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I always like one of my favorite "Freedom" quotes on this day. " Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - Ronald Reagan

JT, sounds like they need that stuff back - they need all that you have remaining so they can pull it down and find out what's messed up. That's good business.

That red dot is just calling your name, brother. That's all it is. "Waaaaaaaash...... you know you love me, even though you don't know meeeeee.... Yoooooou waaaaant meeeeeee..... " It's subliminal messaging, bro. Nothing more than that. IT wants YOU...

Like I told wash this week - that shoe fits, so just go on and lace that bitch up...

Me, too, brother - that's why I keep pushing them! I thought you'd like this, though, because you didn't know such a beast existed...

That makes sense, because a quarter is 0.069 inches thick. I'm used to stacking those bastards on pistol caliber AR15 builds, both 9mm and .45ACP. $1.75 does the trick on those.

Holy shiit... I think I just witnessed the understatement of the decade...

I'm gonna have all the .338 LM loaded up, as well. I think we'll need more, though. I think I'll start picking up brass, so we'll have more...

Ejected fine, but sometimes it wouldn't catch the next round, sometimes it would do a bolt-over ride on the next round. I documented it somewhere here, but I can't find it... My biggest concern was the overtravel, and the force on the bolt catch - that extra distance, and the buffer spring pressure - eventually, that'll break your bolt stop on the last round. When I started to get the weird feeding issues, I dug into all kinds of stuff, and only found the receiver extension internal depth as an issue. It was gone, that day. Aero makes GREAT stuff, and maybe I got a fluke. Wasn't gonna chance it, though.

@washguy you need to buy one of these, because you didn't know what it was - it's a badass little red dot, same dimensions as the old Aimpoint Comp M2. And that's a hell of a price on it....

That's awesome!!!

If you can weld it, then you can cut it apart and reweld it.

There were plenty of 308 BCGs last week - I almost pulled the trigger on another one, blem this time. I would have, if I didn't need a gen-u-whine Armalite AR-10 BCG right now... Haven't seen the 5.56 BCGs for a minute there, though.

There were 308 BCGs last week when I checked - I check about weekly. I noticed the 5.56 BCGs not listed anymore - I need a lightweight one.

You old bastard...

I had an AP carbine receiver extension that measured an internal depth of 7.100". That sucker was 0.100" to much in travel, and it caused some weird shiit to happen to the cyling of the 308AR. I shiit-canned it and went with my first Armalite AR-10 Carbine recoil setup, and haven't looked back since. There are now two other 308ARs configured with those parts. Long story short - measure the internal depth of that tube once you get it in-hand. Should measure out to exactly 7.000", or it's gonna give you issues.

I'm going after more shrimp, just to try that out. They got rubbed down with garlic salt and Tony's seasoning and let sit for an hour. Then I used melted (real) salted butter, garlic salt and a dash of Tony's seasoning - those two things mixed into the melted butter. Brushed them down with that, and kept brushing them whilst over the heat.

That's pretty badass, right there. It's (not that) strange, but when any of us meet up, it's great time. I'm glad you got to make that trip, bubba, and I'm pretty jealous that you got to hang out with Mike.

That was TOO EASY. Even got you a phone number... larrypotterfield@midwayusa.com JT, I might also explain to Mr.Potterfield who your employer is...

Sounds like it's time to track down the personal email of Larry Potterfield, himself. Forward the thus-far info to him, and get in his a$s a little.

Damn shepp brother - those things were huge, too!!!

Both bills are identical, right now, both the House and Senate versions. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3054/text?q={"search"%3A["HR+3054"]}&r=1 H.R.3054 - To provide an amnesty period during which veterans and their family members can register certain firearms in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, and for other purposes. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1435/text?q={"search"%3A["S+1435"]}&r=1 S.1435 - A bill to provide an amnesty period during which veterans and their family members can register certain firearms in the National Firearm Registration and Transfer Record, and for other purposes. They are going to mainly be about "war trophies" and war relics, brought back by service members. So, foreign battelfield weapons that generations ago,were brought home with service members returning from overseas. I'll dig for more info.

