High Exposure

I know it was a motor-cop. I am unsure of the weapon used.

Booooo! I just adjusted my work schedule so I could attend. Boooooo!

Good Job Garland PD! Looks like it could have been another "Charlie Hebdo" http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/05/03/officer-and-two-suspects-down-in-gunfight-at-islamic-cartoon-contest-in-texas-possible-explosives-found/ Last Update: It's coming.....

Utah CCW carrier shoots and kills carjacker in parking lot. http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-shoots-kills-carjacker-outside-store-004403757.html

Agreed. Birdshot leaves a nasty but shallow would at close distance. It is not designed to stop a human and lacks sufficient penetration to reach anything vital when fired from more than a couple feet away. Look at the X-Ray - all the pellets appear to be near the surface of the skin.

Haven't looked yet. I'll have a chance in Monday.

Got one. Thanks folks.

Good luck with it!

Here is the LAV and Hackathorn shooting two of the Wilson/Beretta guns:

Talk to medic2264. He has a guy with a water jet that he uses to cut AR500.

I also don't wear socks and sandals.

Pay per view and the promoters!

They are metal rods/rebar capped with a plastic orange cover about 1" OD. I was able to use a tape and get it down to about a 2' square area, but I still can't find them. When we first moved in they were clearly visible. With the wet winter we had they got covered up by dirt.

Anyone have a metal detector I can borrow for an hour or so? I need to find property boundary markers that have been buried in my back yard. In am in the Middletown/Sandy Hook area. If so send me a PM. Thanks.

Old and antiquated TTPs for a mission different than what we are talking about. By the time you have realized that the conditions are changing and close one eye, your night adjusted vision has degraded. We are not navigating a jungle. We are not stumbling around a desert under star clusters. No one here is buillding an AR to sit in a fox hole on the Fulda Gap and repel the Cossack invaders. What you are saying, while it may be valid under certain circumstances, is useless in a HD/CQB/FISHing scenario. We are clearing small rooms in a home. The TTPs I am covering were not created by me either. They were developed by folks with much more experience than either you or I have in this skill set. I have been lucky enough to have been taught by them. Keep your white light on as much as possible and both eyes open. More light is better than less light. Fight in the dark like you fight in the day: darkness may obscure you but it won't stop bullets - Cover is more important than concealment. See them before they see you.

Even that doesn't matter if we are talking about HD/CQB/FISHing. Once the light is on, your night adjusted vision is essentially gone, even the eye that's closed (if the ambient light is bright enough). No sense loosing SA by keeping one eye closed, just keep the light on and both eyes open. How do you choose which eye to close? The eye that uses the sights on the long gun or the one that doesn't? Do you switch shoulders so there isn't a dominant eye/shoulder issue? What do you do the next time you need to use the light?

This is a common misconception. It is completely untrue that you will "blind" yourself with a bright light indoors. I have a 1000L Surefire P3X fury on my work rifle and a 500L SF X300u on all oft pistols. I have done extensive training in room clearing and CQB as well has dozens of entries. I have yet to blind myself or even be distracted by the light on my rifle. The same goes for the rest of my team mates. None of us have needed a white cane to clear a house yet I have never wished for less light on my gun. There have been plenty of times where I wish I had more. 500L is the minimum I will put on a rifle - with a preference for 1000L. 200L is the minimum I will put on a pistol - with a preference for 500L.

I've been watching this thread and trying to not jump in but..... Don't take this the wrong way, but you are all over the place. You are admittedly new to the platform and frankly, you don't even know what you don't know - and that's ok. No one does in the beginning. Your best bet right now is to take all the money you were going to dump into upgrading this rifle and cheap accessories and buy a sling, a Canadian buttload of ammo, and take a class from a reputable instructor. Get a couple thousands rounds downrange under the eye of someone who knows what they are doing before spending money on a bunch of accessories that are going to end up in a storage bin in a year. The M&P sport is a decent starter gun - you could have done much worse for your first AR. However, it's not really worth dumping money into. You are better off following Deerslayer's advice and saving up to buy a new comete upper, when you are ready, that has everything you want. Until then, shoot the shit out of the rifle as is - then decide if you need a vert grip or a bipod (they very rarely go together on the same rifle). Save the money on the cheap ACOG and save up for something quality. If you want a HD gun, then the ACOG or any magnified optic is really a poor choice. A laser, is a total waste of money, especially in the beginning. The standard front sight is fine, even with an optic. After a few hundred rounds downrange you don't even see it in your field of vision anymore. With a 3x-4x magnified optic, it actually fades away and appears as if you look right through it. I'm not a hunter but check with local laws before taking a .223 on a hunting trip. Beware of "the brightest combat light on Earth". Sounds fishy to me...... I'm LE and I am curious as to what light he thinks we all use.....

Leave it where it is. Do not try to remove the front sight assembly. Watch this:

I ways thought of you more as a Vespa kind of guy

I think the idea of taking the stock off an under folder is silly, but that's just my opinion - to each their own. This is a very viable TTP that was put to good use by UK SAS and US NSW folks, especially with sub guns with collapsed or folding stocks. It also works very well when shooting supine even with a stock extended. I'm not sure how well this will work as a full time solution with a full rifle caliber. It certainly isn't as good as a real stock regardless of caliber.

Emerson Combat Karambit. Expensive, but like most things, you get what you pay for.

The heavy and gritty trigger is inherent to the bullpup design and is one of the biggest detractors from the platform. If you think about where the trigger is located and the distance between where the trigger is and where the hammer is, the crappy trigger makes sense. I picked up a trigger upgrade from 20/20 for my MSAR. It now feels like it has a Geissele SSA in there. I was pleasantly surprised. I am pretty sure that there are aftermarket Tavor triggers as well. It just sucks to pay $250 for a trigger in a brand new rifle that set you back $1500.

That is a real concern with any SBS. We have 14" Remington 870s at work. I have to stay right on top of some of my folks during qualifications and training. Especially with people new to our agency that are used to standard length shotguns. I can't imagine with these bullpup shotguns, they seem to be even more compact, putting the muzzle well within the reach of your extended arm.