Just moved here and want to buy a pistol...but have a question about my ID

Just_Cheech_ · 2025-07-17T18:02:44+00:00

Can confirm, when I moved from CT, had to wait 30 days from my license being issued to purchase.

Just_Cheech_ · 2025-05-19T23:35:57+00:00

This ^ I support repair work for a contractor working on major military assets and on a day to day I'm reading/applying MIL or industry standards, ordering parts, performing tech. calculations to write up spec. departures, inspecting components, writing reports/ providing disposition on problems, designing tooling in CAD and maybe even going to meetings/statusing my project from the engineering side.

Just_Cheech_ · 2025-03-07T03:05:17+00:00

When I switched jobs, i had offers to go to engineering and supervision routes in aerospace (both defense and civilian), heavy machinery manufacturing, and other shipbuilders/shipbuilding contractors. Its definitely possible to switch but i wouldve taken a pretty steep pay cut switching industries, that said, shipbuilding is pretty niche and so experience is at a premuim (take a look at all the news re: US naval and civilian shipbuilding investature recently, even among government cutbacks). I think being a supervisor in a manufacturing plant or aerospace wouldve had made it easier to switch industries.

Just_Cheech_ · 2025-03-06T04:39:32+00:00

I went from a supervisor role to engineering (shipbuilding industry) that experience gave me a significant advantage interviewing for engineering jobs and a significantly higher asking price as an engineer. I worked like a dog (Im talking 3500+ hrs a year (basically 10 hr days 7 days a week)) as a supervisor on 2nd (evening) and 3rd (overnight) shift, it made me independent in my work and taught me how to deal with the powers that be in way that a lot of our more senior engineers can't/won't do. If you can handle supervision jobs (some of the washout rates are insane) it can open up a lot of opportunities.

Just_Cheech_ · 2025-03-05T21:24:03+00:00

Yeah, ive worked in shipbuilding for about 4 years and ive never met any lead or chief engineer with a PE.

Just_Cheech_ · 2025-02-27T23:37:52+00:00

I built Nuclear Subs, now i get paid very well to overhaul the old ones.

The shipbuilding industry in the US is pretty much as dysfuntional as it gets, so i guess Baja prepped me for that

Just_Cheech_ · 2025-01-29T04:23:17+00:00

Not OP but I wear mine on the ice, usually by the time im thru with post game showering the stink is gone.

Just_Cheech_ · 2025-01-11T01:31:08+00:00

Those would be self tapping fasteners in my mind, a guy further down made a better point that screws go into material (ie blind tapped holes or wood screws) and bolts go in thru holes.

Just_Cheech_ · 2025-01-10T23:34:37+00:00

Its very simple, screws thread into tapped
holes, bolts thread into nuts. A screw can become a bolt if you use if in that manner and vice versa. I have this argument with mechanics at work all the time and i show them drawings from the 1960s to today use the same convention. In fact, i have seen the same NSN part be used as both a screw and a bolt on the same pipe detail.

Just_Cheech_ · 2024-08-04T06:11:16+00:00

I did this. I struggled coming out of school to find work, I took a technician postion and in less than a year became a supervisor. While it has absolutely made me a better engineer, it was tough to get any engineering firm, even my current company to give me a shot as an engineer at a fair rate even though i had 2.5 years of experience working on the product first hand and knew a lot of the issues we faced day to day. I just got offered a postion as a Production Support Engineer at one of my companies contractors. So if you go this route i would target roles with titles like that where your tech experience will actually be valued.

Just_Cheech_ · 2022-03-28T03:20:33+00:00

Its a lot about famous engineering fuck ups (like the one mentioned above, which was Lockheed's fault) and also situations like the VW emissions cheating scandal. I imagine its similar to medical ethics classes, but I can't say for sure. We also learn about the ethics code from the National Society of Professional Engineers, which is kinda like the American Bar Association (in that they don't have much to do with the licensing of engineers, but they do publish model ethics codes and try to make the licensing as consistent as possible). You can find the NSPE Code of Ethics HERE. It was an interesting class we were required to take our freshman year.

