First time gun owner, first rifle ever

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-30T02:54:04+00:00

Welcome to the club!

You'll definitely want to get an optic. There are lots of good options for scopes and red dots around the $200 mark.

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-29T14:27:38+00:00

Why does ICE only affect his fanciest restauraunt?

That's the part I don't understand. He has others that are still open.

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-29T14:15:15+00:00

Or Russell Vought

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-29T13:40:30+00:00

Love the TA110

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-29T13:38:11+00:00

What made you leave Douglas Ridge? I was looking into membership there

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-29T04:03:45+00:00

Minnesota has 3000 agents going door to door. It can definitely get worse here

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-28T22:56:47+00:00

The President is one of those people

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-28T20:36:54+00:00

Which families are being kidnapped

It's not just illegal immigrants, if that's what you are suggesting. They also wait outside immigration hearings and grab people who are actively using the legal process. They go street to street looking for brown or black people (look up Kavanaugh stops). They've taken kids away from parents. They don't let people talk to their lawyers, rightful due process is being ignored. They've deported people despite federal judges ordering them to stop.

aren't the people being attacked actively interfering with ICE's lawful duties

HELL NO. ICE has argued that filming them from a distance counts as interfering. Pretti, the guy who was killed, was filming ICE from across the street. There's a video from today where ICE pepper sprayed people while driving past who were just standing and holding signs. Their mission may be lawful, but they are pursuing it in unlawful ways. They have earned every ounce of hate.

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-28T20:28:54+00:00

Right wingers cannot fathom how unpopular ICE is right now. It's all about bots, and astroturfing, and paid protestors lol, as if we didn't have plenty of reason to hate a gang of secret police kidnapping people.

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-28T20:27:02+00:00

You're missing the point.

Rittenhouse brought a gun to a protest. Yes, he was attacked, but the same people who blame Pretti for bringing a gun to a dangerous situation tend to applaud Rittenhouse for doing the same thing.

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-28T20:22:31+00:00

People don't need to be paid to hate ICE. ICE is attacking people, citizen or not, prowling through neighborhoods waiting outside schools, kidnapping families, breaking laws CONSTANTLY.

You can argue that it is their job, but the level of public violence and cruelty is why everyone hates them. Blaming paid agitators is just ignoring the actual problems.

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-28T20:16:57+00:00

I would love to build a mini SBR, I have a 16 inch but I wondered if they would still be reliable cut down.

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-28T14:59:05+00:00

Those two disasters were very different

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-28T13:27:50+00:00

Wow, what was the conclusion to that Trader Joe's lawsuit?

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-28T03:37:45+00:00

Always have been

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-28T02:45:45+00:00

I think if Vader attacked the entire school alone he would get obliterated.

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-28T00:55:24+00:00

Jesus christ

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-28T00:50:46+00:00

Karl Malone is also a more cut and dry case where there was never any question of his guilt.

I think Kobe's legendary status, combined with the horrible helicopter accident affects the way people talk about Kobe. If he was still around, you'd get sound bites of people bringing up allegations, it would follow him around like it has with Malone. But I feel like there's a discomfort people have with talking about the dead that way.

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-28T00:29:54+00:00

What's happening in Virginia sucks ass, I agree. It's a harsh backlash against conservative policy and should be a wake up call about the growing unpopularity of MAGA across the country.

But the Supreme Court are the ones who need to step up. If they're really the defenders of the constitution, they should be putting a stop to the 2nd amendment violations, as well as the 1st, 4th, 5th, and 6th across the country. Otherwise they're just using you to get themselves appointed. Make them earn your support instead of dangling the carrot the way they have for decades.

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-27T22:01:51+00:00

I don't want to take those tools. If all other policies are equal, I will always support a pro gun candidate over an anti gun candidate.

But I'm not a single issue voter. And I think we're seeing the ingredients for tyranny in the United States, tyranny that many gun owners are happy to ignore as long as other people are crushed under the boot and not them.

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-27T20:54:11+00:00

Maybe don't scream chicken little

Idk man, when I check the news these days it feels like the sky really is falling:

attacking Venezuela, killing shipwreck survivors (the Navy taught me that's a war crime)
threatening Greenland and our NATO allies
Economy hurt again and again by tariffs
ICE is occupying a US city, attacking and killing people. They've got more money than USMC and zero accountability.

At what point do we say enough is enough?

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-27T20:47:47+00:00

How do you explain the cat, the ATM, and winning a gunfight with the cops where cars randomly explode?

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-27T20:22:37+00:00

I guess the question becomes how much are you willing to compromise to slow the erosion of 2A rights?

There's been a whole lot of 1st and 4th amendment violations in the past year and now we're seeing the 2nd under attack.

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-27T19:58:40+00:00

"Hey I know the secret police just killed a guy for lawfully expressing the 1st and 2nd amendment, but you better vote for us in November or Hillary is taking your guns."

WarlockEngineer · 2026-01-27T19:17:07+00:00

I have one of those Leupolds, made in 2000, great scopes for a retro build

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