I believe that most other countries call them provinces rather than states. But yes, if you live in a country that has a normal police force, and you don't have to worry about out-of-uniform cops using no-knock warrants to kick your front door in, then this is definitely not going to apply to you.
HelixDab2
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Your side hobby isn’t a PhD program
And yet, none of the people writing laws can understand these things. Nor do cops, most people in the military, or--in all likelihood--you. But by golly, they're going to write laws about them, even if they have no idea what the laws they're writing will actually do!
And I notice a conspicuous lack of “patriots” reacting at all.
Yeah, it's almost like what passes for a "political left" in the USA is a completely watered down, neutered version of the left, and is more interested in circular firing squads than actually doing something, huh?
Lots of cops and ex-military in favor of gun control.
Cops and ex-mil are not usually people I'd say know guns. When I say "know guns", I don't mean just that they know how to shoot--which most cops and mil people can't do for shit----I mean know how they work, and why they're designed the way that they are. I mean, how many cops or military people can tell you exactly what the difference is between, say, a direct impingement and a piston system? Or what the different kind of delayed blowback mechanisms are? Or what the technical differences are between and AR-15 that's capable of being select fire, and one that isn't?
And, even more than that, when you look at history, it's clear that the second amendment was intended to ensure that the people had access to militarily-suitable arms. We're right at the point of gov't tyranny right NOW, and Dems want to disarm people? So, what?, we can have a King Trump I?
I would not ever call a 1911 "reliable". You need to keep up with the spring replacement (500-2000 rounds for the recoil spring), and you need to make sure that you're keeping them very clean. I've had the slide stop walk out on mine in the middle of a stage, which created a stoppage that couldn't be fixed on the clock.
It would not be my first recommendation for a carry gun.
For reliable, I'd go with a major-name striker-fired polymer framed pistol. And by "reliable" I mean a gun that you can forget to clean for 2000+ rounds, and it still works well.
That said, my carry gun is a CZ Shadow 2 Compact. It's also not 'reliable'; it's going to take a lot more work than a Glock 19. I'm okay with that. And I knew that going in.
My opinion is strictly anecdotal; I'm not a professional, I can only speak to what I've personally seen, and that may or may not be representative.
OTOH, if sex and relationship counselors are saying that the overwhelming majority of people are doing multiamory badly, then their opinions have a lot more weight. Are they necessarily correct? No, of course not, any more than the opinion of any one doctor could be full of shit (see also: any doctor that thinks trans-ideology is a woke-mind virus, or whatever they're saying now). But it has a lot more weight than opinions of non-professionals.
Okay, so low beam should always be on. High beam should only be on when switched on.
The position lights
Can't be that. I've replaced one of the turn indicators; it's only two wires, and neither of them are the same color as the position indicator. In the wiring diagram, the position light is not going to the the turn signal. And, most important, the position light wire is only going to the headlight assembly. I had thought that there was only a single bulb in each side of the headlight, but maybe there's another one...? It's not really something that can be disassembled, aside from changing out the bulb.
there’s a catalog with dimensions in it
Good deal; I can check that pretty easily.
No, castle doctrine exists in all states. You do not have a duty to retreat when it's inside your own home in almost all cases.
You will get zero people that have real knowledge and understanding of weapon systems advising legislators on ways to ban them.
AR-15 rifles also covers select fire variants. The original AR-15 made by Eugene Stoner was select fire only. The assault rifle/assault weapon distinction is functionally meaningless, and really only applies to the military. Oh, you'll get fudds that will claim otherwise, but they're also the ones claiming that a 1911 is the best gun ever because "TwO WorLD wARs!".
Shooting plainclothes cops that execute a no-knock warrant on your home.
Seriously.
All states--ALL states--have a castle doctrine that allows you to use lethal defense to protect yourself inside your home. A no-knock warrant being executed by cops out of uniform means that you have a reasonable belief that your home is being invaded, and that your life is at immediate risk. Now, admittedly, you probably aren't going to survive that exchange of gunfire. But the state is going to have a really hard time charging you with shooting at/killing a cop if you do.
Samsung and Roku are bad for this.
You're buying the hardware; they provide the software as a service. Oh, sure, no agreeing to a unilateral change of conditions on the software means that your hardware is rendered worthless, but still... And yeah, that's pretty much the way that actually works.
IP law can start getting pretty strange.
I would love to see a complete remake of Daggerfall with the same randomly generated dungeons; I'm not sure that the random landscape and dungeon generation would work with the way games are programmed now though.
Come to think of it, re-doing Morrowind, Arena, Battlespire, and Redquard would be neat, too.