The view from Ferndale in Northern California. Not very visible with the naked eye. After having seen them in Alaska, I was hoping my wife would get to see them. #NorthernLights#aurora
"A small switch that can be bought for as little as $20 or even 3D printed at home can convert one of the most popular handguns in America into a weapon with machine gun-like power, capable of firing up to 1,200 rounds per minute. And while the handgun modification uniquely affects Glock pistols, the manufacturer has done nothing to stop it, the city of Chicago alleged in a new lawsuit against Glock Inc."
@marynelson8 I’m just wondering, and the article didn’t answer, is how do you load 1200 rounds in a handgun? I’m in favor of gun laws, but I’m even more in favor of accurate reporting. The switch might make it able to empty the gun by holding down the trigger, but it’s going to need more than that to allow a pistol to shoot 1200 rounds a minute. First off, the pistol would get so hot, if it didn’t melt, it would certainly be too hot to grip.
@Wen@marynelson8 The article didn't list it as a firing rate though, and that was my point. It's very misleading to say that a pistol can be turned into a machine gun, when in reality it turns a semi-automatic gun into a fully automatic gun. But it's hardly a "machine gun" and comparing it to Al Capone's weapon as the article did is terrible journalism.
Doing some research, it looks like a semi-automatic can shoot 1000 rounds a minute and fully automatic is at 1200/m
Not a huge difference. To empty a 17 round magazine on semi would take 1 second and on auto it would be .85 seconds.
The problem is the stock Glock, not the little part people are adding.
For those who don’t know the context, there’s a Trump video going around where he says if he doesn’t get elected there’s going to be “a bloodbath.” Omitted was the fact that he was talking about some fantasy of China slaughtering our auto industry without him to save it. Bullshit doesn’t help us.
Looking like I’m going to have to bail on my current web hosting service because they renew at too steep a price than I can afford for a little blog site and two domains.
I keep seeing HostGator, inmotion and DreamHost show up as well-rated sites with really affordable (introduction) packages.
Does anyone have any experience with any of those services? Good/bad/ugly?
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