Chucktshoes

This was not what I thought this thread was going to be about. *zip*

It’s not easy, but it has been getting significantly easier, even in LA county.

Looks like a fairly standard crime of opportunity to me. Not terribly complicated.

Considering the amount of high quality course material from high quality trainers built around ECQC, I’d venture that a lot of smarter, better trained, and more experienced people than me would say that you are incorrect in that view. You’re not always going to see the attack coming. It is a possibility to end up on the ground with someone having hands on you fighting to get to/keep control of your defensive tools or having to make contact shots. It’s not an unknown or unconsidered issue. As an example, my Hellcat has a stand-off device built into its guide rod to prevent exactly the kind of issue that will result in a PDP having a dead trigger.

I would agree that if you’re in that position a whole lot is already wrong. So much wrong that having a dead gun would make it unfathomably worse. If it’s not a worry for you, that’s great. For some folks it will be a deal breaker. Regardless, the key is that folks are aware of this particular quirk in function.

@TGO Davidane anyone else who may be carrying or considering carrying the PDP for defensive use, there is information you need to be made aware of. I confirmed this flaw of function with folks I know who have one.

On the flip side, childhood mortality rate are waaaaaay lower than they were as well. So you know, there’s that.

I wanted to build a Shughart M-14 because if you’re gonna have one, it might as well be one modeled off the one used by one of the baddest men to wield it. I started with this M-14 clone from Bula Defense. Mounted an ARMS-18 optics rail and an Aimpoint CompM. I then acquired a surplus M-14 fiberglass stock. The army boys sure do love their duct tape. Once I got it stripped down, it was time to paint! As it sits now, it’s in what I refer to as the “movie configuration” ad it’s similar to what was used in the Black Hawk Down film. The CompM will end up coming off and being used on a retro AR build using the original hi-rise optic mount (carry handle gang gang). As of now there are a couple of bits that are either on the way, or requiring a little detailed work to mount. (Waiting on rings for my Aimpoint 5000 and the AIM-1/D needs a tape switch fabricated for it.) Updates to follow as the build is adjusted/completed.

I don’t even live there anymore. Talk radio isn’t my thing at all anyways. Regardless, I hope he gets better soon.

Gotcha. Talk radio in a city I don’t live in goes a long way towards explaining my cluelessness.

Who is this guy? I’ve never heard of him, but y’all all seem real familiar.

I feel pretty safe in saying that they’re almost all getting RMRs.

Great piece that’s worth a read https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/convincing-the-skeptics/

Nope, I was serious. It’s an actual product. That said, I’ve never had the fogging issues you have. I don’t know what’s causing them, but I do carry AIWB as well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Man, here’s the problem. As horrendous as that was, I’m not convinced it was the worst. There’s way too many things vying for that crown. That’s not saying one should be as cynical as me and view it as mostly irredeemable. I’m just saying never stop fighting to make it better for EVERYONE.

Like any other tool or enhancement, they require training and practice to use effectively. They make controlled pairs super simple. If you just want a fun toy to mimic FA fire, they can be fun for that as well.

I was wondering how much you roast your brother on the subject. I figure 2 decades later he still isn’t allowed to live that #### down.

By what you have described, you’re better off retaining the light in hand. A pistol light is going to be a dedicated item. Even having one (like I have on almost all of my pistols) doesn’t absolve the need for a handheld. (Not everything that needs to be illuminated needs to be muzzled.) I’m a fan of multi-use items as a general rule. Pistol mounted lights are an exception to that rule. There is no way to mount a handheld light to a pistol that is not lacking in every way that would make it useful on a pistol. Sorry.

I don’t know what you’re testing, but I wanna play too!

Not with the Fostech. I’ve got the Franklin Armory BFSIII.

I would place the blame mostly on the politicization of things by the media. Though there is also the general underlying bristling at being told what to do by government officials that aren’t on their team. With regards to Op Warp Speed, had the election gone the other way, I suspect we would have seen a far more mixed bag of reactions. Like some lefties being suspicious of the “Trump vaccine” and then conservatives spouting rhetoric about getting the jab similar to what gets thrown around about folks resisting the police when there is a questionable shooting and being friendlier to the idea of vaccine mandates. Of course I’m just a dumb trucker with too much time to think. What do I know? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Vaccine hesitancy is a known phenomenon in the black community that is based on long history of documented malefaction by government health officials. For anyone wondering why that is, I got two words for you, “Tuskegee Experiment”.