Adam’s everydaycarry.com pocket dump features a modified GLOCK 26. We’re talking Talon grips, Magpul GL9 12-round extended mag, Streamlight 69272 TLR-6 (with white LED light and red laser) and a Trijicon RMR 6.5 MOA LED Red Dot Sight. Red dot sights are excellent for . . .
training. Nothing teaches you to keep your gun steady better than trying to hit a target exactly where the red dot shines (before you pull the trigger). I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Oh wait. I meant the laser! Red dot sights? Not so much . . .
Don’t get me wrong. With enough practice, putting a handgun’s red dot sight’s red dot on a target becomes fast and instinctive. As you’d expect, given that the world’s best handgun shooters use red dots in competition.
But concealed carriers aren’t professional shooters and a defensive gun use (DGU) isn’t a friendly competition.
During an adrenalin dump shooting skills degrade significantly. The question isn’t which sighting system — red dot of iron sights — is better in highly skilled hands. It’s which sighting system is more effective for most shooters during a DGU.
Who knows? If you’re rocking a red dot, maybe you should give it some thought.
Bottom line: train as you mean to fight, no matter what equipment you carry. The time to find out that less is more isn’t when your life is on the line.
I have never lent a g un to anyone before (other than letting someone shoot one at the range), nor do I intend to. But then I’ve never been to Maryland before either and I have no intention of ever doing that either. Between the two, I’m more likely to lend someone a g un than to go to Maryland.
Never loaned out. But gave an inheritance of a Government Colt Mustang 380 to my LEO nephew. Gave my sister in law GP100 357 to dispatch cayotes and Gray Fox that get too close to their little dogs and outside cats. Only handgun she had was a Bersa 22lr I bought a replacement for GP100 357. With 38P+ , very manageable recoil.
If owning a gun makes suicide easier, have a waiting period for the first gun. After that there’s no point. The person already owns a gun so there’s no logic for a waiting period. “Oh, well they could have sold their first gun or all their guns so there should always be a waiting period.” No, that argument doesn’t hold water any more than that a person won’t commit suicide if they don’t have a gun. The idea that a person who threatens suicide should have guns taken away doesn’t hold water either, either the person is trying to get attention through a suicide threat or they’re suicidal, not both. If you want to die you DON’T tell other people so they can stop you.
I want nothing more than for people who think they need to commit suicide to find fulfillment in life again. It’s a terrible thing that makes me feel sad for them to think of the pain that could be so great to consider that. But there’s no logic to attaching gun control to it.
The micro1911 .380s mentioned above were all preceded by the Star DK (Starfire) and are simply copies thereof. It didn’t meet the import restrictions imposed by the Gun Control Act of 1968 so it has been unavailable for the last 50 years. Anyone lucky enough to find one of these gems should grab it!
bleh, I’ll keep my Shockwave!
I remember when the DAGR was just starting to supplant the PLUGR as the standard issue handheld GPS for the Army, and the old-timers were claiming the device would never replace a map and compass. These same “old-timers” had been shooting bad guys with Aimpoints and ACOGs for over a decade, mind you. And they somehow forgot the bitching I’m sure they heard back then from THEIR old-timers about how “these fancy new optics will never replace irons.”
what a turd.
I bet Shannon Watts is not her full name. I would almost guarantee her middle name is Theresa. That would make her ShannonTWatts. Not such a catchy headline for the news now.
Freedom Munitions sells crap ammo. First and only squib with their stuff.
Installed mine today. Very disappointed. 4.11lb’s according to my LYMAN TRIGGER GAUGE is heaver than I expected.
I looked up Remington’s history on Wikipedia. Remington was bought by Dupont, the chemical company, during the Great Depression and operated by them for decades. Dupont sold the company to a private investment firm in 1993. No mention of Remington’s financial state then. Cerberus bought Remington in 2007. By then, it was over $250 million in debt. In other words, it was already a basket case when Cerberus took over. The Wikipedia article did not mention whether Cerberus invested much in Remington, in an attempt to turn the company around, beyond the initial purchase price. It looks like they simply handed Remington to the creditors in return for being allowed to walk away.
Three questions:
(1) Is Remington salvageable?
(2) Does the current management know how to run a gun company?
(3) Will the new owners give management enough time and money to turn it around? (If not, why did they put up another $145 million instead of going Chapter 7? At least, they must believe it’s worth sprucing up the company for future sale.)
Yay DD is (sorta) back! I firmly believe GOD was with Steve Scalise…and it’s OK if you shoot commie chicks in the cooter. Oh and I’m cool with the NRA being badazz. If they morph into GOA mebbe I’ll quit hearing all the whining about the big dog!
I wonder if he “Borrowed” a tool from Wal-Mart’s tool aisle? If so, I bet he thought “Wow, they really do have everything I need!”.
The keyboard warriors on this site are amazing. Real easy to talk shit, anonymously, and without posting your own gear. It’s always the ones who have nothing that tear apart everything.