Got a friends who is looking for her second carry gun.
She is looking for a DAO pistol, single stack.
I gave her my Sig P250 to try, but she is a curvy girl, and cannot easily conceal it. She likes the trigger, but it is too bulky for her
She likes the feel of the Glock 43, but it isn’t DAO. She is kinda stuck on the longer trigger…..
She doesn’t want a tiny 9mm, but she does want a concealable 9mm….
Any suggestions?
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I’m helping teach yet another NRA First Steps pistol course. Demand for this course has grown to the point where we are teaching once a month and the classes are full every time (the classroom at our range accommodates 27 max).
More and more people are getting serious about carrying, and this class is as it is called, the first step. Women, non-white people (in an an area that is probably 90% white) are taking this class. Lots of interest, we could run 3 classes a month, but there are only so many instructors….. Used to be a few years ago, we had issues getting enough interest for a once a month class that was half full, not so much today. Every time Barry talks, attendance jumps. Plus crime is rising everywhere, and people are realizing that the police just make a report after the fact….(or, as one of my students pointed out,if they aren’t drawing a line with chalk around your body)
We charge just a bit more than the NRA charges us for the class, (covers insurance and a few dollars per person for the range facilities) none of the instructors or coaches are paid, the pop and coffee is free and range time is at zero cost.
I enjoy this, and I owe a lot of folks who taught me 30-40 years ago, few of whom I am able to thank, cause they have passed. So this is my thanks to them……
Payin’ it forward, one person at a time.
Today is JMB day,….IMO, should be a National Holiday.
Yes, the Birthday of John Moses Browning.
‘Twas his genius which created such firearms as the Model 19898, Model 19892 and 19894 lever actions….and the M-60 family of machineguns. And other designs.
And, of course, the Model 1911 pistol, that tilting barrel action which has essentially influenced the creation of nearly every non-blowback pistol on the market today.
There were many others, but these are the highlights.
That people who are terribly emotionally tied up in an argument, when it is pointed out to them the flaw in their argument or position, cannot accept their failure in logic.
“Yes, but….”
“A=B Yes? “
“Yeah”
“B=C, yes?”
“Yes”
“Therefore A=C,”
“NONONONONONO…..I think that….”
Aaaaand around we go again. Emotion is the enemy of logic for many people. Religion is the only thing that trumps that…..
Who think the Oscars are too white, and that blacks are ……underrepresented in the awards, shall we say….
Are going to vote Democratic this year…
and choose between Hillary Clinton (a white woman) and Bernie Sanders(a white man) and not complain about how they are underrepresented….?
I mean, double standards are fine, up to a point.
The Blue model is beginning to show the cracks….
First Baltimore and that poorly run police department (and the mayor who said, in effect, “Let the niggers riot”)..
Then we hear about the failure in Flint, Michigan. and the elevated lead level in the water (although I doubt that the lead levels in the kids are solely from a years worth of slightly acidic river water eroding pipes)….and the Hype by the Media is that no one can in any way use the water, even for bathing or washing……or even flushing. Instead, an example of how dependent these citizens are, is that the National Guard must DELIVER water door to door, because the residents apparently cannot even rouse themselves to go to distribution centers to get the FREE WATER…. The Democrats failed that city so badly that the State took over most operations in Flint….
What do these cities (and the Greater St Louis, and the Katrina era New Orleans and most “old” US cities) have in common?
Yep, run by Democrats for 30 or more years. Run into the ground. Political appointees with little proper backgrounds (Usually a degree in something like Political Science) making decisions that affect millions, both immediately and into the future…
Chicago, Milwaukee Cincinnati and Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and many others are not far behind.
And now the cities are crumbling, and the wealth is going to the suburbs, or elsewhere, leaving only the poor to reap the results of the leadership failure.
Expect more reports of infrastructure failures and failures of leadership to come from these cities run by those who follow the DNC.
I mean…..”Blizzerdd warnings!!!!!!….As much as (haha, you whiney little wimps) a FOOT of snow in a day! Zomg! Prepare! (actually, in the winter (or any time) you should be prepared for a week without heat or electricity and the possibility that you can’t get out because of the weather…)..
The authorities are sounding the alarm:
12 inches in a day and up to 20 inches in the storm total? Here, we call it a “significant snowfall”…. and go on about our business. Winds of “up to 35 MPH with gusts of 60″….gee, guess you’ll have to buy a frikkin hat and maybe some gloves (although it isn’t supposed to be that terribly cold….). Possibility of ice? Better get some (fresh) gas for the genset……. So you can power the Dish and all…
Seriously, this is gonna be a decent snowfall and winter storm, but the hype and panic are making me laugh…..Many parts of the US and Canada wouldn’t even slow down for a “Winter Storm” such as this….But because it will impact both DC and New York Cittee, the news folks are going apeshit.
If this happened in Rapid City S.D or OKC, the national news probably wouldn’t even mention it….
Gone to the Hotel California.
Hope he is takin’ it easy…..
Jesus, the musicians and performers of my youth are fallin’ like dominoes….
(BTW, his Birthday was the 15th, but the Democrats move it around so the Government employees have an extra long weekend every year…..)…Hardly a tribute to the man when his day just becomes another day off….
So here we are….53 (actually 52-1/2) years later after his big speech on the Mall in Washington.
Is his dream alive?.
Depends. Most places, yes, it thrives. If people are willing to let it.
Ferinstance:
We bowl with a bunch of people. All races. White, Black, Hispanic, Asian. It is a fun league, and we do have a lot o fun…..together. Color/race/ethnicity is not a factor in our relationships. No one really cares. The kids that run around are treated as kids. Children of all races play together…Adults of all colors watch out for those same kids. Asshole adults are treated like assholes (they don’t stick around long)…..Content of Character is really the only judgement….No one acts like a “Yo” or an inbred cracker….everyone is a decent solid citizen. Cops from Gary mingle with firefighters from Portage who mingle with business owners from Valparaiso……all fairly well educated and who speak English. People wearing Hijabs are looked at, but are treated with courtesy and politeness…and not noticed….. like everyone else.
Same-Same at the gunshow this weekend. The folks showing and selling Nazi items were, for the most part, shunned. The crowd was mostly white, but no one cared about the other ethnicities….I didn’t see a single vendor turn anyone with cash away from a sale…. Yes, there were a lot of assholes….they were treated as such, no matter what their skin color. Decent people who acted well were treated politely. The big point here is that no one CARED what your ethnicity was. Buyers were treated like buyers….ethnicity was, for the most part, ignored. If you didn’t look (and more importantly ACT) like a gangbanger, or a skinhead, then you were not treated any differently than any of the rest of the crowd.
The point is that no one gets treated special, or differently based on skin color or ethnicity. Everyone gets treated the same.
MLK’s “Dream” may not be alive everywhere, but here in the Middle and upper class midwest, it lives and breathes.