Jonnin

well its not so bad if you are making the aforementioned 200k a year ... It would take at least a 3x increase in my wage to move to one of those places. I currently take home 60k so a 3x is 180k take home, and with the staggered tax laws, that becomes 200+ because more goes to uncle sam for the higher bracket AND a state income tax. Just to live about like I do here in TN.

If you do not mind a full sized gun, rock island armory makes a 9mm 1911 double stack for about $500.

Unclear from the news blurb, but he was in the process of taking it to the bench to clean it when it went off (?). No one knows if he was going to clear the gun before starting the cleaning process, once sitting down at his area, or not. Its not the same as sitting down, looking down the barrel, bang type cleaning accidents. Either someone is lying, which is possible from that garbled story, or he maybe dropped it on its buttstock, which I could very well see happening. Which makes a case for clearing the gun upon touching it as a great habit.

none of those is going to have a 1911 type trigger, they will all have a mushy give (trigger spring, does nothing) followed by some amount of travel (sear/striker release is now engaged) followed by a bang. If you want a SAO trigger, you are probably going to want a SAO gun.... there are many "1911ish" guns in 9mm, 45, and other calibers, some are high capacity, some are smallish. CZ custom will put a single action trigger into most CZ frames but that also has some mush to it, still not a SAO trigger. Its not an expensive mod. Most of these SAO guns cost more than DA/SA or striker fired guns. Most striker guns have a long mushy pull for the first shot and a short reset that you can physically memorize if you are inclined to do so. I hate that, personally, but the follow up shots can be done fast and without much movement if you take the time to learn one gun well. Changing guns will change the memorized positions though, which can frustrate someone with many pistols.

If you have it already, think about using the gun you will carry to get in a good practice session. A .22 saves money and recoil and many, many shooters qualify with a .22. The instructor will not look at your gun unless it is very cool or you have a problem and need his help. Edit: well, the question mentioned .45, and that is $20 a box, and you shoot 2 boxes so its $40 bucks on top of the cost of the class and permit and gas and everything. Some folks, that a lot of money to spend in one week and reducing it from $40 to $5 by going to .22 may matter to some. Also, if shooting something awful like a 44 mag snubbie for your carry gun, a 50 or 75 or whatever it is round session might be a bit much for even the toughest of us.

Not to say you are wrong, but Romney is talking the entire USA. There are places in this country that make the cost of living in TN very, very attractive: we can do a LOT with a "lower" income because things here cost less. The home I have, that same money would not get me a rathole in the ghetto in NYC for example and I have a 2 story 4 bedroom here. 250k in some parts of this country is like 1/2 that here. Your income in some parts of the country would be starvation/homeless wages.

Sometimes I do, but by then the barrel is off the gun and its just a metal tube. Depends on what you mean by toward yourself also, some people, that is a 180 degree wall, others less. I sort of lump cleaning it in with gun shows or gun stores or transport/storage: sometimes it points your general direction in such cases. I mean, you put a rifle in your car, its going to point a *someone* before you get to the range.

I disagree. The killing of Ferdinand set off the war BECAUSE the whole of europe had been making threats and escalating toward inevitable war for decades. If he had not been shot, the dates would have changed, but little else. Might have had slightly different setups of allies and enemies in WWI depending on who was allied with who when the music stopped.

ammo reloaded by someone with a liscense to make and sell it is considered the same as factory. The stuff you make at home is what is not allowed. The guy with the liscense... is just as liable as remington or winchester. TN cartridge and Ultramax would count as liscensed and sueable and therefore probably acceptable. Its all about "can you drag the folks that made it into court when something blows up".

not sure. Looks like its made to level out the ground, for a road or yard or whatever, not actually garden work (????).

I also think that is a fine choice, though a bit large. I have the rami, which is the same basic thing shrunk down a bit, and it is amazing. Wife has a eaa clone of the 75 which is closer to what you are looking at, holds 18 I think.

whoever wrote that clearly only had mammals

I think so too, but I am in the minority about that.... we had quite a discussion about this very thing not long ago....

normal is 2, who knows, be happy with your luck!

eh... you need a top floating wiggly something. You need a smallish, fly type to get tiny fish if you are in survival mode (you can always net brim etc with some bug looking stuff). You want a diver (faster you pull, deeper it goes) and more than one since they tend to snag after your luck runs dry. Then one that just sinks and shines, your rooster tail is perfect, or maybe the old feather jig type. Add to that a few things to handle meaty bait (hook, sinker, float setups) should you have something to use, even catching bugs/worms works here. the rest starts to look like duplication / replacement / repair stuff ... pliers, extra line, so on.

The ears (probably, the camera angle) looked off to me. This has to be the most messed up story in a while. She had a gun pointed at him and he just decked her? The whole thing is comical, as it was reported, and I could not stop laughing.

I love my cz rami, its the old 75 platform made small, comes in 40 though mine is 9 M&P shield is a very nice pistol, single stack so slim enough. Taurus has a couple of 40s that are pretty slim and reasonably sized, millineum series maybe? there are so many more. Anything to narrow it down a bit?

well, it IS a first.

? I was just saying the crimped primer may or may not be sufficient to tell if it had been shot many times.

I have any number of reloaded 223 that has crimped in primers.... I can and have often managed to poke a primer into them without strain and keep on going. There are signs, of course, but if you picked up the case you would have a low chance to notice the differences. Dunno how common it is for people to use the crimped brass without knocking the crimp out but at least one person does it.....

Beating him IS deadly force. You never know, people just up and die from seemingly minor injury, due to whatever cause. Heck a few kids die every year from minor sports injury, for example.

Ah, is absolutely correct. This is an insurance issue. We have close to half a million dollars invested on the range side in steel, baffles, bullet trap, and targetry. The bank requires us to insure fixtures of that level expense against the risk of loss. The insurance company will not write a policy that covers reloads The fellow that I talked to said they WOULD write a policy but it was an INSANE cost over the 'no reloads' version and not possible to do it. Ironically, somone managed to blow a gun to bits there (not this range you are discussing, one I visit I mean) by inserting the wrong type of FACTORY ammo into it. As was once said in a book I read in highschool, about a teenage boy "hes not a bad kid but I cannot think of enough things to tell him not to do".

Just once I want to see some businesses show some teeth. I swear if I ran McDonalds for example I would shut down every franchise there the day this passed. Bluff or not, it would get some attention when I cut loose some few thousand employees and made it difficult for anyone to get lunch. If all the major chains worked together on that, it would be ..... a lesson of epic dimensions.

I put down yes, but I will qualify that as leaning toward circumstances. I doubt I would shoot a 10 year old kid stealing some other kids bike, for example, without some seriously good reason. They call it petty theft for a reason.... not going to waste a bum for snagging a sammitch and running out of the walmart deli either. I will qualify again. I consider deadly force drawing a firearm and forcing the person to surrender and submit or die. At that point the person can choose to enter the state reform institution or die.

I am sure the 0.00000001 calories burnt while getting refills will make a huge difference in the problem. Good job NY.