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My wife's gun is, in fact, a gift. I brought her to the range this weekend, and she shot a Ruger SR22 and really liked it, so I want to get her one for Christmas. As far as financing goes, that's a totally separate issue, but I use zero percent financing all the time. There's really no reason for me not to, I just pay the stuff off quickly, and it's no problem. Though, I'm probably going to end up getting both guns are the same place, it's just more convenient. I had my eye on a Sig Sauer P229, but I'm probably going to go for something a little more affordable. These are first guns for both me and my wife, so I probably don't need to go all out.

I know that if I purchase two handguns from a dealer, they have to report the sale to the ATF. Anyone know about purchasing two handguns in the same day from two different dealers? I want to buy a handgun for myself, and one for my wife. For mine, I want to use financing, so there's a particular dealer I want to go to. For my wife's gun, I want to go to Point Blank, because they aren't any more expensive, and are having a "buy in December, shoot in January for free" range deal.

They didn't say that they didn't test DNA. They said that they did, the day after bin Laden was killed. I believed that they used the DNA of family members.

What a coincidence!

Probably not. Like the rest of them, he'll simply say that he was always opposed to the surveillance, and warned us all ahead of time that this would happen.

That's a really good article, with the exception that it's entire premise is flawed. A "Stand Your Ground" law is a pretty specific self-defense law. It is one in which grants immunity to a person who kills or injures in self-defense without attempting to evade or retreat. The flaw in the argument is that Illinois has no such law. The "Stand Your Ground" that the rightwing blog refers to is not a Stand Your Ground law at all and the the clause that then-Senator Obama supported was not related to criminal immunity. The clause he supported protected a person who defended himself for civil suits brought on by the criminal. It has nothing to do with "Stand Your Ground" or immunity from criminal prosecution.

Like Benghazi, fake outrage from the right on yet another non-scandal. I don't like that the DOJ did it, but they didn't break the law, and it's not all that different than the NSA doing pretty much the same thing during the last administration. There are some serious similarities to President Clinton's second term here - keep on trying, until something sticks. Who knows, maybe, like President Clinton, they'll finally find something completely unrelated to governing and policy to pin on him.

Why would the Saudis write a letter? Did Chile? What about Canada or Australia?

Again "controlled" and "majority" are two different things. Health care reform is a great example of this. If the Democrats truly controlled the Congress, it would have been much easier to pass health care reform. It would have been sooner, and it would have been better. But a 60 vote majority was needed to get the bill to pass, which is how we ended up with a health care law that is more expensive, and less effective.

Had the majority, or controlled? Hardly the same thing.

I agree. But then, if I go back and find two year old posts about current events, I bet I can find discrepancies, too

A green apple taste almost always means that fermentation was stopped before it was completed. There are a few reasons for this. Too little yeast was used, there wasn't enough oxygen in the mix when the yeast was added (you really need to stir the crap out of the wort before adding the yeast - for Mr. Beer, make sure the cap is on tight, and shake it really vigorously for 5 minutes or so ), and more likely than anything else, the beer was bottled too early. How long do you let it ferment for? There's no harm in letting it go longer than the instructions say. Mr. Beer kits say to go two weeks. Personally, I don't think that this is long enough at all, I'd say go four weeks. You can also place the fermenter somewhere a little warmer (but not too warm, just a few degrees warmer), and it will get the yeast going a little more.

If your priming sugar causes any taste change, just let the bottles condition longer. The longer it sits in the bottles, the more the yeast eats up the sugars and anything else that might cause an aftertaste. I agree, the Mr. Beer keg is great for small test batches. It makes things a lot cleaner, and no need to move from fermenter to bottling bucket. I force carbonate when I use the kegs, but you don't have to - you can also use the CO2 to slowly carbonate. I've heard it's better to do that than to force carb (force carbonating is injecting CO2 into the keg at a rapid rate, causing the gas to be absorbed into beer over the course of 10 minutes or so), but I've never been able to tell any difference.

Mr. Beer is how I started out. Some say that Mr. Beer kits aren't real brewing, but I disagree. Mr. Beer is responsible for getting a lot of people into the hobby, and as far as I'm concerned, it's real brewing, just on a smaller scale.

I don't see any mention of brewing in all these threads. Surely I can't be the only one.