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U.S. Post Office Shopping For Ammo

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(courtesy fbo.gov)

Eagle-eyed TTAG reader TF spotted a link to a U.S. Postal Service Solicitation for Assorted Small Arms Ammunition. It’s actually a pre-solicitation notice; the feds won’t tell applicants (or inquisitive journos) the calibers or amounts until the official solicitation is released. We did learn that the ammo’s for the “standard needs of the Postal Inspection Service and Postal Police.” The main reason that we bring this to your attention: to highlight the recently defeated attempt to strike down the USPS ban on lawful carry within its facilities. You know; by non-law enforcement types. And to report that Senator Paul’s committee did pass legislation that would allow Americans to store their firearms in their cars when visiting the post office. We’ll see if that not-so-small victory makes it into law.

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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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  1. ARRGH. I keep looking at that pic and it is driving me nuts. Get your thumb off the top of that forearm. Sweet bleeding Jeebus, optics or not that just irks me.

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  2. It’s my understanding, via a couple of Aussie friends, that another question for this snotty dingbat, would be how many mass shootings there were in the 10 years BEFORE their draconian law. To quote him, “you guessed it-zero.” The government responded to a mass killing by shotgun (I think ?) by outlawing rifles and pistols, makes as little sense as a lot of what we hear, but then we hear it because it “has been proven to work” there. “Work”, of course, is about separating people from their guns, the results thereafter are unimportant because that was our only goal, and those who feel that way have no idea WHY!

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    • TTAG Reader Challenge: find an arrest made by the Postal Police that warranted taking the pistol out of the holster.

      There’s 650 Postal Police, which is about 13 policemen per state. Presumably the PP aren’t evenly distributed throughout the 50 states. So it doesn’t seem like they SWAT a lot of people.

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      • I’ve only seen the postal police a couple of times at the main PO during many frequent visits over several years. There aren’t very many of them from what I have seen.

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  3. My grandfather got me hooked on the Model 10 when I was a kid. He had a tapered barrel version of the gun. Thanks to Daddy Burt’s (as we grandkids called him) influence, the first handgun I purchased after I got married was a Model 10 with a bull barrel. This is a great handgun and my first choice for home defense. It has a smooth, easy trigger pull. It functions as a natural extension of your arm and points naturally where you aim it. It’s reliable as can be and doesn’t jam like today’s popular semi-autos are prone to do. At 7 yards, I can consistently hit the 9 and X rings. Change to a set of combat grips and buy a couple speed loaders and you have the perfect handgun. Who needs a Glock? The Model 10 is old school, but sometimes the old ways are the best ways.

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  4. Just be sure you get the “bad” guns walsh, you wouldn’t want to take any good guns from good people? The gun you triumpfantly buy back might have been that which saved someones life, can’t have any of those attrocities can we? Randy

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  5. 811B, Thanks for the messages with all of the solutions. I have a 930 SXP Blackwater on order, so do not even have it yet! But I wanted to see what to expect, and your suggestions should help me get it to the range with the best chance of success without problems. Thanks again in advance for the advice.

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  6. Unfortunately, MA lows are detrimental to private citizens setting up a buyback store so that those who would turn in guns for a fraction of their value can be fully compensated. When buybacks are instituted in less restrictive states, owners can sell to private parties at a premium to what the government will pay.

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  7. Anyone know what firearm this guy didn’t know he was concealing? Was it a semi-auto? If so, I’d be curious to know how many rounds were in the magazine. Perhaps he violated two SAFE act laws he was instrumental in getting passed. 😉

    “… 911 received two calls about the incident, prompting the school to go into lockdown and touching off a search of the building by police and SWAT team responders.. . …”

    Also, I think he should reimburse the tax payers of Buffalo for the huge expense of the lockdown and SWAT deployment.

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  8. Jeff Cooper demonstrated how to reload the 1911 using one hand many times and using various techniques. Not so outlandish a demonstration but I’m more interested in the function of the new gun and not this kind of sensationalism.

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  9. First the Postal Service buys all the ammo that’s left after DHS picked the supply clean, then somebody burns the Winchester ammo plant in East Alton. Coincidence?

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  10. Once I start a competition I finish it. You might have a bad run during one stage but there are others which you can compensate for.

    On Saturday I shot a 200 metre sitting match with a very sore back. I did okay with 7/8 on the deliberate on the Figure 11. I called the miss. The second stage was 4 double taps on the Fig11 with the 5 ring being the inner and the rest the outer zone. I had 3 inners and 5 outers. The final stage was 3 triple taps on a Figure 12, which is a lot smaller than the fig11. I was able to get 8/9 for a total of 87/100. A bad day at the range is better than a good day at work. But I still had a good day.

