Jonnin

Somehow, I do not see that question as going over too well with a lot of the gun owning community! I agree with you, but I know too many paranoid gun owners to recommend this as a good idea for the poor sap behind the counter.

you can sell cast bullets. You cannot sell live ammo. I do not know who would pay much for cast bullets --- it would depend on how many you can make how fast and at what expense --- but to my knowledge that is perfectly legal.

the ones I have seen lester are a good 2 foot square ... when you prop open the lid for the scope, it is about 3-4 feet off the table and perfect at most ranges for standing up beside the shooting bench. They usually hold about 4 1911 sized guns and 500 or so rounds of ammo with room for tools and targets and other stuff. I would say roughly 2 foot by 2 foot by 10 or so inches deep on the average. The box does not have to be heavy, but they are not small nor light as a bag either. Most are not roadie tough, they are just meant to be hauled in a car then carried or rolled to the shooting station. Mostly, these seem to be used by bullseye shooters who want to use the scope and possibly just like the traditional support item. Apart from the scope it has no advantage over a bag, really. A picture for 1000 words ..... here are some high priced and questionably constructed examples. http://www.bullseyeg.../home.php?cat=6 if you look closely at the top 3, see the bracket for the scope in the open lid? The scope lives, when the box is closed, in the compartment down low that has the blue ammo boxes in it. They have their display all wrong! The one we got was one of the under $100 models and the lid and such barely close. All these demonstrate the metal rod thru the trigger pistol storage, which I strongly dislike. The things are overpriced for the quality of construction. The gun-ho model has a good rep, or once did, but was not available when I bought mine.

there are a number of mom & pop type setups that sell reloads legally via a FFL. You can find them at gunshows or the like, but it can be hard to locate one. Most them them sort of half hide from the public as they cannot keep up with demand. Not too long ago I got several boxes of 45 acp at about $11 per box from such a booth at a gunshow, and long ago I got a lifetime supply of 44 mags (well it was a lifetime supply at the time, before I got an automatic and just had the blackhawk). Not sure about your area, but they exist. You are unlikely to find a random person willing to do this for you. I would do it for someone I know reasonably well, or more likely, loan them the use of my press and dies if they bring their own materials. I have been tempted to get a FFL and try it, run a booth once a year at a show or something, but I can barely keep up with what I shoot, I would not have anything to sell

I have seen some really nice ones. But when you ask the guy that has it, the answer is always "I bought that back in 1967" or something.

I am a simple man. I would end all foreign military presence in any country that did not pay us for our services, at a rate of at least 1.10 X our expenses + $25k per casualty (casualty = wounded OR fatality). The 25k goes directly to the soldier or family. The 10% goes to military R&D. Countries that cannot or will not pay can talk to the UN for aid. The USA will send troops in a UN backed operation to equal no more than 10% of the total force sent at our discretion, we may send none at all. It is, of course, our choice to support anyone, when I speak of sending troops at all it would be to our allies and for a good cause only, not talkin a mercenary operation here just covering our costs and helping our allies. We will accept oil or gold instead of cash. Next up: public colleges cannot provide tech degrees to foreign students. To get a tech degree, the student must become a US citizen. Next up: tax break for businesses for every US citizen on the payroll. Next up: all taxpayers are entitled to the % of their taxes that was spent in entitlements. That is, if you pay 1000 in taxes, and 100 of that is for entitlement programs, you are now entitled to $100 in goverment services, which may be saved up (in case of unemployment, for example) or immediately withdrawn. Programs that cannot fund themselves under these rules will be eliminated. All citizens will be required to pay a $1000 fee for a liscense to exercise the rights of free speech, right to not be searched, and so on. If this is deemed unconstitutional, similar programs for other rights will be declared null and void. I could go on all day but its a start.

pretty sure that 135 includes NRA membership fee as well (?). If you already have that, I think it is a bit less.

range box, the type that opens up into a spotting scope stand and so on. I finally found one but it was of lowish quality -- the doors are difficult to open and to not meet up well with the closing snaps. It had a freaking hard metal rod that you supposedly put thru the trigger guards to hold the pistols in place, not the best pistol storage design ever thought up. At best, it was "OK". There were almost no others on the market, a few used ones that were sold time I found them.

