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Aimpoint T1 Micro

Long drive, but the Sportsman's Center in Bordentown has an indoor archery range...

I'm very happy with my SCAR 16S, but it doesn't help you out much with magazine issues...

While admittedly not a hundred percent germane, I owned an M1 Super 90 Tactical for a number of years. I sold it do to financial hardship. The M2 is an updated version of the M1. One day while shooting at Falls Township with a buddy who happens to be a Trenton Cop and a number of his fellow officers, two guys who were busting balls about my being a "guard who had to buy the expensive toy to compensate for lack of skill" challenged me individually to a shoot off with my Super 90 against their tricked out 870s. I told them to try and be a little more fair, I'd let them shoot together. The match and it's parameters was completely their idea. We set up eight targets at ten yards. They start on the right and I start on the left. When all targets are down, whoever shot the most wins. My buddy called the ready, aim, fire. They each shot one and I shot the other six. I really miss that gun...

http://hkp7.com/

Your large electronic device's sights are printing through the side in the advertising photo...

Not sure exactly how text book for a felony stop with marked vehicles stacked and traffic evidently not stopped as folks were driving by snapping pictures, but hey...

Just grab the tie with a good pair of pliers and rip it out. It's only wedged in by friction, and you in all likelihood just can't get a good enough grasp on the zip tie...

Old West Scrounger can be a good source for odd ball calibers. I've bought from them over the years with a positive experience. http://www.ows-ammo.com/store/

http://hkp7.com/p7comp.htm P7 Width across grips; P7 PSP 1.14" P7M8 1.14" P7M13 1.30"

Here's one more vote for the P7. I love my P7M13, and would carry it in a heartbeat if it was authorized...I carry a ParaOrd P14.45 LDA Limited, and its much heavier then my P7M13, even more so when loaded.

We put off watching it for a good bit, but finally caved when there was nothing else on TV. It was surprisingly better then I expected it to be...

Harry was a truly great guy, and I bought a bunch of stuff off of him as much because of his customer first business practices, as the quality and character of the man. Then Harry retired, and his son Rick took over. The two men couldn't be more different. Rick was in a word, a douche, and a cocky, insulting, condescending one at that. He was interested in exactly one thing...money. Good for him, but the quality of the store and it's products and pricing changed significantly; quality items went down or disappeared all together, and the prices went way up. You had to search a lot harder to find a good value there, in all of the merchandise. He sold the store and it split, with Cheyenne taking over the sporting goods and firearms, and the original storefront keeping the militaria, and junk for the most part...Cheyenne has the occasional deals, but like most, I look at thier used guns as the best chance of finding a deal. Suggested retail plus isn't really my idea of a good deal on new firearms.

We had them in the Armory when I started with the DOC some twenty years ago. They worked well for what they were, as already mentioned, a solid utility grade pump gun. Ours were primarily blued, which wasn't necessarily the best finish for a bang around service weapon. They functioned like a Remy 870, and the folding stock was nice, if lacking in a cheek weld. Most preferred the 870s that were replacing them at the time. I was told they came as part of a package deal, with the S&W Model 66 revolvers we carried at the time, and hung a round for a bit through the 4046s we transitioned to...

Might wanna check out the Sportsman's Center on RTE 130N in Bordentown. They have an Archery Range upstairs as well...

I have a Glock 17 with pinned mags. It's an easy shooting, accurate weapon. I bought my first back in 1987. Pinned mags aren't hard to come by, and I believe they are offered by at least one of the dealers on this site. The trigger while admittedly very different from other designs, it is also one of the fastest resetting triggers in the the duty weapon category, which means faster follow up shots on target; never a bad thing in a combat weapon. As it applies to anything aftermarket, if a seller offers something for handguns, they offer it for Glocks and 1911s. Everything else comes next. Glocks are an actual military weapon, not designed for the toils of range use, but actual hard military use. My brother in the US military special operations community routinely carries a Glock on his kit and has taken it repeatedly into harms way. Combine that with a sixty percent plus hold on the American LE market, and my decision was easy...you could do much worse.

I'd go with a Benelli M2 Tactical loaded with slugs...

