My computer is experiencing greater and/or lesser technical issues. Posting my be light and/or nonexistant as access to a non -Windows 8 machine is limited.
I will have to wait for software from the manufacturer…and possibly a new hard drive. We shall see.
GLOCK is going to bring us a firearm that nearly every other manufacturer has had out for years!!!!
I mean, yeah, GLOCKS are nice guns. They lack a decent safety, are more prone to ND’s than any other gun, and their triggers feel like mush and have half assed resets. But they are GLOCKS!
No, really, I just don’t understand the pants wetting happiness that the GLOCK fanbois are having….Is it because your favorite manufacturer is finally giving you what you have been asking for for years? Finally providing you a product you could have purchased from S&W four or more years ago, or Taurus a few years before that (or maybe KAHR a few years before that)? Or is it that you can finally get a moderately unsafe firearm for easier concealed carry (except that you’ll have to have an uncomfortable Kydex IWB holster to carry it in)? Or that you can carry a 9mm pistol with 6 rounds in a package that is 96% of the size of a 1911 derivative* (which comes with real safeties) that carries the same number of rounds….only in .45ACP?
Just kidding folks, I am glad you get to finally carry a concealed single stack and can finally not feel left out by your manufacturer. Because GLOCK!
* This is not an endorsement of Kimber pistols, merely used as a comparison
So the other day I was preaching preparation to a person.
Preparation: Have a few cans of food, a method of cooking it, and a means of staying warm (and alive) if the power goes out for a week or so. Try to have enough food for at least a 2 week period, etc.
So they asked me how to get started. I suggested buying 1 or two extra cans a week until they have 5 cans per person per day stashed. Hide it under a blanket or a board at the bottom of a closet if no other storage is available.
Then one of them asked me…..what if things go really bad….Not just weather elated (ice storm, tornado, etc) but really bad…War, or civil unrest, etc….
You still have the food. You still have the means to cook it.
And most of all, you have TIME…… TIME to prepare. Time to plan. Time to realize what is happening and make other plans….Time to deal with the immediate situation while everyone else is starving and cold. Time to succeed when everyone else is failing around you.
Yeah, right:
So when it is ummmmm….inconvenient to have all that transparency and openness, a Presidential Administrtion can decide to just ….well, make itself exempt from a law?
No, Barry, that isn’t how it works.
So the ATF got caught, and (temporarily) abandoned the idea of banning a type of common ammunition.
They backed off from that.
But further review shows that they are considering banning much more ammo.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Or maybe just the blood of some bureaucrats every so often to keep the others in line….Tree of liberty and all that.
I see that NASCAR has re-instated Kurt Bush….They should never have suspended him in the first place.
Where was the assumption of innocence? Some vengeful Bimbo Patricia Driscoll tried her best to trash his reputation. The Courts and Law Enforcement took the time to investigate and found that:
“After a thorough consideration of all of the available information about the case, it is determined that the admissible evidence and available witnesses would likely be insufficient to meet the burden of establishing beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Busch committed a crime during the September 26th incident,”. This is the incident where she came to his trailer after they had broken up and where she claims he smashed her head into the wall….but she didn’t know to report it until after over a month had passed…and the supposed bruises had had time to fade (she’s 35 years old, not some 17 year old girl,….”Didn’t know”? Really? A professional adult woman was unsure as to what to do when there is an act of domestic violence?)
The courts are willing to presume his innocence until it could be proven otherwise. Sadly, NASCAR couldn’t do the same. NASCAR owes Kurt Busch a apology. And he should sue that vengeful bitch Ms. Driscoll for damages.She did her best to tank his career, waiting until just before the start of the season to bring these allegations to the courts and (especially) to the press…
If only he’d have had the option of telling his team , NASCAR, and his sponsors (especially Chevrolet) to piss off and go elsewhere for a ride.
And now, at least, every other male knows to take real care with Patricia, lest you get on her bad side, and your job and reputation become a target for her to destroy in vengeance.
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3.1415…..just wait until 9:26:53. Only happen once in yer lifetime. Iffen I had time I’d raise a glass.
enjoy if you can.
‘m off to get some work done.
Re: Green tip M855/SS109 ammo ban:
At.This.Time.
Watch ’em. Carefully.
I called Para today, seeking parts for my LDA carry 3″ (sorta not quite a 1911). I needed a recoil spring…..
On hold for 15 minutes.
When the service agent answered, he listened to my issue, and then apologized.
No parts available. Seems that since the company was bought by Remington, they have zero parts inventory. (this is a guaranteed for life product. I expected it to be the life of the firearm, not the life of the company that produced it….) He did say that once things settle down, they expect to have parts available sometime this summer…maybe.
His alternate suggestion: Buy a recoil spring assembly for the equivalent Kimber 3″ pstol. Said it should work. Of course, that also means that I have to pay for it.
Y’know, quality control issues aside, I like the Para LDA products. But whoever is in upper level management just can’t seem to make the company do things right.
Oh, well, I can only hope that once things settle with Remington that they will have parts and they will (as promised) honor the warranties.