If you haven’t discovered everyday-carry.com yet, you may want to give it a wide berth. It’s one of the most voracious timesucks you’re likely to come across. Looking into other people’s pockets, as it were, checking out the gear they take with them on their appointed daily rounds is almost irresistible. Or maybe that’s just me. Any-who, as I cycled through page after page of submissions, I was struck by how few of the photos included a firearm. What’s up with that? Sure, there’s a smattering of entries from those who live in other, less RKBA-friendly locales around the globe, but still. Somehow I expected to see more G26s, 642 Airweights and Ruger LCPs. Is that too optimistic of me? What heater do you haul?
Glock 17 Gen 3
Star Model B Super.
Unusual choice. Why that one?
Yes, intriguing choice, I have seen an occasional Star at one of our local gun shops, have picked up the impression from somewhere that they are pretty good guns.
I think New Jersey had more to do with violating your rights than the NRA. And the other two organizations should not be congratulated for failing. If you beat your head against the wall and scream and yell and nothing happens…do I congratulate you on your bruises?
The NRA is as much as an organization to educate and support as it is to represent its members. You can only lead a horse to water. New Jersey residents must drink from the trough of freedom first.
Beautifully put Cyrano.
I have been carrying an XDs 45, but a recent medical problem has forced me to swap down to a LC380.
The bottom of the everyday carry website specifically states “SMALL, POCKET ITEMS”, which few handguns would qualify for.Hence the omissions.
My EDC M9 Beretta definitely isn’t in that category,so even my contribution would be sans firearm.
Colt King Cobra
Ooh, that’s a brute. My dad’s got a rare Stainless 5″ barrel Colt Anaconda .45. Great gun.
Around the house taurus 357 snubbie
Road Smith m39
Sadly… Nothing… YET.
Sig P250 SC 9mm 25 total rounds
Knife
Ruger SR9 or Bersa BP9CC depending on clothes and weather
On a side note, i love that when I wikipedia the WASR-10 you see this quote in the description: “Factory-original rifles only support single-stack, low-capacity magazines (10 rounds)” From watching the news i was under the impression that anything above 7 rounds was a super-high capacity assault magazine?
It varies…
Winter (or when wearing looser clothes): Springfield XD45
Summer (or when dressed up): Kahr MK9
Wilderness: Glock 20SF
For the last couple of years, my EDC piece has been a Kahr CW9 loaded with Speer 124-grain +P Gold Dot hollow points and carried in a DeSantis Super Fly pocket holster without the optional “break-up-the-outline” flap that attaches to it. For gym shorts or light clothing like that, I also still have my little Kel-Tec .380 (loaded with Federal Hydra-Shok 90-grain hollow points), and I have a DeSantis Super Fly for that, as well.
Ruger SR9c.
Sig P290RS
Planning to add a Sig P224 soon.
A pocket knife, and a nasty scowl.
‘There’s no plan in place nor has there been any execution of a plan where we would, for example, go door-to-door and be actively involved in the confiscation of weapons,’ says Schriro.
I put this right up there in the “truthfulness” category with “If you like your doctor and your health care plan, you can keep them. Period.”
How can you tell a statist is lying? Their lips are moving.
What powder was used with the handloads? Powder burn rate could make a big difference.
Glock 26 in winter
Beretta Nano in summer
At work (PD)a glock 22 with a glock 26 on the ankle and a gerber gator knife I got from the military in my pocket.
Everywhere else it’s the 26 in a comp tac holster
Why would you carry 2 different calibers? One would think it makes sense that if you have to go for your BUG that you would utilize something that is compatible with your primary’s mags and ammo.
You’re so tacticool.
Usually my Glock 30s, but I switch to the Ruger LCR .357 when it gets hot outside.
Still working on that. (Ammo not allowed in the house, so that will inhibit things even when I do have a gun. :P)
I like Colion Noir’s iCarry series. It’s like that EDC blog, but WITH guns. 😀
Cz p07 w federal HST if I’m going somewhere like the mall or movies etc. bersa thunder 380cc everywhere else.
M&P9 compact
Smith & Wesson M&P Shield .40
Fantastic gun in a great caliber!
Kimber Super Carry Pro
S&W SD40VE
Well death is batting 1.000. She’s going to be 81…tick tock tick tock. Soon my friends, soon.
DIdn’t like the Excalibur one at all.
This actually isn’t bad.
Just moved from a SIG P290 to a boring Glock 26 (loved the P290, just wanted more bullitz) w/ fiber optic sights. For lighter/closer fitting cover garments, Kel-Tec P3AT. Sometimes a S&W 640-1 in .357 mag — the least practical but my favorite. One reload always in the support side pocket.
Kimber Ultra Carry II, seven rounds of soul-stealing .45 ACP!
Update on Ms.Schriro the commissiioner who asserted that there would be no door to door confiscation. I noticed that the March 17 posted cases from the Ninth Circuit included two death penalty claims wherein “Dora Schriro” was the defendant. She was formerly head of the prison system in Arizona where the case originated. She has a history of “controversy” and possible incompetence if not outright deception. Here is an excerpt from an article detailing some of her past justice system problems:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2009/09/city_jails_get.php
Schriro has courted controversy in her prior jobs. Back in 2004, a federal judge in Missouri refused to admit sworn testimony from her, saying she and other correction officials can’t be trusted to tell the truth because of previous misleading statements under oath in a lawsuit filed by an inmate, according to a report in the Riverfront Times of St. Louis.
