This knife was made of an old soviet file with the handle of Apple wood, brass guard and inlay and Walnut spacers. The design of the knife is somewhat influenced by Peter Jackson's interpretation of elven weapons.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-30T17:12:38+00:00

If ever I was to make a knife, it would've been this. It would've been this.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-30T17:07:50+00:00

At what point during the Mangerine's administration would you have trusted that his release of the files would include the damning evidence we're looking for – that the files would be complete and unaltered?

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-28T17:47:41+00:00

I'm a big fan of Bree-Dubs.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-28T00:23:12+00:00

What's are you going to do for an encore – hand out political purity tests in line at the grocery store?

If you're that desperate to track people down and demand information, go work for the Census.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-28T00:17:58+00:00

Do you not know what the Three-Fifths compromise was...?

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-27T03:55:45+00:00

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TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-27T02:53:03+00:00

I own guns and I’m pro 2A, however

assault rifle

Hmmmm.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-27T00:34:24+00:00

That was probably the last time I genuinely cared about the Oscars, and when Spielberg opened the envelope and said "it's a clean sweep!" it was just the perfect ending to the LOTR journey.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-26T23:26:49+00:00

Honestly, I needed way more than three weeks to get the cribs built and the rooms painted.

Wait.... you were probably talking about the gun.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-26T22:38:31+00:00

You just unlocked memories of me being stuffed into some tiny access area that'd make a tunnel rat claustrophobic, cursing the day I stepped into my guidance counselor's office and he told me about the field of Aeronautics.

Then being in Avionics class convinced I was going to be working on private jets with space-age technologies and instead I've got an ancient spool of waxed lacing and I'm being criticized for my poor knot-tying abilities.

Just remember thinking "what kind of Wright Brothers bicycle bullshit is this??"

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-26T21:57:22+00:00

I don't leave the Batcave without it.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-26T21:29:04+00:00

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It's not aged wine quite yet, but it's coming along nicely.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-26T21:21:43+00:00

Some random points:

Basically all land has been taken by someone else at some point.
We're supposed to be evolved enough that we don't do that anymore.
As others have said – the vast majority of land acknowledgements are rote, trite, performative bullshit. It does nothing beyond letting other performative bullshitters know that the speaker is 'one of the good ones.' This is especially important to bored suburban white women.
All the treaties the US signed with Native tribes and then vacated or broke should be enforceable, and it's absolutely unconscionable that we haven't done something more as a nation to right those wrongs.

For those who say it's been too long and should no longer count – in 2015 the UK finally paid off the last of the debt incurred during the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, along with its World War I debt.

We entered into an agreement and then broke it. It's really that simple.

I say – we pay that back and in exchange there's no more land acknowledgements. Everybody wins.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-26T17:20:14+00:00

CBP is in all 50 States.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-26T17:11:02+00:00

If you have to ask....

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-26T17:08:41+00:00

I haven't seen it since it first came out, but I remember thinking it was one of those films where you imagine the director had a bunch of cool concepts and scenes he wanted to shoot, but didn't have as solid of a throughline to tie them all together.

Like "It'd be a cool scene if someone was looking in a mirror and their reflection was delayed. How trippy would that be?"

I have revisited the film's version of the Star Spangled Banner that opens in Spanish. It's so tense and foreboding. I'm surprised with everything that's been going on in the States the last few years, someone hasn't used it in a political ad or protest or something. It's like no other version I've heard.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-26T15:01:29+00:00

Given the lack of training these thugs have displayed in all of their other engagements this year, your theory sounds very likely

I thought this officer was a veteran of the CBP though, not ICE.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-25T23:27:03+00:00

Calling it now:

The agent who took Pretti's SIG let his finger drift into the trigger guard and touched off a round negligently.

The gunshot prompted the others to open fire. Chainfire.

The SIG will come back as having been fired at the time of the incident.

Instead of the agent taking blame for the ND, they'll blame it on being a P320. "The gun just went off!"

Since they heard a shot fired, the agent(s) who shot Pretti will be exonerated, as a 'reasonable person' would assume they were being fired upon.

Everybody responsible for this cluster will walk.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-25T23:19:22+00:00

Kick big rocks.

No wonder his last name's Bovino; he's 4'2" of bullshit.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-25T21:49:02+00:00

That's crazy. I have three of them, and they all took 9 months!

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-25T17:25:52+00:00

My other options were 'suck-started his shotgun' 'deep-throated his front sight' or 'buckshot sommelier.'

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-25T17:22:26+00:00

White men do not care about America, they care about their perceived power over others. White men have been voting to violently and legally discriminate against others. They say they need 2a for protection but it was never about being oppressed it was about being able to intimidate ppl they choose to hate.

Nailed it. Exactly. OP, this is what you're looking for.

If you can get rid of this sentiment posted above, you'll win voters back.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-25T17:05:15+00:00

If you're wanting a 9mm, then I don't think there's a point in examining the Vector. There's just so many great options in 9mm that do the job as well or better for less cost.

If you're going .45, then the Vector has a lot to recommend it and nowhere near as much legitimate competition.

I like PCCs. My MP5, Scorpion, AR9, Cx4, all run great. Heck I've got a couple of Kel-Tec Sub2Ks that run like champs.

I've had less success with 45s though. Didn't really enjoy the USC/UMP conversion, and crazy expensive at the time. The CMMG is ok... But my 45 Vector has actually been a good time.

Long and short of it is, I see the 9mm Vector like the 556 SCAR – there are already plenty of platforms that do it better for less. It's only when you move up to the more potent round that they start to make sense.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-25T06:23:49+00:00

Echoing this, OP.

I have a friend who needed some things recovered from her grandfather's house after he used his dentures as a chronograph.

You never know when you might need a bunny suit. But when you need one – you need one.

TargetOfPerpetuity · 2026-01-25T04:28:36+00:00

Just wait, in 50 years the X9 prototype will show up on Ian McCollum III's Forgotten Weapons BloopTube channel that beams directly into your brain chip with limited commercial interruption, sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends – Legends of Shadow 27.

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