22 Jun 2022 06:00 pm
Skans
Clearly, there were full-auto machine guns before there was ever any legislative definition. Originally, there was no distinction between full-autos and semi-autos - they were all legal for any 18 year old to buy and own. Could buy Tommy Guns at the hardware store.
Some were more difficult to obta...
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22 Jun 2022 05:52 pm
22 Jun 2022 05:49 pm
Skans
LOL - Roughneck probably isn't the correct word. But, it's what we called guys like that - factory workers from up north who were loud, know-it-alls and cussed a lot. I don't know what y'all call them. Probably, "Dad".
Well, you and I could be talking two different things.
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22 Jun 2022 05:45 pm
some leftist homo
My time in the bread factory was not as extreme as you lay out. I never missed a day either. Tore a muscle in my upper back (Trapezius) right off the spine and kept working. There was a lot of lifting involved in this job. Hundreds of 50 lb bags. Never went to a doctor, never filed a workmen's comp ...
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22 Jun 2022 05:38 pm
Cannonpointer
In my youth, I worked the oil patch. You worked hurt, you worked sore, you worked tired, you worked hard as a mother ****. I once did a double tour - that's 24 hours straight, - tripping pipe the entire time. We were using hydrochloric in the drilling fluid and the mud-catcher was worn to nothing, s...
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22 Jun 2022 05:28 pm
Cannonpointer
What she is referring to is actually a filthy practice of desperate, dying rust belt unions. They negotiate to allow the company to bring in temps - you know, for the Christmas season (or high summer, or whatever sesonal rush that industry has). And everyone knows that it's a fig leaf - that the con...
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