Jonnin

  This meets the letter of the federal interstate travel rules I believe, yes.  Though I think some states you would be wise to have the AK in a locked gun box as well just to be 100% sure of the NYPD or similar "guns=criminals" type institutions.          The unloaded chamber rule makes sense because a number of rifles are not safe when dropped (see hunting safety, 101) and therefore not safe in an auto accident or other scenarios.  Empty chamber is a good rule, IMHO.   While semi-autos are usually safe, its a simple blanket rule rather than make 20 exceptions to it. 

my wife is excited about next year, 12-13-14 will contain her b-day. 

That is why I said AR pistol, to avoid being hammered if you are caught with it in the trunk.  A PISTOL in the trunk with a HCP should go a LONG way toward shutting down any excited LEOs, esp if you play nice when they start asking questions.   The carbines and rifles are NOT legal on a HCP and would be a little harder to dismiss.  Still legal to own, but you would want to transport those unloaded rather than ready to go, just in case.  In the trunk, unloaded, in a state like TN, if you keep your attitude positive and friendly you won't get burned for a rifle either.   Mosin??  I love these old guns, but I would not care to walk even a mile with one.   On the bright side, you could get steel core ammo for it in case you encounter a hostile tank on your walk home.     I do not consider any "combat" scenario where a revolver is sufficient to be a true SHTF scenario.   Depending on where you are, it could be all you need.  I was going for total chaos, looting, society breaks down firepower.  Realistically, a handgun is all you probably would need, I agree, just depends on what sort of awful scenario you are dreaming about vs running out of gas and having to walk 10 miles home due to a cell phone issue.   Do take a look at all of kel-tec's long arms.  They have some interesting hardware, unlike most anything else on the market, they like to design stuff.

I just don't see a 3k 1911 (or any regular 1911) as a zombie weapon.  The last time there were only 8 zombies in a movie, it was either 1960 or the first 5 min of the show....   Now, a 9mm highcap 1911ish platform from say STI  or something would be another story.   Personally I would buy a S&W M&P 308 and use the rest of the money on a scope and goodies for it.  I am in the process of doing that, about to go find a scope when the christmas sales kick in.

Most gun shops probably do not make a lot on new guns.  Used guns are profitable --- they tend to give you 50% of what you paid and then sell it for 85% of a new one.  Ammo is profitable, esp last year or so.  New guns probably are the lowest profit margin the place has, at a guess.    Small places can't get the same bulk purchase rates that big ones get.  Bigger firearms companies do not even deal with small places, the small shops have to buy the guns via a distributor who marks it up over wholesale.   The local store has rent, employees, security, and more overhead per gun than a big warehouse, another issue.   Bottom line is, you may be able to find a gun for less online than a small shop is willing to sell it to you for.  But remember, when you do that, to add in the shipping cost and transfer fees.  Also remember that supporting a local shop has benefits above the $20 you saved --- some have ranges, or gunsmith access, some will help you ship a gun more cheaply if you need service, some can order you things that you can't find online due to shortages, and more.   So you have to consider all that when you buy.   For sure, see what your bottom line will be when you order it online and use that to bargain if the store price is much higher.  

AR pistol.  Light, small enough to conceal sorta (not in your buttcrack but you can hide it in a briefcase, backpack, etc), high cap (AR mags!), ammo isnt too heavy or bulky, accurate and deadly out to 200 or so yards, and legal on your permit should you get caught with it.    An alternative would be a 9mm carbine like the kel-tec 2000 9mm or 40.   It folds up small and with extra barrel length over a pistol, it gets some decent power out of a pistol round.  I would rather have the 223 but this type of weapon has many pros --- possibly same mags as your pistol, same ammo, etc.

Lol gunpowder is not regulated.  Its not really an explosive, either, but that is just a technicality.   And its a lot easier to set off a jug of power pistol than it is a jar of tannerite.    And you can make explosives all day long with ordinary components.  Its not hard. 

