A friend of mine needed new grips for a pistol he has, and they are hard to come across. So he sent me some examples that were way messed up, as well as some castings of the handle of the gun. I fiddled about in CAD and made a model as best I could with what I had. Today I used some scrap pine I had sitting around and cut out the first test grip to 1) see how it fit and 2) to figure out how I was going to go about cutting a double sided item. Came out well. Shots of ...
The 'individual mandate' was upheld. Not on the grounds that the Administration fought for, that being the Commerce Clause. In fact the justices said that the CC did not apply in this case, as government can not force people into commerce. This is a good thing, as government has been expanding the CC to cover so much crap for so long, it's about time a wall has been put in front of them. It was upheld on the grounds that the 'penalty' for not buying was somehow a 'tax' and the ...