What's in your arsenal??

[Point Break]

^ Unfortunately, I've been in them a few times.

Fascinating machine. How does that idea even come to mind?

Spinning magnets and picture taking.... WTF?

A few times….I wish. Got another one next month. Fortunately several of the providers around here have the coolest newest critters and the scanning time is significantly less. I don’t mind the tube etc….it’s laying perfectly still for long periods……that is a PIA. I had one a few years ago that was 1.5 hours. So the reduced scanning time makes them much less onerous.

 

[Liquid]

I had one a few years ago that was 1.5 hours.

The noise is somewhat rhythmic and I was able to tune out but I was only in for ankle and knee stuff.

But 1.5 hours....

 

[Liquid]

 

[Point Break]

The noise is somewhat rhythmic and I was able to tune out but I was only in for ankle and knee stuff.

But 1.5 hours....

Yep. I could care less about the confinement or noise but…..it’s SO hard to lay still for that long. Can’t go to sleep because I’d twitch or move a little so gotta stay awake….and immobile. 🙄

 

[Liquid]

Yeah.. no!

I sure hope the pictures were worth it!

 

[Virgulino Ferreira]

 

[Point Break]

Yeah.. no!

I sure hope the pictures were worth it!

Well, that particular one ruled out something super sucky so that was good news.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

I learned that there are 11 round magazines for my new .22. Those are considered naughty under the same House bill as the gun, so I'm going to have to get a couple.

 

[mad]

^ Unfortunately, I've been in them a few times.

Fascinating machine. How does that idea even come to mind?

Spinning magnets and picture taking.... WTF?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-lawyer-death-mri-gun-b2279514.html

A lawyer was accidentally shot by his own gun after he failed to remove it before going into hospital MRI scanning room.

Leandro Mathias de Novaes took his mother for a scan at Laboratorio Cura in São Paulo, Brazil, on 16 January, Jam Press reports.


The 40-year-old is said to have failed to tell hospital workers that he had a gun on him after being told to remove all metal objects before entering the scanning room.


The magnetic field from the MRI scanner pulled the pro-gun lawyer’s weapon from his waistband and it went off, shooting him in the tummy.

He passed away on 6 February after battling for his life in at the São Luiz Morumbi Hospital.

 

[mad]

The noise is somewhat rhythmic and I was able to tune out but I was only in for ankle and knee stuff.

But 1.5 hours....

45 minutes for a neck and spine scan, slept through the whole thing.

 

[mad]

To put a barrel shorter than 18 inches on a shotgun you have to file for a tax stamp to create a "short barreled shotgun".

I'll be honest I think it is complete crap that I have to ask permission from the ATF to do it, but I follow the law and paid $200.

24 inches is the minimum allowed in the UK, not sure I'd really want one below 18 inches though.

 

[chinabald]

Farm Girl Jen. She gets the most out of what she’s got. Not bad for 54.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

24 inches is the minimum allowed in the UK, not sure I'd really want one below 18 inches though.

An Alaskan mountain bike ride might change your mind.

 

[mad]

An Alaskan mountain bike ride might change your mind.

Apart from slightly easier to carry, whats the advantage of chopping off 6 inches of barrel?

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Apart from slightly easier to carry, whats the advantage of chopping off 6 inches of barrel?

It can then be mounted to the bike frame in a way that's accessible but won't snag on branches and vines.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

Tom,
? are you thinking about a suppressor for the new assault twenty two ?

, better than flowers ,

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Tom,
? are you thinking about a suppressor for the new assault twenty two ?

, better than flowers ,

Sounds scary. Kind of defeats the purpose of this one.

So, not that I would ever admit, no.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Apart from slightly easier to carry, whats the advantage of chopping off 6 inches of barrel?

The other, more historical reason would be that it's easier to swing around and point the opposite direction if that should suddenly become necessary in some godforsaken frozen trench in Europe. Hey, it's happened. So a potentially useful militia weapon.

Tom,
? are you thinking about a suppressor for the new assault twenty two ?

, better than flowers ,

I'm looking into non-scary bling but for those who DO have thoughts about suppressed .22 assault weapons,

Velocities of Subsonic & Suppressor Ready .22 Cartridges Fired in Pistols

...
As can be seen from the chart, all of the rounds tested were reliably subsonic from the pistols tested. While the speed of sound varies with temperature, even at 40 degrees below zero, the speed of sound is above 1000 fps. As the temperature rises, so does the speed of sound. At freezing, it is 1087 fps. At 70 degrees Fahrenheit, it is 1128 fps. At 100 degrees F, it is 1159 fps. Atmospheric pressure has little effect on the speed of sound. As relative humidity increases, there is a slight increase in the speed of sound, just a few fps. It is expected few shots will be fired from a suppressed .22 pistol at temperatures lower than 40 below zero.
...

Yes. Yes, that is expected. Because if it's 40 below, chances are no one is around to hear it. Or fire it.

Interesting that the slowest ones were also loudest.

 

[mad]

The other, more historical reason would be that it's easier to swing around and point the opposite direction if that should suddenly become necessary in some godforsaken frozen trench in Europe. Hey, it's happened. So a potentially useful militia weapon.

Very valid point

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Very valid point

Too bad no one showed up to make it in the only Supreme Court gun case of the 20th century.

In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a 'shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length' at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument.

The absence of evidence was because no one showed up to argue for the defense and the prosecutors certainly knew about trench brooms but weren't going to bring them up. Certain Justices also had reasons to know, but stuff they know isn't evidence.