I do not expect too much from a salesman. Honesty is up top. Stop trying to sell me a glock would be second. After those 2 I can live with most of the rest of it.

Did not read the replys but some sources: take the boy to an official hunter's ed safety course. It is designed for someone about age 10 anyway, is required to be able to hunt (required for a liscense), and its full of good safety tips. check the NRA site for eddy the eagle -- a gun safety program for kids via a silly cartoon guy. also learn the real rules for gun safety. You will google and find sets of 3,4, ..... 10 .... 15 rules and so on but it really can be summed up in 3-4 rules for adults. Here is a version of 4 that is really good: 1. The Gun Is Always Loaded! 2. Never Point A Gun At Something You're Not Prepared To Destroy! 3. Always Be Sure Of Your Target And What Is Behind It! 4. Keep Your Finger Off The Trigger Until Your Sights Are On The Target! For kids, what you said is great: 1) do not touch it 2) tell an adult that you trust However, at 9, he is starting to get beyond that. Those are more for a 3 year old and totally inappropriate by age 12 or so. As a non gun person, please understand that the news hypes gun accidents and incidents in rediculious ways. Guns do not fire unless multiple safety rules are violated. Take the rules that I listed. In order to have an incident, a person must have a loaded gun and then proceed to point it at something they were not willing to destory (usually a person!), have no idea of their target (or not care!), and pull on the trigger. Pistols, which are the most common source of problems, do NOT fire unless the trigger is pulled, in general. A few antiques will, and defective ones may, but functional, modern pistols are designed to be safe if dropped, even slammed, and are quite difficult to discharge by accident (pulling the trigger is not an accident, its negligence or intent). Long guns can fire if dropped super hard and must be given an extra level of respect. You will see this in the hunter safety course --- but basically, open a long gun, expose the chamber (that is where the bullet lives) to prove that it is empty, and keep it open and empty during handling. So, in short, if you can keep the kid from pulling on the trigger and pointing the gun at people (and houses, cars, pets, etc) it will be ok. A lot of gun people are paranoid and consider a gun to be pointed AT them if the person is in an 180 degree arc of the muzzle. This can get them riled up, so be aware that what YOU think is pointed AT something and what the other guy things may not be the same. Even I get in trouble with that one sometimes

go on sat morning and it will be open for events, and you can find some members. PM me an email and I will send you a copy of the application form. I think its first, second, third sat for events, then nothing, repeat. As was suggested try silver's firearms. Its very inexpensive. It has 200 yard rifle, 100 yard rifle, some pistol bays, and a skeet house that is only used on sundays. You are expected to work once in a while on designated work days to help maintain it. Rules are simple and about what you would expect if you have any common sense.

they need to give him the bread & water treatment. Homeboy's neck is bigger aound than both of my legs.

But out of every 10 sold, 1 will be wrecked by a moron with a hacksaw. Another will be messed up by neglect. A third will have been in poor shape to begin with when imported. In 20 years, 2 of the 10 will still be unchanged. In 50 years, 1 of 50 may still be in good condition and between inflation, demand, and attrition, they will start to go up in value significantly. I would bet on it: in 30-50 years those mosins will be worth more than double what you paid, we have seen this time and time again with the guns that we once thought we had millions of in excess. There are still millions of garands out there, and yet they command a price from 500 and up now, with better ones going for nearly a grand.

Its a single action, and the trigger is in the back of the trigger guard (1911 style) rather than the front or middle like a double action. If she cannot reach that, she is in trouble. Mine has about a 4-5 pound pull and the travel is 1/8 inch or so, roughly. The safety is thumb operated and while not difficult to move, it has a firm ball and socket type fit so initial movement takes a reasonable amount of force. I would say it has 2/3 the recoil of the "other" pocket 380s like the p3at and clones. I dunno what to tell you. It is not a cheap gun --- price has dropped so you might find one for under $500 with a little luck --- so its not the sort of thing to just buy as part of an assorted pile for testing purposes. But if you can borrow one to check out, you can at least make an educated guess as to whether or not it will do for her.

