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You beat me to it! And I had such a clever title worked out. :cuss: Hmm, do they even speak Mandarin in the South? Only in the Southwest? :uhoh: I was also going to point out information that may not have been reported in the original, more notorious incident that could have gone far in...

A fine approach to take in an argument is to ask them if they feel that way, if perhaps another event in their life is influencing their judgement, or if they are going to provide you with Uniform Crime Report equivalent statistics/studies that show their opinion to be a factual assertion. Don't...

I remember several discussions of the McPhedran study, among other antipodean matters, taking place on this site. http://andrewleigh.com/ Here are some pages I bookmarked. http://andrewleigh.com/?p=1197 http://andrewleigh.com/?p=1273 http://andrewleigh.com/?p=1427 I think the...

Curses. :banghead: I have too many firearm stories in my bookmarks to find the one(s) I'm after! If my memory serves me right, the police officer in question was from Ohio, the same state which is home to the only other person to murder* someone with an NFA. In the second instance it was a...

130) In threads discussing the encroachment of a law upon personal freedoms Standing Wolf will post a one liner explaining that we aren't really free, people don't stand up and fight for their freedom, the particular municipality is a lost cause and/or that (a) revolution is in everyone's best...

Backspace, Enter, Backspace, Enter......... It's like clubbing a baby seal... with a gun. :scrutiny: I looked at their "tap into the gun registry" feature. I'm going to give my grandfathers garden a good look over the next time I visit. His guns have to be in one of those places...

Mexican carry: Is that a slingshot in your pants or are you just happy to see me?

I apologize. I'm not one to practice the dark arts with any regularity, but, I saw this study brought up in Popular Science's May issue. "Science confirms the obvious"......"Gun-toting drivers are more prone to road rage." Out of curiosity, any idea how closely Popular Mechanics and...

If you had not been threatened, I like ReadyontheRight's response. Try to reply as if it had been a polite disagreement, imagining as if each question had been posed in the most civil, agreeable terms. As you posted this in the open for people to see, those that have not made up their minds...

http://www.thegunzone.com/clips-mags.html I am not sure having springs is necessary for an "ammunition feeding device" to be called a magazine. I do not believe that this is the point being used to discriminate between one item and the other. :confused: I don't think that one firearm...

Mind if I join in? :evil: Some googling turned up this. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1323705 http://www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/clip.html There is in my opinion, simply too much that sets a magazine apart for it to be called a clip. I don't mind if you call a...

http://www.gunowners.org/vtcarry.htm Murder (1997) rate per 100,000 people Rank State Rate 1st Louisiana 15.7 2nd Mississippi 13.1 U.S. average 6.8 47th Vermont 1.5 48th New Hampshire 1.4 49th South Dakota 1.4 50th North Dakota .9 Violent Crime (1997) rate per...

Is the US Navy Overrated? http://www.g2mil.com/thompson.htm

The one shot bit. I too am new, at least to pistol shooting, but this irks me just enough that I'd like to post. Acting in self defense you do not have the same luxury a hunter has in determining if you need to fire again. While obviously focusing on every shot, isn't there a thought...

Apologies Apologies if this is diverging from the topic at hand, but for some time I've been meaning to ask this question. How far behind the 5.7mm round is the 7.62x25mm round when it comes to penetrating armor? Is it in all cases? I've seen only the claim that the 5.7mm will penetrate a...

On Penn & Teller's PETA episode they have Mary Beth Sweetland (senior VP of PETA) as down for a daily injection of insulin. P&T lead up to this segment showing PETA to be against animal testing, and saying that dogs were used in the case of insulin. I'm unclear however, where animals play...

When I took a SCUBA diving course the instructors recommended panty hose for anyone who had trouble getting into their suits. :uhoh:

Oldtimer, a few quibbles. The Allies supported the larger Nationalist government in China during the war. The Communists rose greatly in power during the war and kicked this group off the mainland. The Soviet Union was allied, loosely, with Germany until 1941. It shouldn't be...

Lupinus, the dog did not walk away. The man initially attacked did not have the time to strike the dog mid air, I wouldn't either, but back to the ground with the dog on top his friend was able to give the dog a really good whack. :uhoh: The dog was observed to have, well, lost its head, or...

My family lived in the Bahamas for three years. :p We observed some very poor handling of guard dogs. Also, more than one attack. A 200 pound, well muscled man, with a machette in hand, has little chance against a charging 100lb dog. His friend might, but that's small consolation...