c.a.willard

Ive done plenty of indoor shooting, and your right pistol isnt that bad. However personally i use a rifle for HD. I still live by the thought process that the purpose of a pistol is to fight your way to a rifle. Noise in the moment isnt something im worried about. With an infant being born soon i would be worried about her ears being damaged.. and seeing as most parents are either going strait to their kids or their kids comming to them I'd say a home defense shooting is likely to have children in the immediate vicinity of the firearm being discharged. Not saying that it is 100 percent necessary i just dont see the limited risks outweighing the potential benifits. If you have one you might as well use it.

My concern wouldnt be for my hearing it would be for others in the home. A gun shot indoors is bad enough of fully developed ears but coutld be extreamly damaging to children in the home. I personally dont own one yet, im still behind the power curve on NFA items, however if i did i dont think i would hesitate to leave it on a home defense weapon. You may loose it for a time to the system but i think that risk would still be outweighed by the benifits of reduced noise and light.

I have a couple and they work fairly well. I like them for running or biking, better IMO than a fanny pack. Added bonus, great place to store your MP3 player

I won a TLR-2 at a gear expo a few years back

This also demonstrates the importance for all law enforcement agencies to train active shooter response. If the news is correct the police officer was ambushed when he stopped to help a victim. Most departments are training find the threat first and deal with victims later. Only thing i'm still curious about with this is the characterization of his discharge. The one article i read that mentions it said he received a dishonorable discharge. Which if correct means he cant legally buy a gun. I'd say more than likely it was an OTH and the news just got it wrong like normal.

There is also the logical argument that Homosexuality is in fact natural and happens in many species of animals not just with human beings. There is the equally logical argument that homosexuality is a evolutionary or "divinely inspired" form of population control. Controlling population to ensure the long term survival of the species would still be survival and therefore moral. As far as marriage having biblical beginnings, well that's just simply not true. Marriage existed long before any known book of the bible was written. Yes it has always been traditionally defined as between a man and a woman, however its beginnings were transferring ownership of said woman to the husband. Gay marriages are not in fact absent from many parts of world history to include a roman emperor who had two legal marriage ceremonies to two men circa 58 A.D. in the second and third centuries they were extremely common place in the worlds largest empire. Not saying we should model our society on ancient Rome, just saying there is plenty or historical evidence to support it.

I'm a big fan of the Viking Tactics wide sling. I like having the extra padding and the fast adjustments for sling length. IMO getting that sling nice and tight makes a big difference in any unsupported shooting. And not really an issue for a lot of the civilian community but i like being able to quickly adjust between different lengths for with body armor and without.

The term used is really of the least amount of importance. Civil union, legal union, or marriage. Call it what ever you want but people in committed long term intimate relationships are being denied equal treatment under the law. Most of the gay people i know really wouldn't care less what you titled it. And a lot of it really is the simple things, like being considered immediate family when visiting a partner in the hospital or sharing of health benefits. The military presents a unique issue in regards to housing and relocation. I would really like one good argument to be presented against gay marriage that isn't rooted in religious beliefs. I'm not saying that to insult someones beliefs, but the reality is we are not a faith based nation. Like many social problems our nation is facing there has got to be some room in here for a compromise. Unfortunately it will not happen until people from both extremes get off their high horse and meet somewhere in the middle. As far as chick-fil-a is concerned their opinion should still be a non issue, Although i don't agree with them i do not see it as bigotry. choosing to support or not support them harms no one either way. The general hate and idiocy spread by both sides hurts us all

Personally i wont give my money to an organization who's views i differ with that significantly. I firmly believe that homosexuality is not a disease or a choice anyone makes, they are born that way period end of story. I can not see the harm to America that could possibly come from allowing homosexual marriage.

Bkelm, not saying its a guarantee but maybe if those other people in your class learned in middle school how to make better decisions regarding using their phone it wouldn't be distracting from your studies.

I think that schools should only have the right to limit things that either pose a serious safety risk or adversely effect the learning environment. A phone turned off in your bag impacts neither. It's also an opportunity for your child to practice good decision making abilities and responsibility for its use. IMO this rule takes away individual responsibility for ones actions. It is also very likely to be a rule that will be disregarded by the students who are more likely to be disruptive with their phone use. In essence it is a rule that is resulting in very little to no tangible improvements in the learning environment, while hindering the process of improving decision making abilities and character growth of the children learning there.

