Ulric
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starting with this shit again.....
TLDR: Bans parts kits, effectively bans individual manufacture of firearms, retroactively makes it illegal to posses individually manufactured firearms unless you take active and immediate steps to make them comply with the new law. BTW, those steps might not even be possible because you have to talk a local manufacturer (maybe dealer as well, IDK) into "issuing" you a serial number for your weapon. They are not legally compelled to do so, so you might not be able to.
Just for funsies, it also effectively bans selling parts kits that you already own.
Also, bans the sale of aluminum, steel, and other materials, because of poor wording by idiots.
QuoteSEC. 2. Do-it-yourself assault weapon ban.
(a) Banned hazardous products.—Notwithstanding section 3(a)(5)(E) of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2052(a)(5)(E)), the following shall be considered banned hazardous products under section 8 of such Act (15 U.S.C. 2057):
(1) A firearm receiver casting or firearm receiver blank or unfinished handgun frame that—
(A) at the point of sale does not meet the definition of a firearm in section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code; and
(B) after purchase by a consumer, can be completed by the consumer to the point at which such casting or blank functions as a firearm frame or receiver for a semiautomatic assault weapon or machinegun or the frame of a handgun.
My prediction is that this will not become law, but they just keep pushing the envelope with this shit.
Also, I love the name "3D Firearms Prohibition Act". The language doesn't specifically state anything about additive manufacturing, so I will assume that it is for the prohibition of three dimensional firearms (which it basically is).
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On 10/22/2018 at 4:38 AM, Toxn said:
This seems like a blatant move to make their terrifying hell-creature less horrific by familiarity.
It doesn't work, frankly.
I feel that it has had the opposite effect, honestly.
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10 hours ago, Donward said:
Good Guy With A Gun in Seattle helps apprehend shit-stain who stabbed ex-girlfriend to death near the Space Needle (the Seattle Center).
Background behind the event and his decision as to why he became a CPL carrier here.
http://mynorthwest.com/1179134/man-who-held-off-seattle-center-killer/
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As for the video itself. This is what you can expect in Seattle. People wandering around obliviously while a murderer with bloody hands is waving a bloody knife around, while a guy holding a handgun is trying to detain him. And the useless rent-a-cops in the video were as worthless as tits on a boar hog. And yeah, that was a rent-a-cop on a fucking Segway.
Also look at the moron with the mace, who was lucky he was stabbed to death. Which shows you how effective that shit is.
Further observation, Good Guy With The Gun did the right thing by immediately putting his gun on the ground when the Seattle Police finally decided to show up.
Note how the pepper spray did basically nothing, and the first taser deployment failed.
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23 minutes ago, Bronezhilet said:
I find it interesting that a lot of people, especially in the EU, seem to forget/ignore just how gigantic the USA actually is. For me a one hour drive is a long drive because that means I'm either halfway across the country, or I've driven into Germany.
19 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:Yes that's something that continually frustrates me, along with the number of people in the US who have no concept of the vastness of the rest of the country, either.
Especially out here in the west. It's over a one hour drive to the state capitol, and I'm really close to it compared to other parts of the state.
It's a coastal issue where all the major urban centers are, especially on the east coast where you can drive for an hour and get to a different state.
I guess it doesn't seem that odd to me, but I've driven to and through a fair number of states on road trips growing up, and I've worked as a driver before hauling supplies around Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. While the country is really large, you can cover a fair amount of it if you really want to in a day. It was about a 26 hour drive from Rochester NY back to Colorado, and we did it practically nonstop. If you push it a little bit, you can get from Seattle to Miami in 48 hours. (Probably shave a couple hours off if you push the speed limit a bit.) Granted, that's assuming you have someone to trade off with, or some amphetamines.
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27 minutes ago, Legiondude said:
Guy was using a Glock 21 with an extended magazine, illegal for holding ammunition beyond the California set 10 round limit.
Clearly this means that we need a nation wide ban on high capacity magazines. That will stop these mass shootings for sure. After all, when the magazine is empty you have to throw them away, right? I leaned that from one of my state representatives.
But I'm all seriousness, that is the argument of the anti gun crowd. They need to outlaw things they don't like outside of their jurisdiction because people can illegally bring them into their jurisdiction. Montana shouldn't have high capacity magazines because they can illegally end up in L.A. Besides, we all know that those toothless redneck rural bumkins are worthless filth compared to the erudite and a sophisticated metropolis dwelling master race, so they shouldn't even have rights anyways. That makes it OK for the large urban areas to dictate how people hundreds of miles away can live.
These are the same morons who say that we need to abolish the Senate because it's not fair that 45 million votes have greater representation that 55 million voters. THAT'S THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE SENATE YOU INBRED FLIPPER HANDED DING DONGS!
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2 OP for me!
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The threat of safety glasses: how eye protection used by the military can help terrorists commit mass shootings!
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Ermagerd! Civilians have access to military equipment! Next let's get an article about surplus military trucks in civilian hands and the danger that it represents.
So if the military has it, it's automatically too dangerous for civilians to have, right? Fear mongering click bait article is just that.
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The T114 is a meme mobile, that's about it. It can be nasty, but it can't carry. Plus side, you get to run it in a completely baller 6.7 American line up, and it doesn't care about facing 7.7s. In my opinion, it would come down to what BR you play at more.
