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IMO, one of the best deals out there is the lee calssic turret kit. The steel one, not the aluminum one. It even comes with the lee manual, which has a very substantial how-to section. http://www.midwayusa.com/product/785993/lee-classic-4-hole-turret-press-deluxe-kit I started with the old cast aluminum turret, and was pretty well served. This sucker is nicer by a far degree. Lee, hornady, and dillon are the only brands I'd consider for presses. Dillon is really good, hornadyy's lock-n-load AP periodically rules the roost on price to performance for a progressive, and LEE owns the value for turrets and starter kits. I love me some RCBS and redding dies, but their presses are way overpriced IMHO. The only press outside of that that is worth the money under the right situation is the foster co-ax press, and you'll know it's what you need when you need it. 99% of reloaders won't need it. I gave my old lee away to a forum member. I got the new steel one for the same job, which is loading rifle ammo. My progressive is set up for pistol.

-1 We know it, it's just that the ANJRPC has been less about fighting the fight and mroe about negotiating the terms of our surrender.

What age is your STI? They used to have some issues with a mag catch that was just a tad higher than most. You could either file away at the top of the magazine notch, or you can fit a new mag catch. If you have the factory mags that work, you can take the mag catch out, and see if there's a difference in how the notch in them lines up vs the notch on the wilsons.

It's all partisan crap, both sides. I just get news feeds from both sides and average out the stupid.

SO I need the $4 security bit kit form harbor freight? This thing gets better and better every time I encounter it.

What, from sepsis?

Not when you are setting up shop in a panic buying environment. Things seem to be cooling off fast, so I'm sure they will care about that particular horse long after it left the barn.

Can't believe I left out the good bit on this one. OVer the years, there have been a number of studies done. The smallest number was derived from FBI statistics of ~80,000 defensive firearms uses per year. Giovne how they collected the data, which was via law enforcement, this is likely under-representative. From interviews with criminals, numbers between 200,000 to 2,000,000 have been determined for defensive uses by applying statistical models to inmate surveys regarding criminal acts and their interactions with firearms.

For reloading ask yourself a few questions. 1) Are you time limited or cash limited, and if so in what manner? I save a lot reloading because I am time limited. Roughly over the years, once you step past 9mm, it saves you 50% or more. I went form shooting half a case a month to shooting 80% of a case per month. Now I'm lucky if I get to shoot half a case a month. 2) When will I do my reloading? This is important because reloading is a waste of money if you buy the gear and don't do it. It's also a waste of money if your reloading time comes out of time you could and would be making money. If I figured in my effective hourly rate fro my day job, and applied it to my reloading, I'd be in a big hole. But getting paid doesn't work like that for me, and I'm not picking up a part time job where I work at 10pm in the evening once or twice a month for an hour or so. I've met some high end hourly rate professionals, and if they can squeeze in an extra billing hour working on stuff at home once a week, they can just buy retail loaded ammo. 3) Will you be buying in bulk? No? Then don't do it unless it is purely for precision rifle ammo in small quantities. The reality is if you don't stock a decent amount in terms of components, you don't get as big a discount for anything but nice rifle ammo, and you can be subjected to having to snag four things in short supply to get one bullet that goes bang rather than just one. When I started, I was loading .45ACP with a lee turret, and 230gr jacketed bullets were $45 per k and a case of .45 was about $230. Whole rig was paid off in less than 3 months. The progressive setup took a little over 3 months (didn't replace the scale, calipers, etc. that didn't need replacing form the first one). Had I gone straight to progressive, it'd probabvly have taken about 5 months of shooting about 1000 rounds of 230gr FMJ .45acp to pay for it.

Aka, milking the grip, which is what you should search for on the various gun forums if you want details on how to work it out rather than relying on 2Alpha's shorthand of 'don't do it'. I could type a long post with details, but it's out there a ton of times and I don't feel like typing that much yet again.

Oh yeah, nothing like good old aluminum to keep people out. I mean a teenager with a $7 hacksaw might have to work at that for 10-15 minutes... well beyond their attention span.

