Jonnin

who in the hell has a passport --- I do not, nowhere I want to go because the airport + foreign laws make packing too much trouble. Only visa I have is the card to pay for the purchase. Most people don't have this stuff, doubt 50% of americans have that sort of thing and far less carry it around daily.

Any fool can make a nuke if he has the materials (this is where it gets difficult!). Delivery systems (missiles!) for the military hold some back (did you know some countries still cannot manage a real missile?) but a van does pretty well in a civil war. Then you gotta handle the materials without getting radiated. Then you gotta get outta there before it blows. And not screw up building it and level yourself and all your allies. Very dangerous, but if desperate enough, .... boom. Lots of other things we can do as a hobby too. Heck the meth labs make both a pretty good weapon and a pretty good bomb, at the same time...

I think I would have left town when the tanks or planes or coptors come to play. I certainly am not going to jump on it and go for a ride... that is one brave, or desperate, soldier.

people are rarely logical and often emotional. there are only a few logic chains you can make for the problem. 1) take up all guns -> no one can shoot anyone -> this crime could not have happened -> except he could have used explosives or home-made mustard gas or 10000 other things. Fail. 2) prevent criminals from hurting anyone -> intractable, fail. 3) allow people to shoot back -> likely innocents are injured by would be heroes -> less than 70 total people shot, suboptimal but better outcome. 4) Hire snipers at every public establishment to handle situations -> creates jobs for gun owners -> success. and so on. In these examples, #4 is a clear winner but it would never be accepted by today's public, you would get the what-if crowd riled up and the "excessive force" crowd and the tinfoil hats and more --- it would be a police state effectively even if the snipers were only certified citizens.

I was hot for a PMR until I got one in hand. Trigger is just not there for a target pistol, and that is about the only use I would have for it. Its not reliable enough to carry IMHO (based off observation, it can be finicky). If it were reliable and had a shorter barrel it would make a strange self defense weapon....30 rounds of 22 mag would make that mugger look like a cheeze grater. Its an almost but not quite gun for me. I was really tossing between it and the plr 16, glad I got the plr. That gun has been flawless.

how many does that taurus hold? The px4 I had was reliable and accurate, a good piece. Silver bear has been good to my makarov, but never tried it in 9mm, it may be a little weak (?) or something.

trying to find a per year or per month. TN ranks high at 0.015 % (that is 15 deaths per every 100k people per year). In a state with almost 50% of the people owning at least 1 gun (statistically or actual??? Unclear if my 10 count for 10 households??). The national average is 10 per 100k. Apparently if you are black your chances are more than double of being one of the unlucky 15. Nationwide, supposedly: Motor vehicle accidental deaths per year...43,000 Fatal firearms accidents per year...1,100 firearms related homicides: 14k per year gun crimes per year: 1 million roughly vehicles used in crimes yearly: unknown --- http://webappa.cdc.g...dcaus10_us.html This app gives firearms as not even or just barely in the top 10 list, compared to a consistent #2 cause of death being motor vehicles until advanced age kicks in.

I think the "man gun club" culture of the country has really hurt the women. So many times I see women shooting for their first few times and really having fun, "why didn't I do this sooner" and so on. Take your wife/daughter/mom/friend with you guys -- a lot of them will like it. And, really, don't hand them the .44 snubbie for their first shot. It is not funny, and you just discouraged a potential shooter for life. If its your wife/girlfriend/whatever, that maybe just left you to shooting without her for the rest of your life. I cant tell you how great it is to have your wife open the safe, grab her AR and say 'we are going to the rifle range today'. Its a lot better than "you go ahead without me, I need to do my nails". Encouragement helps. It took a while before mine would even try it with me --- she was leaning toward the greenies/hippies and casually anti-gun when I met her. She finally agreed to try it once and now I cannot make nor buy enough ammo to keep her going.

This guy was downright incompetent to be honest. Its like he bought the stuff but never used it, or very little. I suspect it was birdshot, which also smacks of incompetence. Thank goodness ---- if he had been skilled, there would be 100+ dead. The only picture I have seen of the weapon looks like a 30 round AR mag, not a drum. I wonder if he shot it empty or not, rather than have it jam, given the sorry quality of reporting..... everyone keeps saying high cap mag and a jammed rifle but something does not add up. I am tempted to say most of the fatalities were from the AR, which he shot say 20-30 rounds from, and some of the survivors were pass thru shots maybe? The rest of the survivors were probably handgun wounds? Not sure that the shotgun even played a real role. But no one knows yet. If we ever do find out, it will probably be years from now after the trial circus. They keep evidence close until trials these days.