I haven't driven T114s, but I've killed plenty, and I've only been killed by them a handful of times. They are great ambush vehicles. If you already have the T29, M26E1, and Super Hellcat, then yeah, go for it.
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12 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:
A better article from the BBC. Also, LOL crazy guy was a Hispanic Republican.
There are screen shots and videos floating around showing that voter registration may have been altered after the fact to say that he is a registered Republican. It's possible that those are doctored, as well, but this whole thing still doesn't add up. Either way, the guy has a history of being a whack job. Considering everything that has happened lately, what with Christine Ford's ties to the IC, the shit show that has been the Mueller investigation, all of the political violence against the right that goes unreported, etc, this whole bomber thing seems to be tailor made for an October surprise.
This guy is almost a perfect caricature of what the left thinks that Trump supporters are. Just like the fake bombs that were sent, this seems like an over exaggerated prop.
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Astroturfed AF, records being scrubbed/altered. This just keeps getting more fake.
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11 minutes ago, Belesarius said:
Hence why both Sturgeon and I think this might be Kekistan.
It certainly is a possibility, but if they are just doing this for the lulz, they picked a really bad time.
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I hesitate to call these things bombs, considering that from what we have seen so far they appear to be incapable of actually exploding. The one that we have a picture of just has a digital clock with no alarm features, not to mention the myriad of other glaringly obvious problems with it. It's not like it's that difficult to cobble together a timed fuse with modern electronics. You could get everything you need at an automotive supply store or hobby store without even raising any eyebrows. While it's more difficult to make proper high explosive compounds, there are plenty of other options that you can substitute that are also readily available.
The person who made these wasn't trying to build a bomb, they were building props. If they were trying to actually build a bomb, they must be a text book example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. If they thought these were going to explode, they must have also thought that lemon juice turned you invisible. That certainly is a possibility, but that seems incredibly unlikely to me.
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1 hour ago, Belesarius said:
Anyone actually believe it was 'rogue elements' that killed Khashoggi? If you do, please elaborate. 'Cause I ain't fuckin' convinced that MBS had 'nothing' to do with this...
He dindu nuffin!
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That may be, but playing a stock top rank tank in PvP is an incredibly painful experience. This should make it faster to research parts, FPE, crew, and adjustment of fire (the 4 things I would consider absolutely necessary, not including any specific ammunition you have to unlock). But playing without any of those is just asking for a bad time.
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53 minutes ago, Bronezhilet said:
How is it not ideal?
It didn't change the fact that end tier stick vehicle grind is painful enough to deter people from playing it. I've been trying to grind out there parts that I need for the Abrams in the PvE mode, and it's takes hours to unlock a single module.
It takes you longer to spade a vehicle than it takes to unlock the next vehicle.
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55 minutes ago, Bronezhilet said:
It's not ideal, but it's a move in the rights direction.
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8 hours ago, Toxn said:
Overall, having played every nation's low-tier tanks except Japan, I'd put the overall experience of BR1-3 as follows (ordered from best to worst):
- Germany: a mix of good vehicles of various sorts, with no obvious duds.
- America: mostly solid, with one or two otherwise-good vehicles having glaring flaws.
- USSR: a mix of amazing vehicles and meme-fodder. Play the BTs, T-28, T-50, early T-34 and Zis-30. Leave the rest.
- Britain: all tanks seem to combine good features and glaring flaws at a 1:1 ratio. Survivability is near-universally low thanks to low crew numbers. I hope you like the 2-pounder, because that's going to be all you have to work with for a while.
- France: everything is pretty much dogshit until the AMC35 and Char B1. Abandon hope.
- Japan: no idea. The I-Go Ko was so awful it erased my memories of the entire tree.
Japan is pain until you get the Chi Ha Kai, then it's playable. You can jump from that to the Chi Nu, then the Chaffee and the Na To. After that, I have no clue, but my next jump will be to the ST-A series and the Type 61. After that you have no choices. Use the STB to grind the Type 90, and throw as many free backups at them as you can.
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I see that they used the "wall hanger" methodology for their firearms selection criteria. Also, fuck every last one of those assholes, because I'm willing to bet that many of them are of the "for me but not for thee" persuasion when it comes to the 2A.
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55 minutes ago, T___A said:
That it's the face of abject despair and dread of someone who just got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. She knows exactly how fucked she is.
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51 minutes ago, T___A said:
3 scoops in one term?
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35 minutes ago, Xoon said:
I was simply making sure that people understood that he had mental illnesses, apart from being trans.
I don't really care about whether or not it is a mental illness, not really worth discussing with left wing fanatics (Note: Not calling you a left wing fanatic). They are only 0,1% of the population, I have better things to worry about.
Not surprising, psychological disorders are usually a package deal. Sometimes you can luck out and only have one abnormality, but more likely than not you have comorbidity with some other disorder.
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1 minute ago, Alzoc said:
Wasn't really thinking about agriculture, with the yields we have nowadays we can have a high output while being at an historical low on cultivated area.
I was more thinking about historical buildings, nice little postcard villages that kind of thing.
Attempting a large scale reorganization in a democratic society is indeed pretty much impossible without stopping being a liberal democracy.
As I said urbanization is an ongoing process and we can only encourage it while making sure that the growing urban area are well though out.
I question why we should even be encouraging it in the first place.
United States Gun Control Megathread
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Well, 2d guns are about as useful as 2d waifus, and I still don't have a way to prove whether or not 4d guns can be interacted with in our universe, so.....