Office Weapons

[Doramius]

Damn ...Doramius. If I had known you when I was ten, you would have been my best friend

Cool 8)

I had a lot of best friends at 10. Most now are strong members of the NRA and awaiting the future LEGAL sales of assault weapons.

[Capmaster]

Damn ...Doramius. If I had known you when I was ten, you would have been my best friend

Cool 8)

I had a lot of best friends at 10. Most now are strong members of the NRA and awaiting the future LEGAL sales of assault weapons.

Well, I'm assuming you were raised in the Las Vegas area. Nevada is not exactly what you'd call ....a haven for the left-leaning

In the early sixties, where else in the world could you enjoy a nice Sunday barbecue with football and beer, then as the sun was setting ...or rising, as the case may be, sit on your lawn chair and look to the northwest and see a mushroom cloud forming over Frenchman's Flats or Mercury Test Site. <In convincing Tim Taylor grunt "OOHHHH OOOHHH YAAAHHHH!!>

[Doramius]

You've forgotten already that I'm origianlly from upstate NY. There's the Ginna Nuclear Plant and it's all backwoods for hunters. Also has some abandoned military posts, too, which are excellent areas for testing firearms.

[Capmaster]

You've forgotten already that I'm origianlly from upstate NY. There's the Ginna Nuclear Plant and it's all backwoods for hunters. Also has some abandoned military posts, too, which are excellent areas for testing firearms.

Sorry I forgot Doramius. Hard to keep all the personal stats separate for everyone here

At one time my best buddy at work was a guy nicknamed "skeet". Then he got promoted and became a dick. He was from Norwich.

He used to talk about all the snow they'd get there and it amazed me. And he didn't even live in the highest snowfall spot, which I think is Buffalo because of lake-effect snow, IMSC.

[bazooka]

. Then he got promoted and became a dick.

Unfortunately, that is the danger with making friends out of coworkers.

[Doramius]

Buffalo gets laid out pretty bad, but that's because they get the brunt of 2 of the great lakes. Anything right up against the great lakes gets pummeled with snow. Why do you think they automatically factor in 2-3 weeks of snow days into every school year there. If you're out of school for a total of three weeks you don't get the time added on to the end of the year like they do here out west. That's just wrong. My parents live around Palmyra (Pal-MY-Rah). They get it heavy often, but Rochester and Sodus get nailed like a gay orgy on too many Viagra.

[Capmaster]

. Then he got promoted and became a dick.

Unfortunately, that is the danger with making friends out of coworkers.

Sad. I first met him when he was a custodian in the building where I had my lab. He'd come around and show interest in what I was doing. I was working on some B53 issues and he showed genuine interest.

Eventually a manager noticed and gave him a break, transferring him over as a "Staff Assistant", making him salaried, and able to take advantage of Sandia's free tuition and flexible scheduling for students. THey have a program where you work 20 hours a week, go to school full time (12 or more credits), and get paid for 40 hours, free tuition, and any hours you want to work to make the 20, plus the 192 hours vacation and all the benefits a regular employee gets - medical, dental, vision, retirement pension, 2/3 matching 401K, etc.

So he goes to school and gets his BSEE. Enough to get his foot in the door, with an administrative exception being made, to be reclassified as a "Member of Technical Staff", the title I have now. Normally you need a minimum of a Master's or a fudd to get in that ladder, but he was ambitious and promised to work on his advanced degree, so they gave him a break, and a $32,000/year raise (in addition to his $40K salary) to get him into the bottom of the salary band.

I had stayed friends with him during this transition, helping him with remodeling with his house, socializing with him, etc. We were pretty tight. After he got promoted, we were even office mates for a while.

Then he gets this uppity yuppie attitude, starts making new friends, forgets his old buds, and starts hanging with the "country club" types. He completely forgot those who had helped him, given him moral support, hung with him. I guess he forgot all those days as a new employee, sweeping up my lab and dreaming of some day getting the golden ring. I liked him better then :P

[Doramius]

. Then he got promoted and became a dick.

Unfortunately, that is the danger with making friends out of coworkers.

Sad. I first met him when he was a custodian in the building where I had my lab. He'd come around and show interest in what I was doing. I was working on some B53 issues and he showed genuine interest.

Eventually a manager noticed and gave him a break, transferring him over as a "Staff Assistant", making him salaried, and able to take advantage of Sandia's free tuition and flexible scheduling for students. THey have a program where you work 20 hours a week, go to school full time (12 or more credits), and get paid for 40 hours, free tuition, and any hours you want to work to make the 20, plus the 192 hours vacation and all the benefits a regular employee gets - medical, dental, vision, retirement pension, 2/3 matching 401K, etc.

So he goes to school and gets his BSEE. Enough to get his foot in the door, with an administrative exception being made, to be reclassified as a "Member of Technical Staff", the title I have now. Normally you need a minimum of a Master's or a fudd to get in that ladder, but he was ambitious and promised to work on his advanced degree, so they gave him a break, and a $32,000/year raise (in addition to his $40K salary) to get him into the bottom of the salary band.

