Whisper

As Garufa says, they are still in business but sell via mail order; no internet sales. You can check Gunbroker for secondary sales of T-grips -- Robertson's Trading Post right here in TN often has some in stock, and they do sell online.

The SRO is right. Open carry of a knife on school property is prohibited. It was contained in SB1438 in 2014, but I don't know the precise sections of the TCA that it affected. It's practically the only knife law left in TN. You can carry a knife on school property; it just has to be covered up.

It's sad to see the NRA getting bad publicity like this, but I fear it's necessary if we are to clean out the crooks and put the organization back on track and doing what it's supposed to do. Turn on the bright lights, open the books, and if the cockroaches all flee, the NRA will be better for it.

It did. It got a limited release, about two weeks as I recall, in a few major markets. The part about Gault being unemployed and living with his daughter is one of the fairly few places where the movie varies from fact. Gault worked for the Highway Patrol after he and Hamer left the Texas Rangers, and he was still doing that when Hamer convinced him to join the trackdown of Bonnie and Clyde.

My point is still the same: Why did you seize on this particular line of dialogue, from among all lines from all the characters in the film, and decide that this line represents the personal opinions of the screenplay author?

Governors can have their insurance commissioners take exactly this sort of action. Of course it's corruption for a government to use its regulatory authority to attack legal businesses just because those in power don't like the organization...which is why the ACLU is supporting the NRA in its lawsuit against New York.

The writer of The Highwaymen is John Fusco, who's written tons of Westerns, and the religious film The Shack. There are lots of varying opinions expressed in The Highwaymen, including comments by some characters in support of Bonnie and Clyde. Fusco wrote those lines, also. Do you think that Fusco is actually favorable toward Bonnie and Clyde? It's a screenplay about a series of historical events. Every line spoken by every character doesn't express the personal opinions of the author. So, can you explain precisely why you decided he's a liberal (I've not seen anything indicating his political opinions) and that he's writing out of total ignorance (from all accounts he researched the lives of Gault and Hamer carefully)?

Mags sold out.

Excellent deal. I would jump on it also. Good for Kimber; it's excellent to see them doing the right thing for customers. Cheers, Whisper

Now I really need to go back and watch it again....

I didn't see your letter, but from your description, it was probably specific enough. Blackburn just chose to respond with a generic "I support RKBA" letter instead of saying anything about red flag laws. To me, that suggests she hasn't decided whether she will vote for or against the red flag bill, and she wants to preserve her options, but she also wants to mollify you with a vague statement that isn't really a commitment, but might be interpreted as one. But perhaps I'm too skeptical about politicians and their motives....

It's certainly not a waste of time, and good on you for doing it. You just need to be careful in reading politicians' replies. Blackburn gave you some vague generalities about supporting the Second Amendment, but said nothing about the specific issue that was the topic of your letter. Anyone can claim to be in favor of the Second Amendment -- heck, even Obama says he supports the Second Amendment -- but when faced with an actual vote on Second Amendment issues, most politicians will vote against freedom.

Looks like a generic "Letter for RKBA Supporters." Doesn't address the red flag issue specifically, which doesn't surprise me. The red flag issue is going to show clearly who is on the side of the Constitution and who is not

I'll need to watch that again. My recollection was that they showed the back of the sign *before* Frank opened up on it with the BAR, but perhaps I'm wrong. For sure those BAR rounds would have no problem shooting through a highway sign, so that would count as a serious technical error in the film.

I agree that the 12-round mag is The Stuff for the P365. With the 10-round mag, I found the gun uncomfortably small, and I initially dismissed it from consideration. But then later on I got clued in on the 12-rounder, and I was pleasantly surprised by how much better it made the gun handle. For me, the 12-round mag transforms the P365 from something that's unusable to my favorite hideout heater.

This gun is the same thing as the Sarsilmaz SAR-9, a Turkish pistol that's been out about two years. Stoeger is just putting their name on it. The gun handles great, and seems accurate in offhand shooting. But it has without doubt the worst trigger I've ever seen in a striker-fired pistol. My brother bought two samples -- one stainless, one blue -- and both suffered from this problem. The trigger on the stainless one locked in the rear position and wouldn't return forward, so that gun's been sent back to the manufacturer for repair. The blued one hasn't done that yet, but I'm expecting it will. There really isn't a good way to convey how bad the trigger is -- a long, rough pull with many hitches along the way until it finally breaks. You'd have to feel it yourself to appreciate its wretchedness. But if the trigger problems can be fixed, it's a gun with possibilities.

.277 Wolverine.

Geoffrey Lewis (you'll recognize him from a dozen Clint Eastwood movies) and his daughter Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs in one of his earliest (maybe his first) major roles, and Scott Wilson (famous for In Cold Blood, the Walking Dead, and plenty of other character roles). This movie is an undiscovered gem, with surprisingly decent tactical movement and gun handling.

My vote: Send it in. Don't trust a local gunsmith to fix a problem with an extraction system that even the manufacturer couldn't get to work properly. Cheers, Whisper

I'm an admirer of the .32 H&R Magnum and may need to buy this. I had one of the first Charter .44 Bulldogs when they came out in stainless, and it was a great gun. It got stolen in a break-in and I never replaced it. But I'm thinking a seven-shot .32 Mag may be the ideal woods gun....

There is no problem carrying a gun like a Glock 19 in dress clothes. It's especially easy for a guy your size. Get some good advice on holster selection and on where you carry the gun. Try out different holsters (maybe you have Glock-carrying friends that will let you try out theirs). If you're in a church where people do a lot of hugging, be aware that this could affect where you place your holster. Now, if you are just wanting an excuse to buy a subcompact, that's a different story. Walther PPS, S&W M&P Shield, Sig P365 all are fine choices. Cheers, Whisper

Wait until someone tells these people that many of us make our own.

This is what's so weird about this whole case. Most colleges are pretty open about the fact that they give special consideration to children of major donors. Instead of paying a crook to help your kid cheat on the admissions test, you could simply pay the university to endow a professorship or to create a new scholarship fund, and your kid could get admitted with no problem. And it's entirely legal. These people wanted to go the back door route and commit a crime when it wasn't necessary.

I have no use for a .380, but those Micro 9s are mighty tempting. Their early bad reputation was concerning, but one of my brothers has one and it runs like a sewing machine, and is inexplicably accurate.

Right. Sure. Yeah, that's it.