LFP for a 2014 AT - $74
SFP for a 2015 AT - $144

If someone can explain the reason (besides “because we can”) I’m all ears as they're 99% the same thing with only the tip of the firing pin being different.

Good condition LA5D. Everything works. Hardened for scar/machine gun recoil. Hp output 100mw.

Looking to trade toward a bolt gun (no hunting rifles) will combine with larue i have listed toward high end bolt gun.

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Connor

For sale is a Proof Research 6mm Dasher Zermatt Origin shouldered prefit. 1:7.5 twist. 26 inches. Included Insite Heathen 3 port brake (has a scuff on the muzzle end, only cosmetic). About 1300 rounds through it.

$300 shipped, Paypal F&F.

Steiner t6xi 2.5-15x50 for sale. SCR Mil reticle with green illumination. Has sunshade in box. Flip up caps are included, as well as both sizes of throw lever. Works really well with clip on thermal.

$1250 shipped. PP F&F or Zelle.

Mount is in excellent condition. Asking $310 shipped to lower 48 CONUS states. Zelle, Venmo, and PayPal F&F for payment.

Have 2 Spuhr mounts for sale. Were used for zco but have moved to 1.5 height.

1. 6001 36mm 0moa 1.18 height. $220

2. 6601 36mm 20moa 1.18 height. $220

PP F&F or Zelle

Looking for a functional pressure pad.

Tikka T3x super varmint in 243. Chassis is Whiskey 3 non folder with full arca, arca spigot with NV bridge. Action and barrel are factory gray cerakote. Threaded 5/8. Currently has adapter for Q style can but can remove. Will ship with 1 MDT polymer mag. Barrel is 24 inch 1:8 twist.$1650 shipped from my FFL. PP F&F or Zelle.

Partial trade for standard Ckye pod

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Connor

For sale is the pictured KAC Apr 20” 7.62, includes what’s pictured plus the Kac folding sights not pictured.

$5,300 shipped within the USA ONLY
$5,100 if you don’t want the muzzle device

FFL must accept from individuals

Zelle, check or money order only

Trade list: (only trading with established members)
- atacr 1-8 fc-dmx +$
- eotech g33/45 combos +$
- Rrs 34l with anvil tripod +$
- Berger factory 6.5cm /300 prc ammo +$
- sig 3000 bdx lrf binos +$

I’ll just say that this article highlights the very thing we see here on the forum.

And yes, I’m posting the full text of the essay even though I realize many will ignore it or skim and post anyway, because that is exactly what this essay is about.
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Credentialled But Illiterate: The Reading Crisis at the Heart of Education

By Patrick Keeney

In his trenchant essay, “The Average College Student Is Illiterate,” Hilarius Bookbinder sounds the alarm over the precipitous decline in student literacy.

It is a sobering account. Bookbinder (a pseudonym) teaches in the humanities and draws upon years of classroom experience. He observes that many of his students are functionally illiterate. They are unable to engage with serious adult literature and often find the very act of reading tedious. As a result, they avoid it whenever possible. This aversion manifests in predictable ways: skimming texts without comprehension, failing to identify key arguments, and struggling with exam questions simply because they haven’t read them carefully.

His reflections reveal the troubling reality of liberal learning today and the formidable challenge educators face in fostering genuine intellectual engagement. Bookbinder places the blame squarely on society. “I don’t blame K–12 teachers,” he writes. “This is not an educational system problem. This is a societal problem.”

Of course, he has a point, but this is too lenient. It overlooks the significant structural failures within the K–12 system itself—failures that have deprioritized foundational literacy, neglected intellectual rigor, and left students unprepared for the demands of higher education.

Over the past several decades, elementary and secondary schools have increasingly adopted a pedagogical model prioritizing technological fluency and emotional well-being over developing serious intellectual habits. As one parent noted in response to Bookbinder’s piece, children are now “pushed into technology (computers, iPads) as early as kindergarten” and “are not required to read entire books, let alone write about them.”

This new orthodoxy exalts engagement over comprehension, screen fluency over print literacy, and the consequence is a generation of students ill-equipped for the demands of higher education.

More troubling still is the retreat from rigor. In the name of preserving students’ self-esteem, schools are often reluctant to challenge students, hold them accountable, or insist upon high standards of excellence. The result is a dangerous turn to what has been called the therapeutic approach to education. Students are flattered rather than instructed, and their self-esteem is affirmed regardless of whether they have done anything estimable. The essential work of education—discerning truth from error, cultivating judgment, introducing the young to the intellectual heritage of their civilization—is displaced by therapeutic aims.

And so, when these students arrive at university, their failure becomes apparent. Every professor has stories—students who cannot follow a basic line of reasoning, who confuse anecdote with argument, or who, without the slightest embarrassment, announce that they are “not readers,” as though this were a harmless personal quirk rather than a disqualification fromserious intellectual life. Once isolated anecdotes, such stories are now commonplace, as Bookbinder documents.

The university effectively becomes a triage center for the wounded products of a broken educational pipeline. Professors are increasingly urged to accommodate: to simplify readings, moderate expectations, and reward effort rather than genuine achievement. The result has been a steady erosion of standards and academic benchmarks.

