BJS, though in the most recent report it dropped to 60% of those arrested for murder having other prior convictions(20 years ago it was > 70%). That being said, this info is for the 75 largest counties, and only for cases that they actually have someone that was arrested and charged. One would expect that the more…

If possessed by a convicted felon, its illegally possessed and illegally purchased.

Interstate sales of handguns are prohibited unless both ends of the sale go through a dealer, so no the Chicago criminals cannot go to IN or WI and legally buy a handgun. In order to do it legally they would (even if buying from a…

Insurance for what?

Ain’t no insurance company in the world that will offer policies to pay for intentional criminal acts of policy holders.

Homeowners policies already offer liability for accidents which are actually pretty rare events.

Not buying it.

Some 70-90% of violent crimes are committed by someone with a firearm who was not the actual owner, or is prohibited due to prior convictions from possessing a firearm.

Granted this is not a scientific inquiry, but but bear with me.

In 2014 there were according to the UCR, 8124 murders with firearms. So if…

This is something thats been on my mind a lot over the past month or so, and I’ve waffled around with several possible paths to take.

Simple Joe is going to tell you to get lost.
Only 5% of Simple Joe’s have decided to comply with the “Tell us what guns you have so we can steal them in the future Act” NY State passed not too long ago.
15% in CT

I wouldn’t ask the State Police office either.

I’d rather suspect its like calling the IRS for help filling out your taxes....if they tell you to do something incorrectly you are still on the hook for the fines, penalties, jailtime or whatever else.

Calling the State Police, you are just as likely to get told what…

The thing is, using range as a tactic for criminal deeds is almost unheard of.

I can only recall three other notorious instances where some whack-job used range as a tactic. Kennedy, University of Texas, and the two guys about 15 years ago in Virginia. As far as I can tell, less notable instances of ‘sniper attacks’…

Part of the concealed carry law Illinois passed five years ago included statewide preemption, so Chicago’s rules are (except for 3 things relating to long guns) thankfully the same as Illinois rules.

So no unintentional ‘criminals’ by virtue of not checking every podunk cities rules any more.

I’ve also been using Plex + HDHR Connect for OTA since around January of this year.

They’ll only buy up to a certain dollar value, so I kind of consider it a bonus.

My wife gets several fewer days than me and if I’m going to vacation I want to spend them with her anyway.

No kidding

I really don’t consider myself to have any sort of special job, just your average ordinary sort of professional job, but I can and have done this a few years.

double post

Your response demonstrates the authoritarianism inherent in such a system.

You could save time and just state the obvious.

Coincidentally, I’m leaving for vacation later today. Two weeks glamping (the tent has been upgraded to a hard sided popup) in Northern California, Southern Oregon, and to wrap things up a few days in a western location to be determined. Probably Southern Idaho, or maybe back to Yellowstone again.

My OOO leave…

Do one of these for visitors to the US.


As a general rule, people are really quite oblivious to much of what goes on around them. (Go watch Brain Games if you doubt this)

Considering all the people who tell their kid at Yellowstone to get closer to the bison for a picture, I’d say thats pretty much true. The warnings don’t work.

There are signs everywhere saying bison injure more people than any other animal in Yellowstone. Every ranger activity, whether its a hike, a campfire talk, or…

It was worth the 10 hour round trip drive today.

Traffic getting there this morning wasn’t too bad really. Well, except for the rock truck that tipped over causing a road closure and a 20 minute detour. Getting home was a little worse, but only two spots of jam packed traffic.

My viewing site was in central Missouri so…