I reckon A.U.A.’s being a bit coy with his everydaycarry.com pocket dump. What are the odds that the Spanish police officer doesn’t carry a wallet, keys, badge and phone. Still, props to the cop for carrying a baby GLOCK. Despite the arrival of the diminutive single-stack 9mm GLOCK 43, the double-stack 9mm GLOCK 26 is still a superior choice for concealed carry — at least in terms of grip and capacity. Concealability, not so much. Maybe A.U.A. doesn’t care because . . .
cnon-LEO] civilian handgun ownership is an anathema in Spain.
If A.U.A.’s GLOCK 26 “prints” (i.e., it’s visible through his concealment garment), would that be a problem? The general public probably doesn’t expect anyone to be carrying a pistol. (Except the bad guys, maybe?) When you don’t look, you don’t see.
Here in the U.S., the same lack of firearms awareness applies. When I open carried in Rhode Island, no one gave my gun a second look. Mostly not even a first look. If someone saw my gun they simply assumed I was a cop. I wonder if the same would be true in New York City. #notmymonkeysnotmyzoo
I also wonder if the baby GLOCK enjoys the same popularity now that the 42 and 43 are around. Which one of this ballistic threesome did you or would you choose?
I haven’t tried the single stack Glock. But I have to believe that it would feel better to my hand than the double stack versions. Couldn’t feel any clunkier, at least.
“…The US limits our allergy medicine, fertilizer, and what days we can buy alcohol. We have to take our shoes off because one terrorist one time made a shoe bomb”
And NONE of those should be acceptable in a free country. Using the restrictions of one set of freedoms as an excuse to try and justify limiting some other freedom makes you a horrible, evil, and vile person.
Dumb. When I fight against gun control, I don’t type in “gun rights” in the search engine. I type in “gun control.” This is the MSM sleigh of hand where they attempt to play the lemming card by saying “Look! This is what everyone else is doing! You should do that too!”
My kids are grown, so it is not an issue. When he was in HS, my son was very into guns, so back then he might skip school, but not to attend a protest. At 27, however, he was extremely upset by the Florida slaughter, and despite the fact that he started to collect the parts to build an AR 10 (pre-world trotting with gf), and that I have an AR 15 that he has shot, he aggressively argued the “No one needs an AR 15.” He became so irrational he had to walk away from our discussion of the subject in order to gather himself, and ultimately my (anti-gun) wife made us stop “arguing.” Yes, it was all “feelz,” and his “solution” (which I pointed out was entirely impractical and unconstitutional) was to ban all AR 15s so it couldn’t happen again. I guess we are going to have to revisit the subject when my wife can’t overhear.
The Spyderco ‘Harpy’ has been my faithful EDC defensive blade for about 25 years now.
Awesome blade…
(Back in my ‘Tasteless’ days, I’d rate it as 4 Choads up, *Way* up. 😉 )
Here in the Hunters Paradise of Texas, hunting is strictly a rich man’s sport. Your viable choices are:
A. You own some huntable land.
B. You have connections with someone who owns huntable land (friend, relative, a trusting neighbor).
C. You have enough disposable income to pay someone for the use of their land, ie. a lease.
Our so-called public land is too little and often too remote for a casual hunter to simply make a spontaneous decision to just jump in the truck and go hunting one nice morning. This puts us at a HUGE disadvantage to attracting new hunters who may be reluctant to put a great deal of time and effort into a new hobby they haven’t already committed themselves to.
But with the vast majority of land in Texas being privately owned, there are few alternatives or solutions. It would be nice to see our state offer incentives to landowners to refrain from clear-cutting and developing their land to keep it as a hunting preserve and allow it to be used by the public… But the tax dollars aren’t there for such an idea and few landowners would be willing to expose themselves to the possible (probable) liability concerns.
I see no easy solution. Hunting may continue to flourish in other states but Texas in the long term is doomed to be a Wealthy Hunters Only state if it isn’t already.
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