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It is fairly common for an AS to do themselves before being confronted. In fact that's how the Old Bridge Pathmark shooter ended it. Ran out of victims, slung his WASR, and popped himself in the ear. He was dead long before we made entry. I agree 100% and I hope some of this mindset is starting to take hold on the media, but I am not holding my breath. Could also be the continuing investigation aspect, the need to notify family of all deceased parties before full disclosure, the possibility of another actor somewhere... There are a bunch of reasons to play these types of investigations close to the vest for as long as possible.

http://www.flixxy.com/helicopter-pilot-fishes-rc-plane-from-tree.htm#.UMkFU4l5mc1 Pretty cool video. The pilot knows his stuff and does a good deed for the day.

Why the Elcan? It is notorious for losing zero when you switch magnification, it's heavy, and way overpriced.

Agree 100% on all. I have been using a Galco Bootlock with my G27 as an on duty backup. Works well with 8" side zip boots. I carry my PM9 in an Alessi rig with a calf strap when off duty. Ankle carry is not ideal, and I will only carry a backup weapon on my ankle, never a primary piece.

$1000? Aimpoint Pro for ~$350-$400 that leaves $650-600 for ammo and maybe a training class.

If you personally subscribe to the second part of your post, the first part is irrelevant and unnecessary to state. So why say it all? It seems like you are asking questions you already know the answer to. Why do I need to respond to that? Seems trollish and argumentative. BLUF: Target discrimination determines if the person entering your room is a benefit or detriment. If a benefit do, what's appropriate. If the other.... Do what is appropriate. You know that and so do I. We apparantly agree, yet you insist on continuing with the disambiguation. I am clearly missing something that you feel is crucial, so what is it?

Nothing done while searching for bad guys is done indiscriminately. Have you ever cleared a house? Ever searched a dwelling for possible intruders? I cleared 3 separate houses last night. 2 were homeowners reporting coming home to what appeared to be burglaries the third was called in by an alarm company. It is not an exact science and different tactics and systems will be used based on what the Officers on scene think is appropriate and safe. Rarely is announcing yourself as the Police the right call. Regardless, Is a red herring. Nothing negates the need for target discrimination. Thats what a part of what being a responsible gun owner is all about. Anything else can end in tragedy. Making sure only the bad guys get the good news is what makes us the good guys.

Not only for every different weapon, but every time you take it off and put it on the same weapon, the zero should be verified. This is especially important if the laser is intended for "social" purposes. The attachment method of the TLR series WML are not conducive to a return to zero mount. And neither is the rail platform on the Glock series pistols. (any polymer pistol really) A quick confirmation of the laser dot over the irons at the distance you want it to hit POA/POI is OK for a quick and dirty zero check, but should really be shot at the distance you want the laser zeroed at. Good luck!

39:4-96 Reckless Driving A person who drives a vehicle heedlessly, in willful or wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others, in a manner so as to endanger, or be likely to endanger, a person or property, shall be guilty of reckless driving and be punished by imprisonment in the county or municipal jail for a period of not more than 60 days, or by a fine of not less than $50.00 or more than $200.00, or both. On a second or subsequent conviction he shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three months, or by a fine of not less than $100 or more than $500, or both. You can be sentenced to 60 days for your first offense. True but 39:4-97 Careless Driving covers that too. The Reckless Driving statute applies when there is a willful or purposeful component to the action in question. Pens, get a lawyer and forget about guns until you mature a little.

I agree with everything but this I work closely with a bunch of Corrections Officers. They do a job I couldn't do even if I wanted it. I am happy we have men and women that stand up and do it. I have an enourmous amount of respect for anyone that dos that job and go out of my way to make their jobs easier whenever I can. You want a job in LE? Read it, remember it, apply it in everything you do on the job. It will do wonders for your career.

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You can get a BCM or Daniel Defense upper for about the same price as the Stag and get a much higher quality peice of kit. Any extra you spend will be well worth it in the long run. Check Ranier Arms for a good selection of quality uppers as well.

Because your fore-end needs to be trimmed to clear the sidesaddle, you only have about 2 3/4" - 3" of travel on your action.You will never be able to rack the action all the way open with that setup. You either need to notch the wood on the left side so it clears the obstruction or get a different fore-end that doesn't cover the receiver with the action open.

If you are looking for a fixed rear sight, check LaRue. Top notch gear that returns to zero if you need to remove it. Another nice option is the centurion HK Diopter style sights. Very fast to use and low profile. If you really want light, do not fear the MagPuls. They work and they won't melt. They are pretty sturdy too. I currently only have Folding rear BUIS with standard fixed front sights on my ARs. I have 2 Troy folding BUIS, 2 Magpul, and 1 GG&G MAD sights. I have been very happy with all of them - full disclosure, I currently have optics on all of my guns, so other than a quick zero check when I hit the range, they usually see very little use. I did however, recently run iron sights only (GG&G MAD BUIS with a standard fixed front sight) in a rifle instructor's course on a Colt R0933. I did it just to practice and see how I would do. It performed much better than I expected, especially after training and shooting exclusively with an RDS for so long, and I shot high shooter in the class at ranges out to ~200 yards on an unknown distance range. It is a good little sight. Good Luck!

