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I think you are wrong. That's just what they dress it up as to seem appealing. They want crIminals to vote. People won't go for it so they make it harder to officials also the criminal label on them. They also try to enact all sorts of things by telling you that "the most vulnerable" are in danger. Policies like this increase that danger to make more compelling the position from which they appeal for more power. They also tell you they and their proposed legislation is the only thing standing between you and these dangerous people. So they want more dangerous ones on the lose to give that claim credibility. It isn't a mistake that damn near every time you see a politician trying to derive power and influence by protecting a group from a situation, you will find their successful actions systemically sustain our exacerbate that problem.

So I'm being shilled at by some idiot who thinks 85% of the world is right handed and left eye dominant. He's also telling me that a big window helps with night sigts. Doesn't do shit if the night sight limits your field of view. They studiously avoid showing how good the reticle looks in real world use and how well it holds zero.

Since when has walther been a big guy?

I believe that this shit comes up repeatedly for a few reasons. 1) Shooting involves RKBA. The context of RKBA arguments in the public eye has inherent to it the notion that LEO are somehow inherently better/safer/more trustworthy/more competent than the average gun owner. This view treats LE as a monolithic entity when reality is that most LE are not all that good at the shooting bits. Some are awesome. Too many couldn't hit the ground given sufficient gravity, distance and time. Regardless, there isn't a lot of public discourse where people make the unfounded claim that LE are the only ones capable of operating a motor vehicle in public, so it tends to not attract this shit. 2) Theres always some trainer fucktard(s) pushing a brand of "everyone who didn't do X, Y, or Z etc. isn't a REAL instructor and can't teach you anything but failure". They are of course, as mentioned, fucktards, and that long list of must have been there and done that usually peters out with "and was born to my mom on date X" and the real reason for it isn't to make sure the public avoids sham instructors, but because they are running a business that makes more money if they can establish a cult of personality. 3) We exist at a point and time where there's a cult of tactical beard wearers who fetishize the "operator" lifestyle, whatever the fuck that is. They talk shit about a lot of groups while paying people who badmouth anyone who hasn't been there and done that to run fantasy camps for them. Then they say stupid shit like competition will get you killed while doing tactical pirouettes on a common firing line. It's lather rinse repeat from when you had to wear a fishing vest and yellow sunglasses to do it. They do a lot of their bullshit as proxy, so it eventually always results in theoretical pissing matches regarding the various sides they pit against each other. 4) People get bored and talk shit.

Holy shit this is stupid. Being an "operator" requires a list of skills and training that goes well beyond just shooting things. Most of these thing (well those relevant to use of force during said use) involve making sure that the fight is as unfair as possible in your favor. How good that basket of skills are and how good you are at them has an effect on your survivability. Move and shoot style competition has refined a subset of that basket of skills to the Nth degree. Because it has, the "operator" crowd hires out of the competition world to teach them how to improve that subset of skills. Gaming, by definition is a good way to enhance those set of skills. If it were not, it would not produce people with said skills being so refined, or it would produce very few of them. It produces many of them and then produces many more with even GREATER performance with regard to said skillset just a few years later. As for "it's a game" No shit. Simulations and games are great ways to shorten the distance between inexperienced and refined in battle. The US military pays a LOT to create simulations and undertake wargaming. That's because it is very useful and WORKS. If you think for some magic reason it doesn't work with regards to shooting, you are an idiot. But gamification of skills learning has been going on forever. It works. Conversely, if you think that some running and gunning games gives you that whole basket of skills, you are also an idiot. And on the third hand, if you believe running and gunning classes are different because you have a chest rig and battle belt in camo, and the tactical pirouettes make all the difference, you are a special kind of idiot. Look at the content, break it down into the components it is teaching you, you will then find most of them are not anything special and just wrapped up with some WTF actions for garnish, or you pay for some narrative add ons where the instructor conveys their experience via words.

I switched to gas because 1) The corded electric ones frikin SUCK. 2) Electric tends ot be smaller than gas and the gas ones are already built for frikin short people IMO. 3) You've got a better selection of line for them. 4) You can probably swap in various useful attachments. If going electric, go battery, go brushless, and go for the heftiest diameter line you can get. My wife got pissed at me for getting it last season. Finally tried it out this season and loves it.

