Advice on weaponry

[Flaps10]

I cannot click "like" in response to Remington's struggles. I've had a heavy barrel 700 in .243 nearly continuously since 1983 (two rifles) and it is the benchmark from which I judge all other firearms.

 

[vreihen]

Another article not to "like" . I wonder what Kay Bailey Hutchison and her "A" NRA grade think about this event being removed from the arena that bears her name?????

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/dallas-mayor-asks-nra-consider-another-city-annual-092303563--abc-news-topstories.html

Dallas official asks NRA to consider another city for annual convention

Good Morning America
February 20, 2018

One of Dallas' top leaders has urged the National Rifle Association on Monday to find another city to host its annual convention, taking a stand against gun violence in the wake of last week's deadly mass shooting in Florida.

Dwaine Caraway, mayor pro tem of Dallas, said that the NRA, the nation's largest gun lobby, would be met with "marches and demonstrations" if it went ahead with plans to host the three-day meeting scheduled for May 4-6.

"It is a tough call when you ask the NRA to reconsider coming to Dallas, but it is putting all citizens first, and getting them to come to the table and elected officials to come to the table and to address this madness now," Caraway told reporters on Monday. "At the end of the day, we need to connect the dots. The NRA needs to step up to the plate, and they need to show leadership."

"I am saddened the fact that every time that we turn around is some type of gun violence," he added.

If the NRA moved its event, that could cost Dallas as much as $40 million, according to some estimates.

Caraway, a self-proclaimed strong "believer" in the second amendment, said the NRA has a national responsibility "to address this madness now" as he called on the group to help establish better gun laws.

"We should not allow people to possess assault rifles and weapons," he said. "While we are worrying about terrorists, we're living in a terrorist society amongst us Americans today."

"The NRA needs to step up to the plate and they need to show leadership," he added.

The 147th NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits, slated to take place at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention center, is expected to attract more than 80,000 gun enthusiasts, according to the organization's website.

A representative for the NRA pushed back against Caraway's criticism in a statement to ABC affiliate WFAA.

"No politician anywhere can tell the NRA not to come to their city. We are already there," Andrew Arulanandam, the NRA's managing director of public affairs, told WFAA. "Dallas, like every American city and community, is populated by NRA members."

The NRA, which regularly backs Republican politicians, has come under intense pressure in the aftermath of the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where a former student allegedly used an AR-15 rifle to kill 17 people.

 

[D-Dub]

that people still call an ar-15 an assault rifle is glaring indication of ignorance and fear propagated by anti gunners.

 

[Jack@European_Parts]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15_style_rifle

I keep hearing idiots state that AR stands for ........

AR = (AR is contraction of Armalite, the original manufacturer) & under Trademark under USPTO

It doesn't mean it is a short acronym for "Assault Rifle"

I don't think kids should have access to this but call it what it is right?


Some fun technical reading.........

https://www.sterlingarsenal.com/uploads/TM_9-1005_M16_Operator_Manual_-_2010.XXX

Had to edit!

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compromise; and that the information will be provided substantially the same degree of
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[vreihen]

Interesting link to the Moonies and Kahr Arms at the end.....

https://nypost.com/2018/02/20/church-encourages-couples-to-bring-ar-15-rifles-to-be-blessed/

Church encourages couples to bring AR-15 rifles to be blessed

By Associated Press
February 20, 2018 | 6:57pm

A Pennsylvania-based offshoot of the Unification Church is encouraging couples to bring their AR-15 rifles with them to a commitment ceremony in the Pocono Mountains, a half-mile from an elementary school.

World Peace and Unification Sanctuary in Newfoundland said it planned the Feb. 28 ceremony months ago, well before last week’s massacre at a Florida high school. Authorities say the alleged gunman used an AR-15 in the attack that killed 17.

Tim Elder, the Unification Sanctuary’s director of world missions, said Tuesday the church believes the AR-15 symbolizes the “rod of iron” mentioned in the Bible’s apocalyptic book of Revelation.

The church website directs couples to show up to the ceremony with an AR-15 “or equivalents such as an AK semiautomatic rifle, representing both the intent and the ability to defend one’s family, community … ”

The church is down the road from Wallenpaupack South Elementary School, and some parents expressed alarm at the planned ceremony.

“It’s something I would consider keeping my child home. It’s scary,” parent Liz Zoccola told WNEP-TV.

“I wish they wouldn’t have it at all. I don’t think there’s a good time to have it, especially this close,” Kendra Hanor, another parent, told the station.

Elder told the AP that the weapons will be unloaded, secured with zip ties and checked at the door. He said the church did not consider canceling or moving the ceremony.

