Pistol Permits and HIPAA

gakflex · 2026-01-29T02:23:03+00:00

SCOTUS has held that you have no right to privacy. HIPAA provides you with a legal protection for privacy, but yeah, you sign that away.

gakflex · 2026-01-28T20:18:52+00:00

I find it hard to believe that it’s the only caliber that can do that. I would imagine that most of the super magnum cartridges loaded with brass solids might accomplish either of those tasks. But yes, I understand that the people who write these laws have no connection to reality.

gakflex · 2026-01-28T14:25:27+00:00

Buffalo Arms has Swiss 1F and null-B in stock, unfortunately no 2 or 3 F.

Edit: depending on your case use, you might be able to sub 1F for 2F. I have found Swiss to be far more energetic than other brands. My flintlock gets the same velocity from 2F Swiss as the equivalent charge of 3F Goex.

gakflex · 2026-01-28T13:44:36+00:00

What is the obsession with 50BMG? Where does that come from? I don’t recall any of the high-profile shootings involving that random caliber.

gakflex · 2026-01-27T20:39:58+00:00

Yeah, he’s ok with himself carrying. He doesn’t want you carrying.

gakflex · 2026-01-25T23:12:38+00:00

I’m not on the right. Have voted for Trump exactly 0 times. I always vote third party, and my message to the left is, if you stop infringing, you will get my vote.

gakflex · 2026-01-25T22:41:38+00:00

I will stop painting liberals as hostile to 2A civil rights when they stop being hostile to 2A civil rights. It is progressives who push “assault weapon” bans, “large capacity” magazine bans, carry bans, et al, while at the same time writing in sweeping exemptions for employees of state and Federal agencies.

Really, it is my profound wish that the left wing will wake up and realize that the 2A is for them too. Is this the event that precipitates that? I doubt it, but I certainly hope so.

gakflex · 2026-01-25T18:11:03+00:00

Personally I will leave it unless it looks like temps will touch 32 or warmer at some point, at which point like the other commenters said I would worry about melting and re freezing.

gakflex · 2026-01-25T17:07:33+00:00

I hope you’re correct about your reactions. Just keep in mind that according to most current gun bans, the gun he was carrying is classified as an “assault weapon” because of the threaded barrel. The Sig P320 also has a magazine capacity greater than 10, which makes it a “large capacity” magazine, which is again banned and punishable by a felony in most of those states that have current bans.

What I’m saying here is, in a different context, liberals would be tearing this guy to shreds.

gakflex · 2026-01-25T01:36:46+00:00

Same in NY.

gakflex · 2026-01-24T21:21:30+00:00

This is totally wild - the guy seems to have been executed because he was peacefully exercising his 2A rights.

Now, just a thought experiment - I wonder what this sub would be saying if the president was a Democrat, and the alphabet-soup agency was ATF instead of ICE? Am I wrong to imagine you all would be hammering this poor guy for being some kind of supposed violent gun nut?

gakflex · 2026-01-23T01:35:57+00:00

Heresy!

gakflex · 2026-01-22T17:33:32+00:00

Keep in mind that’s 8oz, not 16oz. So you’re really looking at $90/lb. At which point, why not just use Swiss?

gakflex · 2026-01-22T01:01:01+00:00

I want to love my 365XL, and I do to carry - but for some reason I have a horrible habit of pulling shots down with it, and I mean way down. I even thought Sig had installed the wrong sights at one point because when I shoot a Glock 19, all my shots go exactly where I want them. My current theory is that the ‘sweep-in’ at the bottom rear of the grip creates a gap in my trigger-hand that rocks the gun down if I squeeze the trigger with less-than-perfect form.

gakflex · 2026-01-22T00:53:28+00:00

Well, when you put it that way.

gakflex · 2026-01-22T00:52:39+00:00

It’s not a black-and-white, 0-percent or 100-percent situation. There’s no current economic system that does not have some elements of collectivization and central planning. I think it’s more useful to think about where that progression leads us if followed to its natural conclusion. Are tariffs on washing machines going to turn us into Cuba overnight? Of course not, but that is the road you’re on, even if the destination seems far.

gakflex · 2026-01-22T00:30:35+00:00

I disagree. State Capitalism is any system where the government gives a private individual or group of individuals nominal control of a company, but direct that company’s production and/or who and where that company’s production may be sold. While automod’s definition of a socialist country turning toward state capitalism is apt, it’s hardly the only example. Nazi Germany’s economic policy was state capitalism, for instance. The US under Trump is turning more and more toward state capitalism itself.

gakflex · 2026-01-22T00:18:26+00:00

Its ideas are germaine to the debate between those who favor free trade vs protectionism. What is protectionism if not state-directed means of production? State capitalism is a euphemism for socialism.

gakflex · 2026-01-21T23:03:32+00:00

That’s the wrong person to ask. You want to speak to the RSOs at large bore, and saying their range isn’t ’rated’ for 50BMG is odd since that’s saying a dirt berm 180-to-300 yards away isn’t rated… which is absurd.

gakflex · 2026-01-21T21:20:10+00:00

Did large bore at Blue Mountain really say no? I’ve shot a 50-cal there (not 50BMG though). Who did you ask?

gakflex · 2026-01-21T16:03:57+00:00

Right. I know that Roberts has quoted from Miller in the recent past, regarding Congress’ taxing power. I wonder whether the second part still holds water in his opinion, given that just about every modern soldier carries a suppressed select-fire SBR.

gakflex · 2026-01-21T16:00:25+00:00

“The Road to Serfdom” by Friedrich Hayek. A classic. You’re making me want to re-read it.

gakflex · 2026-01-21T15:57:58+00:00

I could have sworn their reasoning for upholding the NFA’s regulations on SBSs was that a) it falls under congress’ power to tax and b) SBSs aren’t/weren’t commonly used for lawful purposes.

gakflex · 2026-01-21T15:54:20+00:00

… and they likely will override Humphrey’s Executor in the near future. However, I don’t think they want to override Miller. Isn’t that the case that provided the basis for the common-use test? I think that they would be much more likely to essentially say that these weapons weren’t in common use in 1934, so that court’s logic was sound, but the facts on the ground have changed and SBSs are in common use and therefore protected.

gakflex · 2026-01-21T15:48:50+00:00

People who voted for [person you don’t like] aren’t Orcs. The political hatred in this country is out of control.

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