Hey, this is a glock vs. the world holy war. DOn't try to bring your caliber holy war into it. It has no place here. There's already somewhere aorund infinity threads in all of gun forumdom to necro post if you need that fix. The gun that's with you is better than the one that isn't. I can't fault a person for being honest with themselves when they slecct something easier to carry because they know they will leave something more effective at home. As for glocks. They break too. Everything does. The reality is that for the modern handgun, the limiting factor after magazine feed lips are the springs. Glock isn't fielding magic springs. In glock vs. M&P, the one thing I will give glock as a general overall advantage is that their nitriding process is done on mild steel, which imparts very good corrosion resistance to the slide. The M&P will require maintenance of the slide when in close contact with sweaty skin that the glock won't. Glock isn't free of QC defects, it isn't magic, it isn't immune from wear and tear. MY $0.02 is that you should buy something that uses good materials, and has spare parts readily available. IMO both the M&P and glocks meet that requirement.

Well a few things. 1: it looks like that guy is pulling 2" groups, not 1.5" groups, but generally agree with the accuracy to a point. Accuracy being simialr, the xm193 likely does it at 200-400 fps faster in my experience, which makes holdover easier the farther out you go. It isn't a deal breaker, but leaving it out is IMO unfair in a discussion of accuracy. 100 and under... yeah it is close to a push. 2: you can't shoot 5k rounds of steel cased ammo for the price of similar quality brass cased. Hitting up ammo seek, the cheapest steel is wolf, and it is $0.26 a round. Cheapest brass is xm193 federal and is $0.36 a round. Pick up your brass, and the xm193 is cheaper. Right now, 1000 pieces of federal 5.56 brass is about $120 uncleaned and unprocessed. Mixed headstamp is about $80. You can make up most of the price difference selling local. Even if you leave it, it's 10k of steel vs 7222 of brass. Heck, back when I thought it was worth it, it was $120 per k for wolf with copper jackets and $190 for xm193, which STILL wasn't 10k vs 5k, it was 6.3k vs 10k, and it has been quite some time since the ratio was that favorable (short term transient price differences aside as things get in and out of stock). 3: pistol. I've seen a recurring problem across steel case pistol ammo. Not a lot of it, but it comes up over and over frequently enough to bother me, and that's the occasional box with bullets that set back with hand pressure. It just shouldn't be the case, and I have seen it locally at least 5 times over three different brands. Lots more that were fine, but that's a BAD QC issue that I haven't seen to the same extent with brass. I've never seen it with steel cased rifle, but for pistol it seems to crop up. Yeah, there's lots of knee jerk stuff going on, but IMO steel vs. brass remains debated because it is debatable. There's whole bunch of cost benefit things going on and you ahve to pick the spot you are comfortable.

Vendors are saying different things. I will give you my guess. Amazon doesn't want to be the intermediary for any illegal transaction. It puts them in a bad place. My guess is that they are very, very bad about determining what is and is not legal, and you will not see uniform results in what is going on. I don't use amazon for gun stuff in general. I want to get what I actually want and not have to guess at knock-offs and 3rd party vendors reliability and honesty.

As much as I like vuurwapenblog article's approach, I think it has two primary issues. Despite a nice try, it still fails to create an apples to apples comparison AND that even having an apples to apples comparison is near pointless because as they hit on in the article, the primary thing you need to prevent is muzzle rise which is the result of translating the operation of the weapon through the shooter. There's also the third issue it doesn't touch on at all, which is that the operation of the firearm and muzzle devices is not a 2 dimensional xy issue, it is a 3 dimensional xyz operation. IMO, getting a good flash suppressor is amatter of measure the flash and measure the sound. You can get very good ones that minimize the tuning fork effect. Getting a universally good comp means building something that does it's best to not waste any gas coming out of the gun and tries to anchor the muzzle to a single spot in space, and these tend to be very loud and very bright because to be otherwise means you are converting energy that could be used for that into heat or vibration. I don't agree with some of their conclusions either. For example the rainier brake. IMO it is not very good, primarily becuase it has ports that are WAY too large for the size of the baffle that is struck. They do however give you good access to clean the crown of the barrel, and the shorter version is pretty darn light. But they aren't that hot at reducing recoil, and they are louder than need be for the amount they do. There are a number of breaks heading to market that use computational fluid dynamics modeling and finite element analysis. They should be interesting. The engineering is basically trickle down from the suppressor market. The net result probably won't be the end of compromise, but at the very least the weight factor should come down. In theory the dynamic resistance brake claims a 62% reduction in recoil over and a2 bird cage. which would put it as the lowest on the vuurwapen chart for recoil. it's teeny and 2.4 ounces.

