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by hga 11y ago
Not clear. Prior to Scalia's death, on the ground if you don't count Illinois, which was not appealed to the Supremes, and California and Hawaii, where it looks like the appeals court will overturn the current shall issue decisio
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by hga 11y ago
All 20th Century gun confiscations I can think of, aside from the Chinese Communists' rifle tax system, were preceded by registration. Nazi Germany most infamously, and in occupied territories like the Netherlands failure to produce y
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by hga 11y ago
Try https://www.google.com/#q=target+transgender for example.
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by hga 11y ago
The Serpa holster is by no means the only retention holster out there! Nor would have one stopped the Boston bombers from what I understand of them, it's hard to expresses just how bad an idea they are in every way. For those who don&
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by hga 11y ago
What not neck that down to 6.5 mm, which I've heard works a lot better at those distances. Ah, and, yeah, the eyesight is also getting to be an issue for me, I should be in bifocals but am putting that off as long as I can get away wit
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by hga 11y ago
The argument I have heard is that a universal background checks system would require the government to keep a registry of gun owners to be at all useful. Bingo, and the imposition of a registry would inevitably spark our next hot civil wa
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by hga 11y ago
The idea that mental health information should be a part of background checks is a pretty tough row to hoe. So tough that many states still absolutely refuse to supply their relevant mental health records to the NICS "instant" b
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by hga 11y ago
Well, you're got a point, especially with modern retention holsters, but it's still a major issue, and those holsters also slow down the draw speed of officers (but one defeated the Boston bombers' after they murdered the MIT
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by hga 11y ago
It's relevant in the context of the people who dramatized her work. In theory , coming from someone like her, they should have shown it the respect it was due. But the Hollywood narrative that also erased the good uses of guns from
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by hga 11y ago
Right you are, and I'm ashamed I forgot that the longest recorded sniper kill was with .338 Lapua Magnum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_recorded_sniper_kills as were another couple beyond the generic &quot
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by hga 11y ago
Outside of legally-critical software, such as automotive control systems: it doesn't seem that there is much focus on quality. The analysis of Toyoda's software that might have been behind the claimed acceleration/can'
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by hga 11y ago
Not hardly, by that time, Muslim invaders were half-way through 4 centuries of slaughtering 100 million Hindus (and I'm sure Sikh and Janes), and were hardly depopulating the land. And, yeah, there was a lot of history of empires and
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by hga 11y ago
The only exception is perhaps at ranges of < 1m where you're grappling with an assailant In which case you should strongly consider transitioning to using it as a club, which has been a point in at least one (Clint Eastwood) movie
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by hga 11y ago
And then there's all the dramatic productions of written works where positive uses of guns are somehow dropped on the floor. Schindler's List I remember reading about, he armed "his" Jews before they left, and as I re
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by hga 11y ago
That's very debatable. Under stress, people are much more accurate with long guns. On the other hand, they have terrible weapons retention properties, as I've e.g. demonstrated to my taller and fitter nephew about the time he grad
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by hga 11y ago
And the government can shut down all sales nation wide by shutting down the NICS. Which they do upon occasion because it's a computer system, and it's not always able to handle the load.
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by hga 11y ago
" Does a 50cal really seem like a sport rifle? " People who have a chance to fly over fly-over country might look down and ask themselves what the possible utility there is to rifles that can shoot that far. It also hits very h
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by hga 11y ago
Neither feature is needed on a hunting rifle. Which the 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with. I'm told that many prefer it for vertical pistol grip rifles and carbines in close quarters combat, the combination is more ergonomic (I&#
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by hga 11y ago
Except that organization is the National Shooting Sports Foundation, NSSF. The NRA represents the interests of gun owners, you know, the 5 million or so dues paying members. Looking at their 2013 Form 990 ( http://990s.foundation
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by hga 11y ago
I suppose so, but it's not like that would make any difference in the number of illicit guns on the street, and I've never heard of smart guns being designed for that much harder use case, where an adversary had lots of time to mo
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by hga 11y ago
From the beginning of the first comment in the HN discussion you link to: he explained that it was only supposed to fire if the shooter was wearing a special wristband with a little radio frequency transmitter inside. The CEO put on the wr
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by hga 11y ago
And that's been seriously proposed in California, which is pushing through another wave of gun control legislation, one bill of which would effectively shut down all gun stores in the state, and certainly favorably talked about elsewhe
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by hga 11y ago
That sounds like a final straw; if they'd been well managed and healthy, would that have necessarily been a killing blow (I don't know about those details of their fall, just the decline that preceded it and made it inevitable).
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Rule Changes on Money-Market Funds: What Investors Need to Know(wsj.com)
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by hga 11y ago
Smartphones are all about ecosystems, and as the various Microsoft efforts there have shown, Apple and Google now have that locked up. However they don't do the x86/Windows ecosystems in phone space and not Apple in tablet space,
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by hga 11y ago
I'm still wondering how they're still in business. A "least worst" enterprise vendor? Why is the dollar still strong? The theory I like is because all competing currencies are worse. And while I don't know the c
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Oil Prices Just Hit a 2016 High(senseofevents.blogspt.com)
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by hga 11y ago
They're said to have a big fraction of the US K-12 education market, where Chrome OS is a good fit, and they're cheaper than full service x86 laptops and much cheaper than Apple laptops.
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by hga 11y ago
Intel probably wouldn't have been able to sustain the DNA required to also be successful in that market, and they would have had severe antitrust problems. AMD would have had the same first problem (but probably worse since they'
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by hga 11y ago
That appears to be the case, see e.g. http://www.pcworld.com/article/3063672/windows/the-death-of-...

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