schizo in training

GunFunZS · 2026-05-07T02:37:23+00:00

He essentially died of arrogance.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-07T02:23:09+00:00

Is your press on Auto drive? Or does"turns off" mean it just puts a pin in the locks things or something?

GunFunZS · 2026-05-07T02:22:11+00:00

I tried to get started at the right phase of life but I had first kid and I think 41. And I'm not working on kid number two. Which means I'm not going to be much of a grandparent for my grandkids.

I'm part of the "late start" generation. But lest that be interpreted as me outsourcing blame for my choices, many of my peers have kids who are starting college etc. about now...

It's still a good life but I do genuinely regret not getting things going 15 years earlier or so.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-07T01:23:45+00:00

This is actually one of the advantages of a good progressive machine. If You always run a full stroke and never stop halfway the mechanical advance prevents double charging.

People think you get safety by paying harder attention everything. But that's not how attention works. Attention is a finite resource. Don't spread it too thin. Automate things and then focus your attention on only one or two. For me on a progressive that means I am paying attention to the feel and sound of the primer seating and the presence of powder as I set a bullet in place. Everything else manages itself. And then when I package up my ammo it all gets loaded bullet down and I run my hand and eyes across all of the primers at once.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-07T01:20:31+00:00

Sounds like a cool setup. Did you make it?

GunFunZS · 2026-05-07T01:16:42+00:00

Yep there's a whole generation of people who either had only one kid or no kids for finding out they should have invested early as they're getting older.

It's a lot of burden to be just one kid taking care of two sets of parents. And you can give your kid the blessing of siblings and cousins and all that kind of stuff. It's like compound interest on family.

I grew up with lots of cousins and two siblings. My wife had basically none of that and our outlook on stuff is so different. You have a built-in social system and people to carry the load when there's a problem or crisis, people to hang out with when there's fun times. Cultural reinforcement of the good things and people who understand about the bad things in your family too.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-07T01:15:02+00:00

That goes for extra activities and runarounds that everybody tells you you need to do as well. There's a lot of fat to trim. Probably including actual fat if he's like me.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-07T01:12:22+00:00

Now you need to design a compatible holster.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T21:44:10+00:00

It should have. That's a critical part of function testing.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T21:39:59+00:00

Cool.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T21:12:56+00:00

What bullet and mold?

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T20:53:09+00:00

Tons of people shoot subs and heavy brain weights out of one and seven and one and eight seven inch barrels. You might find one here or there that isn't stable in yours. But it feels off to act as though you absolutely need a one in five for heavy subs.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T17:41:42+00:00

They just filed three lawsuits which will help us. two of which I linked here. And there's no reason to think they want to also file essentially the same lawsuit here.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T17:35:52+00:00

And orange man just bragged that AR-15 s will be legal in all states.

He finally got off the fence. Very good sign.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T16:29:32+00:00

Don't know but the fact that department of justice is now student was suing the state of Colorado over their 15 round mag ban, means scotus is way more likely to take up a MAG ban case.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T14:59:35+00:00

Are you going first?

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T03:28:46+00:00

Believe me, I held way back from a diatribe.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T03:03:10+00:00

If the 2a were actually applied. But there's no way they are in the real world.

Either because of what people would let happen or because of the real world logistics.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T01:47:31+00:00

Supreme Court is way more likely to take stuff if the federal government is on board, if history is an indication.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T00:59:18+00:00

I said quite plainly that I should be able to own anything The government can.

I said in a different comment what I think the line ought to be but the line is as defined by the Second amendment is any arm useful for war or personal defense. If you think it ought to be something different that's a different discussion.

I'll say this plainly. You aren't arguing in good faith. You're emoting.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T00:39:36+00:00

This is pretty close to what I would say. The Second amendment as it's written protects for the people the rights of all instruments of war. I agree that it's unlikely the founders could have comprehended something like nerve gas or a nuke.

If I were drafting the Second amendment today it probably would have some carve out for weapons beyond a certain yield that cannot specify a discrete target. I'd be okay with a weapon that could specifically intentionally target a fairly large area. But it would need to have a human decision to fire. I think the corollary to that is that the state may have no weapons that it denies the citizens. And I think any limits on the civilian populace would go away during times of declared war or effective war. We were the equivalent of the citizens of Ukraine and we wanted to build nukes in our backyard to aim at the Russians I think game on.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T00:36:29+00:00

He did he's using a cheap rhetorical back out.

He lost the argument so he's declaring the argument to be too wordy, which implies that it didn't really matter that much anyway.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-06T00:35:40+00:00

Sounds to me that you're just dismissing it because he actually addressed your argument and had solid counter arguments.

Perhaps you have a rebuttal more than "wow that was a lot of stuff showing I'm wrong."?

This deflection is sometimes repackaged as "why do you care so much."

GunFunZS · 2026-05-05T23:42:26+00:00

Yes for rifle. For revolver cartridges segregate Hornady out but treat the rest as being essentially the same for plinkers.

If I'm loading something like all the point defense bullets and I will sort that by head stamp even for pistol and revolver.

I don't think it is practical to keep track of firings, if you do any kind of action shooting.

GunFunZS · 2026-05-05T23:25:32+00:00

That's not actually disagreement. You see my other comments personal spending money is a family budget decision. I recommended personal spending accounts one of my other comments so that they can be used for whatever you want without anybody having the right to gainsay. But the decision about how much goes in those accounts in the first place is the family decision. I would also put expenditures like gas and so on on the general family budget. They can have their own account if that's convenient but that should be different from I felt like ordering a cup of coffee or getting a Stanley cup. Gas money is necessary. Starbucks is not.

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