The Rabbi

Strictly speaking, no. Dropping the mag with ammo AND leaving it there while you go on is a procedural. If you pick it up in situ you are fine.

You would certainly agree with this fellow. http://www.thekidfrombrooklyn.com/video_disp.asp?videoid=1049 Warning, just a little adult language.

Because they're largely fakes. In the old days they were good locales for buying/selling. Today the internet has pretty well eliminated that. If I had something unusual, like a WW2 Colt, the last place I would take it to sell would be a gun show. I'd be listing it on Gunbroker and waiting for the one guy out of 20,000 who just has to have it vs the one guy in 2000 who might want it at a bargain. So dealers mark up goods before going and buyers want to low ball everything. I guess people can still find bargains but with entrance fees over $6 now I wouldnt want to spend the time or money on a maybe. Now, if I were looking for beef jerky.....

I hate gun shows. Have I mentioned this anyone yet?

A really small .40 caliber would be a nightmare to shoot, imo. You always trade carry-ability for shootability. So figure out where your tolerances are. A Glock 23 in an IWB holster should actually carry/conceal just fine. off topic: I actually know where Bells is. There is some major frozen vegetable processor there.

People in the habit of starting conversations with "yo!". Same people also tend to wear baggy pants down over the butts and ask about "esstended clips" for their "Glock .380s" meaning their Hi Points.

Tricycle.

Sure. Someone wrote back and said "you can't be serious." Here's my response:

No, I mean a cover garment like this:

It isn't an anti-gun thing. It is just a question of statistical liability. I assume homes where handguns are maintained are X times more likely to incur claims than ones that arent. Same thing with swimming pools. If you have certain kinds of dogs, that will affect rates as well.

I mentioned that all new shooters first have to serve as moving target stands, right? No, j'k. The rules will be about the same. They will call more penalties, like cover and stuff, and be more insistent on cover garments, but that's about it.

As the name implies, my shop is over on the east side of Nashville. This area has undergone a "revitalization" especially bringing the terminally hip from NY and CA here and paying insane prices for houses that were by-the-week about 15 years ago. One unfortunate tendency is for such people to feel like they can dictate to business owners and others how they should conduct their business. If they find it objectionable (e.g. pawn shops, quick cash, title loans, adult stores, c-stores) then they want to pass legislation and lobby the city council to shut it down. Sometimes it just goes too far. Here in its entirety is a letter to the neighborhood list-serve:

When I started dating people always told me not to form impressions based on the first date. Same thing with a gun shop. I would go back once more at a different time and see what happens.

The snippy comeback is that if you had been shooting that sport at that club for 4 years you would probably have blown past me with no problem. With me it was just a matter of time in. You do it for a while and the courses become something of a second nature.

Nyah nyah on all of you. :p:p

OK, I made that up. But it sounds good. And just as plausible as a lot of other stuff you read on the 'net.

Hi, Dennis. Since I know your modesty I will have to mention that in the 1999 Bianchi Cup Jerry Miculek beat out Wheelgunner100 by fractions of a second.

Hey Dennis. Nice to see you on here. Stick around. It can get entertaining. Again, I think you can judge by the posts how valuable the whole experience was. And thanks to you, John, Alyce, and the rest of the club it all happened. And in case anyone was interested in who the second-fastest revolver shooter in the world is, just ask Wheelgunner100.

+1. I've sold a bunch of 3G Smiths. They are fine guns and represent great value for the money.

Firest understand that there are different classes of guns and each class competes against itself. So 1911s in .45acp basically compete against themselves and sometimes SIG P220s. In the Stock Service Pistol group generally the ticket is a full sized duty gun. Mag capacity isnt an issue because you're limited to 10 rounds anyway. So sight radius becomes more important, and you cant get good sight radius on a compact gun like a sub compact XD. In caliber I would think .40 is a poor choice because the extra recoil means follow up shots are harder to make. Also ammo cost plays into it. So you're looking at a duty sized 9mm. Popular are: Sig P226, Beretta 92, Glock 17, SPringfield XD etc. I would definitely look at the Beretta Px4 in 9mm. Actually I had purchased one with the idea of using it for IDPA but someone in the shop wanted it more than me. Also the CZ75. So happens I have one that would be perfect for that set up in the shop, extra mags holsters and all. In holsters, there are all kinds of IDPA rules and I dont remember them. Basically something you would carry on the street. Personally I dont like retention holsters (something else to go wrong) but other people seem to do fine with them. You might keep in mind that revolver shooters make up like 10% of IDPA competitors, and tend to be older guys as well. So if you shoot revolver you gain a demographic advantage. IN all, there is not one gun that is going to make you a super competitor. Thge sport was set up that way. It is as purely shooting skill as a sport can be. So the key is practice and familiarity.

Bush lied, people died.

If the DE is, I havent seen it anywhere. Heck, I can't even get a Defender into the shop and I've been asked twice.

Oy. More moral relativism. Every criminal thinks he is right. The actor's judgement is largely irrelevant to the moral rightness of the situation. In the case of the Nazis, the orders were given by a dictator who had suborned the existing constitution and hunted down and killed his political enemies. In the case of Ruby Ridge gov't agents were acting pursuant to Federal laws that had been passed by democratically elected legislatures and validated by legitimately appointed judges. As for Mrs Weaver, she should have died because she hitched herself to a white supremacist with a bizarre ideology. That isnt a legal judgement of course. She was killed as an accident, which happens when situations get dicey when the primary actors refuse to cooperate with law enforcement.

<groan>....groan....... No no no. An ideology is not a "collection of ideas." A library is a collection of ideas. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is a collection of ideas. THis board is a collection of ideas, some of them even good. Not one rises to the level of ideology. I dont know how many crimes are committed by adherents to the "thug" culture and how many are committed by rural white people who probably despise it in many cases. It is irrelevant. As for oversight, I think Waco got direct orders from Janet Reno, the AG at the time. Whether her call was correct or not is largely irrelevant. It was oversight. Similarly with Ruby Ridge. Lon Horiuchi did not just set up and start shooting. There was communication between and among agents on the ground and those in command positions.</groan>

Well, there;s EAA Witness. The only other guns chambered in 10mm are: Dan Wesson 1911 style Smith 610 (also capable of shooting .40S&W of course) Personally I dont think the gun world is poorer because of lack of 10mm options. It is a cult cartridge, like a .400 Cor Bon, .41Mag, .41AE and about 10 other cartridges that died a deserved death. Now, if someone will chamber something in .38/200 S&W.....