Marswolf

Well...you do think that Glocks are wonderful handguns....

Texas vs White was 1868. Hardly a time with an unbiased Court. THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN!!!

You can carry in a county courthouse unless it's posted, but not a courtroom.

Well, that is either a very balanced examination or a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, depending on your view. As I've said before, neo-secessionists are flakes. This is really a dead issue. But the US Constitution would have never been ratified without a secession clause if the ratifying states had not thought they could withdraw at will from the Union. A number of them specifically reserved that right in accepting the document. Just shows the importance of crossing the t's and dotting the i's.

Or mindlessly telling how wonderful they are again and again and again.

Anyone remember Don Imus? As Imus used to say, this is getting tedious.

Actually, that's why I wasn't going to say anything until Trigger called me out. I'll say it again. Glocks are reliable, accurate, sufficiently safe with factory ammunition, don't have a safety to get in the way and get you killed, and are good enough LE duty weapons. OTOH....

TFA doesn't make its constitution and bylaws available??? Most groups I know of post them on their website. This is getting stranger and stranger. So, someone at a meeting will have a copy?

Bump! I'm still looking for a copy of the TFA Constitution and Bylaws. TennFire????

Here's the TCA: 39-11-611. Self-defense. — (a) A person is justified in threatening or using force against another person when, and to the degree, the person reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful force. The person must have a reasonable belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury. The danger creating the belief of imminent death or serious bodily injury must be real, or honestly believed to be real at the time, and must be founded upon reasonable grounds. There is no duty to retreat before a person threatens or uses force. ( Any person using force intended or likely to cause death or serious bodily injury within the person's own residence is presumed to have held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or serious bodily injury to self, family or a member of the household when that force is used against another person, not a member of the family or household, who unlawfully and forcibly enters or has unlawfully and forcibly entered the residence, and the person using the force knew or had reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry occurred. © The threat or use of force against another is not justified if the person consented to the exact force used or attempted by the other individual. (d) The threat or use of force against another is not justified if the person provoked the other individual's use or attempted use of unlawful force, unless: (1) The person abandons the encounter or clearly communicates to the other the intent to do so; and (2) The other nevertheless continues or attempts to use unlawful force against the person. (e) The threat or use of force against another is not justified to resist a halt at a roadblock, arrest, search, or stop and frisk that the person knows is being made by a law enforcement officer, unless: (1) The law enforcement officer uses or attempts to use greater force than necessary to make the arrest, search, stop and frisk, or halt; and (2) The person reasonably believes that the force is immediately necessary to protect against the law enforcement officer's use or attempted use of greater force than necessary. [Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; 1990, ch. 1030, § 8.]

As has been mentioned, there are a lot of good choices. Rangers are good and I also like Hydra-Shoks and Gold Dots. Cor-Bon is fine, but i think over-hyped. That doesn't mean I don't like them, just that I haven't found them to be worth the extra cost.

Finally a teacher with some sense. Too bad the school board doesn't have any.

I don't rant. I just tell the truth.

I won't disagree with you Rightwinger, but the scale will work OK until you can get a digital one. I know one really heavy-duty reloader who still uses his old Lee balance scale. I never used the volume powder measure though. I don't trust them plus I load for accuracy. A big +1 on the powder trickler.

That was the time a couple of buddies went with me and we did the Appalachian Trail in the Park in six days. This would have been the next to last day with a stay that night at Mollie's Ridge shelter. That was a steep hike up to the shelter. We renamed that part "Mollie's Hump" since you needed to screw yourself to get up the ridge to it at the end of a long day.

A different way to Gregory Bald from 1972.

I think this is stretching it a bit. I can't recall any situations in which someone in a normal self-defense situation did this although I'm sure such occurrences must have happened. But I seriously doubt they happen all the time. Now, it does happen in places like Baghdad with some regularity, but the distances are more like 25 yards rather than 7 feet and there are a lot more reasons for the malfunctions and more time to correct them than what you will find on the streets of Memphis. This kind of training is fine and even desirable. But I doubt it comes into play very often in common self-defense situations. Maybe more common in ambushes by a wife's new boyfriend than a robbery.

Me either. It's a good idea to practice it. I just contend that these are not the minimum skills you need.

If your assailant has his weapon out (why else would you be pulling your handgun?) and you fire and have a malfunction, you are dead. No time to clear your weapon and do all of the other neat stuff you learned in training. That's why a reliable weapon is so important. I hate to say this, but the vast majority of people would do better putting the training money on a better handgun. Then, if you have a top-line reliable handgun, you can go for the training.

I agree Rabbi. (My god, did I say that? ) The skills you need are to get your gun out, point it in a proper direction, and pull the trigger. It would be really good if you hit your target and didn't shoot bystanders too. We aren't talking about a shootout in the streets of Medellin with a drug gang at 25 yards. We are looking at a very quick event at close range. Nothing wrong with developing the additional skills, but they aren't the minimum skills. Probably the first skill is to develop a mindset so you don't panic. You have to know ahead of time what you are going to do if those guys coming toward you want something more than to have a polite conversation.

Oh I saw it Trigger. Glocks have proper functions. Punching holes in paper is good to go.

One of the most fun shooting sessions I ever participated in involved lots of guns and a keg of beer. Clear proof that God watches over fools. And yes, I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

Back a few years ago, while I was living on a local lake, my brother came over and we decided to sink a 55 gallon drum by floating it and shooting it full of holes. I'm sure that act today would get us jailed and fined by EPA and a bunch of other people. Anyway, my brother brought his Contender in some god-awful caliber and for some reason, I decided to try my .25 caliber Sterling pistol. I discover quickly that .25s will just bounce off of an oil drum. Some lessons in life are made more vivid by just doing stuff. I wonder if the ricochets hit anything across the lake....

Personally, I adjure obfuscation. Didn't this topic start about a bunch of flakes who are trying to secede from this country? I suggest they personally secede and move to some remote island away from me. For some reason this topic reminds me of a bumper sticker: "Why yes I am a humanities major... would you like fries with that?"

That's what I hear. The P22 and Mosquito are both ammo sensitive. That's why I own a Buckmark.