Jonnin

IIRC the dealer is also required to 1) keep the gun if it comes back dirty and 2) call the police as well. The dealer will charge you $$ for the service. The police may do it for free. If the guy is legit, take it to the police & run a check might be the better option.

I used to shoot recurves with no optics, just sight down the arrow, its been a while, is that what you mean? What did you want to know?

The prices do not have to be that bad, either. Cut your ammo price in half by reloading it, even if that means using someone else's setup for a day to make the ammo, or buy from a certified reloader/vendor. 1000 hardcast bullets is about $60, picked up brass, $30 in primers, $20 in powder... that 1000 rounds is now only $120 or so. Those magazines can be found used or offbrand at a gunshow or online, for a fraction of that price --- or get a different glock mag, they are interchangable so you should be able to find a deal. Can't help you on the vacation, do you not get any paid leave at all in a year? Gas might be your $100 if you travel to the place to do the training. Anyway, work around the system and save some of the costs and save up beforehand, put away 20 here and 50 there until you have enough.

I have shot them and like them well enough. With current trends, its a bit of a dinosaur, big gun in a weak caliber as you can get 9mms that are this size and 380s that are at least an inch less in length/height dimensions. However the small 380s in the same price range have stout recoil and heavy triggers, making the bersa VERY attractive over the kel tec and clones, for those who cannot afford or do not like the sig 380. Given my dislike for the DAO 380s, that has me ranking the bersa in the top 5 for this class. #1 is the sig, #2 is a makarov, #3 is the cz82/83, and 4 is bersa. But the cz is fat, so you could easily put the bersa as #3 if fat is a turn off for you.

+1 for the M&P. A used mass produced gun or a new one in this class is a fine shooter and a good alternative if you do not care to build it. We have one of the slightly more expensive variations of the M&P, its been great with over 1k rounds and no problems. If it does not *have* to be an AR, and you want to save money, maybe try something like the kel tec rifles. My plr is the same as their rifles (just a different body and barrel, same guts) and it has been a great package, accurate and inexpensive. The full sized version would be less than even a built AR, running in the $400 if you find a sale (and its that time of year) or in the $300s used.

An unloaded gun is useless. I leave my carry gun loaded, but in the safe I do not load them (this is a concern about fire, not safety, I dont want the ammo to blow up in a fire). Its a common sense thing... if you have kids around, or stupid people, unloaded is good or put it back on until you can stick it under your pillow or something. I have no kids and there better not be anyone else in my house anyway except my wife, so mine stays loaded. In addition, we know they are loaded (hers and mine) so we know not to run around with em or pick them up and pull the trigger or any other dumb stuff. The magazine has to assume the worst case... stupid folks around who could play with the gun... so they say unload it, they must say this or risk lawsuit for giving bad advice or who knows what else.

The most likely thing I could see would be an apartment, going thru the wall or ceiling. Probability & stats would indicate that there are a few small zones of danger (the bullet trajectories) and a lot of safe places to be (everywhere else) so the odds of another person unrelated to the incident at hand being in the line of fire are slim, and slimmer still if you assume the innocent people will get behind cover or duck down when the shooting starts. It probably has happened somewhere, sometime, at least once, but there would be more actual incidents listed if it were a big issue. However, consider your audience here... a majority of the people here agree that an empty gun is dangerous (no such thing, right?), that a gun is able to fire and hit someone if they are n the 120 degree arc in front of it (its pointed at me /panic!), that a gun with the action open can fire, and so on. That is good --- we are, in general, a safety first community, but that leads to these discussions of possible but highly improbable ways to get into trouble with a gun. I would say the odds of someone being killed by overpenetration from a good guy's shots are extremely high against, at least tens of thousands to 1, if you take all the defensive shootings against the ones where overpenetration actually happened. As in, a person is more likely to die in a plane crash than be shot for being behind a thug who is being shot.

Im not sure throwing a rock thru a window is a felony (?). One of the biggest complaints currently is the war on drugs efforts that made any drug possession a felony right off, causing many very young people (college age) to get a black record over a single joint or whatever. Meanwhile simple assault (unarmed?), domestic abuse, and a few other violent crimes are not always felony charges, often no charges are made at all or no jail time. Its a broken system, and a difficult to fix one as it is hard to change what is already on the books, even when it happens it takes years to get a change made. What needs to happen here, IMHO, is to revise what is a felony and what is not, rather than change the rules to be a complicated mess of this crime loses your rights, that crime does not ordeal. Re define felonies (or some new term, loss of rights crimes?) to be just few things, such as any act of violence upon a person, or any crime committed where a weapon is used (not possessed, but used (including threat of use, brandished, etc). Too simple for lawyer, but that is all that is needed -- covers the sorts of crimes and criminals that should not have any weapon (gun or not) .

IMHO kimber makes a slightly above average gun with excellent cosmetics. The cosmetics jack the price up a bit beyond the level the gun actually shoots at. Wilson is much better, and costs a lot more, as others said. If you put the same grips on every 1911, I could not pick the kimer out from a colt or springfield or anything else in a blind shoot test. I could pick out the wilson.

My 2 cents... you are wasting your time. Your loads are close enough -- the range on 380 is .94 to .97 and your loads are fine (should chamber, feed, and fire). If they chamber and fire, its good enough, the lcp is not a target pisol and no amount of super consistent identical loading is going to make it any more accurate with that trigger and short barrel. Trimming the cases just makes your reloading take that much more time to get identical results when you pull the trigger. If you were shooting a custom pistol for some sort of competitions, it may be worth it, or cooking your own self defense loads to some exacting spec, then maybe. Just make sure you are not making hot loads at a deep set depth, IE that your loads are safe, and let the minor variation go to save time.

