Rob Boudrie

I just found a film of the disposal of the powder from the pulled bullets at A8/2004. Those guys get definite style points. http://www.toptonfga.org/Area_8/2003_Area_...ctory_Torch.MPG

If your club uses the on-line classifier submission system, you can track the progress from the instant the scores are uploaded (ie, see if they are "uploaded but not paid", "uploaded and awaiting next monthly update", etc. Go to www.uspsa.org and select "Addiitonal Content", then the "Classifier and match uploading" link. This status will not show the hit factor percent, just the hit factors, division, first name + last initial, etc. If you club is still submitting classifiers via paper report, ask "why?".

USPSA HQ sets asige ALL classifiers submitted by the end of the day on the 10th, and does the update as soon as they are processed - which is one of the reasons they generally are our a couple of days later. If classifiers are missing, it means one of three things: 1. They were submitted after the last "10th of the month" cutoff date 2. The club has not yet submitted them. 3. Error - wrong competitor number on reporting form, etc.

This usually happens when the staff is busy supporting the Nationals. I would expect to see them next week when everyone is back in the office.

Safety issues must not be compromised, however, I do not share the enthuiasm over perforared walls. Something seems to be "lost" if you're using a hallway which is transparent, or a "wall" which is meant to represent hard cover, or something which is solid in real life such as a building, is not solid. If all you are looking for is a skills testing exercise, the perforated walls work great. If you like flavor and atmosphere in your major matches, solid walls offer a defiinite improvement - the 2004 Area 7 Championship and AWARE Invitational (photos from each posted at www.uspsa-photos.org/gallery) Take a look at the second photo from the top on the entrance to the USPSA photo gallery and ask "would this stage be as cool with mesh walls?" Other things: 1. Running water or those pre-packaged moist towlettes by the porta rest rooms. 2. If you do not have flush toilets, rent an extra portable and designate it women only if you have the numbers to justify this - it will be appreciated. 3. Water on stages. 4. A clearly stated refund policy 5. Prompt results, and a well defined procedure for competitors to request correction/verificatoon of scores. 6. Local webserver and client machines at clubhouse with results posted several times a day. (Optional: Install DHCP, Bind and a wireless router so that competitors can bring their own laptops to check scores as the match progresses) 7. Staplers on ALL stages. If a target needs to be pulled, this will stop the stage from being slowed down. 8. Radios for all CROs. 9. A separate pair of radios on each stage, each "stage pair" tuned to a different frequency. If the rain gets really bad, the scorekeeper can stay under the shelter while the RO walks the range reading the scores into the radio. This will eliminate the range and stats room hassle of dealing with soggy paper. 10. An air conditioned staff lounge, with a generous supply of refreshments. 11. Spare batteries, pens and extra scoresheets on all stages

I made that point to demonstrate that it is not posisble for USPSA to simply go back to the "good old days" before Bill Ruger introduced the concept of a magazine capacity limit. The sunsetting helps many areas, but there is still one area championship which for all practical purposes cannot be held in free territory.

Currently, all made in the 1994-2004 ban period and bearing LEO only markings are legal (with the exception of a few states). If AWB II grandfathers "all currently legal magazines", it would cover those "LEO Only" marked mags from this decade - which would mean that new mags would need a "LEO Only II" marking or something similar. Also, all LEO Only mags in the supply chain which are already manufactured would be legal as well if grandfather was done in the same way it was at the time of the first ban. If the mags from 1994-2004 were not grandfathered under a new ban, it would be the first time the feds mandated surrender of small arms (even the GCA 1934 and the declaration the USAS12 and Streetsweeper were dd's contained a grandfathering provision for free registration). Hopefully, all these finer points will remain irrelevant curiosities.

Actually, it does in two of those states since the NJ limit is 15 and the MD limit is 20.

Glock will replace the lower on an exchange basis only, for a fee of about $145. Although they could legally sell frames, they choose not to do so. Under federal law, it is legal to replace a gun with another of the same model (even if the serial number changes) without an FFL, under the same provision which allows you to ship it directly to the dealer. Even so, most manufacturers err on the side of caution and require all new serial number transactions to go through an FFL. Glock *used* to be able to order replacement slides and barrels with serial numbers to match the existing one. This has been discontinued, and anyone getting a slide of a barrel must get a new number. Replacement slides, frames and barrels have a different serial number series than those used in original guns. Frames start with "G", slides with "S" and barrels with "L" (I think). The key differentiator is the number of letters before the numeric part of the serial number. A single letter is a replacement part, two letters is an early Glock; and current production uses three letters. This make it possible to tell the difference between a gun with a "replacement" part and a frankengun made of parts originally shipped as components of different guns.

