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  1. They’re carrying Morning Glories. I thought I thought up the name, because the first picture of one I saw was posed with a morning glory, but they may actually be nicknamed Morning Glory. It’s a good name, no matter where it came from, though.

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  2. Cool gun but I don’t get the pilot survival part. In a downed aircraft scenario (malf, wx, etc) you would stay with the plane until SAR shows up. A pistol works for self defense except in AK. There I read pilots carry Alaska Guide guns or shotgun for bear. No need for super light unless you are walking out and I’d still trade up for heavier caliber instead of space saving… Ymmv.

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  3. That security guard can have three flashlights, two cell phones and four pairs of handcuffs on his belt but that doesn’t mean he’s not a ‘mall-ninja.’ Same thing applies here.

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  4. ” I don’t consider myself an optimist, nor a pessimist, I consider myself a realist . . . Realistically, most people, even TTAG readers, don’t truly comprehend the amount of violent crime in this country. As a police officer and police trainer…”

    In every group of officers there’s always that one that has gone a bit off the deep end with tacticool stuff and acts like they’re always in a war zone. If you don’t know one, you’re probably him. Obviously “scanning” everyone in a room, twitching their hand with every backfire, and probably looking like a 5.11 advertisement. Everything in life is about perspective, and these guys have lost it. They see crime but can’t see past it. They spend time in a uniform but can’t take it off. They need ‘backups’ of backups and try to rationalize what is not rational, given the reality of what a person faces in life, even in a bad place. That’s unfortunately what I see above.

    Most cops see the crime, integrate the lessons into their lives, but don’t lose themselves in it. They carry a gun off-duty in most cases, because crime does happen. They try to talk about things unconnected from work, and ideally have friends who aren’t OTJ. The guys who have the best lives after retirement are always the ones that don’t lose themselves.

    One should be able to make their own choices, but that doesn’t make everyone’s choices healthy or reasonable.

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  5. I ask one question, and it comes free, and free of any advocacy: do you have more than one fire extinguisher in your car?

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  6. Here we go again. The Emperor’s Executive Orders are no mere “proposals”, but, sadly, have the force of law somehow. And I can’t understand how. They should only be allowed to apply in cases of declared National Emergency.

    But then, technically, we ARE in a declared State of Emergency, since the end of WWII.

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  7. Black clad soldier: :Soldier, you rack a disciprine!”

    Soldier with foot up his bum: “Nuh-uh, I don’t rack a disciprine!”

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  8. Saw him 3 years in a row when he performed locally for Ducks Unlimited Greenwing Day. Obviously an outstanding shot but what made him so great in my opinion was his sense of showmanship. His demeanor and delivery was unmatched by any other exhibition shooter I’ve seen. The others may be great shots but can’t hold a candle to how he put on a show. Maybe it’s because we were close in age but I appreciated his style more than any other. Others such as Patrick Flanigan may be outstanding shooters but his brash, cocky demeanor just doesn’t do it for me as a performer. Tom allowed me to take some posed shots after one of his performances. I looked for the gun he held, an SBEII in the list of auction firearms but it isn’t there. Too bad. I would have bidded on that one.

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  9. I REALLY want a P09 but I do not have the cash. At least not now.

    and no I will not sell my 75B. I love that thing. I couldn’t bear to part with it.

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  10. Good point about multiple handguns and whether the CCW laws in your state allow multiple weapons. I just re-read my CCW book for the umptenth time and it does not say. Worth looking into if just for clarity.

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  11. Barry TOO conservative? The one man alive I would ban from owning firearms.
    Effing loons. Socialists killed over 100 million people in the 20th century.

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  12. I really appreciate that you addressed the “disabled strong side”. In my state, when you test for permit, you’re required to shoot both left and right handed (because they actually want license holders to be prepared to fight!) I was discussing this in a training course with a long time BCI investigator who explained that he’s sat through many autopsies. Every single time a body is on the table the strong hand is torn to shreds. When presented with a weapon, people are physiologically inclined to take out the weapon. When they kick in a door and smoke a guy who pulls a gun, it’s a head and chest full of holes and all the fingers shot off his hand.

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  13. I’m always amazed how a person’s mind associates a new gun/car/person etc with their existing catalog of memories. My mind pulled up Whitney Wolverine on my first sighting of the R51. Its now a day and a half later and I’m reminded more of an LC9 and SR9C. Upon googling the Whitney, I realize the Wolverine and the R51 are quite different. Best part is we have a new gun capturing our interest and generating opinions pro and con. This gun is best described as ZOOMY and I think my mind’s initial reaction was at least tangentially correct. This is the Zoomiest gun I’ve seen since the Wolverine.

    Heck, some one make a toy version that makes PEW PEW PEW Phaser sounds and I’ll buy it.

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  14. At the risk of being banished from this site forever, can I ask why (other than the fact that RF is friends with him) is Kenik so revered? His credentials seem a little thin. He claims to be a police officer,”with a New Mexico police agency”, but unlike other gun gurus who work as police officers he never mentions WHICH police department he works for, and none of his writings ever mentions anything related to his job as a police officer. For all we know he’s a reserve officer for a mall security outfit that has some kind of special police powers of arrest. None of this would really matter if he demonstrated some above average shooting skills, but seriously, I’ve watched a fair number of his videos and to me he shoots about as well as the average guy next to you at the range, and that’s about it. Lastly, he claims to be the executive director of an organization that exists to further the training and preparedness of police officers, but if you look at the financials for that organization it turns out that only about 10% of the money he collects actually makes it to the intended recipients, with the bulk of it going to the jerks who call you during dinner to ask for donations and the rest of it (quite a nice sum, more than I made last year for going to work every day) going to Kenik.

    http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional/telemarketers-turn-charity-into-profits-1/nRkGD/

    http://www.tampabay.com/americas-worst-charities/charities/disabled-police-and-sheriffs-foundation-inc

    I’m ready for the flaming, but I’m really hoping someone explains to me what makes Kenik any more deserving of attention and praise than any other overweight middle aged crabgrass commando with no combat or gunfight experience.

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  15. The forced look of those kids in the picture never fails to make me laugh. They all look kind of let down now that they met the President.

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  16. I’d have to disagree, because most of the homicides in Chicago are thug against thug, and no matter what the CCW laws are the gangs will play gangsters.

    Another note-I never did this myself, but one of my relatives was an old timer who came up before the IL FOID act passed back in the 60’s. Being an old school black man growing up during the Civil Rights Era, he carried -and presumably still does- a S&W .38 revolver, UUW law be damned.

    Far as I know he never had to use it, but lets just say that the FOID act didn’t disarm as many good guys as the limousine liberals think .

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