The judge, Carol Jackson, said the defendants, including Schriro, had “demonstrated unreliability.” “It is beyond dispute that defendants’ affidavits contained false statements,” she wrote.
Not sure this person is completely trustworthy when she says what law enforcement will or won’t do.
“There have not been any law enforcement efforts by the State Police involving a door-to-door style campaign to confiscate guns, despite rumors to the contrary.”
Note she says “have not been”… not “nor will there be” any door to door confiscations. Similar to her earlier declarations that the illegally obtained letter to prohibited weapon owners “has not been mailed. Not a one.” What she forgot to say was, “Yes. That is an accurate draft of the letter we will be sending shortly.”
“This law will be enforced by state law enforcement in the same manner and using the same discretion as would apply to every other criminal law.”
Wouldn’t that mean that if law enforcement knows (due to your sending in your registration information late), or has reasonable cause to believe that you have an illegal item (similar to other illegal substances) that they could get a search warrant(s) to allow entry into any or all such addresses? I think it would have been really easy for her to make a clear statement that there would not be at any time in the future such confiscations, if she had wanted to say that. Obviously she made no attempt to rule out such actions, and given her past history of lying, even under oath, I’m guessing door to door confiscations are under consideration
We tried all this shit already. It didn’t do a very good job at stopping anything.
I think we should repeal the import laws regarding the 1968GCA. Funny thing is Kennedy was against all that shit and then he dies and it passes.
at work{ indoor gun range] ATI Fatboy 3.2 inch 13 RND .45 1911/ with 2 spare mags. the rest of the time; Astra A-60 ,13 RND .380
favorite: sig p239 in iwb crossbreed with untucked tee shirt.. slightly in front of my right side… invisible
Taurus TCP 380. So small… it conceals itself.
Glock 29 10mm in a Galco M7X Matrix holster, Gerber Torch II in right pocket, Benchmade Mel Pardue in left pocket, two spare mags in Glock brand mag pouches on left hip.
Depends on the day and what i am wearing. At work in my suit I carry a PK380, when I am not working its a S&W SD40 or a Taurus Pt92
Usually a Sig P238 IWB as I only wear jeans and a t-shirt here 99% of the time.
When I know the area Im going into can be a problem.
A Officers size 45 also IWB.
So let me get this straight — the NRA should spend it’s revenue from Texas or Arizona in order to fix New Jersey, while New Jersey gun owners continue to elect one gungrabber after another and shouldn’t contribute one thin dime to the NRA.
Is that about it?
Hey, New Jersey — stand up for yourselves and you just might find the rest of the country behind you. Vote for decent candidates for once. Show some backbone and some brains. Until then, NJ gun owners are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
So, Javier wants to spend $35 to let the NRA take over the heavy lifting in NJ?
Nice.
Javier, I don’t know you from Adam, but I’ll offer this tidbit of advice, with a money back guarantee:
What have you done for the 2A cause of late?
Do you just sit on your keyboard justifying your non-participation in the nation’s largest gun rights organization or do you go to your state’s capital / capitol and lobby your legislators?
Do your legislators know you by sight and name? If not, I’d say you need to get busy post-haste young man.
How many hours a week do you spend promoting the pro-gun rights point of view? Do you participate in meetings and events to educate and communicate people about the proven benefits of firearm ownership? Do you spend money on pro-gun activities?
Or do you just read a firearm blog now and then and post here and there and think you’ve done your part?
I’m hoping you’re only half as active as some of us because the last thing we need are more gun owners sitting around on their keyboard bitching about the NRA. With support like that, you will lose your guns.
John
M&P Shield 9 Day
XD40 Night/home
Hornady Crit. Def. both
In an CT Infidel.
I love being one too.
XDs 9mm
My EDC is a Ruger LC9.
I like the small size, the fact that it has safeties, and the knowlege that with a 150-lb and 7″ trigger pull, it will never accidently go off (that last part was a joke, but my G*d… what a long hard trigger pull it has)
I also have a 1942 Walther P38 in the safe, but I don’t want to use it because the cops would just LOVE to add it to their personal collection.
Ruger LC9, or Bersa Thunder .380, with a CRKT M16EZ knife, Streamlight StylusPro light. And of course wallet, keys, lighter.
One thousand people a day die from medical mistakes. Murthy should be focused on that instead of trying to destroy the Second Amendment.
Ruger SR9C here. Aliengear IWB holster.
Hornady Critical Defense rounds
When I’m able to carry its nearly always a Ruger LCR 38 spl and a Speed Strip, I always have a CRKT Folder, Small light, Bic, Key w/mini tools, hard ink pen, and a stashed cuff key.
Heavily customized Glock 19 (gen 3)
Glock 19 w gold dots and heinie sights, one to two spare mags, Raven holster, (TLR-1 as required), Bawidamann Skuld (or Kingdom Armory Grailing or Kershaw Leek, depends on clothing), Surefire E1L, Leatherman piranha pocket tool.
Situation dependent an M4 mag in a raven carrier.
A walking advertisement for TERM LIMITS. Or EUTHANASIA.
To be honest, I would like to say that I carry a full-size gun all the time. I don’t. Usually a 442 in a pocket holster. With one speed loader. Sometimes just my Keltec P3AT, and a spare magazine. Other guns that I sometimes carry, a Colt Officers model. Or my lightweight full-size Springfield 1911. But those are getting carried less and less.
Mossberg 590. My holster is ewwwwge!
