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by wl 2y ago
Issues of what constitutes a "school shooting" aside, my personal experience with GVA is that their database contains duplicate incidents and they will not actually correct those errors when pointed out.
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by wl 2y ago
It takes more than being semiautomatic for a firearm to be banned under the assault weapon bans we saw at the federal level and currently have in states like California and New York. In addition to being semiautomatic and having a detachabl
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by wl 2y ago
Looking at those spectrograms, the uncorrected frequency response of the phone's microphone is unlikely to be responsible for most of what you can see.
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by wl 2y ago
Linearity is an excellent assumption for virtually any non-overdriven modern amplifier. THD measurements make sense for speakers, but that's not getting in the way of what the author is attempting to do here. I don't even know whe
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by wl 2y ago
You're thinking of the 1988 Waller case and the 1992 Ho case, both involving transferrable pre-1986 MAC-11 machineguns. The NFA items this article deals with are post-1986 samples, which require law enforcement agencies to write a law
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by wl 2y ago
Imputing a position to you was not my intent. Apologies.
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by wl 2y ago
I was summarizing the general debate. Your position is idiosyncratic.
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by wl 2y ago
Where law enforcement organizations have gotten involved here is writing a "law letter" saying, "Dear ATF: We're interested in firearm X. Please let machinegun dealer Y acquire a sample to demonstrate it for us." Th
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by wl 2y ago
Yes, I recall you argued for an older proposal regulating "weapons of war" unmoored from any functional criteria as determined by cabinet appointees + a banned list from the legislature instead of the feature tests that have actua
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by wl 2y ago
> The term "assault weapon" usually indicates larger magazines and higher rate of fire than firearms that are typically used for self defense or sport. To be blunt, you've been lied to about this. No assault weapons ban ha
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by wl 2y ago
Yes, you've argued this with me before. The issue of "assault weapon" bans boils down to the question of whether or not restricted features like pistol grips and adjustable stocks make magazine-fed semi-automatic firearms mor
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by wl 2y ago
I'm saying that NFA-registered post samples acquired through dodgy (or not) law letters have never been used in a crime. Yeah, those $30 switches from Temu et al are another issue entirely.
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by wl 2y ago
This article is conflating a few different things. 1. Cop buys the kinds firearms regular people can buy using law enforcement discounts and then makes an otherwise legal private sale to profit from this. This violates the terms of these la
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by wl 2y ago
I'm currently arguing with my health insurance about their refusal to cover a treatment because they allegedly haven't received the required documentation. This is after faxing these documents to a number that turned out to be a b
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by wl 2y ago
The batches being consistently less bitter is one of the first things I noticed about new bottles after CH acquired the brand.
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by wl 2y ago
There are also residency slots not funded by Medicare or any foundation. They pay the same as the funded slots. These slots exist because it's usually profitable to pay a resident physician to deliver care at a fraction of the salary o
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by wl 2y ago
Everytown isn't an educational organization and they have no gun safety programs. It's Michael Bloomberg's gun control advocacy group.
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by wl 2y ago
This isn't about the data gathered on Form 4473s for the purposes of running background checks. This is about people filling out the warranty cards that came with the guns.
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by wl 2y ago
I would choose another gift. The trade in ancient coins encourages looters to dig up ancient archeological sites, destroying their value to archeology.
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by wl 2y ago
Kwikset SmartKey locks are trivial to force open with a flat screwdriver and a pair of pliers.
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by wl 2y ago
They ignore robots.txt these days.
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by wl 2y ago
Wikipedia is just being weird by using an MF band in its example. Most WSPR is in the shortwave bands, which can use large antennas, but not THAT large.
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by wl 2y ago
That might be a valid worry, but RedCap changes nothing here. This is the 5G NR replacement for LTE's Category 1. Other than some potential power saving (which doesn't matter to a smart TV plugged into the wall), the only reason y
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by wl 2y ago
Are you in California? The requirement is to either a bond $35k or to carry a liability policy that covers at least $30k for death and injury and $5k for property damage, matching the deposit requirement. That will increase to $75k in 2025,
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by wl 2y ago
I'm not saying that Geico is being a bunch of ideologues here. But it wouldn't be the first time an insurance company has done that, see https://www.lemonade.com/blog/insuring-guns-lemonade-takes-s...
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by wl 2y ago
Icom is a Japanese company. They make radios, including police walkie talkies (land mobile radios). The pictures I've seen look like bog-standard land mobile radios. Not particularly small, and larger than most flip phones. The radio i
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by wl 2y ago
If you’re worried about developing type II diabetes, yes, A1C is probably as much data you need. However, there are plenty of other reasons to want to measure blood glucose. Just one example I see: Endurance athletes already use these off-l
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by wl 2y ago
The Tesla also has a gigantic battery that’s at least 50 kWh. 2% of that is 1 kWh. Still seems like way too much.
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by wl 2y ago
You’re probably getting a few things mixed up. Insurance generally only covers Ozempic if someone has diabetes. Some insurance plans cover Wegovy, the same drug with a different dosing labeled for weight loss, but many don’t.
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by wl 2y ago
The text on the Thor Labs "Lab Snacks" box is giant and still unreadable, the model interpolating total junk. It seems like there's nowhere near enough signal there.

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