I’m toying with the idea of having “Never Again” tattooed on the inside of my right arm. (The Nazis tattooed my aunt’s arm in the same place.) There’s only one question keeping me from getting inked: why advertise? The same question occurs to me re: the gun tat above. I suppose the warning could help if a bad guy’s sneaking up behind you. In that case, the young lady above better hope deterrence is more important than operational security. I’m no tattoo connoisseur – yet – but that looks like a pretty good job: a faithfully rendered logo and elegantly inked lettering in reasonable proportion to each other. Kudos to sbratton, who deserves more than one fan, methinks. What’s your take?
Wow. S&W tattoo. That’s pretty crazy. I’m not into tattoos, but to each his own. If I had to get one. I would choose very carefully, as it is a lasting piece of you that isn’t easily taken back.
I once knew of a guy that lost his ear in an accident. So he got a tattoo of a giant bass fish on the side of his face. His ear hole was fishes mouth. Later he had trouble finding employment.
Since I now have an artificial heart valve, a pacemaker, a defibrillator, false teeth, eyeglasses, hearing aids, and a colostomy, I have been considering getting a tattoo reading “batteries not included – some assembly required”.
Or the ever classic: “I’m not a complete nut, parts of me are still missing.”
Personally, I’m not a fan of things that can get me shot due to being mistaken for a gang member, have the potential to give me hepatitis, or things that can cause me problems at work.
Some tattoo inks have a problem with large, rapidly changing magnetic fields, as in MRI machines or where my day job sometimes takes me.
So for me, tattoos are a three-fer no-thank-you.
But I have no problems with those who go for them.
No one’s ever gotten hepatitis from a reputable tattoo parlor. If a tattoo artist works out of the trunk of his car, however, avoid him like the plague he is.
That is one darn good ink job. Not my cup of tea for a tat, as I won’t even wear clothes with a brand logo (‘cuz no one is paying me to advertise for them), but to each their own.
Yeah, I wouldn’t have done it, but whoever did it did a great job. The script is particularly well-executed.
Im a big FN fan.
I have the FNS 9&40, FNX-45, I sold the X-9, but still get to shoot it.
They all shoot better than me. &
with exception to the 45…
They all fit in the Beretta PX4 OEM and Fobus holsters.
I’m not sure what this comparo proved or intended to prove, but I enjoyed it and dayum if I didn’t learn something along the way. StB410, good job!
Would I carry a pocket .380? Sure, why not? I carry a .38 SPL snubby six months a year, and just like Sally and Sue, there ain’t a lot of difference between the two.
Looks like an airbrush tattoo. I had a Jim Beam one at the Kid Rock concert last year. Maybe Smith/Wesson are doing this at the SHOT show or some other gun show? Not being a permanent mark makes it fun for a day or two. Takes a little scrubbing to get them to go away.
When tattoos move onto the neck and head, the message people get from them quite often stops being the one intended. Not that it necessarily makes someone a bad person, but most of the people I meet with stuff in similar locations don’t have much chance at a well paid profession of any kind. I just don’t get it. But then, I guess I don’t have to.
At least the quality of the artwork looks okay.
I think she lost a bet.
Seriously, significant others names, sports teams, and product logos are all tattoo no no’s. Smith& Wesson’s logo is gonna look like the circle of Sam when she turns seventy.
I think you’re average thug isn’t going to grasp the historical relevance of “never again.” While he’s standing there frowning over it, you can box one of his ears or empty your magazine, whichever the situation calls for. I like it. It’s an intensely meaningful message and that puts you ahead of roughly 98 percent of the tat wearing populace.
I understand the never again idea, and why not? I have 3 tat’s regarding my Native American Heritage and a large one celebrating passing my Nursing boards. I’m done with tattooing my body and I’m not big on using my body to advertise a business, but a S&W, Ruger, Colt or FNH tattoo could be nicely done as above.
“NEVER AGAIN” sounds like it’d make a pretty awesome tattoo… maybe in a nice cursive script, or in Hebrew?
There is so much plastic I can smell the benzene.
The only thing I really like about the G42 is that there are no finger grooves. I hate those things on the Glock. I wish they would go back to the old Gen 1 and Gen 2 style without them.
The redcoats are coming! To arms!
I Don’t wear gun issue, manufacturer, NRA, etc, clothing, let alone a tattoo.
I think they’re too much of a “Shoot me first!” invitation.
I’ve never had a tattoo, not because I’ve ever had anything against it but because I never had the money to burn and if I did it went to something else. Also, I is way too ugly already. I like that S&W tattoo; just put it somewhere more inconspicuous.
If I ever get a tattoo it’ll be of my clan crest and even then it would still be somewhere I could easily cover it.
Does that make it open carry…?
