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Direct consequence of AB48 being signed into law: magazine prices at Exile Machine jumped up by 20% overnight. The six magazines I had in my shopping cart last night are now going to cost me $24 more.
just received notice via email that …
Dear Springfield Customer,
We are pleased to announce that our testing was successful and is complete.
We will receive our first shipment of upgrade parts early next week and will begin shipping upgraded XD-S™ pistols back to our customers the week of October 21 on a first-received/first-upgraded basis.
Once your pistol has been upgraded and is shipped back to you, an e-mail confirmation with tracking information will be sent to you at the e-mail address you provided.
For additional update information please click the link below to view the FAQ for the XD-S™ recall. If this document doesn’t address your question, please call 800-680-6866 or send your question to [email protected]
Wow, that’s bad. What a shame. I really liked the XDs when I shot it, and it was on my list for future acquisition.
The gun control push of the 90’s in Canada reduced firearm suicide and the overall rate remained exactly the same. The substitution effect exists, and it’s 1 for 1.
I think what we have in the U.S. re: firearm suicides is a simple case of parallel correlation. Densely populated, highly urbanized states also tend to be the ones with severe gun laws and less access to guns. However, they’re also by the same token the ones that have less social isolation and easier access to mental health services. Compare that to less populated states, where the “frontier” ethic prevails – guns are prevalent but it’s a lot easier to be isolated and mental health services are hard to come by in the Alaskan wilderness.
Back in the 90’s, someone did a study on firearms and suicide in the US. One of the data trends studied was that of the Japanese.
In Japan, the suicide rate (overall) is something over 20 per 100K population.
In the US, the suicide rate among people of Japanese heritage was below the US average. Even with access to firearms.
From reviewing the rates of suicide in various countries in the 90’s, I came to the conclusion that the major causalities of the underlying reasons for a nation’s suicide rate are a) cultural, b) environmental.
The suicide rate among Russian men who otherwise drink themselves into an early grave is cultural.
The suicide rate among males in rural American is environmental.
The suicide rate among American rural men with firearms is because a gun is the tool at hand.
I wouldn’t get too far out ahead of your skis on Beretta QC. You can thank the trident for putting “bent shell carrier” into our lexicon and other quirks I dealt with on a 391 I USED to own (frozen mag cap, impossibly over engineered gas bleed system). #shivers
“The hell they are closing the WW2 monument”
Carl remembering his service in the Wehrmacht decided to pull his last remaining tooth the German Army way. He tied one end of the string to the round, and the other to his tooth. He then shot the round out of his MG 42.
The joy and excitement (and possibly the vibrations through the ground) from the machine gun gave grandma that old feeling she hadn’t felt in decades!
When the government shutdown caused cancellation of movie night at the Old Soldiers Home in Menlo Park, NJ, 92 year old retired Sergeant Al “Killer” Kowalski took matters into his own hands.
Spoiler alert: Midway USA has these in stock. Average review is 5/5 for 15 reviewers. It seems mechanically quite similar to my CMMG M4 Lep II upper (mines a 6.8 Spec II), so probably runs like a champ and is accurate to boot. I guess we’ll see if it can maintain that level of satisfaction with crappy ammo and high round counts.
Former Royal Fusilier Collin R. ‘Smitty’ Smithington demonstrates the lengths
to which the U.K. must go, to prevent the return of Piers Morgan to British soil.
Screw the machine, can I have their ammo budget?
Not sure I’d want to go through a box of 12 gauge shells in 3 minutes without serious shoulder padding.
and then Mable said “Yea, I got my FOID card right here!”
New York City is just a lost cause period. I live in western CT…been to “the city” a few times. The first time I figured why not? Any time since it was only because I didnt want my future wife going alone. I honestly cannot see what the attraction is to that immense open sewer. I like a good museum as much as anyone, but I’d rather look at pictures on a computer screen than have to wade through all the human filth and ignorance of NYC to view something in person. I wish someone could point out the things (that Im apparantly missing) that allegedly make NYC so great. I suppose if youre a phony “educated” liberal, then a phony polished turd of a city seems like a fine place to live.
Taking away the Vodka and potato rations was a mistake
Eh. Interesting, I suppose. But those target flight arcs don’t mimic anything I’ve hunted here in the west.
The sporting clays ranges where I’ve shot re-configured their presentations and targets to mimic local game bird populations going into hunting season for warm-ups, whether for chukar, Huns, blues, quail, etc.
Wobble trap gives you much more random presentations.
Here in Wyoming, pheasant flush and hold low and flat. They’re easier than a trap target to hit. Sage grouse are stupid-easy to hit. There’s little wonder in my mind why they’re going out of existence. They’re simply too stupid to survive. Last sage grouse I hit was with my one-ton pickup at 40MPH. Dumb bird.
What do you know, one of the few times I decide to write a politician and it was effective (somewhat). Thank you to the other 65000 Californians who have not given up the fight.
Reminds me of a flight suit
Never vote libtard (democrat) again. All you morons on this forum who thing they (R and d) are the same.
Wise up.
“Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.” – George S. Patton. California democrats definitely Lead the Way.
When the hell is everyone going to get in the same boat and realize all Democrats have to go at every level in every state. When we have that, we will have some peace. Until then we all have to get off our dead asses and try to convince the uneducated. Monumental job but we have to do it for the sake of America as we know it…
What’s even crazier is I remember the Phila Police losing a few Vietnam era fully auto m-16’s they bought because their inventory procedures suck
The Chief is right. The last time I drove through DC everybody and his brother was walking around with AR-10s and M-1As.
Maybe I missed something, but how often are cops sniped with a long gun?
-D
OK, this is clearly a fiendish plot by the clay pigeon and ammo manufacturers to sell LOTS of product.
Grampa’s reaction when told it was time for another colonoscopy……
Wow more technology for our guns personally I think it’s getting ridiculous, scopes that all but aim for you, gun safes reading finger prints and/or rfid tags, night vision, infra red, and lasers what happened to iron sights, key locked mechanical safes, and telescopic scopes? Then again maybe I’m just old school or a purist or whatever you’d call a guy like me.
I bought a hotel safe w a digital readout and mounted in bedroom closet. It works just fine and has an internal light that kicks on for 10 seconds so I can pick which gun I want/need. It has a key backup. I don’t do biometric. Too much to risk and with little ones, I cannot leave loaded weapons sitting out.
In this highly unlikely scenario of men wearing blue helmets marching down our streets to collect our firearms…well…lets just say that I sure wouldn’t want to be them. A lot of UN blood will be spilled. And those men know it.
Ok, in this situation, I think Biden may be right. Buy a shotgun! Buy MANY shotguns!! They allow those in Canada, right? If not, rent out room to a bunch of hockey players.
I consider this kind of repeated assaults and threats ‘terroristic’ and at that point, nothing matters but survival (and cleansing the gene pool).
Last time I checked, the average Canadian can have a large choice of long guns in their home without running afoul of their laws. They can also own handguns and keep them at home without running afoul of their laws. I believe the major restriction on handgun ownership is that the barrels have to be at least 5 inches long.
As for concealed carry permits, those are pretty much non-existent. But in the home they are good to go as far as I know.
This may be the most important post on TTAG, yet. Chilling.
I had a Springfield XDs when they first came out and while unloading the gun fired(only damaged a counter thanks to proper GUN safety). The firearm was sent back and I was told it was “human error” but they did not return the brass or bullet. You could see on the primer that the pin hit on an angle??? Needless to say I no longer own that firearm.