Palmetto Puns

My wife and I decided to go shooting at PSAs indoor range today since it’s so cold out. I took my form 1 suppressor, p226 and 9mm SBR (also form1) for hosts, among other guns.

After shooting for a bit I pull out the can, mount it on my p226, shoot a mag, wife shoots a mag and then the range worker came in and asked for my tax stamp. I told him I didn’t have it with me as it’s at the bank in my safe deposit box. He then asked us to leave. I told him I have a pdf on my phone I can pull up from google drive but he says no, it has to be the original physical form with the stamp, no exception. He then goes on to explain that they could loose their FFL if an ATF agent came in, though I fail to see the logic there. The user would be the offender, not the ffl holder.

I have to say, I wasn’t mad but I’m incredibly disappointed. I never carry a copy of approved form because there is no legal requirement to do so. The can is legal in every way, as is the sbr. Why be bootlickers and enforce non existent regulations?

The other issue is they they, along with two other NFA items are all eform form1s. There is no physical stamp. Even if I had a copy with me they likely wouldn’t have accepted it.

I thought I'd post a separate update, considering how much attention this post has received and how far it spread across the internet. I never expected a post on /r/NFA to go so far. I expected, a most, a dozen or so comments and that my message I sent to Chad on facebook might get a response and confirmation that my experience was a mistake.

Chad Wiley reached back out to me on Facebook and Josiah and Jamin, the owner, have both posted over on AR15.com. They have all insisted that my experience should never have happened, that there is no such policy in place, and that as best they can tell, the RSOs picked up bad info from an NRA instructor. Below is from Chad.

>I guess there was a period when a few RO's took an NRA course and that's what the NRA taught at the time. This is NOT written company policy. It was dealt with across the company this AM.

Jamin posted the below on AR15.com

>We are the biggest supporters of the 2nd amendment in the country. We have dedicated our lives to preserving the personal freedoms of Americans. If you ever have an issue reach out to us directly. We have 1700 employees and we can’t control what all of them say or do. They are imperfect people just like us. However, we love them as employees and couldn’t do what we do without them, just like we love our customers.

and

>I looked into this also, apparently an NRA instructor put this out at an RSO class we sent some RSOs to. It is not a company policy. We are getting with our RSO today to make sure they understand that.

I have seen many others comments that they have had similar experiences at several PSA stores. Hopefully PSA management has really hammered the point home and it will no longer be an issue for anyone going forward. I do appreciate PSA as a company, not for what they've done for the industry, their retail stores have been a blessing for gun owners in SC, where they force all the others to improve or die.

Also, thank you everyone who reached out in private chats and comments. I think about a dozen or so people must have let me know they were contacting owners and managers on my behalf.

1. Palmetto State Bank, CEO, Russell Laffitte, under scrutiny and named in a subpoena by the disciplinary arm of the state Supreme Court investigating Alex Murdaugh’s financial misconduct, was fired on Friday.
2. Palmetto State Bank’s board of directors fired its CEO, Russell Laffitte, as allegations came to light that the executive was involved in cases in which Alex Murdaugh is accused of financial impropriety. “Palmetto State Bank has this afternoon permanently severed the employment of Russell Laffitte, effective immediately.
3. a copy of a subpoena filed by the S.C. Supreme Court’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel that named Russell Laffitte and another bank official, Chad Westendorf. It sent the subpoena to the Hampton County Probate Court in November, seeking records from cases that involved Russell Laffitte, Chad Westendorf and Alex Murdaugh.
4. The subpoena, sent prior to two rounds of indictments that alleged Alex Murdaugh defrauded dozens of clients out of millions, requested previously unreported cases in which Murdaugh allegedly stole from victims.
5. The subpoena indicated that the two men, especially Russell Laffitte, could be a new focus of law enforcement.
6. Among the cases requested in the subpoena was one in which Russell Laffitte and Alex Murdaugh obtained a settlement for a deaf Hampton man who became quadriplegic after a car wreck.... relating to Hakeem Pinckney.
7. Alex Murdaugh indicted for financial crimes related to two other cases sought in the subpoena — the estates of Sandra Taylor and Blondell Gary. Murdaugh is accused of stealing more than $260,000 in death settlement money from both estates.
8. Russell Laffitte, as the former bank CEO, served as conservator and personal representative for Hakeem Pinckney, the deaf man who became disabled after a car wreck in August 2009;
9. As an attorney, Alex Murdaugh represented Hakem Pinckney and two others passengers: Pinckney’s cousin Natasha Thomas and Pinckney’s sister Shaquarah Pinckney. They sued the tire company because their tire burst and caused the wreck. Pinckney’s mother, Pamela Pinckney, was driving the car when it crashed;
10. Alex Murdaugh convinced Pamela Pinckney that she needed Russell Laffitte to watch over her son’s finances, Two checks were made out in settlement funds meant for Hakeem Pinckney: a Dec. 20, 2011, check for $309,581.45, and a Jan. 3, 2012, check for $

