Jonnin

Good thing chattanooga officially does not have a gang problem, or I would be concerned about this sort of thing.

If the issue you are seeing with that para is a 9mm that will not go all the way into the barrel chamber, it could be the rifling / headspace. The wife and I have 2 guns that will not accept some reloads, the rifling bites into the bullet early and the slide cannot close, cannot push it in any deeper, and it takes a dowel rod to remove the stuck round. This was always with heavier bullets, and you mention the 147 grain so I will ask if this is possibly the issue (rather than a tight chamber). The brass fit in fine, it was all a problem with the heavy, fat bullet not having enough room.

If all they sold by prescription were addictive, easy to abuse narcs, the drug stores would go out of business. I would bet 75% or more of the prescription drugs are not easily abused at all. Consider birth control... if you could get high off estrogen or whatever is in that stuff, dope addicts would be killing every mammal on the planet to harvest hormones. The ability to use it for "recreation" is not why most of the drugs are off limits. I do not know what all reasons they use, some are just dangerous if the directions are not followed but that does not carry much weight since you can OD on cough medicine.

welcome! I really like handguns, mostly its easier to find a place to shoot them while decently long rifle ranges are less common. I get bored with a rifle at 100 yards or less while a pistol at 30 is plenty challenging.

We order it in bulk and have some on hand, but they track it --- cannot get the next bulk purchase until the first one is getting low, so its hard to have more than a month's supply on hand for a lot of drugs. Diabetes may be one of the easier ones, I am unaware of a black market for insulin or related drugs or any way to do much to abuse them. Basically, if you rely on anything hard-core to stay alive, and the country explodes, you are probably screwed unless you down-dose or something (take a slightly lower dosage for a long period of time to save a pill or two a week for emergencies..). Which may or may not be possible depends on what the drug IS. Lot of them have a shortish shelf life too.

Effective July 1, 2005, Tennessee handgun carry permit law will now allow certain applicants already exempt from complying with firing range provisions of the current statute to also be exempt from any classroom requirements. Those current exceptions are applicants who prove to the department that within five (5) years from the date of application for handgun permit, the applicant has: Been certified by the police officer's standards and training commission, or successfully completed training at the law enforcement training academy; or successfully completed the firearms training course required for armed security guards; or successfully completed all handgun training of not less than four (4) hours as required by any branch of the military. I see that as saying you can skip the class but must pay the permit fee?

welcome! Variety is good; I would recommend a .22 pistol next for the ammo savings, hard to beat a cheap practice gun.

I am ok with the clerks at a place like that not knowing a lot about guns (some do not know much, some do, it varies at places like this). I prefer no-gun-experience to some gun store (and most gun show) guys, actually -- but that is another story (you know the ones I mean!). But no one should ever abandon you for another customer without extreme circumstances -- that is very bad form. Still, one bad clerk does not make the whole chain... hopefully he will not be there long ... esp if you report him to the manager...

I would say it was slapped together to make a photo. I put the bracket that holds the mag tube to the barrel all the way out towards the end of the barrel, about 3 inchs back or less. That bent mag tube is probably harmless, but it looks bad. Take it off, put it back on, move the bracket out and it will straighten up. The loading gate may be a big issue or not; it could be some sort of easy-loader that needs adjustment or it could take a gunsmith to fix, depends on what it really is and what is wrong with it. For sure, its borked, nothing should stick out like that! It does not bother me. But my settings kill flash player so nothing is animated, and its easy to ignore them once they are not animated. To really annoy you, be on the look out for the 1911 ad; one of those guns looks like the mag is falling out, you can see metal of the mag sides, not just a floorplate or extension...

I like them but the trigger cannot be fixed (like the target pistols you listed, which can be) -- making it not really a target pistol. I think it may take other ammos as you break it in more, but blazer is excellent consistency for a bulk pack ammo and if it takes those...

Haha I can see that. Point was the confusion of terms is because they are misused by people, many of them in the media, which propagates back to the sheep, who misuse them until the misuse becomes common. I blame the media 100% for the suspicious example... if the news constantly gets it wrong (and these are journalists, who should know better) how will the sheep ever get it right? And they do, almost daily, misuse that word (among others). Liberal/conservative is more confusing. There is even a "classical liberal" that is really what we would call a conservative.... I suppose they do mean a lot of things around the world. Keep it in the US, and it really just means democrat or republican (which are both totally wrong terms for the respective parties...).

I have had no luck getting this model to work either. After trying to help get 3 or 4 of them to work (none of them mine, however) I have about decided that this is one of those guns that either works out the box or needs to be replaced until you get one that works out of the box. No home remedy seems to help at all. Once you get a working one, its a darn nice platform. I have not yet seen a working .22 that would not eat one of these two: federal bulk pack blazer/cci bulk pack (blazer label, but CCI brass stamp)

The same things that were wrong with them 2000 years ago. Ever hear that story about a good Samaritan? Where some fella gets beat near to death by some punks, left for dead, and someone finally comes along and helps him? Its an old story, but it shows that nothing ever really changes. People like to think back to the good old days before people beat the snot out of each other for money, but really, when was that again? People have been beating each other to death since money was invented, and before that they were going at it over a goat.

