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Dip Viscous
Sep 17, 2019

:psyduck:

The sharp corner of the lowermost step looks like a real fucker, too.

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AHH F/UGH
May 25, 2002

Why do you have a sign that says Popcorn House?

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013



Memento posted:

Buying tools in bulk when it's a 72-pack economy bucket of 10mm sockets is perfectly acceptable though.

And all of them will *still* fall into a dimensional portal before a month has passed.

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

Memento posted:

Can you not tell other posters what to do? Is that a thing you're capable of? Pull your loving head in, hey?

Khizan said the lower was the gun which had all the bits that fire the bullet. I was just pointing out all the bits in the upper that also do all of that, but are apparently not a gun, because The Law.

Oh man, wait until you find out that AR-15 lowers are also Not-a-Gun if you use a jig and a router to machine slots in a piece of metal, that just happens to be shaped exactly like an AR-15 lower besides those slots.

spookykid
Apr 28, 2006

I am an awkward fellow
after all

Elviscat posted:

Oh man, wait until you find out that AR-15 lowers are also Not-a-Gun if you use a jig and a router to machine slots in a piece of metal, that just happens to be shaped exactly like an AR-15 lower besides those slots.

You are still creating a firearm, and you have to mark and serialize it correctly. You can do it, but you have to maintain sole possession of it (no selling/giving away otherwise you fit the terms of illegal _manufacturer_), and you're still on the hook if you do it wrong and the ATF comes knocking.

spookykid fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Feb 1, 2021

BMan
Oct 31, 2015

KNIIIIIIFE
EEEEEYYYYE
ATTAAAACK


spookykid posted:

You are still creating a firearm, and you have to mark and serialize it correctly.

Not in most states!

spookykid
Apr 28, 2006

I am an awkward fellow
after all
https://www.atf.gov/qa-category/receiver-blanks

See the last item on that page. It's not a state-by-state thing, it's a federal mandate.

E: the BATFE has been cracking down hard on "80% Blanks" (the kind you only need a jig and drill press for) for about 2-3 years after people just got buck wild blatant with them (pilot holes, jigs with each sale, etc). It's really the same as people that were doing the "IM NOT TOUCHING YOU!" poo poo like the Q Honeybadger "forearm stabilizer for short barrel AR pistols" which was a loving sliding stock in all but name.

spookykid fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Feb 1, 2021

BMan
Oct 31, 2015

KNIIIIIIFE
EEEEEYYYYE
ATTAAAACK


spookykid posted:

https://www.atf.gov/qa-category/receiver-blanks

See the last item on that page. It's not a state-by-state thing, it's a federal mandate.

that's for actual licensed manufacturers

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

spookykid posted:

You are still creating a firearm, and you have to mark and serialize it correctly. You can do it, but you have to maintain sole possession of it (no selling/giving away otherwise you fit the terms of illegal _manufacturer_), and you're still on the hook if you do it wrong and the ATF comes knocking.

Yes, you're legally required to, that's very much not the point.

Lol:



(For those unaware, all you need to do is purchase a router or drill press, a jig, and a bit, to easily turn "not a firearm" into "yes a firearm," at which point you obviously register it with the ATF lolololol)

spookykid
Apr 28, 2006

I am an awkward fellow
after all
Like I said in the edit to my last post, the BATFE has basically said "enough, we're done here" to the manufacturers and distributors of this stuff, and they're coming down HARD on the most egregious.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

Speaking of guns and not safe for work, home made guns that doesn't require milling, or really any machine except maybe a drill: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sIhGCRIQnCA

Also has the bonus of being the most British thing ever, a man putting together a gun in his shed

spookykid
Apr 28, 2006

I am an awkward fellow
after all

Boiled Water posted:

Speaking of guns and not safe for work, home made guns that doesn't require milling, or really any machine except maybe a drill: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sIhGCRIQnCA

Also has the bonus of being the most British thing ever, a man putting together a gun in his shed

That's a pretty drat good book if you've never read it, as is the Army's Improvised Munitions Handbook, available on amazon or :filez: sources. Good at explaining the hows and whys of modern firearms. You can see both of their influences in the Chechnyan civil war improvised weapons and similar.

