>shatters them like any other window
Automotive side glass is tempered, like in this video. That acted more like laminated windshield glass.

I'm mostly curious about how they managed to get it past regulations, from my understanding all cars nowadays are bland and uggo soapbars because of pedestrian crash safety ratings, but the Tesla truck looks like a sword on wheels.

>>113183
What is that range though, towing a maxed out load, in the middle of a midwestern winter night?

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1122487_towing-a-camper-with-a-tesla-model-x-thank-elon-for-superchargers

Looks ugly to me. And useless really.

>>113214
Some day, someone will use a Tesla truck to build a technical, with rockets and gatling guns.

And it will be AWESOME.

>>113194
SCA is the common one, but MS is the other likely option, one of those is a bit scarier than the other.

If it's SCA there is a really promising possibility of treatment with CRISPR in the relatively near future.

Update on my wife:

>2 steel plates in her arm
>insurance is fighting us on the hospital stay (broken arm surgury is an outpatient procedure according to them, and low potassium after surgury is apparently not a reason for the hospital to keep her after surgury, eventhough the doctors made it very clear she wouldn't be released until her potassium was back to normal levels)
>insurance is NOT fighting us on the air ambulance bill. I was legit surprized by that.
>took over 30 days to get the crash report, and the officer must have been drunk when he was writing it. There are multiple mistakes on every page of it. Lawyer is aware of this.
>other driver was apparently doing 5 over the speedlimit, and 30 over the "safe speed for conditions"
>report says my wife was making an unsafe left turn, and the report is wrong about WHERE she was turning, by about 150'
>GAP coverage and Insurance both FINALLY came through, so my wife pulled 3k from her trust fund (her mom died of cancer, and was smart enought to set up trust funds to keep medicaid from eating her kids inheritance), and bought a replacement vehicle
>she is back to work fulltime

Thank you all for the well wishes!

>>113193
Oh fully aware. It is mostly a joke.

>>113194
If she is probably going to go out before you, than make sure you make the time she has left as awesome as you can.

>>113197
I think I have cried for every pet I've ever had, when they die. This must be how elves feel about their humans in fantasy novels.

>>113201
Part of why my will is so detailed it because I have possesions that I know my wife doesn't want, but that some of my cousins and friends will want. Anyways, stay safe on your deployment.

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>>113231
Thanks for the update. Hang in there!

Hope your woman heals up and makes a full recovery.

yeah I'm not too enthused about this development

>>113151
Yep, shit sucks. Every political cycle whoever is in office fucks it up so bad the other side wins the next time.

I'm dealing with California bullshit now. Most of my rifles are disassembled until I can make them "featureless" and gasoline is 2 bux a gallon more than the east coast.

GOP fucked this one up. 27 uncontested districts. Even worse, was one of them was a known pedophile. Should have been an easy win, but noooo.

Eyeballying storage in WV just in case.

I moved to VA not too long ago. Similar deal to OP. Wife got into grad school in the area and fortunately I found it relatively easy to find comparable work. Similar exposure to the college campus and well-to-do environment too but I'm keen to remember that it's a large state and it's major metropolitan areas that typically lean left are few. I don't advocate for either mainstream political party because bipartisanship is a false dichotomy only subscribed to by non-thinkers. I think the Republican-leaning constituents were lulled into a false sense of security by who occupies the White House and the party responsible for preventing that laziness failed to do so.

I've already started looking at investing in more magazines since that always seems to be a "feature" the gun control movement likes to target. I may look to increase my ammunition stock too since there's so much talk of limiting those purchases or making them restricted to FFLs. I may look to invest in more stripped (or 80%) AR lowers to make builds easier in the future without breaking the bank now, but that also assumes uppers don't become controlled. That said, I think I have my bases for AR uppers covered for any possible barrel length and popular caliber but investing in more is a relatively simple way of flexing more capability out of one gun that doesn't show up on "gun purchase" statistics.