Or gerrymandering. This last election, IIRC, about 900k more votes were cast by republicans, yet essentially no seats changed party. So....

It's heavy, and without the shield, I don't see why it wouldn't be NJ legal. With the shield, it doesn't look like it would pass the finger test, and will reduce muzzle flash. Thats' my assessment, I'm not in charge of the police, your milage may vary.

OK, Point 1. 7.4 accidental firearms deaths per day. That's 2701. Taking numbers from the gun grabbers themselves for 2010 (becuase that's the most current year data collection is complete and published for, 2011 is preliminary), you had 606 accidental firearm deaths. So lie number one. Source the gun grabber group uses is WISQARS, which is the same I use in general.So the real answer is approximately 1.66 per day. point 2. A child is killed or injured by a firearm every 30 minutes. That would be 17,520 juvenile firearms deaths or injuries. For 2010 deaths, unintentional deaths children 1-14 = 62 for 15-19 it is 72. Total unintentional deaths for 'kids' for 2010 is thus 134. Those are accidents, totals are 2700 if you include legal intervention, accidents, homicides, and suicides. 1762 homicides, 749 from suicides. According to wisqars, for 0-19, the non fatal injury rate for a firearm is 15,576. So their number is actually a bit low if you are using the latest year of across the board completed stats. 15-19 homicides are 1554, based on some statistical analysis of gang violence, the CD has found a rate ofr gang related homicides that are between 27 and 42% of all homicides for that age range. Between 0-25% of those homicides occurred concurrent with other crimes. The vast majority were retaliatory homicides against other gang members. point 3. 33% of homes owning a gun is a not a fact. It is a guess likely obtained from the general social survey. Which is a cold call self reporting survey done over the phone that takes substantial time. When gallup still asked about firearms ownership in presidential election exit polls, their numbers came out to about 45%. Gallups phone survey shows a more or less flat slope from 1996 to now pretty much toggling between low 40s ownership and high 30s for percent of household ownership. There is simply no reliable data on this out there. If you look at the scatter plot for the GSS, you will see that the rapid downward slope comes in around 1993-1994 when there was all sorts of banning talk, the AWB, things like waco and ruby ridge, and maybe.. just maybe people don't like answering questions about their ownership of firearms to the man. But the last GSS was 2012 (it's every 2 years) and in that year, GSS came up with 32% and change, and gallup came up with 43% point 4. "Guns kept in the home are more likely to be involved in a fatal or nonfatal unintentional shooting, criminal assault or suicide attempt than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense." This is more play on this type of gun grabber stat. First off, this is meant to imply that guns are useless for self defense. However, to believe that, you also have to believe that every single use of a firearm for self defense results in a shooting injury or fatality. That is VERY, VERY far from the truth. Additionally, the 22x number is very debatable. There ahve been multiple studies like this based on the same exact data sets, and they come up wiht very different numbers due to their statistical methods. There is no clear cut best statistical method to date. point 5. I have a hard time believing that risk of suicide is 5x greater if a firearm is in the home when firearms account for about 50% of successful suicides. It may be 5x more likely to succede than any other method, but it is hardly outpacing all other methods combined by 500%. Once again, CDC numbers as well as a gun grabber study by u penn. SOmeone is lying with statistics.

I've run into more than one town council member with a permit. One of them claimed not to be former LEO. Neither were keen to discuss it. They could have been carrying illegally I suppose, but I doubt it.

Nieman Marcus got hit too as well as three other national retailers as yet unnamed. 1 in 4 cardholders were exposed they say.

