im hoping this is a tactit that doesnt get tried at any airsoft games....

note, nsfw due to small amount of nudity.  male.  from behind.  you have been warned.

http://www.totallycrap.com/media/indexpaint.html

Budget.

Airsoft.

Two words most airsofters will tell you dont go together.  So when i saw a gun listed on ebay as a full size uzi aeg, for 29 bucks plus shipping, i knew it had to be too good to be true.  it of course was, but still, an interesting gun.  

It was listed as a JTN Fang production, and as far as i could tell, they made a mini uzi that ran off aa's, but not a full size that ran off of the 7.2 v battery advertised to come with this one.  So i said what the heck, and ordered.  when the gun arrived, there was no mention of JTN on the box, but a model number VER201.  Looking this up, i found i could have saved 10 bucks on the same gun at jungle toy.  ohh well.  The gun was suprisingly solid, though still all plastic and rather light.  the purported 35 round magazine turned out to be a prop, it in actuality was a hopper-fed machine.  Strike one.  The battery compartment was a bit large, and looking at the engrish instructions, i soon found out why.  it was designed originally to take 4 c's, not the battery pack it came with.  Strike 2.  And the location of the hopper?  right in front of the gun, where the barrel began, in a kind of reverse bull-pup.  a 4 inch barrel total.  Strike three.  This thing will fire like a pos.  So, fill it with the cheapie .20s that came with it (a good sign, .2's, not .12's, but still...) and let spray.  a couple times it double shot, and the bullets werent that in line, but better than i expected.  the shots actually went teh full 80 feet across my backyard, farther than i expected, and made a decent smack sound against the wall.  not bad.  Checking the poor mans chrono, a decent dent, and in fact a slight line of breakage.  it might actually chrono at the 280 claimed.  the hopper was somewhat quickly accesable, so the 35 round max wanst too bad, and besides, that can be made a bit larger real easy.  i do think that ill take the fake mag, open it up, and use it for bb storage though.  

My one big gripe with the gun is teh folding stock.  they used a smaller tap screw than they should have, so it kept popping off, but i can fix it.

all in all, for 21 bucks plus shipping at jungletoy (the cheapest of 3 stores i found selling it) this is a half decent budget cqb gun, and certainly a better gun than a cheap springer.  Id mostly reccomend it for cheab sob's like myself, or people considering whether to start playing who want a small first investment on a gun to find out if they want to play.  better than expected, though not as good as i hoped, but not a waste of money.

im sure some will argue though.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/opinion/03fri2.html


Members of the military will be allowed to vote this year by faxing or e-mailing their ballots - after waiving their right to a secret ballot. Beyond this fundamentally undemocratic requirement, the Electronic Transmission Service, as it's known, has far too many problems to make it reliable, starting with the political partisanship of the contractor running it. The Defense Department is making matters worse by withholding basic information about the service, and should suspend it immediately.

The Defense Department is encouraging soldiers to use absentee ballots or fax votes directly to local officials, when possible. But it also provides an alternative: Omega Technologies, a private contractor, will accept soldiers' faxed and e-mailed ballots on a toll-free line, and then send them to the appropriate local elections office. Handling ballots is always sensitive, but especially so when, as in this program, they are not secret. An obvious concern is that votes for a particular candidate could be reported lost in transit, or altered.

Omega Technologies is not an acceptable choice to run the program. Its chief executive, Patricia Williams, has donated $6,600 in this election cycle to the National Republican Congressional Committee, and serves on the committee's Business Advisory Council. And while everything about the conduct of elections should be open to public scrutiny, Omega is far too secretive. In an interview, Ms. Williams refused to say who would handle military votes, and whether they could engage in partisan politics. "I will not allow the public to invade the privacy of the employees of Omega," she said.

The secrecy of ballots could be breached at several points: when they are faxed or e-mailed from the field, when they go through the contractor and when they are received by local officials. The Pentagon has not explained why it is acceptable, or legal, to ask soldiers to waive their right to secret ballots. Laughlin McDonald, director of the Voting Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, says he cannot recall another group of voters being asked to give up such secrecy. It is particularly inappropriate, he says, for soldiers, who are under the direct control of the Defense Department.