I do not have an old colt to compare to, but my wife has a gold trophy or gold cup or gold something model about 2, maybe 3 years old, and it is quite nice. It has a lightweight frame (alloy or aluminum or something) which is one of the reasons she liked it. New bushing and it can put all the shots touching at 20-25 yards. It is not a low quality gun; I give it a better than average rating though there are clearly better guns (at higher prices, this one was like 1000 give or take).

nice. The whole thing can be TLDR with the one statement: "Reasonable," to the political left, is defined as: agreeing -- totally -- with them. Period.· The entire left is smoke and mirrors --- they call themselves progressive to imply that the only way to make progress is through them. They claim to be the intellectuals, though their voter base is largely uneducated poor. They claim to want to help people but their methods are designed to keep people uneducated and poor and in the voter base. Offer them a compromise and they will turn it down ---- some bright person needs to introduce a bill that reverses all gun control laws that have not worked in exchange for trying something new, like a 1000 round per day purchase limit, that is "reasonable", right? Nope, "reasonable" is to add more and more restrictions while never relaxing any, even if the ones being relaxed were worthless. For a bunch of supposedly well educated people, they are awfully stupid.

The first movie was so good. The second was so bad I did not watch the third. I can only imagine the people who are willing to do that to their bodies are sincere. Its painful and you have the judgement of everyone who knew you before, probably tons of snide comments there, and more. You would have to be pretty convinced of your need to do it to go thru all that. A professor I know did it at like 60 -- you just never know, guy would have been last on my list of "most likey to be female in a couple of years".

most of the "plastic" used in guns will not break as easily as that. I am a fan of steel too, but the only issue I have seen with plastic is the occasional melted plr (and they tell you not to do that).

Lamar actually responded (or his people did) to my wife's email about the UN treaty, and said he would not vote for it.

I have no problem with the protesters doing this, and they should be let go as before (detain for a couple hours, give em a stern warning or in this case, since there was damage, a fine). The problem here is they were allowed to get this far. Security was asleep and failed big time. Fire the security. Slap the offenders on the wrist. And next time I want to hear about warning shots fired and total beatdown of anyone that gets close.

Having them appointed for life was a slick move. Congress and the president have a rapid turnover. If somehow there was a clean sweep and both congress and president were dominated by one party, well their watchdog (the SC) can still oppose them. If the final branch was also reset, all three branches could align to cause some serious harm. Even as we speak, the conservatives in place (even when they mess up, like health care) are left over from reagan's appointments and from W's picks. I dunno. I do not like a lot of the cour'ts decisions, but given the choices we have had for congress, president, etc for the past decade, I fear who might replace them. I am thinking that a 6 year term would give us a SCOTUS fulla czars, an obama president, and a liberal congress as a 2013 amerika. Hopefully I am wrong, but that would be a distinct possibility. As it stands, if elected, obama will get 1 or 2 more court picks anyway.... not good.

You won't see the rifling issue with .40 either, .40 ammo is all the same. Its an issue with 9mm, mostly people trying to make "improved" defense ammo.

Their crazy "you cannot have that" laws are not the problem. I could probably work around those, as aggravating as they are, if I were forced to live in a place like that. Talk to me about carrying a concealed pistol in CA. That is what would keep me out of the state --- their carry permit and CCW laws. Not their stupid glue an oar to the AR stock and limited mags.

Its not that it is ok to not be thoughtful, its that america has raised 2-3, even 4 generations that have been taught entitlement and importance of self combined with being taught to fear strangers. I do not like it any better than you but I understand it and am not offended by it. When this is the normal behavior, expecting more is no longer reasonable.

any large rifle caliber will set you to reloading. Even common stuff is .75 to $1 per shot. If you have something exotic $2 or 3 per shot. And it is pure price fixing --- it costs no more to make obsolete rounds than 30-06 in materials.

what did I miss? I used a roll of paper towels and a box of q tips, got it out of the barrel/chamber/bolt and magazine (internal not detachable) and the gun was good to shoot. If there is still a smear on something, it keeps the rust away.

Time passed. Holding a door open went from being nice to being sexist. Speaking to people went from friendly to fearful ... today, if someone says "HI" to me, I am waiting for the "my car broke down and I need $20 cause I lost my job and ...." to follow up. A generation of selfish anti-everything folks reproduced and taught their kids their ways. Those grew up and whelped and taught their kids even stranger ways. Mostly, time moved on and its hard to fault the people (its hard to call someone rude when they were brought up differently, with different standards). These days, to be rude is to be aggressively hateful (cut someone off in traffic intentionally, shove past someone, etc) rather than passive things (did not speak to you, really? Not a big deal anymore!).

Surely some clever person could give it 2 triggers. Its not too hard to pull 2 triggers at once on my double barreled shotgun.

sportsman's HSM brand (never seen it elsewhere??) in the ugly orange box is brass cased. PMC is cheap brass cased.

I had not been paying attention to the foreign players, but did anyone else notice that a "Mr. BAN" was one of the major people behind this treaty?