I had stayed friends with him during this transition, helping him with remodeling with his house, socializing with him, etc. We were pretty tight. After he got promoted, we were even office mates for a while.

Then he gets this uppity yuppie attitude, starts making new friends, forgets his old buds, and starts hanging with the "country club" types. He completely forgot those who had helped him, given him moral support, hung with him. I guess he forgot all those days as a new employee, sweeping up my lab and dreaming of some day getting the golden ring. I liked him better then :P

I did too, man. I did too. I'm right with you there brotha! :P

[northcat_8]

Damn ...Doramius. If I had known you when I was ten, you would have been my best friend

Cool 8)

I had a lot of best friends at 10. Most now are strong members of the NRA and awaiting the future LEGAL sales of assault weapons.

Legal shmegal. What difference does it make? If they are legally sold, then they would be registered, as things are now, none are registered. Who buys a gun from a gun store anyway?? oh...wait.. ..um....I do

[bazooka]

Damn ...Doramius. If I had known you when I was ten, you would have been my best friend

Cool 8)

I had a lot of best friends at 10. Most now are strong members of the NRA and awaiting the future LEGAL sales of assault weapons.

Legal shmegal. What difference does it make? If they are legally sold, then they would be registered, as things are now, none are registered. Who buys a gun from a gun store anyway?? oh...wait.. ..um....I do

That is the way around the system right now. Do not register it.

[northcat_8]

Register them why? So the US government can lose their mind and come to my house and take them to destroy them like the Austrailain government did??

Northcat thinks "not".

[Doramius]

My friend can now legally remove the plastic piece that makes his Semi-auto guns FULL-auto. He showed me once and all it does is drop the trigger back farther. You set it to Semi-auto and it fires pretty rapidly. Don't remember the model it was though. His father got it in Korea.

[Capmaster]

I've filed down a disconnector or two in my day

[offline]

Register them why? So the US government can lose their mind and come to my house and take them to destroy them like the Austrailain government did??

Northcat thinks "not".

Hmm...

At the end of the amnesty, a guy who had supplied me with a
certain item got a visit from two patrol cars. They quietly drove
up his driveway while he was having a BBQ and suddenly there
were four armed Police amongst the sausages and steak. They
demanded said item. He explained that he had sold it years ago
along with other items. After a short search they left.

[northcat_8]

Cap....Doramius said LEGALLY

Offline - I saw them collecting the guns on the news. Old heirlooms, encrusted with diamonds, things like that...I said BS to all of that. Right now as far as anyone knows, I am a gun firearm free US Citizen. To be honest, I can understand registering handguns and something like a MP5, but a single shot breech load 10 gauge?? A duck gun? My 16 gauge rabbit gun? I see no reason to register a shotgun...and on what ever show I saw it on they were even collecting shotguns. I know I could hide them but I shouldn't have to.

[bazooka]

Northcat,

Do you have an elephant gun too?

[northcat_8]

No. I have a little black dog, named Bob that keeps elephants away from my house. There isn't an elephant within 100 miles of my house...Bob is doing a good job.

My gun supply is a little low right now, we trade and sell guns fairly often. I know where I can get an MP5 but he wants to much for it right now...I'll catch him drunk or needing money sometime and get it at a bargin basement price. MP5....

[bazooka]

[jimmalenko]

Register them why? So the US government can lose their mind and come to my house and take them to destroy them like the Austrailain government did??

That was the biggest load of BS on the government's behalf. One nutcase and a government wrecked it for millions of recreational shooters.

[northcat_8]

Register them why? So the US government can lose their mind and come to my house and take them to destroy them like the Austrailain government did??

That was the biggest load of BS on the government's behalf. One nutcase and a government wrecked it for millions of recreational shooters.

Yea and shortly after whack job boy shot up the white house with his SKS 7.62x39, with the Kevlar collapsable stock and stainless steel spike bayonett....the price of mine shot straight through the roof

But I hear you Jimmy, that's 100% accurate. One guy screwed it up for all. And now here in Ohio, you can carry a concealed weapon go figure.

[jimmalenko]

That was the biggest load of BS on the government's behalf. One nutcase and a government wrecked it for millions of recreational shooters.

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But I hear you Jimmy, that's 100% accurate. One guy screwed it up for all.

The massacre at Port Arthur (35 deceased) was the catalyst. My Dad had a 5 cartridge semi-automatic that had to get handed in and crimped. He got back about a third of what he paid for it and it was in immaculate condition. All it did was swell the black market sales.

[Doramius]

Mine don't need to be registered, but I do anyway. Just because. I can't fire them in city limits of Vegas and it was the same in NY, but it wasn't required for them to be registered, and NY has some of the toughest gun laws. If you had a .22 rifle, you never had to register it in NY anywhere (I think that's nationally, but I don't know all the state laws). The rest was edited as it started to stry towards politics.