Just kidding. Ruger LCP with one spare mag carried loose in a pocket.
Bersa Thunder .380 and a Ganzo G704.
Very rarely – Beretta 96 .40S&W
Just to have a gun – Beretta 21a .22lr
Sometimes – AMT Backup .45ACP
Open – S&W 625 or Ruger Blackhawk
Just because – CZ-82
90% of the time – S&W 649
Springfield XDS 3.8 .45
Kahr CM9.
Kimber Solo on me and a XDs .45 in the glove box.
Comment SELF-Moderated.
Oh, and keep it up, Feinkenstein. Mid terms are coming and your anti-american zealotry is just the thing we need to send you hoplophobe Dems packing. You tried this crap last year and failed – for a reason. We happen to like our Freedoms, despite the fact that you hate us Proles having them. So keep yapping until you DIE, which is hopefully very soon. You outlived whatever usefulness you may have ever once had. Time to go back to Hell from which you were spawned.
EDC 1911
When I get bored either taurus .44spc, ocassionly a Millenium pro in 9mm
But the 1911 is my GOTO EDC
Ruger SP101 2.25 inch barrel, Crimson Trace laser grips, .357 Critical Defense rounds, speed loader, Simpley Rugged silver dollar holster, knife and flashlight.
The WASR-10 isn’t the problem.
The Mexican criminals who obtain them are the problem. The people who smuggle them across the border are the problem. The porous southern border is the problem.
As usual, blame the rifle.
Of course, if WASR-10’s weren’t available in the U.S., Mexican criminals would just give up.
S&W M&P40 in a Foxx IWB Holster
This bitch had the nuts to go on TV saying “evil gun owners had deployed a spy drone to invade her privacy”, I bet those 2 or 3 neighborhood kids had a stroke when they saw that old ass nasty women with their RC drone!!! The kids probably came running home crying! Daddy,daddy my eyes are on fire!! Feels like pepper spray, now you have 2 or 3 scarred children for life!! Like gun owners give 2 shits on what this Nazis up to, we already know, TAKE AWAY ALL YOUR FREEDOMS PERIORD!!
Well, as a CA resident I sent her an email indicating what an embarassment she is, and the fact the FBI’s analysis confirmed there was no benefit from the last AWB.
Also pointed out gun control is a Civil Rights/Liberties issue and should be included in that category vice being separated out. Particularly given the racist history to gun control in the US. Won’t be read by anyone other than a flunky, maybe not even that, but …
Arcus 94 or 94c
“assault features”
*where’s that EXTREME FACEPALM meme…..
i never leave the house without:
glock 17 w/x300 ultra in a raven, strong side
spare mag, in raven, weak side
surefire g2x, weak side front pocket
benchmade contego, front side, strong pocket
leatherman juice in weak back pocket
benchmade mini grip, backside strong pocket.
plus keys, iphone, gshok, etc
Smith & Wesson M&P Shield for EDC; other guns depending on the situation.
Alternate between Taurus PT-111 (9mm) and PT-145 (.45 ACP). The wife carries an LC9, at least until we get open carry and she can carry her 686.
I think that the AK sales weren’t up to par for DiFi. Nothing works best for boosting sales than talk about banning something. Great! Now more price hikes. She must really own CenturyArms stock. 🙂
What am I not getting here?
Springfield XDS .45 in a N82 Tactical holster or a Taurus TCP in a Desantis Nemesis occasionally depending on what I’m wearing.
I don’t always agree with my wife, but I don’t divorce her.
The politicians I vote for don’t perfectly represent my views, but they are as close as I can get and much better than the alternatives.
I get that you (and many others) are not happy with the NRA because of X, Y, or Z. I personally think their official line on lead hunting ammo and damage to certain birds (mostly the condors, but bald eagles also show reduced reproduction rates).
But I have am a lifetime member of the NRA. Why? Because they are the ones making the biggest impact right now. Can they be everything to every one? No. But if they have done even one thing per year that affects you, then they deserve your support. For example, every potential CCW carrier in CA should donate/join, at least for a year, thanks to Peruta. EVERYONE, can donate a little for their defense against onerous proposed laws in the past 1 or 2 at the federal level.
At least give money to SOMEONE that supports our rights. As an alternative, help fund the Second Amendment Foundation. They do much less on the legislative side, but the SAF is behind many of the recent court victories in the US.
Sorry about this gun clubs dilemma. It’s a shame when a city, county, township, or a state tries to take someone’s rights away. I live in the City of Chicago, one of the most notorious cities for politics as well as the states. For the longest time Chicago didn’t want Chicago gun owners to have guns or certain weapons as well as the state of Illinois. The NRA stepped in after a long battle with the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago to come forward and show them that they were violating the people of Chicago and the state of Illinois rights to keep and bear arms. This is the main issue here. We have a right to go where we want to go, be free in our choices as what organization we choose to be in, whatever our freedom to pursue our happiness takes us. Why would there be any resistance from political organization to keep you from pursuing something that makes you happy, as long as your not breaking any laws. I don’t see any one being politically hurt here? I don’t see why changes can’t be made to see that this particulate club has help from a helping organization to better equip and to set in place training courses as to educate the members of this club. What is really being introduced here is the power of a council showing that their palms haven’t been greased properly. An opportunity to make some cash here but how unless they throw some stones and see where they fall and who will come up with some cash or gratuities for them. Politics as usual. Seen enough of it, read enough of it, lived in a state and city that has been plagued with enough of it. The only ones that truly suffer is the ones that just want to enjoy their inalienable rights as set forth by Patriot forefathers…………… Thank You and God Bless all of America no matter where you live………..