>>113117
PERSEC game is strong.

  Going on a Ride-Along with the Australian Police - The Jim Jefferies Show
https://youtu.be/KlLbEYT0m14
2:46 In Australia, 22 police officers were killed on the job between 2003 and 2016, but last year, in 2018, 55 police officers in the US were shot and killed.

The annual number of US police officers killed has fallen by more than 65 percent since 1976, but the number of people US police kill remains relatively high, at around a thousand people per year. Last year police shot and killed 998 people, 11 more than the 987 they fatally shot in 2017. In 2016, police killed 963 people, and 995 in 2015. About 54 percent of those killed have been armed with guns and 4 percent unarmed.

Four years in a row, police nationwide fatally shoot nearly 1,000 people: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/four-years-in-a-row-police-nationwide-fatally-shoot-nearly-1000-people/2019/02/07/0cb3b098-020f-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/police-shootings-us-death-toll-gun-control-officers-a8777046.html

US ranks 19th in Wikipedia's list of killings by law enforcement officers by country:
United States: 996 killed out of a population of 328,485,000 in 2018, making that a rate per ten million people of 30.4.
"2018 police shooting database". Washington Post. January 3, 2019.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police-shootings-2018/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_by_country

But the #1 spot goes to Venezuela with 5287 killed out of a population of 32,381,000 in 2018, making that a rate per ten million people of 1632.7. More than 53 times the rate of the United States cops gunning down people.
"UN Human Rights report on Venezuela urges immediate measures to halt and remedy grave rights violations". https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24788&LangID=E

- Percent of each US state's population, ranging as high as 0.00002%, killed by law enforcement officers in the 22 months ending November 8, 2016

>>113147
Gotta wonder if those Venezuela killings count the non-uniformed ones. It's a shitshow there.

Hm... Does it have to be with my unit or can it be at home where nobody can see me?

>>113130
unit preferably.

  >>112947
hahahahaha oh wow, Americans are poor and immigration and global trade is the solution? just like in 1992? look at all the problems immigration and free trade have solved in the past 27 years. The Aristocrats! XD

Maybe an immigration attorney could help you. Finding a good one of those to get in touch with (ideally one in a gun-friendly state and who is gun-friendly themselves) won't necessarily get you easy answers or instructions, but I'm sure guns aren't the only thing people worry about bringing with them when they immigrate. Other legally controlled items or property are probably pretty common. A good immigration attorney would at least knows what statutes and whatnot to research for you. But their advice could get spendy.

>>112959
>immigration attorney
I hadn't even considered that, this is definitely relevant to my situation. I'm prepared for these kinds of various costs as I've been saving up for a while because I know immigration is expensive. Geographically, I'm very close to Montana and Idaho. As far as I know, both those states are pretty friendly to guns and I would be pretty happy to live there.

Legalese, sadly, is obviously not exactly my strength. I think I'll make a list of questions to as an immigration attorney so I can make the most of his expensive time. Seeing how I don't know much about this, I highly appreciate suggestions here.

As for "controlled goods", I don't think I have that much to worry about. Are there items that are hard to import aside from the obvious "14.5x114mm PTRD and ammo"? I own a car, some metalworking tools, a computer, clothes, a DSLR camera, and other regular household items. I don't have stuff like fireworks or "chemistry supplies" or "biological agents". I don't think I own anything that can bother a geiger counter, including scopes and stuff as I haven't purchased optics with tritium.

Hey bru, it occurs to me that you might consider reading in some other, less fucked up and more qualified operator on some of your specific concerns. I'm more than happy to help, but I might not be the best nigga for the job at the moment, and I want you helped.

I got your most recent email, BTW, and will reply forthwith.

Although there are other cars that boast being able to break 300 mph, such as the new Hennessey Venom F5 and the Koenigsegg Jesko that produces 1600hp from its 5.0L twin-turbo V8 and has a theoretical top speed exceeding 300 mph.