I dated some pretty interesting women in my youth… One in particular did prison time after she served her time, and Jumped thru the hoops the state required from her… she got a tattoo on her arm that said “Case Closed”. A beautiful girl, Smoking hot gorgeous and a weeny wrecker in bed… But If i wanted to be even remotely successful, I couldn’t hook up with a convicted felon
Ixna on the attoosta.
Technical question. Can the IP lawyers for S&W go to court to force her to rip that off of her neck?
Interesting.
I don’t have a tat, but I do have one of Berettas snazzy Tshirts.
Goodness knows I’ve seen worse tattoos then that……plus, if I saw that on the back of my dates neck I’d have to do an internal leap of joy.
The hell do you mean, nobody heard of the Bizon? I’ve heard of it since the late 1990s… Also, I certify Phil is correct, it’s the Vityaz. The Bizon, while box mags were made for it, is typically not as rail covered as it is, and is usually fed with 9x18mm Mak 64-round helical magazines, though if I recall correctly, 7.62 Tok and 9×19 versions exist.
I’ll have the lasagna (Dr. Rumack)
Whichever one I thought I could resell for more money.
They’re both American made… I haven’t seen the G42 proving to be totally reliable — every review out there shows it failing to cycle with certain types of loads, whether that’s due to power level, bullet shape, or bullet weight.
I’d take the R51. Actually, I really do want to put some rounds through one to see how I feel about the thing.
Fantastic review, I like the fns but I already own an m&p that I love, hard to justify spending the extra cash.
I do think its a little unfair comparing only the barrel to the size of a glock 19 and then touting the capacity advantage, apples to apples would be the gloc 17 which is the same size. If fn made a glock 19 sized model I’d probably be first in line for it
9mm actually in stock?? Where…not in MI!
Diamond Street is in the heart of the North Philadelphia ghetto. It’s a very tough neighborhood.
“Last week, Philly cops arrested Teenager Courtland Gilliam and his pal…
I’ve heard of people giving their kids unusual names, but naming your kid “Teenager?”
Yes, I know it’s just a typo, and yes, I can and will fix it myself, but it made me laugh, so I wanted to share.
On topic: You know why these raging douchebags knew they could pull this shit with impunity? I bet you know what my answer to that question is going to be.
Springfield XD subcompact?
Wich? Ist das Deutsch?
I think the Remmington as frankly, I’ve little use for .380; or for $200 I could get a bazillion rounds of Коммунистический блок ammo…
Yeah, I know – ask a desciple of 7.62 a question, get a 7.62 answer…
I’ve got a NORINCO 1911 copy that I bought back in the 1980’s for cheap. It’s failed a few times, a remarkably few times, mainly by failing to return completely to battery. I think that either I’m limp-wristing it, or the recoil spring needs to be replaced. It’s full size, but I surprised by it’s reliability.
I have a tattoo. I drew the design myself. It is a pinup style girl in a black bustier, garter belt, and thigh highs. She is holding a still smoking Tommy gun and wearing a fedora. I have always loved to draw and I have always loved guns. I drew a number of tattoos for friends when I was in the maritime academy, and decided to do one for myself. It is on my right shoulder blade and was professionally inked by a friend of a friend who had their own parlor. I am contemplating getting a second one on the other shoulder blade showing a pinup girl holding 2 colt SAAs wearing cowboy boots and hat since i live in TX. I like mine since I drew it, and it is uniquely mine. I would not get a logo or get ink that can’t be covered by a shirt or shorts. No visible ink for me. That being said the one in the pic is professionally done, but not my cup of tea.
Almost got a tat while in the Navy. A ship mate had one with a couple of red cherries with leaves. It said “Here’s mine, where’s yours”
These freaking retards need to be REALLY shot.
It is discrimination, legal discrimination as Ralph said. BTW Otter was supposed to flanked by representatives Perch & Bluegill but alas they were nowhere to be seen.
I have two tattoos, both designed by myself. One refers to my heritage and the other refers to my nature. Both in spots covered by my standard business attire.
In regards to gun tattoos, I’m not horribly opposed as this is my most passionate hobby and has been since I was a kid. However, I would never get a company logo due to the possibility of changes over time. Mergers and acquisitions can make legendary quality vanish overnight, and poor political stances can land companies on the pro 2A black list. Having these brands permanently placed on your body may be something you truly regret down the road. I’m really against getting a tattoo of anything “subject to change” in general.
I am an actual rocket scientist and yes, you’re absolutely correct.
Would that more people would agree with the entirety of your final paragraph.
R51 is broken to me. Tough to put together with no way to know if you screwed it up until you pull the trigger, no thank you. Its also freaking huge. Glock wins by default, and I don’t even like Glocks. I’d prefer just to keep my CM9.
