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Where do you get such good enemies? Mine never see it coming and are clueless to what happened to them afterwards.
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I'm provoking them! 
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Only if the comet is red
Sorry my bad english!
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Henize wrote: Western tradition sees comets as harbingers of doom and as omens of world-altering change.
They are[^]
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As for the title's "outshine the full moon"...FTFY
The sun shines out of my arse so outshining the moon is built-in shall we say.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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I'm still waiting for Comet Kohoutek[^] to put on the show we were promised!
It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com
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As anyone who has been reading my posts recently knows, there is a critical shortage of ammunition in the US right now, along with a complete lack of reloading components in most popular calibers. The cause of this is - according to industry representatives - that the Obama administration has directed Homeland Security to buy up everything available for the next five years. I've even heard that police departments have had to curtail practice shooting because they can't buy ammo. Obviously, no one official is going to mention it to the press, and the press isn't interested in broadcasting the facts, but we have been effectively disarmed by the US government, without anyone having to ban anything. How long this can last before it becomes public knowledge is anyone's guess, but I had to laugh yesterday.
I stopped by one of our local gun shops to see if one of the two guns I want to buy had become available yet (neither has) and was surprised to see two Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department patrol cars in the parking lot. Now, Las Vegas is a gun friendly place; after all, the mob likes guns, and they spent millions constructing an entire park devoted to shooting sports. The two cops left the store carrying a pair of matching hunting bows, along with a good supply of arrows! 
I asked them if things are really that bad, and one just shook his head and said, "you wouldn't believe..." 
I can't express how much safer I feel, knowing that the cops have no bullets, no spare ammo to practice with, and as a bonus I can't even buy bullets to protect myself. Thanks to one of my favorite people here, I now have enough rounds of .243 to get through an emergency, and to reload eventually, since brass is also unavailable. I ordered primers a week ago, and a charge was applied to my card, but yesterday the charge was reversed and when I checked the supplier's website, it reported the item as Out of Stock; I have no idea whether I'll get the primers or not. I ordered bullets - the lead and copper part, not the loaded stuff - two weeks ago, but haven't heard anything about them shipping anytime this decade. I located one pound of powder - Reloader 15 - which is acceptable for the .243 round - and bought it, but haven't had much luck finding any more.
Although I've had 6 different gun sellers searching for either of two items I want to buy, and none of them can locate, I went ahead and placed an order for one of them with an online dealer. This one charges a non-refundable $25 "Per-Order" fee, and promises a delivery date of 4 to 8 weeks; no one else even has an expected date. If an acceptable gun becomes available before then, I'll buy it and forfeit the $25 fee. Just in case anyone happens to spot one, my first priority is a Browning BLR .243 Win, and second choice is a Browning BAR .30-06 Springfield. I'm looking for the most basic model in each, the blued-steel, straight walnut stock for the BLR, and the basic Safari model for the BAR. Fancy upgrades and take-down models don't interest me. If you happen to have either lying in the closet, unused and unwanted, let me know. I have cash...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I am not a gun person and I don't know what primers are in this context, but I will fire a green arrow at you for the police bit, that was amusing  .
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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The primer is the bit that goes "bang!" when the hammer falls, and it sends out a small plume of hot flame to ignite the explosive powder contained in the cartridge behind the bullet which is supposed to move forward in the general direction of the object that was targeted by the person who pulled the trigger to start the whole process. Without primers, there is no ammunition.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Ah, ok. I guess I am even more ignorant about this than I thought. In the movies they just put ammunition in the gun and shoot  .
it sounds like you assemble your own ammunition from parts. I did not know that was a common thing to do.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I don't think it is a common thing to do, but reloading is a nice hobby, and it allows a shooter to build ammunition which responds exactly as expected.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Agreed. The shooting range I sometimes went to in a dusty suburb of Johannesburg, called Boksburg, had all the reloading gear. I saved most of my cases except for those which had annoying dents in them when they were ejected. We'd clean them up using special cleaners and buy grains of propellant and bullets from the club's supplies. With all the bits to hand we'd spend a a couple of hours reloading the cases. Sometimes we'd experiment by overloading the propellant and using the bullets in 9mm guns confiscated by the police. We'd fire those in a special room using a drawstring to pull the trigger. Once in a while our police commandant let some shootists experiment with OTT reloads just to see how far you could push the gun before it wrecked itself. I don't recall too many successes there but some of the guys in my unit thoroughly enjoyed trying it. For me, reloading was about scale of economies and understanding how you did it and how to do it safely.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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Roger Wright wrote: Without primers, there is no ammunition.
Flint lock 
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I completely forgot about those, and I used to have one! Time to order another, perhaps, since they are quite fun to build. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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But also complicated to load
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The Department of Homeland Security is preparing for the coming financial collapse and the civil unrest that follows. They are going to attempt an outright confiscation once the civil unrest heats up.
It wont be safe in cities and suburban areas.
Just wait till food shortages / price increases really take hold. You will be risking your life trying to get food from walmart.
As we saw with the LAPD shooting up innocent civilians as a result of one rouge cop, imagine the mass killings law enforcement officials will partake in.
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I think you may be a bit over the top in your expectations, but you're probably correct in assuming that things are only going to get uglier for common citizens. Those of us in a position to shoot back will probably hold out longer against the obvious intentions to enslave us and control our every thought. But they have M-16s and F-22s; we won't last long. Goodnight, human rights...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: I think you may be a bit over the top in your expectations, but you're probably correct in assuming that things are only going to get uglier for common citizens.
Things can get out of hand rather quickly. People are already on edge and are both morally and spiritually deprived.
Roger Wright wrote: hose of us in a position to shoot back will probably hold out longer against the obvious intentions to enslave us and control our every thought.
While they cannot control your every thought, nearly everyone is heavily indoctrinated from early childhood in what I call "Government Indoctrination Centers" or public school. Schools are like prisons. They are on lockdown and drugs, violence, and sex is as it is in prison.
Roger Wright wrote: But they have M-16s and F-22s; we won't last long.
M-16 is not a very impressive weapon. Armed surveillance drones will be a major threat to the public.
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Henize wrote: As we saw with the LAPD shooting up innocent civilians as a result of one rouge cop...
What did a red police man have to do with this?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Will Rogers never met me.
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So you are attempting to make your own bullets, and some of the components are unavailable? That's interesting.
The other night, I was telling my friend "a random person online said there is an ammo shortage," and I mentioned that maybe it was because of recent law changes and people buying up as much as they could (just in case). He responded by saying that the US is unique in that making bullets is allowed, so no big deal. However, it sounds like you're saying that making bullets is also impossible right now.
That doesn't sound good. 
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No, it's not good. Especially when I think back over the years and remember all the brass I just picked up a tossed in the trash. Grrr... Bullets can be cast by hand, of course, but the nice, copper-plated sold by professional manufacturers are so much easier on the gun, since they don't clog up the rifling with lead particles. I suppose powder could be made, too, but the government already keeps a close watch on who orders the chemicals to make it - nitric acid, in particular. Since it's a starting point for nearly all modern explosives, ordering any quantity of that is a red flag - and rightfully so. As much as I value my right to have guns, I really don't fancy the neighbors brewing up quarts of nitroglycerin on weekends.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: I really don't fancy the neighbors brewing up quarts of nitroglycerin on weekends.
Why not? nitroglycerin doesn't kill people, people do
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AspDotNetDev wrote: US is unique in that making bullets is allowed
If you're talking about making your own rounds (bullets are the bit that get fired out and you'd need to mould those) then that's complete poppy-c**k since you've always been able to do it in the UK. It's done quite commonly over here particularly in the target shooting world.
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
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