Nineteen pages before you see a gun–a Wilson Combat 1911. Some nice knives though. And some ugly ones too.
S&W 642 Airweight, or CZ82 depending on the situation.
S&W 442 Pro (blackened stainless barrel vs. the carbon on the regular 442).
Wow, just wow. I too support Calguns, SAF, and the CRPA because f the good work they do and have done (as the first poster to whom I can’t reply), but I call BS in your rationale.
I am a lifelong liberal, and I support the NRA. Are they perfect? No. Are you or I perfect? Same answer.
Beretta nano. Spyderco delica 4.
SR9c and Taurus TCP for BUG
Depending on context:
CM9
or
G23
Plus
NAA .22 mag
or
642
Plasma rifle, 40 watt range
So by her definition the M1 Garand should be imported asap from Korea, Right?
Kimber Custom II loaded with Hornady +P 230 grain XTP in an iwb ttgunleather holster and an extra magazine.
The Hornady rounds double as ash trays.
The 1911 is to be used to fight my way back to my truck, which may or may not have a Garand in it.
Either a STI Spartan 1911 or a S&W 1905 4th Change revolver depending on my mood.
There’s really no reason for the Surgeon General position to exist at all. I don’t know why we put up with this silly kabuki political theatre in administration after administration. We could save a bunch of money and time by simply eliminating the position entirely.
I don’t need some grifter with his snout and two front feet in the public sector feed bunk to tell me to use a condom, masturbate, not smoke, not eat eggs,eat eggs, drink, not drink, maybe drink some red wine, don’t eat red meat, eat fish, go vegan or graze in the First Lady’s idiotic backyard garden, exercise or any of the other thing that these professional whinges peddle as “health” nostrums.
Here’s the thing that fans of big government never seem to understand. Some of us out here are grown-ass adults and need no supervision. I don’t need cops, nags, bureaucrats, and pretty much the rest of government. I’ll shovel or plow my own roads, if necessary, repair them too (I’ve filled a dozen potholes on my road on my dime in the last three years) and in the name of all that is Holy and Does Not Suck, I need nothing less than some of some Ivy League pinhead lecturing me about how I should take care of my health.
Get rid of the entire office and save the public a bunch of time and money.
When I do finally receive my permit, though, I plan on carrying one of my Bersa Thunder .380s.
A little large for a .380? Yeah, they kinda are. But unlike my Taurus TCP, they have decent sights, and function properly 100% of the time. At least if something did go wrong, I could throw it and do moderate damage.
Let’s just drop this here for those that prefer to spend their time whining instead of researching.
http://www.nradefensefund.org/current-litigation.aspx#Jersey
LC9 w/ 9 rd magazine or a Springfield XD9. Hoping to pick up an XDs in the summer and give the LC9 back to the wife.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rw5MosKRm4
G19 RTF 2, with a G17 spare mag.
She is just an over powered ahole of the first degree.She should be in jail for Treason along wth Harris and Boxer!
Damn. I had to go though 7 pages at everyday-carry.com before I saw the first pistol; I went another 9 and haven’t seen a pistol again. wtf? I’m surprised by the low turnout of sidearms in the EDC community.
G19. LCR. LCP. Soon to add a Gemini Customs SP101 with Bolivian Rosewood grips to my EDC, that hot little bitch will shine!
A great CCW for myself is the Makarov in cal .380 D/A.
I carry everything in that picture except the folded green paper stuff. What the hell is that anyway, and how can I get some?
Purchase a bank and make some really bad investments. The government will give you all you can handle, it’ll be coming out of your ears.
I carry a P30 in .40 usually in a Crossbreed IWB with a double mag holder on one of their belts, but recently I’ve been using the SmartCarry holster with an extra mag.
Unlike most I wear the SmartCarry at my 3:30 instead of pointing it at my junk. I’m actually liking the SmartCarry, having the gun unattached to my pants is nifty so I can go from business casual to sweatpants without changing my holster, and there isn’t any additional fabric in the way of my draw. There is a comfort advantage with the crossbreed, although it doesn’t really bother me.
I alternate between a Beretta 92FS and a Ruger SR1911CMD. I also usually carry a spare magazine, a Streamlight 2AA, a Kershaw Tone, and a Leatherman Multi-tool.
I’ve been debating the idea of keeping either a Ruger Mini-14 or Gunsite Scout in the truck. The joys of living in rural America in a gun-friendly state.
Just got my WCL last weekend. Starting off with a Ruger LCP loaded with Hornady 95gr Critical Defense in a Crossbreed Pocket Rocket holster (I used to live only a block and a half away, yet no sales out of their manufacturing facility, so had to go buy one at a gun shop in the city). It’s slow on the draw, I’ve discovered, and sitting on it can quite literally be a pain in the ass. But it’s a start. Give it time, I’m sure I’ll have a box full of holsters like everyone else.
Indeed, first thing on my list is a good heavy belt and a spare mag carrier, as sitting on the mag or my cell phone is also uncomfortable.
I’ve always carried a folding knife strong side in my back pocket when wearing jeans but now I carry the LCP there instead. Putting my folder (I have several Spydercos) in my front pants pocket isn’t very comfortable and makes it harder to get my keys, cards (I just have a lousy rubber band for a wallet) and cash if any.