Hot 9 is close enough to 357 yes -- the bad guy will not know the difference. +p+ is meaningless, there is no pressure limit on this marking and it is not regulated, make/use/buy it at your own risk. You can get the two rounds close, but the sig will always have an edge and making 9 that hot is hard on the guns over time. I do not know how hot you can make the 357 sig --- but for the .40 it was not recommended to try to increase the power over the known load data as it is already a pretty hot cartridge. That allows the 9 to catch up a bit, if you are willing to make hot loads that stress the gun.

Yea, do yourself a favor and get a large, rich set of hex wrenches and keep them in your gun bag. They are heavily used in firearms and accessories like scope mounts, and are very aggravating to deal with if you do not have a set. There is a good chance that sight screw will be tough to loosen. Kroil may help, or anti-locktite compound (whatever the stuff is called). They tend to be in there good so they do not loosen up from recoil.... and need to be put back in well when done.

Newer ones seem to have a thinner grip. Mine is old and has 2 dot sights which are awful IMHO. They run great and are accurate, rugged, heavy guns. All steel is hard to beat. Only things to look at are the usual on any gun... no rifleing/ultra worn out or shot to death, no finish, rust, neglect or wear. Know the price for what you are getting.

a good reason to own one? To get to a different division in 3 gun and possibly idpa or other sports (??). Ballistically there is no advantage. The 10mm really had something -- it can approach a 44 mag -- but the 40 is nothing special. The 40 is more impressive when reduced back to 9mm as a 357 sig, where a reloader can really have some fun with all the different bullet weights and shapes and so on --- its like a 9mm magnum and worthwhile. Having both a 40 and 357 barrel for the same gun gives even more options -- so you get a very flexible gun at that point if you are into playing with ballistics and load data.

I am not aware of any decent (short and light, anyway) trigger guns with no safety. Glock is about as light as it gets and even those have that half inch of do-nothing trigger spring pretravel before it fires, and you have to hit the finger pincher button to use the trigger. I found the beretta tip ups to have an excessive trigger pull and was only just able to fire them. However I have only shot a couple of examples, could have been the specific guns (brand new and stiff??? not sure!!). And that was with the hammer already back, it just took a lot of force to go bang. The tip up is and ease of use of the rest of the design is quite good for bad hands, so it depends on the shooter if the trigger is usable. Which brings up the main point... you can carry a cocked and locked hammer down and cock it the once if you like. Some people are OK with that manual of arms. Its not much different from using the safety, 1 action to bring the gun to bear either way.

a number of malware and adware etc are tripped by semi-shady ad vendors. That means the offending ad is randomized and may not show up for all people. If you block ads or scripts, you may not trip a warning. If your virus warn does not catch it because you have safe browsing and ganked the scrip before it got started, you see nothing in that case either. /shrug lots of other reasons some would see it and others not. I hear that those never-get-a-virus macs even have the occasional botnet problem. And one of the first viruses of all time was on a unix box. Nothing is safe, really, no matter what browser you use or what OS. You can reduce the risk, but never quite eliminate it without going ultra hard core such as elimination of all external data.

The company, I admire. They have done several innovative things in their R&D department, such as the shotgun, and I think they were one of the first, if not the first, to build the DAO style automatics (?). They also have outstanding service. Their line of inexpensive handguns, well that one is open to debate. The guns have enough issues out of the box that the owner's group site has many pages dedicated to fixing the minor issues that a new kel tec has right out of the box, most of which are just the polishing of various parts so the guns work better. While these guns are prone to limp wrist jams due to their light weight and often are a bit unpolished out of the box, they do tend to work and breakage right away is not common. It is much more common to have a sandpaper rough feed ramp that will not feed, or similar small problems. The bottom line, then? If you cannot afford better, let them repair it and work with the gun until it is reliable and trusted. Many people manage to get their kel tec trustworthy and functional. If you can afford better, let them repair it and sell it, move on to a higher quality pistol if you want a higher quality pistol. If you are a tinker at heart, keep it and mess with it anyway is an option. They are not the best guns, but they fill a niche; they are an affordable DIY option for people who want a self defense weapon but cannot afford 2-3 times the price. Disclosure: I have a plr 16 223 pistol that is 100% flawless. I had a p-40 that was busted when I bought it thanks to a shady gun show dealer, and they rebuilt it for free from the frame up. It was returned to me as a 100% working pistol, however I cannot fire DAO guns easily with my worn out hands so I sold it after a while. After the work it ate about 3 boxes of ammo before I sold it, with zero issues apart from one very, very sore trigger finger after each range session.

