Jonnin

reliable and functional, yes.  Like most kel-tec guns they do not like and are not advised for use with ammo that is not brass cased.   KT will fix any problems and has strong customer support if you ever need it.     Accurate?  It will not likely be winning you any competitions.   I have not tried one with a scope on a bench at 100+ yards with custom handloads, but running around with one using cheap ammo at big (man sized) targets I felt comfortable that it would be a solid gun for personal defense.  I recommend the glock version so you have the option to get some of those very large mags (20-30 rounds?).    Other... the fold up feature is neat, and it really makes a compact package that will fit in a briefcase or backpack or under the seat in your car or whatever.  It is very lightweight and easy to hold up and control.    I do not have one of my own but if you poke around on the KTOG site you have a very good chance of finding someone who can meet up to let you try one out.

  Well said!   What also is not in dispute is the bulk of the chaos stems from the friend of the "victim" who lied about the robbery (by omission).

  what  I think of in terms of those #s is over time.  Decades of hunting & survival, not a big shootout.  The biggest use of ammo would, realistically, be blind spray from cover at a hostile group to drive them off/escape; cover fire type stuff, likely to stop being an issue within a couple of months after "the event".   And you will note that my ars are cheap -- not too worried about it. 

  I agree with that.  It is not easy to use a full auto; you need a few grand in ammo downrange to get in the practice needed to be effective with it, and countless neophytes ride the recoil up and across to shoot who knows where off into the yonder.   So what?  My copy of the constitution does not say anything about ease of use or training.  It says, as I said above, "arms" and the implication of the time it was written included swords.  If I had to master a weapon well enough to use it effectively, I would much rather do it with an uzi than a sword.   I could, if I had a pile of ammo, figure the uzi out in a week or two.  Swordsmanship takes years of study.

  barrel will be the last thing to go, agreed.  But in that scenario, a cheap extractor or something might cause some woes, or a gun that overheats and melts or something, or can't run dirty, ....

I hate that so many people near him seemed to know he was in a bad state but no one was watching and able to help in time.  Shows how hard depression and mental problems can be --- even the wealthy can't beat a rough disease.  Kinda like steve jobs etc; all the money in the world won't do in some cases.

If you have the box with the lot #, they probably would appreciate the input. 

heh this is what came to mind...

arms: noun: anything that can be used as a weapon, literally or figuratively (armed with a rolled up newspaper, the housewife prepared to battle the offending roach).  Or, "armed with the right to vote, the people prepared to oust the RINO".    How we get illiterate judges?  Law is supposed to weed out the people that can't read and write.   

depends on what you buy.  Here are some of the things you can get for more money:   - more metal parts - brand name recognition (colt, etc) - accuracy (les baer custom competition ar?) - better trigger - widgets (dust cover, more places to hang bayonets & flashlights & tripods & laserbeams & so on), or a bigger shinier flash hider, or a threaded barrel, or ... - durability (the 250k round count thing you said you didnt need, but if its the end of the world..) - slighty better quality parts in some cases - satisfaction of building your own from expensive parts? - cosmetics (similar to widgets only even less useful)   which boils down to what was already said --- not really all that much for the money spent unless you have a specific want or need.  And unless your want or need is a new gun of "higher quality" (note the quotes) you can address most standard wants & needs (say, a better trigger pull) by installing it on your existing gun for (relatively) cheap.  If &  when you replace enough stuff, buy an upper and lower frame and build a second one from the old parts?   I have 3 of the S&Ws now.  They are *fine* guns.   One is abused with a bumpfire stock, one is normal, and the third is the 308.   That tells you how impressed I was with the first one I bought.  

nice additions!   The lightweight browning is really good for standing up to shoot.   I mostly use a bench & prefer the BAR-22.  If you get a chance at a BAR japan...  you won't be sorry.

  I honestly doubt anyone would know unless the case went to the national level with all the outrage etc.  I mean, take mine.  I load a factory speer bullet into a speer marked case.   It looks like something you could buy.  It would not stand up to a disassembly and chemical decomposition but why would they DO that??   Its going to perform exactly like a factory round and it looks like one.  There is no cause to take a closer look.   You get in court, you pay an expert(s).  Your expert outlines the reason to make your own (1/10 the cost) and the physics (identical performance).  Non-issue goes away.  I will take my chances.  Odds of being in a shooting in the first place are very, very low.  Odds of them tearing down the ammo after that,  almost nil.

