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There's some name for the rule, but I've heard officers discuss it before "If you are not in control of the situation, no matter what you do, you can only make things worse." -- Rob

Trigger locks have no bearing on theft. Smaller safes won't either - steal it all and open later. Kids aren't applicable if they don't exist in the house. 100% true. I have several guns. never had them secured until I had kids. wasn't worried about them being stolen because most of the time when I left they went with me. Now I have kids and a job where I can't carry to work. I have a locking cabinet. -- Rob

did I miss some new rule or is this recurrency fee spaceland specific? -- Rob

2 girls, 1 shit burger? -- Rob

licensing has often been batted about as the method to close the gunshow loophole, and keep guns our of the hands of criminals. Hell, with the right exclusions from ability to buy with this license they wouldn't even need the AWB to be permanent. -- Rob

that's the offending section worded very nicely isn't it... google HR45 it's in committee, and will hopefully die there. It proposes a federal license be required for firearm ownership. All that does is require hoops to be jumped through before a citizen (as opposed to a criminal) can buy a weapon. oh yeah, and it makes a list of gun owners. But why worry about that. No modern nation would use a list of owners to enact any confiscation programs right? -- Rob

the agenda section of change.gov was quickly modified after he was elected so as to be more moderate a mirror of the site is available here http://www.mega.nu/ampp/obama_agenda/urbanpolicy.html I suppose it could be an elaborate mock-up, but I saw the page listed on change.gov before they changed it. No I can't prove that any more than I could point at this page as a mirror of the site I saw. -- Rob

probably the local control that Obama has supported in the past (voting in favor of gun bans). -- Rob

did someone say free tacos? -- Rob

http://gun-deals.com/ammo.php?caliber=.38+Special -- Rob

Soooo, I have a handgun in my house, for personal defense, and some punk 17 year old kid breaks in, takes my handgun, and hurts himself or someone else.... You want me to be liable? /stupid This is what I was referring to. sec 46.13 of texas penal code A person commits an offense if a child gains access to a readily dischargeable firearm and the person with criminal negligence: (1) failed to secure the firearm; or (2) left the firearm in a place to which the person knew or should have known the child would gain access. http://law.onecle.com/texas/penal/46.13.00.html I didn't completely describe the situation, but you took it to an extreme. Don't be so quick with your /stupid -- Rob

all they need to do is make a law that says if a minor gets your gun while you're not there and hurts themselves or someone else, you've committed an offense. I'd bet they already have such a law actually. They just want more. This from the same city that a few years ago voted for a ban on guns inside the city limits. That was struck down by the courts though. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/04/10/state/n050438D28.DTL&type=politics -- Rob

Not familiar with the weirdo ruski prof you're speaking about. And mexican or american, we're Texan!! We're already asserted our states rights under the 10th amendment and are working on passing a law stating that guns made in TX, for sale in TX, don't fall under federal law. I think the code name for it is the big middle finger. If the feds want to put a bill in committee for study that would require a license to own a handgun, well we'll just have to see if those laws apply to our guns. I wouldn't support a bid for succession if someone floated it. I mean yeah, we aren't taking bailouts, we have a fairly strong economy, we don't really NEED the feds, we have the largest military base and lots of US Govt owned war machines... but I'd rather stick around and fix what goes wrong than punch out just because of a little wingtip stall. -- Rob

forcing small shops to close or lay off employees because they can't afford the increased payroll. Good move in this economy. going to tax the crap out of the minimum wage earners who's salary you increased to pay for it? Of course not, because they'll get the most benefit out of it. one out of three... at least it's a good one -- Rob

I don't doubt they were clear. Just a bad habit. That is all... -- Rob

Obama has already increased the sales of firearms and ammunition in the US to the point that it's difficult for some small police departments to get ammo for training. Firearms orders are taking 3-6 months for rifles, and I've seen handguns listed as "sold out". That's economic stimulus. -- Rob

nothing except poor trigger discipline. -- Rob

I used to work in a buiding in Austin run by a releasate mogul who was trying to put interest together in Austin to put one on the north end of town. Ran into him in the elevator wearing my tunnelcamp shirt and he asked me about it. I thought about giving him Alan's cell phone number right then, but instead emailed him a couple of office numbers. that was a year ago. This guy is the same one building an extreme sports park in Cedar Park, TX (near Austin). Don't know what he's done since then on it though. -- Rob

yeah, that was me, but I said he's probably a freeflyer that thinks bellyflyers are dinosaurs. Those are the types that can't be reasoned with. -- Rob

I have a nokia 6800 (complete with foldout qwerty keyboard) that I just replaced. It's one I unlocked from AT&T days and used on cingular for the last 2 years. -- Rob

I learned to do it because I have a 3 year old that listens to an ABC song that does it forewards then backwards. -- Rob

I don't have an accent, but I already knew this. I'm from Kansas. Where news casters go to work on their "non-regional diction". and yes, the quiz guessed I was from "the midlands" so even though it didn't mention KS, I'll say it was right. what they didn't ask though is whether or not you call it pop, soda, soda water, or coke (even if it's not coke (tm)) -- Rob

There used to be the same guy sitting outside a coffee shop I hit on my way to work every morning. Apparently they gave him a free coffee every day. One chilly morning on my way out of the parkinglot, I stopped and geve him a pair of clean wool socks I had in the car. he thanked me and tried to give me a couple of bucks for them. A friend of my wife's runs http://www.bagsofgrace.org/ and through them I found out that socks are a highly prized item. I don't care if this guy wore them or traded them. I know they helped him. He had a prime spot though for food donations. I'd see him on the corner weekend nights when I worked late. He usually had 4 or 5 PF Changs leftover bags by 10 or so. -- Rob

the way I do it is I shave the magnesium bits into the tinder. Dryer lint was mentioned, or cotton balls with petrolium jelly. I also like some frayed rope strands. Fray them and dry them before you bag them. Make a tinder ball about the size of your head, put your special tinder (petrolium jelly cotton, twine, lint and magnesium or any variation) into the top of it in a bowl shaped indentation. Then shave sparks (don't strike them) from the back of your magnesium firestarter. Once one takes on the tinder, the magnesium flakes (supported by the tinder) will have enough air around them to start to take as well. Blow on the tinder ball and rotate it to get most of it burning and then carefully place it in the center of your fire-lay. You are smart to practice this in your back yard several times until you get it. I also snicker at the survivor people. They have a knife. And they had several days if not weeks to prep for this show. You'd think they'd take that time to master starting a fire in their destination's environment (tropical as of late) using only local materials and a blade. -- Rob

had a government teacher named Richard P Nuss. (he didn't like to be called Dick) -- Rob