Rabby

Gleefully retired.

First of season adult male Ruby-throated was just feeding at a nectar feeder in our side yard.
This is not a winter bird, but an incoming Ruby-throated for certain.
This is a few days earlier than usual. The Red Buckeye is not even in bloom yet.

Put your feeders out!

1967 Cougar. I had several of them, but only 2 were restored.
My daughter turned driving age and started talking about driving it, so I sold it.

I am very saddened to hear this.
Prayers for you and your family as you handle this storm.

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9mm to their head

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You misspelled 12 gauge...
FIFY.

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is a nitride coating which is, supposedly, better than tennifer.

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Mostly true.
Tenifer (it is actually spelled with 1 n - my phone auto-incorrected to Jennifer and I missed deleting the second n in my earlier post.) is actually a heat treating method and there is a protective coating placed over that. But this is a process which most shooters never really understand. They just see color and texture. Rust or no rust. Muzzle wear or no muzzle wear.
Glock got shut down by the EPA over a chemical used in the Tenifer process and changed to another slide heat treatment - Melonite which then required a change in the coating/finish. The coating was changed a few times. Went from that Glock gray to a more black look and for a couple of years, but it was not very durable. Slight surface rust broke through with daily carry and holsters often caused wear.
I saw a bunch of G-22s which were not doing well on the cosmetic end.
But, it did improve over time.
For the last decade, I have not seen such issues.
Even the guns with poor coatings functioned very well.
They just went ugly early. :)

As a former Glock certified instructor who has shot hundreds of them, I would not give that issue any thought. The main difference would be in the slide coating. Tennifer requires some chemicals which cannot be used in the USA., so there is another similar protective coating done here. This was an issue briefly, but has been resolved, so even that is minor.
Look at size, caliber and features that you desire before worrying about where the gun was manufactured.

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I thought bat soup was only a delicatesee in Asia?

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You are correct. On several Pacific islands and other islands on that side of the globe, bat soup is considered a delicacy. In centuries past, (before Spain imported lots of hogs everywhere) Islanders had a high protein diet with little to no fat, so on special occasions a young man would climb into a nest at great risk and obtain a few bats to add to a stew. There are two nests - one is the mating nest where the dominant males have the females and the young. The second nest is only for the bachelor males. The climbers of the earlier times knew the difference and only raided the second nest to protect the overall bat population. Sadly, modern day poachers just shotgun any nest that they can find and cook or sell whatever drops out. That practice has endangered the Mariana Fruit bat population to make an illegal commercial stew. It is a stinky and nasty goo which just the smell will turn your stomach. (No, I did not eat any.) There was a version of it sold in Palau, but I suspect there was very little bat in that version.
But this brings us back to the real lesson. Leave the bats alone.

You are missing the point.
Art of the deal...
This president is renegotiating all kinds of poor arrangements.
We have been leaking huge amounts of money and getting nothing back.
Just keep watching.

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Found article about it.

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Great job in finding that info. I was not aware that he made it to the hospital. My info was that he had collapsed outside the bar and was thought gone at that time.
The other part was Terry Lee Wiltsey who had previously been involved in a shooting of a guy when a rented "girlfriend" assisted in robbing the John but the "victim" came back with a revolver to reclaim what he lost and got shot through the head with his own pistol. He beat that on a claim of self defense. He also had the bullet wound in his hand after it went through the other guy's head. He got caught in a later federal case. Then got hit with the gun possession charge. That federal gun charge was rough, because I heard that he had been doing well during his supervised release up to that point.
Pretty colorful stuff.
I think some vestige of the Sons may still be around Livingston, but not sure. Dirty Ed's auto sales was supposedly one of their places, but that is very long ago.
I have wrung out the extent of my memory for the moment.