Take notes about the customer in your planner.   http://www.nrastore.com/nrastore/ProductDetail.aspx?p=SA+22207&ct=e    One example of such.  I have one, and it has room for a few pages of stuff and generally could sit in your lap as part of the "look".   You could also manage a small pistol in a variety of places, under the arm, jacket hidden pocket, or even somehow concealed IN the recliner itself if you are OK with it being "loose" in the room, but if you had to go to the can or something could be a worry.

Yes, I put it in there, but not in bulk.  I tend to spend the metal about as fast as it comes in, thanks to our coffee cup coke fund at work :)

  I am trying to imagine this but I am not seeing it.  You are talking about enough recoil to rotate the gun 180 and then pull probably 5+ pounds of DA over an inch of springs and such.   Path of least resistance.... it should continue to rotate rather than suddenly move linearly.   Thinking on it, all I am coming up with is losing control and grabbing it, and in the process of trying to grab the gun, squeezing hard. 

How many inserts can you add?  The hinge looks like it would be tough to make it have 3 or 4 or more sections (??).     The money storage there is not doing it for me, I can see it falling right out when you open it.   ?  Hard to say from a pic but I would want the money to in inside a pouch like something.   Same for cards and Id.  Where would you put your change?   Needs an ID viewer clear holder so you can flip your DL at whoever without hassle.    A wallet implies certain things.  Place for money, credit cards, ID, change.   Anything else you can do with it without making it huge would be cool, but gotta cover the basics first.   Or, perhaps you do not want a wallet, but a wallet sized survival kit or storage thingy.  In which case, stop trying to put money etc in it, and go wild with the design?

Performance does not make sense.   Wavelet cpu burn (jpg, etc) is more of the performance issue than network speed for people these days, so if performance of a pic heavy thread is a concern, toss out the jpegs and use uncompressed RGB format would be faster lol.    I can easily download and open uncompressed large photos faster than compressed ones due to the high performance of network/ram/disk/etc compared to the delay of uncompression *then* handing the big array.  It basically cuts out a step (decompression).  A slow network, compression will still help quite a bit.   Security is an issue.  Some formats are more vulnerable to hackery than others.  A lot of this is the viewer program's vulnerabilities, not the image data.  A virus or buffer hack etc only work if the moronic client tries to *execute* the code found in a *picture*.  DUH.   Copyrights are the same no matter what format is used.  I don't get it?   More formats = more things to steal, I guess.    All in all, I think images should be limited in pixel size (honestly about 300 square is plenty for a posted image, maybe 500 tops) to maximize performance and open to a few more commonplace formats (but not the 10 page long list of obscure formats).    The big performance hit is link to external image, if the hosting site is slowish, and many are.   That is why the size limit I mentioned would be a good tweak, to limit trying to download a 5MB image that is then resized by the browser or TGO rules or whatever  to 400x400 or something after downloading it....  

The recoil was enough to not only flip that huge gun but to pull the trigger DA with redirected energy???   Trying to imagine that much recoil and drawing a blank... its a heavy frame and compensated to boot....  must be about 4x a 44 mag or something insane!   This sucks, regardless.  A totally unnecessary death. 

Academy in chatt had federal 325 packs for $20, looked like maybe 50 boxes of it, last week and it was not selling fast.  The ammo is out there, but walmart isnt the way, wally gets a couple boxes per week that is gone in an hour.  Bigger places are getting cases of bulk packs now  --- look around. 

Its a smaller show but you should be able to move a gun there.  Lot of milsurp rifles usually, and a decent mix of modern stuff.  Fair amount of knives and junk.  Usually one table of ammo and one table of reloading minimum.    I dunno if we will go or not.  Don't have a ton to spend and the same faces with the same inventory come thru it every 3 months. 

