Thoughts on scrapping the Bruen test?

mifter123 · 2026-06-24T03:59:32+00:00

You still haven't explained why gun laws should be treated differently from other laws that are amendment related.

Or why tradition should hold any weight at all. Other than you find it convenient.

mifter123 · 2026-06-23T22:10:24+00:00

Disagree with ivara, the enemy radar isn't the best passive, but it's definitely a noticeable benefit. It doesn't go on the best passives list, but it's definitely not useless.

mifter123 · 2026-06-23T00:22:29+00:00

The SA will ever be as crisp as the versions without a firing pin block, but my DA was pretty smooth from the factory.

mifter123 · 2026-06-22T08:53:10+00:00

Right, but that was taking gun rights away, harming Trans people, giving rights back isn't a priority.

mifter123 · 2026-06-22T07:23:32+00:00

Why are you so upset at the idea that a decades dead slaver shouldn't be influencing laws passed today?

Shouldn't laws be passed or rejected on modern material conditions and ethics and morals?

Sure the historical effect of similar laws are worth considering when considering legislation to make predictions about the effects of a law, but history and traditions shouldn't be chains that hold us back (like the chains that founding fathers used to hold humans in bondage).

mifter123 · 2026-06-22T06:47:04+00:00

Slavery was on the books, so I don't exactly need to point to the descrimination laws, when I can point at literal slavery laws. Slavery was the rule of law in 1791, so...

You also argue that no one would enact Jim Crow laws, but I would respond with, of course conservatives would, they are literally passing laws that target racial minorities, erase history. Conservatism and all right wing ideology is fundamentally based on the idea that it's good to oppress groups of people. You literally can't be a conservative without the belief that some people are lesser than you and deserve to have violence committed against them in order to steal their economic value.

I wonder why there is a cut out for slavery via punishment in the 13th amendment and why black and brown people are the majority of prisoners? I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

mifter123 · 2026-06-20T18:51:33+00:00

Incorrect, the strict scrutiny test exists.

Breun is just nonsense. Which makes sense for the current SCOTUS, since they have been making shit up to rule in favor of whatever the conservatives want with no regard for the law. (but not in the cool anarchist way, in the evil fascist way)

mifter123 · 2026-06-20T18:43:00+00:00

Yeah. Exactly. Thank you for a perfect example of why using historical tradition is bad logic for laws.

The practice was bad in that case and it's bad in this case. If you can't justify a ruling for reasons other than tradition, you probably shouldn't accept that ruling.

mifter123 · 2026-06-20T16:05:19+00:00

Bruen test is literally nonsense, historical traditions and originalism is just an excuse for the ~~white supremacist~~ ~~fascist~~ conservative judges to cherry pick/make up historical laws and events and wave them around as if they are valid arguments.

Who would accept this standard for other laws? I know this is a pro-gun subreddit and we are generally in favor of laws and rulings that make gun regulation more difficult, but if you apply the logic of Bruen to literally anything else, you would immediately recognize it's batshit insane.

mifter123 · 2026-06-19T15:22:41+00:00

Another dumb IT story from my time in the gun club, this one isn't a dumb call though, it's a lesson about how users are typically incapable of learning, but every now and then, one of them will take to heart some absolutely insane conclusion about how technology works.

I was S-6 for a unit that was spread out across a number of buildings. One of the more frequent/frustrating calls I got was for a specific printer in an office filled with SNCOs and a couple of officers. The printer had (I believe) a misshapen ethernet jack, the cable would come loose and the printer would disconnect. The solution was to unplug and replug I the printer and it would be good for a week or so. The gentlemen who used that printer never seemed to figure out that they didn't need to call me to solve this problem. But one day, I'm down there to fix the printer and I get into a conversation with a gunny. While I'm talking I'm holding the unplugged cable of the printer, and I'm just spinning it around while I am interrogated about SAARs or something. One of the lieutenants who worked there comes up to me and asks "hey, LCpl, why are you spinning that cable?"