Gun Control Study Seriously Flawed Posted on June 29, 2017 http://blog.defenderoutdoors.com/gun-control-study-seriously-flawed/ A recent gun control study uses an extensive amount of data…and flawed statistics. (Not much of a surprise there.) The President of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade group for all firearms and shooting sports companies, issued a rebuttal of this new study. Take a look at Larry Keane’s dismissal of the seriously flawed study and share with your friends. New Study Compiles Worst Flaws of Anti-Gun Research And the winner of the most absurd anti-gun study goes to: “Broadening the Perspective on Gun Violence: An Examination of the Firearms Industry, 1990–2015.” This report starts with the ridiculous premise that the criminal misuse of firearms is a public health issue, rather than a criminal justice issue. As we have explained here before, firearms are not a disease. Americans enjoy a Second Amendment right to bear arms for self-defense. In addition, there are legal, healthy, legitimate ways to use a firearm that tens of millions of law-abiding Americans enjoy every day. A firearm becomes a danger to society when misused by a criminal, not when legally sold by a federally regulated retailer or legally purchased by a citizen exercising their constitutional right. Firearm violence is a criminal justice problem, not a public health problem. Based on this faulty premise, the authors apply a model to the problems of violence that is better suited to diseases, the “Host-Agent-Vector-Environment” model. In this model, the host is the victims of firearm violence, the agent is the gun and ammunition, the vector is the “firearm manufacturers, dealers, and the industry lobby”. The Mirriam-Webster definition of agency is “the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.” By assigning agency to an inanimate object, the authors are arguing that the object itself is acting. As if calling crime a disease and a gun a thing capable of independent action is not absurd enough, the report actually gets worse. Essentially, it pulls manufacturing trends from ATF data to examine the types of firearms and calibers that are rising or declining in popularity. Then, it looks at tracing data and concludes “Trends in firearm manufacturing reveal a shift toward more-lethal weapons, and this trend is also observed in gun purchases and crime gun traces.” What the study fails to note is the most important trend: more guns are being produced and sold, while violent crime rates are steadily declining. Instead, it looks at the share of certain types of firearms sold and remains silent on crime rates altogether. It examines ATF’s tracing data. Putting aside for a moment the limitations on tracing data, the authors ignore the entire concept of Time to Crime. So the time periods for the purchase of the traced “crime guns” and the time periods for the market trends described are completely different time periods. The guns in the traces were purchased from a licensed retailer after a criminal background check on average 11 years before the trends studied here began. The authors are arguing that the current trends in manufacturing are driving criminals’ choices of firearms over a decade earlier. Forget about the lack of technology for functional smart guns or microstamping, the authors are implying our industry has access to time machines. Perhaps time to crime is too advanced a concept for the researchers. Of course, they also demonstrate an embarrassing lack of understanding of the types and calibers of firearms, such as making blanket assumptions such as pistols are smaller and more easily concealed than revolvers. The authors spend some time making arguments about the lethality of various calibers, citing other shoddy research to support spurious claims that show the lack of knowledge of firearms. Rather than drawing on gun control groups such as Everytown, which is cited for its help in reviewing the study, the authors may have been better off working with the industry to learn about these products and their features. They may have also learned more about the industry than the number of manufacturers. Naturally they argue that because this is not an industry with hundreds of thousands of major manufacturers, the companies should be “convinced” to use smart gun technology. Just a little research into the industry would have revealed the adoption of such technology is not a matter of convincing stubborn manufacturers – rather, it is not in use because, despite decades of research and development work, it does not exist in a way that could be reliably used on a firearm. It’s interesting, none of these issues with the report made it into the study’s limitations section. There they cite other completely valid problems with the methodology and data used that we won’t dedicate more space to here. To read the whole absurdity and the winner of this year’s worst anti-gun research award, download the study here.

Once in awhile, in the last 8+ years, they get off their asses and do SOMETHING... This one is for veterans... They must not have told McCain they were doing this - that fukbag. Pro-Gun Members of Congress Seek to Protect Veterans, Preserve Historically Significant Firearms Friday, June 30, 2017 https://www.nraila.org/articles/20170630/pro-gun-members-of-congress-seek-to-protect-veterans-preserve-historically-significant-firearms U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and U.S. Representative David P. Roe (R-TN) this week introduced bills to create a 180-day amnesty period for veterans or their family members to register historic war mementos that would be considered regulated firearms under the National Firearms Act (NFA). Pending as S. 1435 and H.R. 3054, both of these bills would apply to items acquired overseas before October 31, 1968. This legislation would allow for the lawful possession and transfer of historically significant armaments and protect veterans from potential criminal liability for purely technical violations of the law that do not endanger public safety. Members of the U.S. Armed Forces serving overseas in combat zones have over the years brought home a variety of mementos from their deployments. In some cases, these have included captured firearms of the type that require registration and the payment of a special tax under the NFA. Such legal technicalities, however, were presumably not foremost on the minds of the brave young service persons who had survived the ordeal of war and simply wanted to resume their normal lives in America. Over the years these firearms have sat harmlessly idle in untold numbers of attics, basements, and barns. For the veterans who owned them and their families, however, these relics represent potent reminders of freedom’s heavy cost. The NFA normally requires firearms to be registered at their time of their manufacture or transfer. Private possession of unregistered firearms is illegal. Congress passed legislation in 1968 that granted a brief, limited amnesty period to register war trophies, but with the primitive means of communication available at the time, most veterans were unaware of that opportunity or learned too late to take advantage of it. This left very few options for lawful preservation of the affected firearms. Even relatives or heirs who discover these firearms and wish to dispossess themselves of them could face criminal prosecution for their possession. These bills would allow veterans or their family members to come into full compliance with the law and ensure that these valuable and historically significant items were not lost to future generations. The bills also provide for various means of publicizing the amnesty period, including via the Internet. If the present owner of the firearm proved ineligible to possess it, the bills allow for its transfer to a qualifying museum during the five-year period after it is forfeited to the government. NRA fully supports S. 1435 and H.R. 3054, and appreciates Sen. Cotton's and Rep. Roe’s leadership in this important effort.