There is an "Area Championship" impliciation to this. Area 7 consists of NY, CT, RI, MA, NH, VT and ME. Under the A7 rotation policy, NY has the first shot at A7/2005. Also, with the exception of GMPS in Northern Vermont, which I expect will be busy hosting the AWARE for some time to come, there are no clubs in A7 outside of NY and MA which have the combination of facilities and staff to make an Area Championship a realistic possibility. Under both MA and NY law, it is a unlawful to posess a magazine with > 10 round capacity manufactured after the start of the 1994 federal ban. Period. No "competitors exemption", no "visitors exemption", etc. I will make sure that the Area Championship information reminds shooters of this, as it would be irresponsible not to provide competitors with full information. So, for the forseeable future, we will have at least one area championship at which it is not legal to posess newly manufactured > 10 round magazines ("LEO Only" marked Glock mags for example). Rob

A number of years ago, Rochester NY passed a law limiting mags to 17 rounds. I'm not certain that is still in effect, however, that could be the source of the limit in that ad.

Or Massachusetts

What exactly are you suggesting that USPSA do? (that is a serious question - please answer) Simply removing LTD10 division and the production 10 round limit will cause a set of problems unrelated to any ban: 1. There will be no home for a 10 round 1911 to compete effectively (so we can't tell people with single stacks that all they need to do is buy a few Wilson or CMC 10 round mags) 2. All the Production shooters using Glock 23's, Glock 19's, Berettas, Sigmas, Sigs, Tuarus or other guns with a magazine capacity less than the 17 provuded by a Glock 17 will be SOL as their gun is now "non-competetive" 3. We will no longer be able to tell someone with a production gun taking less than 17 rounds that they have equipment which would be fully competetive in one of the divisions we offer. So, I am not convinced there is "something for USPSA to do" here. What am I missing? I do think that it would be a good idea for the USPSA board to stake out a formal position on this matter at the January 2005 board meeting so that people don't have to guess if we are about to make a change in response to the sunset.

Dave Thomas emailed me last night requesting the upload password for the US Handgun Nationals Results are so he could post daily results. I forwarded him the info, so I expect we will be seeing some interim results. Rob

Agreed and understood. But, it is my understanding that: 1. It is legal for a NY resident to buy pre "1994 ban" mags out of state and bring them in to NY. 2. It is legal for a NY dealer to obtain pre "1994 ban" mags out of state and bring them in to NY for retail sale. 3. It is NOT legal to bring post "1994 ban" mags into NY (with the usual LE angency exception) Please correct me if I am wrong. Rob

Ruger has a long history of voluntarily refusing to sell civilians equipment that the liberals did not like, even when it was perfectly legal for them to do so and such equipment (large mags, etc) was in their LEO product list. In fact, their official spokesman at the time stated that no honest man needs a mag greater than 10 rounds. So, I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for Ruger 30 round Mini14 mags to hit the market.

Such a ruling would be in preparation for a reinstatement of the ban at a future time. If the government accepts the premise that a marked "LEO-ONLY" mag is legal just because the law says it is, then it means these would remain legal under any future law which grandfathers all previously legal magazines ... thus having two "LEO ONLY" nomenclatures in the future - one which means something and one which does not.

It shouldn't be hard to figure which one if these is my dog: Four Seasons Gunshop Webpage

Once a pup is covered in a news story it is virtually assured of a home. It's the pups you don't read about that you need to be worried about.

I'm going to clip that and send it to the "Armed Citizen" column in American Handgunner.

There is with properly encrypted data

I have used the pnordhal tool, and it's great. It's actually a floppy bootable version of Linux which brings up a text based registry editor. I've never used any of the fancy features - just deleted the Administrator password and then rebooted - worked like the proverbial charm. The only time the tool failed me was in attempting to recover the admin password on a Dell 1650 which used a SCSI boot drive on an internal RAID controller - there was no driver for this in the Nordhal tool (it didn't hurt anything - just didn't help in that one case). Also, when setting up your system, it's generally a good idea to configuer more than one user id with administrator priviliges - that way you have a spare if you lose or mess up one of the passwords.

Secure payments are hosted on a separate service, so it is possible there was an isuse with that provider. I still don't know why a user had trouble accessing the main web site though.

The USPSA site has not had problems, however, there are occasional problems with the Domain Name System at various ISPs. If the name does not resolve, then you won't be able to find the site. To check the DNS: 1. Open a DOS command window (start -> programs -> run and enter "cmd" in the window. If you're on an older version of windows, you may need to enter "command" instead of "cmd". 2. Enter the command "nslookup www.uspsa.org". Vieryf that it resolves to 67.15.14.83 (if you see 67.15.14.83 in the output, you're in good shape) 3. Repeat step #2 with "uspsa.org". It should resolve to the same address If your DNS does not resolve, you need to either manually place an entry in your hosts table (stored in %systemroot%\windoes\drivers\etc\hosts) or have your ISP fix the DNS. If you manually edit hosts, you need to remember this as there is no guarantee we won't change the USPSA numeric IP some day. I'll look into on-line payment from home tonite - what problems were you having with that? There are a number of other sites on the same server as USPSA.org - www.sviguns.com, www.jprifles.com and www.boudrie.com come to mind. You can use those to verify the path to the server, but each non-working domain will still need to be indidivually "nslookup"ed. Rob

I was up over 200 days when we had a server at the now-defunct allvertical.com. I'm hoping for a year as well, and will have some real thinking to do when a kernel update or need to additional hardware imposes the need for a scheduled reboot.