After reading several threads about doctors and guns, I decided to see what would happen if I volunteered the information that I am a gun owner, a target shooter and an instructor. Both my primary care physician and a doctor who treated me for COVID symptoms were like "Oh you're a firearms instructor? That's pretty cool". Neither of them gave me any kind of a hard time and so far nobody from the govt. has come knocking on my door.
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The Motrin and scotch /sarc takes the place of going to the doc most times. Motrin isn’t a sedative, it’s an NSAID sold over the counter. And scotch is, well, we’ll just call it a delicious refreshment.
Don't worry, now there is a box checked somewhere that you own guns.
Become irritated one day and there will be another box checked that you are unstable.
Probably a little extreme. But why volunteer information?
NES really has a hard time shutting the f*ck up.
I hope many of you never find yourselves in a situation where you need a lawyer because you will be telling everything to the cops before the lawyer arrives.
AHM
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They could put one of these doohickeys in,
and have the range chair log the reading every month.
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I'm not an HVAC guy - maybe they're not the precise things you'd use.
But there's gotta be some turnkey manometer appropriate for end-users.
And if he hears Tylenol and scotch,
he logs, "gonna need a new patient".
(Truth be told, I've met Brocc,
and he's barely cruciferous;
he really rocks the incognito).
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and have the range chair log the reading every month.
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There are plenty of those boxes checked. My police department knows I own guns (they issued my license) the state knows I own guns (all those EFA-10s) the feds know I own guns (all those 4473s).
In a good way being a gun owner has actually calmed me down. Knowing that if I lose my temper I could do something really stupid or have my guns confiscated has made me think twice about my behavior.
I am NOT going to be ashamed of something that is a legal right and a hobby / sport / profession that I enjoy responsibly.
When I need to STFU I do so. Like I said I am not going to skulk around like something that lives under a rock because of the hoplophobia.
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This master plan started with including the keyword "AND" in pretty much every flavor of SQL.
fshalor
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A friend recently had his insurance rates triple as he lied about smoking and when they did a health screening, tested him for tobacco. (ha had a cigar at a wedding the week prior. ).
Don't ask, Don't get screened, don't tell.
fshalor
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Renovating old house with a lead paint disclosure. Works too.
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If it is if life insurance, "conveniently forgetting" something like this can cause any claim to be challenged within the first two years of policy issuance. After two years, it cannot and you don't even have a suicide exclusion ... so plan ahead.
I've heard of health screening/blood/urine samples for life insurance but not for medical. Which kind of insurance was this? And, if an insurance company requires screening for a policy it is "don't buy that policy", not "don't get screened".
fshalor
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Not life insurance. He did a screening for a $1200 cash if he passes employer driven feature/stunt .
Doesn't smoke habitually. True statement.
Had one cigar a few days before the screen.
Instafail.
Didn't get the $1200 cash bonus for getting screened.
Next paycheck, his rate went from $270/check to over $800.
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Gotcha, so it was probably not a change in the insurance rate but in the employer subsidy. Some really big companies self-insure and the carrier you see when paying is really just a payment/claim processing service and the employer gets billed for the sum of all claims plus an admin fee.
My employer offers a $700ish annual increase in the subsidy for some activity which varies from year to year. One year it was screening (form from your own MD was OK); most recently I had to choose an "activity" - I visited a website every to be told about how to walk for better health and got the credit. I don't know what it will be next year but it will be something.
Hell, last year I traded 16 Ga #8 for Dental Work. I had a Crown come loose that had been done 25 years ago and Crowns ain't cheap. I didn't want to lose it so I took the .357 Bore Brush that was in my desk, out of it's plastic tube and put it in there. After they reapplied the Crown the Hygienist came running out as I was leaving saying "You forgot your Bore Brush tube". People in the waiting room kinda had that WTF look.Not a physician, but probably the most gun-friendly dentist you'll meet in Springfield, MA area
My Dr. Retired last month, kinda bummed.
Yeah, tell me this 6 months AFTER I move to SC. I stop up on occasion. Send me a shopping list, we can wrangle a trade, I'm sure...Not a physician, but probably the most gun-friendly dentist you'll meet in Springfield, MA area
Asaltweapon
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Ya. With the winds blowing around and that gunpowder smell filling the air shooting up to 100 rounds a week. Handling shells at least 2 times per shot.
You do you. I’ll do me thank you very much.
AHM
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You had me thinking you cleaned the cavity with a bore brush...
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Mesatchornug
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I only needed a second pass. But yeah
