High Exposure

Strong work by this security guard. This is an outstanding example of good people with guns standing up to bad people with guns and being a protector. ***Important point of order*** We shoot to stop. We don’t shoot to kill. That very important distinction is what makes us the Good Guys. Anyone who says otherwise either doesn’t understand the laws pertaining to the proper application of deadly force, is attempting to perfect the art of machismo and braggadocio, or just trying to be funny. Yes, our application of deadly force may cause our target to die. Yes, the application of deadly force that will stop a threat fastest and be most appropriate may be to use a weapon or TTP that will cause instant death - but the actual killing of another human being is never the goal. As for first aid supplies, I keep a TQ, gloves, compression bandage, and Quick Clot on me when I carry a gun. Its primary use is for me and mine. Its secondary use is for other innocent victims in the area. Its final use is to treat my target. That is if they survive long enough for me to complete my post engagement sequence and are validated to no longer be a threat. I also carry some kind of restraint for the event I get a psychological stop of the targets actions vs a physiological or traumatic stop.

The triple barrel, 18-shot Pistola con Caricato revolver. Select fire to use one, two, or all three barrels with a single trigger pull.

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Meh, been done already. Arsenal Firearms AF2011: Cop 357 Derringer:

Shamelessly stolen from someone else, but it is a pretty good representation of the process you should go through to vet an instructor for your specific and individual training goals.

This is the real reasons those pistol braces are useful. Nothing to do with beating the Gov out of a $200 stamp. For a dedicated carbine? Absolutely - SBR that bitch. But.... if you want to carry an AR loaded in a backpack, in your car, under a jacket, use a pistol brace and keep your AR classified as a pistol and it can be your CCW with the pistol on your hip a BUG. * This pertains only to those living in Free America.

