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Current configuration... NEW: Arc Division SPARC-M mini comp. Prior to NRAAM, I stripped off the Primary Machine comp, replaced the Silencerco barrel with an Agency Arms barrel, and swapped the Surefire X300UA light for a smaller Streamlight TLR7 light. That was my carry gun for the entire week of NRAAM travels and 12+ hours of walking on the exhibit hall each day. I have a new slide coming for one of my other Glock 19's to spruce it up a little and make it ready for an RMR, so I decided to go ahead and trick this Gen 4 back out to full kit. The SPARC-M compensator is short enough that I can toss the TLR7 back on this gun and carry it in a much smaller holster, should I want to. I figure it'll stay like it is for home defense and maybe occasional carry when I know that I can get away with something a little bulkier.

This is a very true statement. I've said before that I believe that we, as gun owners, are absolutely our own worst enemies. The other side is united under the banner of their hatred of guns and desire to see us disarmed. Everything else to them is academic. They don't care how it happens or what it looks like, and are usually satisfied with incremental wins. We, on the other hand, tend to be so anti-authoritarian that nothing but a perfect decision is palatable and none of us agree on the mechanics of any victory no matter how small. I think the biggest difference between the current generation of Constitutionalists and our Founding Fathers is that they tried hard to put the greater good before self. That's a shameful indictment of our modern mindset.

Food for thought: Most anyone on TGO who feels that mandated proficiency is a violation of the Second Amendment is most likely already operating at a higher level of proficiency than the State's minimum requirement. Meaning, you might be viewing the requirement through the lens of being someone who feels that they are being condescended to by the government.

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I had a chance to hold the APX Comapct and the APX Carry at NRAAM. The smaller of the two (the Carry) had a terrible trigger on it. The larger Compact model wasn't as bad but still nowhere near as good as it should be. Pics and comments here on the Shooters Nation IG feed...

He's really not allowed to answer that question since he's not currently a vendor. We'd love to renew that relationship, though. In the meantime I'd hit up Royal Range or King's Firearms as they are both Vendors on TGO and might be able to help you. @Royal Range USA @kingsfirearmsandmore

You're the first person I've heard of having one in the wild. I meant to get by their booth at NRAAM but didn't make it over there for some reason. This and the Rex Delta seem kind of like similar takes on the Glock 19, coming at it from different angles.

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I found the problem. We had a bad banner ad file get uploaded at about the same time the forum software version was incremented. The fact that you guys said it started at a very specific time today helped me narrow it down. Thank you!

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Invision Power released a new version of the software and then quickly deprecated one of the components that every IPBoard forum running the previous version used to "call home". When they did this, it started throwing that template error. I've upgraded us to the latest version of the software to fix that and take advantage of a myriad of other fixes and tweaks.

Really one of the sillier laws, but I suspect the intended application of the law was to keep kids from bringing knives to school for nefarious purposes. As we know, Lady Justice is supposed to be blind and apply the law equally to all, so you got the brunt end of it even as a responsible adult. Of course... none of this stops kids from bringing knives, guns, or any other contraband to schools as we've all well seen.

This year's conference has been... interesting. I will post more of my thoughts about the organizational developments tonight or tomorrow after we return home. Any opinion pieces that you read right now, including my own, are subject to information on-hand at the instant they are written. The NRA's organizational environment has been tremendously dynamic since Wednesday and watching it transpire has been like watching a very sordid tennis match. Lots of looking to the left, looking to the right, looking back to the left, etc. The exhibit floor has been a ton of fun, though. Hosting the Shooters Nation Podcast (link) for the past year has given me the good fortune to get to know quite a few people inside of the industry and opened the door to get to know many more at NRAAM this week. I'm really looking forward to sitting down with numerous movers and shakers in the firearms world in the weeks ahead and sharing those conversations with you all. Much fun! Also, I've blown up Shooters Nation's Instagram feed with photos of new and cool stuff from the show. Check it out here: https://instagram.com/shootersnationradio I'm going over to the show one last time this morning to see anything that I missed, then heading home.

Also to add, I posted quite a bit on the TGO Facebook page yesterday.

You guys are only seeing the pieces of it making it out to the media this weekend. I think almost all of it will eventually see the light of day, but what's happening in the meetings and hallways here at the NRA Annual Meeting is exponentially more electric than what you're seeing on the news outlets. Follow Rob Pincus on social media. He's doing a really good job of keeping the folks not in Indianapolis informed. I'll post my own thoughts later tonight or tomorrow. We're prepping for a few final hours at NRAAM before packing the family back up in the truck and heading home for Tennessee this afternoon.

I will be but I doubt they’re going to talk any about it. I’d like to get in touch with Jeff Knox and have him on the podcast soon.

