overgrownmoose

A couple of years back, after a very rainy few weeks, Clemson University hired some helicopters to dry their grass parking lots before a big football game.

Is it your opinion that rifles are not optimal for a home defense situation, or is that only a generalization of a certain type of instructor? In my experience, it would be nigh impossible to find any skilled home defense instructor that wouldn't agree a shorter barrel ar-15 in .223/5.56 is almost a perfect HD gun. It has almost all the properties you could want in an HD gun:

• Overpenetration is not an issue, it will stop a man in his tracks with minimal hits (people can argue all they want, but in my military experience it is an effective round for killing men quickly even after only 1 hit to the torso)
• Low recoil so it's easy to control under high stress
• High magazine capacity in the case of multiple assailants or misses due to stress
• Easy to mount night capable sights, flashlights, and lasers
• Ergonomics adjustment in under a second for smaller family members

On an unrelated note, your username is awesome.

Keltec PF-9. Perfect size for comfortable concealed carry (if it's not comfortable, you won't carry it), full sized handgun round (9mm), reliable, combat accurate, cheap. Good luck finding one though. Keltec makes a few superb weapons, but never seems to output market demand.

ASRs are the worst. I control at one of a handful of FAA facilities that do them, and the only people who want them are military pilots and one local guy. They always give us an obligatory good job, but we all know that we don't do them enough to stay proficient. Especially no gyros.

There are no military center controllers that I am aware of as a civilian terminal ATC.

The frequency assigned to channels are set by the military command in charge of the aircraft. If a plane from another base flies in, the channels will not be configured the same. If civilian ATCs are using them, they have a letter of agreement with the command specifying their use.