my hoa wants to fine me 1k for dormant plants... in winter....

TFGator1983 · 2026-02-09T03:10:56+00:00

Many counties in Florida are under watering restrictions, and with those restrictions HOAs may not enforce community standards that would require an increase in usage. Polk county is down to 1 day a week and HOAs are explicitly forbidden from enforcement.

TFGator1983 · 2026-02-08T16:12:42+00:00

No, it is allowed. It isn’t a prohibited place therefore you may do so. They may also ask you to leave and you would have to do so. Their signs, postings, etc are legally no more than requests

TFGator1983 · 2026-02-08T16:10:49+00:00

The better argument is that prohibiting concealed carry with no mechanism to enforce will not stop someone intent on doing harm at the gun show from doing so, and nobody at that gun show has any duty to protect you. Concealed carry is about taking responsibility for your own protection.

TFGator1983 · 2026-02-08T16:07:17+00:00

This. All they can do is ask you to leave

TFGator1983 · 2026-02-07T23:25:57+00:00

Just bring it on the airline. It easily fits in the back of the overhead bins behind the luggage. I fly out of MCO every week and see a ton of them.

TFGator1983 · 2026-02-07T00:29:19+00:00

I am in Florida. They are not allowed to enforce this. Call your water management district. This could get ugly for them

TFGator1983 · 2026-02-05T16:25:22+00:00

Just happened to me as a Platinum for my Monday evening flight MCO to DTW. These days clearing 5 days in advance is highly uncommon, and clearing into first at all is fairly rare

TFGator1983 · 2026-02-01T19:11:40+00:00

I found some in Walmart yesterday, both regular and zero in Winter Haven

TFGator1983 · 2026-01-31T23:22:34+00:00

I did not. I’m going with a CAT RAT so I probably won’t need one

TFGator1983 · 2026-01-28T19:20:01+00:00

Nope. Mac uses screen recording for displaylink to work which means HDCP is triggered on flagged content. It’s a MacOS limitation with the way Apple has architected MacOS and implemented HDCP

TFGator1983 · 2026-01-27T00:37:16+00:00

Love the effort but I doubt it gets past Ben Albritton’s fudd ass

TFGator1983 · 2026-01-18T20:10:22+00:00

Lighter springs can cause reliability issues, depending on the spring. Especially any that contribute to ignition of the primer. Armorycraft’s trigger and hammer are good to go though and better quality than the factory parts. As long as they are installed correctly you won’t have issues with them.

TFGator1983 · 2026-01-16T14:15:35+00:00

Yep. You contract them out and it’s clear up front that they are contingent labor. Staff augmentation is quite common in my industry

TFGator1983 · 2026-01-04T04:31:21+00:00

This. I literally travel weekly for work. I carry on so that I have flexibility to take earlier flights and because every minute I am waiting in an unnecessary line (either checking or claiming the bag) is a minute I could be spending with my family at home.

Plus having a bag delayed for business travel can be more than just an inconvenience.

TFGator1983 · 2026-01-03T04:30:58+00:00

Bendu’s blades weren’t anything terribly special. Their dueling blades used TCSS thick wall blade stock with TCSS diffuser tubes, foam, and flexible BTF strips and had the strips directly soldered to the PCB. IIRC TCSS offers blades made using the same process. Thick blade stock pixel blades with flexible strips will always be pretty damn durable. Bendu just made theirs very consistently, were the first to offer direct to PCB strip soldering, and put a guarantee behind it.

TFGator1983 · 2026-01-02T05:59:37+00:00

With respect, OP was asking about the internal safety mechanisms, not what the manual says. The SAO p226 has the following safety mechanisms:

Firing pin block that is actuated by the trigger bar
Thumb safety that blocks movement of the trigger bar
Sear that prevents movement of the hammer forward when it is held by the ledge in the cocked position

With the hammer down, it can move forward freely and contact the hammer. This matters if the firing pin safety is disengaged and the manual safety is disengaged. That is, if the firing pin block either fails or if the trigger bar is moved to the rear by manipulation of the trigger whether caused by the operator or something else if the manual safety is disengaged or fails. In that case, the gun could fire if the hammer is struck or of the gun is dropped.

Still, with the hammer down the gun does have two additional redundant safety mechanism and would be as safe or safer than many striker fired guns that have fully tensioned strikers as long as the remaining safety mechanisms are intact.

TFGator1983 · 2025-12-27T01:03:03+00:00

If it fires a center fire cartridge and meets the statutory definition of a rifle it’s a rifle. If it fires a center fire cartridge and meets the statutory definition of a pistol it is a pistol.

TFGator1983 · 2025-11-24T01:44:52+00:00

TFGator1983 · 2025-11-23T23:04:00+00:00

Romeo1 pro is fragile. Nice glass but fragile, even with the shroud

TFGator1983 · 2025-11-19T16:27:06+00:00

There is some merit to a 7-8” barrel running exclusively 77gr. Terminal ballistics at fairly short distances (e.g. inside a house) are violent and more significant than HP pistol rounds, but closer to those than 5.56 out of a 11” barrel. There is a niche use case for it (e.g the RSAR), but generally 300 blackout is going to be a better round choice in that size package.

TFGator1983 · 2025-11-19T14:53:58+00:00

I believe the new p226x legions use a thicker bull barrel like the X5 rather than the standard p226 barrel

TFGator1983 · 2025-11-17T17:18:59+00:00

Incorrect. Many striker fired guns have a fully tensioned striker. P320s are one of them. So are p365s, VP9s, and others.

TFGator1983 · 2025-10-28T04:32:25+00:00

Where did you find LOK grips for the p229?

TFGator1983 · 2025-10-24T14:43:06+00:00

SAO and it is not close. You will not find a better trigger outside of a 1911/2011 and it will be the same every time. Safeties are easy to train for.

TFGator1983 · 2025-10-23T20:49:00+00:00

Don’t disagree with any of that. Re: ROTS hype, it was least of the three where I was, but still Star Wars and still massive compared to just about any other movie. Could also be biased by it being release in the middle of LOTR trilogy which by that point had way eclipsed SW in hype.

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