| Author | Message | ||
     Ourdee |
How do you get ammo out of your safe? I Store it in racks that roll.  | ||
| Aesquire |
Nice. And Flame Alert.  https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/9-mm-v s-45-acp-a-different-kind-of-comparison/ What I found interesting is the fast expanding .45 +p only got the minimum in penetration with the biggest crush cavity. You can argue endlessly, about ballistic gel applicability to real world results, but the last big study of real world I read, a survey of reports of law enforcement shootings, tracked fairly well and gel is used by the FBI to rate ammo performance. Today that may be quite a lot like studying KGB specifications as far as moral legitimacy goes, but science doesn't care who does the data crunching as long as they're honest in that job. So... Bigger hole generally means bigger recoil. Feel free to "Duh!". Of course I'd prefer a 12ga. Buck & Ball to a .22 rimfire if that's the primary goal. Single aspect number results are seldom that useful. There's almost always multiple considerations. The above magazine test shows correlation between recoil and time. ( makes obvious sense ) and roughly compares time to hole size. Not a terrible, if limited, metric. The conclusion, that Ammo choice is more important than the caliber, if it reaches "good enough", I agree with. And while there is endless fireside & internet arguing about And if all you have is a .22 revolver? That's better than a stick. And I'm not bad with a stick! If a bad guy is threatening to kill some person, I'll take whatever I can get. That reminds me to go see if the local shop has any of those monolithic "screwdriver" rounds in stock .... | ||
| Ducbsa |
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| Rick_a |
Despite that test, the two small pistols that I can shoot best are the XDS45 and Shield 45. I'll go by my results. Interestingly, I decided to try out a Taurus Spectrum 380. Despite a terrible trigger and awkward ergos it was remarkably accurate in my hands. Damn near bought it on the spot. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-new-yo rk-social-media-gun-politics-d2682ad7dc21aacac49b2 47e2a3cd518?taid=633f07176d375c0001017708&utm_camp aign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter | ||
| Hootowl |
https://www.foxnews.com/us/houstons-second-gun-buy back-program-sees-record-numbers-we-believe-larges t Not one criminal turned in their guns. | ||
| Ducbsa |
A few years back, I read that at one buyback, a guy was going down the line and would buy worthwhile guns for a bit more than the grabbers were offering. It also reminds me of a program in some Asian city with a bounty on rats. It created a rat breeding industry. | ||
| Blake |
Amazing story. Guy is shot in the head, eye blown out, wakes up and takes out rampage shooter. https://youtu.be/wa32lJ6Mv-Q (Message edited by Blake on October 10, 2022) | ||
| Ducbsa |
Good for the sheriff running them off. https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/10/12/canadian-l aw-enforcement-surveilling-american-gun-show-in-mo ntana-n502654 | ||
| Ratbuell |
Should have arrested them. Working outside your jurisdiction is one thing. Working outside your COUNTRY? That's a foreign policy violation! | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/6-ways-good-guys -screw-up-in-self-defense-situations/ | ||
| Aesquire |
Thanks, and here's additional advice. ( linked in article above ) https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/dont-just-ask-fo r-an-attorney-in-the-aftermath-of-a-use-of-force-i ncident/ | ||
| Ratbuell |
Good advice, and a nice recap for me (all of it was covered during my MD wear and carry course, but it never hurts to go over it once in a while. Your gun is a DEFENSE. Period. Property can be replaced; lives can't. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/10/29/ nj-lawmaker-admits-bill-has-nothing-to-do-with-cri minals-just-law-abiding-peasants-n63769 | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2022/10/31/gun s-stolen-from-atf-n63825 We're in the best of hands! | ||
| Aesquire |
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| Ducbsa |
Odd that that gun that the Queen was handling makes it awkward to use your right eye, or am I looking at it wrong? | ||
| Aesquire |
It's on a vehicle mount. Bullpup design, she's standing way behind it. That's why she's reaching so far to the grip. Her Royal face is behind the buttplate. | ||
| Ratbuell |
So, hats off to Crossbreed Holsters. I daily carry my Hellcat with Viridian green e-series laser, in one of their supertuck IWB holsters. After a year, the kydex is cracking at a corner. Sent them photos, asking 'do you consider this normal wear, and should I buy a replacement?' and the reply was "fill out this form, send us photos of front and back, and we'll replace it. you have a lifetime warranty." I did. Today I got emails confirming my "order" - $0.00 balance, warranty replacement, identical (new) unit, no return required. Submitted for production, I should have it in about a week. Out. STAND. ing. AND, I get to keep the old one so I can try some epoxy/JB Weld repair to see if that will stabilize it. My belt holds everything "in" anyway...but it'll be something to play with (and spare parts to have - belt clips, screws, inserts, etc). Excellent customer service...and, honestly, a super-comfortable holster. I, expecting to have to send it back to get fixed, ordered a second one to have one to use while it was being fixed - a minituck this time, slightly smaller, just as comfortable. Great product, outstanding support. Wholeheartedly endorse these guys, if anyone needs a holster. | ||
