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    The Chicago v Glock lawsuit

    Here is the "shoestring machine gun" story from 2010. In the story, it was not the rifle the ATF wanted to call a machine gun, it was the string. A "fair use" tidbit; the story title is "In September 2004 the ATF decided that a 14 inch long shoestring was considered a machine gun" In 2007 they...
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    questions for knife makers pertaining to cooling annealed steel.

    Wrt Post #3 - you are right, but actually the Crucible Steel book is at http://www.crucibleservice.com/eSelector.htm and there are a couple other relevant links from there - the 2010 Knifemaker PDF is at http://www.crucibleservice.com/PDFs/Knifemaker%20REV%20June%202010.pdf and a knife steel...
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    A New Concept

    Coming out of lurkdom briefly to say, this is a valuable point of view. In 1993 President Clinton convinced me I needed an AR-15. I read on the Internet that if one shot a rifle match and sent the match bulletin to CMP, one could buy an M1 Garand from them. Long story short, I went to a local...
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    Illinois Supreme Court rules Cook County gun, ammunition taxes unconstitutional

    I did not write that line about "in the home", it was in paragraph of the court's ruling.that I quoted.
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    Illinois Supreme Court rules Cook County gun, ammunition taxes unconstitutional

    Johnm1 - full disclosure, someone pointed me to that ruling, I didn't find it on my own. I just think that the unanimity of the opinion, along with explicit references to the Second Amendment and to Heller and so forth, suggests that the court is not simply looking to have the County re-write...
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    AR-15... how much less accurate is a delta ring vs freefloat?

    I think you answered your own question. The POI when slung up tight shifts away from the POI with the forearm simply supported on a sandbag. Varying sling tension might open up the shifted group, degrading "accuracy" - but only because of the added variable.
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    Illinois Supreme Court rules Cook County gun, ammunition taxes unconstitutional

    The ruling is at https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/09/94/11626108/cookcounty_gun_taxes_il_supreme_10-21-21.pdf On page 8 they say: "We agree that the ordinances impose a burden on the exercise of a fundamental right protected by the second amendment. At its core, the second amendment...
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    Citric Acid vs LimeShine

    Units trip me up - tsp vs tbs and grains versus grams... but the original post about citric acid brass cleaner on the cast boolits forum https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?83572-Citric-acid-brass-cleaner spells it out -he says "2 teaspoons per quart of water".
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    AR Bolt Release Levers

    Exactly. Iron-sights, reach over the top and trip the bolt release with your right hand (that just inserted the fresh mag). Scoped AR Service Rifle, many people BAD lever or Troy, but sometimes the added mass keeps the bolt from locking back. Creedmoor sells this -...
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    Fixed Trigger Guard vs. Removable...?

    Now you've sent me scurrying to read the 2021 rule book. And I don't even have a dog in this fight, I have the old flip-down and not building another SR.
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    Fixed Trigger Guard vs. Removable...?

    One reason to use the original-style "flip-down" trigger guard is that it is the only configuration allowed for NRA or CMP "Service Rifle" competition.
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    Treat other people well.

    Excellent story, thanks for sharing it. Old true-say: "What goes around comes around." One sign of a "good deal" is when both parties come away thinking they got a good deal.
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    Favorite One Off / Hole in the Wall Sporting / Gun Store

    Mike Schrank's Smoke'n Gun in Waukegan, Il. Closed as of July 2019 according to their website https://www.smokengun.org/ but the website is still there, so who knows? Bought my first gun there 50 years ago; a Colt SAA in .357 mag, used but in very good condition, for $150 (which was a...
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    Service Rifle scope

    Vortex re-named the Viper PST 1-4X to Ranger. Sold some through Midway for a while, they are out now. But you can still get one from Eurooptic https://www.eurooptic.com/Vortex-Ranger-1-4x24-Rifle-Scope-TMCQ-MOA-RGR-1401.aspx Appears identical, specs are the same as the PST. I shoot XC (not...
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    Is this sling backwards?

    The sling looks great. But one thing in that link is most excellent! On page 349 of his book, some of which is shown as photographs, under "Trigger squeeze and coordination" he defines "jerking" the trigger, and "flinching" - both of which are the root source of inaccurate shots. I know them...
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