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Thank you.
So you got it and give others a chance too?
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Yes
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Parliaments
(anag. "ear implants") ?
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Well done.
So you are up tomorrow.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: My first one ever.
Damned fine it was too. Any chance you could take it on permanently! 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: Damned fine it was too. Any chance you could take it on permanently
Thank you.
It took me nearly an hour to create it. So I'm not interested in doing it again too often.
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Not yet, but soon...
I enrolled in gunsmithing school today, having retired from my engineering job under the thumb of an abusive a$$hat GM who was determined to fire me and install one of his former cronies. I can't afford to retire, actually, but I figure that whichever way the election goes, the market for gunsmiths is looking good. If Conservatives win, guns will be cheap and plentiful, and I'll have plenty of business. If the Communists Democrats win, I'll have even more work, maintaining and improving illegally banned weapons under the table. I can't lose...
Part of the course includes a machinist program, which is something I've always enjoyed but lacked the training to really master. I already have a nice mill, bandsaw, grinder, gas and MIG welders, and assorted other tools, and next week I plan to order a lathe to round out my collection. And if I want to pursue my first love - embedded programming - I can always grab some stepper motors and an Arduino developer kit, and convert my machines to numerical control.
Who says retirement is dull? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I salute you, I'm wondering if doing the same here in Italy but for now "ubi maior minor cessat", aka it would cost me more than I can afford.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
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Yeah but it sure can get expensive 
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It's easy in Fallout 4 if you have enough adhesive and screws
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That means you'll be able to make your own guns with starting with 80% receivers/frames. Luck bastard....
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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A couple of guys I work with did that, and they only used a drill press... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Yeah I know all you need is a drill press for a AR-style rifle, but still...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You need a more complete machine shop for stuff more fun than ARs.
I know someone who used his shop to build a hand cranked 'trigger' for a demiled M1919 machinegun. Under ATF rules it's still legally only a semi-auto; even though you can blow through a 100 round belt in as little as 15 seconds (vs 10 for the original model).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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And I found this:
80% AR-15 Easy Jig™[^]
Better (and cheaper?) than a drill press, they claim...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Nice!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Actually, I'll be able to make my own starting with a chunk of steel or aluminum.
The only thing that will be difficult is machining a rifle barrel, because the lathe I'm getting is a bit too short. I could probably turn the blank, but with a 22" distance between centers, boring the blank will be impossible.
Will Rogers never met me.
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That's okay - you want hammer-forged carbon-steel barrels anyway. a billet barrel won't be strong enough, plus, as you already stated, how would you machine the rifling?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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If Cruz wins guns could become ubiquitous. IMHO a career in bulletproof glass would be worthy of consideration.
Life is too shor
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Roger Wright wrote: I'll have even more work, maintaining and improving illegally banned weapons under the table.
Unfortunately, you have proven the point that says gun control is needed. Without blinking an eye your considering aiding and abetting breaking the law. Selah.
As for the anti-Democratic epithet: perhaps the republiskins should remember that the Constitution has more than one amendment - and the 2nd is not the first thing that came to the minds of the founders.
So far as I can tell, from their very public rhetoric, the right is the side that wants to limit my civil rights, not the left. My Right-to-Choose vs. their religious dogma. They're all promising a theocracy - and we all know how well those work out.
Time to stop thinking with your trigger finger.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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OK - you don't like either of the Democratic candidates. Fine.
But the circus of d!ckwads that are running against them is absurd. The mainstream offerings getting beaten down by hateful extremism? Why the hell not? The media (Fox News, and their cronies) have been preaching hate for years. Guess what: it "took"!*
There are 370 Million Americans - surely we can do better!
Whilst the Democrats debate issues and methods, the Republicans make pronouncements. Pronouncements without plans: what is easy . . . how . . . that's another thing.
Check the reality world, too: private servers, a pointless 'scandal' as the server was legal and the 'classified' documents were not classified when sent. to her. That's part of our constitution, by the way: you can't turn something into something illegal and the prosecute someone for it (it's referred to as Ex Post Facto.
But do what I did - a google search for who else in government had private email servers. Go ahead! Quite a few in that circus crowd are on the list - Jeb, for example. So - how can they condemn what they themselves have done - especially when not a single law was broken?
Oh - just as an aside - I own firearms, with multiple clips for quick reload. So, to me it's an issue of common sense - not a rejection of firearms. Just an acceptance that the firearms now available are magnificently deadly - and people's metalities haven't improved nearly as much as the weapons they can get hold of. So - I put aside my dreams of a Quad-50 on my Mazda, because my loss is, in the big scheme of things, not as big as how things would be if I were allowed to have it.
* A classic example of why someone should be careful what they ask for.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Are you originally from the UK? Just curious.
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Nope - genuine Made-In-USA stuff.
Now, of course, you've got me curious as to what would give that impression.
(Recall that I riled against such atrocities as 'colour')
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I have never met an American born citizen who ever used the word "whilst", unless they were pretending to be British. It was never taught in all my years of school.
Interesting, is all.
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