The Goat Pen

Other than Jack White?

My M1a is worth about 2 grand now. Which is cool because I traded for it with a friend for a chainsaw and $50.

Yes, you can get blunderbusses.

Seems like if you loaded one of those up with a bunch of shotgun pellets you could take out a bunch of people with one shot...

Yes.

We must ban the blunderbuss.

Saweet.

Taibbi keeps the claws out...but at least this time he is not swinging at Goldman:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/bl ... e-20130125

(I'm a little tepid on this topic. White's job was to advocate for her client, it doesn't look like she broke a law. Now, maybe working for Wall Street is enough to disqualify her, but this incident is not outside of what I would expect from a lawyer)

AlabamAlum wrote:No, not the bullet. The ejected shell casing.

so you shoot off 40-50 rounds--you finish up nobody on the range except further down--do most ranges let you police your own brass and how much do you get when you sell it back if it was new brass to start with?

Truth be told, liberals like the big banks, and they love to bail them out. Easier to control the banking system when you are dealing with just a few than with thousands. Dodd-Frank was a public panacea designed to cripple smaller banks. You will find more and more conservatives wanting Glass-Steagle to return because of this.

Many fancy indoor ranges will not let you pick up even your own brass. Once it hits the floor, it's theirs. They cite safety, but I'm sure in the bulk they get, they make some money off of it.

Many outdoor ranges will let you pick up, they expect you to clean your area after you're done and that includes sweeping up the brass. I do not reload. Most of the time I give my ejected casings to a brass rat and they clean my stall in exchange.

I have no idea what used brass goes for. You can probably check prices on the Internet if you're considering it.

Heh. You're nuts.

Liberal and Conservative POLITICIANS all love big banks. As a result, the needle will never move. We all move at the whim of the big banks. All they have to do is just start tossing around how much "liquidity" the keep in the market and everyone will back down. That's particularly true in tenuous economic environments.

Conservatives don't want Glass Steagle nor Dodd-Frank. Liberals just want Glass Steagle.

I don't care what the rules are - if my brass is reloadable, I'm picking it up

Yeah, the R.O. will show you the door. I've seen it happen. Some get creative and set a bag on the ground where most of the casings land. They'll usually allow that. If they do, you're lucky to get 25% of your brass.

most weapons have some type of deflector you can attach to limit the spray dont they?

I know you can buy a bag that fits on an AR-15 to catch the brass.

I am strongly against any amnesty but I would support the amnesty plan if they did tie to the borders being labeled as secure.

I also think we need to do away with the anchor baby statute. Its a big motivator for people to come here.

That's what brought those damn Puritans here and look what it got us...

Exactly, and they ran roughshod over the native residents...

Seriously, our country needs an infusion of a massive amounts of people, especially young ones. I don't care what the overpopulation environmental whiners say,the main problem of Western economies right now is that they are top heavy demographically. We need a faster tract to citizenship and preferences should be to those who are young and get degrees here, an even faster track for those. But they have to be legal, be paying into our system, and have a 5 year probational time to keep their noses clean from any felonies.

I like the Dream Act type of Amnesty. You get a degree here, you can stay. You serve in the military for at least 5 years (I just made that tenure up), you can stay.

Before I say do away with the Anchor Baby statute (which I am leaning on agreeing with eCat on) I need to understand the rationale for it in the first place.

With all that said, if our public education system stays relatively shit, all these new young immigrants will be behind the 8 ball before they reach "productive citizen" age, anyway.