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| Thread ID: 145941 | 2018-03-10 05:59:00 | Went Out & Bought A New Glock | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1447210 | 2018-03-27 06:09:00 | Gary - those 'assault rifles' are really just ugly-fied . 22 cal semi-auto rifles . They add the Star Wars stocks and barrels with vents and blinking LEDs and they look terribly dangerous . But they are only a semi-auto rifle . True - they have a . 22 cal bullet and a . 30 cal case - but that's just more velocity, not a bigger bullet . The bump-stocks are another thing all together though . I see no true purpose for them in any culture that is not a military one . However lethal they look, they are not something that I would want . I truly have no use for a rifle anyway - nor a shotgun . This is the law: No-one may own a fully automatic weapon of any kind . To have a permit to own one requires all sorts of tests, interviews, licenses and paperwork and insurance and bonds and property ownership/quick claim laws that it is nigh on to impossible to be licensed to have a fully automatic weapon . That's the problem - the concept of a weapon as being 'automatic' . I see television news reports of a guy have an automatic revolver that is capable of 300 rounds a minute . That's just plain ol' stupid and inflammatory to the idiot public . There are no automatic revolvers - but the average 58pt IQ person thinks the reporter is a god of all knowledge - so they too knee jerk and go out and protest automatic weapons where one does not even exist . My Glock has a 15+1 round capacity - but it is semi-automatic in that I must pull the trigger for each and every shot I want to fire . It is not automatic - although if I were industrious enough I guess I could convert it somehow . I choose not to however . I tried to fire as fast as a machine pistol might - and it's not easy to even get a second shot off in 2 seconds or more . Not with any kind of accuracy anyway! __________________________________________________ _______ California has a current 7+1 (8)-round limit capacity - soon to be a 5+1 or a 4+1 if they get their way . They don't enforce the laws that exist - and yet they want more laws which are basically unenforceable anyway . How are you going to get the criminals to surrender the tools of their trade and deny them the right to make a living by shooting . threatening to shoot - or otherwise create mayhem upon the citizenry? It is illegal for even a naturalized citizen in the US to own or carry any concealable weapon - one that has less than an 18 inch barrel, not including the stock . This makes it illegal for one to have a pistol - yet the gangs who are permeated by illegal 'lost tourists' have handguns by the dozens and are proud to show them to you if you ask . The town I lived in last - Anza - is policed by the Mexican drug cartels - not the police - who are powerless to enforce the laws as they operate on the sanctified and US Gvt protected Indian reservations . The druggists cook their meth and they do so with impunity since they are doing so on the land of a sovereign nation that is inside the boundaries of the US . The Feds need tribal permission to enter the reservations and the police cannot pursue a stolen vehicle once it crosses the imaginary line of the reservations . The US laws as they currently exist - would be sufficient if they were actually enforced . There is no need for new laws when there are so many old laws that need to be enacted upon first . . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1447211 | 2018-03-27 15:43:00 | I just this AM opened my news app to see this article concerning a town in which I lived a while back . . . . . concerning police officer attrition and lengthened response times: ( . ocregister . com/2018/03/26/why-southern-california-police-are-struggling-to-hire-more-cops/?utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww . ocregister . com%2f2018%2" target="_blank">www . ocregister . com f03%2f26%2fwhy-southern-california-police-are-struggling-to-hire-more-cops%2f&utm_campaign=%23Listrak%5cContentURL%3d"http%3a%2f%2fnewslet . digitalfirstmedia . com%2fnewsl etters%2f%3fregion%3dlang%26prop%3docr%26nl%3dnews %26) At big agencies such as the 1,800-deputy Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, “We are constantly hiring,” Sgt . Robert Pickowitz said . The department is also trying to ramp up hiring of correctional deputies so it can open the John J . Benoit Detention Center in Indio in 2018 . Mid-sized and smaller agencies are hiring, too . In Riverside, residents named public safety as a top priority when they voted to increase the city sales tax in November 2016 . City officials are responding . Riverside police are looking to hire about 60 officers over the next five years, plus dispatchers and civilian employees . That would bring the agency to about 410 sworn officers in a city of about 320,000 people . (BTW, me here . . . . Riverside is a ginormous county in California . It likely is one of the largest counties, if not just in California . . . . but also including the rest of the lower 49, excluding possibly a few counties in Texas) . Police Chief Sergio Diaz said the move is intended not just to decrease crime, but to respond more quickly to calls . People recognize that if they call police now, “There could be a delay of hours sometimes before a police officer comes to (their) door,” Diaz said . . . . . . . (from any place in Hemet . . . . . the