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The insane part was that when Dick’s decided to stop selling ARs, they destroyed the ones they had in warehouses. They didn’t make money by running a close-out sale, they lost money paying for the guns to be destroyed.

Plus, they obviously already had paid for those ARs, which means the manufacturer(s) already had taken their profit on them. So if there was ever market for those guns, the manufacturer(s) would have got to sell the same guns a second time (only through a different retail outlet), making twice the profit but not diminishing their potential for future sales by increasing market saturation.

That’s some pricey virtue-signaling.

So not only did Dick’s lose money on the transaction AND drive away part of their customer base, they didn’t take a single AR off the streets.

The zig-zag reminds of the Webley-Fosbery automatic revolver...

... except it the Webley was zig-zaggier.

And back to my previous point, what kind of safety nazi (pun intended) puts a manual safety on a single-action revolver?

Funny how the world ignored the double-action (SA/DA) revolver for so long.

And Dynel wigs just lost their best customer.

Name for me one other person who built an amusement park in their home town just to provide work for their kith and kin.

...No one denies that the two bombs, dropped within three days, shocked the Imperial Japanese junta into conceding surrender on August 15....

I do. I deny it. The bombs didn't cause the military junta to surrender, the Emperor's radio message did.

Both the AP Style Guide and the Military & Veteran Affairs Reporting Guide prefer the specificity of “Air Force officer” over the less descriptive “airman.”

From the charter of the United Nations:

Article 2

The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles.

1. The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.

2. All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter.

3. All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.

4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.

5. All Members shall give the United Nations every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any state against which the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action.

6. The Organization shall ensure that states which are not Members of the United Nations act in accordance with these Principles so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of international peace and security.

7. Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter Vll.

Canada is a "state"

Canada is a state. It's just not one of the United States.

state noun (COUNTRY)

a country, especially as represented by its government:
* The three Baltic states - Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia - were formerly republics of the Soviet Union.

* member state The UK was one of the member states of the European Union until its departure in 2020.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/state

Author Chantelle Lee might be fluent in ebonics but her English skills are wanting.

Every aspect of helicopter operations — from purchase to cost per fight hour to maintenance and repair — costs 3-5 times what it would for a fixed wing of similar performance and capabilities.

Plus, the top speed of (non-compound) helicopters will forever be limited by something called “retreating blade stall.” It doesn’t matter how much horsepower you put in them, they just can’t go any faster (without bad stuff happening). The Westland Lynx is the only production helicopter that will do better than 200 mph. The world is full of turboprop airplanes that will do more than 300 mph, and many will do more than 400. The Tupolev Tu-95 ‘Bear’ has a top speed of over 500 mph.

Plus, there are only a few helicopters that have been equipped with anti-icing equipment, and as far as I know there’s never been a production helicopter certified for flight into known or forecast icing conditions. That alone should disqualify them from consideration for Pacific ocean-wide SAR.

Unless you have an absolute need for either vertical take-off or vertical landing or hovering, fixed wing is a better, cheaper solution.

"...The U.S. has extensive in flight refueling capability so range isn’t a valid criticism...."

Yes it is, because now you're committing two aircraft and two aircrews to a mission that a single a/c of proper capabilities could have performed.

If Duane “Keffe D” Davis has a “Go Fund Me” page, sign me up.

Edd Straw calls ‘Nando’s 9th place drive drive at Zandvoort the second best performance of the day. It was Aston Martins first points of the season.

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f1-2026-dutch-grand-prix-f1-driver-rankings-edd-straw/

There might be snow on the roof but there’s still fire in the furnace. It would be a hoot to see him score a podium before season’s end.

Senna’s NSX is for sale. It goes on auction in London on 31 Oct. Expected to bring £500,000 to £800,000, which seems low, considering the unbeatable provenance, but it does have 633,000km on the odo.

It’s not the one he was driving in the heel-and-toe master class (video link below) because it’s white and RHD. His was red and LHD, so it isn’t just a respray. And he was driving it at Suzuka, so I think the one in the video was a Honda demonstrator.

https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/features/car-culture/ayrton-senna-honda-nsx/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8By2AEsGAhU

Do you think Pluto is losing sleep over the demotion?

Felt recoil varies directly with firearm weight. A gun that weighs twice as much only recoils half as hard (and vice-versa). With the magazine half empty (half way between empty and full) the MP5 weighs about 3x the G23 in the same condition.

Plus the cyclic rate of the Glock switch is about 2x twice that of the HK, which means twice as many recoil impulses per second.

Plus the the HK is roller-operated (which softens the felt recoil) and the Glock is direct blowback (which does nothing to temper recoil).

Plus the G23 shoots the .40S&W, which has a stronger recoil impulse than the HK’s 9mm, which is neither here nor there because we’re not talking about cartridge differences.

Bottom line, twice the cyclic rate, 3x the felt recoil (per cartridge fired), and a harsher operating system makes the Glock switch a great toy for turning money into noise.

"There’s only one purpose for them: ...

Pure hyperbole.

Keith not only drove a Lincoln into a 2nd-story hotel swimming pool in Flint, Mi., (Roger Daltry confirmed he didn't witness the event but he saw the bill from the hotel for the wrecker that extracted it) he drove no fewer than two of his cars (one of his Rolls and his RHD 1939 Chrysler Wibledon, which had been property of the US Embassy in London during WWII) into the pond on his farm and got them stuck.

That's the Chrysler at far right. Ironically, it wasn't keith who totaled the Dino. He lent it to some bikers, and the rest went just like you'd expect.

"Doubtful. He was unhealthy looking even before the overdose. He was on his way out."

The star that burns twice as bright only burns half as long. Keith wasn't meant to last 80 years.

What an absolutely boring sprint race. A single overtake among the top 10 on the opening lap (before batteries were topped off), and a single overtake in the top 10 in the heat of battle.

Good thing they’re on synthetic fuel because it would have been criminal to waste dead dinosaurs on this.

I’ve been kvetching for years that the biggest problem with F1 is the lack of human drama, starting with the fact that the cars appear too composed. From the spectator’s viewpoint, and with the high survival shell, you can’t tell there’s anybody in the car. They might as well be slot cars. Now at last I’ve got what I asked for and the cars are squirmy again, but the battery nonsense is screwing things up.

They’re also putting a YUGE amount of driving talent to criminal waste.