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Airsoft Items FOR SALE / BDU's, LBE, other fun stuff for SALE
« on: July 12, 2007, 01:38:36 PM »
Alright, this needs to go.

1 Medium Regular pair of 6 Color Desert Pants. VERY GOOD shape, asking $10

1 Large Regular Woodland Jacket. Good shape. Asking $10

1 Medium Regular Woodland Jacket. A slight bit of wear. Asking $8

1 Large 3 Color Desert Boonie. $10

1 Medium Regular Woodland Pants. Needs the top button. $5

1 Medium Regular 3 Color Desert Jacket. Great shape. $10

1 Medium Regular 3 Color Desert Jacket. I ghetto RAID'd them. Pockets on the shoulders, velcro on the right pocket. Asking $10

1 Desert Sand Shemagh. Great for keeping dust and other goodies out of your face and mouth. $8

1 Pair of OD Green Kneepads. $10

1 Medium Regular 3 Color Desert Pants. I added an additional pocket to each pant leg. Great shape. Asking $10

1 OD Green Military Sweater. Reenforced Shoulders and elbows. VERY warm. $10

1 Classic Army M16 HiCap Magazine - $10

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Well...I did some digging
« on: April 16, 2007, 07:35:30 PM »
So I'm sent a livejournal and facebook link to an asian guy who attend(ed) Virginia Tech. On his live journal are topics about assasination, bombs, anarchy and terrorism. He posts TONS of photos focusing on, primarily, firearms.

Everyone is saying it was an asian guy wearing a vest, and he was looking for his girlfriend (or ex girlfriend)



There is a picture of him holding 10+ Vintage rifles, and various ones showcasing his collection.

I clicked on the User Info on his Livejournal, and found his email address... I searched a few places using his email address and found his account on AR15.com. On it, he posted the civilian version of a P90 for sale. To hold the gun, was a good looking young gal. His girlfriend. On his livejournal which I linked to his AR15 account, he talks about how he recently broke up with her.



Notice the picture over her shoulder?








I dont know, just reading his blog is a bit off.

http://wanusmaximus.livejournal.com/

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General Airsoft Discussion / Magpul Masada
« on: March 13, 2007, 09:51:01 PM »
Ive heard rumors going around about Magpul making the actual Masada kit for airsoft. Anyone here able to verify this? I want one of those rifles BAD.

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"Right now we are deciding on what exactly to do with the Airsoft project of the Masada. We are already making changes to the real rifle and we need to make sure as many of those changes make it through to an Airsoft design.

All we have released from this point was a simple statement saying we
intend to build an Airsoft version of the rifle. From that it seems the airsoft community filled in whatever information they wanted.

Richard Fitzpatrick
President - Magpul Industries Corp"


I was sent this, but couldn't find any statements similar to this on their website, or anything to even verify if this was a hoax or not.

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Airsoft Items FOR SALE / FS: M16 Mags
« on: March 11, 2007, 04:00:50 AM »
Got a Classic Army Hi-Cap, never used, brand new. $15 and it is yours.

Also have two MAG magazines, they are the plasic 110round ones. These things are tough. $20 gets you both.

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Anyone ever taken Percocet?
« on: March 08, 2007, 06:38:01 AM »
And had some weird side effects? I took it pretty regularily, but not over the top, for about a week after my surgery to block the pain from my arm.

I stopped taking them about a week and a half to two weeks ago.

I know its a narcotic, and that's what initially worried me.

I've been having bad stomach aches, and lately unable to fall asleep. I woke up at 10am yesterday, and have been awake since. I know a few of you guys on here might know a little or maybe have gone through the same thing.

I'm just afraid if I take a few to get me asleep it'll repeat the process over.  :cry:

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Real Firearms / Firearms used against LEO's
« on: March 08, 2007, 12:13:22 AM »
I'm sure a few of you have seen this, for those who haven't:

http://www.forcesciencenews.com/home/detail.html?serial=62â€￾

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New Findings From FBI About Cop Attackers & Their Weapons

New findings on how offenders train with, carry and deploy the weapons they use to attack police officers have emerged in a just-published, 5-year study by the FBI.

Among other things, the data reveal that most would-be cop killers:

--show signs of being armed that officers miss;

--have more experience using deadly force in "street combat" than their intended victims;

--practice with firearms more often and shoot more accurately;

--have no hesitation whatsoever about pulling the trigger. "If you hesitate," one told the study's researchers, "you're dead. You have the instinct or you don't. If you don't, you're in trouble on the street...."

These and other weapons-related findings comprise one chapter in a 180-page research summary called "Violent Encounters: A Study of Felonious Assaults on Our Nation's Law Enforcement Officers." The study is the third in a series of long investigations into fatal and nonfatal attacks on POs by the FBI team of Dr. Anthony Pinizzotto, clinical forensic psychologist, and Ed Davis, criminal investigative instructor, both with the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit, and Charles Miller III, coordinator of the LEOs Killed and Assaulted program.

