Seems like there's an attitude of "If letting BYD sell in Eurozone hurts Tesla, it's good" because people hate Elon so much. However I think the loser from that is going to be all the European legacy automakers who will have to try and chase the high end market to survive.
Did you get them working with diff syntax? I couldn't figure it out, so I just tried a bunch of agentic programs, found a few that actually worked, and it turned out they all use search/replace strings. There's probably other ways to do it but it seems basically everyone settled on that.
I've been trying that with smaller models and had to make some adjustments (e.g. they all really wanted to include the filename twice). So I just make a small tweak and bam suddenly I can edit code with small fast cheap models.
US law prohibits Starlink from transmitting into countries that don't permit it, with exceptions as directed by the US Government. If this was not the case, Starlink would have made its product available globally instead of having to seek permission from every country they want to service (called "landing rights")
Of course he couldn't dump all his stock at it's current share price, the sudden arrival of that many shares would drive the price down -- but these things aren't really about facts and more about driving an agenda
This is not a measure of gun stores, this is a measure of licensed dealers. Many, many dealers do not operate a "store", so the title is totally misleading.
That used to be the case, but now a "brick and mortar storefront" is a de-facto requirement, the Clinton Administration having aggressively ended "kitchen table gun dealers" and reduced the total number of dealers by some 75% nationally. The only practical exceptions are "gun show vendors".
ETA: other dealers do exist, yes, but nowhere close to the numbers of some years ago, and not to the point of making "the title totally misleading".
In the last three years, I've bought five guns from a FFL dealer who has no store, while sitting at his kitchen table in his house. (In Maryland, no less!)
I've done the same in NY. I have a really great deal going on with him -- I would email him before I would make any online purchase and ask if he could beat it. If so, I'd pick it up from him. If not, he'd tell me to order it and have it delivered to him. $25 transfer later and everything was square. I must have used him at least a dozen times. All out of his house.
Did you actually buy five guns from that dealer, or did you do five transfers with background checks? I have done a ton of transfers with my local FFL dealer, but have never actually bought a gun directly from him. He just can't compete with online prices.
In my experience, the majority of FFL license holders do not have a storefront. In fact, I just did a quick survey of the 20 FFL's who do business near my zip code. Only 8 had storefronts. There is big business in running background checks.
There's also the concierge-style who do things primarily by appointment and primarily handle transfers/consignments and sell accessories. Kind of splits the difference between a store proper and the "kitchen table" folk.
Right, but a store is no longer brick and mortar and our industry in particular facilitated the change. Namely, Ebay as a market place, but most "stores" do not operate as an entity as we would image in the real world. Case in point, is the FFL Class 7 gunsmiths option. This can be done from home, and can be used as a dealer license. You simply have to operate in a secure area very distinctly different than your home residence - namely locked door, separate entrance, and a ton of other exceptions. BUT you do not operate as a brick and mortar.
You're treating it as if transfer is the only cost associated here. Every one of these lines requires consuming a telephone number, which is a fixed cost passed down from the MVNO
You may own guns, but your statement is ignorant of the facts. Assault Rifles are machine guns, civilians in the US have been prohibited from buying any newly manufactured ones since 1986.
Not all machine guns are assault rifles, but assault rifles are by definition select-fire machine guns (burst or full auto), firing an intermediate cartridge, and of rifle-like design.
True machine guns like the M2, M240, M249 aren't assault rifles, nor are machine pistols.
We do need a new term for "military-style semi-automatic intermediate caliber rifles", but assault rifle is already used.
I'd suggest "black rifle" or "military-style rifle".
Maybe "Civilian Class" "Law enforcement class" and "Military class" buckets. And require various licensure for each category? (Its going to piss a lot of people off though...)
2) Progressive licensing for possession (various classes of weapons); license the owner, not the gun. A gangster with a .25acp pistol is a lot more of a problem than my .338 Lapua Magnum rifle.
3) Streamlining all existing regulations, which is a combination of eliminating ineffective/irrational stuff (SBR/SBS being more regulated than pistols, 922(r) parts counts, etc.) and strengthening other parts (licensing, treating handguns and semi-auto mag-fed rifles more strictly, etc.) Deregulate suppressors, deal with SBS/SBR, and raise the full-auto tax to $2500-5000 indexed to inflation, but also allow post-1986 automatics under that restrictive regulation.
That's effectively what we have now. Civilian-class is any semiautomatic, bolt-action, or single-shot weapon. Law-enforcement-class adds fully automatic weapons. Military class adds grenade launchers, proper machine guns, antiaircraft guns, artillery, naval guns....
There isn't a consensus definition of "assault rifle".
Some laws or proposed laws say a pistol grip and box magazine == "assault rifle". Most gun people would call a rifle that looks like an M-16, AK-47 or FN an assault rifle.
No private citizen can buy a machine gun today.
The dirty secret of the whole gun control thing is that most of the issues associated with people stockpiling weapons and smuggling pistols were dealt with in 1934 via an excise tax.
Basically, any short rifle and some pistols were subject to a $200 tax ($3400 today). Instead of blanket bans, the law defined classes of weapons and taxed them out of the market.
"There isn't a consensus definition of "assault rifle"."
Actually there is. What there isn't a consensus on is "Assault Weapons," which are different. "Assault Rifles" are illegal to own for US citizens, but "Assault Weapons" are not. They are two different things.
You can not buy a _new_ machine gun. The ones already registered are just like any other NFA item and can be transferred to anyone willing to pay the $200 tax.
Private citizens can import/manufacture machine guns provided they are properly licensed. These can't be sold to other private citizens however.
Subject to state law. Private citizens (i.e. not businesses in the trade) can't own them in WA or essentially in CA.
Seriously considering getting an FFL(07) for our company/office or a related entity once we have an office in a place like NV. Unclear if we want to just make suppressors (and keep post-1986 NFA items around for compatibility testing) or manufacture a range of NFA.
Mainly because now that crypto isn't so much an ITAR thing, I want a reason to register with ITAR again.