***The Title to this post should read "Russell Laffitte", not "Sterling Laffitte"

Richard Alexander "Alex" Murdaugh embezzled from deaf quadriplegic in 2011 and suspended attorney Cory Fleming, Russell Laffitte of Palmetto State Bank were co-conspirators.

1. about to be slapped with eight more lawsuits from ex-clients alleging he took advantage of their grave personal injuries to rob them.
2. eight people who were allegedly defrauded out of anywhere between $90,000 to $750,000. Those filings will include allegations brought by the family of a man who attended the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind.
3. attorney Bamberg claiming many other victims are out there. "People don't know the depth of this thing."
4. One victim, The young man, who was already deaf, was rendered a quadriplegic in a 2011 car accident and was placed on a ventilator. His mother was driving and was permanently injured, as was another passenger.  Alex Murdaugh introduced the man’s mother to attorney Cory Fleming, who instead brought in the Palmetto State Bank’s president, Russell Laffitte, as the conservator. The man later died at a care facility, and Russell Laffitte became personal representative of his estate**.**
5. But Murdaugh allegedly cut a check in 2012 made payable to Palmetto State Bank, and the man’s family never saw any of the funds. The other passenger in the wreck, a woman, was defrauded out of another $375,000. For the man’s mother, she was entitled to $89,000, and attorney Cory Fleming cut a check to Alex Murdaugh’s law firm, PMPED. But the money again vanished.
6. From another one of attorney Bamberg’s clients, Murdaugh allegedly stole $750,000. Blamberg said the client did not find out until two years later from law enforcement about the sum he was owed.

The law offices of Moss, Kuhn, and Suspended Fleming in Beaufort, SC is a crime scene and needs to be shut down.

It's time for attorney Bamberg to go after the assets of Moss, Kuhn, and Suspended Fleming.

***CORRECTION***

***The FoxNews Article has corrected "Sterling Laffitte" to "Russell Laffitte"

https://www.foxnews.com/us/alex-murdaugh-embezzeled-deaf-quadriplegic-patrolman

Murdaugh’s Alleged Co-Conspirators Expected To Be Indicted Soon, Sources Say

[https://www.fitsnews.com/2022/01/05/murdaughs-alleged-co-conspirators-expected-to-be-

"Scion to a South Carolina Political Family, Is Only Getting Weirder", according to Rolling Stone