But this is not merely an educational failure. It is a moral one. Literacy is not simply a technical skill—it is a form of ethical and intellectual development. It requires cultivating patience, empathy, and sound judgment. It demands that we sit still and listen attentively to the minds and voices of others. If students cannot do this, then we are not educating them. At best, we are merely credentialing them.

To be literate, in the fullest sense, is to participate in the great conversation of civilization. It is to gain access to and be initiated into the shared understandings of a community. A liberal education, properly understood, is neither vocational training nor a self-esteem project. It is a moral and intellectual discipline that presupposes a conception of the good and an account of the human person as more than a bundle of appetites or a mere consumer. It sees the human being as a moral agent, capable of self-transcendence and shaping a life toward truth, beauty, and meaning.

We deceive ourselves if we believe the decline in student literacy is a neutral development. We must resist the fashionable cynicism that shrugs and says this is simply the way of the world. We are told that deep reading is obsolete in the internet age, with its endless screens and omnipresent mobile phones. Our society increasingly treats the reading of serious texts not as an essential ability at the core of educational engagement, but as a quaint indulgence from abygone era.

Such resignation is not only intellectually lazy but morally perilous. The capacity to read deeply, write clearly, follow and test a line of reasoning—these are habits of mind without which neither democracy nor the life of the mind can flourish.

Education has always been about elevation. Liberal learning, as the name implies, is about liberating the individual from the contingencies and limitations of his or her birth. It is the deliberate act of lifting students’ minds above distraction, above appetite, above the noise of the present moment. To “meet students where they are” may be a necessary pedagogical starting point, but it must never be mistaken for the destination. The true aim of education is not to affirm students as they are, but to form them into what they might become. It is to awaken their capacities for reason, imagination, and judgment—and to summon them toward the best versions of themselves.

An earlier version of this essay was previously published in The Epoch Times

Geissele HK MR556 trigger - New

$150 shipped

I have 2 XYLO Chassis for sale/Trade

One has been painted, but just krylon so it’s removeable.

Just the chassis, no accessories available at the moment.

Willing to hear trade offers of other chassis (W3 Pro) or maybe a CDG action, barrels, or towards an ATX or ATX-C

800 shipped Conus Each.

Hello,
I have an M14 with SEI cast receiver of about mid 80’s vintage. Rifle appears to be complete original GI build from 1962 with just the substitution of SEI semi-auto receiver. I’d like this to be as accurate and competitive as the NM AR15 I now shoot in service rifle. Opinions on modding this rifle to NM specs, or buy an already completed NM rifle? Thanks.
Best regards.

JP LRP07, trigger tech 2 stage, 260 rounds fired. It hammers 130 Berger vlds.
Comes with 338 loaded rounds and around 42 once fired brass. JP case and
4 mags. $4,500

Great Condition AIAX 338 with a Schmidt & Bender 5-25x56 PM II

Please text with questions and if you need more pictures i can provide or we can facetime if you would like to see more in person.

Thanks!

682-412-9381

Trijicon RMRcc. $350 shipped.

Selling my used 11” MR556A4, it was spray painted but I stripped 99% of it off. Please be aware I replaced the following:
- ambi mag release with a standard
- Replaced OEM grip with K2
- OEM handguard with Geissele rail.
- timney straight trigger
- radian talon. -
It also comes with a rearden muzzle break, and rearden atlas for hub threads. I'm also throwing in a free magpul CTR that I will ship separately from the gun.
- if you would like me to loosen it before sending it to you let me know.

I don’t know where I placed the manual for this but it’s found online via PDF. If you need more info on anything please reach out to me. I bought this pistol new in 03/2025.

Please no trades!

Price: $2850 shipped to FFL or FTF if near Saint Louis MO.

I bought this Gen 1 night vision scope on EBAY and need help identifying. Maybe a manual or at least finding out what all of the butons do. My 1st night vision optic and dont want to mess it up. First post here so be gentle.

930 rounds—— 1,100 shipped

Remington 700 223 action with Bartlein medium palma 7 twist 223 5r 27” blank. $875 shipped.

Selling a Seekins HIT precision Scope Mount.
Brand new, opened for pics.
Comes with bubble level and rail.
34mm, 1.54” H, and 0moa.

I thought I would have a use but only run 36 and 35mm.

$350 shipped.

I just discovered something about bullet seating and "reverse" setback or "bullet jump":

When I mandrel expand my cases to .002 neck tension, and then seat my bullet with a crimp (Lee Factory die crimp), the bullet jumps forward. 005 (and higher) after I close (slam) the bolt on my AR-10!

So, all my seating tests have been in vain.

I tested several bullets this morning, all starting with a COAL of 2.8... then, after chambering the rounds, I removed them from the chamber and remeasured- all seating depths changed drastically to 2.805, 2.81, and some even higher.

I may have to change my neck tension to. 004 because the ones I tried at .003 also jumped out further.

I even gently loaded a few to make sure the chamber wasn't grabbing on extraction, and it's not.
Slamming the bolt home causes my bullet seating to change drastically at .002 and. 003 even with the crimp.

So, if I increase my neck tension to .004, which many people online recommend for semi's, then it'll take more force to seat the bullet which comes with its own slight degradation in run out and concentricity... right?

What do you guys think about all of this?

Looking for a impact 737.