The firearm thread

[Mr Merde]

Hence me wanting "Scenario B":

A hacker hits TM (already been done)
Takes the database and all the Firearms certificate numbers.
Matches addresses up to FAC numbers and names.
Passes them to privacy commission and says, "fucking good thing I didn't give this to the career crims, eh. You happy that those monkeys have access to this sort of info on our citizens?"
privacy commission finds the information gathering a breach of the law and plants a "cease and desist" on Tardme management.

But as a responsible member of the IT community and a firearms livcence owner of good standing I couldnt possibly condone someone breaking the law to prove a point.


TUI

[Wolf]

Dont forget the female polititian in Australia who tried to have Side by side shotguns banned because the second barrel was

"automatically ready to fire"

Dont laugh, she was serious.

she's a politican and a dingo-fucker - two strong indicators that her IQ is lucky to make it to two digits...

[Mr Merde]

You have all gone quiet.

I hope you all have gone to the NSA site are reading through it, going to its forum and having a good peruse then filling in the membership document.

We need more shooters to stand up.

[jono035]

You have all gone quiet.

I hope you all have gone to the NSA site are reading through it, going to its forum and having a good peruse then filling in the membership document.

We need more shooters to stand up.

Don't look at me, I joined right after you did.

I'm just busy bashing my head against my desk trying to use an electromagnetic simulation package that doesn't want to cooperate...

Edit: Had a chat to a couple of the guys in Serious Shooters about the NSA cause etc. and they seemed moderately interested. Told them to check out the website and suggested that supporting the cause would buy them a lot of goodwill from the members I knew lol

[Mr Merde]

Don't look at me, I joined right after you did.

I'm just busy bashing my head against my desk trying to use an electromagnetic simulation package that doesn't want to cooperate...

Have you threatened it with a "gentle tool of persuassion"

Namely hit it with a 25lb lump hammer.

Always works with my servers.

As to the NSA. Good on you. Do you use the forums? if so whats your name there?

[ManDownUnder]

Have you threatened it with a "gentle tool of persuassion"

Namely hit it with a 25lb lump hammer.

... aaa yes - ye olde "technical tap".

[jono035]

Have you threatened it with a "gentle tool of persuassion"

Namely hit it with a 25lb lump hammer.

Always works with my servers.

As to the NSA. Good on you. Do you use the forums? if so whats your name there?

I've been perusing the forums whenever new info on the court case has been posted but haven't really been posting or anything... Jono is the username.

Bashing the crap out of it would work well for cheering me up but not much else really... This software is well known for eating postgrad students lives...

[Drunken Monkey]

Well I finally did it, got of my indecisive bum and splashed out (well hardly, they're so _cheap_ at the moment) on one of those Norinco M-14 copies. Can't use it this weekend unfortunately, but will give it a bit of a run around soon hopefully.

If I like it lots I'll put my old Parker Hale .243 bolt action up for grabs if anyone is interested.

[sAsLEX]

2k dosent = plinking :O

Fuck really! I have spent lots more than that so far!

You'd have to ask someone who was more familiar with the ergonomic science behind it all, I'd only be speculating really.

They look scary. That is the reason. There is no ergonomic advantage with a hole in the stock vs other design.

Navy guys aye. Say that to a few back from their tour in Afghanistan...

Yeah I have heard they are weird......

Just a shame that Afghanistan will be wrapping up under the current plan before I get my chance to go!

[wbks]

Fuck really! I have spent lots more than that so far!



They look scary. That is the reason. There is no ergonomic advantage with a hole in the stock vs other design.



Yeah I have heard they are weird......

Just a shame that Afghanistan will be wrapping up under the current plan before I get my chance to go!

I seriously doubt it will be over before either of us are old and going gray. Chance to go with who?

[jono035]

They look scary. That is the reason. There is no ergonomic advantage with a hole in the stock vs other design.

I don't know about that. There was a very definite turn at some point towards free-standing pistol grips for military rifles so I would expect that has been determined as being 'better'...

As for applying that terminology to dragunov stocks etc. then it's pretty BS, but a proper completely free standing pistol grip stock on an AR15 does nothing but look scary? I dunno...

[sAsLEX]

I seriously doubt it will be over before either of us are old and going gray. Chance to go with who?

The PRT will be gradually wound down and the SAS troops will stay in Afghanistan for 18 months.

Well I am going grey already.

[wbks]

I don't know about that. There was a very definite turn at some point towards free-standing pistol grips for military rifles so I would expect that has been determined as being 'better'...

As for applying that terminology to dragunov stocks etc. then it's pretty BS, but a proper completely free standing pistol grip stock on an AR15 does nothing but look scary? I dunno...

Maybe they're just doing it do appear to be doing something.

[wbks]

Well I am going grey already.

Oh, you're army. Currently? Maybe time to think about RMC? Might be a little more dangerous than provincial reconstruction, though...

[sAsLEX]

I don't know about that. There was a very definite turn at some point towards free-standing pistol grips for military rifles so I would expect that has been determined as being 'better'...

As for applying that terminology to dragunov stocks etc. then it's pretty BS, but a proper completely free standing pistol grip stock on an AR15 does nothing but look scary? I dunno...

Well look military is maybe a better term.

The move from wood to metal and polymers for stocks, and the modularity of modern assault rifles has led to stocks and grips that attach to and hang off receivers etc

Also the moving of the receiver rearwards in a lot of bull pup designs means the hand has to sit below the receiver instead of behind.