That this is always happening in “blue” cities?
Make no mistake, the ever escalating expenses of running a city (with government unionized employees) is making it hard for all municipalities. “red” places are having issues as well.
But all of the top 9 financially strapped municipalities are not hotbeds of conservatism…
Coincidence?
You decide.
That this happens.
If this were you or me, we’d be in jail for “lying to congress”. Among other things.
Who is printing up these stickers….
And where I could buy a few hundred?
So I bought a Taurus TCP to replace the Kel-Tec that I broke….Last week at the gun show, I tried out a bunch of small, polymer handguns…..I tried the S+W Bodyguard, but I really didn’t want the laser. I tried out the Diamondback (not polymer) and it was too heavy… I wasn’t gonna get another Kel-Tec, and there were no other small .380 pistols that I saw…. Except the TCP.- Slightly larger than the P-3AT, it had nearly all the features that I wanted. Small, light, decent (for a compact pistol) sights…Concealable enough for a jeans pocket or a lapel pocket in a suit. Thin enough to conceal easily. .380 (which is marginal, but hopefully enough should I need it) rather than .32 or .22. Pretty much what I was looking for..
So I bargained with one of the sellers and purchased a TCP. (The bargaining also included another pistol which may be in a later post, but I digress)….
Disassembly for cleaning is similar to any other small pistol of the type. Pull a pin, slide the side off of the frame, lift out the recoil spring from the slide, and lift out the barrel.
Fit and finish on this pistol is good. The slide is tight enough, and the barrel to slide fit is fairly tight. No sharp edges or mold lines to deal with. The texture on the polymer is good, allowing a decent grip. The grip is slightly longer than the pistol it replaced, making for a better grip with only my pinky finger floating free. The slide has adequate texture to allow for easy action. The slide edges are well rounded and the sights are low profile enough to prevent snagging on a pocket.
Trigger is good. Long, but decent. (Say about 7 lbs). Not what I’d care for in a normal carry pistol, but for the type of carry I expect this to be used for, it’s just about right. One thing that separated this pistol from the others in it’s class is that that it is not a Double Action, but feels more like a LDA from Para. (but not really, either. It’s just a light single action with a long trigger pull).
Range time was good. I liked the longer trigger guard. Previously, I had often banged the front of my trigger finger onto the trigger guard when shooting the Kel-Tec, but this pistol has a slightly longer trigger guard to prevent that from happening. At the range, it made a huge difference after 50 rounds or so.
Target shooting at 21 feet was good. With the long trigger, I tended to shoot low for the first few shots, but once I got over that, I found that I could shoot decent groups. A bit more practice and I think that I can tighten things up a bit. Here’s a target after a few magazines to get used to the point of aim.
The lower flyer in the 5 ring is my bad trigger squeeze. (and yes, I had the target upside down) I found that after 5 shots rapid fire, the pistol moves around enough in my hand that I end up using way too much trigger finger. Have to work on that……I finally got the groups down to less than 4 inches……
Reliability was good. no failures to feed, no failures of any kind, actually. Federal bulk FMJ in both flat nose and and round nose fed flawlessly as did Hornady Critical Defense. All in all, I shot 154 rounds of assorted ammo through this small pistol. And my hand didn’t hurt at the end of it, unlike the pistol it replaced. Now all I have to do is shoot another 350 or so rounds, and if this pistol works as flawlessly as it has so far, I’ll trust it enough to carry when I need a small concealment pistol.
It be true
The guy who wanted to blow up the pentagon, who is a muslim, is being shielded by the MSM..
No, they ARE reporting that he wanted to blow up the pentagon. But they are downplaying the fact that his motivation was the cause of Jihad. Downplaying the fact that he was a muslim.
Look, I really don’t care what your motivation for death, dismemberment, etc. is. If you want to use terror tactics to disrupt peoples lives, then you and I have a problem. You automatically become my enemy. If you wish to harm my fellow citizens, then I am your enemy….
But really, why downplay his motivation…Why downplay his religion? (and by the same token, they shouldn’t make a big deal about it either) But the MSM and the liberals (but I repeat myself) do their best to make a big deal when a person who may be choosing violence as his means of protest against our government is associated with a right leaning organization..say a Militia or the NRA or something like that. They did their best to portray Jared Laughner as a right wing gun nut when he shot Gabby Giffords and others a few months ago. They play up any right wing association they can (or if they are, god forbid, a christian or a conservative) but they downplay an attachment to a third century religion….almost as if they wish to hide the fact.
I hate double standards. Perhaps the guy was just a nutball. Perhaps he was embarking on his Jihad. Perhaps he represents all Muslims. I really don’t know. But I do know that there is a double standard in the MSM….
A prudent man foresees the difficulties and prepares for them; The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. Proverbs 22:3
I’m just sayin’
But somehow, for some reason, the papers and other news media fail to report on things like this, except when it is a man of middle eastern extraction or a bunch of country folks who might be in a “militia”….
One would wonder about the details though…. Was he really a wannabe terrorist, or was this another game by the Fumbling Bunch of Idiots where they talked themselves into this and just kinda gathered him up in the rush?
Exactly right
So, not content with letting criminals purchase firearms and failing to surveil them as they cross the border in order to make the claim of “80% of guns used in crimes in Mexico come from the US” as a vehicle to greater gun control measures……The US government purchased and gave away firearms using your money…for the same end!
Were I to do the same, I’d be participating in a “straw purchase”…Which would lead me to the pokey, the graybar hotel….I’d get a vacation at the expense of the taxpayers…, and bring me a very large fine. But I guess when government agents conspire to do so, it must be ok.
How in any way is it that this is not a scandal on the front pages of the papers, and in the nightly news? How is it that these agents who participated in this debacle are still working as federal agents? WHY AREN’T PEOPLE UNDER INDICTMENT OR IN JAIL?
We have federal agents BREAKING THE LAW and not even gaining anything, not even trying to catch people. The whole set of actions obviously not to stop lawbreakers but rather to perpetrate a fraud in the court of public opinion.
And their actions have caused the deaths of at least one federal agent and, reportedly, nearly a hundred Mexican civilians….Why are these agents involved in the cluster-fuck not charged with conspiracy to commit murder?
Why do federal agents get a pass on criminal actions which would land each of the rest of us in prison?
Why is this not a “Watergate”?
If you are living under a rock and aren’t familiar with the story of “Operation Fast and Furious”, use Google.