Jonnin

  quoted from the same guy that sang "handguns are made for killing, no good for nothing else" ....  rather than speak ill of the dead, I will let the implications speak it for me.

Not much of an answer, but such as it is, they did reply and provide links to more info.    You made some interesting points on our wording, but our intent is clear. *snipped rehash of web page ad*   The Saf T Lok becomes a part of your firearm the same way grips do, and as easily. It changes nothing about the operation, except that when locked, it blocks movement of the the trigger bar, or in other cases the hammer strut. We recently put together some videos that will help answer your questions. Please check out www.saftlok4guns.com. Installation is on "How it Works" page.

quality of the material, really, is the only difference between the good ones and the cheap ones.  A *lot* of camping tents are designed to be used 5-10 times over as many years and won't hold up to a lot of use.  Which is fine, if you have a kid in scouting or something.   Not having bought one in a long, long time, I cant say what the going quality ones would be.    Not quite happy sleeping under stars (darn bugs...)  but I can make all I need for a good 2-3 man tent with a couple of tarps.  If its just me, I would roll up in 1 tarp and forget about it, burrito style.

sig p938,  comes in at roughly 1.3 pounds loaded.  (21-22 oz). 

the tea thing is a mystery to me, and I grew up here.  I just do not understand how coffee comes black and you adjust to your personal tastes but tea come in 3 flavors ... water,  sugar water,  and once in a blue moon if you find a half decent place, tea flavored.   The places that sweeten it for you add 1 cup of sugar per pint, but still only use 1 teabag per 10 gallons.  Yuck!   Personally, I would like to get mine unsweet (because yall can't do it right),  dark as coffee strong (3-4 bags per gallon already), and cold as ice without any ice in it (adding yet more water to the watered down crap).  If you insist on ice, freeze tea in an ice tray and put that in it.   That is all.  I guess we all want something we can't have.

guy who got trapped around the amazon used a bucket.  Just cut himself and bled into the bucket and it was full of fish in seconds.  He also got a major tapeworm from eating them.   Barely survived the whole mess.  I wish I could find the story... looking.    Anyway, seems like an easy fish to catch...  she could probably drop that meat in that bucket, drop it in on a rope and pull up 20+ of the things.

its hit or miss still.  Its out there but the demand still far outpaces the supply.  And some brands have vanished -- haven't seen a blazer in over a year. 

  the little 9s are also snappy.   Whether the will hurt you is subjective, no one can say, but they also have a sting.   Grip size and width is part of it ... some guns focus the entire recoil (remember that equal and opposite thing from physics??)   into a very small area.  The smaller the area, the more force on that small bit of skin.  So replacing the grips can be a huge help, if possible.  But if you put massive grips on it, you lose the nice easy to conceal factor somewhat.     Here is my novel idea.  Why not shoot someone else's lc9 before you buy one?   I carry the sig 938 and my hand is stinging and ready to quit after a full box of 50.  I usually just practice with a couple of mags thru it and quit --- its not a range gun, after all, nor do I expect the little thing to be the ultimate zombie slayer so scenarios with 20 opponents are not too important to me with that pistol.   so you have a couple of choices.... replace the grips... handload some lighter ammo (the 38 S&W has done in plenty of victims, you can drop down a fair amount if you need to and still have a workable round) ....  replace the gun...    I think, due to your trigger finger pain, you will need to replace the gun.  Are your hands kinda large?  The usual issue there is big hands get "trapped" and the trigger guard smacks you. 

I cant understand how it attaches without damaging the gun, which is not acceptable.  And I can't understand why its not a thumbprint reader, instead of that silly combination.  And I don't get the point, because, from their list, :   Prevent accidental shootings.  --- No, it does not.  Most all accidental shootings, or the vast majority, happen with a gun that is ready to shoot being mishandled.  Usually by the owner, or the untrained and unsupervised children of the owner, both of which are so negligent that a lock can't help because the people in question are the type that stick their hands under a running lawnmower if it does not shut off when with an idiot switch.  You can't save those sorts of people from themselves,  they will find a way. Curious children can't pull the trigger.   --- Curious children are supervised and know not to do this from training.  No one can use your gun against you.  --- yes they can.  If someone is assaulting you, you already unlocked it.  It can now be used against you. DUH? Simple "quick-click" combination.   --- is it faster than I can shoot you if I surprised you in the dark? Allows you to fire in less than 3 seconds, even in complete darkness.  -- No, your best people can do this, but the average person in a panic probably needs 10-15.  Mechanical operation.  No keys to find or batteries to fail.  -- mechanical stuff never fails, that is why I do not change the oil in my car or get the brakes serviced. Requires no modification to firearm.  -- what is that ugly lump on the gun? Becomes part of the firearm and complements its function and appearance.  -- which is it?  This is mutex to the statement above.     All in all their ad sounds like total garbage to me.   Its like a solution in search of a problem.   BAWC today so I sent em an email for some clarifications :)