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  11. “No weapons”.
    They HAD to include that part. They HAD to stay on-message.
    The news stories on mass-shootings from gun-controlled Russia…
    The “self-defense” squads pushing back drug-dealers and killers in Mexico through use of arms…
    The ever-increasing trend of peaceful “redneck gun-nut” population centers vs. lawless liberal strongholds…
    The tide seems to be turning, my friends. That’s why the hatred coming from the gun-banners is so strong. They’re seeing armed citizens defending innocent life starkly contrasted with continued killing in “gun-free” cities and nations, and this pattern is getting noticeable enough to break through their rhetoric. They’re starting to panic. They see their message crumbling as facts and realism intrude into their carefully crafted campaign of disinformation.
    We haven’t won quite yet, but the scoreboard is leaning heavily in our favor. Keep up the pressure.

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    • Yup. I hate to use the word “sweet” about a nightmare situation, but there it is. Right in the gun-grabbers’ sweaty little faces.

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    • “They’re starting to panic. They see their message crumbling as facts and realism intrude into their carefully crafted campaign of disinformation.” I disagree, they are not panicking. Anti 2A people are very good at being willfully ignorant. They won’t see their message crumbling, until long after it already collapsed.

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  12. Why isn’t Obumbo (and Holder) arming this “Mexican Spring”?

    Perhaps if they would claim to kneel in the direction of Mecca a couple times a day?

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  13. Yes, lay down your arms & turn yourself in, you will be treated fairly. Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, Snowden, ha ha ha ha, Randy

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  14. Klem, I figured you were some sort of foreign know-it-all. This guy never once mentioned competition shooting in his article, and somehow you and this other troll Doug made this about small caliber F-Class garbage. The author made so many valid points and you made so many baseless generalizations that it seems like it’s you that’s trying to validate yourselves. Nothing that Josh wrote was false, and he clearly said that he was laying out what he discovered. I don’t get why you had to make an interesting article like this into a d*ck measuring contest. Josh clearly wrote that most people can’t or don’t fire past 300 yards. He even called some place that keeps public record of ranges. He researched so many angles of this, and all your doing is nitpicking about something that wasn’t even in there to begin with.
    Something else, I’ve seen 5.56 rounds tear up guys past 1200 yards over there, and let me tell you, it ain’t pretty. You guys sound so stupid when you say that you would stand in front of bullets for money because your computer said it wouldn’t be possible.
    Lastly, you are just flat wrong about .338 caliber rifles. You’re just not looking at things right when you compare dedicated smallbore target guns to large bore combat rifles. You’ve been trolling this thread talking about long barreled smallbore guns, and then you compare them to .338, .408. and .50 cal. If those little PPC rounds were so good, how come my friends aren’t using them to lay guys out? Last I checked, we’ve got no F-Class toys around my base. You guys play your game and just keep trolling this thread. Hopefully the mods will delete your flame comments.

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  15. Hey guys, I appreciate the spirited debate, but let’s bring it in, alright? Klem and Doug are entitled to their beliefs and opinions. Just like I wrote in the actual article, do what’s best for you. My situation greatly benefits from a short barrel, but I’m not an F-Class shooter. If these guys want to shoot at competitions, then they should build or buy to suit their interests and needs.
    I shoot long range alot, but I usually stay inside 540. Klen and Doug will both agree that it isn’t necessary to field a rifle with a 26″ barrel for distances inside that especially when the terrain and practical usages are considered. Most shots in Michigan are less than 200 yards on deer and coyote, so i fit my rifle to my environment. If I shot F-Class, I would probably prefer a 6mmBR with a long barrel, so there you have it. I wouldn’t take that same target gun hunting in the dense woods of my state for whitetail, though.
    To be fair, my 13.5″ .308 is still a .5MOA rifle at 540 on average. I’ll just have to see how i do in an F-Class match when they have one near my area. If I go, I’ll write about it.
    I do have to agree with JBP about the .338s, but that’s not what this article was about at all. I do all this to generate thinking and make people ask questions about what they think they know.

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  16. I guess they’ll have to go to the backup routine wearing a turban and a bomb vest so they don’t offend anyone by showing an evil gun.

    Won’t she look awesome skating in a burqa???

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  17. Some people just shouldn’t own guns.
    The dead guy may have been a serial jerk but anyone that would confront and then shoot someone for such a silly reason is likely to shoot someone else for some other silly reason. The world is full of jerks but how many people here have drawn down on someone for a similar reason?
    If you raise your hand, I’ll repeat. Some people just shouldn’t own guns.

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  18. I’m critical of people who buy a new pistol model intending it for protection. Purchasing for novelty is different. I can well remember in high school accepting the fact, in many relationships, that somebody really does have to be first, and it might as well be me.

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