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

spookykid posted:

Like I said in the edit to my last post, the BATFE has basically said "enough, we're done here" to the manufacturers and distributors of this stuff, and they're coming down HARD on the most egregious.

there's been a crunch in the civilian sector too, its my understanding that automatic weapons matches are being scrutinized by insurance and are so limited that most agencies insist the machineguns be locked in a kind of chain or bracketed harness.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

spookykid posted:

That's a pretty drat good book if you've never read it, as is the Army's Improvised Munitions Handbook, available on amazon or :filez: sources. Good at explaining the hows and whys of modern firearms. You can see both of their influences in the Chechnyan civil war improvised weapons and similar.

The Little Book of OSHAs

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Sagebrush posted:

I completely agree that good tools make the work better and easier and are a joy to use.

However, it's also not realistic to expect to go out and buy the most expensive version of everything when you're first starting out. Or even if you know what you're doing, you don't have to buy the top of the line model for something you only expect to use a handful of times.

I always tell my students: if you're on a budget, get the cheap version of whatever it is you're looking for and use it without looking back. It'll probably be fine for at least a few years. If it breaks, that probably means you use it enough for the expensive version to be worthwhile. Go buy a nice one at that point.

This also applies to starter kits. Sure get the 320-in-1 socket set from Canadian Tire when you're new to working on machines. Some parts in it will break eventually or get lost. When they do, replace them individually with the nice versions. Gradually you'll build up a set of high quality versions of the things you use the most, without wasting money up front on a bunch of Craftsman 13/16 sockets that don't fit any bolt on the planet.

Yup I'm known among my friends for having some of the jankiest tools mixed with top dollar stuff. I subscribe to the idea of upgrading what you actually use with any frequency.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Elviscat posted:

Yes, you're legally required to, that's very much not the point.

Lol:



(For those unaware, all you need to do is purchase a router or drill press, a jig, and a bit, to easily turn "not a firearm" into "yes a firearm," at which point you obviously register it with the ATF lolololol)

do people do this poo poo for any gun other than AR-15s? or is it entirely tacticool militiaman look at me with my pretend M-16 bullshit

Softface
Feb 16, 2011

Some things can't be unseen
As an OSHA lurker and hater of gun chat I submit this

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

Sagebrush posted:

do people do this poo poo for any gun other than AR-15s? or is it entirely tacticool militiaman look at me with my pretend M-16 bullshit

If someone is really interested in making a rifle out of thin air, what makes you think they don't include the piece of coat hanger guage wire and tab of metal that takes it from pretend to full auto?

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Softface posted:

As an OSHA lurker and hater of gun chat I submit this



only the finest Federal Pacific breakers for this shower recess

spookykid
Apr 28, 2006

I am an awkward fellow
after all

Sagebrush posted:

do people do this poo poo for any gun other than AR-15s? or is it entirely tacticool militiaman look at me with my pretend M-16 bullshit

Sorta but not really with the level of weird semi-auto interchangeability?

Pistols see this some times, see the Thompson Center/Contender one of the few non-historical firearms that chambers dozens of rounds (provided you have the money to buy all the uppers), that can be converted back and forth between a rifle and a pistol and a myriad of calibers at will.

E: illegally? you can buy full auto AR and Mini-14 sears all day long on Wish.

And 10-22 sears, and Glock select-fire sears, and basically any other gun you'd want.

Don't do that, it's stupid, and people with pre-filled warrants are looking at that poo poo waiting for some other poo poo to pile that charge onto to make it stick.

spookykid fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Feb 1, 2021

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

Sagebrush posted:

do people do this poo poo for any gun other than AR-15s? or is it entirely tacticool militiaman look at me with my pretend M-16 bullshit

i've seen unfinished AKs in this form as well as glocks. If you can pay the necessary taxes* you can take an old deactivated machinegun and weld it back together.


here's a video of someone's STG-44 reweld, they explain its rare provenance and speak a little bit about how they managed to get the gun working again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-SkORwN-Ac


*e: it's a little more involved than just paying taxes but the rest is getting background checks, filing paperwork and waiting

Former DILF fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Feb 1, 2021

nishi koichi
Feb 16, 2007

everyone feels that way and gives up.
that's how they get away with it.

spookykid posted:

That's a pretty drat good book if you've never read it, as is the Army's Improvised Munitions Handbook, available on amazon or :filez: sources. Good at explaining the hows and whys of modern firearms. You can see both of their influences in the Chechnyan civil war improvised weapons and similar.

i’d buy this because i like hard copies over digital, but i feel like i’ll be put on some ultralist if i do :ohdear:

spookykid
Apr 28, 2006

I am an awkward fellow
after all
Here, have a Glock 23 being bought by Cash America (the largest corporate conglomeration of Pawn Shops in the USA) sold without the seller knowing they're breaking all the laws:



The seller and the buyer are each facing 20 years in federal because that little bit on back is illegal as gently caress.

