Foster

Firearms Discussion and Whatnot

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This surprises you? This is Texas you're talking about.

But yeah, I heard about that seizure of airsoft guns. Unbelievable how someone can fail to recognize a gun as being fake and, while not impossible, incredibly difficult to make into a functioning firearm. No less difficult than just building one from scratch, especially if we're talking about machine guns specifically. Hell, it's unbelievable that we're supposed to trust these people to make logical decisions as far as firearms laws are concerned, for fuck's sake!

@TheMadAsshatter

Apparently it was assumed that the lower receiver (the official "gun" component of an AR15) had close enough tolerances to qualify as an 80% finished receiver or better. Albeit with really shit quality-materials.
-Also, being an imported "non-compliance" part.

It would also be missing pretty much all the components necessary to actually DO anything.

Which is like saying that a 2x4 is a gun-stock because you can gouge a place into it for a gun to fit.
-Therefore, blocks of wood are guns because I can turn THAT into a AR15 lower, and handgaurds.

Firearms Discussion and Whatnot

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Yeah, I understand. I was just being careful to point out that the BATF is kind of finicky about this right now thanks to 3D printing guns and so forth.

@HeySeuss

Pretty much it boils down to what the most gun-phobic person in BATF you'll encounter will think.

Surprisingly, the ATF in Waco, Texas is somewhat less overzealous.

Who are your favourite historical leaders?

Genghis Khan and Erwin Rommel for their brilliant military strategy.

@Sabotage

Tactics, not so much strategic since both ran into huge logistics issues.

MacArthur, because the logistics of getting the 32nd Infantry Division into and across New Guinea, and the later Inchon landings/Pusan-Perimeter where pretty epic.
-Cons: Tended to disobey the president's direct-orders, a lot.

George C. Marshal
7 words: GI bill, Marshall Plan, and Berlin Airlift.
-Cons: Pearl Harbor

Would you like to learn more? Put your hand on that wall.
tl;dr: 110% combat-casualties and 654 days on the line without relief.

MacArthur: Trading US-divisions for time he didn't have.

Firearms Discussion and Whatnot

Actually, pretty sure serial and licensing isn't necessary-ish unless it's an automatic, a sawn-off, greater than .50 caliber or to be sold/transferred.

Which make ye wonder how BATF can determine when an unlicensed homebuild was built in someone else's home, and if it was done by the owner in someone else's home would count as joint-custody? (one could claim they track parts, but you can scratch-build entire guns with an illiterate 19th century French-maid's education and an anvil [lol. RSC mle. 1918])

Pretty sure 89% of the time we just refuse to worry about it until someone stumbles upon an unlicensed munitions-factory in someone's garage/basement.

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

No Red Reason.

Thunderbolt Black (Fighter Pilot Mercenaries)

Seems more like an issue of task-priorities getting out of perspective too easily. Not sure if medicinal-stimulants designed to slow reaction-times will accomplish much aside from detaching you mind from feeling the fatigue and pain of the body just enough to prevent you from slipping into shock*.

*One of the other uses for amphetamines is pretty much in combination with painkillers to slap wounded soldiers back into the fight despite having a barely-stabilized gunshot wound or five to the chest in addition to a P-valve/needle to re-inflate the lungs. Still bleeding like a mo-fo, though.

As for falling asleep mid all-nighter, all I can suggest is lots of water and FOOD. Real fatty food high in protein because the later breaks-down and needs to be replaced exponentially faster by the hour and sugar can cause an immediate debilitating 'crash' with little or no warning.
-Water to help process it, and because it's hard to sleep when you've got to pee.

(also, if you clicked the video instead of finish reading this, GET BACK TO WORK. Because us and the internet can wait, like, forever. And even if we couldn't wait, nobody gets anywhere without making a choice to do it, and constantly picking that same decision even when alternatives become available or the path becomes difficult.)

Aside note: Found out my old patrol-leader is now a captain/S-3 in the 10th Mountain Division with ~10 years of military-service on-record. Which strangely enough puts him on the same level as @Gunther. (actually, no, Gunther would hold seniority)
-Wild guess based on the decorations on his uniform that it was 3rd BCT to Afghanistan in '06-07/'09/'11-'12 (ext. tour)/'13-'14. So I didn't feel like prying. All I know is OPFOR took a shot at him and his men and OPFOR lost.

Post Your Pikcha

I predict scope-eye something fierce if that were a Mosin.

Firearms Discussion and Whatnot

Why not just build one?

Thunderbolt Black (Fighter Pilot Mercenaries)

I can still get on and do OOC posts since they don't take too much of my time and brain.

Actually I'm homeschooled in highschool, these are just the core classes.

luckily one is up to passing now, I need to get 4 more done by Sunday or else I won't be passing.

@The Mage

*Foster never quite understood homeschooling outside of niche-artisan*

Probably because less than 30% of America has a stay-at-home parent. And 42% of the other half only have one parent at all.
-Removal of a well-to-do child from the community system ultimately hurts the community as a whole (most learning is via peer-interaction).

(maths: 30% with stay-at home + 30% single-parents = 60/100 = [remove stay at home portion for] x/70. Solve for X)
-Public education and easy access to an impressive public library [non-fiction section only] plus ridiculous extra-curricular overload for the win.

I also had WAY more time to work on my roleplays back in highschool than I do now. (in short: it will get worse, but at least you'll know why)

Thunderbolt Black (Fighter Pilot Mercenaries)

O.o 30%?

-I fell asleep through half my classes.

*Foster supposes Mage is doing more advanced coursework than metallurgical engineering.

S[eaking of sleep, I should go do that, like 30 minutes ago.