Stuff happens, of course, but a little paranoia is a good thing.   There *are* people who try to get hit so they can sue you -- and will step right out in front of a moving car or other similar scams.   So the guy may have been mad that he was not hit.  You should remind you son to maintain good situational awareness to prevent legit accidents (kid runs out in street, or someone who is just a moron, etc) as well as fake accidents.  It sounds like he did well here and was able to stop in time, but still a reminder might be in order.    - yelling back is pointless.  Don't bother.  Just smile and ignore it until it goes away.  Well, not ignore, you should keep an eye on the idiot, but don't get into it with him.  As the old saying goes... idiots bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.  If he attacks when you ignore him, well that puts any witnesses in your favor...  but if you escalate the encounter... you are partly to blame.   - if for some reason such a person did attack, armed with a club, yelling that you are armed and putting a stop to it verbally is a good resolution.  Driving off is an acceptable solution if it goes beyond yelling and hand waving.  You do NOT want to be in court explaining how you were "in fear of your life" from a cripple with a club while you were in a car with a gun.    - also ask what he would have done if the guy pulled a gun instead of a club.   Just think about it... replay the incident and what if a little helps to be prepared next time.  These sudden, random encounters are exactly what we hope to be prepared for, but the truth is, things get ugly so fast its hard to react in time.   I know if it had been me, the sheer "duh, whatthefff???"  factor of seeing a guy in a wheelchair go on the offensive would have had greatly slowed my reaction.  Its a great scenario to replay mentally a few times to help for next time.   So, recap, what would i have done?  Nodded and smiled until he was out of my way.  If he had attacked anyway, driven off.  If he had had a gun, I probably would have been too slow to handle it, being honest here.

Fear of something comes from not understanding it, mostly, as someone more clever than I once put it.    These guys see guns only in the hands of evil people.  They were raised to believe guns are evil.  They simply do not understand the concept of guns in the hands of lawful citizens because the concept is 100% opposite of all their training, experience, and education.   They have been taught and reinforced that armed = criminal if not part of the military (police included).   Thus a police state was born out of fear...  order and law at the price of freedom. 

Sportsmans, chattanooga, has (or had as of a few min ago),  a few packs of 500 (2 or 3) thunderbolt,  a few packs of 300 (CCI AR-22 type), and some 100s and 50s.          

I had one for a while (well, p-40 variety) and you probably won't like this but I carried it without a holster, in a pocket.   Does not get any cheaper than this, and I personally had every confidence that a trigger I can barely pull on purpose is not gonna get pulled by accident.   The ability to do this comfortably depends a lot on your pants though.    You should be able to make a serviceable pocket holster from something for free or exceedingly cheap.   Making something that properly carries IWB takes a bit more skill.  However KT guns have an optional belt clip you can buy (I think its cheap?) ...  I do not know how, or if, that might assist in carrying.   A lot of folks use home-made holsters... a rivet gun & some scrap leather or vinyl ....   even know one guy that made one from plastic jugs.     Spray paint, if done carefully, might be enough to stop the rust.  Its just the barrel, right?  Everything else nearly is plastic?  Like anything it will wear off after a while if you shoot it a lot, but carrying it, that might do.   These are shoestring budge ideas as requested...  there are better ways if you throw money at the problem.

a better question would be where the heck he got strike anywhere matches.   If you bought more than a box here in ghettonooga, you would be arrested on the spot for suspicion of making meth.

maybe you should have gotten a peacemaker instead?  :)   congrats.   The only reason that would have caused issue here is that we take turns on buying guns, and 2 in a row for one would be cheating! 

  or use a harder alloy.  agreed, it will take some doing whatever you try.  I would buy one if it made like 10 at a time with the mold, but one or two at a go is too slow.  And it was very vague about where one gets primer compound, unless that is readily available (is it not a fairly serious explosive? I don't know a thing about it, except that it has lead in it?)

you know, i greatly respect tolkien.  He invented entire languages, and if he did not invent fantasy writings, he certainly did a LOT to make it more popular.  But I can't read his stuff.  The LOTRO trilogy drags on and on at a snails pace, you FEEL like you are right there with em, through the entire trek, for years on end ... if that was his goal, he met and exceeded it.   The movies at least had the good sense to fast forward the dull bits, and even doing that they are still a bit slow.   And the LOTRO trilogy is fast paced excitement compared to the rest of his writings. 

that thing was written by what, a 4th grader?   No, wait, that tv show proved that the 4th grader would do a better job.   Derringers are pistols?  Revolvers are also pistols, in common usage.  And derringers are undefined --- its either antiques made by mr derringer, or it means "pocket pistol" which is, drum roll, a pistol.  So the most dangerous guns are pistols, pistols, pistols, pistols, pistols, and pistols, followed by shotguns and rifles?  Rocket science there....  who woulda guessed that a 3 foot long low capacity shotgun is not as often used in drive-bys, gangsta action, stick-em-ups, and other crime?   And if the idiots doing these violent but generally low-paying, high risk crimes could afford an AR, they would not be doing this type of crime...

every single state has at least one dumb gun law.  WA for example registers handguns. Tn is better than most.  We have a bunch of really stupid laws, to be sure, but we are still in the top 10.

