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Question of the Day: What Gun Stuff Did You Buy Over Black Friday, Cyber Monday?

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As we’ve reported, Black Friday broke the FBI’s one-day NICS processing record. I’m sure Cyber Monday saw a similar surge, as Americans swooped down on discounts and bought a whole bunch o’ ammo, guns and gun gear. No doubt TTAG’s Armed Intelligentsia had their finger on the trigger, ready for the sales. So what did you end-up adding to your “arsenal”?

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Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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      • I think with all the manufacturer discounts and rebates, the sales weren’t as low below the going rate. But honestly I didn’t pay a lot of attention either way. And then again, the non-sale “going rate” is generally lower than it’s been in the past. (Thanks Hillary!)

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        • Yeah that would make sense. After a year of incredibly low prices, a 10% off or free shipping code doesn’t motivate me to open the wallet for anything I didn’t already plan to buy.

          I did get a laugh seeing the “Up to 75% Off” cyber-monday sales and the only thing with that steep a discount is a pair of socks or something equally inane.

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    • Yep, ammo. I got some good stuff for the same price you’d usually pay for the crappy Tula steel-cased ammo.

      Got in, got my stuff, and got out. And shot half of what I’d bought that same day. It was a good day.

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  1. Nothing from the fellow in the picture … If the counter guys don’t care enough to handle guns properly, I don’t buy from the store.

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  2. I think Counter Guy is confused, almost looks like he wants to index his foregrip index finger while maintaining snug grip on trigger finger.

    But…it looks like he has a Cali-Compliant 2 1/2 round mag, so in all fairness, this may be the first time he’s even been allowed to touch an evil fully auto assault weaponized rifle.

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  3. “Prosecutors had pushed for a jail sentence but the judge, satisfied the guns had been for recreational use, opted for a community corrections order.

    “I accept this offending has had a significant impact on you and your capacity to engage in your passion,” the judge said.”

    I may have some dumb today, but this sentence doesn’t quite parse for me. Is the judge saying that it’s not as much of a big deal because the offender really likes guns? If so that’s very near cool.

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    • Some of the charges he was up against would have been felonies here in the states. Which would have been a lifetime prohibition if convicted.

      The way I read it dude could be using firearms, legally, after a year.

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  4. His and hers complete plate carrier sets from AR500 Armor – included plates, mag pouches, and pistol holsters. Less than I expected to pay for one set. Probably not the most durable but its just for around our property not Afghanistan!

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  5. I sent another 1K to my gunsmith to complete my dream gun. At about 4k now, and well under budget.
    Of course, since the project is almost done, he shows me his 1/2 MOA 300 Norma Magnum Overwatch models, and now I need to find another 5k with a quickness.

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  6. Paid off a layaway I had on a S&W M1917. Fixed Harrison rear sight for my Range officer, threaded barrel for my M&P Shield, complete 8.5 inch 300blk upper, fixed suppressor mount from Dead Air for the 300blk upper and my Ghost 45m, along with some Dead Air Swag. Tons more I would have liked, but already spent more than I should have. And I dont know about the rest of the population, but “rebates” ignore the cap out of me. I wish theyd just discount the price instead of making you jump through hoops. Still waiting on two gear rebats for M&P pistols that I submitted over three months ago!

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  7. FN and Colt both build rifles for our military
    Most would consider them solid mid range, mil spec builds
    The Colt 6920 without the quad rail or vertical fore grip is $861 at Buds
    You could add those to the Colt for a lot less than the $800 price difference
    Numerous other companies make
    M 4geries as well
    At both above and below mil spec
    You could certainly trust your life to a Colt or FN
    Our soldiers do!

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  8. Well since i drive a lifted diesel truck, dont live in a liberal run city, own guns, and think for myself, i must be racist… after all, i am half white and half native american.

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  9. A good friend of mine picked up a Ruger AR15 and a Ruger takedown 10/22 for under $700, including taxes and fees, at the Theisen’s Black Friday sale. I think the 10/22 was priced at $250. I had just handled the exact same Ruger takedown at a store across town: they wanted $370 for theirs.