Home carry goes easy with this setup, I’ve found.
Tom
Can’t carry at work, I’m a machinist and toolmaker that works in prototyping and machine maintenance for a manufacturing facility, too much chance of it showing if climbing around on machines.
When I do carry, I stick with a Ruger SP-101 DAO loaded with whatever flavor of .357 mag I have on hand. I’ve been seriously considering picking up a Seecamp in .32 ACP to carry in a pocket or deep concealment where ever I go, and use it as a BUG when I’m carrying the Ruger. The only thing that has held me back so far is how hard it is to find .32 ACP at the moment, I picked up a couple boxes in anticipation last week, but it’s usually only produced in limited runs.
Safety and feelings are just ruses, and plausible explanations to justify actions that are intended to control and eventually enslave the American people.
SR9c or G26, depending on my mood
A 1911 of some sort. Usually a WC compact in .45 ACP, but sometimes a Colt DE. The only consistent variable is the 1911.
Impromptu caption contest: “Excuse me while I whip this thang out…”
Well, hers is plastic too.
My EDC is a Glock 32.
I do not care for this person’s propositions and have a low view of her personal character.
Women rarely enter law enforcement to protect and serve.
Ruger lcr 38+p. Hornady critical defense. Spare speed strip of 5 rounds.
Springfield XD/45 compact or Ruger LCP .380
Mrs. Feinstein, you are an enemy of this country. Please do us a favor and either leave or drop dead. That is all.
Tom
Brand new SIG P239 SAS. Loving it! Just replaced my Kahr P9.
2a is the law of the land. Your zip code does not negate the constitution and the BOR.
The NRA is the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Anti pols and MSM don’t call anybody but the NRA out in their attack messages.
Join the Phucking NRA.
Springfield XD .45 Compact.
Why i carry a glock 19…trigger safety. I like it doesn’t go bang if if gets dropped, and that it does when i pull the trigger. Here is why I don’t carry a gun with manual safeties, or beaver tail safeties. About 10 years ago (I wasn’t there but some other friends were) my friend got in a fist fight with a guy. My friend took a good punch to the jaw. It broke the other guys hand.
The other guy pulled a springfield XD. Luckily… and very luckily he couldn’t shoot it. Why? Because of the hand injuries he sustained he couldn’t get the right grip to disengage the beavertail and thumb safeties quickly. My friend was able to get the gun away and he took off…he still has it.
That was pure luck for him, that could have been really bad if it was the other way around and that guy got his gun. I won’t carry any gun that require more dexterity then a trigger pull for that reason. You never know what shape or condition you are going to be in when you need a gun, and getting a perfect grip to disengage safeties isn’t always going to be an option.
It is a very real possibility there will be a physical altercation before you decide to pull your SD gun. You never know what injuries you may get. Any gun that requires you to use more dexterity then a trigger pull or have a perfect grip can be worse then useless in that situation.
Break a few fingers or a thumb and tell me you can grip and disengage a safety quickly if you need to…
Here’s some facts:
Avg median income Georgia: $49,604
Avg median income NJ: $71,637
Right to work means right to work for less money.
those may be facts, but they dont support your conclusion, nor do they mean anything particularly significant when divorced from the cost of living in those two regions.
Without even looking up the current numbers (sorry!) I’ll say those are median household income numbers, not individual. NJ has a higher rate of career spouses (wives) a higher rate of state employment, and very highly paid public school teachers, a majority female/wife occupation (ah, the union). NJ is also more heavily urban/suburban. In total quality of life there is little difference. However, NJ residents will benefit greatly when they retire from Civil service positions, and then move to Savanah or Hilton Head, Scottsdale or Sarasota….to live out their go$den years.
I’ll take Georgia, even if it means a pay cut. (Which it doesn’t.) A state that actually respects the RKBA.
Now what’s the cost of living, including taxes?
and if it does happen, we’ll also likely take most of the blame for causing it.
Glock 19 Gen 4 or S&W Shield both in CompTac Minotaur with Benchmade mini-barrage or Kershaw Blur
When you become an adult, you’ll put your rose colored glasses away. Or are they blinders? You sir have vision as clear as crystal.
As we speak I’m carrying an feg hi-power. Probably not an edc
The rural vs. urban dichotomy that the US has become worries me the most.
Big metro areas continue to grow in population, where the inhabitants depend on government for everything from subsidized mass transit systems to rent controlled apartments.
Meanwhile, rural areas with their spirit of independence continue to see population declines. The result is a shift in prevailing voter attitudes that will ultimately force the urban, government dependent mindset upon the rest of us.
Just the response the anti gun folk love, well, cannot will them all. Tell me please, who else is doing anything for NJ rights? Sounds like you are just too cheap to stand up for your rights. Sorry, not buying your excuse. Sure you have lots more, but do not bother us with them.
The ‘strict gun control’ states are still in the extreme minority. Sometimes it doesn’t seem so. But the Brady Center gives only one state their highest ranking (4 stars), and only 19 states any stars at all.
Oddly enough, they misrepresent some of the states also. I noticed Michigan is given 2 stars (wtf?), the only ‘restrictive’ firearm laws Michigan has are a requirement to obtain a ‘purchase permit’ to get a handgun from a private seller (no longer needed for an FFL), and the need to register said handgun (oddly enough no need to report changes of address).
