Sheepdog

Too bad I didn't see this earlier. I've got a 14-year-old Glock 19 that needs to be refinished. If you post pics of your pro-bono work, put up a price for a commercial job, and I'll consider it.

I just put two sets of XS 24/7 Big Dot sights on my guns--one on a Glock 19, and one on an XD45. The tritium components are made by Trijicon, so you'll get the same quality you've enjoyed over the past decade.

Actually, under current Federal law, you can make your own firearms without any Federal registration or licensure, so long as they are legal under the 1934 NFA, and you do not transfer them to another person. So short-barreled shotguns, short-barreled rifles, select-fire and full-auto weapons are out, as are suppressors. However, most anything else is legal for the home hobbyist to build. State and local laws may vary.

I've had a SmartCarry holster for about 9 years, too. But I use it all the time. These days, it holds a S&W 340PD revolver, and I wear it under my work pants all week. I used to use it with a Glock 19, and have even worn that combo while swimming at the beach. It's secure, discreet, comfortable, and accessible. And using a urinal while wearing it is no problem, provided you're long enough to bend around the holster's edge.

Damn...Remember when you could pick up a brick of 500 rounds for $6.99? I've still got a couple of those...but still, I'm beginning to think my current stock is a bit insufficient...

My attempt at untangling this rhetorical rat's nest of random ideas... No, but it's a step in that direction. second, we don`t live in socialism,this is not a socialist country... Actually, to some extent, we have been for quite a while--since the 1930's at least. Our government has been adopting socialistic policies for decades, and these days, is incorporating them at an ever faster rate. third, communism was a ficition, it was a book, utopia, like Orwel`s 1984 or any other Sci-Fi.. I'm sure the 100,000,000+ people killed by communist governments will be happy to know that the system which exterminated them is a figment of their imaginations, and they're not really dead. Oh, and Orwell's 1984 was not about a utopia. It was about a dystopia. It also had nothing to do with Communism. It was about totalitarianism--of which Communism just happens to be a particular flavor. it was a book about "what if"..what if all the people were even, what if we all have equal rights, what if there was no money but rather everyone has what they need...? how is that bad idea?? beats me... This is not a bad idea at all...if you have absolutely no ambition, and are content to live at a subsistence level. I, however, want something more--something better--for myself and my children. The quest to make everyone "even" cannot be accomplished by making the stupid smart or the lazy productive. It can only be attempted by crushing the drive to achieve and excel--and socialism/communism excels at that. Oh, and there is one thing in the above statement that doesn't belong. That bit about "equal rights." That is actually a good thing, but only exists in socialist/communist societies in the form of "nobody has any rights at all--only privileges doled out by the government, which may be rescinded at any time, for any reason." the fact that some lunatics around the world called their terrorist systems "communism" doesn`t mean that that`s what it really was... That's right. And just because some historians call invading all your neighbors and killing all the Jews "Nazism" doesn't mean that's what it really was. Got any other word games we can play? fourth...socialism is system where everything is concentrated on society, on middle class and working man and farmers..it is not about corporations and rich but rather about regular people... in socialism corporations are owned by the goverment, CEO`s are appointed by the goverment (without any kind of million dollar bonuses) and corporations are governed by the workers who work there thru the union`s... Ahh, socialism! Where society is everything, and the individual is . Where do I sign up? By the way, how has that worked out for the societies that have tried it? to live in socialism doesn`t mean that you can`t own the gun, No, but it always ends up that way. Because when a population is armed, it means they don't have to put up with a government that treats them like . And people do get tired of that kind of treatment after a while. it may be a longer process to make sure responsible people become gun owners... I have a relative in a socialist/communist country who has been certified as "trustworthy to own a gun." He was largely responsible for the occupation and subjugation of Tibet. I wonder who I'll have to kill in order to get my gun permit... I was born and raised in socialism and it was far from perfect (there is not perfect system on this world) But some are closer to perfection than others. Socialism/communism are light years from it. , and I remember free schools, We have those here, too. You get what you pay for. People used to balk at paying for their kids to be politically indoctrinated, so they had to be free. Of course, years of public schooling has dumbed the nation down enough so that people actually are paying for their kids to be spoon-fed the that passes for education these days. going to the doctor any time I was sick and picking up my medications from the pharmacy, all for free, Doctors using methods pioneered in free countries, and medications invented by people who could profit from their hard work. I remember my grandpa and my uncle having hunting guns and hand guns and all with a permit... ...again, which could be revoked at any time, for any reason. what I don`t remember were mass killings,school shootings, Which has what to do with socialism/communism again? people losing their farms because of unability to pay doctor bills, This kind of thing should never happen. Damn those entrepreneurs and corporations who make multi-million dollar lifesaving machines like CT scanners, MRI scanners, Gamma knives, DaVinci surgical robots, the MERCI clot-retrieval system for stroke victims, etc... Mother****ers, all of them. And don't get me started on the doctors. Just because they graduate $200,000 in debt, and sacrificed 8+ years of their lives studying things like organic chemistry while their peers were nailing sorority sisters at keg parties, what gives them the nerve or the right to expect to be well-paid for replacing frat-boy livers and curing their STDs? We really need to go back to the agrarian days when farmers would die when they got sick, but at least they wouldn't have to sell their farms. people putting the second mortgage on their house to pay for their kids education etc... while it was not all that good, it sure wasn`t all that bad either...there was no big fat CEO`s making millions of dollars but there also was not people diggin in garbage can`s looking for food.... Sorry, but there has never been a society devoid of "garbagetarians." Nor will there ever be. At least, in the United States of America, poverty for adults is still a lifestyle choice, and not a government requirement. I guess, what I`m trying to say is that the fear from socialism is not based on anything real.. So every so-called "nation" that has ever adopted socialism and failed wasn't real. They were just theme parks of poverty, like some dystopian Disney Lands. socialism happeneds only if society wants it.. Which it will, if years of public schooling tells them how wonderful it will be. the goal of socialism is not to take anyone gun right away, Of course that's not a goal. It's a means to an end. the goal of socialism is to make sure that everyone has a decent live and is taken care of.... Until the government runs out of money. Then everybody is equally ****ed.

