HelixDab2

Hard pass on discussing anything with your denialist guns r gud mentality

Yeah, isn't is strange that someone doesn't want the state to have the monopoly on violence, and believes in civil rights? Weird, right?

From your article:

"Platkin said Glock is profiting by continuing to sell the adaptable version in U.S. markets, even as they make and sell handguns in Europe that cannot accommodate such a switch."

 This is something I've having a really hard time finding a source on. Everything I can find says that that about half of the Glock pistols that are sold in the US are made in Austria. And, as I said, sales in Europe for pistols are very tightly controlled, meaning that very few pistols--relatively speaking--are getting into the hands of anyone other than cops and military, so I'm not sure that there's a strong motive for them to make the design alteration in the EU.
 Aside from the assertion from New Jersey's AG, I just can't find a source for that. I'm not saying that it doesn't exist, and, if the AG is correct, then yes, Glock should change their design in the US. There's already precedent for this; open bolt semi-automatic firearms manufactured after 1986 are banned because they can--in general--be readily converted to full auto. However, given how many Glocks currently exist in the US, that would be an enormous legal mess that could possibly result in the National Firearms Act being declared unconstitutional.

"Also known as “auto switches,” the devices, which are already illegal in New Jersey and some other states, [...]"

They're illegal in EVERY state; it covered under federal law, specifically the National Firearms Act (1934) and Firearm Owners Protection Act (1986). Even if it was legal in New Jersey, it would still be a felony to possess or use one.

How many people actually go out to a range every single week and burn through a couple hundred rounds working on training drills though? I did shooting at distance today (100-550y with .223) and burned through about 140 rounds, and most ranges don't even have that kind of distance available. (Thank fuck the RSO had a spotting scope; I couldn't see my splash in the grass to see where my rounds were going when I didn't hit. He was able to see trace with his scope though.)

Do you have evidence to support that? Because AFAIK, the Glocks made both in the US and Austria have exactly the same design. OTOH, in most of Europe, it's very difficult to get the appropriate license for a handgun, so it's largely irrelevant.

Yes. Trump is not actually friendly to gun rights.

If he was, he'd be pushing to get the Hearing Protection Act (HR 404) and the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today (HR 2395) out of committee and to the floor for a vote.

Biden wasn't friendly to gun rights either. I don't think most politicians are friendly to gun rights, since if they actually managed to expand them to what they should be, they wouldn't have any major issue remaining to campaign on.

But it doesn't.

An automatic firearm shoots multiple bullets each time you pull the trigger, until you release the trigger; the trigger does not reset.

With most semi-automatic guns, you have a light spring that resets the trigger once you release your finger. A forced reset trigger (FRT) forces the trigger to reset. The FRT pushes the trigger forward, even if you're trying to keep the trigger pulled back. If you keep tension on your finger, as soon as it's reset, you're pulling it again. So, legally, you are pulling the trigger multiple times, because the trigger is resetting each time a bullet is fired.

Based on the way that a machine gun is defined in the National Firearms Act of 1934, an FRT is not a machine gun. The ATF can't re-write the law to say what they want it to say; that requires an act on congress.

The is compounded by the fact that Rare Breed ran the idea by the ATF before they went into production, and they have/had a memorandum from the ATF saying that an FRT was not a machine gun, and not subject to the NFA. After they had approved it, and *after Rare Breed had produced and sold a few hundred/thousand, the ATF raided Rare Breed, and also showed up at customer's homes demanding items that the customers had legally purchased (e.g., unreasonable search and seizure, a 4A violation).

Machine guns have been illegal in the United States since 1986, a notion that even gun rights groups have come to accept.

This is... Not true. The Firearm Owners Protection Act--among other things--made it illegal to transfer automatic firearms manufactured after '86 (i.e., "post ban") to non-police/military people. Machine guns produced prior to '86 that were already in the hands of non-police/military people can still legally be own and bought/sold. A pre-ban select-fire AR-15 will run about $30k+ these days.

Secondly, there are a number of groups and people still actively fighting to overturn the NFA as being a violation of 1A. There was a case out of the 5th circuit (?) not that long ago that points out the circular logic of the gov't in re: machine guns. E.g., per Heller, guns in common use can't be banned, and machine guns aren't in common use, so they can be banned. But they aren't in common use because they were largely banned by the gov't. The gov't created the condition of them not being in common use by banning them, and then used the lack of common use--due to the ban--as justification for the legality of the ban.

I have noticed that ICE usually wants to conduct their splashy raids in areas with very low gun ownership, e.g., NYC, Boston, etc.

Dude. They're my parents. Don't fucking gaslight me; I know what happened.

Yes, they hate Trump. But if it was just Trump, they'd still be voting Republican. But they're not. Seeing the hypocrisy of what Republicans said versus what they did, as embodied by Trump, was what allowed them to see the hypocrisy.

Also, quit fucking shitting on people that are trying to resist this latest authoritarian bullshit. You're preaching hopelessness and apathy.

It's more or less a textbook example of why the 'community standards' standard is bad, but it's still current case law. I sincerely wish that some large white-shoe law firm had take the case as part of their pro bono work, but, fuck me, that just never seems to happen.

Linemen for the power company will always stay busy regardless of the economy, and it pays stupid well.

My boss is a former lineman; he quit because there was a lot of bullshit dealing with the power company. I gather that the pay in my area wasn't that great either. When storms roll through, shifts are going to be long and brutal.

InRangeTV and A Better Way 2A.

I've met other supporters of both groups, and they've all been pretty cool people.

I'm strongly considering supporting Galen Druke's GD Politics now that FiveThirtyEight has been shuttered.

It definitely does not. Look up Boiled Angel; I think that case was an absolute fucking travesty, but as of right now, it's still good case law.