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The video I saw was on a guns channel on YouTube. It appears to be a big thing with higher end air soft events. I'm not talking kids in the back yard I'm talking grown was men that fly across the world to play glorified paintball at international events with a thousand attendees. They apparently go through 10 of thousands of these grenades in one event. Apparently this is a big thing. Did not know that. So you are a very small part of the market. As always we are riding on some one else's coattails. It sure is nice to have smoke so the audience can see the demo teams. But if this market collapses, we are not enough to keep it afloat, you might have to say good by to affordable smoke. Depending on how this goes you won't be able to buy it any more. The FAA might not allow you to use what you have on demos any more. Every one in possession of it right now is by deffinition breaking the law. I don't think any one is going to come hunt you down but if you got into trouble for something else in theory they could add it as a charge. Let's say there was a fire at your house and they found "explosives" in your garage. Now your looking at federal charges. I checked paragear. They were still selling... Something? Didn't look like what I think of as a smoke grenade. Maybe a "pyrotechnic"? Say your budy gets a demo and needs to buy a couple of grenades off you. Selling transfering transporting storing conspiracy... It sounds silly but every thing with the ATF is silly. Say your friend shows up at the airport to jump into his local school and is talking to the FAA and he asks something like... What have you got there.. I had not seen this mentioned but people should be aware of it. Lee

Had trouble posting. At first I thought it wouldn't let me use the word grenade turns out it wouldn't accept a simple YouTube link. WTF? I was going to post a link to a discussion about this rule change. But I guess you'll have to go search for it your self. Lee

Pure gaslighting. Don't turn this back on Cub and I. YOU are the one who decided to A. nitpick a VERY minor detail B. continue to double down on it when everyone agreed it was inconsequential and C. started the ad hominem attacks. This is exactly why I rarely post here. Toxic nonsense.

too bad that most Americans vote on the price of gas as if that is the only metric that matters. The onslaught of Christian nationalism combined with the preservation of democracy when fascism is being promoted are seemingly a bigger item on the ballot, at least for me. But why care about democracy or policy when steaks cost so much?

They're actually good at it.

Please tone down your rabid Independent political rantings….and if you don’t mind, fetch me a tea

Because of you and articulate voters like you. I've said it here before: if Trump wins you will own your part of it. Brent, wake up man, this is not about your pet beliefs. This is about a war between the continuation of our Democracy and a slide into Autocracy. Anyone who cannot see that is nowhere near as smart as they think they are.

But then they could blame Biden. Or maybe Harris? Call her a slut or a whore or something. That always plays well with the deplorables.

Those are all fine opinions, and I'm starting to understand your point with all of this, but they are still just opinions derived from assumptions. None of us know what the guy was thinking. But I totally get your point about why he would he even care to argue about a refueling stop if he intended to jump early in the trip. That element has always made me wonder what he was thinking during all of that. Would LA and SF also have flown down V-23? To say there is no evidence for a Portland DZ is obvious...but there is no evidence for ANY particular DZ. One thing I've learned from getting close to Mac over the past year is how intricately he planned certain things yet completely brain farted on others. I get that sense from Cooper at times. Mac and Cooper aren't exact analogs but it appears that they were both winging a good bit of their hijacking. I do have a hard time with your theory that Cooper didn't have any idea of where he wanted to jump. All of the copycats at least had a rough estimation of where they wanted to jump. They all were planning to jump near where they felt they'd be safe. Mac was planning to jump within an hour (driving time) of Detroit, Hahneman jumped into Honduras, LaPoint was living in Denver at the time and jumped 90 miles north of Denver, and of course Heady and McCoy were jumping very close to their homes. As for the Mexico thing, my belief is that Cooper did a little research and saw that the max range of a 727-100 was about 2400 miles and, incidentally, Mexico City is almost exactly 2400 miles from Seattle. Seems to me he wanted the plane to be in flight (without him still in it) for the maximum amount of time, so he picked Mexico City. Of course he seems to later say "anywhere in Mexico", but the point stands.

Yet somehow Biden did exactly that. A win for the American taxpayer and a win for the American consumer. With the republican, trump team both the taxpayer and the consumer would have lost out. Because losing is what they do best.

Brent, Biden and better gas prices. All start with a "B", all things to be thankful for at thanksgiving. Just kidding, two out of three ain't bad.

The irony is that most everyone stood around afterwards and did nothing.

Corruption is like corrosion. Some of it you see some you don't. Its always at work to weaken the strength. Without constant vigilance it will wear the structure until it fails.

Seen elsewhere: "Fox has done to our parents' brains all that they claimed video games would do to ours."

I'm assuming you're not in a seasonal skydiving location... It's about shut down for the season around here, at least for anyone who doesn't want to freeze their fingers off. Enjoy! Wendy P.

Well, I continue to think the Maldivians are world class Islamic hypocrites. This: "You get unlimited food, alcohol.." Arrive in Mali and your booze is confiscated and you can't buy any in town. Oh, but after a Twin Otter hop to your resort Island they are somehow able to contain their Islamic sensibilities long enough to pour you unlimited doubles at the club bar. To each their own but I'm flat fatigued with religious hypocrisy and smarminess.