How long before we see her on Bad Ink wanting it removed or covered up?
neiowa, the question of ethnicity in Ukraine is far more complicated than you present here. Yes, there are a lot of ethnic Russians in Ukraine, but this is a historical thing that has little to do with Stalin’s policies (though he definitely did decimate the population – of all ethnicities – in Holodomor).
First of all, Russians and Ukrainians (and Belarusians) all descend from the same Eastern Slav stock, and used to be the same nation, Kievan Rus. Their paths parted when the country fragmented and shattered during the invasion of Mongol hordes; Western Ukraine and Western Belarus ended up conquered by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (and, having a lot of population, gradually started to dominate its politics), which then merged with Poland. Eastern Ukraine was overrun by steppe nomads, and then, when the Mongol empire broke down, by some of its remnants which established their own state in Crimea. Lands to northeast were gradually conquered by princes of Moscow while still under Mongol yoke, and their rule was extended and solidified even further after they managed to break off.
Borders on paper do not translate to clear divisions on the ground, though. If you’d ask a typical 19th century peasant in rural souther Russia, Ukraine or Belarus of his national origin, the most popular answer was “tuteyshiy” – literally, “here-abouts-ian”. Sometimes they’d define themselves in terms of their religion (under Polish rule, Catholicism became a strong contender in Western Ukraine and Belarus, though Eastern Orthodox were still dominant), but very few would have a solid understanding of their national identity. Languages, similarly, weren’t really distinct, but rather formed an even gradient from Russian to Ukrainian and Belarusian, with numerous intermediate forms (surzhik) – to the point where it was sometimes hard to tell whether a given village speaks an extreme dialect of Russian, or an extreme dialect of Ukrainian.
People also flowed back and forth, especially to Ukraine. As it was not under control of the Muscovite tsars, it never developed the peculiar extreme slavery-like implementation of serfdom that Russia had, and so Russian peasants who ran away from their lords often headed there and joined the ranks of the cossacks as free people. As they used to say, “there is no return [of serfs] from Don”.
This all makes the current ethnic and national identity situation on Ukraine complicated, to say the least. Some people identify as Russians, others as Ukrainians. Some people who identify as Ukrainians mostly speak Ukrainian, others mostly speak Russian. Some of those who mostly speak Russian still consider Ukrainian their “mother tongue”, some don’t.
However, one thing that should be understood about their revolution is that it involved both Russians and Ukrainians, from both East and West. It’s not about ethnic identity and not about language. It’s about living as serfs or as free people. In fact, many people say that the revolution, in fact, forged a new united Ukrainian nation – a civil one, centered around the notion of citizenship of an independent and sovereign nation-state.
int19h you have provided some interesting and good insight into the goings on there.
Thanks for posting and I’m glad I reread the comments here.
I checked the source article in the IdahoStateJournal, whose motto is empowering the community. Apparently use of proper capitalization and spaces is not part of their empowerment activity. But I digress.
I moved on to the cited article, and got no further than the entire headline: Guns may kill nuke research: NRC license a potential college concealed-carry bill victim at ISU.
Is it just me, or does that make no sense?
I didn’t waste my time on the article itself after that display. Is that some sort of high school paper or something?
I’m getting really sick of hearing about both of them.
Later, local residences can sign up for grief counseling to learn how to deal with the emotional aspects of hearing about finding the bombs!
Hell, Matt, I wanted to make you feel better. Sometimes this gets convoluted, I am not a pro here. I only fought in one war, excuse me, I only fought in one era. What do I know? Get a beer.
Those are definitely BDU-33s in the first article picture… Which would make them quite modern. Probably dropped by an F-15E out of Lakenhell. I always wondered where they dropped ’em.
Glock… I’ll convert it to a 42L.
You better check this info again. Letters have gone out, and arrests are about to happen. Blood will be spilled.
Yeah the NRA is scared of that poofter. Larry Pratt of the GOA made mince meat of the cretin. Good luck limey scaring the NRA. Peirs Morgoon said previously that if he had a gun he would use it against thugs breaking in his home. Move home if you like gun control you fat head hypocrite. Go ahead and delete my ad hominem attack against this verminous worm.
What a Crock!
People like Harmon never learn.
Facts beat the BS every day.
Not in one state since enacting concealed carry has there been blood in the streets or the Wild West.
Im willing to bet that the statistics wont change one iota in Chicage once permits start to flow.
The gangs will still be killing each other and law abiding will continue to ignore the ghettoes as they do now.
The truth has no effect on block heads.
Its the same BS time after time.
Maybe he will be so scared to walk the streets of Illinois.
He wil join Piers Morgan in exile someplace else.
Sorry Mr. wiengarten but Mississippi is not a licensed open carry state , you do not need a license to open carry , you do need a license to ccw . I live here I know , the law . Be prepared and ready. Keep your powder dry.
So we are guilty before proven innocent? Hmm, thats interesting…I’ve always thought it was the other way around.
Also: Good morning TTAG