main police department is only three miles away!) This doesn't take into account the roving police cars and police substations that are sprinkled around the area . . . . . . and this is just the Hemet Police . . . . but there are other police agencies in there all the time too . These include the California Highway Patrol, The Riverside County Sheriffs and itinerant police at the Riverside County Courthouse . . . . who are all sworn to defend no matter their immediate off- or on-duty status . At any time there is likely to be over 300 armed police officers somewhere in the city mentioned: Hemet . This is in cities like Hemet . . . . inside counties like Riverside . . . . . that both have insufficient new police recruits to fill open positions . Hemet, a non-sprawling community has been the dumping ground for the 2nd strikers who cannot . . . . . (read: "must be nice and mustn't be naughty) . . . . . commit another felony like murder, rape, sodomy, small children or large farm animal misuse (use your imagination here, carefully), armed robbery, drug trafficking, etc . , or they might go to prison for life . These then are the new citizens with whom the police are literally running all over town trying to keep from follow-home strongarm robberies, "bump-n-grab" vehicle collisions (where the perp 'accidentally' runs into the back of another person's car and while license, insurance, registration information is being traded, there are people who drive off with the bumped person's car, money, groceries . . . . . ) or whatever . This is usually done to seniors as they are less suspicious and get robbed easier, also putting up a smaller, weaker defense for themselves . Hemet once was exclusively a retirement community that is now full of drug gangs walking about in quad formation, looking for a crime of opportunity . . . . . . . sometimes arbitrarily deciding to have a turf war with rival gangs just for fun . No wonder they cannot keep cops in the Hemet Police Department . It's a shooting gallery . I'm not saying that arming old people is the best idea, but guns tend to make a more civilized citizenry if the bad guy thinks it might be possible that that little old granny has a 44Mag in her lap . Full-scope . . . . . . things are nasty and getting worse . . . . . and the nutters, 5150s, psychos, Section Eights and drug gangs are running the place . No wonder the new vociferous 'minorities' have achieved majority, since every one is afraid to confront them with like forcefullness and the tree hugging, next socially sensitive generation is merrily shooting away their own legs . It's prophetic, actually . Sit back and watch the implosion . Youse guys have a ringside seat . . . . but it'll be on youse guys's shores soon too . Youse can only have the last laugh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . as long as youse is truly the last to laugh . Grab a beer, throw some shrimp on the Bar-B and listen! The fat lady's uulating . . . . . . . behind the curtain, stage right! (Aren't youse proud of me? 'Cause I did very little copy/paste here . . . . unlike some person did . ) |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1447212 | 2018-03-27 16:56:00 | The quality of Remmington rifles dropped, people noticed and stopped buying them. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1447213 | 2018-03-27 18:37:00 | The quality of Remmington (sic) rifles dropped, people noticed and stopped buying them . I don't know that for a fact - but I guess it to be so . Remington Arms has for long times and many just bought out companies that could not handle the high numbers of production that the war in VietNam caused and then Afghan War #1, 2 and likely #3 imposed upon them . SIDEBAR: Afghanistan was Russia's 'VietNam" and they quit because it cost too much - why did the US want anything to do with it? I remember when Armalite (Costa Mesa, CA - across the street from my motorcycle shop called: "Just Putz") invented the AR-15 and could not increase it's production enough to keep the US military well stocked . Remington Arms stepped in, bought out Armalite and built weapons more to the liking of the military machine of the day . Remington bought the stocks and grips from Mattel Toys ("You can tell it's Mattel - It's swell!") in Hawthorne, CA . , and had many smaller job-shops producing some of the parts to keep the wheels greased for brothers-in-law of various political pundits in Washington DC and Sacramento, CA . So -- in reality check time for me - I guess for sure that this endless out-sourcing of work (China? India? Pakistan?) might have caused an inward folding and with the inability to rapidly change production lines and even with long distance shipping, parts-in-transit and warehousing - could conceivably cause a lot of $$ loss as it leaked out to all those venues that held Remington Products in their hands . That was somewhat the same problem I had when I had four auto repair shops running (2 were general auto repair with tires and brakes a specialty, a transmission shop and another HVAC/Radiator shop - not to forget the bike shop) - I lost control and sold each company for $1 . 