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I just got a Smith and Wesson M&P15 Sport in 5.56 NATO. $600. Ammo is cheap and plentiful. Love it. Popped it open to clean - it's not complex at all. I'm actually stunned at how simple it is. Define "SHTF". If you mean like Katrina where there is a rapid breakdown of law and order that will last a relatively short period of time (weeks, not years) and you are reaching for a gun you have been treating well and storing properly, then I would go with the AR15/M&P15. It's only as complicated as you want to make it. I'm sticking with the iron sights on mine and I was putting every bullet into a 2" circle off-hand at 75' (indoor range!) Now, if your idea of SHTF is a complete and irrecoverable breakdown of law and order resulting in you spending the rest of your life living off the land and losing your ability to maintain the weapon well... The AK is famous for reliability even when it's treated like a cheap crack whore. The early M16s liked dirt about as much as my ultra-feminist hipster ex-girlfriend liked being told to make me a sammich. They are reputed to be a victim of their own precise engineering - suffering quickly from dirt contamination. The AKs are loose like the Woodbury's owner's momma and will do it whereever and whenever and as dirty as you like it. Nasty bitch. Either way, apocalyptic survival requires you stick with iron sights because those fancy lasers and holographic sights need batteries. And have PLENTY of ammo available.

MT, what size shirt do you wear?

Go thumbs-up the Woodbury'd definition! http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Woodbury%27d

I have summer tires on the factory wheels, and winter tires on set of alloy wheels that look like factory wheels. '05 Legacy GT Limited

I hope you're not set up in a way that the first you know abotu it is the BG make it to your bedroom...? Layers, layers, layers. Alarm system with keypad in bedroom. Reinforced door hinges and striker (4" screws right into the framing of the house) will slow them down long enough while making a helluva racket that you could reach a gun or something. Hope your gun is in a safe but easy-access location in the bedroom...

A shotgun will produce a fist-sized grouping at home-defense distances. That is well within the margin of aiming error in a dynamic situation. The shotgun has no higher risk of hitting the dogs that the handgun. I'd stick with the shotty. 00 buck is like getting hit by multiple 9mm rounds at the same time. The BG can take a couple hits from a pistol and keep going unless you score a vital CNS hit. I honestly cannot imagine a scenario where a shotgun firing 00 buck across a room and hitting centermass does NOT leave the BG pushing up daisies within seconds.

ISTR the news pic showed her with a double-barreled boomstick of awesomeness. EDIT: Yuuuup: Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned - but even the scorned woman knows not to get between a mother and her child.

You know it's time to end it all when a woman tells you to learn to drive.

How much of the $12m was the land? How much is she putting in to the new building and how much will it be worth? We may find out that the finished property value actually makes her money. One company I worked at the CEO has a house in California. It had a view of the ocean but only because there was an empty property between him and the ocean. The guy who owned the empty property put it up for sale. Fearing that someone would build a house and ruin his view, CEO bought the property for $1m just so he could keep his nice view. (Of course now he has a $1m asset so it's not "lost" money, he exlpained... Well, except for the housing bust which hit about 2 years later...)

I know a guy who has $80k in consumer debt (more than his annual salary) plust $55k owed on a car. And his house has an interest-only mortgate, and an interest-only HELOC that he's had (both) for 10 years (read: never paid a penny in principal). Plus his house value has dropped by 25% so he's $50k upside-down in the house. I would be scared shitless if I was in his position. At one point I had $20k in CC debt and owed $20k combined two cars. But my wife and I both make senior IT money so it didn't seem to be a problem. Until I sat down and figured out I was paying close to $1k a month in interest alone. And then realized I had nothing to show for all that money spent. That was 8 years ago. My wife and I went into "Ramen Noodle" mentality and paid everything back as quick as we could. Took a couple of years but we got it. Now we owe only on the house (4% standard 30-fixed loan) and we're so much better for it. When I decided I wanted a new bike I set up a savings account and put money aside until I had enough to pay cash. The interest savings on the CC and car loans alone meant it only took me 8 months to save up for the bike. My son is being raised the same way - when he wanted an iPod he had to save up him money and buy one (we subsidized it, but gave him a $$ target to reach) We still let him buy other things from his bank account when we couldn't discourage him - but he quickly learned the lesson that buying the shiny thing off the shelf meant he had to wait another month for his iPod. And I tell you what else - it took him nearly a year to save up for it - and he treats that iPod like it's worth a million bucks. It's in pristine condition, unlike the toys we just gave him for free.

