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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4050 on: January 10, 2025, 09:34:48 AM »
Quote from: WLJ on January 10, 2025, 08:32:17 AM
The government told Sig Sauer to issue a recall for Romeo5 red dots because they didn't tell people not to eat the batteries.
Look I can see their point to a point on the packaging bit but really?

SIG SAUER Recalls ROMEO5 Red Dot Firearm Sights Due to Ingestion Hazard; Violations of Reese’s Law Federal Safety Regulations for Consumer Products with Button Cell Batteries and Child Resistant Button Cell Battery Packaging
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/SIG-SAUER-Recalls-ROMEO5-Red-Dot-Firearm-Sights-Due-to-Ingestion-Hazard-Violations-of-Reeses-Law-Federal-Safety-Regulations-for-Consumer-Products-with-Button-Cell-Batteries-and-Child-Resistant-Button-Cell-Battery-Packaging
Next, they'll get after SIG SAUER because not enough sights are actually being returned, most users simply laughing the recall off.

Reminds me of a recall several decades ago when the makers of the American 180 - a .22 rimfire machine gun - made a laser sight for it. I believe it was a low powered HeNe laser with a good size battery pack, and someone working for fed.gov believe it needed extra warning labels because the laser could be hazardous if pointed at someone while mounted on a machine gun. Even today, the makers of laser sights and laser grips still provide warning labels for users to stick on their laser-equipped guns. (Few do.)
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4051 on: January 10, 2025, 09:45:13 AM »
So a child that would eat a battery would NOT eat the battery if there was a safety label telling them not to.   ???
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4052 on: January 10, 2025, 10:23:35 AM »
Calif just made Schiff a Senator.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4053 on: January 10, 2025, 10:24:48 AM »
Quote from: HankB on January 10, 2025, 09:34:48 AM
Next, they'll get after SIG SAUER because not enough sights are actually being returned, most users simply laughing the recall off.

Reminds me of a recall several decades ago when the makers of the American 180 - a .22 rimfire machine gun - made a laser sight for it. I believer it was a low powered HeNe laser with a good size battery pack, and someone working for fed.gov believe it needed extra warning labels because the laser could be hazardous if pointed at someone while mounted on a machine gun. Even today, the makers of laser sights and laser grips still provide warning labels for users to stick on their laser-equipped guns. (Few do.)

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4054 on: January 10, 2025, 01:16:21 PM »
Hey, if I have a Sig gun, it's OK to eat that, right?
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4055 on: January 10, 2025, 01:20:25 PM »
I was wondering why I had acid reflux.

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4056 on: January 10, 2025, 01:25:21 PM »
Quote from: Perd Hapley on January 10, 2025, 01:16:21 PM
Hey, if I have a Sig gun, it's OK to eat that, right?

Was there a note saying "do not insert into mouth"?
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4057 on: January 10, 2025, 01:28:20 PM »
I don't need no gun that tells me what I'm allowed to do with my bodily orifices! This here's 'Murica!
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4058 on: January 10, 2025, 03:27:20 PM »
Quote from: Perd Hapley on January 10, 2025, 01:16:21 PM
Hey, if I have a Sig gun, it's OK to eat that, right?
Only the grip module. 
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4059 on: January 10, 2025, 03:29:42 PM »
Quote from: Perd Hapley on January 10, 2025, 01:28:20 PM
I don't need to gun that tells me what I'm allowed to do with my bodily orifices! This here's 'Murica!
Don't worry, Springfield Armory will start putting "Mouth Zone" somewhere on their pistols for you. 


Also, Ruger will add a safety message on the muzzle crown saying "Warning:  Only point this end at the target." 
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« Reply #4060 on: January 10, 2025, 06:20:43 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on January 10, 2025, 03:29:42 PM
Don't worry, Springfield Armory will start putting "Mouth Zone" somewhere on their pistols for you. 


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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4061 on: January 11, 2025, 08:33:58 AM »
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4062 on: January 11, 2025, 02:11:02 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on January 11, 2025, 08:33:58 AM
https://x.com/Rothmus/status/1877917036514546135



If they want others to smell their farts, isn't that just more proof that they are men?
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« Reply #4063 on: January 16, 2025, 10:43:46 AM »
Shocking I know

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4064 on: January 16, 2025, 11:46:54 AM »
Another glaring example of projection in an effort to hide.

I'm shocked. Are you shocked?
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4065 on: January 16, 2025, 12:07:38 PM »
You miss gendered yourself

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4066 on: January 16, 2025, 12:53:44 PM »
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You miss gendered yourself

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https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1879919314981257489

That's a guy.
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« Reply #4067 on: January 17, 2025, 11:50:17 AM »
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« Reply #4068 on: January 17, 2025, 11:50:56 AM »
And it's being reported as well in the MSM

Biden says Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, kicking off expected legal battle as he pushes through final executive actions
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/politics/joe-biden-equal-right-amendment/index.html
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4069 on: January 17, 2025, 11:57:59 AM »
The ERA has already expired.  (it's moot anyway, the 14th and 19th already cover it.)  They need to start over if they really think it's necessary.  IMHO, the whole point of this is to give ammo to attack anyone who challenges the ratification.

(isn't there still a 200+ year old amendment that doesn't have an expiration date floating out there?  Submitted by James Madison and something about limiting congressional pay raises)
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #4070 on: January 17, 2025, 12:18:54 PM »
Quote from: zxcvbob on January 17, 2025, 11:57:59 AM
The ERA has already expired.  (it's moot anyway, the 14th and 19th already cover it.)  They need to start over if they really think it's necessary.  IMHO, the whole point of this is to give ammo to attack anyone who challenges the ratification.

(isn't there still a 200+ year old amendment that doesn't have an expiration date floating out there?  Submitted by James Madison and something about limiting congressional pay raises)

That was the 27th Amendment that wasn't ratified for 202 years until a Texas student started a lobby campaign to get it ratified in the early 1980s. It was ratified in 1992.

Not only has the ERA expired(?) there were a few states that rescinded their approval of it.

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« Reply #4071 on: January 17, 2025, 01:50:29 PM »
...and the ERA is still dead. [laughs in Phyllis Schlafly]

Of course, there's nothing dictatorial about amending the Constitution by fiat.  ;/
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« Reply #4072 on: January 17, 2025, 02:12:14 PM »
Won't stop a bunch of lefty activist pols and judges from acting like it's now the law of the land
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« Reply #4073 on: January 17, 2025, 02:48:18 PM »
So why didn't he do this back in October or earlier?  Even if it fell short, Kamala could have campaigned on it.  Odd to try to push this crap the last weekday before Trump is inaugurated. 
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« Reply #4074 on: January 17, 2025, 03:16:22 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on January 17, 2025, 02:48:18 PM
So why didn't he do this back in October or earlier?  Even if it fell short, Kamala could have campaigned on it.  Odd to try to push this crap the last weekday before Trump is inaugurated.

We have to remember that everything happening these last few weeks regarding Biden "sticking it" to Trump is not Biden at all, but a cadre of WH staff woke kids whose whole life experience is in NYC and San Francisco. They're doing all this out of their bubble.
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