Dinsmore

Welcome to America.

It's not obtuse regulation, it's explicitly by design. In most places in the US, you cannot operate a business in a residential area that serves the public. Businesses that do not serve the public (like a tech startup or someone working from home) are fine. Ice cream trucks are also not allowed unless you have a proper business license / permit.

A mile on a bike should take about 5 minutes too.

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Why would the democratic party want democracy? The people in positions of power in the party got a lot of great fundraising this cycle, and they'll be able to use the threat of this incoming disaster to raise even more!

Do Americans really believe they’ll be able to get their pet monster under control once they genocide the entire Middle East?

I don't think any Americans who truly support this think further than the next quarter of Raytheon profits.

Korra and Toph from Avatar, Tsunade and Sakura from Naruto

Ah, well in that case, you might want to consider an AR-15 as your first or second rifle. It's an extremely versatile platform and, because of its popularity, knowing how it operates will give you instant familiarity with a huge amount of rifles out there. You can even find conversion kits for .22lr (and 9mm, but those are supposed to be way less reliable), so you can have one "gun" (serialized lower) that can be reconfigured to shoot a lot of different kinds of ammo and is useful in various situations.

Then a 10/22, especially a takedown model, should fit the bill. Note that a takedown model will be slightly less accurate than a non-takedown, so if you're going for super precision shooting, then don't go the takedown route.

A few other things to consider - if you're planning on only buying ONE gun, you might want a slightly higher caliber, such as at least 9mm, in case you need to use it to defend yourself - sticking with rifles, the Ruger PCC is a good one (although heavyish), and is also a takedown. Obviously if you're comfortable in getting a first rifle for learning the basics, then adding another rifle to your lineup later that's got more bells and whistles, this won't apply to you.

Another two considerations, especially if you want to be more on the DL, is storage and transport. Your state/county/city might have storage laws that you may have to comply with, making it slightly harder to store rifles than pistols. And clearly if you have to put a big rifle case in your closet it'll be more obvious than a tiny pistol safe. Regarding transport, it's pretty hard to covertly carry a full sized rifle around, since the cases are so much longer, whereas takedown models such as the 10/22 or PCC are much easier to fit in a (tall) backpack or tennis racket bag. Pistols are obviously much easier as well.

Welcome! Any reason you'd mostly want to shoot a rifle? What are you actually interested in doing? There's a lot of different types of shooting. While the recommendations for a 10/22 are great for an all-rounder first gun, if you ONLY want to larp as a tacticool guy, then perhaps a M&P Sport II would be better.

At a time when we also need more housing density, I feel like subways go hand-in-hand. And even for shittily zoned cities with huge suburb-like areas, I feel like most would benefit from at least nearby subways with parking lots (or ideally, additional bike paths).