Just FYI... NRAAM 2020 is back in Nashville!

It's been a minute since I've seen you. I'm not sure I'd recognize you!

Yeah that's a no-win situation!

I'll be at the NRA Annual Meeting (NRAAM) this Friday and Saturday. Who else is going? If you're not going, what would you like to see photos and/or video of?

I stand corrected about the Romeo-1 not having anything to co-witness with. I apparently didn't search hard enough for a rear image of the sight. That said, I am still told that the front sight that comes with the X-Compact is not tall enough to accurately cowitness against the notch in the rear sight. At 3-5 yards, is anyone really aiming and why would you need a red dot for that?

I was initially somewhat interested in the X-Compact until I realized that you eliminate the rear iron sights when you put the Romeo red-dot optic on it. Why in the world they designed it this way is beyond me. FN manages to keep the rear iron sight with the 509 Tactical and everyone under the sun can mill a Glock 19 or M&P slide to accept an RMR and still use a thinner rear iron sight. Also worth noting is that the front irons don't co-witness with anything on the Romeo when you install it, so if your red dot goes down you are going to have to improvise. Swapping it for a taller sight does nothing for you since, again, there is no rear iron or anything to align it with on the Romeo. Lastly, I am not a fan of the Romeo-1 optic. I'd rather install a Trijicon RMR or Leupold Delta Point Pro. Reportedly the Romeo-1 shares the same footprint as the Leupold DPP but the DPP is a hair longer in front of the mounting screws which means it won't fit on the Sig X-Compact or X-Carry. This is a serious "WTF Sig?" moment for me. You could have the optic's pocket milled slightly longer to allow the DPP to fit, but it sucks to have to do that. They came REALLY close to building a gun I'd want to have with the Sig X-Compact, but then fumbled the ball on such simple yet critical features.

Words fail at times like this. I'm very sorry. My prayers will be with you and your family.

Let me state first that I am not picking on you here. You simply made some statements that are a good segue into something we all need to talk about. That said, I think you are entirely correct that people aren't wholesale rushing to turn them in or destroy them. Perhaps that's because there are still some lawsuits against the government pending that haven't been decided upon yet and owners of these devices are reluctant to destroy something today that, while illegal, might be taken back off of the prohibited items list tomorrow. Or perhaps it really is just an act of civil disobedience and the folks that own these are silently giving the government a defiant middle finger. And, you know, our nation was founded on that principle so I can't fault anyone who's operating under that mindset. It's in our DNA and resonates with me pretty deeply. BUT... the fact remains that bump stocks are, currently at least, lumped into the same category as a machinegun and there was no provision granted to grandfather them in, or allow citizens to register them as NFA-regulated devices and legitimize them with a tax stamp. They are, therefore, illegal to own and discovery of ownership carries hefty fines and potentially imprisonment. Now, does that mean that the BATFE is going to go door to door looking for bump stocks? Highly unlikely. But what it does mean is that a citizen's bump stock could be discovered by coincidence during a search or seizure for another crime, and now that citizen would very likely be charged with a Federal firearms crime that carries heavy penalties. Even if the original reason for the search or seizure was a misdemeanor crime. Say, like getting pulled over for running a stop sign and the officer feels that there's reason to search your vehicle for contraband and finds a bump stock you forgot about in the trunk of your car. Or, if you really want to make it realistic, say your spouse or significant other accuses you of domestic violence -- whether founded or not -- and the police come to your home to investigate. Suppose in the course of that they find your secret stash of bump stocks. Now you're facing the same sort of penalties that former Nashville-area KIA hockster Christopher Bostick was hit with back in 2015 and finally sentenced for just last year. Bostick was investigated for a domestic issue originally, but the police found two "sub machineguns", neither of which were properly registered to him under NFA laws. Instant felony charges. You can read about that here: https://www.wsmv.com/news/former-nashville-kia-dealer-sentenced-on-gun-charges/article_2ecbc3e6-3e2a-5666-9f79-db4d438ca394.html So, the bottom line here is that anyone who continues to own a bump stock needs to engage in a serious soul-searching exercise. While I think that the current power-grab by the Trump administration regarding these devices is egregious, unconstitutional, abhorrent, and hopefully will be struck down by the Supreme Court, I am also a realist and suspect it won't be and these devices will never again see legal ownership in the United States. Keeping one around as a middle finger at the government is a personal choice. Some of our founding fathers likely would approve of it too. But they also had to do some soul-searching when they stood up to the King of England, and many of them paid terribly high prices for it even though it earned the rest of us freedom and a new country. I question whether modern Americans are really patriot-enough to risk everything the way that those men did.

I seriously didn't realize you could do it between threads. Nice!