Jonnin

it is dumb, but you or your relative  would have to go thru as many or more hoops if you sold your relative a piece of property, or a car.      The gun +crime = major jail time would have to exempt some stuff, though.   I would not care to see someone in jail or executed for speeding with a gun, for example.  I know that is not what you meant, but whatever words to excuse minor offenses where the gun was not drawn but present should be in there.

  What about a colt new agent or defender (same frame, I think) in 45?     http://www.coltsmfg.com/Catalog/ColtPistols/ColtDefenderSeries.aspx   Taurus makes a compact 45 that is on par with the guns you listed, but their quality has been all over the board from excellent to below average.  If you are interested you should do a web search on the model to see if people like it or not --- I have not held or fired their 45 but I had one of their 9s in the same general design and it was "above average" and for the price tag, very very good.  (above average is really good, since "excellent" on my scale would be a very expensive pistol).   Bersa also makes one, and here again, I have not shot it.  I like their makarovish 380s but that is all I know of the brand.   Para has some small 1911ish offerings like the colt but generally high priced.  The colt isnt cheap either, for that matter.  I think you can get these in the 1k neighborhood but it may run over a touch out the door, with tax & tags.

From what I know, which isnt much, I would say about 3/4 of transactions happen AT an FFL.  Gun people like to meet up at gun shops to swap gear, for whatever reasons.  They often go inside and buy a little, even just a box of ammo, to support the business they "used" for this.   I include gun shows in this as there are FFLs all over at the shows as well as police.    2% of crime is a lot of crime, by the way. 

Hmm me type too slowly, that came in as I tried the first post.   2. --- this is a strange limitation to your options.  You lose 100% of the milsurps and most of the used guns this way.  If you wanted to buy new that is not important, depends on your budget and needs.     3) If you do not reload, 22, 223, 22 mag, 308, and mosin are about IT for large quantities of inexpensive ammo.  If that does not matter to you, anything works of course.   The ruger american in 308 sounds like a winner to me. 

    If you are looking for an inexpensive big thumper, a mosin is a good buy, ammo is still cheap, guns are still cheap.    You can find a constant supply of used BAs in various calibers.     223 BA is not recommended for anything, really.  Facing coyotes, gonna be multiples in a pack, usually at least 3 show at once, and an AR is the way to pop them.   Its too big for small edible game and too weak for large game. Its fine for popping paper on the cheap at shorter ranges (500 or less).   If you want to go there, a 22 LR is fine to 200 yards or so and is even cheaper, or 22 mag is an alternative and you can actually FIND ammo for that...   My best advice though is to get something you can reload (mosin cheap ammo isnt reloadable fyi).   A 308 for example, or a 30-30, or 243 or 30-06.  Or even an oddball caliber if you can find some brass for it.   Then you can make some target ammo that is lower power and cheap to shoot, and either buy one box or make a few loads to hunt big game with.  If you want to hunt smaller game the target loads or even lighter will do.     The biggest issue with rifle shooting is the $1 and up per shot price of ammo for anything that is not available surplus.  If you want to enjoy the gun, you either need one that shoots cheap surplus ammo or roll your own.  From there, its just finding a gun in your budget.  Remember to budget for a good scope too. 

so you think increasing the power a little is the way to go, that its not throwing the slide back far enough?   I considered this but it is throwing the brass out hard enough that I have to look for it.    I can try that, I have a quality gun, but with the brass coming out well I thought it was about right.    Using accurate #2 for it, which is pretty fast.

I would be tempted to say he cannot win the white house, so let us support him until the democrat primary is over, but then again, I said no one was fool enough to vote for obama either.  Sigh.   I say he did not RAM this through.  The people of NYC want this. 

75 and rami are so similar that having both means nearly having identical guns.   92 is not steel entirely.   Its a great gun, big but accurate and comfortable to shoot, and highly recommended.   I do not care for hi-powers, can't put my finger on it but I would rather have a 1911 in 9mm than one of these.  If you want a browning design, get a 1911 :)     so of those I say the 92, but again, its not your steel pistol,

Right hand, left hand?   It takes *time* to develop a *good* piece of software, and this almost certainly was in the works BEFORE the new year hit, IE before any recent shootings.   So its been in progress and chugging along quietly, forgotten, until yesterday someone said "its done, put it up" and so they did....   My best guess at it.   The other option is to assume they are brain dead or greedy.  We know they are greedy and milking for money (btw lookit how much the leaders are paid from our donations...!!)  So there is an off chance someone just wanted their money for the app sales.

I would be all for it under the condition that the government pays 100% of the fee.  That is it, period.   I do not think it will help much, but it does no harm to me and COULD prevent me from buying  stolen gun from some shady guy at a show, or from selling one to a criminal (far less likely, but it could happen, it DID happen, guy that shot a LEO here got his at a show from a shady "private sales" dealer who was actually doing tons of xfers without ffl).     There should be an inheritance variation where the beneficiary is simply checked but not all the guns by number.   It will not stop thugs from selling stolen guns to each other.   It will not stop gun-runners like the BAFTE who sell to crimnals, or other organized crime.  But if it were free, it would protect ME from the off chance that I deal with a criminal unknowingly.     If the government is unwilling to pay the fees, then the measure is not worth doing --- the money is more important to them, then its more important to me too, and I will protest it loudly. 

I think they caused a massive internet outage a year or 2 ago, and have hacked into private data and made it public.   /shrug should be online somewhere, but they have done some illegal stuff and several memebers arrested over the years.     Depends on how you look at it.  MOST of their actions are illegal like one Ms Parks and her bus --- illegal, but done to make a point, as a protest.  And most of it has been more or less harmless. 