"Violent Encounters" also reports in detail on the personal characteristics of attacked officers and their assaulters, the role of perception in life-threatening confrontations, the myths of memory that can hamper OIS investigations, the suicide-by-cop phenomenon, current training issues, and other matters relevant to officer survival. (Force Science News and our strategic partner PoliceOne.com will be reporting on more findings from this landmark study in future transmissions.)

Commenting on the broad-based study, Dr. Bill Lewinski, executive director of the Force Science Research Center at Minnesota State University-Mankato, called it "very challenging and insightful--important work that only a handful of gifted and experienced researchers could accomplish."

From a pool of more than 800 incidents, the researchers selected 40, involving 43 offenders (13 of them admitted gangbangers-drug traffickers) and 50 officers, for in-depth exploration. They visited crime scenes and extensively interviewed surviving officers and attackers alike, most of the latter in prison.

Here are highlights of what they learned about weapon selection, familiarity, transport and use by criminals attempting to murder cops, a small portion of the overall research:

Weapon Choice

Predominately handguns were used in the assaults on officers and all but one were obtained illegally, usually in street transactions or in thefts. In contrast to media myth, none of the firearms in the study was obtained from gun shows. What was available "was the overriding factor in weapon choice," the report says. Only 1 offender hand-picked a particular gun "because he felt it would do the most damage to a human being."

Researcher Davis, in a presentation and discussion for the International Assn. of Chiefs of Police, noted that none of the attackers interviewed was "hindered by any law--federal, state or local--that has ever been established to prevent gun ownership. They just laughed at gun laws."

Familiarity

Several of the offenders began regularly to carry weapons when they were 9 to 12 years old, although the average age was 17 when they first started packing "most of the time." Gang members especially started young.

Nearly 40% of the offenders had some type of formal firearms training, primarily from the military. More than 80% "regularly practiced with handguns, averaging 23 practice sessions a year," the study reports, usually in informal settings like trash dumps, rural woods, back yards and "street corners in known drug-trafficking areas."

One spoke of being motivated to improve his gun skills by his belief that officers "go to the range two, three times a week [and] practice arms so they can hit anything."

In reality, victim officers in the study averaged just 14 hours of sidearm training and 2.5 qualifications per year. Only 6 of the 50 officers reported practicing regularly with handguns apart from what their department required, and that was mostly in competitive shooting. Overall, the offenders practiced more often than the officers they assaulted, and this "may have helped increase [their] marksmanship skills," the study says.

The offender quoted above about his practice motivation, for example, fired 12 rounds at an officer, striking him 3 times. The officer fired 7 rounds, all misses.

More than 40% of the offenders had been involved in actual shooting confrontations before they feloniously assaulted an officer. Ten of these "street combat veterans," all from "inner-city, drug-trafficking environments," had taken part in 5 or more "criminal firefight experiences" in their lifetime.

One reported that he was 14 when he was first shot on the street, "about 18 before a cop shot me." Another said getting shot was a pivotal experience "because I made up my mind no one was gonna shoot me again."

Again in contrast, only 8 of the 50 LEO victims had participated in a prior shooting; 1 had been involved in 2 previously, another in 3. Seven of the 8 had killed offenders.

Concealment

The offenders said they most often hid guns on their person in the front waistband, with the groin area and the small of the back nearly tied for second place. Some occasionally gave their weapons to another person to carry, "most often a female companion." None regularly used a holster, and about 40% at least sometimes carried a backup weapon.

In motor vehicles, they most often kept their firearm readily available on their person, or, less often, under the seat. In residences, most stashed their weapon under a pillow, on a nightstand, under the mattress--somewhere within immediate reach while in bed.

Almost all carried when on the move and strong majorities did so when socializing, committing crimes or being at home. About one-third brought weapons with them to work. Interestingly, the offenders in this study more commonly admitted having guns under all these circumstances than did offenders interviewed in the researchers' earlier 2 surveys, conducted in the 1980s and '90s.

According to Davis, "Male offenders said time and time again that female officers tend to search them more thoroughly than male officers. In prison, most of the offenders were more afraid to carry contraband or weapons when a female CO was on duty."

On the street, however, both male and female officers too often regard female subjects "as less of a threat, assuming that they not going to have a gun," Davis said. In truth, the researchers concluded that more female offenders are armed today than 20 years ago--"not just female gang associates, but female offenders generally."

Shooting Style

Twenty-six of the offenders [about 60%], including all of the street combat veterans, "claimed to be instinctive shooters, pointing and firing the weapon without consciously aligning the sights," the study says.

