Jonnin

Aww give him a break.  When 900 years old YOU reach, catch on as quick you may not....

The milita includes the disabled, who can and often do fire a gun and who would gladly fight for their country.  It includes women who are just as willing to fight for freedom.  It has nothing to do with men.  Even children, if things are bad enough, can fight and fight well, and DO so in many countries.      Woe be it to the one that come's for my wife's AR or pistol.

there comes a point when you have more than you need.  If you have 1000 or something, for example, selling a few seems reasonable.  If you have 10 and sell half, that seems foolish.   The numbers vary from person to person but you get the idea....    Let me say this:  if the ban is panic, and you sell, then you may get a high price today and emerge unharmed, able to buy new in a year.  If the ban is real, you may be selling today for a LOW price compared to a year from now.   If you sell now and the ban is real, then you cannot replace them legally.  All that to me says hold them for now.  There will be people that sell today, trying for the quick buck rather than the long haul, but selling right now seems like the worst answer any way I look at it. 

As a lefty, my advice is to learn to pull the slide back to close it after a reload.  Practiced, it is reasonable.   Striker fired stuff and DAO guns with no safety at all eliminate the safety issue.    DA/SA guns HAVE a safety but it does not need to be engaged.  That elminates the need for a ambi safety model.   Its exactly like the safetyless dao guns or glocks: the trigger pull is long and stout and sufficient to prevent mishaps.   That leaves you with the magazine release being the key feature, IMHO.   If you can reverse it, or find a gun with a heel release, you have a winner.   The best lefty guns I own: beretta nano: reversible mag drop, no safety.  Horrible, horrible trigger, otherwise excellent 9mm. cz82:  its a 9x18, a little weaker cartridge, but it has an actual ambi safety and ambi mag drop, is a decent size for a double stack.   To be honest, I pretty much have given up.   My carry gun has a right handed mag drop that I have learned to deal with, and an ambi safety (its required as its a single action).  I can live with it but would love to slap the engineers that refuse to make controls reversible.  It should not be that hard to do but they just will not.

There are many old threads on this site about it, what equipment and so on.  If you need more, ask, but read those!   Don't be intimidated.  The details can bog you down but really, you poke in a primer, put in the amount of powder that it says in your book, shove a bullet on top.  Details matter, but its really not much more than this in the grand scheme of things.  

I use a 380 bullet in 38 sp & 9mm, not quite the data you seek but close enough, it should be doable in the sig as well.   I am using the gold dot 380 for some of it, most of it is a LRN paper puncher.

I went to the dalton GA one.   primers: $50 per 1000. 22 LR: best deal of the day: 1000 for $75   Any automatic rifle: $1500+ --- curiously, the better the gun, the less the markup,  I saw a couple of top brands like colt for almost reasonable prices.  Its the junkers, the low end AKs for 1100+, the S&W M&P for 1200, that sort of thing that are shockers.    Off-caliber ammo was reasonable, bolt actions and such guns reasonable, powder and brass not too bad.  Off caliber bullets (reloading) not too bad.    Its just the panic items .... anything for any type of auto rifle is nuts.    THere was some bulk 308 at modest prices, not sure what that goes for anyway (???) but I think a couple of places had some rough looking for under a buck a round.  I couldnt get anyone to bag me up like 100, though, it was big box or box of 20 specialty, couldnt get just a few (mines a lever gun, I dont need 5000 rounds for it).       I actually got a few things at a fair price.  I got a sack of brass I can use to make 9x18, some mauser ammo, and wife got a 38 S&W break top revolver that she liked and some kitchen stuff.    The crowd was out the door .... took 45 min or so to get IN the place.  Parking was 1/2 mile away in the overflow mudhole.   It was, mostly, cheap entertainment.

before you can discuss it you have to define it.   Some define the militia as THE PEOPLE.  Some define it as a group of paramilitary tin foil hats in the woods.  Some define it as an obsolete state's military.    The 2nd clearly says THE PEOPLE in the same way the others do.  This is key to understanding it.    A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That is a complete phrase.  The RIGHT of THE PEOPLE.  That is all you need to know.   Its identical to the first:   or the right of the people peaceably to assemble...

