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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. Dallas still has time to score again. What a wreck.
  2. 5. If you are uncomfortable with being on a list, printer goes brrr..... There is stuff out there that is currently legal that would surprise many folks.
  3. Holy shit, this exploded, which is guess it deserved to do, because it is an unprecedented grab for power and exceeds the constitutional limits that our republic is based on. Im not going to go back and read every post in this thread since I initially posted about it this morning, but I will add a few thoughts. 1. There are plenty of people from many persuasions who are appaled by this. Calling them out for unrelated disagreements can do nothing but harm the cause. 2. It is a known tactic for Russia to pay people/bots to post controversial content vilifying both sides of any political conflict in order to sew discord. Don't take anything for granted if it is posted from an extreme point of view with language clearly intended to divide. 3. Natural rights such as being able to defend oneself are legitimate, and extend into political situations, hence a well regulated militia. The term "well regulated militia" was used at the time to describe a group of citizens willing to take up arms to fight for their freedoms. It did not mean we gotta regulate those arms. It meant there might be a slave rebellion and we need to be ready (clearly the whole natural rights thing needed some time to mature and recognize that it wasnt6just white land owners who were the recipients of them). 4. The federal tax for short barreled rifles and suppressors goes to $0 on January 1. Suppressors don't make gunshots silent like in the movies, but they do help keep you from being deaf. They do add length, so it makes sense to put them on shorter rifles so that the overall length is manageable. Right now, you can buy an AR-15 with what is called a pistol brace on it and it is still classified as a pistol instead of a short barrelled rifle (sbr). You could theoretically hold that pistol brace against your shoulder and shoot it, but the distance between the end of the brace and the sights on the rifle would not be ideal. Come January first you can then legally register thet "pistol" as a short barreled rifle for free. Then you can put a proper stock on it. You can then buy a legally registered suppressor without having to pay am exorbitant tax to make it marginally quiet enough to shoot without hearing protection. Everyone should have one of these given the current climate.
  4. My truck decided it’s torque converter wasn't all that important a couple or three months ago, so I got to spend a bit of time riding the bike to work while I ruminated on whether or not to fix a 2007 F150 with 213k miles or buy a new truck. And what truck should I buy? I've got about a fifty mile round trip ride to work through mostly straightish highway, so my back tire now looks like this: So I guess I need to pull out the old tire spoons and get a new one. As a side note, I got an F150 Lightning. My Sportster is a 1200 with upgraded exhaust and air filter, but I have no record of any tuning adjustments or anything like that because all that stuff was already on there when I bought it with 300 miles on it. Anyhow, im pretty sure this massively heavy truck can just about smoke my bike off the line. That instant torque is very nice. Now I need to convince the wife the it is worth spending the $2500 or so to upgrade to 1275 with new cams and a proper tuner and a few other goodies so I can get between 90 and 100 horses out of the rear wheel. Because I can't drive a trick that is faster than my bike. It is unholy.
  5. I watched that PBS aircraft carrier documentary almost 20 years ago when I was getting ready to go to OCS for the USMC because they offered a flight contract if you could pass all the tests, and I'm not convinced that things are any different today.
  6. I didn't read the article and wasn't trying to argue with your point, so much as pointing out that it wouldn't be beyond Russia to put out a hit for them.
  7. Meh, like they care about individual candidates. All they care about is division. They people or create bots or whatever to post up GRUHorn type content, and then turn around and pay people to post up Brisket type content. All they care about is division. If knocking off a couple of political candidates out of a pool of 20,000 will accomplish that, then it's all part of the game.
  8. So we're talking about sending the national guard to Chicago to "fight crime" now as well...good thing so many people of a particular persuasion spent so much effort passing laws that are primarily used to put young black men in jail so that God fearing white folks who style themselves as proponents for the downtrodden could feel a little safer have spent so much time trying to dismantle the very thing that could be the last hope for our republic.
  9. Unfortunately, if you are from south of the border, you are Mexican until proven otherwise, which is not an entirely unreasonable suspicion, given that most of our Latino population is of Mexican origin. The greater problem with all of this is that we are doling out death sentences to foreign nationals in international waters for suspected non-death penalty eligible crimes without any due process or declaration of war. Given that our civil rights our supposed to be endowed by the creator and not just available to Americans, this just might be a gross violation of them.
  10. Did Katrina clean up as a spring break mission trip through the BSM. We basically were just gutting houses down to the studs and piling everything out by the street. One of the houses must have been a proctologist or something, because we found this fake foam butt with a hole and stuff in it for practicing sticking sharp objects and stuff up it. Also found gun safes that obviously had ruined guns inside them, old quartersawn hardwood floors that had been ruined, etc.
  11. I somehow simultaneously both respect you more and less by finding out you own a Tec-9.
  12. I thought it was a nice call back to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (the novel that Blade Runner was based on). Especially since the previous scene dealt with the central theme of the novel.
  13. Yeah, im not reading the next four pages or whatever have been posted since this, but there is a big difference in mobilizing the militia to put down something like the whiskey rebellion and mobilizing the national guard to fight crime that is at a 30 year low and happens to manifest itself in one particular form of crime. And I'm not even completely sold on the justification of mobilizing the militia for the whiskey rebellion. We fought a war to rif ourselves of the kind of control that a colonizer uses to take control of the colonists, yet a lot of those same aspects were at issue with the whiskey rebellion. And now we are using the militia aka national guard to fight a surge in crime that is actually a statistical low point... It occurs to me that maybe we shouldn't have passed all those gun control laws that were designed and used to keep undesirable people from bearing arms because it sort of puts some limits on our liberty.
  14. Yeah, but the woods next to your childhood house didn’t have professional conservators taking care of them. They had teen kids trying to get the pages unstuck by slowly peeling them apart, only to get them stuck again.
  15. Bill Clinton's presidential library probably has the largest collection of vintage Playboy Magazines in the world.
  16. You've clearly never experienced the pleasure of postulating the obvious answer to whatever dilemma your female significant other has proffered to you only to find that it is completely wrong in every way.
  17. In my experience, women don't want a smart man, generally speaking. They might say they do. But a smart man will call them on their bullshit.
  18. Also, there was a line about her being able to hear certain frequencies in I think episode 1. Clearly she has more capabilities than the rest. You gotta pay extra for that.
  19. Marcy's not out there with those things, those things are out there with Marcy!
  20. @kingkoopa6 did you ever finish Rebels, or are you still working on it?
  21. Go to Traveler's Antiques and Trading outside of Amarillo. Buy several pounds of black powder, drill some holes, get some model rocketry igniters, and boom. Even with the drive, you will still save some time. You could also probably find some of the black powder substitutes locally.
  22. I plan on having a few form 1's ready to go, because why not? 2 liter bottle? Why not? I also need to learn CAD, because an integrally suppressed pen gun that shoots .22lr would be pretty sweet to print out. Would it serve a purpose? No, but it would be pretty a pretty cool project. Also, FYI, there is a forced reset mod sailing on the strange waters for your 10/22...
  23. I had an old Case knife we found in my grandfather's stuff after he died. When I looked it up, I saw the same model and age for sale for like $1200. There are lots of people who will pay good money for some of those old knives.
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