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So , I picked up my Taurus Tracker 627 .357 yesterday and now I'm on the hunt for a holster for it. I do not want nylon. I like Kydex or leather (in that order), if not more than $60. And I don't have time to make one myself. Seems like everything is either super expensive or crap. I didn't buy it for concealed carry, rather as a range and woods pistol, so I would like a functional belt holster. Anyone got any ideas?

I wish I owned one to give you review of it. I did peruse the web and came up with several pages of reviews (most for 2012 through 2014). The shotgun is made in China and is based on the Winchester 1300. National Rifleman gave it bare bones favorable review. It has a matte finish. There are some negative comments out there. One guy on the Ruger Forum, from 2014, said he bought one and it wouldn't cycle. He found lots of metal shavings in the innards and some bent parts, which might have happened when he tried to cycle it and the shavings bound everything up. That's one of the reasons I tend to clean a new firearm before my first shooting experience with it. All in all, for the price, it sounds like the perfect truck/farm shotgun.

LOL!!! I have lots of wants and few needs! Actually most of the firearms in my safe are wants. I have a need for two of them currently. Both are my carry pistols. I definitely do want a .38/.357 Lever gun (its been a want for a long time now) and I "need" it to go along with my Ruger Blackhawk .357/9mm Convertible and my Taurus Tracker. So maybe it is a need.

Totally agree with this, especially the lever action in pistol caliber! Just wish someone would make an affordable one!!! Looked at a Henry Steel .357 yesterday and it was $779. I liked the rifle, but didn't like that price at all, so they knocked $100 off the top, but I didn't like that price either. Bud's has the Rossi 92 in .357 for $509. Now we were getting in the ballpark. But you can still find used 30/30s for $300-400 all day long. Just wish you could find pistol caliber lever guns at that price.

We still had 1911a1s in Desert Storm. Ours were pretty decent pistols, but while we were at Ft. Bragg waiting to be deployed, the AMU took all our weapons and inspected and repaired/upgraded where needed. I was told that they took all the ,45s and replaced all the springs, screws, pins and any out of spec parts. They were a pretty good batch of .45s after that. But while over there, I saw a lot of the old warhorses that were just about totally ragged out. Case in point, as the ground offensive was about to kick off a Battalion Commander from a regular Army unit visited our HQ to coordinate a leap frog movement. I escorted him to our TOC and noticed that his grips were held on by one screw. I asked him if he would like me to fix that, while he was meeting with our staff. He was much appreciative and told me that his unit lacked spare parts. I took his pistol and to our Armorer who replaced all his grip screws, along with the extractor, which was also broken. Our pistols were all in much better condition than theirs. I believe his unit was from Ft. Carson. I expect that the ones from CMP will be functional shooters after they go through the process, but since I only have shooters and not collector pieces, they're price tag is just too high for me. I'd rather go purchase a Rock Island or Springfield Government model and spend the money I save on ammo.

The SKS is a fine rifle, but they are getting outrageously expensive now-a-days for what you get! Right now the AR is the way to go. They can be had cheaper than an AK. Spare parts are easy to come by. Ammunition is cheap and mags are plentiful! I love AKs but they are more expensive right now than ARs.

You know, growing up, just outside of Knoxville, we had shotguns and rifles on campus all the time and never one shooting. Fistfights were common, but then it was settled and no one involved a firearm. We had our fair share of bullies and those that were picked on and what not, as well, but not one time did we ever have a firearm pulled out and used on campus. It boggles the mind!

It's being reported that explosives have been found at the school now. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/18/texas-high-school-shooting-leaves-at-least-8-dead-suspect-in-custody-report.html

Idiot.

Foxnews is reporting 8 students dead. The suspect was in custody. Weapon was apparently a shotgun. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/18/texas-high-school-shooting-suspect-in-custody-several-injuries-reported.html

The standard 590a1 holds 8+1, so the 590M with a 10 shot mag, shouldn't weigh but a little more. I think the 15 and 20 round mags are too big though. I suspect most people would go with the 10 rounders.

This may be the best magazine system for a shotgun I have seen so far!!! Would love to have one of these!!! https://www.mossberg.com/category/series/590m-mag-fed/

Just found out this week that Fighting Sheepdog is having some issues and is not long transferring firearms or selling firearms. Don't know what all is going on there.

We used to have 4 or 5 tanks, the largest a 55 gal. We started out with the gold fish and ended up with saltwater. I loved the live coral!!! So interesting to watch!!! Not really sure why we got out of them. I also enjoyed cichlids Beautiful fish!!!

Let's hope that downward spiral continues!!!

Weirdly, I always pay cash for my guns. Can't remember the last time I bought one with a card. I say weirdly, because I pretty much pay for everything else with a bank debit card or a CC. I have no idea why I do that, either.

I can see that trending all over the country. Could eventually lead to a split up of the country. I sure don't think anyone in the other 49 states that gives a rat patooty if California were to secede from the Union. Matter of fact, I wish they'd take most of the Northeast, Washington DC and the City of Chicago with them.

But it took a lot of outside intervention and cost a huge amount of lives. Not sure we want it to go like that,

Yes it is! Not always through legislation, but through social pressure (when they shout down conservatives on campus and other such events and places) and through the media (by choking off the conservative voices out there and subject them to ridicule as MSNBC and CNN do quite often).

That doesn't fit the Liberal agenda.