My basic lee die eats the case all the way to the shell holder. I consider that to be full length, its what every other "full length" die I have (223 and other rifle dies are billed as full length, or not, when you buy them). All my pistol dies meet the same "full length" definition that the advertised rifle dies meet, in other words. The brass should be "nearly solid" back towards the primer, where the shell holder grabs it. Most brass should be fine with the standard dies. I pick up all my brass at ranges, where glocks are pretty darn common (and you can tell, the funny primer strikes give it away) and the normal dies work just fine on all of it, apart from the occasional super mangled case that gets tossed out.

I do not think it is what he says it is. But that could just as easily be ignorance as scam. Ive had gun dealers that I trust make some rather silly statements a time or 2 about a used gun that they did not research too deeply, it happens. Whatever it is, its not easy to backtrack with just the web, probably need an expert or some books to unravel exactly what it is.

liberal and conservative are pretty well defined. Its whether the person thinks the constitution is the law of our land or just some outdated suggestions that we can take or leave. IE liberal or conservative approach to following that document. The terms may mean different things to different people, but you are talking about john q. public here who probably cannot tell the difference between simple words like "suspicious" and "suspect" or when to use "and" to connect verbs compared to when to use infinitives. Resulting in people saying things like "try and" instead of "try to", or "that guy looks suspicious". Most people can barely speak the language, so it follows that terms are sometimes garbled...

I noted this gem farther down: "had two previous violations related to untruthfulness and other violations." He needs to be arrested, not just fired, sounds like a bad cop, habitually misusing his position. Zero tolerance, is that the term the officers like to use with us regular folks? And yes, it would appear he was spending a great deal of energy to get a free pistol of dubious quality. He could have had the same for just a small amount of cash at a gun show.

I do not know, but the one here in chattanooga hosts gun shows regularly. Of course the shows do not allow loaded carry but you can walk around with the guns there & such. That is as much as I can offer -- but if the building were a gov't gun-free zone, I do not think this would happen? So it would be a posted building or not, in that case (?).

welcome! I keep an eye on this thread because my wife does not read up and sometimes I see something to link at her. Anyway... My wife keeps one of those carry purses but does not use it as much as she used to. Its a good thing to have, IMHO, as an alternative. You may be better off ordering that holster online (get the exact model # and then google it). Most shops have a few holsters but not many, so it can be hard to locate the exact one you want by going door to door. If you like pocket carry and find the kel tec trigger to be a bit much, I cannot recommend enough a sig p238. And they just added a 9mm version of the same thing, hits the stores in a couple of months. There are many other very small 380 and 9mm pistols as well, if you wanted an alternative to your .22 that will slip into a pocket. The kel-tec trigger is called "double action only" and I cannot shoot those either, too much spring for old hands. (That 45 is excellent, but it won't slip into a pocket! And its an excuse to get a new gun, which us guys are always looking for).

Start with the warranty on the scope. If it has a lifetime, then look at the price & features, if not, look again. You should be able to get a pretty good one for a .22 for 200, esp if you are looking at a low, fixed power type, like the typical 4X power offerings.

welcome! Glad to have you. Let us know if you do visit, I am sure someone here would show you around & let you shoot an undamaged gun for a change, they may even go hog-wild & let you put 15 in a magazine!

I have shot 2 now. It is much, much better than the walther. The walther, I cannot make anything even resembling a group past just a few yards. The ruger made a fair group at 20 yards, I did not measure it but I would say 3 inches or so. It felt a little heavier, which I liked. The grip was too small and the trigger too close for me to enjoy the gun, but it would be great for someone with small hands (say, a 10 year old). The trigger was literally inside my first knuckle (the one closest to my palm). It has other backstraps but we tried them and it was not much better with the largest. Apart from this issue (which the walther also has but the walther may be a little farther apart from grip to trigger), it seems to be a well made example of this design. It ate some 5 different brands of cheap ammo without any problems but did not care for, of all things, the high grade standard velocity target ammo (not strong enough for it until after break in??).

why are 99% of the engineers that I know right wingers? Oh yea.... that's not intellect, not a liberal arts degree! Granted, the right wingers have plenty of "Bubba" types, but then again, the left wingers get those marvelously brilliant folks in the inner city ghettos....

The biggest deal on a 10-22 is the RHO bolt. You may be able to fix that with an AR style bolt, using one of the tactical 10-22 builds, but in general that is going to stay on the right side and be a pain forever. THe rest of it can be modified as needed, but all I can think of is the safety, the generic stocks are neutral, the mag release is neutral, what is left?

spent all me money on guns. My cell is a 5+ year old prepaid walmart phone. It does 1 thing: it makes phone calls.