Tommcat

apply that thinking to other topics though and i doubt you'd find many takers. limit the first amendment for ALL media because some of them have been caught lying? and we already have to get training here before getting a license. and in my informed opinion, it isnt good enough training.

something else that would help us get to some middle ground, and find some real soultions, would be if the media would stop flat out lying about guns to scare the uninformed people caught in the middle. i swear that every time i see a cnn story, it is flat out lies. there's just no need for it

i agree more than you can imagine, but look who we're talking about

i agree to a geat extent, the current generations as a whole are fucktards, but to punish EVERYONE in a generation and restrict their constitutional rights because of what others do, is wrong. my nephew is learning to be a "gun guy", and certainly deserves every right to do it the same way as i did and every generation before me. i think the fact that we dont bring kids up around guns anymore is ONE of the big problems. i was shooting when i was little, and learned a respect for guns early. now we have generations that would literally shit themselves if they knew i was in the room with them with a concealed carry piece. and that lack of familiarity with guns causes fear of them, which causes irrational responses to them

well, that part is only partially true. many of them are people that while they did technically pass a background check and "legally" purchase the weapon, they should not have been allowed to but did because the FBI background checks dont work as currently set up. i will be the first to admit that not everyone should have a gun and there absolutely should be a list of prohibited people.

that depends on your definition of "mass shooting" what qualifies as one was changed so that the could include all of the gang shootings in the statistics, while never actually mentioning them. if you are talking about the trued number of shooting involving more than 4 people, they are mostly gang violence and dont use rifles. which could be solved by actually enforcing existing laws, as i mentioned. if you are talking about the school shooting wackjobs, then yes, they do use some AR's, although the media likes to lie and use the term "AR style" now, so they can continue to push the agenda even when facts dont support it. my opinion, and what i personally see around here, is that the school shooting type, the mentally disturbed subway type, and just general wackjobs, all started about a generation after we shut down all of the mental institutions. when there were multiple state mental hospitals, these people didnt have access to guns or schools, now they roam around in public. the guns haver always been there, ARs have been available to the public since the mid 20th century, so what changed? the guns didnt, so where to you look next? the people. what exactly can be done about the people problem, i will be the first to admit i dont fully know. but the left needs to at least get to the point where they can admit that people could be the problem or we'll never move forward

they arrest them as often as possible, but i frustrates them for sure. i have friends on the force and the stories are unreal. it's bad enough that we have a gang task force here, staffed by FBI and state police. and they'll tell you flat out, people like me and their AR, are the very least of their concerns. we average about 25 murders a year here, none with a rifle of any kind, nevermind a scary weapon of war.

i will be honest, i did not see it. but, we already have high, "mandatory" sentences for these crimes, but our super liberal justice system CHOOSES not to enforce them on these people. here, when these guys get arrested for drugs and guns, our DA drops the gun charges in return for a guilty plea on the drug charges, in doing so, they accomplish several things. they artificially inflate their conviction rate on drug crime, and when you dont charge people with gun crime at all, the states gun crime rate goes down on paper, making our gun laws appear to be effective for the uninformed and dishonest.

well i'll give you facts, from the example i listed earlier from my city. we have plenty of shootings, stabbings and murders a year, so i can find plenty of example if these dont work but the 3 shootings from this week, were each with a stolen handgun, one with defaced serial numbers, what our media likes to call a "ghost gun" now. now AR's involved. all 3 shooters and their accomplices are repeat offenders with 2 of them being out on parole, right now, for violent gun crimes. you tell me where any additional laws would have helped here, if we arent even going to enforce the pile of felonies they are already guilty of.

well the government already does that on a regular basis, law abiding gun owner like myself are the ONLY ones that get punished for what others do. but, yes, i'd love to address the issue. i think you'd find most gun owners, if they felt they could be honest with you, would happily admit that there is a problem, and would love to discuss solutions. many of them are easy to do and seem like no brainers too. the problem is that the other side cant have an intelligent, fact based discussion without bringing emotions into it, and it always turns into a name calling shit show. i've tried having these discussions, but it always devolves into people saying i just want children to die, or something along those lines, and at that point you just have to accept that these people are not capable of having the debate that we need.

these days, reliable and news are not 2 words that go together. so if i'm looking for somewhat accurate facts on a topic like this, i'll grab them from the FBI database or other similar sources. for real world data, i go by what i see around me every day. 3 shootings in my city this week alone, so i have plenty of available real world examples unfortunately

well, one of the last places i would go to for accurate, non biased news about guns, in the US, is the BBC...or anyone in britain for that matter.

wow, that was a LOT of nonsense

my business partner here has one, an XTX. it is actually a pretty good trail sled, handles great and rails the trails. but, that's after a TON of work over the years to get it there. also, we supercharged it. the shorty versions handle like shit in comparison to his 144 though, in my experience

Ask him how his clutch kits performed at both back lake races this year, the ones he always brags about.

traction is my biggest issue

Maine. I dont ride in mass

i've done them both ways, on my 2013 when i did it, i used extensions on the 129 rails. my newer 2016 turbo though is a factory 137. that may turn into a 144 for next season though since 137 still doesnt hook.

having actually switched my own sled from a 129 to 137 mid season, so i know exactly what the differences were, i would never go shorter than a 136/137 for the trail. it was better in EVERY single aspect. and honestly, i wish i had gone 144, and may be doing that over the summer

I doubt it. I'll probably be shooting shows while that's going on

I went with this one. https://www.amazon.com/ZHIBANG-Intelligent-Parking-Heater，Diesel-Suitable/dp/B0B7N54XHW/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=3OQ4ND3HLOHX5&keywords=chinese+diesel+heater+8k&qid=1680393470&sprefix=chinese+diesel+heater+8k%2Caps%2C157&sr=8-4

I ended up going with one of the cheap "chinese diesel heaters" from amazon. Installed it today and all i can say is i wish i had put one in the old trailer years ago. Im impressed

No, but it gets caught in the clutches

we just picked up a new shop trailer, a little bigger to make it easier to work out of. i'd like to add heat and was wondering what people have found for heaters that work well. i'm open to electric or externally vented gas units. i want a permanent mounted unit, not a portable space heater

That's why i choose to work for a massive national company instead of doing it on my own. I let them worry athat bullshit and just do the cool part.