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  10. I just sent in my ATF form for the Osprey .45 silencer to put on my Scorpion to make it a 2 stamp gun!
    Now they come out with a silencer that partly reflexes back over the barrel to make it much shorter?
    That makes more sense for a shorter overall length for a home defense gun that won’t destroy your hearing if you ever have to shoot it off inside your house
    Oh well, at least the Osprey makes the gun look cool with its’ slab sides and eccentric bore

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  11. Looks incredibly similar to the HB Industries forend I have installed on my own CZ. Partnership perhaps? Kinda disappointed that this may be coming out now that I dropped all my cash putting the pieces for the exact same thing together myself.

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  12. The only way to stop at bad toddler with a gun is a good toddler with a gun!
    All kidding aside, that is a tough situation to be in
    If you just surrender as the troll keeps suggesting, the terrorist/criminal may kill you anyway
    Putting the decision if your children live or die in a criminals hands is unacceptable to me
    I guess I would put my children down and tell them to run while I Stay behind to give them cover

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  13. A rare miss fire from the Belgians. Yes it’s cool and yes as far as service rifles go FNs were the nice (ish) ones to have but this ain’t worth 1700 bones. I had an FN m4 issued to me. The difference between it and the Colt my buddy got issued were negligible at best and both ran pretty good unless given one of the black follower mags. Given black follower mags (and older Vietnam era 20 rounders) both would double and triple feed with alarming regularity.
    Newb tip: With any AR ALWAYS feed from Mag Pul or if you just have to go USGI steel make sure to get the green follower or whatever color is the latest and greatest.

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  14. For the 200 dollar tax you can pay one hour an dominatrix ………..
    And the best the money doesn t go to goverment and you don t have to wait 6 month ………

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  15. Well let’s see….

    -Banned U.S. surplus firearms to be imported commercially (whole South Korea M1 deal)

    -Banned folks who could not handle their finances on social security

    -Banned 7n6 ammo

    -Banned Russian AK’s

    -Banned Steyr AUG pistol conversion kits

    -Created the whole Fast and Furious fiasco to attempt to ban “assault weapons”

    -Used the same tactic after Sandy Hook and every other mass shooting

    -Attempted to ban surplus 5.56 ammo

    -Revamped the gun trust statute making it more burdensome except for those who have notoriously antigun sheriffs or chiefs

    So yea he did plenty to screw with guns.

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  16. RIA 1911 GI version and a Savage Rascal for my middle son so he don’t have to share the lever action with his older brother anymore. If it goes well I might get his older brother a Rascal too and retire the Mossberg 464.

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  17. Well the whole state of Hawaii just stepped on a land mine and good luck with that
    demanding 2nd RIGHTS be invalid because you use medical marijuana
    So if mom or daddy is in Hawaii and a cancer patient??
    and uses POT to keep eating?
    get a lawyer and become a millionaire!

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    • Actually- this issue was upheld in the Supreme Court already. Read my comment above. Right or wrong, this is settled law.

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      • Which is why Plessy vs Ferguson and Dred Scott are still the law of the land. The Supremes are well known for getting things wrong. Terry vs. Ohio is another they got wrong. No reason to allow a government employee to touch a citizen who is not under arrest.

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        • Really? Ok, first of all, it’s settled. The current court won’t revisit their own decision, which means the majority of justices would need to be replaced before rehearing. It’s more likely that pot becomes legal on the federal level first. You did mention something about “touching” a Citizen not under arrest. These users find themselves currently illegally possessing firearm. Warrants could be issued, fwiw.

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        • What is settled is that the government has the power to restrict who may be disqualified from owning a gun.

          This may be changed with simple legislation, which the US Congress has not seen fit to pass.

          The SCOTUS is looking at the issue from a different perspective – same outcome of denying someone’s rights, but from a perspective of “did the government have this power?””

          It, like the SCOTUS cases you mention, are prime examples of why “the law is an ass,” and why many people think that lawyers are often intellectual perverts.