I will say that Nashville and Memphis are liberal bastions in the State. The new Mayor of Nashville is calling for more gun control. Fortunately, conservative East Tennessee and Rural Middle and West parts of the State offset their power. But I could see that there will be a time when the politics of Nashville will dominate this state. Nashville is one the fastest growing cities in the country, and could very well end up being another Chicago, Denver or New York. There are IT job openings in the Knoxville and Chattanooga area, that you might want to consider. The cost of living in both those cities is much lower than Nashville, where the cost of housing continues to go up at a much faster pace. Urban sprawl is a serious problem there, as well. Lots and lots of growth going on and they are having a hard time keeping up. Knoxville and Chattanooga are also much closer to the mountains.

House Democrat from San Francisco is calling for a total ban on all so called "Assault Weapons". He wants to buy them back at $200 a piece and prosecute anyone that defies the ban and keeps theirs. Here's his opinion piece in USAToday. Ban assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters: Ex-prosecutor in Congress Eric SwalwellPublished 3:15 a.m. ET May 3, 2018 Ban assault weapons and buy them back. It might cost $15 billion, but we can afford it. Consider it an investment in our most important right, the right to live. (Photo: AP) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE Gary Jackson never stood a chance. Gary was 28 and working as a security guard at a taco truck in Oakland, Calif., in 2009 when he saw Dreshawn Lee carrying a sawed-off shotgun and reported it to police. Three months later, Lee took his revenge by shooting and killing Jackson with an AK-47-style semiautomatic assault rifle. I was the prosecutor who persuaded a jury to convict Lee and persuaded a judge to put him away for 65 years to life. But Gary’s autopsy report still haunts me. Trauma surgeons and coroners will tell you the high-velocity bullet fired from a military-style, semiautomatic assault weapon moves almost three times as fast as a 9mm handgun bullet, delivering far more energy. The bullets create cavities through the victim, wrecking a wider swath of tissue, organs and blood vessels. And a low-recoil weapon with a higher-capacity magazine means more of these deadlier bullets can be fired accurately and quickly without reloading. An assault weapon, then, is a hand-held weapon of war, capable of spraying a crowd with more lethal fire in seconds. So Gary didn’t stand much chance. First-graders and teachers in Newtown, Conn., didn’t either. Nor did dancers at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, nor concert-goers in Las Vegas, nor teenagers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., nor the people at the Waffle House outside Nashville. Like so many American mass-shooting victims in recent decades, their doom was all but assured by the murderer’s tool. Nonetheless, we can give ourselves and our children the chance these victims never had. We can finally act to remove weapons designed for war from our streets, once and for all. Reinstating the federal assault weapons ban that was in effect from 1994 to 2004 would prohibit manufacture and sales, but it would not affect weapons already possessed. This would leave millions of assault weapons in our communities for decades to come. Instead, we should ban possession of military-style semiautomatic assault weapons, we should buy back such weapons from all who choose to abide by the law, and we should criminally prosecute any who choose to defy it by keeping their weapons. The ban would not apply to law enforcement agencies or shooting clubs. There's something new and different about the surviving Parkland high schoolers’ demands. They dismiss the moral equivalence we’ve made for far too long regarding the Second Amendment. I've been guilty of it myself, telling constituents and reporters that “we can protect the Second Amendment and protect lives.” The Parkland teens have taught us there is no right more important than every student’s right to come home after class. The right to live is supreme over any other. Our courts haven’t found a constitutional right to have assault weapons, anyway. When the Supreme Court held in 2008 that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that this right “is not unlimited” and is “not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.” More: Navy vet on Vegas: We need gun laws that make us as safe as our military POLICING THE USA: A look at race, justice, media Since that District of Columbia v. Heller decision, four federal appeals courts have upheld assault weapons bans. Many other firearms are available for self-protection, they found, and the danger that assault weapons pose to society is a legitimate reason for states and localities to ban them. Australia got it right. After a man used military-style weapons to kill 35 people in April 1996, that nation adopted strict new measures and bought back 643,726 newly illegal rifles and shotguns at market value. The cost — an estimated $230 million in U.S. dollars at the time — was funded by a temporary 0.2% tax levy on national health insurance. America won’t get off that cheaply. Gun ownership runs so deep that we don’t even know how many military-style semiautomatic rifles are in U.S. civilian hands. Based on manufacturing figures and other indirect data, there could be 15 million assault weapons out there. If we offer $200 to buy back each weapon — as many local governments have — then it would cost about $3 billion; at $1,000 each, the cost would be about $15 billion. It’s no small sum. But let’s put it in context. The federal government is spending an estimated $4 trillion this year; $15 billion would be 0.375% of that, not that we must spend it all in one year. Meanwhile, the GOP’s tax “reform” — a giveaway to corporations and the rich that threw comparatively meager scraps to working families — is projected to increase the national debt by $1.9 trillion over the next decade. What is it worth to American taxpayers to not see our families, friends and neighbors cut down in a hail of gunfire? Consider this an investment in averting carnage and heartache and loss. When I think of Jackson, I think of all the others who died with wounds like his. I think about my dad and two brothers who put their lives on the line as law enforcement officers. I think about my 11-month-old son, Nelson, and the safe classrooms I want him to learn in. America has a deadly problem, a problem other developed nations have avoided or addressed. Some say we’re already too far gone to take corrective action, but we cannot have a defeatist attitude about this. Fixing our problem requires boldness and will be costly, but the cost of letting it fester will be far higher — for our wallets, and for our souls. Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat from California’s San Francisco Bay area, is co-chair of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, and serves on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. You can read diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other writers on the Opinion front page, on Twitter @usatodayopinion and in our daily Opinion newsletter. To respond to a column, submit a comment to letters@usatoday.com. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/03/ban-assault-weapons-buy-them-back-prosecute-offenders-column/570590002/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

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