Before we start looking to countries like Brazil as a shining example, keep in mind that this is also happening: “License to Kill Policing” Getting a Trial Run in Rio de Janeiro https://www.bloombergquint(DOT)com/law-and-policy/license-to-kill-policing-to-get-a-trial-run-in-rio-de-janeiro?fbclid=IwAR0501K8QYM5Ngwm1W7UJ5g6eocWktDaXV4O-6c3CLL_U6QKkONS77OJtZg#gs.AblrtUM (Bloomberg) -- Teams of marksmen next year will patrol swaths of Rio de Janeiro with high-powered weapons and a license to kill, said a security adviser to Governor-elect Wilson Witzel. As many as 120 sharpshooters will accompany police incursions into the slums of Brazil’s postcard city to exterminate gun-toting criminals, according to Flavio Pacca, a longtime associate of Witzel who the governor-elect’s press office said will join the administration. The shooters will work in pairs -- one to pull the trigger, one to monitor conditions and videotape deaths. “The protocol will be to immediately neutralize, slaughter anyone who has a rifle,” Witzel, a federal judge and former Brazilian marine, told reporters in Brasilia on Dec. 12. “Whoever has a rifle isn’t worried about other people’s lives, they’re ready to eliminate anyone who crosses their path. This is a grave problem, not just in Rio de Janeiro, but also in other states.” Rio has long exemplified Brazil’s charm and its chaos, and what happens there echoes at home and abroad. Like President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, Witzel cruised to victory in October promising a brutal crackdown on criminals who make daily life a harrowing ordeal. Rio will be a proving ground for Bolsonaro’s philosophy of maximum force -- and whether law enforcement devolves into a storm of extrajudicial killings. Witzel’s Eyes Witzel declined Bloomberg’s interview requests and declined to comment on the sharpshooter plan Pacca described. Rio’s homicides last year surged to an eight-year high of 5,346 and robberies and muggings have more than doubled since 2011. In February, President Michel Temer put the army in control of security through year-end and Witzel, as he takes over, intends to seek out the fight. Witzel will create a security council that answers to him directly and envisions a web of surveillance and control. He plans public-private partnerships to purchase as many as 30,000 security cameras, according to his press office. This month, he traveled to Israel to visit Elbit Systems Ltd. and Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd., both of which work on drones. Pacca said the unmanned aircraft will gather facial images of drug traffickers holding weapons so police will have evidence to arrest a suspect when he emerges from his neighborhood. Distant Death Pacca, a police officer himself and a regular attendee at Witzel’s transition meetings, said groups of 20 policemen will begin undergoing month-long marksman training as soon as March. After they can kill at 600 meters, they will typically clear the way into favelas, where many residents liveunder the deadly sway of drug traffickers. Gangs often position roadblocks and lookouts to impede police and rival gangs. Marksmen will alternate, with one shooting and one spotting targets and filming so as to prove a person deserved killing, Pacca said in Bloomberg’s Rio office. Society and jurists are shifting their views of what constitutes “imminent danger’’ that justifies lethal force, he said, and targets don’t need to be actively shooting. “That concept is changing; it’s not for nothing that Bolsonaro was elected, not for nothing that Witzel was elected,’’ Pacca said. He pointed to a jewelry-store thief who this month used an octogenarian as a human shield during his escape. As he stumbled, officers shot him dead at point-blank range. “The people gave the police an ovation. That’s what you’re going to see.’’ Read a QuickTake: Will Change in President Take Brazil Forward or Back? Bolsonaro has said cops who kill should be given medals and has promised they will be legally protected. Days after the election, video showed Rio police loading the limp, bleeding bodies of two young men accused of drug trafficking into the bed of a pick-up. Bystanders cheered, with one yelling Bolsonaro’s name. “The NGOs, human rights activists and United Nations will have a fit,” Alexandre Frota, a congressman-elect, said on Twitter while sharing the video. “But the cleansing must be done.’’ Crime pervades Rio: Stray bullets strike schoolchildren. Residents of means are averse to conspicuous consumption. Commuters alter routes to avoid danger and the price of car insurance spiked with the surge in carjacking. Suelen Souza, 41, sells stuffed potatoes at the foot of the Dona Marta favela. This month, a police officer was shot in the neck in Dona Marta and frequent gun battles have caused the value of Souza’s apartment just below to fall by 40 percent. She said Witzel’s offensive may make it safe for her daughters to play in the plaza again. “I prefer the criminals get slaughtered instead of the criminals slaughtering us,” she said. Her husband, engineer Jose Olympio Souza, said, “a shock of morality showing the government has strength -- not indefinitely, but initially -- would be good.” Death in the Rain Even before Witzel, Rio police increasingly resorted to force. More people died at their hands during the first 11 months of 2018 than any year since state records begin in 2003. The 1,444 dead represent a 39 percent increase from 2017. Not all are justified. On a rainy September day, a 26-year-old man awaited his wife and two children in their hillside favela that looks out over Copacabana beach. Police mistook his umbrella for a rifle and shot him, according to local press reports. He died en route to hospital, and photos in local media showed pages of his employment booklet ringed with blood. “The Bolsonaro-Witzel duo is a concern for those who value democracy, value human rights, value the lives of people in the favelas.” said Julita Lemgruber, coordinator of the Center for Security and Citizenship Studies at the city’s Candido Mendes University. Spokespeople for Bolsonaro didn’t return calls and messages Friday seeking comment. Official Impunity General Richard Nunes, Rio’s acting security secretary, said violence alone can’t solve the issues and that the military has strengthened institutions and recovered operational capacity with training plus new equipment. Since April, when the military intervention gained traction, muggings, homicides and armed robbery of stores declined as soldiers became a constant presence, Nunes said. “If we don’t address public security with a broader vision, instead of thinking things get resolved by tactical, direct confrontation, the tendency is for indicators to worsen,” Nunes said. He called the jump in police killings this year “totally undesirable and unexpected.” ‘So Violent Now’ As long as police face few consequences for killing people, the cycle of violence will remain, according to Daniel Wilkinson, Americas managing director at Human Rights Watch. “We’re very concerned 2019 will only deteriorate further,” Wilkinson said. “This isn’t naivete about the problem; this comes from understanding what a serious problem this is for members of communities where you have gangs, and for police officers who have a very difficult job.” Celia da Silva, a single mother of four who sells bottled water at traffic lights, said traffickers walk around her favela brazenly shouldering rifles. Her daughter was mugged three weeks ago by four men in the neighborhood below. “I hope for a new change, with it so violent now in this city and this country,” she said. “It’s not just the little corner where I live.”

