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  • No, not really. The type of gun doesn’t make a difference aside from the length of the barrel, but that’s pretty negligible for anything remotely normal (i.e. not a ~4-10inch barrel in this case).

    Same thing with the cartridge/bullet, total energy varies bullet to bullet, but again, in a negligible way.

    The real explanation is that the damage people expect from this cartridge is caused by hydrostatic shock: the shockwave caused by the bullet entering and slowing down significantly (transferring energy). Hitting somewhere soft and without much muscle mass, the side of the neck, let the bullet pass through without transferring a ton of energy.















  • When was this? This is absolutely not the norm today. On the east coast We typically start at 1.2 to 1.5x the appraised value, and go up significantly more based on how much legal fight and public outrage is created.

    I’ve been involved twice in my career (for around 140 properties total), with the backing of the Federal government, the FHWA in both cases in my experience, the land is the property of the state as soon as the papers are filled (referred to as ‘quicktake’, not something a state government can do without federal authority), but the legal proceedings for the total compensation can go on for 10+ years if you have the money to fight it. Total comp is often 5-20x what the property is worth plus all of the legal fees.

    The only way I can possibly think of your grand parents farm being taken without them being more than well compensated, is if it happened under Eisenhower.


  • Again, that’s not how this works.

    California can’t just seize corporate assets owned by multiple interested parties in order extract funds from one individual.

    That’s the whole issue with this toothless law, California can’t enforce it. Even if they’re able to seize a couple residences, the property in them, some vehicles, etc. There will be decades long court battles over those assets, and they still won’t add up to the hundreds of millions of dollars that a multi-billionaire would be responsible for under this tax.


  • That is definitely not the point of eminent domain laws, and it certainly is not that easy.

    Even if California won an eminent domain case like that (which would be extremely unlikely), they’d still have to pay through the nose for the property they took.

    “Oh well the State has plans for this property, so take a hike. Eminent domain, bitches.”

    You have no business being in this conversation if that’s your understanding of ED cases in the US, let alone in California.

    Truly one of the most uniformed takes I’ve ever heard.