I like accurate #5 for that range.

only issue is it makes the cylinder dirty so clean before going back to mags or cases get stuckish

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/19/opinion/bennett-gun-rights/index.html

if I can find something decent under a grand I may bite, just for spare parts --- which would mean another m&p.  This sounds like a nice deal and situation, but 50% over me budget atm.

Its going to depend on what goes out on your body.  For me, its my poor hands -- I am only 40 but my hands are about like someone of age 70.  Sitting in front of a PC for 25 years will do that to you.   Second issue would be eyesight --- mine was never good, and darn it all, after getting it fixed its on its way out again.  Most everything else still works but I have a long, long way to go hopefully.

I am really torn on this one.  At this moment in time, it absolutely hurts us, that I agree with.   However,  I also half agree with those who do such things --- it should not be scary because people should have guns in public often and regular enough that it is no big deal.   It used to be that way -- a boy used to walk around with a rifle and not get a second glance.   I would see the return of that mentality, but there is a time for all things, and now is not that time.

double barrel, he got 2.... better ban em just to be safe. 

Im with you, its too much trouble.  Some people are much more stubborn than we are, though.

People know what it means.  Its on par with the old "cold dead hands" bumperstickers and such.   Wear one, by all means,  just saying that while its cool looking, I personally will not wear such (nor have signs on my home or car that say "guns here").  

people do it.  Not usually for 223, but people do it.  What a pain in the rear it is, and mostly, its done for obsolete calibers where there is nothing else.

I like it but advertising your intentions seems like a bad plan to me at this moment in history.

wow, buy 2 boxes of .22 practice ammo and you are tagged and bagged by the feds?  Thats like 1100 rounds, someone call the copz!

I will see if I can find a link, but walmart initially avoided the meeting and after being pressured responded with "we did not realize we HAD to attend" or similar.    So the administration is pressuring walmart directly.     Here we go   Wal-Mart initially turned down an invitation to participate in the talks but reversed its decision after it "underestimated the expectation to attend the meeting on Thursday in person," a spokesman said.     http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/sandy-hook-elementary-biden-includes-nra-wal-mart/story?id=18174779

  Its just a new skill.  I can jockey a heel release better than I can a RHO one, being left handed.  I learned it on a makarov and I can change the mag in that gun very quickly.  Its not that you can't do a heel fast, its just going to take more practice.   ---------- Those are nice guns.  They are not target pistols, the trigger isnt possible to make them into such, but they are well made and fine pistols.  My hands are too big to enjoy the frame, but its perfect for a kid or folks with smaller hands.

I think only the mark 1 had the heel release.  I think all mark 2 and 3 have a RHO release instead.  So, indeed your dad's is older and those are worth a bit to collectors now.    The default 22 S&W grip is not huge.  The target grip is quite big, however.  MY aggravation with the 22a was a slight cant for right handed shooters that make the gun very odd for a lefty.   I dunno if that was just mine, or the a/s variation,  or what, but it is why I sold it.  It had a friendly ambi mag release in the center of the grip facing forward.   Other than that detail, I agree 100% with grey's excellent breakdown.  I would add to the list a SA .22 revolver.   Mine is an older ruger blackhawk style single six in 22  with a 22 mag cylinder.   The newer ones are single 10s that hold more shots.   For a fair price you get an amazing trigger and accuracy out of a good revolver.  Out of the box the trigger is going to be close to a very expensive .22 auto, like the model 41 etc quality.  Out of the box, the accuracy is going to be just as good.  Its not for the competitions --- those have speed stages that require an auto, really --- but for just learning to shoot and a high quality target pistol, cant beat it.

holy smokes, you would use up an entire canister to fire one round.   I did see a *very expensive* 30 something cal air rifle that could take deer, but I seriously doubt granny had one of those.   So big stuff of some variation does exist, but its hard to find and pricy....

have had all 3 (buckmark, 22a, and mark 2) and all 3 are great guns.   The ruger is the best made.  All 3 may or may not be set up for optics --- depends on model specifics and when it was made, all 3 COULD be ready to go or they could need a gunsmith to install a rail or something.   There is nothing wrong with the 22a for accuracy or anything.  Its just not as rugged as the others.  I shot many rounds thru mine and it never had the first issue.  I wore out the recoil buffer (a 10 cent part) a few times, but those are made to be replaced.     And, above me, is my old 22a --- glad you are still enjoying it K.