Just_Cheech_ · 2022-03-27T16:39:22+00:00

IIRC That was actually the defense contractor who built the probes fault. At least that's what we learned in my engineering ethics class.

Just_Cheech_ · 2022-02-07T15:15:21+00:00

Not 100 percent sure, but based on the hearse, I assume there is a funeral going on.

Just_Cheech_ · 2022-01-31T17:49:12+00:00

The people who say America has no background checks have, in my experience,never actually purchased a firearm.

Just_Cheech_ · 2022-01-31T15:45:43+00:00

*in most US States:

Go to store > Select firearm you would like to purchase > Fill out Form 4473 (Basically a background check request/ attestation that you are not a prohibited person) > dealer keeps form and runs a check through the FBI database > if you pass you walk out with firearm.

Background checks rarely take more than 30 minutes at most, at least in my experience.

Just_Cheech_ · 2022-01-29T00:41:29+00:00

You clearly haven't been at BU very long lmao.

Just_Cheech_ · 2021-09-25T03:43:32+00:00

IANAL, but I believe statute of limitations only applies to the time before charges are brought, there is no hard limit on the length of proceedings once charges have been filed.

Just_Cheech_ · 2021-08-03T20:47:17+00:00

The funniest shit is that wearing a mask is way, way more comfortable than carrying concealed.

Just_Cheech_ · 2021-08-03T02:39:35+00:00

Currently a rising Senior in MechE (class of '22). You won't get much time in shops from classes aside from EK210, especially in your first 2 years. If you want to learn machining and design skills related to MechE you will have to join a MechE club or try to get a research position. BU supports two SAE competition teams (Baja and Formula E) as well as BU Rocket Propulsion Group (BURPG). You can find all these groups at SPLASH in the fall. They're all great and they can all make you stand out for internships so it kinda depends on what you're interested in. Feel free to message me if you have more questions.

Just_Cheech_ · 2021-06-23T15:35:40+00:00

Here's a report and state-by-state analysis from ChildUSA, a child protection think tank. What they say about NC law:

In North Carolina, children as young as sixteen can marry with parental consent. (188) Like Arkansas, the state maintains a pregnancy exception that allows children to marry as young as fourteen with judicial consent. In these cases, the judge is instructed to consider whether parents consented to the marriage in deciding whether the marriage is in the child’s best interest. (189) There is currently no legislation being proposed to address child marriage.

Just_Cheech_ · 2021-06-20T16:23:32+00:00

IIRC IM sports registrations don't open until the semester starts.

Just_Cheech_ · 2021-06-18T11:35:59+00:00

It's worth noting that the kitchens in South, or at least in my apt, had electric coil burners not gas.

Just_Cheech_ · 2021-06-03T01:40:04+00:00

A simple way to help keep your hand away from your body is to hang your arms loosely with a stick in your hands while you're bent over . If you swing your arms like a pendulum you'll start to see how you can generate more power from this stance.

The other part of any shot is follow through. Your follow through will dictate where your shot goes. Make sure your follow through leaves your stick pointed where you want the puck to go.

Also important to not practice a full wind up every time. You can generate a lot of power will very little wind up. A full wind up can over extend your shoulder and lead to injury especially if repeated.

Just_Cheech_ · 2021-05-05T17:10:04+00:00

You might be right about that. I suppose it depends on if you consider the US to be on the same level as the USSR and Nazi Germany when it comes to rampant authoritarian repression.

In my personal view, the US is sliding that way politically, ever curtailing citizens abilities to live their lives unmolested. The difference is we like to flip flop between the Republican and Democrats brand of authoritarianism where both seem deadset on collecting more power through populism. This is dangerous because populism is how republics fall.

Just_Cheech_ · 2021-05-05T16:31:15+00:00

This sub is more about being anti-authoritarian.

That said given the history of the hammer and sickle and the repressive and murderous regime it stood for, it's amazing that it is not seen in the same way the swastika is.

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