I concur Ray Ray. However, that doesn’t necessarily make him wrong in this instance. Pincus was in NJ at Cobra One, with SimonSaysTrain and the guy from Savage Cerakote in Spottswood when this video was making the rounds. The whole thing was cringy to follow.

Vet your instructors folks. Make sure they are teaching you skills that are relevant to your needs and desires. Verify they are qualified to teach you at the level of instruction you are seeking. Finally, be confident enough to not participate in a drill, or better yet - walk away from the training entirely if you feel the instructors ego is being put ahead of your safety.

If you get a M11 instead of a full auto AUG, I will drive down there and slap the shit out of you. Just sayin’...

New hand guard with a 1.5” inside diameter. It will cover the suppressor. Make it longer than the barrel, so the suppressor looks integral. Something like this*: * Random 7.5” SBR photo from the internets. Plus, as a bonus you just got a longer handguard on your rifle so you aren’t so crunched up.

Amazeballs! You must have one of those hydroponic miracle grow safes.

Awesome gesture Peel and Mrs Z! BZ to both of you!

Damn your black heart Ray Ray...

Hey, you have two AR seeds! Plant them in your safe and feed them cash and credit cards. In 6 months you will have 2 new rifles!

Look at Langdon Tactical for the current Beretta custom hotness. https://www.langdontactical.com/ His trigger job in a bag is amazing and affordable. It is also the tip of the Iceberg with the Langdon Tactical custom work. I had a chance to mess with some of Ernest’s personal Berettas and samples of his custom guns at Friends of Pat 2017 and man are they nice. I am contemplating some flavor of Beretta 92 because of it. I do need the short reach trigger though. Also, I got to mess with @shooter28’s Wilson Beretta at a Sights&Triggers class a few months back. It was amaze balls!

You can totally suppress a 7.5” gun.

Oh shit! That’s Mrs Jedi with the “Be Good” shirt on. Her husband is Scott Jedlinski of Modern Samurai Project. If you shoot a pistol with a RDS and don’t know who is is, look him up. You are welcome. And John “Murph” Murphy is the guy giving the lecture. I know him. He was super tight with Pat Rogers and we sat together at the Repast after Pat’s funeral Murph is a solid dude and gives classes in the Culpepper, VA area including Pistol and carbine classes. It is excellent instruction. Worth the trip if you can get down there. Highly recommended.

Excellent point. Apologies to anyone that is offended by my insensitivity.

Remember this thread? Haiku Poems all the time. There were some good ones.

Build a second upper with a flat-top receiver. Anything else is lipstick on a pig.

Way back in time when I started my journey down this rabbit hole, a really smart short Irish guy who whistled when he spoke pulled me aside and told me “The mission drives the gear train”. This advice has served me well with every purchase I have ever made.

This was Pat Rogers’ 1911, set up to his specs for off duty carry. It has had extensive work done to it, but damned if I know exactly what or by whom. Frame is Colt (Serial number puts it in 1981 I think). I have no idea on the slide. Barrel is a hard fitted Bar-Sto. I added some slim VZ Grips with a super scoop. It shoots amazing. Slim grips with super scoop:

I’ve been leaving my Emerson Karambit at home lately and carrying a Gerber Cleaver. I really like this knife and at $30 it’s steal.