FireTower

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The TLDR version is that the old leadership was corrupted and misappropriating funds for personal uses. There were several lawsuits and the old leadership has been mostly ousted. The new leadership are trying to reform the organization to prevent abuse of the prior administration from returning.

They are still around at a reduced role. Other groups have popped up like GOA (Gun owners of America) and FPC (Firearms Policy Coalition).

I'm glad to help, headlines and sadly even the body of news articles rarely capture nuance. Law and Politics both have their controversies but they are not synonyms. When you peek behind the curtains of headlines, things start to make more sense, because, most everyone thinks that they're being rational. But most of us are simply viewing the matters from different perspectives. There are bad perspectives, but, unfortunately, there is not a best one.

The 5 judges were from the lower court's dissent. It wasn't 5 justices at the Supreme Court. It takes 4 Supreme Court justices to grant cert on a case and hear it. It sounds like only Gorsuch and Thomas voted to hear it.

Gorsuch is arguably the most pro-Native American justice the court has ever seen. He started his majority opinion in McGirt v. Oklahoma with this sentence "On the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise."

Thomas and Gorsuch joined Alito in a 77 page dissent, in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia explicitly calling to overturn a prior case that infringed on Native American's religious liberties by denying benefits to a peyote user.

This happens all the time. The party out of the majority proposes moon-shot legislation knowing that it won't pass. Because they get to go home and complain about the bad (insert party name here)s who blocked the, probably unconstitutional, bill that they proposed. Then beg for donations so they can get a seat on an important committee.

Seconded, this is the best explanation here. The browning action, on which most semi automatic pistol operate on, does not function well when a suppressor is added w/ out a Nielson device or 'booster'.

The design is made assuming the barrel weighs ____ oz, if suddenly it weighs more then the reliability is impaired.

Active calls for violence against individuals are not protected under the 1A. This is not legal advice and any lawyer would ask more questions about what exactly you want to do because there are many possible factors not hear mention that could lead to incarceration.

Having not heard of "Krasnov" before I looked him up and my sub-3 seconds of research shows that the suggested searches and first results include the current president and theories about KGB involvement.

Any criminal trial from such a course of conduct would not require that the Government establish that "Trump =The real 'Krasnov'" for a conviction.

This would be a poor idea, even under long standing legal doctrines and interpretations.

That kind of regulation wouldn't even survive a 9th Circuit en banc. Existing law governing industry is not "supporting precedent" to force private citizens to waive one right just to enjoy another in their own home.

mandatory storage safety with inspections

Here in the U.S. our Constitution prohibits the government from performing searches of people's homes with first having probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and a warrant to search their home that has been signed by a judge. Const. Amend. IV.

An Imperial boat ride into Black Marsh prob second era the coincidence w/ the Crimson plague.

It could drastically expand and clarify the Black Marsh lore without removing all of the mystique like setting a game there would because TV unlike an open world RPG limits what is shown to the viewer.

That time frame + setting would also give the show a lot of creative license because it has a bunch of races that got wiped out by the plague and have very little established lore.

Congress is the combination of the House of Representatives and the Senate. America has a bicameral legislature. (Congress=House of Reps + Senate)

Because this passed the Senate in Feb and the House recently it is correct to say that this bill has passed Congress.

Michael Troy has the uncreatively name American Revolution Podcast which is basically a full episode per event/battle between the French Indian War beyond the signing of the Constitution. Leans more history than entertainment but there's some deadpan humor in there.