Amen..

Used stock G19, with two full-cap mags? I'd give $400 for it...and I'd consider $25 of that to be a "premium" due to the current scarcity.

I can't give you any mathematical probabilities. But the chances *will* improve if you call your State representatives and tell them what you want.

You know what happens what that dump motel, previously renting rooms at $40/night, doesn't charge 10x the usual rate in a crisis? Yep. I rent two of 'em. That way my kids don't have to sleep on the floor, and we don't fight over the bathroom in the morning. Which means that you're SOL, and I've saved $320. The same damn thing is happening with the guns/accessories market right now. Retailers aren't "gouging", which means--oh noes!--their shelves are bare. Woohoo! S&W M&P-15s are $749 at Bud's! Too bad they don't have any. Why not? Because at that price, I bought three of 'em. Had they been priced at $1200, I wouldn't have thought them such a bargain. Maybe I wouldn't have bought any, since I've already got a few. And then you could have bitched about having the option to buy at a premium...but you'd still have had the option. P-Mags? $13.95 at Midway. They ain't got none...partly because of me. Glock mags? $22.95. Same story. Springfield XD45 mags? $19.95. Ditto. You know, I honestly wish that there were more "price gouging." Because a lot of the stuff that I want is damn near impossible to find. And in a true crisis situation, you can bet your ass that I'd rather pay $100 for a box of .45ACP cartridges, than see empty shelves of $20.00 ammo. God bless the "price gougers." They prevent hoarding and preserve availability of critical supplies when the SHTF.

Sigh... There is no such thing as "price gouging." It's just a pseudo-highbrow way of saying, "You're a bastard for not giving it to me at a price I'd like better."

Just got back from the show. Wasn't bad--better than the Camp Jordan show, I thought. Didn't see a lot of private sales going on...lots of people trying, it seemed, but not a lot of people showing interest--especially when it came to $1300 ARs, or $2K M1As, or even $400 SKSs. I spent a bit of money at the show, and was thinking about how my buying habits have changed. When I was younger, I bought a wide variety of guns, making impulse purchases based on the "Hey, here's something new..." factor. These days, I go more for the "I've tried this, it works, and I like it" angle. The three guns that I bought today are pretty much duplicates (or rather, triplicates) of guns I already own. I'm getting sooo conservative in my "old age." At this rate, I'll be a curmudgeon by the time I'm 40.

Hope there's some stuff left. I'm going later today...

If you're paranoid enough to carry a gun, be paranoid enough to use a stall. It's not as easy to get mugged if you can lock a door behind you.

Damn...that was quick. Well, I got my order in...hope they can fill it.

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewproduct/?productnumber=312830

Just to be cruel, I received 10 from MidwayUSA, yesterday. 'Bout time, too. They've been on order since November. ETA: I talked to a MidwayUSA customer service rep last week. He said that there were nearly 1800 G17 mags on backorder. Which, considering the number of Glock owners out there, doesn't seem like all that many. Of course, I'm sure they're not the only backlogged supplier, either. What really sucks is that I just checked Bud's, and they're all sold out of the police trade-in Glocks, as of today. And I was going to place an order, too. Damn.