Shop at target? that big breach of 110 million + cards included the security codes. I got hit with fraud from that. I got home form work and had gotten 3 email alerts on the drive home. I got 4 more while waiting 20 minutes on the phone to have the card cut off. they funded itunes and an amazon account with them as well (amazon caught it and flagged the account immediately and was nice enough to warn me they had to do that, apple cleaned up the false charges it seems a couple off days later, still have to do some justification of legit and non legit charges form them). The charges were submitted as at least seven different vendors, many in dollar ammount the vendors don't deal in (i.e. $0.50 on itunes? $30 charge from a vendor that has you contact a salesman to talk about writing up a contract for their service?) So bad stuff is going on both on the card side and processing side. I have had a ton of compromised cards over the years. Usually it's one or two things with an actual legit transaction taking place (i.e. they actually bought a service form someone legit who didn't check for fraud). This is WAY, WAY worse than that. Someone has a plan to take the card system and banks for a fair chunk of change IMO. fun times kids, fun times.

All your brass hits the brass deflector. Where it lands is largely based on how hard it hits the deflector and at what angle. The angle is largely determined by how much flip is imparted before it hits by the extractor and ejector. How much flip is largely dependent on how fast it is cycling, which is dependent on how much gas the gas system is getting vs. how light or heavy the total mass of the BCG and buffer are. Undergas, and the brass has less velocity overall and the BCG moves slower and thus the brass flips early (farther forward). It either misses the deflector entirely, or it rolls up it like a ramp due to low energy. Just right and it mostly hits part of the deflector that is square to the ejection port mostly on the side, and bounces to the side getting it's direction from sort of pivoting around the 45 degree wedge. Too much gas, and it flips late (further back), and it mostly flips the brass into the 45 degree portion of the brass deflector, which bounces it straight forward. Weird ejection patterns can crop up because of non standard deflector shape, going with a lightened buffer and carrier with adjustable gas, ammunition choice and pressure thereof, or a number of other things. It really doesn't matter unless you have other issues to go with, or if the ejection pattern is causing you ergonomicv issues like hitting you and distracting you or burning you, getting in the way of your vision, etc. The chart midwestPX posted is a diagnostic tool to assist with diagnosing actual problems. Where your brass goes isn't a problem in and of itself IMO as long as it runs reliably in all temps with a wide variety of ammo. I have a carbine length gun I put an adjustable gas block on. Wolf in the winter barely operates the gun. xm193 in the summer heat makes the recoil a lot more harsh. Where the brass goes varies GREATLY between those two scenarios, but guess what. The gun is pretty solid because it doesn't short stroke wolf in the middle of winter, and doesn't fail to strip rounds off the magazine shooting xm193 in the summer, and it can happily chew through 1000 rounds of dirty ammo without cleaning and still run. There's nothing wrong with the gun despite brass piling up in different spots. Here's normal (about 12 seconds in) : Here's normal from a /34 vertical view: Here's a perfectly fine rifle likely operating with a lightened carrier and buffer. His rifle appears to be set up for a bit of extra BCG velocity for reliable extraction and he's mostly getting benefit form the low mass carrier system by having less mass slamming forward thus causing less sight dip, adn letting the comp and technique deal with any muzzle rise form the increased BCG velocity. Especially the footage form the side shows the behavior that send the cases forward to the 2 oclock area. (slow mo starts at 47 seconds):

It's not weird, everyone has their needs and every comp is a compromise. Choose your budget. the battlecomp and dynacomp and their ilk are nice mix of effective and less blasty. I have a hammerhead on one rifle. Shooting it using a plywood table as a rest outdoors was a punishing experience. It's effective, but it is LOUD and creates a lot of directed blast. I would not shoot it in an indoor tunnel or indoor range. You make your choices based on your needs.

Yes, the legislators likely can unless they have something on their record that would objectively prohibit them. They are public figures, are connected, and there is likely none of them that can't produce a semi-threatening letter from a crackpot. Add into that that they are required to appear in fairly accessible locations, and you can make an argument that will pass muster for claims of justifiable need if the people playing gate keeper are not blatantly hostile to them. We know it's not objective and it is politics, and even judges and legislators can be on the wrong side of the political influence. As for judges, they aren't nearly as accessible without security as say a councilman or some legislators. I also supsect that say a judge who tries gang crime cases or divorces might be at more risk than say a traffic court judge.

Ditto for my experience. do not like the the springy push/pull/twist spout. The fire extinguisher like spouts are still awkward, but do seem to function as intended rather than simply leak and break.