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We had an inmate who had some of but had lost most of his hand as a toddler, same type of situation I was told. On a side note, another inmate was promised drug debt forgiveness if he collected from the maimed one called Flipper. Flipper kicked his azz! Made for good comments like "Don't be dissin' the Flip!" and "Do we need to sick Flipper on you?!"

Hopefully this starts at the 0:40 mark:

Pretty entertaining politics here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/22/suicide-bomber-squirrel-hospitalizes-chicago-politician-who-spoke-out-against-squirrels/

They may be seceding from the United States, struggling with legal marijuana, decriminalizing criminality, but there's still jobs for Cali's finest! https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-cat-stuck-top-45-011204593.html

Welcome from Arizona!

The world is definately flipping: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/mark-browne/mexican-crime-wave-vigilantism-prompt-calls-citizens-be-armed-their-cars There has been any number of cases during my life of Americans doing prison time in Mexico for having an empty fired case in their vehicle. I've known a few Mexicans with firearms in Mexico but the rules have been ridiculous (kinda like what California wants): report ammo purchases to local police, who inventory it, take the empties to show you fired them, no military calibers (one reason they love .38 Super so much), no military arms, etc, etc. Just wow man.

Was looking at ammo online yesterday. Apparently $80/500 .22LR is a good deal now. Screw that. We need one of or both of two things: lower prices and/or better wages.

I won't. SCOTUS could say "Manufacturing toilet paper is illegal, people must now wipe with their own dirty laundry before washing it." Wouldn't make it anymore constitutional just because SCOTUS said so. Like JT said about the states ceding power to the feds out of laziness, the same can be said for states ceding authority to every whim of SCOTUS. I now dub them SCROTUS, ballsack of the nation.

It would depend on if the state in question has the nuts to prosecute feds for enforcing unconstitutional laws. Several states passed such legislation. Apparently Kansas thusfar has no gumption to pursue it further.

Kansas was one of the states to pass a "We can do it in our state if it stays in our state" law for firearms and related products. Dude made suppressors, dumb customer posted a video of how much he loves his federally illegal suppressor, went to trial: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article116276598.html

You mean one of these?

Funny how you never see men-born-women winning the men's divisions in sports.

Shoot, my '76 Chevy was ripe with parts from China on the interior. Blew my mind.

Screw that! They'll eat their dose with a skin and muscle casing around it.

Thanks Robo! Two keys to winning that baby: don't put a seat on the bike and give mikedaddy a zip-up Jon-suit.

Cool! Happy b-day SS!

"Oh yeah baby! You are getting smarter every day. Keep it up!"

How long have you been here? Mmmwwwaaaahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Welcome from AZ! Questions are good.

I have something like this from High Sierra: https://www.amazon.com/High-Sierra®-Swerve-Computer-Backpack/dp/B00JBZKSRK/ref=sr_1_9?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1479752410&sr=1-9&keywords=high+sierra+laptop+backpack Mine is a decidedly not-military green, gray, and black. Padded straps, ventilated back surface, has a handle for off-back carrying, and will hold a metric buttload of weight, including bottles on the sides. I found mine locally at a "name your price" sale and got it for $25. I've had it for 10 years now and there are no tears or rips in any of the multiple compartments. Being designed to hold a laptop, cords, extra batteries, etc., it hasn't complained at all having several pistols, ammunition, eye and ear protection, water, plus extras. That would be my "low profile bug-out bag" vote.

AND, on the bottom of your wrist, you can see the web shoot out!

Welcome from Arizona!

All I can picture with that is punching someone in the dark with one on each wrist. Is there a strobe option?

Yes and no. One of my colleagues was on the board that wrote the accepted Use-of-Force POST guide, for use by private prisons in Arizona. The "approved methods and tactics" taught to cadets (in every form of LE) are arrived upon by a simple method: what gives us the best bang for the buck. This is done on an agency by agency basis. POST has a huge encyclopedic host of tactics that may be used, however, paying people to train to become proficient in all of them is cost prohibitive. A physically fit state trooper in a small, wealthy state will get much more comprehensive training across the approved Use-of-Force spectrum than will the part-time cop in Sheavesville County, population 3,500. Time and time again, when training LE, we hear them say "We aren't approved for non-POST techniques." Some get shown the massive missive of POST, then ponder "Why wouldn't they teach us that?" Some don't care, having an inherent trust in politically-motivated supervisors trying to save a buck by cutting corners wherever possible. If a firearm could only be fired by its assignee (or fellow team members), 100% reliably, sure. But the same was said of aircraft and fly-by-wire technology. There never is a 100% reliability on any system, mechanical or electronic. Which is why the new aircraft equipped with fly-by-wire control systems have mechanical backups. I'd be willing to bet a chicken dinner that we will soon see mechanical redundancy in automobiles/trucks too, following the recent hacks of Jeeps and other vehicles. For the most part, public firearms training isn't mandated and, even where it is mandated, retention techniques are not a part of the required curriculum. The prevailing attitude seems to be "Since it is a burdern on my time and finances, it isn't worth learning." Even in LE, large swaths of the community have no exposure to retention or disarmament techniques, due to bureaucratic decisions. When I went through Arizona COTA such training had been discontinued as "too time consuming/too expensive". Fortunately our class commander (former Army SF guy) felt we needed it, so we learned what the formerly approved tactics were. Rant off.

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