My favorite fight scene from one of my favorite movies: Clip with some fight scenes from a little known flick called Sinners and Saints. Some of the best gunfighting to ever come out of Hollyweird. As good or better than Way of the Gun as far as firearms and gun handling:

Already Posted in the AK Variant Section of the Rifle Subforum Still pretty cool though

Ruger9, The phrase "For the children" is from those old Sally Struthers commercials where she askes for $0.10 a day to save the little kids with no food in the Philippines/Malasia/Central America/etc... You know - "For less than the price of a cup of coffe a day.... Please, for the Children" It is a common turn of phrase often used to impart an air of joviality to an otherwise charged conversation. It is also as a way to convey a lighthearted tone into an email, post, or whatever, as oftentimes the written word often is unable to impart any tonal context to the rest of the post. My friends and I use it a lot, in person and in emails and the like. Sometimes I forget that we all do not know each other here and may not get each others sense of humor. I apologize. It was not meant to be condescending and I was not referring to you as a child in any way - Unlike your repeatedly calling me son and taking what I am saying so personally. A bit of advice here, and again, it is worth what you paid for it - if you truly thought that I did mean it in a condescending tone, taking the high road and attempting to remain professional would probably served you a bit better. Instead you come off sounding a bit boorish. Ruger9, I don't want your whole Emergency "plan", I truly just want you to think critically about what you are going to do after the racking of the shotgun. Think about what you are going to do next in a realistic way and see if maybe, just maybe, another way gives you more tactical options and opens a lot more doors for you. I am not insulting you, your family, or your favorite gun. I am asking you to examine a TTP that you prefer, to evaluate if maybe, just maybe, there is a better way. If not, fine. Do what you are going to do. But seriously Ruger9, why the resistance? I am offering a little advice, some personal experience, a bit of anecdotal evidence, and maybe a critical thinking exercise and learning opportunity, I am not asking you to divorce your wife or leave your church. I think the idea of using the sound of a racking shotgun as a line of defense/deterrent is assinine at best. (And like it or not this is one of those gun handiling things that is seen on TV/Movies and taken to be a valid technique, much like some flashlight techniques and position Sabrina/Charlie's Angels) I don't come by this opinion lightly or in a vacuum. I have experience dealing with armed badguys. I have searched for them in homes and other buildings, I have held them at gunpiont, arrested them, and spoken with them afterword. I am here to tell you that it will not work against a determined bad guy, and using a TTP that won't work all the time is counter productive to the outcome you want. Take it or leave it, that's fine. Oh, and Happy New Year to you too. And really dude, "You First"? What is next - "He started it!"? - please see my smiley as a way to let you know that this statement is meant to be lighthearted. The answer to this question as it is on most Police work is "It Depends". I am not going to go into specific Police Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) regarding response to home invasion/burglary/hostage rescue/barricaded person/alarm response/Warrant service etc. here. I will say that my response was from a Patrol standpoint - a hasty entrance to an unknown situation, not a SWAT perspective - a warrant service/barricaded person/hostage rescue situation. The reason being is that the response you will most likely get at first is going to be patrol officers, not SWAT. I wil ask you this though, Why are you indescriminatly shooting at anyone that "busts" in? Target aquisition and identification are the first to steps of engaging a target, as well as the #4 rule of Firearms safety - Be sure of your target, foreground, backstop and beyond.

I agree 100%. I can also tell you that in 9 years, I have never been dispatched to a call where the initial call (the information I get from dispatch that they got from the reporting party) matched what I found on scene. Ever. There is always some investigation to be done on scene. (One of my favorite FUBAR call was when I was dispatched to an ambulance call for a cut hand. I get there and it was a full on stabbing and on going knife fight.) When someone calls the Police, you can't just not respond, and the dispatcher has to take every call as a face value, accurate account by the caller until the responding unit on scene says otherwise. Can you imagine how furious you would be if the dispatcher told you they werent sending a Cop to you because they didnt believe what you were saying was true? If what the caller reported was deliberately false, and done in an effort to cause the "subject" of the call incovenience or it created an un-necessarily dangerous response, then the caller can (and if I am involved, will) be charged. Unfortunately, both of those criteria are hard to prove and extremely subjective to say the least. I have had a few instances were this was the case and I was able to prove it. In those instances I charged the caller and brought them to court. In a case like this, it is generally hard to prove that the caller was not legitimately frightened by what they saw, and called 911 with honest intentions and not and anti-gun/anti-kid/anti-whatever agenda. Firstly, according to the report in the paper, this was called in by residents. It was not a self initiated Police contact. It isn't the Cops that need this education, its the reporting party/complainant. Secondly, the article says nothing about the person being arrested, so since the Cop didn't jack the kid up, I figure that he/she must have known the difference between a toy and a real weapon.