I really like a lever gun, but on a .22, its very annoying to operate the lever from a bench rest, and .22s are a lot of fun to shoot bench rested (no recoil... ).    Bolt actions are ok but tend to have a low capacity; the majority are 5 - 7 shots.   However they deliver accuracy and reliability along with the ability to fire shorts and any ammo you can find without complaint (the lever can as well, but semis can't).   semis, regardless of the flavor, have high capacity but can be rather ammo picky (some more than others) -- no shorts and even some "standard" velocity won't cycle all of them, and some target ammo is also a bit too weak for the actions.  If the ammo is hot enough, they are reliable and accurate for the most part.    I find the semi's the most fun for plinking / bench resting / etc.  Reload infrequently, no annoying motions to ready the next round.  If I could only have 1 for the end of days, though, it would be a bolt or lever, so it would work on whatever ammo, for small game hunting.     I am useless for newer guns... my newest 22 rifle, not counting a 10-22, is probably pre 1980.   My go-to range 22 is a browning BAR-22, a tube fed semi. 

maybe they need to open a line to make ammo

  not super up on the lcp but its not just a LCP problem.  Various guns I own have had a part come loose.  You fire an explosion inside it, which knocks the snot out of some of the moving parts and induces a vibration thru the entire system.  Over time parts that are held in place by nothing but friction or sometimes friction + a small notch that may or may not have "caught" when it was last assembled can work loose.  Sometimes that is a defect, sometimes it was not in there good, and sometimes it just happens after a lot of rounds.     If possible, I would look really closely at it to see if you think it actually is in need of repair and not just a case of "wasn't quite seated".   Might save you shipping costs and the aggravation of getting it sent back etc.   it pays to be paranoid about it if its your carry gun.  When I shot the sight off my target pistol, I just left it off (it has a red dot, the iron fell off).  When your life might depend on it, you can't shrug it off so easily... 

  I have had no luck with bore sights.  You want to sight a gun in,  lock it in a rest, fire it, and adjust the sights onto the hole it made.  There, its now sighted in for that ammo at that range, a few iterations of this can refine it as needed, at least 3 shots to start out.  When satisfied with the gun in the rest, go shoot it.  If it is off, its YOU.   have someone else shoot it is a great answer.  But this requires the other person to be good...    everyone is a little different; a lot of times a gun that I can hit with all day is off for a friend trying it out.  Simply how a person forms their sight picture can be enough to give an inch or more at range...

  past accomplishments and past wrongs, call it a wash on that.  They have done great things.  They have also had their hand in getting gun control passed, burdens that we STILL live under, and accomplishments that we still enjoy.   FINE.   My complaint is the CURRENT NRA -- which is borderline dirty right now.  A *short* list of what I have seen over the past 5 years would include:   - attempts to panic the members to bilk more money out of them.   Every day its a new phone call about a new "crisis" that if we don't send in our dollar they will TAKE OUR GUNZ!!  Some of it is true, but all of it is hyped up to panic people into giving more than they can afford, and the begging calls and emails are CONSTANT.   - again, allow disreputable ads in their mags - public assault on the first amendment (blame video games speech after sandy hook) - support of some very questionable politicians, including some of TN's "finest" - tactless handling of the texas rifle group - lack of backbone -- policies like "enforce the existing laws" is quiet support for unconstitutional laws more often than not   and there are more but as I said just a short list of things that are not going well under the current leadership.  I agree, we need them.  I agree, they have done good things, even under the current administration they have done some good.  But I am very unhappy with the current leadership, period.

its like driving, there comes a point when *for some people* their health and mental state do not mix with operation of dangerous equipment.   How to determine that point and make that decision... is tough.  Can't let the government do it for guns, as they are guntarded and do not understand the different types of firearms, safety rules, basic operation, etc well enough to have any valid input.  Family is an issue as well -- some will let gramps be even if the poor fellow does not know his own name anymore.   Some will take them from a perfectly fine person.  And anything in between.   The answer, just like the driver's license issue, is that there IS NO answer.     I have no one to leave mine to, and if my niece & nephew do not shape up to my liking, I will give most of mine away to people that will appreciate them & pass them along, once I reach the point that I no longer shoot them.     Which hopefully will be a long way off.