"They practice getting the gun out and using it," Davis explained. "They shoot for effect." Or as one of the offenders put it: "[W]e're not working with no marksmanship....We just putting it in your direction, you know....It don't matter...as long as it's gonna hit you...if it's up at your head or your chest, down at your legs, whatever....Once I squeeze and you fall, then...if I want to execute you, then I could go from there."

Hit Rate

More often than the officers they attacked, offenders delivered at least some rounds on target in their encounters. Nearly 70% of assailants were successful in that regard with handguns, compared to about 40% of the victim officers, the study found. (Efforts of offenders and officers to get on target were considered successful if any rounds struck, regardless of the number fired.)

Davis speculated that the offenders might have had an advantage because in all but 3 cases they fired first, usually catching the officer by surprise. Indeed, the report points out, "10 of the total victim officers had been wounded [and thus impaired] before they returned gunfire at their attackers."

Missed Cues

Officers would less likely be caught off guard by attackers if they were more observant of indicators of concealed weapons, the study concludes. These particularly include manners of dress, ways of moving and unconscious gestures often related to carrying.

"Officers should look for unnatural protrusions or bulges in the waist, back and crotch areas," the study says, and watch for "shirts that appear rippled or wavy on one side of the body while the fabric on the other side appears smooth." In warm weather, multilayered clothing inappropriate to the temperature may be a giveaway. On cold or rainy days, a subject's jacket hood may not be covering his head because it is being used to conceal a handgun.

Because they eschew holsters, offenders reported frequently touching a concealed gun with hands or arms "to assure themselves that it is still hidden, secure and accessible" and hasn't shifted. Such gestures are especially noticeable "whenever individuals change body positions, such as standing, sitting or exiting a vehicle." If they run, they may need to keep a constant grip on a hidden gun to control it.

Just as cops generally blade their body to make their sidearm less accessible, armed criminals "do the same in encounters with LEOs to ensure concealment and easy access."

An irony, Davis noted, is that officers who are assigned to look for concealed weapons, while working off-duty security at night clubs for instance, are often highly proficient at detecting them. "But then when they go back to the street without that specific assignment, they seem to 'turn off' that skill," and thus are startled--sometimes fatally--when a suspect suddenly produces a weapon and attacks.

Mind Set

Thirty-six of the 50 officers in the study had "experienced hazardous situations where they had the legal authority" to use deadly force "but chose not to shoot." They averaged 4 such prior incidents before the encounters that the researchers investigated. "It appeared clear that none of these officers were willing to use deadly force against an offender if other options were available," the researchers concluded.

The offenders were of a different mind-set entirely. In fact, Davis said the study team "did not realize how cold blooded the younger generation of offender is. They have been exposed to killing after killing, they fully expect to get killed and they don't hesitate to shoot anybody, including a police officer. They can go from riding down the street saying what a beautiful day it is to killing in the next instant."

"Offenders typically displayed no moral or ethical restraints in using firearms," the report states. "In fact, the street combat veterans survived by developing a shoot-first mentality.

"Officers never can assume that a criminal is unarmed until they have thoroughly searched the person and the surroundings themselves." Nor, in the interest of personal safety, can officers "let their guards down in any type of law enforcement situation."

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Why is Paypal evil?
« on: March 07, 2007, 12:01:40 AM »
So I'm getting a little pissed off trying to open up my old paypal account, and by 'old' I mean I havn't used it since September of 06. Not the longest amount of time..

So around 11am I request to have my password emailed to me. Flash forward 3 hours, nothing in SPAM or INBOX, so I request it again, nothing, so It is now 12 hours after the initial request, and I decide to open up a new pay pal account.

The entire premisis of logging in was to take off my debit card from the account and put on my credit card, just enabling me to spend more money on their shitty sister-site, eBay.

So their customer service standards absolutely suck, I can't buy a stupid fucking item off ebay because the money-greedy buyer only accepts Paypal as if his life depended on it, I can't call Paypal because it isnt "Between the hours of 11am and 4pm" which are the only hours those heroic customer service reps slave away for.

Its rediculous. All I want to do is buy this stupid headset, but the evil conglomerate of eBay and Paypal is preventing me from, of course, no other online auction service exists as they are either sued or bought as soon as they go public.

Grr....Alright, I'm done ranting.

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Airsoft Items FOR SALE / LBE, Lots of Pouches, BDU's, etc
« on: March 05, 2007, 11:07:45 PM »
Seeing what I can get rid of that I don't need any more.

Custom LC2 Setup
1 Tan Y Harness
1 Tan 2 Inch Belt with Fastex Buckles added
4 Triple M16 Pouches
1 Rucksack

This was my first load bearing setup, its a pretty wicked design, and isnt as hot and stuffy as a plate carrier or body armor. If you don't like whats on it, you can customize it. The pouches can be found for $5 at Surplus stores.