I think a lot of things.   I think that the majority of modern firearms function near 100% and can reach 100% with either break-in and occasionally some TLC.    I think that there is nothing wrong with most of the listed guns (I have not heard a lot of good about sccy offerings..)  but there are a few thousand alternates that are just as good.   I think that I really dislike the nano that I bought. I think my sig 938 is better than anything on that list, which is why I carry it.  I think there are too many 380s on a list of "top" choices. I think more than half of his list are too big to carry.  That is subjective of course, but you asked what *I* think.   I think it is like trying to list the 10 coolest cars of all time or 10 best video games ever or anything of that nature.  The number of items on the list is too small a % of the total pool of contenders,  which means that too many things are left off the list and the result is sort of a random selection of things the author likes.

  Where possible I am a huge fan of cheap and free.  The major powder manufacturers all have safe load data online for the majority of cartridges.  I would start there, and if they don't have data,  then look for a manual that does.  There are some inexpensive ($5 or so)  single cartridge booklets where reloading supplies are sold, might look for a 300 blk there as well (it will have not only pages of load data but case dimensions and tips as well).    I do NOT use the data from "randomboomloads.com" type places where users post their info.  I only look at those when I have verified data to compare against; if the posted load is less than a verified max, I will consider it. 

they have a solid reputation as being excellent "for the money".   Every one I have shot worked 100% and was acceptably accurate.  

right there with you, just turned 40 last year.  Eh. Its just a number, Im still about 13 mentally and physically :)

they be ugly, but you can't beat wrap-around rubber fingergrooves on a 1911 IMHO.   Well, some of the ultra target custom stuff for pro shooters is great too, but for $30 bucks, I will use my hogues.   This is assuming you want to shoot it, rather than just look at it, of course :)  

I carry my own, 9mm made from a 380 gold dot.

well I would check the cable, get it away from the monitor cable and monitor as best you can, see if it helps.  

I admit to laughing at the proposed titles for similar books.   The author said his group wants to make a second one, I hope it would be "my mom conceal carries" ... push the women's defense angle (force equalizer), strong confident woman angle (true feminism),  single parent angle (facts o' life... a lot of kids identify with a broken home),  and the concealed carry angle (its not just for criminals people).    I am glad to see this.  The pro-gun folks have really, really dropped the ball on education of kids, and while this book sounds silly, its a *start*.

  Your mouse can go wonky for a variety of reasons.  Is it wireless?  Does the cable go near the monitor cable?   Did you happen to plug in any usb devices when it happened (a well know bug in windows is mistaking usb devices for a usb mouse when it isnt... there is a registry hax to fix the issue if needed).   Some wireless mice communicate via a very short range radio signal.  And if you ever had an am radio near electronics, you know that such signals can be produced as noise from devices sometimes.    exotic, but some monitors have a mouse cable for a touch screen.  Presumably you don't have this, but if you do, it could have gone wrong there as well.   not sure degauss would help.  Normally that was used to remove magnetic rings in the display, you get partial rings that look like )))  on the display in the corners.  I dunno if modern flatscreens have this issue,  ive not seen it since CRT days.

It was only attempted raticide.  The thing was too quick, and ran away as soon as I opened the door to give it a go.

  the company I work for was a pioneer in drone research.   Its amazing... for 30 bucks you can do what we did 20 years ago for tens of thousands lol.   Back when the gps and attitude sensors etc were too big, took too much power, and cost a pretty penny...      They are fun but I have no practical use for one, personally.  

I like ta-tas as much as any guy, but BC research is  *extremely well funded* --- they get promos on all kinds of products as well as tons of other donation sources.   There are other diseases out there that are, in comparison, hurting for research dollars.   Spread the love around a bit; I support BC research and buy a few of the pink targets where I shoot, but I gotta encourage people to throw a few crumbs to the other stuff as well.

I am going to agree with them that "practice" inside the city limits illegally is probably a problem.   That is where these units are installed, are inside large cities with major violence issues.    I think the journalist failed to use English well here, leading to screwy wording or possibly a third-hand rehash of information that was not understood well during the interview.      I dunno ... any of YOU folks shoot inside the city limits illegally?   I do not, as I do not want to get arrested.  I have fired maybe 5 rounds of the powderless .22 at a rat that was bothering us, if that counts.  Which I tested first, and determined that it cannot penetrate a 2 liter bottle at 20 feet.