Naaaaaaaah. See some of you tomorrow 😀
Author: wizardpc
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Why did RAM prices double?
Two years ago I bought a pair of 8GB DDR3-1600 sticks for $86. Now, they’re $155
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It’s not like DDR4 and DDR5 came out, and now I’m looking for stuff that’s no longer manufactured. What happened?
(Hard drive prices are still higher than when I bought my last pair of 2tb drives, but there was a natural disaster that wiped out most of the factories. That I understand. This baffles me.)
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I think there’s a new policy in the Nashville Police Department
I’ve been noticing a lot of stories over the last couple of years about MNPD officers being decommissioned for misbehavior. As I understand it, “suspended with/without pay” leaves the officer with the ability to carry a gun everywhere and other perks of being a police officer, but decommissioning removes all the superpowers.
I don’t recall any decommissionings during the last chief’s employment, but it happens A LOT now. Arrested for DUI? Decommissioned. Hit your wife? Decommissioned. Having mid-shift, er, meetings with a woman in a park? Decommissioned.
So last Friday when Officer Nathan Silvers showed up 15 minutes late to his shift drunk, it came as no surprise that he was decommissioned. His Sergeant and his Captain made the decision to decommission him, drive him home, and have him report to HQ first thing Monday morning.
What did come as a surprise was the Chief’s reaction when he woke up Saturday morning and found out about it.
I’m pretty sure Chief Anderson is sending this message: “No, seriously you guys, I’m not going to tolerate this crap. If you see a brother officer committing a crime and turn a blind eye, there will be repercussions.”
The Captain took early retirement and the Sergeant has received a 15 day suspension.
Good for the Chief.
*TN State law says you can’t be in possession of a firearm if you have any alcohol in your system. There are no exceptions for police.
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Gun Porn: Welcome to the Party, Pal
Obviously on the same table as the HK SBR from last week, we have a Steyr AUG A3
I really wish I’d taken a better picture of this. Or more pictures.
I can’t see one of these without thinking of Die Hard.
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I’ve been saying this for years
Credit cards have expiration dates. Laws should too.
When I first started watching TN House Subcommittee meetings, I saw something that has stuck with me: A legislator brought in a bill to remove the prohibition on aquariums in barber shops. Everyone in the room was baffled as to why this was a law in the first place. Over the years I have assumed that there was a health scare whenever that law was enacted, but I haven’t taken the time to really track it down.
Of course, just repealing something without knowing why it was law in the first place is such a bad idea that there’s a name for it: Chesterton’s Fence
The Boston Globe author says we should have a mandatory 12-15 year sunset but even then I think it’s been too long. I think two years would be sufficient to see the effects of any proposal, yet not be far enough in the past for no one to remember why the law was there in the first place. Two years is also convenient from a political standpoint because that’s the rotation of Congress.
If a law is passed along party lines that is so egregious that the voting public severely punishes the ruling party (Obamacare, anyone?), then literally all the new majority has to do is nothing and it goes away.
I’d also like to see a provision where no new business can be conducted until a vote on existing laws has taken place, and no votes on anything can occur until the Speaker of the House has read, verbatim, with no breaks and no surrogates, the law about to be voted on.
Things like murder, rape, and robbery would continue to be illegal. Things like selling orchids without all the proper paperwork would not. In fact, the paperwork would be gone, too.
What say you? How would you improve the system?
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Tactical Dog + fireworks down the street
= cowering under the clothes in mom and dad’s closet.
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And it’s off
My Remington 700 is on its way to New York to get the trigger pack fixed.
Correspondence from Remington says it’ll be 2-3 weeks from the time they receive it, which will probably be Monday. Add in Independence Day and transit times and I’m probably looking at mid-July before I get it back.
That puts it at 3 months from the time I submitted my serial number for recall to when I might get it back.
And I only shot it once.
Sigh.
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Gun Porn: HK SBR
I have an irrational want for that. Pistol caliber carbine with a short barrel? Makes about as much sense as a football bat.
But lawd that’s sexy.
It appears to be a USC to UMP conversion done by HDPS
Magpul MOE RVG
HDPS Rails
YHM Flash Suppressor/suppressor mount, which I believe makes that a 9mm -
Recall box from Remington is on its way
Eight weeks after I submitted my brand-new Remington 700 for the trigger recall, I got confirmation that the box I’m supposed to use to ship my rifle back to them is on it’s way to me.
Should be here by Tuesday.
I’ve been meaning to post about the recall but been kinda busy.
I hope that commenter bigcatdaddy feels somewhat vindicated after his experience, but being told by Remington Customer Service that the glue was totally working as designed only to have them recall that exact thing later has got to be really frustrating.
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Gun Porn: AR SBR
mmmm sbr Magpul CTR Stock
Magpul MOE Grip
Magpul MOE RVG
Aimpoint CompM2 (?)
LaRue M68 CCO mount (Discontinued?)
YHM Phantom 5.56 Flash Suppressor
I can’t readily ID the rails but I assume they’re free floated