I think they are actually more libertarian than liberal?   Consider...   They attack child porn. They attack big brother govt. They attack the anti-internet govt agendas They have attacked govt for persecution of gays/etc  (pro liberty)     If memory serves, they hackattacked the westboro idiots.   Most of what they stand for, I agree with.  Not their methods, which are illegal and destructive, but I agree with the *stance* they take. 

I dont give a lot of money away, but I would gladly donate to rem if they moved to TN, to help them with the costs. 

its not everything, its the stuff that they ran out of a month ago and have a bajillion unfulfilled backorders for. semi-auto rifle ammo, bullets, mags, 22 ammo, etc.     I mean midway is one of THE top sites for the stuff, I can only guess they have orders for some 5 million boxes of 22 LR ammo or something....

  If this keeps up, we could band together to ask the TN govt to form up a state sponsored one...

I think they have locked out backorders due to volume and uncertainty combined.  Their backorder list probably has their supply allocated for the next year or more. 

first top picture on this page should help you understand   http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=96148&start=20

cci primers are supposedly hardest of the normal stuff.    No clue where to get military ones.

Heh.  I dare him to do this.   The sooner and more often he shows his colors, the more people will see.  No one is going to pay one bit of attention to following his "orders" but it keeps growing opposition.

Its easy to see where he is coming from.  As a communist, he is unable to comprehend the idea of "massive profits".  As a pro-police state type, it makes no sense to sell guns that will be illegal soon.   It all adds up:  since profits and guns are both soon to be pointless in the america of the future, hopefully as soon as next week, the logical thing to do is to stop the madness voluntarily rather than wait for the swat team to shut you down.   Makes perfect sense, once you stick your head in a microwave for 1/2 an hour.

Trying to make some with #3 shot as the projectile.   I saw it on the internet so it has to be a good idea, right?   Anyway, they shot fine and made an excellent group.  But they all do the nose-up "stovepipe" type jam when firing the gun.  Hand cycle just fine.  Is this an artifact of the slightly too short rounds (bullet is about 1/2 as long as it probably should be sticking out of the case), or something I could fix by tampering with the powder charge?     

primers are a little tight, and some die sets like 223, but you can find the stuff with a little legwork.   Powder, plenty to be had.  Bullets, for anything but 223, plenty.  Large primers, pretty easy.  Small primers.... the only real challenge and not a lost cause so much as a little troublesome.

  This is a tricky one.     take the classic 9mm example, before the shortage and price jacking.  Say you can get a box of russian steel ammo for $9 a box.   Can you beat it at home?  Yes, you *can*.  Lead bullets, you are looking at $3 for 50.  Primers, 1.50 for 50.  Powder, a few cents per 50.  Cases: free, pick some up off the ground.  So you *can* make 9mm for 5 bucks a box and it will be better made than the steel bottom shelf stuff.    If you had to buy cases, and if you wanted to use copper jacketed bullets, you will spend as much or more than the bottom shelf steel ammo.  It just depends on what you can use and whether cases are easy to find.   If you had to buy new cases and cannot recover them, it would cost even more!   --- to date, the only ammo that I cannot seem to make for less is 25 acp.  I am working on that.... but the "correct" bullets for it cost almost as much as the ammo.

1) not sure what you are asking.   Reloading economics is to invest ONCE in equipment that will save you between 10% to 75% of the cost per bullet consumed for the rest of your life.  You can spend under $500 and be good to go for the rest of your life for the hardware, though you do need to keep buying the consumables like powder.  I paid for my equipment inside a year, but I shoot a lot, much of it pricy ammo types like 44 mag or 380.   2) I found it easy to learn.  You have a recipe: put this much powder with this type of primer and this weight of bullet into a case that is this long when finished.  Use your equipment to make it so.   3) the cheapest presses are not made of steel and can bend over time, needed to be replaced.   Get a steel press.  Single stage presses are slower, so it takes time to make your ammo.  I recommend starting with a steel turret press instead if you can afford the extra costs.   You can use the turret press LIKE a single stage if you want, but you can never use a single like a turret to speed things up...   4) at the least you need a press, dies for the caliber, a table, storage space, a precision scale (good to at least .25 grain resolution), calipers, the internet or a reloading book, brass cleaning system of some sort (can be home made), brass trimming system (can be $10 + a drill).  Most of the rest are "extras".   5) Lead bullets for pistols really save a ton.  Copper is valuable and the process to apply it is that much more manufacturing.  Casting is cheaper still if you want to go there, but lead bullets are very cheap.   A single stage saves money but again, turret is going to speed up your process by double or more once you get comfortable with the process.   Avoid buying things you do not have to have --- its easy to get sucked into buying more and more tools and toys for your reloading, but keep it simple will save money.  Make your own table for $10 worth of 4x4 and plywood, for example.   Buy components in bulk, and wait for deals.  Avoid paying hazmat shipping fees over the web.

If its an 1100 (or even if its not, most auto shotguns are just the browning design copy anyway) there are 2 holes in the barrel (or one, maybe, in some designs??)  about 1/2 way down the barrel.  These are small holes, but important.   If they are full of crud, take piece of copper wire and clean them out.  They are on the stock/down side of the barrel, the underside, whatever you want to call it.     Also the slots in the rings should not be in the same place.  I offset mine 180 degrees but they just cannot align.   Very light ammo can be a problem but usually all slugs work 100%.    READ the barrel.  If it is rated for MAGNUM shells, regular shells may not cycle the gun.