“Now more than ever, good people need to stand up and claim for themselves the tools that can be used to stop that kind of evil,” he said.

State police are aware of the event but do not plan to send any troopers to it, since the church is breaking no law, Trooper Mark Keyes said Tuesday.

The Unification Sanctuary’s leader, the Rev. Sean Moon, is the son of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a self-proclaimed messiah who founded the Unification Church, which is often described as a cult.

The Pennsylvania offshoot is a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment. Unification Sanctuary operates a group called Rod of Iron Ministries, which is hosting a “President Trump Thank You Dinner” on Saturday — a fundraiser for Gun Owners of America.

The Rev. Sean Moon’s brother founded Kahr Arms, a gun manufacturer.

 

[Uwe]

 

[Eric]

Meanwhile at RTRC

 

[Eric]

And with that I passed the 30000 reloads milestone

 

[vreihen]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/australia-gun-laws-weakening_us_5a8cfd99e4b00a30a2509c3f?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000313

As The U.S. Looks To Australia For Hope On Guns, Its Laws Are Being Quietly Pulled Back
Fears that Australian lawmakers are becoming "complacent" and allowing gun lobbyists to water down laws.

By Josh Butler
Editor, HuffPost Australia
WORLD NEWS
02/22/2018 10:49 pm ET

In the wake of several mass shootings in the United States, including last week’s massacre of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, gun control advocates often point to Australia as an example of how a country can implement strong firearm laws to try to stop such carnage.

But while Australia has virtually eliminated mass shootings since the landmark 1996 firearms laws were enacted days after the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania ― in which 35 people were killed by a gunman wielding AR-15 and L1A1 rifles in what remains the worst single mass attack in modern Australian history ― gun control advocates say politicians and the general public have become “complacent,” allowing the gun lobby to push for a weakening of several important planks of protection as compliance with the laws has slipped across the nation.

“While Australians strongly support gun laws, many are of the view that everything was set in stone in 1996, but it wasn’t. Firearms laws are a political hot potato, and the Australian public isn’t aware gun laws are in trouble,” Sam Lee, head of Gun Control Australia, told HuffPost.

Following the Port Arthur massacre, the federal government swiftly passed new laws and state governments signed up to a new National Firearms Agreement, which all but banned semiautomatic weapons and pump-action shotguns.

Other parts of the legislation instituted far stricter rules governing storage of weapons and obligated people applying for guns licenses to demonstrate a “genuine need” to own a firearm ― self-defense was not permitted as a reason ― and to undertake a safety course. Also instituted was a new 28-day waiting period for licenses and new weapons, restrictions on the amount of ammunition that could be purchased and new conditions around “a mental or physical condition which would render the applicant unsuitable for owning, possessing or using a firearm.”

The gunman in the Port Arthur massacre was mentally impaired.

The government also instituted a buyback system in which those who possessed the newly-banned weapons would be compensated for handing them in to be destroyed. More than 640,000 firearms were bought back from owners by the government from October 1996 to September 1997, while many tens of thousands of still legal weapons, such as handguns, were voluntarily surrendered, for a total of more than 700,000 firearms handed over to authorities.

In the 12 years before the new laws, Australia experienced at least 12 mass shootings in which at least five people died. In the 22 years since, only three incidents could be classified as mass shootings: an incident at Monash University in 2002, known as the only shooting at an Australian education facility, in which two people were killed and five were wounded; a siege at Hectorville in 2011, in which three people were killed and three wounded; and a domestic-related incident at a farm in Lockhart in 2014, when a man shot dead his wife and three children before turning the gun on himself.

After the 1996 laws, homicide and suicide by firearm decreased, according to the Australian Institute of Criminology. From the 1995-96 fiscal year to 2013-14, firearm-related homicides dropped from 67 to 32 annually, the crime institute reported. Since 2003-04, no year has had more than 40 firearm-related homicides. In the U.S. in 2014, more than 11,000 firearm-related homicides were reported, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

However, Gun Control Australia estimated in 2016 there were “as many guns in private hands in Australia as there was at the time of the Port Arthur massacre,” and in 2017, authorities estimated there were up to 260,000 illegal or unregistered firearms in the country. There are currently 730,000 licensed gun owners in Australia and 2.75 million registered firearms. Another gun amnesty, the first since Port Arthur, saw 26,000 firearms handed in last year.

A 2017 review of the National Firearms Agreement found no state had actually complied with all parts of the agreement and that most states had significantly loosened and weakened their gun laws in the two decades since Port Arthur.