Asking $30

3 Color Desert Blouse
Medium Regular.
Has an OPFOR patch, a star patch on the left shoulder, and says CHERNAUSKAS for the name patch.

Like new, asking $10

3 Color Desert MODIFIED Trousers
Installed additional pockets to the outter calve area of the pants.
Great for spare magazines, food, BB's, whatever.
Once again, like new, im 6'1, 160lbs. Doesnt say the size.

Asking $10

6 Color Desert Trousers
Unsure of the size. I'm 6'1, and wear a 32 waist, and they fit me
Good condition with wasit adjustment tabs.

Asking $8

3 Color Boonie
Size 7 3/4th
This thing is on the large side. Brand new, never wore it to a game.

Asking $8

Woodland BDU Set
Great condition. My height and waist size is posted above, these will fit you if you are in that area. If you arn't sure, message me.

Asking $15 for the set.



1) Phantom Radio Pouch. Will fit an ICOM great. $10

2) Phantom Dual Pistol Magazine Pouch. $10

3) Dump Pouch. SPF

4) Small Dump Pouch. Would make a great utility/misc pouch. $10

5) Phantom Utility Pouch. $10

6) Unknown Theigh Rig. Can hold a large frame pistol well. Detachable holster so you can put it directly on your belt. $10

7) Blackhawk Neoprene Knee Pads. $10

8) Admin pouch. $10

9) JT Utility Belt. $10

M15A4 CQBR Box

If you want to resell yours and don't have a box, but want one, here you go. Like new.

$5

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Accessories & Gear / Hard Plate Carrier and Cavalry Headset
« on: March 05, 2007, 08:36:45 PM »
This looks cool, but I haven't heard much good things about PROUD and their products. Is this based off a real vest or is it just made up?



I'm looking for something similar to the CIRAS, a plate carrier, in Coyote Brown. I might just end up getting another CIRAS. I haven't seen any made by Phantom in CB...Do they exist or do I just need to buy one from Eagle?  :(


 
Does anyone know if these are any good? Can't find any reviews. Cavalry TOTO II it's called. $75 doesnt seem too bad if its decent.

It appears the connector can't be used with an ICOM F4S. Is there any way one could alter the connector with one that would work? I don't feel like dropping a couple hundred on a silly head set.

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Tattoos?
« on: March 01, 2007, 02:32:14 AM »
I know a few of you on here have pretty wicked tattoos, where do you recommend going? I went to Blood Thirsty in Chandler, and I've never seen worse customer service. I've heard good things about Black Lotus in Gilbert.

Thanks

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Annual kite festival leaves 11 dead
« on: February 27, 2007, 03:02:28 AM »
LAHORE, Pakistan - An annual kite festival in eastern Pakistan has left at least 11 people dead.

Officials say two died after their throats were cut by metal kite strings. Kite flyers often use string made of wire or coated with ground glass to try to cut the strings of rivals or damage other kites.

The festival is also often marked with celebratory gunshots fired into the air. Five people died after being hit by stray bullets. Two people were electrocuted when they tried to untangle kites from overhead power cables.

Two others fell from roofs. One was a boy chasing a stray kite. Another was a woman trying to stop her son from going after a kite.

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Going into surgery tomorrow
« on: February 20, 2007, 11:22:52 PM »
First time being put under, pretty nervous about it.

Anyone been there/done that?

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Real Firearms / WTS: Winchester 1300 Defender with accessories
« on: February 10, 2007, 09:55:00 PM »
I have one Winchester 1300 Defender shotgun for sale.

I have installed a TacStar side saddle, as well as an M4 Retractable stock with an integrated pistol grip.

Reason for selling it is that I need to take care of other things aside from fire arms right now. (Shocking, I know).

I paid $330 for the Shotgun, plus $35 for the side saddle, plus $80 for the stock and grip. That comes to 445. I'll sell it for $400.

I am the origional owner with all paperwork. I've put approx. 150 rounds through this beast.

If interested, please message me. 18+, If I don't know you, bring your drivers license with you.

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Real Firearms / Guess who's the owner of a Glock 22
« on: November 17, 2006, 07:22:30 PM »
Yours truely. Got it this morning, sure is beautiful. Anyone know of any good shooting ranges (preferably indoor) in the East Valley?

For $450 I got:

1 Glock 22
3 10rd Magazines
30 Federal JHP
1 Fobus Paddle Holster
1 Fobus Paddle Dual Magazine Carrier
1 Galaco Brown Leather Holster
1 Galaco Brown Leather Dual Magazine Carrier

Based on what I have experienced so far, I got a SERPA holster on order with some actual retention, as I am OC'ing.

Just wanted to see if anyone had any input. Thanks

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