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Re: Brown v ATF 18-20 yo are members of "The People" - 2 days ago

On a serious note, I assume this is tied to whatever is considered to be the age of majority within a particular State (18 years old for most States, the exceptions being Alabama & Nebraska at 19, and Mississippi at 21). If a State decides to, it could legally define the age of majority within its boundaries to be something other than what it currently is.

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Re: Brown v ATF 18-20 yo are members of "The People" - 2 days ago

QuoteSpeedy QuoteSmote incorrect. alcohol isn't protected and guaranteed under the Constitution. Thus, setting the drinking age at 21 is allowed. Neither are guns except under this SCOTUS. note to self: "guns" are not "arms"...

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Re: Electric Unicycle $2000 - 4 days ago

"Cruising Speed 80+ kmh / 50+ mph" uh...yeah...no thanks That sounds like a quick way to hurt yourself

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Re: local stores checing receipts at exit - 7 days ago

note to self...per members of this forum, it is perfectly reasonable to walk out of a store with a cart full of stolen merchandise

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Re: 1932 Packard 903 Coupe Roadster - 9 days ago

QuoteFritz ...while I like the 40s, I like the early 30s better....

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Re: Oregon Magazine Ban Permanently Struck Down & Ruled Unconstitutional! - 12 days ago

QuoteSpeedy “Multiple Oregon sheriffs testified to this.” Sure, the idiot constitutional sheriffs. note to self: the U.S. Constitution is idiotic

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I'm pretty sure Google is listening in on Android phones... - 14 days ago

Just had (another) weird coincidence happen. Quick backstory: A few days ago I was troubleshooting (what I thought) was a defective porch light (replaced an old fixture with a new one - which wouldn't light up once installed). Further investigating led me to realize that the light switch itself had an intermittent fault in it as well. Anyways, during a subsequent (landline) phone conversa

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Re: Thanks to state laws, gun violence was decreasing. Then death started winning in Krazy court. - 16 days ago

QuoteLemon Drop Quotekj And with those two responses, anyone who has guns who would also listen to the points LD made, will now check out. Amazing how insults facilitate communication. Hi kj, Hope your Saturday is going well. I would imagine that Speedy and LI are responding to recent threads where false claims about defensive use of guns were made, over and over. Sometimes argumen

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Re: Have you ever gone through the interview process for a job that you won't accept? - 19 days ago

QuoteBuzz ...As g= says, it helps to stay sharp. As you said, too, getting an inside look at the industry and the job itself, is beneficial. == Back in my younger days (early 30s), when I was actively trying to get ahead in my career, I looked around and interviewed at quite a few places - some seriously, some out of curiosity. I even turned down a few job offers (I could have easily done t

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Re: it's all coming back to me now?!....CBS announces dates for when shows will return...... - 21 days ago

Thank you for posting! (and also, it's going to be a long three month wait...)

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Re: Britto v. ATF pistol brace rule nationwde injunction just entered - 24 days ago

Quotebtfc “ Since Miller came out “ Who cares, it is the 1790s that matter… Well, then in that case - back to my previous ask: Can any one point out any 18th century prohibition on short barreled shotguns or rifles? edit: left out the word "century" originally

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Re: Britto v. ATF pistol brace rule nationwde injunction just entered - 24 days ago

QuoteDeusxMac QuoteSDGuy Quotepdq QuoteSDGuy ...ergo, short-barreled rifles are protected under the Second Amendment. Uh, no. Unless they are kept and borne by someone with a plausible connection to a well-regulated militia. Did you just make that up yourself? I don't believe you are a sitting Federal Judge, are you? “In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use

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Re: Britto v. ATF pistol brace rule nationwde injunction just entered - 24 days ago

QuoteSmote Quotepdq QuoteSDGuy ...ergo, short-barreled rifles are protected under the Second Amendment. Uh, no. Unless they are kept and borne by someone with a plausible connection to a well-regulated militia. QuoteSDGuyThe ATF's argument is that adding a "pistol brace" to a pistol creates a "short barreled rifle". ..and they are right. In many, if not most cases, pist

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Re: Britto v. ATF pistol brace rule nationwde injunction just entered - 24 days ago

Quotepdq QuoteSDGuy ...ergo, short-barreled rifles are protected under the Second Amendment. Uh, no. Unless they are kept and borne by someone with a plausible connection to a well-regulated militia. Did you just make that up yourself? I don't believe you are a sitting Federal Judge, are you?