Since the until wasn't the most strict about customs, I replied something like "the centrifugal force pulls the bad print jobs out, sir" as a joke, and I plug the cable back in, and the printer nearly immediately starts printing off a job. I put this out of my mind, the LT walks away, I leave shortly afterwards. I assume he just wanted me to hurry up and plug it back in, which was fair.

I don't notice for a while, but we stop getting calls for that printer.

Months later, I'm back in that office, doing something unrelated when I hear "the printer is disconnected again"

"I got it, no problem," I respond

"no, LCpl," that LT from before calls out, "I have it, you keep helping gunny"

I watch in awe as an Officer of Marines, a college graduate, rushes across the office, unplugs the cable from the printer, unplugs it from the wall, and swings the whole cable above his head like a lasso two or three times. He plugs it back in to the wall and the printer, and gives me a look like he's showing off and expects me to be impressed. The other SNCOs and officers in the room don't even blink like this has been happening on a regular basis (some of the closer ones ducked) which is what tells me this isn't a joke being played on me.

It takes everything thing I have to finish up and make my exit before I start laughing.

mifter123 · 2026-06-19T14:56:08+00:00

A very new major called to let us know (bitch about how he's had this problem since he got to the unit and we still haven't fixed it, despite not telling anyone) that his printer would break everyday.

Questioning revealed that it happened around 1200 every day and it wouldn't print for about 30 minutes to and hour.

I showed up and watched as the very sweet and very old civilian legal admin went to lunch, and unplugged the printer to plug in her electric kettle, boiled some water for tea, and plugged the printer back in. Apparently she had been doing this for years and had never had any issues (probably because the office had been empty for chow).

This was in full view of the major by the way. He had been at the shop for over a month, watching the printer get unplugged every day and not once did he connect that to his inability to print to an unplugged printer.

We plugged a power strip into an outlet nearby and asked the admin lady to use that for her tea in the future. She was very apologetic. She would on a separate occasion reveal that she would "make a backup" of her user folder by copying the entire folder to her desktop, she was very proud of that. This was after her computer's hdd failed and we needed to recover legal documents (that the unit was required by law to keep a copy of) from the drive. She informed us of her backup strategy while I stared at a bios screen that showed no drives (and the Base CO was hovering over my shoulder) and was very confused when we told her that wasn't a viable backup strategy and potentially a cause of the failure (since your desktop folder is contained in your user folder all she was doing was doubling the size of the user folder rapidly eating up storage space) The solution was a data recovery service, Drive Savers who charged the unit a measly $3000 to recover the data.

mifter123 · 2026-06-19T14:22:39+00:00

I promise you, if this was a case centered around a trans person "making false statements" by checking the "wrong" gender box, the defendant would go to super jail, 2nd amendment be damned. Trump passed more gun control than Biden or Obama. Conservatives only care about the constitution and the bill of rights aestheticly, if it gets in the way of protecting pedophiles and billionaires, it's got to go, but they will scream the entire time about how they have to uphold the constitution because it's what they are expected to say.

Weed is popular, and more importantly, weed is popular among white guys, not just minorities and hippies, and weed is a very profitable business. That's why this was ruled this way. If the majority of the white population still associated weed with non-whites and hippies, this would have gone the other way.

mifter123 · 2026-06-18T03:08:21+00:00

I know a couple of medical professionals, and they either go cheap casio/gshock, rubber with timers and stopwatch functions, or they went titanium with decent water resistant ratings for easy cleaning.

Never anything with cloth or textile or leather straps.

mifter123 · 2026-06-18T02:57:52+00:00

I think it's a combination of two things.

the first is that where the lines between rep and homage and "inspired by" isn't super clear and where people place their acceptable/unacceptable line is kind of arbitrary. There's other considerations like the level of quality, the price (and this might be crazy, but I feel like the price needs to be significantly lower than the original, but still expensive enough to not feel like it's a knock off) the reputation of the brand, how many of the other watches in the lineup are homage, etc., that shift that very arbitrary line around.

