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    Gerber Mark II - bought new, completely dull

    I purchased a Gerber Mark II (black) from Amazon and it arrived today, but its completely dull, as in you can't even cut your finger with it. The edge has been machined, to the extent it -looks- sharp, but it has no edge. Anyone know if this is normal? Maybe there's some rationale for...
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    Looking for a good AR "shop manual"

    Last year I completely took apart each of my guns, down to every little roll pin and spring and so on. There's no good reason, but there's no good reason to know how to replace a rod bearing in a 427, but I consider that fun too :-) In so doing I really wished I'd had a good book or manual...
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    Short Barelled Rifle vs Pistol

    I know this sounds brutally naive, and I searched for a bit (perhaps wth the wrong keywords) for an obvious answer, but still don't know: Legally, why isn't a semi-automatic pistol (let's say M9) considered a short barelled rifle? Well, because its not a rifle. But what makes a rifle a...
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    Closest "reasonable" alternative to the M110

    Every so often I see (probably the same one) an XM110 for sale on GB, offered at $25,000. If you remove the "systems" portion such as optics and night vision and so on, what's a comparable rifle? For example, what's the difference between an M110 and an LMT308 with a long barrel? They look...
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    Difference between an AR-10 and AR-15 in .308?

    I was looking at an LMT308, which was beautiful, and then asked myself "What's the difference between an AR-10 and an AR-15 that's chambered in .308?" I guess that's another way of asking other than caliber what's the difference, but to the uninitiated they look very similar. What are the...
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    My second rifle - 7.62 NATO, but what?

    Talking it over with a friend today and he told me that he doesn't -like- shooting his bolt-action rifles in larger calibres because the recoil gets annoying after 20 or so shots. I hadn't thought of that... my only rifle today is the AR. Is there a big difference in recoil between a...
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    Cabelas Asks For Social Security #...

    So you're prinicpled, but with a price? :-) Reminds me of the ancient joke: Man: Would you sleep with me for a billion dollars? Lady: Yes, I suppose so. Man: Would you sleep with me for ten dollars? Lady: Of course not! What kind of woman do you think I am? Man: We've already...
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    Guns Throughout the Home

    While I'm at it, one interesting moment. My ten year old was asking me about something related to guns, so I showed him my Beretta 92FS which, at that moment, was loaded with the safety on. Anyway, I dropped the magazine out and said "See, it's unloaded now, right?". He agreed. I then said...
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    Guns Throughout the Home

    There is no such thing as a hidden gun your child will not find. And there is no mentally-normal child that will 100% of the time heed your warnings not to touch/play with them. I have four kids and four handguns, each in its own electronic gunvault (big multilevel house). I do not leave a...
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    FFL Dealer Sentenced to 121 Months Imprisonment

    I'm no judge, but I'd bet the specific sentence length may have an affect on where he can serve it. For example where I grew up if it was two years or more you had to go to the big prison, so a lot of sentences were "two years less a day". Perhaps you if its "ten years or less" there's a...
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    Why can WA state ranges own/use/furnish select-fire weapons?

    So far as I can tell, in WA State RCW 9.41.190 makes it illegal to "own, buy, sell, load, furnish, ..." machine guns. And yet at least one local range (and I assume others) will let you rent a select-fire AR for use on their range. Of the excemptions to the law about the only one I can see...
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    My second rifle - 7.62 NATO, but what?

    I saw an LMT LM308 last night, it was beautiful. Not cheap, though. The shop I saw it at also had a sub-MOA 'guaranteed' M1A (might have been the Match model you refer to above), it was also nice!
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    Volley gun

    Muzzle. If that's the case, I guess it answers my question! Thanks!
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    Volley gun

    I was watching the latest episode of that demi-reality show AG, wherein they built a crude 10-barrel volley gun. I'm wondering why its legal to do so, since I thought the NFA machine gun laws prohibited anything that dicharged more than one cartridge or barrel with a single trigger pull...
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    WA state open carry

    There's another thread on -protecting- the right to open carry in WA, so rather than hijack it with my naive question, I'll start another thread: The law here requires that you have a CPL if you carry a concealed pistol, and I've had a CPL for almost the entire time I've lived in WA (about 15...
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    My second rifle - 7.62 NATO, but what?

    The FN FNAR looks interesting. If you get the AR platform chambered in 7.62 and with a rifle (ie: not short carbine) barrel, how accurate is it? On the other hand, the only long-gun outdoor range I have access to is 100 yards and you're only allowed to load one round at a time, a...
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    "American Guns" TV show.....

    Rental helicopter. I smell "new" money. I'm sure we all know a real businessman and a real gunsmith, even if they're not in the same TV-ready package or don't have a hot underage daughter running around their shop. I'll save my admiration for honest people and accomplished craftsmen...
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    My second rifle - 7.62 NATO, but what?

    I've had a Colt LE6940 for a number of years and its been my only long gun; I'd like to branch out a little to a little more "substantial" cartridge (not an indictment of the 5.56) and I think I've settled on the 7.62x51mm. I've never hunted, though I'd like my next purchase to be suitable...
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    WA state and corporate machine guns

    I see a lot of musings about an "NFA Gun Trust", and that my local dealer (Wades) does a lot of them. I take it that does not change anything with respect to MGs (ie: still prohibited)?
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    TV; Son of a Gun - shotgun suppressor

    I assumed slugs as well, but he briefly mentions that they are constrained by the expansion rate of the shot. They don't say a lot about how it works in an attempt to make it look like its never been done before (maybe it hasn't, don't know).
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