00 each and walked away . I sold my 1/2 interest in a Cessna 310, sold both my ocean-going yachts, gave away my twin Cadillacs (a 1959 and a 1973 - matching twins in paint and appointments only), my 1958 Corvette and sold my motorcycles and sold my apartment houses and my two houses and just quit it all - prolly much like Remington Arms today . They were overextended - as I was . . . . . . once upon a time ---- long - long ago . Run, Forest, Run! :eek: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1447214 | 2018-03-28 04:52:00 | I remember when Armalite (Costa Mesa, CA - across the street from my motorcycle shop called: "Just Putz") invented the AR-15 and could not increase it's production enough to keep the US military well stocked. Remington Arms stepped in, bought out Armalite and built weapons more to the liking of the military machine of the day. i'm not sure armalite ever made ar's for the military. it was colt who made ar15's and ar10's where dutch made. typically the manufacturing rights where sold to other companies. armalite was never really a gun manufacture. Remington never bought armalite. i think your thinking of colt who bought the ar patents, who then sold the ar15 to the military. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1447215 | 2018-03-28 14:35:00 | I am almost positive that Armalite did make a production run but couldn't get up to speed sufficient to satisfy the US military . I do know for a fact that there were people who owned AR15s at that time . . . . my dad included . I don't know what ultimately happened with that rifle, but my dad was working at Mattel at that time . . . . . so I might have been seeing a prototype . . . . i dunnow . At the time I was consumed with building a business dynasty and didn't totally submerse myself in Armalite's business model and/or failures . My concern . . . . not well thought out I admit . . . . was that since Robert Hall's huge, now closed business footprint and Armalite's closure was a harbinger of a larger blight upon the area . I was oh so wrong . . . . as that area was to become some of the most valuable dirt in Newport Beach/Costa Mesa . I should have kept that small shop and it's street footage . . . . . I'd be a millionaire a few times over . From the vantage point of my bike shop I could see any number of US Gov . licensed motor vehicles going into the parking lot at Armalite during the day . Then . . . . Armalite went dark and ultimately the place got very quiet until it looked like just a security shed and a rotund uniformed guard was the whole of a human in the place . Admittedly, my statement about Remington's ultimate ownership was based upon rumors and what i thought were reliable biker buddies who had worked for Armalite . . . . . although they might've had a bone in their throat over losing a good factory job . I concede that you, though . . . . may have a better grasp of what ultimately happened to Armalite . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1447216 | 2018-03-28 21:21:00 | The title of this thread should have been “ I went out and bought a cock extension “ | plod (107) | ||
| 1447217 | 2018-03-28 21:37:00 | Not sure about being a 'cock extension', as the Wizard of Christchurch says "the feminists maintain that the building of skyscrapers is like a penis extension, but really it is mankind sh!tting into the Universe". LOL |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1447218 | 2018-03-28 22:16:00 | The title of this thread should have been “ I went out and bought a cock extension “ Nah .... I can borrow yours, right buddy? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1447219 | 2018-03-29 05:05:00 | I am almost positive that Armalite did make a production run but couldn't get up to speed sufficient to satisfy the US military. I do know for a fact that there were people who owned AR15s at that time.... my dad included. I don't know what ultimately happened with that rifle, but my dad was working at Mattel at that time..... so I might have been seeing a prototype....i dunnow. At the time I was consumed with building a business dynasty and didn't totally submerse myself in Armalite's business model and/or failures. My concern .... not well thought out I admit.... was that since Robert Hall's huge, now closed business footprint and Armalite's closure was a harbinger of a larger blight upon the area. I was oh so wrong.... as that area was to become some of the most valuable dirt in Newport Beach/Costa Mesa. I should have kept that small shop and it's street footage..... I'd be a millionaire a few times over. From the vantage point of my bike shop I could see any number of US Gov. licensed motor vehicles going into the parking lot at Armalite during the day. Then.... Armalite went dark and ultimately the place got very quiet until it looked like just a security shed and a rotund uniformed guard was the whole of a human in the place. Admittedly, my statement about Remington's ultimate ownership was based upon rumors and what i thought were reliable biker buddies who had worked for Armalite..... although they might've had a bone in their throat over losing a good factory job. I concede that you, though.... may have a better grasp of what ultimately happened to Armalite. i'm not sure on the full story. was just watching some videos on the subject not long ago. i think they produced very small numbers for the civilian market. apparently they are quite collectible these days. especially as AR's are so old now that they can be classed as C&R. but as i understand it colt bought the rights to it and then went on and sold them to the us military. armalite had some great ideas, made some excellent products but just couldn't turn that into enough $$$. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
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