If this were the 1950s, the top car makers would have a 300+ mph race to see who is the champion driver in the best car, heedless of blood spilled or money spent!

The Koenigsegg Jesko - Full Review https://youtu.be/MDWIXbgHCwM

May need an eject switch.

  How did the Bugatti Chiron reach 300mph? https://youtu.be/YaI4HFVYR7s

British EOB armor
Designed by the Munitions Inventions Board c.1915-17.
Steel breastplate and additional plates in canvas, 40-layers silk neckguard also wrapped in canvas.
The Standard Model Breastplate 1916-17 was produced and issued in large number starting in 1917, although there were never enough of them to equip more than 2% of the British army. These protections were developed following a studies of wounds received by soldiers on the front, showing that beside extremities the neck body and head received an equal amount of hurt. Although even the slimmest amount of head protection could save a life, making a body armor which advantages outdid its encumbrance.

I read years ago how thick layers of silk proved effective in bulletproof vests.
In the late 1800s, both Japan and Korea developed some of the first modern bulletproof vests when they discovered that 30 layers of silk fabric could stop the black powder bullets of the day. This "soft armor" laid the foundation for numerous inventors who tried to improve upon the idea as firearms became more powerful.
A priest from Chicago named Casimir Zeglen, with the help of fellow inventor Jan Szczepanik, devised a special way to weave a 1.6mm steel plate between four layers of silk. Zeglen claimed his 1/8" thick, 1/2 lb. vest could stop a .44 caliber—and he proved it when he volunteered to be shot before a live audience in New York City. When he was struck by the bullet at only 10 paces, he said he felt just "a tap." Zeglen and his "bullet proof cloth" became an overnight sensation. Egged on by the positive publicity, Zeglen left the priesthood in order to pursue his new business venture. https://mentalfloss.com/article/24039/brief-history-bulletproof-vests

Sadly, he never made his fortune, in part due to bad timing and bad luck. When the U.S. Military tested his invention, they found that it was too hot and too expensive thanks to the amount of silk required. Undaunted, Zeglen then offered one to President McKinley in the hopes it might spur interest. After contacting the White House, Zeglen was told he could meet the President in a month, as McKinley was going to be too busy traveling. Two weeks later in Buffalo, McKinley was shot and killed by an assassin's bullet that ripped through his abdomen. Zeglen's vest would have easily stopped the .32 caliber round.

Zeglen did manage to get Archduke Franz Ferdinand to accept one of his vests.

Unfortunately, Ferdinand was killed while wearing it. The kill shot hit him in the neck, well above the vest itself, but it didn't matter—the bad publicity didn't help and Zeglen was soon out of business.

  Cheap AR-15 Meltdown! https://youtu.be/7cr9e3N6HEw
Special thanks to our friends at Quiet Riot Firearms in McDonough, GA for providing the M16 lower for this video. In this Meltdown, we take an entry level upper from Palmetto State Armory and shoot it full auto until failure. It's very interesting to see how various levels of quality in the components really make a difference in these tests. Stay Tuned, much more on the way.

440 rounds until the gas tube melted.

  Ultimate AK Meltdown: Reloaded! https://youtu.be/EwSJiAwoMpY
In this video we meltdown a *REAL* AK-47, a Russian VEPR. The results are simply astonishing.
895 rounds until it seized up.
- 630 more than the WASR-10 and 65 more than the AR-15.

  AK-74 Meltdown! https://youtu.be/bAQ8l22Ge8U
Moving along in the Meltdown series we take a VEPR 5.45x39mm rifle converted by Definitive Arms to the breaking point. Lets see what happens...
Primer lacquer from Wolf ammo built up on the bolt face.

  AK-74 Meltdown! Revisited https://youtu.be/vDP5qi2fHSY
Take two...let's see what happens to the old 5.45x39mm VEPR from the first video with some fresh ammo.
692 rounds until a bullet blew out the side of the barrel, behind the gas block. It fired 799 rounds in the previous video.

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