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Re: Britto v. ATF pistol brace rule nationwde injunction just entered - 24 days ago

Quotepdq...I would bet that you must have a different take. We're all ears. I take it you didn't read the actual US v. Miller opinion itself, but only got as far as looking up a wikipedia article? That being the case, I'll summarize for you: Essentially, it was found that for "a "shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length", "...it is not within jud

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Re: It's not the same without Lemon Drop to whine to - 24 days ago

QuoteLemon Drop ...What did I miss? The usual...long soliloquies, much banter; we missed your participation - hope life is going well

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Re: Britto v. ATF pistol brace rule nationwde injunction just entered - 24 days ago

I see that some folks have not bothered to read US v. Miller, and realize the implications of both it and what the Government's arguments were in that case on the topic of this thread.

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Re: Britto v. ATF pistol brace rule nationwde injunction just entered - 25 days ago

I'm surprised no one has brought up United States v. Miller, and how the Government's argument in that case would apply to this topic; I have a feeling some folks would not like to go down this particular rabbit hole...

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Re: Britto v. ATF pistol brace rule nationwde injunction just entered - 25 days ago

Quotepdq QuoteSDGuy Quotepdq QuoteSDGuy Quotepdq QuoteSDGuy Quotepdq ...if 18th century militia members had pistol braces then it’s everyone’s unalienable right to have them too... you mean something like this? No, something more like this: Useful device if you're killing lots of people; not very useful for home- or self-defense. nice (emotional) dodge; do you have a link to

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Re: Britto v. ATF pistol brace rule nationwde injunction just entered - 25 days ago

Quotepdq QuoteSDGuy Quotepdq QuoteSDGuy Quotepdq ...if 18th century militia members had pistol braces then it’s everyone’s unalienable right to have them too... you mean something like this? No, something more like this: Useful device if you're killing lots of people; not very useful for home- or self-defense. nice (emotional) dodge; do you have a link to ANY 18th or 19th cen

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Re: Britto v. ATF pistol brace rule nationwde injunction just entered - 25 days ago

QuoteLux Interior QuoteHarbourmaster Why do I need to know this? Oh I don't! Clearly you need to follow more news sources that tell you that MS-13 is pouring through our open borders and coming to kill you. you forgot to add: "with pistols that have a brace shoulder stock on them" (which, as we all know, turns them into deadly bullet-spewing killing machines)

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Re: Britto v. ATF pistol brace rule nationwde injunction just entered - 25 days ago

Quotepdq QuoteSDGuy Quotepdq ...if 18th century militia members had pistol braces then it’s everyone’s unalienable right to have them too... you mean something like this? No, something more like this: Useful device if you're killing lots of people; not very useful for home- or self-defense. nice (emotional) dodge; do you have a link to ANY 18th or 19th century law against pis

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Re: Britto v. ATF pistol brace rule nationwde injunction just entered - 25 days ago

Quotepdq ...if 18th century militia members had pistol braces then it’s everyone’s unalienable right to have them too... you mean something like this?

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Re: An Arizona golf course is under attack from a squadron of pig-like creatures - 27 days ago

as soon as I saw the subject line, I thought this would be about javelinas; had no idea they're a protected species, though - I thought people hunted them...

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Re: "Graveyard for Children" - 28 days ago

I stand with Hillary on this...

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Re: word processor choice - 28 days ago

Using Word (v 16), but only because I already have it...when it stops working at some point (as OSes upgrade), I guess I'll survey the landscape at that time and decide what to do. Like OP - my word processing requirements are very minimal nowadays.

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Re: Face Shavers, just curious - 29 days ago

I guess I'd be "Porn 'Stache" with a Doc Holliday type soul patch. This is really out of laziness - ever since retiring, I realized that I didn't want to shave every day; now it' just kinda touch-up shaving every few days

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Re: NRA v Vullo granted cert by SCOTUS - 30 days ago

Quotepdq Another obvious infringement of a patriot’s 2nd amendment rights, this time in the commie state of Iowa: QuoteThe Carroll County Sheriff’s Office received several calls Wednesday afternoon reporting an armed man walking the streets of Glidden. … Carroll County Sheriff Ken Pingrey says deputies made contact with individual south of Glidden on Timber Avenue, identifying the man

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Re: The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact - 30 days ago

Quotepdq …or a candidate could get millions fewer votes than his competition, yet awarded the presidency. How would that not effectively be disenfranchisement of the millions upon millions of those voters in the majority? I think the difference is that elections in this country are held at the State level, NOT at the National level. What you are noticing is a result of two things: - The

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Re: The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact - 30 days ago

QuoteTiangou Not clicking a YouTube link. From the subject-line, I assume it's somebody's opinion about this: From the wikipedia article: "Today, all but two states (Maine and Nebraska) award all their electoral votes to the single candidate with the most votes statewide (the so-called "winner-take-all" system). Maine and Nebraska currently award one electoral vote to the w

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