Just a few quick observations, here. First of all, gold, if you can afford it, is a good place to put your money for safekeeping. While the value of gold might decrease, it will never be worth zero--which is something that can't be said for stocks, bonds or paper money. Gold is NOT a good thing to acquire for the purposes of barter, however, unless you plan to be buying big ticket items after TSHTF. Why not? Because an ounce of pure gold is over $800 right now...and how are you going to get change if you use a Krugerrand to buy $25 worth of groceries? I'd say that for the purposes of trade, silver will be a better and more common form of currency. Lead? Well, what do you mean by "lead"? Are you talking about loaded ammunition? Think about it. Would you be willing to trust any ammo that you're given by a stranger? How would you know who manufactured it? Was it handloaded? Might it have too much powder? Or more likely, would it have any powder in it at all? Are you sure the primers are good? Or the brass hasn't been loaded, trimmed, or stretched too many times to be safe? Sorry, but if I didn't load it, with components from a trusted source, I'm not using it, nor taking it as payment. Or do you mean components? Just the bullets. Well, in a SHTF scenario, let's double the price of lead (which, if you've got lead, is pretty optimistic). $10 worth of lead .45 bullets would weigh almost a pound and a half. If we double the price of food, then you're going to have to carry around 4 pounds of lead to pay for a pizza. Triple the price of gas, and you're needing over 10 pounds of it to fill an average tank. Who is seriously going to carry that much weight around? And finally, my favorite, toilet paper. Personally, I think that TP is one of the most useless things in a survival larder. If you've never lived outside the US, it's probably a completely alien concept to actually wash your ass. Yep, a small bucket of water in one hand, and some gentle scrubbing action with the other, and you're far cleaner than you could ever get by wiping. And once you get past the ick factor, it's a lot more comfortable, too--less likely to cause or aggravate a case of hemorrhoids, which is going to be something you'll want to avoid at all costs when medical care is spotty. Money and storage space devoted to TP could be utilized so much better for things like extra food or medical supplies.

Hey, Mousegunner. Just want to say thanks again for keeping the PC page updated with closure dates. By the way, in the pics, you might include the mailbox where the sign-in sheet is kept. You can sign in as "John Doe" if you like, but the ranger said he wants to show it's being used so the State doesn't cut funding for the range. Oh, and isn't there an outhouse behind and to the right of the pistol range? At least, that's what I've been told it is. I've not been brave enough to use it...

Dude. You. Are. The MAN! Very inspirational. Thanks for the post.

I'd say a .22LR would be sufficient, with proper shot placement, but a 12-gauge slug would make more of a statement. What? Oh, that wasn't the question?

+1. I've done shooting on my own property before. But since I'm not a hunter (although I'd like to learn, someday), I have no idea when deer/duck/turkey season begins and ends, nor where, exactly, people go to do it. If I were in your position, I'd go over there and tell the neighbors to do that stuff every day, so the deer get used to it. After a while, you might be able to bag two or three together, before they realize those big booming sounds are meant for them.

I'm in for a couple.

I'm quite happy with mine. I've got them for the XD45, 1911, and S&W J-Frame. They provide confident retention, and release the guns quickly and easily. Some people (probably most people) have a hard time using these for concealed carry, but if you have shoulders a good bit broader than your waist, you'll be able to conceal under an untucked shirt without a problem. I have broken one paddle. Basically, I fell and tumbled down a hill, landing hard on my gun. The gun was fine. The holster itself was fine. But paddle was broken at the point where the holster screwed into it. Luckily, a belt-loop attachment comes with each holster, so I was able to use that to replace the broken paddle. A little less convenient, but certainly more secure. I have yet to check with Blackhawk to see if I can order a replacement paddle.

Yes, and we in TN have been trying to get part of those laws rescinded (pushing for carry in restaurants that serve alcohol) because they're bad laws. But, if you'll recall from the article, Plaxico isn't being charged with shooting himself, or carrying while drinking. He's being charged with mere possession of a handgun--an "offense" which is an egregious infringement of the 2nd Amendment. It doesn't matter that he was drunk. It doesn't matter that he was carrying in an unsafe manner. It doesn't matter if he was acting like an ass. None of those are issues which are going before the judge who will, barring some legal gymnastics that wouldn't likely be performed for you and me, be compelled by the law to sentence him to 3 1/2 years in prison just for carrying a handgun.