“Every jurisdiction has slipped backwards by varying degrees. [New South Wales] is the most obvious example of compliance ‘slippage,’” wrote the report’s author, University of Sydney adjunct associate professor Philip Alpers.

New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, has recently permitted gun silencers, extended the availability of semiautomatic weapons and eased restrictions on licensing, the report said. Also of concern is that “every State and Territory allows minors to possess and use firearms,” with licensing ages ranging from 10 to 16 years, while some jurisdictions allow people to be trained in firearm use without first obtaining a license. Some states have relaxed restrictions on purchasing multiple firearms and ammunition, wound back licensing regulations, or relaxed rules on safe storage and background checks.

“Non-compliance from day one, and two decades of political pressure, have steadily reduced restrictions and undermined the NFA’s original intent,” the report said.

Gun control experts concur.

“Our gun laws are in a bit of trouble here. We can’t be complacent,” Gun Control Australia’s Sam Lee told HuffPost.

She said that, although background checks for an initial firearm license or purchase remained stringent, there were no further checks when someone wanted to purchase a second weapon, meaning that criminal offenses committed after the purchase of a first weapon might not be picked up. She said a national firearm registry, one of the recommendations of the National Firearms Agreement, was never implemented.

“We don’t know what happened in that time [between purchases]. People are falling through the gaps. We don’t have a national system to track the movement of firearms and licence holders, which is a problem with any criminal activity,” she said.

Lee Rhiannon is a senator for New South Wales and a member of the Greens party, the third-largest in the federal Parliament. Ond one of her portfolio responsibilities is gun control. Rhiannon told HuffPost she was trying to combat the complacency around firearms laws.

“The National Firearms Agreement hasn’t kept up with the modernization of guns,” she said, citing how dealers are attempting to import new rapid-fire weapons into the country, such as the Pardus shotgun (below), and technology that allows 3-D printing of weapons.

“I’ve been following the horror in the United States, and I’ve been impressed with the young people taking a stand and that they’re looking to Australia for laws. Hopefully they start having the conversation and moving toward gun control, and there are fine lessons to learn from Australia, but our system isn’t perfect. It can be tighter.”

On a political level, Rhiannon cited the rising power of the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party in the New South Wales state parliament (it holds the balance of power in the upper house). The party supports gun rights and land access, and it has been working to slowly relax gun laws.

For example, in 2013, the Shooters Party negotiated exemptions to hunt feral animals in NSW national parks in exchange for its support for government plans to privatize the state’s electricity system.

Rhiannon said she was also concerned about the rising influence of gun lobbyists, along with moves to overturn a ban on the Adler 110 lever-action shotgun.

Former Prime Minister John Howard, who introduced the 1996 laws, warned against voting for the Shooters Party at a recent NSW state election.

A letter from John Howard and Tim Fischer. #nswpol pic.twitter.com/xdHAzQk7LF

— John Barilaro MP (@JohnBarilaroMP) October 11, 2017

“The Shooters Party is standing and hoping to win seats in state elections, and they’re becoming important for major parties as the government will depend on them to get their legislation through. They’re making it easier for people to use a gun, which goes against the whole tenor of the NFA,” she said.

“The public hasn’t gone easy on guns. When there is a shooting, the public are deeply uneasy about the incidents, but when it drops out of the news and people aren’t paying attention, the major parties and shooters parties and gun industry are doing deals. At a federal level, the responsible minister has none of the gun control groups at the negotiating table, only the gun lobby.”

“Were getting closer to a U.S. system, where the gun industry has increasing influence.”

 

[Andy]

Yesterday, I made some Best Millimeter (TM):

Thanks to Eric for getting Dillon to warranty their broken die.

 

[Uwe]

Thanks to Eric for getting Dillon to warranty their broken die.

How the heck did you break a die?

 

[Eric]

A story better told in person

 

[Uwe]

A story better told in person

I'll be all ears toward the end of the week.

 

[vreihen]

I'll be all ears toward the end of the week.

 

[Uwe]

Uh, I was thinking more along the lines of another Ross...

 

[vreihen]

I went looking for a Ross Perot meme, but apparently he pre-dates millennials.....

 

[D-Dub]

I went looking for a Ross Perot meme, but apparently he pre-dates millennials.....

and meme's.

 

[Santos]

I went looking for a Ross Perot meme, but apparently he pre-dates millennials.....

Yep, I have heard of him before, but i know nothing about him.

 

[Andy]

Facepalm:

 

[D-Dub]

speaking of new gun style

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...-ar-15-made-of-legos-lands-teen-in-handcuffs/