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones

spookykid posted:

Here, have a Glock 23 being bought by Cash America (the largest corporate conglomeration of Pawn Shops in the USA) sold without the seller knowing they're breaking all the laws:



The seller and the buyer are each facing 20 years in federal because that little bit on back is illegal as gently caress.

:stare:

Arban
Aug 28, 2017

spookykid posted:

Here, have a Glock 23 being bought by Cash America (the largest corporate conglomeration of Pawn Shops in the USA) sold without the seller knowing they're breaking all the laws:



The seller and the buyer are each facing 20 years in federal because that little bit on back is illegal as gently caress.

Mind explaining the details to an ignorant scadinavian?

8one6
May 20, 2012

When in doubt, err on the side of Awesome!

Arban posted:

Mind explaining the details to an ignorant scadinavian?

The knob dynamically changes the caliber of the bullets inside, making them untracible.
(I don't actually know.)

spookykid
Apr 28, 2006

I am an awkward fellow
after all

Arban posted:

Mind explaining the details to an ignorant scadinavian?

Sooooooo... that little bit on the back with the button on it turns it from a "single pull of the trigger shoots 1 round" to "push the button, and hold the trigger down and it dumps an entire magazine at what you're pointing at"

That little bit switches it back and forth between semi-automatic, and push-button-receive-federal-automatic-weapons-violation-sentence.

spookykid
Apr 28, 2006

I am an awkward fellow
after all
Annnnnd you can buy that little bit of mechanical chicanery on Wish.com.

DO NOT DO THIS LITERALLY THE BATFE ARE WATCHING ALL OF THESE COMING INTO PLACES THAT AREN'T CHINA

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?
https://twitter.com/kittynouveau/status/1354665500471681024

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

spookykid posted:

Annnnnd you can buy that little bit of mechanical chicanery on Wish.com.

DO NOT DO THIS LITERALLY THE BATFE ARE WATCHING ALL OF THESE COMING INTO PLACES THAT AREN'T CHINA

When I worked at UPS we frequently saw crates of ammo and guns delivering to pseudonyms at motels.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/BVeMGy1.gifv

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Less concerned about the kids, more freaked out by the play in the steering wheel.

Sir_Lagsalot
May 6, 2007

Connection error

CommieGIR posted:

Less concerned about the kids, more freaked out by the play in the steering wheel.

quote:

Play allows children to use their creativity while developing their imagination, dexterity, and physical, cognitive, and emotional strength. Play is important to healthy brain development.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/1StSogU.mp4

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007


That's why you check if your brakes are in adjustment before you roll. Once the air lines disconnected the tandems should lock up on their own.

FogHelmut
Dec 18, 2003





mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
^^^
Watch out for the large boulder the size of a small boulder!

CommieGIR posted:

Less concerned about the kids, more freaked out by the play in the steering wheel.

Don't worry, it's not actually connected to anything.

BMan
Oct 31, 2015

KNIIIIIIFE
EEEEEYYYYE
ATTAAAACK



a large boulder the size of a small boulder

e: gently caress

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mostlygray
Nov 1, 2012

BURY ME AS I LIVED, A FREE MAN ON THE CLUTCH

CaptainSarcastic posted:

Yeah, I noticed that, too. All of her movements definitely suggest drunk and tired to me more than opiates, like the wobbly knees and what looks like balance issues. One thing opiate nodding tends to include is unawareness that they have nodded out. Like in the second video where the lady on the right just freezes and then resumes what she was doing like there was no interruption. The lady in the first video seems very aware she is nodding, and the accidental bonking herself with the sign looks more drunk than opiate stupor to me.

I'd agree as well. When you're really drunk, you get tippy but you don't lock up like you do on opiates. I've been that drunk at parties before back in college and you sway but you don't fall unless you're really far gone. You tend to lean on things. You still understand how bad you are, give yourself pep talks, try to stand straight, etc.

Heroin just makes you go out without warning. I've only known one person who OD'd on opiates in front of me. He was sitting at the table at a Perkins restaurant with us at 2AM. He had seemed totally fine, then his lips went blue and he went straight down. No warning. Just out and unresponsive. We were close to the hospital and they were able to bring him back fortunately.

He didn't have a consistent problem. He just did something really stupid. He never did it again..

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