1. Richard Alexander "Alex" Murdaugh faces nearly 50 charges for financial crimes and a "Person of Interest" on potential criminal charges;
2. Now, eight clients are threatening to sue Alex Murdaugh, alleging that he stole money from clients;
3. In September, Alex Murdaugh attempted to arrange his own death by a hitman in an insurance scheme, the staged drive-by shooting happened just three months after Murdaugh had called 911 in a panic, saying he’d found his wife and son were shot to death on their property, now nearly 50 charges that he stole money from his clients;
4. Attorney Justin Bamberg prepared to file nine new civil lawsuits on behalf of eight clients against Alex Murdaugh, his associates, and banks for fraud schemes to steal their money, if the parties don’t agree to pay up;
5. “What has transpired is so egregious, it’s gonna go one of two ways,” Bamberg says. “Either all of these people and institutions will voluntarily try to make this right, or,if they choose not to, we are going to file multi-million-dollar lawsuits in Hampton County and let the people of Hampton County make this right.”;
6. Alex Murdaugh scammed people was that he’d offer his services as a lawyer to someone who had an insurance claim, say, from an accident, Murdaugh would convince them to hire a third party friends, Cory Fleming of the law firm of Moss, Kuhn, and Suspended Fleming AND Russell Laffitte, Fired CEO and Director of Palmetto State Bank to manage the money allowing Murdaugh and co-conspirators to hide the financial processes from the client, and Murdaugh, Fleming, and Lafitte, and the corresponding law firms and bank would keep large portions of their settlement money for themselves;
7. Attorney Bamberg is particularly angered by the plight of one client, Pamela Pinckney, whose deaf son (Hakeem Pinckney) was paralyzed in a car accident. Because he was unable to communicate by sign language, when his ventilator somehow got unplugged, he suffocated to death in 2011 in a care facility;
8. Alex Murdaugh had promised to help Hakeem Pinckney's family in a lawsuit against a tire company, but ultimately Alex Murdaugh and his co-conspirators stole the settlement money for themselves. Murdaugh convinced the family to hire a friend Russell Lafitte of his at Palmetto State Bank as a conserva

Number of Shares and Percentage Ownership

Ann C. Laffitte - 35,224 - 13%

Allendale, SC,

Estate of Henry Laffitte - 18,549 - 7%

Allendale, SC

Russell L. Laffitte - 23,365 - 9%

Varnville, SC,

L. Gray Henderson - 20,692 - 8%

Hampton, SC

Elizabeth L. Malinowski - 16,947 - 6%

Beaufort, SC

***********************************************

Charles A. Laffitte, Jr - Director 4% -Palmetto State Bank - Calco of SC - 33% - Hampton, SC

Jan M. Malinowski - Director - President Palmetto State Bank, Beaufort, SC

L. Gray Henderson - Director - EVP - 8% of PSB - Laffitte Family Partnership 32% - Hampton, SC

Russell L. Laffitte - CEO- Director 9% of PSB - Laffitte Family Partnership - 32% - Varnville, SC

Charles A. Laffitte III - Director - VP - - 3% - Laffitte Family Partnership 32% - Hampton, SC

James A. Gibson Jr. - Attorney Director - Retired - Palmetto State Bank - Beaufort, SC

Norris L. Laffitte, Jr. Director Retired - Palmetto State Bank - Railroad Exec - Beaufort, SC

Dr. H.L. Laffitte, Jr. Director - H Lucius - Laffitte MD LLC - 100% - Beaufort, SC

Ann C. Laffitte - 13% - Allendale, SC

Elizabeth L. Malanowski - Director - 6% - Palmetto State Bank - Beaufort, SC

https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/RichmondFedOrg/banking/fry6_annual_reports/2020/Batch09/1076329_20201231.pdf

#24 Clemson vs. South Carolina

When: Saturday, November, 27, 07:30 PM Eastern

Where: Williams-Brice Stadium - Columbia, SC

Watch: SEC Network

Odds: Clemson by 11.5 pts.

Total Points: 43.0

All-Time Series - The Palmetto Bowl: Clemson vs. South Carolina

Clemson and South Carolina have met 117 times since 11/12/1896.

These teams last met 725 days (~2 years) ago on 11/30/2019.

Series Wins: Clemson 71-4-42 South Carolina^^†

Longest streak of continuous meetings: 111 (1909-2019).

Clemson has won the last 6 meetings (2014-2019) in this series.

Last 7 Meetings

^(Series Comparison Data via Winsipedia)

Through Week 12

I’m getting close to my 2 week doom period and I’m living in fear at this point (it gets to a point of constant SI for me).

Found some interesting research I wanted to share/ see if anyone knew anything about-

So 5a reductase inhibitors can prevent a luteal phase increase in allopreganolone - we’re talking drugs like dutasteride (a cousin of finasteride/propecia that blocks 5a reductase I AND II) and saw palmetto.

It was also done in a few case studies here. Also mentions PMDD w/ Comorbid PCOS for my homies cursed like me.