I'm honestly more afraid of what mass murderers would resort to without guns. If the reports are true about the explosives in his room, a back pack bomb would of been much more devastating. Id rather be shot at then blown up, done both at least being shot at you can shoot back.

So will this treaty stop the ATF from illegally exporting arms to mexico

Its a niche product for a niche market. If anyone feels they have the need and want to drop the money on it go ahead. I agree that these may be usefull for competition purposes. I just dont think they are a must have for most AR owners out there. As far as the militry checkin into it, it wouldnt be the first time the military has checked into something that most service members dont have a desire or need for. I could see the use with automatic rifleman for the Marines M27. Last i heard the sure fire 60 rnd were popular with some of the guys field testing them, but that opinion may have changed since last i asked my marine buddy about it.

Interesting product but i just dont see twenty additional rounds making up for its drawbacks. First of all its cost prohibitive, not a factor for everyone but a factor for me. Second and probably my bisggest issue is the width of it, where in the heck on my gear would i put this thing. it wont fit in standard mag pouches so do i end up having to have them specially made. hey even more money for 20 rounds. 30 round magazines do fail, if/when a 30 rounder fails im out at most 30 rounds when this thing fails i am out 50.

i stopped using a lanyard when one on my sidearm snagged on a door in a two way shoot house, completely stopped my foward movement and that of all the guys behind me. sometimes i still get mandated to use one and when that happens i always use a retractable one, stays out the way fairly well.

The lack of comments probably has more to do with the lack views rather than the content. It is definately interesting content. I think for the most part members of this forum recognize voter fraud as the reality that it is. What is sad and a little disturbing is that there are people that still deny that voter fraud happens. What is even more sad is the amount of Americans that still just take those politicians at their word without any effort to independantly verify what there being told.

wonder what the lagalities of this is

In the MTAC it hides really well, weight and size are really not an issue. If you have both the full and compact i recommend buying holsters that fit the full size as they will also fit the compact, but not always the other way around.

Along with the knife thing i recommend carrying wallet on the opposite side of carry position, Its more for potential LE encounters than daily use, but is useful during my routine day as well. I've had the one is none thing drilled in to me for so long that i always carry a spare mag everywhere i go and usually a spare pistol. If you intend to use a IWB holster buy your pants a size larger in the waist, it makes a big comfort difference. I carry my M&P in a MTAC between the 3 and 4 oclock position practice practice practice. Build good muscle memory, by practicing your draw slowly and methodically, the speed will come on its own through consistancy never ever carry on FT Campbell its not worth it

Theres no real tactical advantage to the 20 round drums, what you get in capacity you loose in space on your gear and akward handling, and from my experiance drum mags in general have a higher failure rate. Cant say this is true of the drum mags for the saiga as i have never used one.

i could probably be talked into trading my 9mm PPS, whatcha got

M&P9 full size in a MTAC with spare mag, walther PPS in home made ankle holster with spare mag, M&P knife, Gerber multitool, RA light EDC Flashlight (sometimes augmented with a surefire)

Im in the MP BN, technically we fall under sustainment but i refuse to acknowledge there existance. Didnt get very many rounds today unfortunately so i only got to fire it mounted to an m4 and not in the standalone configuration. Mounted its suprisingly light recoil really not much over what the 556 round generates. Not the biggest fan of the straight pull back bolt, its a little akward to run it mounted. Did a good bit of dry fire in its standalone configuration, got pretty quick with chambering the next round. Buddy of mine shot it in the standalone, said the recoil was way less than expected. Similar in recoil to some of the semi auto shotguns (his words). Thats probably due to the hydrolic buffer in the buttstock of the standalone system. they only came with 3 and 5 round magazines, but the mags look very similar to the saiga mags so im gonna have to go out and get one to see if they fit it. If they do im pretty sure we can talk our commander into ordering a bunch of the 10 rounders for use in the standalone systems. None of us want that much bulk hanging off our M4's so they probably wont be used in the ones we have mounted. I like the breaching tip (Flash hider looking ish thing on the front) gives you pretty much perfect standoff distance for ballistic breaching. So far i like it, not so sure that it was really that significant of an improvement over the older master key system, but it is lighter and magazine fed/higher capacity. Master key system if i remember right was limited to 3 rounds in the tube.

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