Wow. Very mature. Anything useful to add to the discussion or are you just going to gloss over my questions and comments regarding the topic at hand and your response to an intruder in your home? And to reiterate, in case you missed it the first time, I am not your son.

Easy bud, your gonna hurt yourself. Take a deep breath, calm down and think. Stop with the ad hominem attacks and think critically. They had guy should not know wher you are. Until you have eyes on him and sights on him from a position of dominance in your house. You also still didn't answer my question, seriously, talk me through your plan. After racking your shotgun, voluntarily giving up one of your only advantages in CQB/HD, namely surprise, what are you going to do - Search the house or stay in your room? Which course of action is more likely to stop a threat - racking a shotgun for all the world to hear, or locating your threat and aimIng in from a position of dominance, resetting their OODA loop and gaining the tacticals advantage? You mention "juvenile" like that matters, So what? Does someone's 18th birthday bestow some magical quality? A bad is a bad guy, regardless of age. And a 15 year old kid is more likely to drop the hammer on someone while commiting a crime than a seasoned pro. "decides to continue his criminal activities, he'll be shot." I hope the criminlnal activity you are speaking of puts you and your loved ones in some kind of articulable danger, and not just trespassing, criminal mischief, or theft. I am not advocating blasting away at the first sign of an intruder. In fact, the opposite is true. I am advocating being smart, stacking the deck in your favor, and using tactics that are proven to work more often then they don't in keeping you and your family safe while giving you a higher chance of ending the engagement without a shot fired, but if it comes to shots, you prevail. See, he gets it. The first time a bad guy should know where you are, should be when your sights are already on him. This is 100% false. If one of my guys ever did this on a call I am calling him on the carpet to explain himself. If they tell me this is why they did it, they would be written up, counseled on proper tactics, and assigned 4 hours of officer safety training/basic patrol tactics.

I carry a Glock in .40S&W because I have to. Owning and shooting different guns (an XD, SW4013, SA TRP Operator, HK P2000LEM, and some Sigs) I saw a measurable decline in my ability (speed and accuracy) with the Glocks after a day or even an hour on the other guns. I attribute that to the distinctive Glock Grip and the mediocre OEM triggers (which do get better with shooting and dry firing). I was also unable to meet the accuracy and time standards I could achieve with the Glock with the other pistols (Except the TRP Operator, that thing could drive tacks), without investing significant amounts of my limited training time. Because of that, all the guns I train with are Glocks, and any other gun I carry will have a similar manual of arms. Beware the man that only owns one gun and all that... I agree. If I could only have one pistol, it would be my Gen 3 G35. The reason being, because I shoot that gun better than the other Glocks.. Keep in mind that I am not saying that a Glock 35 is the best pistol out there, just that with the amount of time I have invested in that platform, I currently shoot that model the best. I also trust it as it has been problem free for thousands of rounds (logbook is in the safe, but i think it was close to 10,000 at last entry) with proper PM and care. It has been carried almost daily in all weather, and run through dozens of high round count training classes without a hiccup that couldn't be traced back to bad ammo, or in some cases, the loose nut behind the trigger.

I wouldn't worry about it:

You can be charged with most of those for carrying a frying pan, a filet knife, or a baseball bat - under the right circumstances. You can be charged with "armed" just for alluding to the fact that you have a weapon, but not have one at all. I think putting this in the article is good. Let's parents and kids and other Airsoft owners know that a toy can still get you in trouble. An airsoft gun is not a firearm, the municipal discharge laws should not apply. However, if they break a neighbors window, or dent a car, then criminal mischief charges can be filed. Just like they could of it was done with a brick, a baseball, or a rock. Harassment fits if it happens repeatedly. Hit someone not involved in the game with a pellet - simple assault. Take out an eye of a non player - aggravated assault. Use the airsoft gun to intimidate or scare someone - terroristic threats and weapons charges galore, or possibly armed aggravating circumstances can be applied to the charge. Point it at someone who is armed - get shot. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Sure, if what they did was unreasonable. The article doesn't report it as kids playing, it was reported as 1 person walking with a rifle. Sounds reasonable to me. How about the parents being responsible and teaching the kid the right way to walk to the local airsoft game, bagging/casing his toy. That's what mine taught me while walking to the woods to play Army, laser tag, paintball. Doesn't say the kid was charged, so I am guessing he wasn't. He as stopped, checked out and cut loose. This is how it is supposed to work. Hopefully the kid learned a lesson and will carry his toy in a case/bag. The rules and guidelines of responsible firearm ownership apply to toy guns too.

What's wrong with that article? Doesn't seem alarmist, states relevant facts that people might not now about Air Soft guns, and gives decent advice. Am I missing something?