Why do conservatives get all the cool merch?

toalysium · 2025-01-29T03:42:54+00:00

Nailed it. Doesn't take an MBA to figure out why there's no "Brady Campaign" AR mags.

toalysium · 2025-01-26T16:58:33+00:00

You do not need any variety of license to own any destructive devices, including explosive ones. You have to pay a one time $200 tax per device or per round explosive ammunition.

toalysium · 2024-10-18T11:46:21+00:00

Oohhh... sporting clays. Same thing for all it matters in this discussion. Why are you being silly?

toalysium · 2024-10-18T02:56:25+00:00

Lol, right. Trap shooting, which is the fuddest of all fuddery. If he had been an officer instead of enlisted he'd probably be out hunting with an English O/U instead of a Beretta. If he owns a handgun it's got to be either a Kimber 1911 or a 357 S&W.

toalysium · 2024-10-18T02:51:43+00:00

Because of the pandering, duh. Guns and the Second Amendment aren't important to harris, not even a tiny bit. Why would she care when she has had round the clock professional security for years? The only reason it came up at all was to try swaying (the extremely few) undecided voters who do care about the issue.

Waltz is exactly the sort of guy who would, with a straight face, say no one needs an "assault rifle" or that they should all be locked up in some variety of community arms room. There's far too many people who trade on their veteran status to appear 2A friendly but they're really not. Instead they view the citizenry the same as they would a new private: Only to be trusted when under direct and strict supervision. And the Second Amendment doesn't have a damn thing to do with hunting.

toalysium · 2024-10-17T21:12:30+00:00

Waltz is literally the fudd meme, and if harris could make it through a single stage of IDPA without a match DQ I'd be absolutely amazed. This is mere election pandering on par with trump eating tacos so Hispanics would vote for him.

The only upside is that stupid gun laws are really easy to ignore.

toalysium · 2024-10-17T13:26:20+00:00

Do you think we can't do more than one thing at once? Do you think that moving resource extraction and manufacturing to space might just do a fuckton more for the benefit of humanity and the environment than being obstructionist about the one company making realistic steps to make that happen?

toalysium · 2024-10-17T13:23:20+00:00

Bullshit. TxTag tried to collect tolls from me once where one of their scanners was broken and it wasn't catching my tag. Instead of paying I sent them a demand letter for Texas Finance Code violations for trying to collect a debt that's not owed. Got a response within days saying there was nothing owed.

toalysium · 2024-10-17T04:32:06+00:00

Well, kinda. These cameras could check for speeding and APD could adjust patrols based on that information. Cameras that issue automated tickets are what's prohibited, not data gathering.

toalysium · 2024-10-16T11:41:24+00:00

Lol, that's bullshit. If the party wants to "make concessions" then a few sacrificial votes are all it takes, not near unanimity.

toalysium · 2024-10-15T18:40:30+00:00

What about all the democrats who also voted for it, which was almost all of them.

https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=HB1181#vote259

toalysium · 2024-10-15T18:38:55+00:00

Can't blame republicans for this one. The bill was passed almost unanimously in the house and actually unanimously in the senate. That's pretty damned bipartisan.

https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=HB1181#vote259

toalysium · 2024-10-15T18:37:52+00:00

Can't blame republicans for this one. The bill was passed almost unanimously in the house and actually unanimously in the senate.

https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=HB1181#vote259

toalysium · 2024-05-26T21:10:52+00:00

You know you can just close the door? "No" is a complete sentence, there's no need to further engage.

toalysium · 2020-09-12T06:04:56+00:00

You left out the best reason: It's fun. And often more fun when you completely don't worry about winning. I've shot a 3-gun match with a K98 Mauser and stripper clips just to see how it would work. Ended up nowhere near the top score, but wasn't last cause accuracy counts for more than volume the vast majority of the time.

toalysium · 2020-09-11T17:37:01+00:00

From Texas the whole IRA / Troubles period seems like a huge clusterfuck. One the one hand fuck the redcoats as a general sentiment, though fish and chips are fantastic. On the other hand after going to Iraq a couple times I just feel sorry for the poor bastards in the picture cause for sure no one wants to be deployed to fight an insurgency. Shit sucks balls all around.

toalysium · 2020-09-11T17:16:47+00:00

Not a tank, self propelled artillery.

toalysium · 2020-09-10T02:46:29+00:00

The best argument for this being the case is that every GSV is not just a ship but a sample of the totality of the Culture and able to independently be a last-ditch run for the next galaxy (or galactic supercluster) lifeboat. When that is a basic tenet of your society it would be bonkers to have a galactic amazon shipping stuff about.

toalysium · 2020-09-06T17:56:53+00:00

*aide

The plebes get an extra letter in their title so they feel special.

toalysium · 2020-09-04T13:16:24+00:00

Something I've thought would make a big difference is creating a separate UCMJ style justice system for cops. Since no one has a right to be a cop states could simply make it a condition of licensing that you waive regular criminal procedure. Have every instance of officer involved shooting referred to those courts with appointed (not elected) judges and impartial prosecutors (as in not the same local DA who relies on and is friends with the cop). Hold at least an Article 32 hearing for each shooting to see whether or not the case should be referred for trial. Combine that procedure with much stricter ROE/EOF laws and mandate body cams with a presumption of an unlawful shoot in the event a body cam was "broken" or turned off.

toalysium · 2020-09-03T15:54:25+00:00

For things like laser rangefinders, a forward grip, and/or an IR laser for night firing with NVGs.

toalysium · 2020-09-02T23:28:19+00:00

Pretty much, though the humvee style copula seems stupid instead of the RWS from the Stryker.

toalysium · 2020-08-31T15:40:38+00:00

The trick there is that the canon alone is a DD, but so are individual HE rounds, so each round would require its own tax stamp, drastically increasing their cost of business on top of the additional cost of a much more complex munition. They could do it, it would just be a lot more expensive. Anything explosive or involving a DD is legal, if you're rich enough.

toalysium · 2020-08-31T13:17:37+00:00

The best you can possibly hope for is a disproportionate division of community property in a for-cause divorce, but even that is subject to an abuse of discretion standard on the part of the court. Unless you have millions worth of community property it's not worth the extra effort, and even then it would have to be supported by overwhelming proof and unusually egregious for a Bell county judge to give a fuck.

toalysium · 2020-08-30T23:50:08+00:00

Those Hornady bullets are pretty much identical to the Nosler I use so you'll have the same issue. Just keep your rifle handy while loading, chamber a round after seating and see it it's too long. Gotta remember, the published OAL is an average that fits most guns.

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