Rob Boudrie

Is any explanation as to the reason for this policy change not required by law being offered?

I remember asking Dillon how to remove a stuck primer from a pickup tube years ago. They insisted that I should not even attempt to remove it, and sent out a new tube.

Paypal and Ebay do not have to worry about contingency fee counsel expecting a multi millinon dollary payoff because someone saw their ad on Shooting USA. They most certainly do have to worry about litigation if they are involved with a gun transaction in any way. Just look at the sniper case - the shop that sold the gun was not accused of any wrongdoing, but declared victory when they had to pay only $500,000 as their settlement for being the source of the AR. Corporate lawyers are paid to be chicken - they may have felt the litigation risk was not worth the small increase in their profits from handling this gun merchandise.

No, it's printed grip tape (the factory gets grip tape in various colors and patterns, so you can change you mind if you want another color scheme later).

I received the following email from the member in Afghanistan arrived today, and I have obtained his permission to post it here, since it offers some valuable insight into the dedication of those who serve the cause of freedom. Rob, TSgt Greg Grutter (A 29384) here writing from Afghanistan. I have been away from area 7 now for just over 17 months and I am not sure when I will be getting back. If all goes well I think I will be heading home in February or March. What I really want to do is first say thank you to all the shooters in area 7 that have given there support in anyway! I just received a stack of phone cards so I can call home more! But from cleaning gear to phone cards to shooting DVD's. They are the best and man you guys look great! The area 7 shooters are the best! I really can't say thank you enough! I really miss shooting with all of you and I hope to get back soon. This shooter is ready! From my end of the war: [...unit info deleted on suggestion of a vet...easiest to err on the side of caution...] On 6 Oct of last year I was hit by an SVBIED that was targeting a different convoy. I was outside and in the open when the blast and over pressure blew me across a driveway and dumped me on my head. I was medevaced two or so weeks later as I was having a great deal of pain. My C6 and C5 are out of wack and I have metal in my right eye for sure and maybe in both. I had to fight with everyone in the hospital in Germany to come back to Afghanistan and finish my tour. I will get more work done when I am done with all this. I am fine, some pain and my right arm from mid neck to my trigger/ring finger. They are numb and pins and needles. Like when your hand falls asleep. I can still shoot and everything, just can't feel much. They say I need to get cut on and they can fix it. We will see. The worst part is my Purple Heart, no one wants to give it to me. They all say I should get one just no one wants to do the work. So I have to fix that as well. I was hit again early this month but there timing was off and it just took some paint off my ride. On 20 March of this year I was in a hour plus long fire fight with the enemy. It was a wicked battle and we were ambushed 2 times and almost a third. We did a lot of fighting. I called in and marked targets for air strikes but was only able to get NATO birds so no bombs were dropped as I was not able to talk to the pilots. After the battle and days later I did talk to the pilots face to face and said we were knee deep in bad guys but seemed to be getting the better of them. Myself along with some Afghan police kicked there ass and not only out shot them but were able to out think them and keep a number of people alive. For my actions that days I have been put in for a Silver Star. Now I will have to see if I get it or it gets down graded. I just think its cool that I was put in and the people with me think my actions that day warranted it. I ran back and forth through the kill zone a number of times to get my job done. Heavy fire and RPG's filled the air and the funny thing is it was not as hard as some of the stages we shoot at Harvard. Sad to say but most D class shooters can move and shoot better then a good number of military guys. The training needs to be better and we could keep more men and women alive. No amount of cool guy gear matters if you can't shoot and move. I have been carrying a Beretta M9 with 20 round Mec Gar magazines with bunner grips and grip tape. I have had no issues with the weapon or 9mm ammo. Just need to keep shooting until the bad guy knows he is done. It would be great to have some 147+p sub sonic hp stuff…… The pistol like all others here works fine if you keep it clean. But as shooters we know that….so why does the military have a number of people that don't…… I had an H&K 416 for a while…..I will just tell you what I know to be true from this end of the war with a piston gun…. Sorry you still have to clean it! Where you clean is not the same but the hot gas and crud still goes some where. Yes the bolt stays cool but man o man the front sight and forward end of the rails get super hot after a number of rounds. Plus its heavy. If you have anytime on the H&K sights then you like them. If you grew up on AR-15 stuff you hate them. I had an aimpoint comp3 on it with a AN/PVS14 to see the bad guys at night. We have AV/PVS 18 and UNS. But the 14 and the aimpoint worked well and together even better. But its gone now……why you ask…. With the H&K rail you can only use an H&K 40mm grenade launcher. I don't like it. Its does have a cool side open loading port so you can use all the long stuff as well. But anything more then that…well not good. So I went back to my M4A1, no burst full auto. It also has a heavier barrel with Knights 3 sided rail and the Colt M203 grenade launcher under. I still have my comp3 and AV/PVS14. Weight is about the same as the H&K…… My gun works and runs well. Cause I keep it clean. Yes full time job. SO thanks again for all the cleaning supplies you all have sent. *** Lube - I have done a number of test as I call them. Clean the gun Marine Corps clean and tried a different lube. Some work well and some well just don't work. I think its great if you gun can shoot 10,000 rds and no stop or break. But I don't carry but 11 mags. SO it has to work for all 11 and maybe a few more. So what works all the time Mil-Tec and TW-25! I only use the two of them on our machine guns, M249 para saw, M240B medium machine gun (308cal/7.62), M2 50 cal and the MK19 40mm grenade machine. The TW-25 seemed to work better then the mil-tec. But again we clean our weapons all the time. I also have a few SOCOM M-14's with the shorter barrels. The work with both and I have not have an issue at all. Just we never have enough match ammo. The bad guys hate that gun and man it hits hard down range. But all in all life he is good! I miss home and the wife and kids. I really miss the weekend shoots and the area ones as well. I will look to see you all on the range again soon. If anyone has an question please write as I would love to talk about gear and training and what I know to be true. Please have a great holiday season and may your God bless you all Your friend TSgt Greg "CRUZ" Grutter [...unit info deleted...] Afghanistan "UNTIL AFGHANISTAN IS FREE" l