Brady gives 3 points for mandatory lost/solen reporting (not true and never has been the case); 3 points for fingerprinting required (not anymore, not in a long time); 3 points for external locks sold with all handguns (meh); 2 points for ’employers not forced to allow guns in parking lots’; 2 points for no campus carry (not true: http://michigan.concealedcampus.org/resources/current-laws-pertaining-to-campus-carry/ )
So really we are ‘only’ talking about 9 states that are being really bad (CA, NJ, MA, NY, CT, HI, MD, IL, CO), which is an extreme minority. There is a smattering of oppression in the other states as well (including the aforementioned Michigan laws) but I think it would have to be much closer to 50/50 for there to be a real threat.
That being said, if it came down to a ‘real civil war’, wouldn’t it be the people with guns against the people without guns?
I am not law enforcement so I do not know what oath LEOs generally swear on becoming official officers, but I tried a Yahoo search of Connecticut official oaths and I cannot find any for the Connecticut State Police. Can anyone provide the actual text of this oath where they are swearing to uphold The Constitution of the United States of America?
So, it’s the NRA’s fault, that the PEOPLE of New Jersey, have entrenched and continue to vote for the DEMOCRAT party. Last time I checked, it was the Democrat party, who hates you, hates your gun rights and simply want “common sense” gun legislation, which if they were honest, means, civilian disarmament.
No, Mr. Rojas. The NRA isn’t all powerful and in places, like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and California, it is the support of the voters, that have all but destroyed your 2nd amendment rights. So, by NOT joining the NRA, or the Second Amendment Foundation, Gun Owners of America, and your State organizations, it is YOU who sit back and let people like Attorney Alan Gotlieb and Alan Gura, fight your battles in courts, stacked with federal democrat appointed judges and a completely liberal judiciary on the state levels.
Join the NRA, Mr. Rojas, if you don’t like their inaction in your slave states, then join the NRA and fight from within.
The 2nd amendment wouldn’t exist in the other 49 states either if it were NOT for the existence of the NRA, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization.
Get off your wallet and join for $35 per year. Did you hear me, sir. $35 per year! If you really hate the NRA, join the 2nd amendment foundation, or GOA (Gun Owners of America) or a State Organization.
Your damn right too. The state of New Jersey is a sacrificial lamb, but not on the alter of the NRA. You, the “SHEEP” the people of the state of New Jersey, are responsible for the loss of your gun rights. You get the government you elect. Again, it is the Democrat Party, who is always the ones assaulting your gun rights. If you are a DEMOCRAT and a GUN OWNER, I DO NOT understand how you can pull the lever for a democrat candidate. IT is the PEOPLE of NEW JERSEY who is at fault for your situation!
Myself and the other 5 million NRA members, can only do so much. When you willingly give up your rights, it’s awful hard to stop men from loading you into boxcars and heading them east to the gas chambers. Pay attention to history. Stop whining, get off your ASSES and your wallets and fight. STOP voting for Democrat candidates and YOU will see changes, that the rest of the nation has fought for and funded that change through membership and donations to the NRA!
Chad Hendrix
Biloxi, MS
(Formerly of liberal Ann Arbor, Michigan).
The NRA like all organizations has limited resources, and they are completely correct to marshal out those resources where they think it will do the most good. They play the long game, and frankly I applaud them for it. For citizens of liberal bastions to decry the NRA for their fate is ironic, because the citizens of those states are responsible either directly or indirectly for their own fate. Either you sat idly by as the liberals overran you state, or you continue to fuel the machine by residing in these states and paying their exorbitant taxes. Physician, heal thyself!
Born and raised in CA, I’ve now been in AZ for 9 years – carried concealed for 8 years. Here is the contrast. Met my fishing buddy in San Diego Monday, he is a retired sheriff from Orange County. His assumption is if he spies a gun, it is attached to a bad guy. You are prone and it goes from there. North of Phoenix 2 weeks ago, I was waiting inside an El Pollo Loco for my dinner order. In comes 4 cops, from 2 different directions. Manager had mistakenly dialed 911 and then hung up! Of course I start to sweat (can’t completely get rid of those CA roots). One of the cops comes over to me and asks “What am I carrying?” I tell him and he says “cool.” Next, he asks me “what’s for dinner?” That was it…..
After 30 years on the street, I can’t fault my buddy. It’s just a different mind set, neither good, nor bad.
OMG the wicked witch of the west is back. Was hoping she would just fade away.
Quick men there makin’ off with the Geritol!
Well written and spot on.
The only hope I have to avoid what will most likely wind up in bloodshed is a constitutional convention. Term limits, criminal penalties for violating the constitution, really all of Mark Levin’s amendments would need to be put in place.
Otherwise the chasm between the progressive left, and the independent right will widen without a doubt. Should amnesty pass, the road to socialism is right behind it, as the middle class will be effectively destroyed. The unions are too stupid or ignorant to realize this, much as they did with Obamacare.
I guess if truth be told, if someone said there would be a revolution/civil war inside of this decade, I wouldn’t bet against it. A large part of me realizes that it is exactly what will be required if this republic is to stand.
Have you had your Viagra today.
Excellent article – balanced, informative, and reasonable. Kudos to TTAG for posting it.
As a mom with two girls at two different state universities I am more than a little concerned about the constant drive to ensure they have no way to protect themselves.
Now that IL has CCW I’d really like to get campus’ opened up for carry – because I’m selfish and I’d like my girls to have a defense.
Anyone notice that rape on campus continues to rocket? you can see clearly LE hasn’t gotten a handle on a major crime bracket for this age group.
