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Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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Post by jgbmlg »

etrautmann wrote: post #40
jakebasile wrote: post #19

I've found a few of these types of sites over time, and I find them pretty handy. This one gets added to the list! There's Handgun Hero [1] for comparing ... handgun sizes, which is super handy when window shopping for something new, to compare it to something I already have. There's Camera Size [2] which compares, you guessed it, cameras. Handy for the exact same reasons as the above. For a more technical comparison…

How often does someone need to buy new handguns?

Every time you throw one off a bridge.

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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Post by InitialLastName »

grecy wrote: post #125
recuter wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know where it started either, maybe originally it was Gun Acquisition Syndrome, ha. But I'd like to believe it all started right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7-5io1muSQ

N+1 is the number of you need. Bikes, snowboards, surfboards, guitars, etc

where N < the number where your spouse leaves you.

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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Post by User23 »

kube-system wrote: post #147
User23 wrote: post #131

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That's legal guns. Democrats own considerably more illegal guns than Republicans. Obviously self-reported data for illegal firearms is low quality.

Yeah, there's just tons of 922r compliance going on down at everyone's local range. And everyone's "solvent trap" keeps springing a leak right at the end, some how. /s

922r is basically just a buy American regulation that has the added bonus of letting ATF hassle people selectively. On the other hand, "solvent traps" remind me of wine bricks[1]. Both are obviously legal. Sure you could do illegal things with them, but you could do illegal things with a coke bottle too.

But what does this have to do with illegal guns as any ordinary person understands them? Maybe some Republican bubba's Benelli duck hunting gun is technically illegal because he put a mag extension on it without swapping out enough Italian made parts, but frankly you're grasping at irrelevancies.

Meanwhile, plenty of Democrats in Chicago own illegal sears for their Glocks along with drum mags[2]. Now that's something that maybe we should care about, because those are real criminals hurting real people and not just criminals on paper for violating frankly ridiculous regulations.

Edit: Added easily Google-able link for illegal sears in Chicago.

[1] https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/how-wine-bricks-saved-the-u-s...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2022/10/28/1131026241/chicago-handgun-vi...

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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Post by jgbmlg »

User23 wrote: post #130
gvurrdon wrote: post #126

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We do still have some handguns, such as single-shot flintlocks, muzzle-loading revolvers of 1850s design, and some modern handguns which have been extended with long barrels and counterweights to make them >= 60cm in length (IIRC). I think that these aren't very common at all compared with shortguns and rifles though. From what I've heard, when modern handguns were banned some shooters switched to modern reproduction…

> From what I've heard, when modern handguns were banned some shooters switched to modern reproductions of the mid-19th century models only to find that they didn't much like the cleaning (black powder makes a lot of mess), fiddling and slow loading that goes along with these guns. One cleans black powder firearms with regular old soap and water, which is really interesting to me. I hear some people even just put the…

Before the 19th Century, black powder was so incompletely combustible that firearms, despite allowing a huge amount of windage (the difference between the diameters of the barrel and the ball), would become too fouled to load after as few as 4 shots. That's why smoothbores were used long after the rifle was invented. During battles, soldiers peed down the barrel and used their ramrods to clean them.

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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Post by recuter »

InitialLastName wrote: post #152
grecy wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

N+1 is the number of you need. Bikes, snowboards, surfboards, guitars, etc

where N < the number where your spouse leaves you.

Spouses come and go. A limited edition PRS is forever. Besides it is probably going to end up a collectible and increase in value. Can't afford not to buy it really.

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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Post by InitialLastName »

recuter wrote: post #157
InitialLastName wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

where N < the number where your spouse leaves you.

Spouses come and go. A limited edition PRS is forever. Besides it is probably going to end up a collectible and increase in value. Can't afford not to buy it really.

Without another adult in the household, how can I reasonably justify needing a 2-car garage to store all my bikes?

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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Post by kube-system »

User23 wrote: post #154
kube-system wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, there's just tons of 922r compliance going on down at everyone's local range. And everyone's "solvent trap" keeps springing a leak right at the end, some how. /s

922r is basically just a buy American regulation that has the added bonus of letting ATF hassle people selectively. On the other hand, "solvent traps" remind me of wine bricks[1]. Both are obviously legal. Sure you could do illegal things with them, but you could do illegal things with a coke bottle too. But what does this have to do with illegal guns as any ordinary person understands them? Maybe some Republican bub…

There's a word for people who pick and choose which laws to follow: criminals. And I don't think there's too many duck guns subject to 922r.

> Meanwhile, plenty of Democrats in Chicago own illegal sears for their Glocks along with drum mags.

How do you know they're democrats?

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