I know you didn't ask me, but I have info, so I'll share. A while back when one of the steel matches at OB was debating allowing PCC to shoot static steel, we were concerned about their impact on the plates and how much damage they would do shorten the lifespan, etc. We were already losing more equipment than we would like due to major PF .38 super and .40, and figured that we would lose money letting PCC play. So we asked everyone who had one to bring them down to the next match to crono with their usual pistol loads. We had a sampling of 9mm, .38 super/supercomp, .40, and .45. Surprise of surprises, most of the 16" barreled carbines produced the same muzzle velocity as a 5" barreled pistol. Some were a little slower, some were a little faster. IIRC you could pick up about 50 fps. .40 picked up the most FPS. Looking at what people were shooting the answer was that you needed both a slow burning powder AND case capacity. The only cheaper plinking ammo that does that is .40. The guys shooting their .38 super/supercomp ammo were using powders slow enough to provide lots of jetting gas to drive the comp, but I guess not slow enough or big enough case capacity. They pretty uniformly were producing the same velocities at 16" as at 4-5" + comp. A few years after that ballistics by the inch did pistol calibers, and their results weren't far off. I do wish they had used some cheap plinking ammo too rather than just pricey SD ammo that tends to be at max pressure and thus using slower powders. http://www.ballisticsbytheinch.com/9luger.html If you are using a fast burning low charge weight powder like tite group, don't expect to pick up much, if any muzzle velocity form a carbine. You are burning up the powder before you reach the end, and then adding friction. If you are pushing the envelope and using a slower powder to do it, you might get a 100-200 fps gain. Just don't expect it with white box type loads, nor with popular powders that feel soft becausee they produce higher velocities with low volume fast burning powders like titegroup.

That's the thing, we didn't invent some awesome new technologies since the 80s. About the only thing that really started being done more was blended powders, which is mostly in other round than pistol SD rounds. What really happened was the FBI developed a well defined set of criteria after blaming their gear for an event primarily driven by a series of procedural fuckups against determined individuals. Develop a test and everything on the market starts to converge to the year criteria of possible. Which is what happened.

After the fiasco with the s&w 99, my knee jerk reaction is to wonder how far njsp procurement's head is up their ass this time.

If you build it yourself, you have a ton of options as long as you go with a red dot rather than a 1-4 or 1-6 scope.

If it passes, I hope it does with a high fee. It's an incorporated individual right. There's case law out there that $6 is too much of an obstacle to said right. If it is in the public's interest, let the public pay for it.

No the article's author is a shithead. There's no reading too much into it. Some dude broke down a reinforced door to gain entry. It's a big dude capable of exerting lethal force unarmed, and in all likelihood significantly bigger and stronger than the occupant of the residence. Also stupid enough, sdrunk enough, or malicious enough to not notice they are in the wrong place. BEYOND that if this WAS his girlfriends apartment, and he did the exact same thing, I think SHE would be justified in shooting his ass too. That behavior isn't universal sign language for "hey baby, I could use a hug." The occupant took more than seconds to make a decision. They made the decision to stand their ground in their bedroom rather than inside their front door. They gave the asshole free run of the place except for behind locked door number two. The drunk asshole didn't get the message at locked door number two. What more could have happened? Drunk asshole would get a clue suddenly somewhere between the door and the bed? The occupant would have recognized him and been pleased to get an NBA official autographed ass kicking, possibly fatal?

Call the chief ask him why the fuck they aren't doing their job. Call the mayor ask them why the chief isn't doing theirs. Some dude's on disability, doesn't mean their frequent revenue generating checkpoints go away.

No it's just that some idiot posts this stuff on a regular basis and it's not worth the time. I don't think .40 will go away. It's an easy case to produce, there are a lot of guns out there chambered for it, it is incredibly flexible if you reload, and it doesn't have inherent problems to be avoided in any of the areas it is popular in. Inherently, one thing it has going for vs. 9mm is the extractor groove design. When panic buying and 24-7 manufacturing was going on, you started seeing a lot of 9mm hitting the market with problems. A lot of them had problems due to the extractor groove being out of spec just a little bit. But it doesn't leave a lot of room for errors. Additionally, you will see more new guns in 9 have their extractors go through revisions to work properly. Same reason. .40 has a giant ass groove like .45. It works, it holds up well to reloading, you can screw up manufacturing a bit more, etc. I do think .40 will get a bit pricier to shoot in the future because large purchasers in the LEO field will move to 9mm for budgetary reasons. Savings won't be huge, but they buy a lot so it adds up. Smaller departments will switch to whatever the cool kids are using, and thus used brass will become less plentiful. Factroy new likely won't change much.

Realistically, they are (at best) exactly where they were the last time they got a case like this. 4 for 4 against and 1 maybe. Last time they couldn't relist forever, so without some other change to the line up, I'm not sure why this would go differently.

