision to arm them, there is always going to be that doubt.

     

    Remember that this is an untrained user with one of your guns. I guess I really shouldn't expect anybody on a gun forum to say no, but I do think it is an interesting question.

  7. In an emergency, would you give a gun to an untrained loved one?

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    Give em the shotgun and tell em to just start blasting away! Nobody is going to stay in the house with all that lead flyin!

     

     

    Really a watered down question. If the 2 of us are just sitting in a room waiting for a bad guy to come to us, How hard is it to point a gun at a door?

     

     

     

    Unles it was a TACTICAL weapon, in which case, if they hadn't made the last few "Ninja-meetings" no way they could handle the TACTICAL responsibility!

     

    Even people who train to use guns and know the law can get into trouble. In a robbery, people are prone to freezing up and making irrational decisions. I want to know if people think it is wise to give an untrained user a firearm in that state of mind.

     

    I would say you are taking a risk either way. Suppose the only gun you have is an AK with 30 round magazines. If they see a robber with all that adrenaline, they might pull the trigger as many times as they can without thinking.

     

    Or something more high powered, like a Mosin-Nagant. If they had never fired it before, they might not realize how many walls (and people) a round like that can go through before it stops.

  8. In an emergency, would you give a gun to an untrained loved one?

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    First of all i would have made sure my loved one already knew the basics of handling a firearm and be prepared to use it if and when the time comes.

     

    Well since this is a hypothetical, suppose you are living with roommates who aren't opposed to using a gun for self defense but just never got around to going to the range with you. In real life, I doubt this poll would apply to more than a few people on this board.

  9. In an emergency, would you give a gun to an untrained loved one?

    in General Discussion - Any topic is welcome here!!!

    Posted · Edited by Stacks

    Suppose somebody breaks into your house at a time when YOU are unable to use firearms. Say you broke both of your thumbs or you are recovering from eye surgery. Either way, you are unable to safely wield a firearm.

     

    Would you trust an untrained spouse or loved one with one of your guns to defend your family? Say it is just the two of you in one locked room, no kids, waiting for the person to go away. You don't send them out to go find the guy or anything, you would just give them the gun in case the person tried to get into your room.

     

    If you say yes, what would you tell them? I doubt anybody would be able to retain the four rules under such pressure and in such a short amount of time, also consider the fact that they would probably be extremely jumpy holding a gun for the first time AND confronting a robber.

     

    If you say no, what would you tell them if they ask for one? Suppose they know you have guns around and they make the case that they are able to legally defend themselves in this situation. What would you say?

     

    If you are on the fence, what would sway you either way?

  10. Local Saiga prices?

    in Saiga 7.62 X 39

    Posted · Edited by Stacks

    I paid $300 for a NIB 16 inch when JG had a sale around September of last year. $20 FFL, $20 shipping. Its an election year, so prices are climbing and they are probably going to keep climbing until at least December.

  13. 2011 manufacture date owners

    in Saiga 7.62 X 39

    Posted · Edited by Stacks

    How can you tell if its threaded under the shroud? Did anyone here take a picture of one that was threaded before they opened it up? If mine is threaded, I want to cut it but if its not I'll just leave it alone. I don't want to take the risk of cutting it open and finding no threads.

     

    Also, Haldir, if yours doesn't have any threads you can make them yourself. Here is a video on how:

     

  16. Public Range problems

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    I've only ever been to a nice, well staffed range on the other side of town in Jacksonville. I did look up ranges when I moved away though, and there is this one range in Tallahassee where I live now that is just mad ghetto.

     

    Seriously, I'm talking about blood trails leading to the bathroom, people firing downrange on a cold line while people are setting up targets, sweeps, EVERYTHING.

     

    http://www.tallahasseegunforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29949

     

    This particular link is a good example, but go up one level and pretty much that entire sub-forum is composed of stories for that one range.

  22. Comedy special showing kid firing a gun after training on "murder

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    Posted · Edited by Stacks

    Honestly, I think they should have atleast shown him how to shoulder it right. I bet thats what made him cry, getting that but stock in the callor bone.

     

    I think that was the point, they gave him bare bones safety instructions and let him have it.

     

    The game trained him "how to point and shoot a gun in a fashion making him an extraordinarily effective killer without teaching him any of the constraints or responsibilities needed to inhibit such a killing capacity," according to the suit.

     

    http://www.dailymail...ing-family.html

     

     

    That is an ACTUAL JACK THOMPSON QUOTE.

     

    This is Grand Theft Auto, the game series where you had the option of leveling up your pistol wielding skill to "Hitman" and running around with two .45 handguns held sideways.They seem to think that a game like that would bother with all the little things like proper maintenance, zeroing adjustments, breath and trigger control, or cheek welds.

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