Marswolf

My favorite quotation from Civil Disobedience is: "O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one." - Thoreau "CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE"

Thank you Fallguy. You saved me a lot of typing. I don't recall if it was another restaurant carry bill or another gun matter, but making it to the House floor doesn't mean the matter will be voted on. A couple (?) of years ago a matter made it through a Senate vote and House committees, but the House Speaker just ignored House rules and refused to allow a vote. I had hoped this would irritate enough Democrats for them to elect someone else Speaker. But they showed no integrity and voted Naifeh back in.

I probably show up more at Guns R Us in Bristol, but Mike's stock is terrible. I used to like Top Notch, but they are gone. So I also drop in to Gunslingers and The Gun Rack pretty regularly.

Actually we agree on most things. We just agree in an aggressive way that irritates the hell out of the other one.

He had to lie on at least one form question. That's a crime.

NO, NO, NO!!! (a) It is an offense for a person to possess a firearm within the confines of a building open to the public where liquor, wine or other alcoholic beverages, as defined in § 57-3-101(a)(1)(A), or beer, as defined in § 57-6-102(1), are served for on premises consumption." It doesn't say they are serving YOU alcohol. You can not have the gun in the building where alcohol is sold for on premises consumption.

I'd get one of these. It came with my reloading set, but you can buy them separately: http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/pod/standard-pod-wrapped.jsp?_DARGS=/cabelas/en/common/catalog/pod-link.jsp_A&_DAV=netcon&rid=&indexId=cat20849&navAction=push&masterpathid=&navCount=2&parentType=index&parentId=cat20849&id=0003092

I stand corrected.

Yeah, both are/were in their early 20s. As far as I know, they are still investigating and no charges have been placed.

Yeah, the Virginia anti-gun governor is trying to close the "gun show loophole."

Well, yes, you are supposed to to that. but as the manual says: Basically, except for the SIG-type slide release, it works like a Glock.

Or a gun show parking lot. Oh...forget I said that.

Hey, sounds good. I'll get a keg of beer to have before we shoot.

I use GOJO to work on cars. Just rub it on and don't rinse it off. Just wipe it with a dry cloth. Subsequent rinsing with water will get your hands clean. Keeps the crud out of your pores.

They make jello these days that doesn't have to be refrigerated. Well worth the extra cost.

So did Sterlings, but who is counting?

I guess the kid didn't know that driving two hours and not knowing him wouldn't keep him from buying a gun.

http://www.greenevillesun.com/site/Story/291985 I've known the Lyle guy for probably 15 years. I never heard him called anything other than "William" but with his father's sense of humor, I could see him naming him "Wilhelm". What the story dos not say as that his folks are divorced and William got into trouble once before for stealing stereos out of cars. His dad is one of those people who has no respect for authority and is so smart that he doesn't have any sense. I like him, but suspect few of his neighbors will give him the time of day.

I renamed it to avoid confusion. It does have some useful info though.

It seems to me that a lot of time and effort is going into explaining why nothing has been done. If half that time and effort had been put into fixing the problem, it would have been fixed.

You are of course correct. The problem is that in an actual situation, either day-to-day or critical situations without proper training, and I think that defines most non-professional gun carriers, people tend to go brain-dead and put their finger where it shouldn't be. I've witnessed a ND in a gun shop with an XD. Fortunately no one was hurt. It came from someone wanting to field strip an XD, which except for the additional grip safety is essentially a Glock. The user just forgot there was a round in the chamber when he did the required dry fire (supposedly) to de-cock the weapon. No, Glocks and XDs and M&Ps won't go off unless you pull the trigger with a round in the chamber. But you can field strip a H&K, or Beretta, or Ruger or most other quality handguns without having to dry fire and they won't ND. The, in my view, questionable design, seems to have come from two areas. First was the desire to have a cheap-to-manufacture gun, like the Lorcin, Bryco, Jennings, Raven, Davis, etc. I advisedly add Glock and Hi-Point to this list. While their intention was to have a good gun, they also sought, as did Sterling before them, to control costs. Supposed costs to manufacture a Glock are in the $50-70 range. The second area was to have a gun that did not have a cocked hammer, for law enforcement, that frightened the public. Although the resultant guns were actually at least as dangerous as a 1911 that was cocked and without the safety on, somehow not seeing the cocked hammer made the gun seem safer to the foolish. It also prevented the problem of officers forgetting to remove the manual safety before trying to fire. The problem is elementally that people do not practice proper trigger safety. That''s a fact people ignore at their own risk, and the risk of others. To me it makes a lot more sense to build in an additionally level of safety rather than just hoping that users will somehow remember to do the smart thing. The newspapers are full of evidence that that often does not happen.

Well thank you. What I have come to understand is that in a bad situation, you will get the trigger pulled - if you don't forget to remove the manual safety. Light trigger pulls don't lead to better combat performance. They just lead to more NDs. But they are appropriate for target use. My RIA is about 5.5# and my Wilson Combat is 4#.

How do you work in gloves?

Good grief, that a lot of reading in the second post. First, none of my many 1911s have ever had a 2# trigger pull. That's pure garbage. Second, if I carried a 1911, I would always carry with the safety off and ready to fire, just as I always do for any carry weapon. It's something I've thought a lot about, developed, and practiced in now almost 40 years of active duty handgun carry.

More like to catch a rating.