HFCS is just a concentrated carb. See my comment on carbs. Its not evil, but it is overused and when you consume pounds of it daily (its in almost every ready to eat food, including most sauces, soft drinks, and microwaveables, as well as many restraunt dishes) you will gain weight. Its like eating a tablespoon of pure sugar at every meal -- empty calories and worse, the short road to diabetes. This is one of the most difficult parts of a low carb diet, is to stop eating stuff full of HCFS. But it really does help, a LOT. If you are doing an INTENSE workout program or lead a very active lifestyle, do not reduce your carbs too low, you need a few!

I do not know a thing about the p90x system. But I can tell you a little bit about our experiences at weight loss. my wife was a big girl, over 300 for a long time (and right at 6 foot). She is now about 150. What finally worked for her was gastric bypass, but the surgery only works if you change your lifestyle. She works out and does not eat much at all --- a typical night out at a restraunt and she has enough left over for me to eat lunch the next day. Stuff that has worked well: low carb diet. Its amazing what eating nothing but meat and veggies will do for you. Bread and sugar are converted almost directly to fat, apparently. exercise: even a little bit every day makes a big difference. portion control: this is what the surgery really did for her. Portions in america are huge, and eating out is a recipe for getting big in a hurry. Eating more than 1/2 of what is bought at any restraunt is probably too much food, and to boot, most of that stuff is ultra high calorie. If you combine these 3 ideas --- portion control, low carb, and a bit of exercise --- you will drop some weight. You can even eat a pretty good portion of low carb foods and work on the portion control bit slowly as you get used to eating less, and still shed pounds. After it is all said and done, I do not recommend the surgery. It helped, and it may be a good idea for people as a last resort, but at the end of the day it is a painful and traumatic way to do the things I said. It does reduce your calorie intake by taking away the abilty to absorb so much from your food, so its more than just enforced portion control, but its a last resort. Just going along with my wife's diet and exercising with her, I dropped 20 pounds and sit at 180 or so. Which is probably still a litttle high, but its 20 pounds better than it was.

the LCR is a DAO, which she probably cannot handle. The taurus is a DA/SA, which she may manage, it is not clear. For those of us with bad hands, long pulls are bad in any flavor, even if light. I cannot handle most guns that fire this way -- I cannot fire most revolvers in DA pull, and can just barely manage my beretta nano, but not enough to practice with it. Its a backup emergency only gun for that reason. Since it seems to have moved here I also recommended the p238 for the same reasons (short trigger pull) and the walther p22 or ruger clone of it (trigger to grip ratio, modest pull). But it comes down to what she can do with her hands. I can rack my desert eagle but I cannot pull the trigger on a LCR. My wife cannot pull a revolver hammer back without both hands on the gun and even then it is hard for her. My mom cannot rack the slide on most autos. They are different areas of hand problems, all three... thumbs vs fingers, grip vs pull strength, and so on. We really need more info on what exactly she can do and what is a struggle and what is impossible.

the online course is not sufficient. The wife and I did that, and it is nice, but it is really just a study guide. We STILL had to go to the class to take the test and ended up going back over the same stuff from the online version again. I do not remember why but the test from the online package did not count and we had to take the live test at the class to get our "ben there dun that" paper. The class is pretty easy. We both got 100% on the test. It spends an unholy amount of time on how to climb a tree, which at my age is not gonna happen, but it is really good stuff and I learned a lot of new unsafe things to try that I had never even thought of.