Is the fact that campus is a gun free zone a related statistic? doubtful.
“- Include a provision that would have the state report those persons who have been involuntarily hospitalized or have been adjudicated mentally deficient to the NICS system while also providing an ability for relief through an application process to the court system for the purpose of restoration of rights.”
There’s the loophole you can drive a Mack truck through. “involuntarily hospitalized?” They can take anyone they want, haul them away, and tell the world “it’s for his own protection from himself” and there’s some obscure application for relief from the courts. If the courts were doing their job in the first place, there wouldn’t ever have been any gun control at all!
When killing and fighting get them down,
They know their morale can’t droop.
As long as they all relax in town
Before they resume with a bang and a boom
F Troop!
Do both in competition because you want to win…
Do both in real life because you want to win more…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o01rUB05K0Y
Smith M&P 9mm Compact + 17-round extra mag (all stuffed with 124-grain +P Gold Dots), all day err’day since I got my license in 2012.
However, with summer approaching (and my waistline expanding), i recently acquired a Kahr PM9. Not ecstatic about the little blaster’s meager capacity, but it’ll be way easier to “tuck under the folds.”
This is a great law and a great victory for pro gun Georgians. The gun grabbers can leave the state by any border they choose, but we prefer the water one. Just keep walking east until you find your anti gun utopia…Russia, China…..whichever one you want. They will love to have you. We don’t want you. Leave and don’t come back.
i would say, “dude, i want that!”. but that would just sound fvking stupid.
Kimber Pro Carry II Stainless or the FN57 (much lighter, but much larger.)
In wilderness, Tanfoglio Witness in 10mm.
My EDC varies, when going to work, it’s a Beretta bobcat .22 with a lasergrip, based on the theory that the gun you carry is better than the one on the shelf at home.
On my off days it’s a Beretta 92fs with lasergrips.
I’ll admit though, I’m looking forward to getting myself a CZ P09 and P07.
Why would the cartels deal with semi-auto jokes when they can buy the real deals from the Mexican military or our own ATF treasonous scumbags.
What happens when young men get tired and make old men fight their own damn wars.
U.S Army after Obama’s budget cuts.
I’ll actually believe it once I have an actual permit in my hand and my gun in my IWB holster (provided the state doesn’t add $500 per year for the permit).
Let a thousand tragedies happen tomorrow and you still can’t take firearms away from law abiding Americans. Nice try senator.
Play paintball.
Your opponents are gung ho about shooting you, so you learn VERY quickly to differentiate between situations calling for “shoot then move” “move then shoot” and of course “move while shooting”
Not everything translates over to DGU, but a good deal of it does.
History is always on the side of the Progressive position. Just ask Vladimir Putin.
Dear Mr. Rojas,
Perhaps you’re putting the cart before the horse. A better strategy might be to join the NRA and do your part to get as many of your friends, family & neighbors to join as well. Then the NRA would have 1) more members’ interests to serve there and 2) more clout in the government lobbying process.
Just a thought. Continue fighting the tyranny.
That’s funny I just posted on taurusarmed.net about how I thought it was weird EDC.com wasn’t posting gun pics. I think the consensus was because it links to amazon and ebay, and they do not allow gun sales, they screen submissions for that.
What would be really cool would be for a local landowner to donate some property to the Club and then they could thumb their noses at the town ‘leaders’.
The purpose of the NICS system is to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous felons and the mentally ill. Let’s see how well it’s worked with 2010 as our sample year.
NICS data for 2010:
6,037,394 NICS checks conducted.
76,142 were denials referred for screening. That’s 1.26% of all applicants.
93.8% (71,410) of those denials were overturned or cancelled.
4,732 denials were referred to AFT branch offices for further investigation and possible prosecution. This is 0.078% of all 2010 applicants.
Still, that’s nearly 4,732 “criminals” who have been denied a gun. If these 4,732 were truly dangerous criminals, then it follows that law enforcement would prosecute as many of them as possible.
Yet of those 4,732 only 62 or 0.001% of all 2010 applicants were referred for prosecution.
Of that 62 referred for prosecution, only 35 ever saw legal repercussions. 13 gave guilty pleas, 10 of the charges were dismissed as part of a plea deal, 12 cases were still pending at the time the data was assembled.
That’s 35 actual criminals caught by the NICS system in 2010, a “criminal prosecution success rate” of .000583%.
Using 35 as a rough yearly average and multiplying by 15 yields 525 actual criminals prosecuted for falsifying NICS checks information. There were 177 million checks giving us a successful prosecution rate of .0003%.
This explains why there has never been any credible evidence produced to demonstrate that the background check system causes a reduction in crime. Since implementation of the NICS system, the crime and murder rate has gone up, down, up, down, showing absolutely no correlation to the enactment of the law.
Does anyone not believe the massive resources expended on this system could be put to better use elsewhere?
The source for the above data is the following paper which used Justice Dept statistics.
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bjs/grants/239272.pdf
John Lott has also written about it.
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/030314-691879-brady-law-is-no-answer-to-gun-crime.htm?p=full
Has anyone here ever heard the saying, “don’t run to your death”? Think about applying that concept to shooting on the move/moving then shooting
Rainhaven, what you forget sir is that in the military your average grunt has only his M4, they do not open carry to deter aggression. As for the po po, they open carry because most of them are in uniform and carry a bunch of stuff on their duty belt, which is not actually the belt holding up their pants. Open carry is not tactically sound, I’m sitting in a coffee shop right now and I think if I pulled my firearm people would be genuinely surprised based off how I am dressed. Speed, surprise, and violence of action, carrying concealed is better to preserve surprise.