Printers are a wealth of info.  Most of the big ones on a network in a business remember everything printed or copied, and its not too hard to slice into that on some models.  You can get people's personal copies and faxes etc as well as juicy business related tidbits.   Um, maybe I should stop here.

I also have the top break schofield 45.  Its very well made.  The top break latch is extremely rugged, and that was a prone to fail part in the antique break tops.     Accuracy, I do not have a good pistol rest to test it.   The sights are so bad on this specific model (its a replica, but they could have cheated just a little on the sights IMHO!)  that its hard to say how good the gun could be.  The front sight probably covers 6 moa of target, its super fat.   I could probably replace it, but I have other target guns, this one is for blasting and fun.   I give it 10/10 for quality and 9/10 for being, as far as I can tell from pictures and so on, pretty close to the original.  I give it about a 6/10 for use as a target gun, but again, I have not tried to improve on it.  At a guess, with good ammo in a rest, it probably shoots as well as any other non professional competition revolver as far as making a group. 

I hear a lot of them use ceramic plates.   I think martha stewert makes some that might do?  :P  Sorry, I had to.

Rifling, i have often wondered if it would be worth making a smoothbore 9mm (for example) self defense pistol.   Or handloads for one that were "off" on purpose.   Tumbled rounds are crap for accuracy but talking 10, 15 feet defense shot here, it will hit the torso and then do things that would make a JHP seem bland.  But the point is, for defense, rifling could very well be optional at the "few yards" distance...

765x53 (or x54, seen it both ways).  I have it still, shoots out of a 1909 mauser.    It is very accurate.  With Iron sights I can pop skeet clays (stationary..!) at 200 yards, which is all the range I have most of the time sadly.  I considered hunting with it but the rifle should not be subjected to any abuse, its collectable and while I shoot it some, I am gentle with it.   Its not that its any better than anything else that impresses me.  Its not the amazing piece of hardware I have to shoot it from, either, though that is certainly a nice rifle.    To me, its that this round, developed very early, is virtually identical to a 308.  Smokeless powder was still just a few years old when this cartridge was developed and they had several iterations of bullet designs to work on the aerodynamics.   Well over 100 years later, it can still hold its own with most modern cartridges.    In all honesty, I like a 308 or 243 just as much performance wise, and this one just gets the nod due to its age & "neat" factor.

I am sorta torn.  I hate the nanny crap but without it, the cheapest stuff goes into food and its hard to get decent stuff.  I wish they would ban or tax high fructose corn filler, so that it costs more to put that in than real ingredients.   Things like that are so cheap, and everyone wants cheap, so its all the stores carry, so its all you can find.....  sigh

  A few antiques and replicas will do some nutty stuff, break tops for example will spin freely, as well some other oddballs.  But the LCR should probably not do that!

  For now, yes.  And 5 years ago having a 3d printer for even plastic doo-dads was unheard of for individuals.  Its coming.

  No one in this thread said it, that I saw.  I have seen it said any number of times that "freedom of speech" or "RKBA" or the rest are "god given".   I am not sure either of those are indeed provided by the almighty, unless he is mighty selective about who is covered, HE missed most of china for example.   Hmm, if they had a CC & tossed out the 2nd .... what would I do?   I am not a warrior and have no intentions of shooting anyone for the rest of my life if it can possibly be avoided.  Neither will I be running down to melt my hardware.   I will help fight it within the system as hard as I can, yes -- though at that point, its a lost cause probably.    And if they start going door to door collecting, well, I will have sold mine to someone who WILL fight (for the cause, if possible), and probably hidden a few things here and there.   As noted in the other thread, we can always make more guns faster than they can collect them and they can't arrest everyone, heck the jails can't even hold the real criminals.

  Why would you remove the holster?  In some clothes or positions I have had to pull the holster out a little, not entirely, but most of the time it goes right back in without even that much.  Its pretty well worn to fit the gun though, when it was new I did have to take it out to get it working.  I think this is going to be very situational depending on your gear and pants etc whether it is needed.