Nor is it clear that voting by nonsecret ballots is legal. In Missouri, one of two states that will allow votes to be e-mailed through the Pentagon this year, the Missouri Supreme Court held as early as 1895 that its State Constitution requires that voting be by secret ballot. North Dakota has also approved the use of the e-mail voting system for military personnel; about 20 states will allow them to vote by fax.

The Electronic Transmission Service operates with a lack of transparency that is unacceptable in elections management. The Pentagon is allowing Omega to keep its staffing secret. There are no provisions for parties or candidates to inspect Omega's operations or monitor the transmittal of votes. The Pentagon says the procedures for doing so are an "internal working document," which it refuses to make public, and it does not routinely make public how many ballots pass through the system each year. The Electronic Transmission Service operated in 2000 and 2002, and in earlier elections, but Ms. Williams says Omega did not handle ballots in those years. The Pentagon is refusing to say who did.

The Defense Department has taken a "trust us" attitude. Soldiers have to trust that military higher-ups will not try to learn their political choices and hold it against them, and that local elections officials at home will not reveal those choices. The voters have to trust that no one at the contractor or the Pentagon will make errors, or intentionally alter ballots. In a democracy, matters like these should not have to be taken on faith

http://wvgazette.com/section/News/Other ... /200408058

machine guns get an average 30 percent annual raise in value?

i have 1 gmail invite for an airsofter.  first person to drop me a line at itsatrap@gmail.com gets it.  (i'll share more here when i get them)

hey all, i had been planning on making one of the games this past month, but two week ago, my car got totalled.  currently looking for a new vehicle, i was thinking of finally getting something larger for camping/ ect.  found this sucker.  http://www.cars.com/search/used/cc/stan ... =&cid=null

85 bronco.  

running a carfax report on it, the sucker was shipped to dealer late 84, and then was first registered in 98 with 40k miles reported (strange, i know).  the suckers had a lot of work done recently, and the stuff listed as needing fixed i can do easily.  i've heard that broncos around this time frame tend to have ball joints in the suspension go bad, but apparently the entire suspension was replaced with a hydraulic supsension system about 2 years ago.  while given a manual and the right tools, i can fix things no sweat, im no mechanic.  any thoughts opinions ect?  
thanks

http://www.freep.com/news/locway/shot29_20040429.htm

Detroit woman tells of self-defense shooting
April 29, 2004








BY BEN SCHMITT
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER




Their eyes locked.

Then Barbara Holland saw the barrel of the gun.

She lay on the floorin her house after an intruder had knocked her down while pushing through her side door. While on her back, she drew a 9mm handgun from a holster on her waist.

Her assailant's glare suddenly changed.

"He looked surprised," Holland said.

Then she pulled the trigger.

Holland, a 38-year-old Detroit business owner and mother, remembers firing three shots. Detroit police told her she fired six.

Either way, she killed the 42-year-old man, Clabe Hunt -- who had shoved intoher home on Troester, near Hayes, on Detroit's east side at 8:10 p.m. April 13.

He was an ex-con with five children and was armed with a loaded, nickel-plated semiautomatic handgun that was not registered to him. Autopsy reports indicate he was shot in the head multiple times. He never fired his weapon.

Police officers said Holland's gun was licensed, and they determined the shooting to be self-defense. Wayne County prosecutors continue to investigate, which is routine in most fatal shootings.

Citizens defending themselves are precisely what backers of Michigan's controversial concealed-weapons law had in mind when they worked to pass the legislation in 2001. The law makes it easier for anyone without felony convictions or mental illnesses to obtain a permit to carry concealed weapons.

"The more the criminal element knows that Michigan residents can protect themselves and will protect themselves, the more crime goes down," said state Sen. Alan Cropsey, R-Dewitt.

Some opponents of the law predicted a large increase in self-defense-type shootings. Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who opposed the measure when she was state attorney general, has acknowledged that has not occurred.

Even a justified shooting takes its toll, though, as Holland has discovered.

She is slowly coming to terms with the fact that she took a life. Sometimes she has tinges of remorse. Mostly she feels as though she had to protect herself and her 15-year-old daughter, who was home that night, hiding in the living room after the shots.

Hunt's family members are also hurting. They want more answers from police.

"Was someone else with him? Where is his car?" said Hunt's 40-year-old sister, who requested anonymity because she is the owner of a business.

"I'm not necessarily mad at her, but I don't know enough. Why unload the gun on him?"