I have both a Grandmother and an Aunt (roughly the same age, pushing 90) who are both “Dolores.” They also both go by “Dee.”

It’s the founding plank of the current Republican platform:

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They’re identical except for colour...

My answer is going to differ from almost everyone. I think there is no legitimate civilian use for the damn things... except that the people who love them have come up with a very specific use designed specifically to make a military style rifle useful.

The NRA today is not the NRA it was then.

Americans look at firearms as rights that can be taken away.  Other countries look at firearms as responsibilities to be taught.   If you’re not competent to perform your responsibility, you don’t get to have a firearm.

I’ve got similar invitations from a few different places with similar problems. Deer and elk can be a problem here in those kinds of ways, but that’s all in built up areas where you essentially can’t hunt. It’s almost like they know!

Did it?  I’ve never been in one.

Hunting today is way different from when I hunted as a kid in the 70's in the Pacific Northwest. Back then your license was $25 and tags were $5 each (if I remember right) and the only other stuff I needed was stuff I already had or got from my Dad or Grandfathers. Fuel to drive up into the hills was the biggest cost…

...she’s just here to be our friend.  🍻

When you said you bought a rifle and a pistol, what did you buy? A .22 Ruger Mk iV Target or Hunter is a damn fine range pistol for target shooting and learning pistol. I can recommend it. (I have a Mk III that I love, which is basically the same thing.) You don’t have to go down the road of tacticool 9mm or .40 carry…

“Heeled” in context simply means openly carrying a pistol. I’m not sure where the term comes from. Maybe westerns? Something to do with cowboy boots?

You don’t know how many people I have heard tell the same story.  Harley dealerships actively discouraged Buell buyers.  It was part of Harley culture and continues to be, and it baffles me.  They’re more interested in selling chain-drive wallets and Harley boots than they are anything that doesn’t look like it was…

Oh good gods. I had a Speed Four. Impulse buy after test riding it. It got old incredibly fast. I wasn’t turned off by its looks (other than the orange paint which I wasn’t a fan of) but by the fact you couldn’t get any performance out of the thing unless you wrung it’s neck up to stratospheric RPMs. It was annoying…

Note that the Triumph Speed Triple was a far better bike than any Buell ever built. Buells were quirky, sure, but that quirkiness didn’t translate into performance. Also all those weird things Erik was doing had all been done 60-80 years previously, and were abandoned because they really weren’t good ideas.

Ha! I’m not opposed to the high-beam switch on a turn signal stalk, but way back in the day I had a German built Mercury Capri II. It had a button on the floor that operated the windshield wipers once. It was awesome. No fiddling with intermittent wipers to get it just right. It also had a rubber bulb under it so if…

One of my best friends is 6'6" with excessively long legs (He’s kinda weird looking.) When he was last looking for a new car back in 2004 or so we tried everything. Test drove everything you can think of. Oddly, the one that fit him the best was a Hyundai Santa Fe, although he took one on a 4 hour test drive to be…

I don’t think that’s likely. It’s been over a decade since I’ve spoken to him, and even then we weren’t friends. Just two members of a motorcycle group on opposite sides of the country. We had a forum where we’d discuss all sorts of things beyond our motorcycles, and that was one of them.