So he wants to call everyone douchbags but doesnt want anyone to respond.
Typical spinelessly opinionated jerk nonsense.
Could be he’s honestly surprised by the reaction. If that’s the case I can only suggest he get out more and experience the real world as it is.
800 rounds and no malfunctions, haven’t even cleaned it once. I just got done with a 4 day handun training, shot 600 rounds and got the highest accuracy score in the class of 30. I fell in love with how simple it is. You just pull the triger and shoot, no decocking levers, safeties to forget about, etc. Very handy in a stressful situation.
Many years ago one could open up the newspaper to the classified section and find columns of firearms of every type for sale by private owners. An exchange of money and gun, a handshake and the deal was done. Some folks never let go of firearms purchased in a time when things were easier. The government cannot take all guns because they don’t know where many of them reside.
I recently left a comment on Yelp about Backstreets Pub and Grill and the sign they posted. A couple of days later, I received an email from Yelp that they had deleted my comment, and it was because I supported our Second Amendment Rights. So I guess my deleting my comment Yelp has now said that they also support us losing our First Amendment Rights. I told Yelp to delete my profile that I had to created in order to leave that comment, if they wanted to infringe on my First Amendment right because I spoke up fr my Second Amendment Right, that I did not want to have my name attached in any way to their site.
While your enthusiasm is great and all, you’re missing two very important points. First, Yelp is supposed to be about the reviews of people who have actually patronized the establishment, not random people like you. (I don’t particularly care about this point, because I don’t use Yelp, for reasons I’ve explained elsewhere.) The second and more important point is that Yelp is not infringing on your First Amendment rights. The First Amendment protects you from government suppression of your right of free speech. Nothing else. Yelp deleting your comments, another website deleting or moderating your comments, or even someone shouting you down as you attempt to plead your case on a public street corner are not infringements on your First Amendment rights. It’s their site, it’s their rules, and you’re mistaken if you think otherwise.
Yelp has the right to run their paid propaganda site anyway they like.
We have the right to mock them.
Nice piece, Nick. Sums up the entire issue very nicely.
What do you expect from the side that drives their positions and policies via emotion; “if it feels good, do ti!”, “ends justify the means”, etc.
Looks like my 686 PP 6″. Purty.
The porting has been discontinued as an option.
Anyone else catch this:
“This amendment states that people have the right to certain weapons, providing that they register them and they have not been in prison.”
Those textbook writers need to see a professor of English grammar ASAP.
The way that sentence is structured: The “have not been in prison” part could be either referring to “the people”, or to “the weapons”.
The Founding Fathers would have tarred and feathered the writers of that textbook for the crime of bad grammar alone.
I think the “love” picture on the wall sums it up nicely.
Using the word “Democrat” was a mistake. That implies that all Democrats are bad and all Republicans are good.
I don’t like to use “isms” either because people are forever debating whether Fascism is a right or left ideology (It’s way left by the way). I prefer simpler truths.
“Isms”, parties etc. are all made up of individuals that band together in coalition. SO, I label individual tendencies rather than coalitions. And I see them as this:
Socialist—————Centrist—————Anarchist
Keep it simple…..
Revolvers are a quaint item. Fun to shoot, definitely would not choose to use one as my EDC though.
He missed NH and VT. Douche.
Come to Newark and tell me how safe you feel…
Leonard Steinhorn should stay in his region of the country, and keep his opinions with him. Before I read this article, I had never heard his name…and could care less how he feels. Keep your opinion and your nose, out of the rest of the country.
The antis are using the same tactics that the smoking Nazis used to demonize the tobacco industry. Its based on the belief that you are incapable of making your own decisions and that you are essentially a empty shell vulnerable to manipulation by “evil” corporations. These proponents have no understanding of market forces or demand.
Gun lobby is pure fiction and the anti-gun folks know it.
You want scary corporate monsters? Try Monsanto or the car / oil lobby.
I think maybe SWAT teams should implement a cutoff for how long an officer can try out for the team, and remain on a team. I also think the physical requirments for law enforcement should be more stringent. I’m tired of seeing cops who are obese and have issues getting in and out of their vehicle. As for the Bear Cat, seeing as federal law enforcement has offices in all 50 states, maybe they could have them and loan them out to local law enforcement in certain situations? And maybe there needs to be laws as to when a SWAT team can be used. I do however write this knowing that some major cities have roving swat teams, which is actually a decent idea
The 2nd commandment did not say the right to keep and bear arms was for “sporting” purposes.
So, when I carry my woman’s gun does that mean I have a small penis and she is afraid of being raped by black guys? Or does that mean she has a small penis and I’m afraid of being raped by black guys?
Or does that means she a small black guy and I’m afraid of penises…
Wait… Or maybe I’m the penis…
This compensating thing very confusing.
Sig P245
9mm shield in summer and Colt CC in winter
I carry my HK USP .40 as EDC it has never failed once since i bought it used in 1994. Very dependable and fits my hand like a glove. extremley accurate ( even if my spelling isnt)
Hk VP9 or a Walther PPQ M2 both carried in locally made kydex holsters.
Springfield XDS 9mm with 147 grain Federal HST +P for cc…..
Glock 21 for home defense / nightstand