I carry a P14.45 LDA Limited off duty. It's a full sized steel pistol, but with a Kramer IWB and a good belt, it's no problem to conceal on my 5'8", 210 lb. frame. I moved to it from a Glock, and the first thing I noticed is the reset. You'll need to train your finger for it, as it is unfortunately very long, about twice that of a Glock. It also has two ticks before the sear resets, compared to the single tick you can feel in the trigger with a Glock and our department issue USP. Once you get used to it, it's an excellent trigger. I would suggest you go with a stainless pistol from PO though, as I bought one of the small PDAs, also in .45 ACP, and just from training with a holster, much of the black finish has already chipped off. It's apprantly a common issue with thier finishes, so avoid the drama by getting the stainless version. Hope this helps.

Semiauto shotguns also eat up a portion of the recoil in thier operation. My Benelli M1 Super 90 was softer recoiling with an eighteen inch barrel then my current Mossberg 590A1 with a twenty inch tube. Reduced recoil loads also make the scattergun more pleasant to shoot by taking some of the edge off of the recoil. In our guns at work, they proved to group a little tighter, as well.

That's a good woman. She's a keeper...

There are .22 caliber semiautos that feel from a tubular magazine under the barrel, and yes the law applies to them.

From my limited perspective of the video, it appears the Officer arrived on scene and was looking for additional information; he's gesturing, looking around and appears to be speaking. From the way he is looking around, again I'm guessing, he is trying to determine exactly where the robbery is taking place based on initial reports. Once he realizes he's there, it appears he tries to get people to move away from the location while he draws his weapon and begins trying to get a clear view inside the store, likely while guessing again, waiting for backup. From the way he is bouncing up and down, and moving, it looks like his view must be at least partially obstructed. You can see him looking back and forth from the inside of the store to the perimeter, at a guess trying to keep people away from the danger and more likely looking for back up so he can make entry(I would be). His adrenaline is probably pegging full bore at this point, as the fight or flight response kicks in. Again, without knowing all the facts(you never do before something happens. Hindsight is always 20/20), he has responded to a reported armed robbery in progress possibly with multiple suspects, and while trying to get a view of the events unfolding inside the store, suddenly two men burst out of the doorway. Without having had the opportunity to make entry, clear the store and learn about the back door and the robbers moving in that direction, common sense would dictate that in an armed robbery of a small storefront, where he has been on scene for a minute during which time victims who could have, in all likelihood would have fled the scene; anyone moving at this point is likely the armed robbers coming back out the same way they went in. So when the first suspect exits, he covers him with his weapon, and is pivoting to his left to cover the suspect that is moving past him again guessing, looking at his hands for weapons. His heart rate was probably rocketing north fast, and his vision may have began to tighten(tunnel vision) so that he may not have even observed the second suspect. His pivoting to cover the first suspect exposes his right flank, where a second possibly armed suspect charging from the store aggressively(explosively, energetically) and makes contact with him and the shot results. At this point, the media has stated that it wasn't reported as an intentional discharge(as previously mentioned, we know their accuracy in reporting), which could have been articulated if he believed he was being attacked, a gun grab, ect. Was there some fear in reporting it as an intentional shooting, with all the coverage surrounding the bystanders being hit at the Empire State Building? What was said at line up over the last week referencing the previous shooting? Was he a Knight, or a Serf who stumbled in and got in over his head? Could it have been a startle response to the contact? Remember it happened while he was covering what a prudent man would believe to be an armed robber. As has been pointed out, there just isn't nearly enough information at this point, even with the silent video to make an informed decision. Once the investigation is concluded we'll have a much better understanding of this really tragic event, and but for the actions of the robbers, none of this would have occurred.

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The simple truth of the matter is that Cops as a whole, are simply a cross section of society. They(we) are not shockingly different then anyone else, and much like any social group where only a small percent are actually actively interested in things like firearms, martial arts, and the like, Police are shockingly no different. Where common sense should dictate (if for no other reason than a certain degree of self preservation) interest should exist, just like a form of continuing education for other professions, it simply does not for many and trying to mandate training fails often due in part to the relatively small percentage of Officers who actually want it or will willingly attend it. The supervisors are simply an extension of the Officers, so many of them(us) also live in the deluded dream that they(we) are sufficiently trained. Here's a good read from a Cops perspective on life inside a PD...take note of the small percentage of the "warrior" ethos...

Gold Dots and Golden Sabre for me...