There are two Bomar like sites on the market that I know of - the Champion (Keng, not Yang) and SVI/Infinity (nicer, but at a higher price point).

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Yup, since cloning at this point involves implanting the DNA into a donor egg and gestating in utero. Once they get to the point of birthing tanks, the navel may go away. Yeah, that's the ticket - drop off the DNA at the gestation center and pick you kid up 9 months later (or maybe a couple of years later, if you send the infant to be pre-trained before you take possession, like Biden is doing with his new puppy).

I will be handling the registrations, however, Pete Goloski and his team will be establishing the squadding policy - which I suspect will be first come, first serve. I don't know if there will be dedicated "super squads" - one of many things Pete has to figure out It may still be important to get your registrations in quickly once they are available. Once registrations are open, confirmation letters will be send out within one week of receipt of the registration (usually sooner).

You need to be careful - if you think the competitor hit the ground with the muzzle of the gun, stop the shooter, check the bore for obstructions and grant a reshoot if there is no obstruction (if there is an obstruction, the shooter should thank you for stopping him).

Absolutely as long as the person was a member when they died. Send the details to val@uspsa.org with a cc to dave@uspsa.org, and they will make it happen. Photos should be jpg or gif, and already properly sized for display.

Dennis - I know what *YOU* were asking and, if your message had been an email or private communication, would have stuck to the question asked. BUT.... this is a public forum frequented by our members and a post such as yours will raise two obvious questions in the minds of many of our members visiting this forum - specifically, "what happened" and "were our members involved". It was those other readers, and not yourself, to whom I directed the additional info. As to results .... I personally consider three weeks excessive (I'd even consider anything over a week excessive), especially since the internet means there is no "delivery delay". The clubs out here in the eastern parts tend to have results out within a few days (in many cases, the same day as the match). What did the club president say when you asked about his policy on the timeframe for match results?

I spoke with Judith a few weeks ago, and she did not have any news to report at the time. The terrible incident was the death of an 8 year old shooting a Micro-Uzi at a machine gun exhibition/shoot held at the club and run by a company owned by a small town police chief in MA. Neither Judith, nor any other members of here USPSA group at Westfield, were not involved in any aspect of running that event.

