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The Feds aren't going to stop these school shootings their policies are one primary cause. Give the schools back to the locals let them sink of swim.

You will probably just have two grieving widows.

A new proposed regulation announced this week by the Department of State could alleviate the massive annual registration fee that has for years kept small gunsmiths and FFLs out of business. The regulatory amendment would transfer defense articles to the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce if they are not inherently for military end use and are widely available in retail outlets. The change would remove the annual $2,250 fee required by the Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Control (DDTC), which the Obama administration imposed on gunsmiths who “manufacture” firearms and ammunition. In 2012 the Obama administration stepped up enforcement of a regulation that required firearm and ammunition manufacturers to register with the DDTC under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Because they said that even small gunsmiths engage in activities that are regulated under the ITAR. Many of these small shops closed down because they couldn’t afford the annual registration fee along with compliance costs. Now the Trump administration’s Department of State is looking to revise these regulations by transferring items currently listed in the United States Munitions List and controlled by the ITAR to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), which is controlled by the Department of Commerce. These items include non-automatic and semi-automatic firearms and ammunition, as well as their related parts and services. This is good news for gunsmiths because the Department of Commerce does not impose a registration requirement for the manufacture of controlled items and there is no annual fee.

Sometime try the fish filigrees at Chicken Express

I agree that training should be actual "hands on weapons with live ammo" and many repetitions. I did training for Equipment Operators and the trend toward computers and simulators isn't doing the job. I see too much pilot training being relegated to sims. You need to get actual training in the air, a sim crashes and burns, no sweat just reset ,laugh and go again, that ain't how it works in the air, you crash and burn you are DEAD!. The same way in the Combat Forces .

Looks like you have plenty of room. Do you use timed cooking or meat temp cooking?

A couple of your items pictured need to be put back where they came from, don't waste the slickidy stuff!

OKAY, I'll PM you when I get the funds allocated, my banker is celebrating today,

Looks like you got the goodie outta it already....anyway!

Washman, I've been here before but forgot, I been watching Traeger, saw a small one. Renegade, but will go with the GMGrill if I can decide which one will work, so I'm asking about a basic one, don't cook a large volume at a setting. Usually a rack of ribs, or a 12 lb. turkey or 3 or four rib-eyes or porterhouses, a couple of striper fishes, don't especially need a WI-FI one but would if it will work with my DSL router and my Amazon Fire HD, or a Windows 10 desktop or laptop, instead of a smart phone. What say Ye? And any of you other smoking Gurus?

BBBRRRRR! The Sand bass (white) bass been running and Crappie are active on minnows and jigs channel cats are ok., water is around 67 ,69 degrees on my thermometer.

Washman, I've been here before but forgot, I been watching Traeger, saw a small one. Renegade, but will go with the GMGrill if I can decide which one will work, so I'm asking about a basic one, don't cook a large volume at a setting. Usually a rack of ribs, or a 12 lb. turkey or 3 or four rib-eyes or porterhouses, a couple of striper fishes, don't especially need a WI-FI one but would if it will work with my DSL router and my Amazon Fire HD, or a Windows 10 desktop or laptop, instead of a smart phone. What say Ye? And any of you other smoking Gurus?

I have this little one, I really like that little bitty red button, it will light up your a$$ The holster pic shows the older model Ruger, the new one has a much better trigger.

I'm feeling better but not walking too pert.

Forget all that fancy stuff get a couple g gallons lo fat milk, three large boxes of Kellogs mini wheats and a loaf of wheat bread a pound of butter and, get the truck loaded for a morning at the range leave a nice note and a bouquet on the table and leave before dawn, stop at I HOP for breakfast.. You are going to die any way you go..

Kind of looks like a enlarged souped up 737

One of our dull knife athletes in high school was convinced that he needed to apply "Tuff Skin" liberally before donning the cuff when coach appointed him 1st string catcher. He should have went out for the cross country track team instead of baseball, no one was able to catch him when he bolted out of the dressing room and sped thru the 160 acre mesquite patch behind the high school. BTW the first liar ain't got a chance!.......

Physics is Physics, grasshopper.

You could think about it.

At the time I made the post I didn't get into the physics of gasses enough to include the temperature factor of the cooling effect of the expansion of the gas as it loses pressure and it's temperature change, or it's volumetric change of passing from a high pressure to the low pressure side of the orifice, so there is also that factor in the D.I. operating system. I believe most of us know the factor as being "Refrigeration". Maybe we should do some thinking about the "Bigger is Better" ideology when doing any orifice changing in our AR/LR308 pew-pew sticks.

Quite true, one of the oddities of the gas impengiment system is that the gas does not have a mechanical linkage, such as the other gas operating systems do. In this system in order to slow the effect of combustion pressure from the bore, the very high pressure must be controlled by orifice size of the gas port and the relative low volume of the gas tube, distance from the chamber to the gas outlet port, gas key and the bolt. The bolt rings also provides some delay in bolt unlocking (the key to successful extraction) the recoil spring pressure on the bolt is minimal compared to the other factors. Mainly the recoil spring energy absorption is as it's name implies, to absorb the rearward movement and enable deceleration of the BCG, which is important to extraction and ejection. All of these factors must occur in a finely orchestrated fashion, in my humble opinion.

Since it is still Friday......

It ain't training if it ain't raining!