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  18. The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where Webster works, received a $1Billion donation from alma mater Michael Bloomberg, and the school was renamed for him. Needless to say, he funds Webster’s group, as well as the group headed by David Hemenway at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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  19. They’re also marking up the Due Process Removal Act of 2017 (NICS “improvement”) and the NRA Sellout Act of 2017 (bump stock/semi auto ban) as well, and I expect every commie rino to ram those two through.

    They say they can’t do a thing to push for a pro American agenda but these republicans will jump at the chance to take your guns.

    Screw the republican party and screw the nra.

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  20. It’s disgusting that we allow and are conditioned to tolerate being sold neutered firearms. The bastards that introduced the NFA and the Hughes Amendment, as well as every law that effectively turns a right into a privilege, should have been strung up the moment they announced their intentions.

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  21. Oklahoma to Kansas, Vice a versa, I think you left them out? In actuality this debate or law should not even be a considered subject. Unless some in Congress believe the Constitution as it stands needs abolished. The problem stems from the way the present attitude of the population precieves what it considered Freedom. Firearms become involved when the government no longer trust the people to trust it.

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  22. The NICS “improvement” bill is also coming up in the judiciary committee tomorrow (Wednesday). Call your congressman and demand he oppose it, especially if he’s on the committee (Mine is), and to offer an amendment to kill the anti-bump stock language while reopening the registry.

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  23. Carry LCP in right front jeans pocket.

    I can get it while seated in a restaurant or normal chair by leaning back.

    Harder in my truck but i have full-size pistol in my front seat organizer.

    The LCP carriers much better than my old JFrames.

    My first legal carry was a Smith Centenial in a kramer horsehide….needed khakis or BDUs.

    The LCP in a Desantis holster is my “always” gun. I sometimes carry an LCR as backup.

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  24. If baggy shorts or jeans with cargo pocket in front, a Sig 238 disappears in a Remora. A Shield or LC9 is about the same size and should do the same. If dressier, Taurus TCP in the rear pocket in a leather holster with a wallet flap on the strong side and the wallet on the weak. You are not sitting “on” the gun unless you are slouching back. Those of us who were scolded in elementary school for slouching know this. If wearing a suit jacket, TCP in a cheapie Uncle Mikes pocket holster in the inside breast pocket or the wallet holster in the rear pocket. An advantage of smaller guns in pocket holsters that was not mentioned in the article is they can go from coat or jacket pocket to pants pocket or vice versa quickly and relatively unobtrusively as you go in and out of buildings. Not so with IWB.

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  25. For the last few months I have been using a superfly with a lc9 in my front right pocket with cargo pants. I find this works quite well and when I stand I can draw very easily. No doubt it is more difficult if I am sitting or in my vehicle. I started out with an sr9c and found it to be just a tad big to be comfortable. Yes it shot nice and I could hit really great with it but it seemed to defeat the purpose of conceal carry. The lc9 even though it’s a little snappy when shooting I still hit great with that, so it was a no brainer. I played around with all types of holsters and different ways to carry, but it seems that the pocket was simple and very effective. I even tried the smart carry which works well also, but is just not as convenient as the pocket. I tuck my shirts in almost all the time, I can carry in the pocket anytime of the year and no one has a clue it’s there. I don’t have to wear any shirt to cover anything. I do wear cargo pants pretty much all the time, and yes the pockets are roomier then say jeans. I practice drawing from different positions and yes you can fine tune it and get faster with practice. I found that it was more important to make sure I have my gun with me and comfortable then to worry about the speed of draw from a sitting position. My biggest problem is I have nothing but my gun in my right pocket, so everything else pretty much goes into my left front pocket, keys and things. I do fumble with grabbing stuff out of the left pocket all the time now, but that will come with time.

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  26. Gee fracturing your stepson’s skull should have brought that demon 10-20 years in prison. Not a free pass to mass murder. Helluva’ job Air Force…😡😡😡😡😡

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  27. I have this and the only flaw is shown in your first picture, the length is almost as long as the width of those plastic fold up tables, so you have to be careful not to slide it off front or back or setup the table lengthwise. Otherwise it is excellent.

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