I am not sure its a violation to fake the caller ID signal. Most phone spammers do, actually, whether they have unknown name or fill it in with something like "texas". I get calls from citys or states all the time due to that. Putting a fake or wrong number in there is just as easy, less common but I still think its not a violation. Those are as easy to scam as email return addresses, and no one does anything about it. Definately report it, but don't expect much to come of it.

30-06 is fine. It will kill just about any animal you will hunt in this country and even the crudest podunk store will have a box or 2 of it for sale. Its not super expensive, though its not cheap ammo either. Its long range and accurate with a well earned reputation as a great standby caliber. If you have a reason to pick another caliber, there are 2-3 dozen that are just as good, but without a reason (such as already have reloading equipment and supplies for something else, or price is too high, or recoil a bit much, etc) its a fine choice. I would revist that post above that says there are a bajillion used rifles in the world for sale, take your time to pick one... and so long as you like the gun and the caliber will do the job and can be found to buy (or you are ok making your own), choose the gun first and the caliber second. If you have a reason to pick a certain caliber, then your choices may be very limited depending on what caliber you chose.

The px4 subcompact is made at the USA facility, where the army guns were made, unless the web is wrong (the web, wrong?! hahaha). I do not know for sure. The larger ones with a rotating barrel are made elsewhere.

Get the 721 if you want a nice gun for the range that looks good and shoots good. Avoid the 742. The weatherby is, if I remember it right, a modern plastic gun and your best choice for a hunting gun to beat around with, if you think you might drag one thru the woods and weather and so on. The 721 is a 1950s gun so you need to check its condition. The remingtons may not be easy to find parts for if they do not work.

Outperforms in what sense? All these break down the same way, in a roughly 1911ish fashion, right (pull or push something and pop the slide off, done). All were made or assembled in the USA to some extent as well, right? I see no way to rank these guns apart from personal prefs, they are all pretty much flawless shooters so it comes down to action type, size/weight/capacity/look/feel/etc stuff.

Mine is a rossi coach gun, if they still make them these are very good.

I would think a blind person could shoot accurately at a sound under some conditions after loads of practice. Maybe not this specific individual, but I have seen some amazing feats by blind people and think it could be done. They should have the same rights as anyone else, which should very simply be "you can have it until you prove that you should not have it". I am not going to debate whether shooting yourself is proof enough -- but seeing people who have shot themself by accident still own guns, so its not acceptable to take away the guns of a blind person on those grounds, the same rules must apply to all.

Not sure if it is related or not but my work laptop is a bit paranoid (high security settings) and I cannot put in a blank line from it using IE. I can with portable drive firefox which has more relaxed settings. You probbly cannot tell but I am going to try it here so you can look at it. This line was produced after 4 enter keys from the above text. It will appear at the end of the above text.

The px4 is fat and heavy. Its still very small in subcompact, able to slip into a large pocket or various holster carry, but the width is extreme. I would hold out for the nano if width is an issue. Its a great gun, zero problems out of mine over the past year, I have the .40 sub. Glock 19 is almost 7 inches long and is under no stretch a small gun, though its smaller than the 92, its not by enough to call it a carry gun. Try a smaller glock? The XD has so many different models with the same name that I cannot safely comment on them. The M&P is the same, lots of guns under that umbrella name. There are a number of much smaller 9mms than most of these, if size is an issue you may want to keep looking. If you like these and just want to downsize the 92, they are great picks.

Welcome! 22 mag is a great choice for those. Or a 223 if you want to dispose of the body at the same time as shooting it (for the small stuff)

Most indoor ranges are saying nothing more *powerful* than a 44 magnum (due to noise or destruction of the range backstop or whatever), not fussing about the diameter. A 45 colt is a fraction of the power of a 44, but its slightly bigger around. It should be a non issue to fire a 45 in a range that can take a 44, from any perspective, ask your range officer or whoever first but double check your rule as I suspect they did not mean raw diameter when they made that rule, its probably meant to stop the 50 cal guns (like 50 a&e which is a 44 mag on steroids).

I clean them all. Once you get into it, there is no reason for a second person to get dirty or to have a seperate area, set of rags, hand off rods and brushes to each other, and so on. I made her clean a few so she understood what it was about, and how to do it if needed, but to be honest I am just happy she loves to shoot, and figured out how to open the safe, and can pick up ammo for us, etc. Not that those are a big deal but it took a while to get this far!

Our *very* heavy safe took a moving company with a large truck and a bobcat forklift to move. 2 men and a truck or similar places should be able to move a 500 pounder, but you have to tell them exactly what you want done before they come over. I tried that first and it became 4 men and 2 trucks, so they are willing to call in a second team (did not help on the 4k pounder, but they did put in a good try).

After my second one I started to look in each and every case as I reload them, to see that there is at least a bit of powder in there in some approximation of the right amount (visually). Since then, I have had the odd flyer that had too little powder or something but no more of these. Its not too hard, arrange your chair and lights so you can look in the cases and make it a habit to do so. I also use the lee turret, but I think most presses allow the user to see if you get at a good angle and lighting. Paying attention helps too; part 2 is any bullet that does not cycle the action should get a barrel obstruction checkout. No semi auto, not even a .22, will cycle on just a primer unless you put in a spring from an ink pen in place of the recoil spring.

our policy is "no unathorized weapons, grounds for immediate dismissal" or something like that. It was not too hard to get the boss to authorize it -- he approved mine in 2000 in case the world blew up.