Has anyone tried dutasteride or saw palmetto?

I’m going to plan on trying saw palmetto if I can’t find contra indications for chronic illnesses - so far I havent found downsides to saw palmetto (& seems to be good for pcos too which is a win for me).

Praying for a miracle ~

Going to hike the palmetto trail in March , I'll be starting from the Columbia passage and working my way up to the Ross Mountain passage. Can anyone give me any pointers on the hike, what to expect and what are some important items to bring that will be a life saver. I will be staying in the woods the whole time. I plan on making it a 30 day survival challenge so I will only eat what fish I catch or creature I kill with a sling shot only food I will bring is dehydrated noodles with veggies in it . and a camel pack with 3 liters of water plus a water filter.

Thank you

Does anyone know if PSA will ship complete uppers or even build kits to NY? Tried contacting them but no response whatsoever :(
(disclaimer, I don't live in the city)

Heres the Link to the sale

Couple of decent Rugers going for under $300 also. Definitely worth a look

If you've done any research on the titular "cafe," you know what I'm talking about.

This was about six weeks ago now, I came out of therapy and wanted to go somewhere new, so I saw Palmetto Nutrition on Google and it looked decent so I tried it. There entire menu is split into meal replacement shakes, that are advertised as having under 300 calories and a bunch of different vitamins and protein and stuff in them, as well as specialty sweet teas that have a whole bunch of different flavors and look really pretty for Instagram and whatever.

The woman at the counter, who was extremely nice and I have absolutely no personal problems with, recommended to get a shake and a tea, which ended up being $18, which is absolutely ridiculous but I didn't feel like going elsewhere. I kind of knew that with the shakes being <300 calories it was gonna be kinda sketchy, since Smoothie King's MR smoothies are like 1000 calories, so I definitely expected to end up eating either a future carcinogen or a mouthful of protein powder.

The shake was exactly as I expected for 300 calories. I got some kind of cheesecake flavor and somewhat unsurprisingly there were no actual cheesecake elements, but again it's 300 calories. The only things I saw her put in the cup were ice, milk, some weird combination protein powder that I think was also the entirety of the flavoring, and whipped cream and crushed graham crackers on top. There was also a thickening agent that might have been like frozen yogurt or something, but I don't remember exactly what it was. The best way I can describe the shake is like a diet soda. You know how you drink a soda and it tastes like a soda? But then you drink a diet soda and it's not the same and has that weird aftertaste and flavoring? Yeah it's a milkshake's diet brother.

But now we get to the tea. That was the nastiest beverage I have ever had the misfortune of putting my lips up to. I would rather piss into one of those 32oz cups and drink that than have to drink that tea again. I was tempted to bring it home and force my family to taste that shite, but took two sips and decided that it belonged rightfully in the trash. I don't even remember what flavor I got, but to me it just tasted like a mixture of laundry detergent, battery acid, and Febreze, not that I've ever tasted any of those. This was a story I would tell for the next few days to anyone who would listen, about the horrible mess that was a Palmetto Nutrition tea.

I didn't really think an

I'm going to be hiking the Palmetto Trail in a couple weeks and need some advice on how to find the best detailed maps on the whole trail , the website https://palmettoconservation.org/palmetto-trail/ maps aren't very detailed , I have Alltrails and Avenza trail on my phone. From my understanding a good portion of the trail is unfinished and I'll be hiking alone and the last thing I want to do is get lost cause of an unfinished trail.

Update - I went to the Palmetto Trail stayed at the second campsite located around 5.2 miles from the peak passage entrance. Will be going back to walk the Peak to Newberry passage when weather is better , Alltrails and Avenza gps worked great , I thanks for the advice everyone!

I work with a nutritionist and through her I finally figured out that my worsening acne is due to PCOS. (Of course the diagnosis also involved some blood tests and consulting with my GP and an endocrinologist.) My nutritionist has me on some supplements already, namely a targeted multi-vit, Omega 3s, probiotic, vitamin D, and myo-inositol. I recently had a 7-week stint on Spironolactone and as such she wasn't putting me on anything specifically anti-androgenic, but she had proposed Saw Palmetto and Reishi Mushroom supplements in the event that spiro didn't work out for me. (It didn't - spiro made me too tired!)