There would be a great market for a GPS that could download updates of this info, and sound a warning when a car approaches one of these cameras.

Beryllium-copper pipe wrenches start at $147 for an 8" model (http://www.labsafety.com/search/non-sparking/29910/), and you can get some wrenches for as little as $45.80 (http://www.labsafety.com/search/non-sparking/20040/). Some are *way* more expensive. Some of the early para Ordnance wide body 1911's were made of a beryllium-copper alloy, however, I don't think these were ever released to the public.

There is only one area where I can objectively state that the Cunningham program is superior - speed. Other details are a matter of personal preference. The IIIxe is fine for USPSS, but you need at least a m500 for StageScore. The two programs use the same transfer file format to/from EzWinScore, however, they have a substantially different user interface. USPSS takes you through a full screen for each target whereas StageScore uses a "simulated scoresheet" layout. One interesting bit of trivia is that Rod Cassidy had the trial version of USPSS but decided he wanted to write his own before he used it, so he never ran Cunningham's program (since he did not want to copy the design). Approval was restricted to Level I at this time since USPSA does not run a software testing service, and is not in a position to speak to the qualify of this software. Approval at Level II and III matches will be considered once a track record develops. Peter Cunningham just sent me a new version of his program which has improved handling of disappearing targets and fixed time stages (requiring that every no penalty M be entered to decrease the chance of a data entry error). I plan on continuing with USPSS for my use, and expect it will also be the choice at the next nationals.

I recently added an obituary service to the USPSA web site, and just obtained permission from Dave Thomas to refer people wishing to have obits listed to HQ. This feature of the USPSA web site allows an obit for a member to be added as a permanent part of their classification record. Unfortunately, I had an opportunity to use this feature very soon after it's completion when one of the people I used to shoot with and build stages with left the range (Chris Tikonoff - A47620 - look up his classification to see how this feature works). Rob

This report was issued back in April, 1998. You can find the full report here: http://www.atf.treas.gov/pub/treas_pub/ass...ifles/index.htm And yes, it was a product of the Clintonistas - which just saves Obama's people the inconvenience of a re-write.

Anyone have a contact at SKB that can convince them to offer a non-TSA latch on their cases? I tried and all I could get was an email back telling me how useful and convenient such locks are.

Here in MA the only off limit place is schools. No bar ban, public gathering ban, no binding signage bans, no public building bans (though courthouses and the statehouse have metal detectors, but generally offer a gun checking service). The downside is that the local chief of police has nearly unlimited discretion as to whom can carry (the courts have held that a chief can revoke all handgun ownership rights for a citizen because he exercised his right to remain silent when questioned by the police). The trend is that states with recent non-discretionary laws have a longer list of banned places than states with either very old carry laws, or discretionary laws designed to allow only a privileged class of people carry. The older laws were not passed in a climate of opposition (since, way back when, any "carry permit law" was actually adding a restriction on what people could do, not lessening restrictions). The GA airport case was interesting - the court refused to rule the airport was not a "public gathering" not because of what a public gathering is, but because of the conclusion that would validate the right to carry in the non-sterile section of the Atlanta airport.

Is that one of the FBI MP5/10s? I noticed the two round burst logo, and remember the FBI made a huge buy of these in 10mm.

The program Brian is using is "apf", "Advanced Policy Firewall" - Loads of information on this Linux package may be found via google. Blocking via .htaccess works within the Apache web server; APF catches the traffic before it gets to the web server and places less of a load on your system. APF can also be configrued to automagically get data from blacklisting services, so that the biggest offenders often get added to your block list automatically. As Brian mentioned, APF is at the server, not the hosted website, level - so it is not an easy on a shared system you do not administer.

Get your buddies together, volunteer to tun a stage, and convince the match director to let you chrono people when they are in your pit. Don't pre-announce that you will be doing this. Have fun.

Checked luggage to the Syracuse, NY airport.

The club has reserved August 2-9 as match dates, and these have been approved by the USPSA President. I don't expect the match will actually run 7 days and, since the 8th and 9th the only weekends days in that range, I think it's a safe bet those will be shooting days.