| Whisperstealth |
Joe, That is AAA Freaking Awesome. I'll tell my brother about them, he is looking for one. DARA Holster's have the same kind of warranty. Only there's is a no questions asked policy. If it breaks for ANY reason, they will replace it. | ||
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| Ducbsa |
"No gun for you, so that I can attack you with a knife." https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2022/11/08/gun- violence-activist-shot-by-baltimore-police-after-a llegedly-attacking-woman-with-knife-n64119 | ||
| Ratbuell |
I'm an hour from Baltimore, and I do shows there from time to time (live music; audio engineer). The city is, without a doubt...a third-world shithole. Even the Inner Harbor - previously a swanky, upscale tourist spot - is a place I wouldn't walk in a group smaller than four or five after dark. The end of that article is about 90% correct - it states the problem is "violence", and that's part of it. The problem is CRIMINALS. There's too many of them on the street, due to lax bail laws and crappy DA's. They would rather protect the criminal and go easy on them so they're back on the streets within a matter of hours, than add to the "overpopulated" jails. The correct fix? Stop life sentences. Bring back the death penalty, and USE IT. THAT, will stop "overcrowding", and there will be a deterrent to committing crime in the first place (aka going to jail). Maryland's gun laws are clear - gun owners may shoot until the threat to life and limb is gone. That's it. It doesn't say "until they run away"; it doesn't say "until you feel good about yourself" - it says "until the threat is gone". That means, until the attacker has STOPPED attacking - either too wounded to continue; running away (yeah...DON'T shoot them in the back unless YOU want to spend life in prison!); or dead. But it does not specify HOW the threat has ended, only that we (speaking as a carry permit holder) may fire until the threat is gone. What we can NOT do? Use deadly force to protect anything that can be replaced (cars, TVs, Rolex watches, etc). Rule is, if insurance can replace it...let 'em have it, we're not allowed to shoot. Exception being, large sums of cash (one of the old requirements for getting a permit in MD was business owner/large cash deposits). Since cash cannot be "traced" or "documented" after the fact, it's OK to protect it. I know. Weird. But if they threaten your life and/or safety in the process of acquiring your goods? That's another story. I suspect (hope) the cop will be cleared; it sounds like a good shoot. If the guy was LAYING ON TOP of the woman he was attacking, and has an obvious history of assault...the only fault I find with the cop firing is the potential for through-and-through into the victim. Of course, I wasn't on-scene and I don't know if the guy was actively on TOP of the girl when the cop started shooting...but that was my first thought, reading the article. Net result is, though, we don't have a GUN problem in America. We have a CRIMINAL problem. Offenders should be IN JAIL. Period. | ||
| Aesquire |
Cloward-Piven. That's why George Soros spent billions to elect DAs across the country. To collapse the system and cause a public demand for a strong, government to save them. Sometimes it's not just that easy, they also spelled it out and wrote it down. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Fully aware. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.based-politics.com/2022/11/10/measure- 114-oregons-new-gun-control-law-punishes-poor-peop le/ The phrase you're looking for is Poll Tax. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taf t/2022/11/11/west-coast-messed-coast-2022-midterm- election-edition-california-does-the-unthinkable-n 1644984 | ||
| Ourdee |
That's why George Soros spent billions to He's still upset that Germany was defeated in WWII. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://amgreatness.com/2022/11/19/armed-and-beltw ay-ish/ We aren't in a bizarro world where the EPA assaults a small town that voted against installing wind farms, with tanks. Yet. And it's obviously paranoid to imagine a helicopter attack on your garage for you downloading software to hop up your Honda. Yet. But that record of you buying a .22 from Wal-Mart in 1998 might be the data used to call in a heavily armed team that announces their arrival with flash bang and gas grenades through your living room windows. maybe not yet. Any day now... ??? |
