From the pictures, the bullet dented what appears to be the exhaust chamber (I’m not sure of the correct term). It looks like the engine would have to be split in half in order to repair or replace that component.
I don’t know what that costs, but I can’t imagine it being cheap.
FFS?
Ah, got it, keep it clean please
You want to exercise the second amendment as and when it was written, fine. You get a musket, a pouch of lead balls and a powder horn.
Second Amendment is about as relevant to modern existence as a Bleriot is to a B-747. Would you use maintenance practices and pilot training from that era?
Goofballs and hoodlums are allowed to walk down the street in some States with AR-15 slung on their shoulders, the essence and height of insanity.
You anti 2nd amendment folks should go live where it does not exist instead of trying to screw all the rest of America. What about “shall not be infringed” do you not understand? If you think the rest of Us agree with you then please explain why since the present idiot was elected Millions and millions (record amounts) and ammo have been purchased by law abiding citizen’s. and before the 2024 election the records will be broken many fold. America must sense some thing is going to happen where they NEED to be armed.
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If by “America” you mean the majority of Americans, they actually favor stricter gun laws (but not repealing the 2nd amendment). It’s been that way for the last 30 years. In addition, the majority of Americans don’t own a gun so I guess they don’t feel the “NEED to be armed” as you say. https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx
But the fringe right feeds on paranoia and conspiracy theories, fed to them by cable TV news and the internet. And that’s why they feel the NEED to be armed.
Sorry to burst your bubble, Russell, but last year (2021) gun deaths surpassed transportation fatalities.
Traffic related deaths - 42,900 (source NHTSA)
Gun related deaths - 45,200 (source FBI)
Admittedly, suicides and accidental shootings accounted for 55% of the deaths and murders, 45%. But, one of the goals in enacting red flag laws is to identify individuals who are a danger to themselves or to their domestic partners (i.e. Murder/suicide). There are no easy answers, but doing nothing is no longer an option.
Your wish would accelerate the slide.
But you knew that, right?
The 4th of July was brought to you by private citizens with guns. If you remember history, the government back then was taxing everything in sight and treating the populace unfairly, kinda like the present one. If a politician says you don’t need any guns, you’d better have some guns.
It’s a sad irony in America that the best sales pitch for selling guns and ammunition is the latest mass shooting. Every time one of the tragic killings occur, people run out and stock up fearing that this time, the government might actually succeed in outlawing guns. In reality, that is about as likely to happen as someone selling a well-equipped LSA for under $100 grand. Ain’t ever going to happen! Let me be clear: I own several guns - both handguns and rifles. I will also defend the second amendment along with the rest of you. But, considering that more people are now dying from gun violence than die in traffic accidents, we all need to sit down and figure out some common sense ways to limit the carnage. My daughter teaches fourth grade in a Texas public school, so the Uvalde massacre hits too close to home for me. I’ll be damned if I will sit back and do nothing. So let’s all stop calling each other names and start working on ways to make America safer. This is not a political party issue. The second amendment isn’t going anywhere. But in the words of Gene Krantz (Apollo 13 flight director), “Failure is not an option”.
Imagine how much less controversial regulating guns would be if there were not freedom hating fools in government determined to outlaw them.
I could easily see training requirements being something most NRA members would be for if it were not for politicians and bureaucrats showing every intent to deny 2A rights.
And yet how many times a day do we see calls to improve driver training or have recurrent testing?
Much like how actual gun violations are rarely prosecuted while technical licensing issues (which the ATF, even worse than the FAA, bases on ever changing “interpretations”) are handed out by the ton to otherwise law abiding citizens, the most dangerous auto drivers just keep driving and are rarely incarcerated.
I’m a big fan of laws that effectively punish real offenses or deter criminal behavior. Unfortunately, gun laws mostly harass the law abiding. Never see those proposed though.
You know logic has left the building when the militia clause gets trotted out.
Unfortunately, the middle cannot hold. You cannot get any effective government out of legislative bodies whose members are more afraid of extremist primary contenders than the other party. I see no other solution than an anti incumbent movement.
Canada is full of Canadians. Canadians and Americans have been involved in somewhat of a self sorting for over two centuries.
I’ve lived in Canada, and highly recommend it to people who prefer it. I do not. I’ll go for vacation, and only as long as I can afford an air ambulance if needing hospitalization.
Had their pajama boy leader tried his pandemic nonsense here, I think we can all agree it would not have gone over well. The problem here is cultural and political, not accessibility (though I will admit we might get some marginal improvements with reduced accessibility). We’d do much better by simply changing the attitude from entitlement to personal responsibility.
Finally, picking stupid stats is a low form of debate. If the participants don’t agree the stats are meaningful and accurate, they settle nothing. Given the statistic on statistics that better than 90% of the studies are inaccurate, it’s especially lame. I know people with BIG gun collections. Most of the guns are rarely fired at all. 30 per hundred is more than enough to get US results.
Gee, I wonder who told them the rich only get rich by exploiting the poor. Hmmm…
Yes. My comment was relevant to Williams, whose comment is relevant to the story.
Thanks for checking.
A specific advantage of the PT-6 is that the engine is designed to be easily split in half. The hot gas generating system can be removed while leaving the rear (intake/compression) section in the plane.
I suppose, though, that ‘easily’ is a relative term . . .
It was written as “arms”, not “muskets”, because they were referring to weapons of war in general, not to any specific type. They obviously knew that weapons technology was continuously being advanced - after all, multi-shot guns (e.g., revolvers) date back to the 16th century.
The amendment IS being exercised as it was written.