OK. I suspect there will be oodles of... well not stupid, but not really helpful information. The reality is unless you are going to drop some decent cash on traveling to matches. Almost everything local can be shot with anything with a decent barrel and a red dot fairly well. Really the only details that might matter is that the barrel has to not be a piece of shit and be able to shoot whatever crap bulk ammo you are going to buy, and that a longer free float tube is really useful for not causing barrel deflection when bracing from a position. And you probably want a decent comp. In then end I told you basically nothing. Mainly because nobody is selling something like that geared to the NJ market. It's also why pretty much everything you see at a match is going to be a franken gun. Because you either just build it yourself, or you mangle the entry level gun you bought to make it what you want.

SJSPs work great in the .357 though I suspect because it gets up nice and high on the feed ramp(s). It does tend to need full zorch loads though given the gas operated design with a lot of spring behind it. Given the mass at work, anything stove piped tends to get mangled, SJSP or not.

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/05/john-boch/editorial-what-did-springfield-armory-and-rock-river-arms-know-and-when-did-they-know-it/ It gets worse for them. They were contacted prior to this and asked if what their lobbyist was saying meant they were going to back the bill or not. As for some of their press releases, they say they didn't know about the donations to anti gunners. At least $10k of that came from the CEO of SA directly and is in the reocrd of donations.

Actually #1 is almost always mixed breed. usually followed up by whatever is super popular. Currently it is labs. In the past it has been collies. My $0.02 on what bites is that it's mostly the owner, but any breed that has been overbred and has lots of inbreeding is making your job harder.

To add to it, apparently IFMA has been making large donations to anti gun candidates for some time. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/05/john-boch/springfield-armory-rock-river-arms-made-campaign-contributions-to-anti-gun-rights-politicians/ So best possible spin is that they hired a big D lobbyist to interface with the D's in their state legislature in order ot be able to do business in IL, and to obscure their interactions with them to avoid pissing off their customer base. However, that process went horribly wrong. Or they are just lining their own pockets and screwing us.

I've been reading up on it, there's a fair bit being left out by the crowd who wants the pitchforks and torches put away. 1) The IFMA isn't an industry group. It's SA and RRA. They founded it, and three out of four board members are SA or RRA c-level suits or relations of them. The fourth is their primary lobbyist. 2) The bill didn't have enough votes to pass until the IFMA did their lobbying. This wasn't dodging inevitability, this was enabling shit legislation for a marginal competitive advantage. Or something else that has yet to be disclosed. 3) We live in the age of cell phones. There's zero excuse for not knowing what is going on and when. Even if your lobbyist had a "good idea" it should have been known days and days ago. SA's CEO's initial reaction was delayed and hostile. This press release is bullshit. 4) "While we do believe that IFMA acted in what it felt was the best interests of its members" IFMA has yet to produce any provable member of it's organization other than RRA and SA. You can wait and see all you like, but it's not shaping up well for them.

A bald, no cuts, no logo caspian slide went into the top end of my custom 2011 build.

There's definitely a backlash. I think the cause is multi-faceted. 1) It may seem great when "offensive" speech is used as a weapon against your opponent. But at some point you realize what you thought was a weapon you controlled is just a ticking bomb waiting to go off. This means that... 1a) Ramping up the "every offense taken is the end of the world" rhetoric now means that tenure is worth jack shit in many instances if you have offended the student body, tiwtter, facebook, or some other random population. 1b) Academia is in very large part, fashion, and departing from the current trend can make one unpopular, and maximum offendedness makes that extra dangeroud. 2) Even without opposition and malice, it is limiting intelligent discussion of certain subjects. Even for the SJW types, you can't make progress on the subject if you can't discuss the subject, and discussing the subject is fraught with risk in case anyone takes offense at simply describing injustices/imbalances. 3) If your department is seen as a source of risk rather than scholarly work, your department may go bye bye, even with tenure you are gone.

If you are sending a firearm UPS, it should go to a customer counter, or it should be a driver pick up. UPS store employees aren't UPS employees usually, and they don't count as a common carrier. That means handing them the package is an unexempted transfer.

What are you talking about? There are lots of different pvd coatings. Ion bond is one. I have a gun done in it that is over seven years old, lots of dry fire, lots of matches, lots of dump buckets, at least 40k rounds on it, not remotely babied and it is just starting to show holster wear. It's tough. What it isn't is particularly corrosion resistant. Saying pvd is delicate is like saying chrome is delicate. Hard chrome isnt, but there's a reason you don't see black chrome on anything that gets handled a lot.