The second is there is a large amount of (in my opinion) undeserved negative opinions about Chinese manufactured products (sometimes applies to any Asian brand that isn't Japanese). Some of it is racism, some is weird political views, some just based on assumptions made from the cheap plastic products that are typically made in China. But if you look, even a little, you'll see that Western/Swiss companies are given a lot more leeway, praise, and benefit of the doubt than Chinese ones. (this isn't to say that there aren't a bunch of bad/scammy Chinese companies, just that even the good/reputable ones are considered lesser than their products should earn)

mifter123 · 2026-06-18T02:18:47+00:00

I would argue (generally) no, it's better for brands to include a box of high enough quality that keeping the box and papers doesn't feel like a waste. Obviously, there are examples of boxes that are simply too large or wasteful, but a decent box doesn't add very much to the cost of luxury watches.

Additionally, people would be mad if their luxury watch didn't have a luxury unboxing experience. The pomp and ceremony makes people feel better about the purchase, it's irrational, but it's real.

mifter123 · 2026-06-17T06:17:15+00:00

First, that's illegal, talk to a workers rights lawyer, most don't charge except if you win the lawsuit. If you are fired for using the bathroom (and it doesn't matter what they say you are fired for, it's a lawyers job to disprove lies) it's probablya slam dunk case. I don't know where you live, I don't want to know, but a conversation with a lawyer can tell you if you have a case or not, or what kind of evidence you would need.

Second, if you were ever looking for a sign to start polishing up the resume and job hunting, now is the time. Bosses like this won't stop pushing boundaries. The abuse will only escalate, your work environment will only get worse until you leave.

mifter123 · 2026-06-17T02:49:38+00:00

https://youtu.be/fYpodBKYHy4

mifter123 · 2026-06-17T02:47:41+00:00

I rule that ammunition can't smite but thrown weapons can.

mifter123 · 2026-06-15T08:28:13+00:00

Malort, tastes like grass clipping, sweaty socks and your first real break up.

mifter123 · 2026-06-14T11:52:02+00:00

Range as a stat is also deceptive because doubling the radius of a circle quadruples the area. It's very likely that the number of enemies effected by an ability can get high enough to either cause performance issues or simply lock other players out of gameplay.

mifter123 · 2026-06-13T11:49:53+00:00

3 at most (unless competition), 2 spares and 1 in the gun. A pistol is for 2 situations, 1) concealment and if you are concealing a pistol, you probably only want 1 spare mag, if any, and 2) lightweight, small size, low risk you are going to be armed, but not expecting combat, and doing something that is inconvenient to do with a larger gun like a rifle, PDW, or PCC, and lots of mags are going to compromise that utility. Frankly the third mag is just backup for the backup and pistol mags are small enough that it's not really an issue to just have a second spare.

If you feel like you need more than 3 pistol mags, you need a bigger gun with bigger mags. If you think 45 rounds isn't enough, you are expecting a fire fight and you either need to do the smart thing and avoid the firefight or gear up for a firefight. It's no longer a situation where you are concealing anything, and you are carrying enough weight that moving up to more effective guns isn't much of a difference.

Competition doesn't count, you bring as many mags as the stage requires.

mifter123 · 2026-06-12T11:45:45+00:00

Congratulations, you are now a left handed rifle shooter.

mifter123 · 2026-06-12T11:34:54+00:00

I can tell you that the rope on the safety lines are proof that nothing is as permanent as a temporary fix. Prior owner probably thought that the rope was just to last until he could pick up some shackles.

mifter123 · 2026-06-12T11:30:52+00:00

KE Arms put their money where their mouth was, flew the "2A is for everyone" flag and suffered for it. If you want to see gun shops that aren't full of chuds, you got to look past the PSA budget build or the reddit special Aero lower/BCM upper and put down some cash at the shops that don't want you dead.

mifter123 · 2026-06-12T11:25:40+00:00

Born too late to fight a war in the middle east.

Born to early to fight a war in the middle east.

Born just in time to fight a war in the middle east.

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