That's how it goes. If someone dies during the commission of a felony then the accomplice(s) are responsible for the death.

Puh-lease... Whoever did this graphic has no clue that the white birds can be launched at a wall and then drop their egg right before hitting the wall so that when they try to fly away they also hit the same wall. Double damage.

n/m - Wrong issue

Hadn't seen that.

I'm two steps ahead of you.

A paper-trail of prior complaints is nice if you get stuck at an intersection you visit regularly and know to be a bad detector. However it won't help that first time. I agree that I'd rather have a technical solution and not get into the whole "When it a red not a red?" question. But it would be nice to have some kind of protection if you have to run a red you haven't been to before.

The Illinois governor's amendatory veto message created an ambiguity that coudl have killed the whole concept... Last item in the veto message was; So that means the new powers for a motorcycle to tread a dud red as a stop sign is NOT valid on "no turn on red" intersections? Lucky that the veto was overridden. We already have a malfunctioning light rule. If anything we just need to add a definition that a light that doesn't change for a motorcycle is a "malfunctioning light" and that red-light-cameras cannot ticket when a bike runs a malfunctioning lights and can only convict bikers if they provide evidence that the bike failed to wait for a reasonable amount of time.

Passing reciprocity after conviction would not give you grounds for appeal. Best you can hope for is early parole/judicial release but you are still a felon.

Hopefully someone doesn't register on GunBroker, do a buy-it-now then disappear. I hate when people do that.

Their auction description includes this line:

No. Well, most probably no. Let me explain... (Cliffs: I believe it *is* possible that a person who broke the law could avoid prosecution, or be released from jail early, if their act is subsequently decriminalized. But it would require someone in a positon of power to go out of their way to make it happen. The criminal process by default does not care if the law changes after the fact and will stay the course unless someone chooses to do something about it.) There are many stages to a felony criminal case that ends in conviction: - The crime happens - The police investigate/arrest etc - First hearing(s) in lower court (municipal) - The prosecutor presents the case and secures grand jury indictment - The court case (hearings/trial/plea bargaining) resulting in conviction - Sentenced to jail This is a hideous oversimplification and I know I missed stuff. In the question stated above "If this guys gets convicted"... Then no, he won't be released simply because national reciprocity gets passed. Although this may be a factor that the parole board considers. Or he may raise this as a basis for a motion for judicial release ("Dear Mr.Judge, Please let me finish my jail term as probation, and here's why I think I deserve it...") In this case the conviction is still on their record - they are still a felon. Good luck with restoration. What about at other stages of the case? The police *might* decide to not file charges if the law changes while they are investigating. And the prosecutor may opt to not prosecute because it is "Not in the interests of justice" (or file a motion to dismiss a prosecution that is already under way). The defence may request a dismissal on the grounds that justice is not being served by continuing to prosecute an act that is no longer illegal. Either way, it would be up to a human in a position of power to make a call to stop the case. And in New York city? I would consider that to be highly unlikely. now, if someone got caught in a gun-friendly town in Ohio and just happened to have a CHL from a state we don't recognize (and the officer doesn't simply point out the error and have him switch to "transporting" the gun instead) then I could see a prosecutor requesting dismissal if the law changes while the case is being heard. But I get the feeling that New York city has become accustomed to its gun ban and would give it up VERY reluctantly - and be unwilling to go out of their way to cut people a break if the law changes. Something else to consider is that the date of the offense is so important that if the sentencing guidelines for a thatc crime happen to change after the crime happened then you are still sentenced based upon the guidelines that existed at the time of the act. Think of it this way: If the law changes to make something illegal they cannot go back and prosecute people who did that thing before it was banned, right?

They said give it a couple of days. Been only 24h

If you are going to carry a gun it's your job to be aware of the law. Still, a felony conviction is BS. 15 years is a headline-getter - he won't get that.

I'd be suprised if they had a wildcard clause saying that could change the contract after it's signed. I don't buy the "It is not $0.00" story at all. There is no $0.00 in the "Other" box - what is stopping them from deciding to add a new fee there too? It's a clumsy put-on that they hope not too many people notice. I'd fight it.

We need national reciprocity. And an amnesty on checking guns in to the police. If you voluntarily check in a gun with the police then you should be immune from prosecution for posession charges. This would cover all situations where a person becomes aware that their posession is illegal - it doesn't render them in a status where they will continue to posess out of fear of prosecution. If the local law dows not allow you to get the gun back (like NYC) then you should arrange for the police to ship it back to your home state via an FFL.