I'll be speaking with her again in the coming weeks and I know we'll be discussing Saw Palmetto and Reishi again. In the meantime I'm wondering what experience people have had of either/both of these supplements? My main symptom I'm looking to treat is acne, and a little bit of unwanted facial hair.

tl;dr: My nutritionist has proposed saw palmetto and reishi mushroom supplements for androgen blockers to treat acne, thoughts?

We just drove by, very thick smoke in the area. Anybody know what is going on?

Link to tweet can be found here.

It’s going to be a fun one

.80 cents a round!

1. "This would be eight multi-million dollar law suits," said attorney Bamberg. "If the people that are liable to my clients don't voluntarily fix this, I will let the people of Hampton County do it, and I trust them. And I'm not filing these cases anywhere but Hampton County.";
2. Attorney Bamberg plans to file legal actions against Alex Murdaugh, the Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth and Detrick, PA (PMPED) law firm, the Parker Law Group, Palmetto State Bank, former Palmetto State Bank CEO Rusell Laffitte, and "anyone else I find was attached to stealing from these people;
3. Documentation shows that Alex Murdaugh used Russell Laffitte and Palmetto State Bank as a conservator for the Pinckney family, where settlement funds were paid, but the payment never reached the Pinckneys;
4. "Alex Murdaugh convinced this boy's mother to let Russell Laffitte, the CEO of Palmetto State Bank, be in charge of the money, and they stole the money," Bamberg said. "I feel bad for these people. ... These people need to be made whole, and we are going to sue anybody that we have to sue to make people whole, and I don't care who you are.";
5. "No one is ever going to convince me that all of these wealthy, successful people, at the law firm and this bank, knew nothing," "You have folks here who have been untouchable forever, but now it's 2021. There is no reason for anyone to be afraid of anyone.";
6. Megan Paquin, a spokesperson for Palmetto State Bank, confirmed that Chad Westendorf was still employed at the bank;
7. Attorney Bamberg provided copies of two checks he says were written from PMPED to Palmetto State Bank, money he says was stolen from the Pinckneys.

https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2022/01/10/alex-murdaugh-facing-eight-more-potential-lawsuits-over-allegations-stolen-money/9155117002/

Facing Eight More Lawsuits.

The list of those planning to sue Alex Murdaugh, PMPED now known as Parker Law Group, Fired CEO Russell Laffitte of Palmetto State Bank, Suspended Cory Fleming of Moss, Kuhn, and Suspended Fleming appears to be growing.

1. Attorney Justin Bamberg says he represents seven of Alex Murdaugh’s victims and is about to file eight multi-million-dollar civil suits in Hampton County.
2. Bamberg plans to sue not just Alex Murdaugh, but his former law firm, the Parker Group (formerly PMPED), Palmetto State Bank and Russell Lafitte, and everyone connected to these crimes.
3. Russell Lafitte was fired as the CEO of Palmetto State Bank last week. Palmetto State Bank has permanently severed the employment of Russell Laffitte, effective immediately on January 7, 2022.
4. Russell Lafitte was an executive overseeing the cases where Alex Murdaugh and others took money from clients. Laffitte has been connected in legal filings to the investigation into those crimes.
5. The co-receivers in the case filed court papers that say they have sent out 50 subpoenas to understand and find all of Alex Murdaugh’s assets.
6. Alex Murdaugh has been talking in jailhouse phone calls about his money, some of which would come from his wife Maggie and his father Randolph Murdaugh's estates.
7. Prosecutors say Alex Murdaugh's funds could be in the “tens of millions” of dollars.
8. In the jailhouse calls, Alex Murdaugh said he will pay family members back when he gets out.
9. Co-receivers do have the ability to see any money Alex Murdaugh has and stop him from spending it before any decision in the eight civil cases against him is made.
10. Judge Alison Lee is still debating Alex Murdaugh’s request for a lower bond.

https://www.wsav.com/news/local-news/alex-murdaugh-may-face-even-more-lawsuits-soon/