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Re: Even more pepper spray

Raymond Torres — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:52:35 -0000

pepper sprays are just as effictive as a gun or knife and they are non lethel

Re: Firearms for the physically disabled

Marshall Eubanks — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:10:23 -0000

Many if not most factory 1911s have too-strong recoil springs, for reasons I cannot begin to explain. They will function just fine if returned to the as-designed 14.5 pound recoil spring, and that might be just enough to return it to viable status for some with weak upper body strength.

And, a properly tuned 1911 can function just fine with an even lighter recoil spring (as low as 10 pounds) with standard self-defense ammunition. For someone seeking to address a special disability, spending more is pretty much the norm. Making sure the gun is in tune by a competent gunsmith is not unreasonable.

"A lighter recoil spring will make the gun easier to rack, but the gun won’t function as reliably" is simply false as a blanket statement.

Re: Stupid Gun Inventions: Loaded Chamber Indicators

MostlyGenius — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:06:42 -0000

"The LCI is to let those who are not firearms knowledgable that the state of the weapon is hot."
So are we assuming that everyone handing the weapon will have read the owners manual and know what/where the LCI is and what it means? Sorry, this does not make untrained people safer.

Safeties prevent the trigger from moving to the rear - i.e. if the weapon is dropped with sufficient force without a safety the trigger will travel to the rear. Most revolvers do not have an external safety, is it your argument that they are unsafe?

Re: Stupid Gun Inventions: Loaded Chamber Indicators

Todd — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:17:26 -0000

I have to agree you are assuming that every person has had some kind of firearms training. The LCI is to let those who are not firearms knowledgable that the state of the weapon is hot. With the mindsetof MostlyGenius why does a gun have a safety?

Re: Stupid Gun Inventions: The Glock Charging Handle

Patrick — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:46:40 -0000

It's also mostly used in race gun competition (not only on glocks, lots of them actually use the dovetail for the rear sight to fix it) to rack the slide quickly when you have a sight and a blast shield on top. (If you don't know what those things are you shouldn't be posting)

Re: Stupid Gun Inventions: The Glock Charging Handle

Tragicsandwich — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:22:39 -0000

Really? No intelligent response, so you go after a typo. HOALEY FOCKING SHEAT! I BET U CAN ONDERSTAND THES END I STEEL GET THA FOCKING POYNT ACROS! So what if he put one too many e's on see. The man has a valid point and you demonstrate that you have no intelligent rebuttal by attacking his grammar. He discussed the product, and you decided to attack a typo because you have no intelligent argument. Are you unwilling to admit that you have no experience with which to make an educated rebuttal? Are you incapable of conceding that he has a valid point? Apparently.

Re: Stupid Gun Inventions: Loaded Chamber Indicators

MostlyGenius — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:12:11 -0000

If you need to "get a round off in a split second" you are not looking at your LCI, you are looking at your sights (presumably.) If you are serious about self defense you carry your handgun with a loaded chamber and have the gun handling skills to do so. You could say that my loaded chamber indicator is that I am carrying MY firearm - I don't carry unloaded guns.

If you are pressing the trigger on a bad guy you are expecting the gun to go bang. The state of the LCI at that point doesn't matter (you won't be looking at it.) If the gun doesn't go bang you are going to be racking and trying again and the LCI will remain irrelevant.

"All that indicator does is let me know that round is ready to go" - Wrong. All that indicator does is let you know that a metal nub is sticking up on your gun. If everything is working correctly you know that the chamber is occupied by something that makes the metal nub stick up (like a live round, or a plastic training cartridge.) If everything is not working correctly, then you know your gun is dirty enough to make the LCI stick up when it is empty, or something broke. This would be like confirming your double action is unloaded by pressing the trigger until you don't hear a bang: the gun is either empty or you had a light primer strike on the last round.

"Stand down and de-chamber" - there is no such thing as "de-chamber", but there is such a thing as "unload" and there is no reason to invent one (unless you are Israeli.) Those of us that actually carry loaded guns (full magazines and loaded chambers) for defensive purposes all ready know what is going to happen when safeties are disengaged and the trigger is pressed: A bang, likely followed by more bangs, or a click (probably due to faulty ammo) followed by a rack and number of bangs greater than zero. The state of the LCI (if observed prior to pressing the trigger) does not change the two possible outcomes.

If you are fortunate enough to stand down without pressing the trigger then it is purely academic if a round was chambered or not, but I don't actually have any doubts myself as to the state of the chamber of MY firearm.

Re: Stupid Gun Inventions: Loaded Chamber Indicators

rockyrho — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:22:29 -0000

I strongly disagree. As with most everything it depends on how you use it. If I am handling the pistol in any non self defense situation, I agree, always treat as loaded and go thru the drill as one normally does, regardless of the indicator. But if I am in any position to potentially need to get a round off in a split second, it must be chambered. All that indicator does is let me know that round is ready to go.
I'm not going to pull that trigger needlessly. At that point my life is being seriously endangered and I must eliminate the threat immediately. Believe it or not that split second it takes to rack a round especially in the dark, may allow your attacker to disable you. I'd hate to explain that to surviving family. "If I only had the time to chamber a round, you're mother would still be alive." Of course you will both be dead, so that explanation will come from law enforcement because you both are dead. If you don't like it you can ignore it. If you have the indicator up and you stand down, then at least you are pretty sure you were ready. But the perp believed you when you said so. Stand down and de-chamber.

Re: The latest round of the 3 percenter nonsense

MostlyGenius — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:39:31 -0000

You stated: "Although we would be morally justified in every sense to be out killing ATF agents, local police who enforce unconstitutional gun laws"
The hutaree would agree. Are they not in the club? Who in your leaderless movement is in charge of regulating membership? Clearly the hutaree were a small group of individuals decided that the ballot box wasn't working. Maybe you don't support the fringe religious underpinning of the hutaree, but clearly you agree that the government is eroding our civil rights in direct violation of the constitution.

Perhaps you should read the writings of your founder/spokesman. He has denounced your "all peaceful means" as cowardice and drawn a line in the sand (which he continually moves farther back.)

If you are part of a movement that advocates or sympathizes with the killing of government officials and agents for unconstitutional actions ("morally justified") then you've earned comparison with groups that believe the same (the hutaree). (proven, owned, lulz, dude.)

If you are part of a leaderless moment you theoretically are joining a group of people with similar (not identical) ideologies. You cannot control who joins your movement, nor can you expel them for their ideas or actions.
You want to be a group of regular guys that are taking a stand for your
rights. Except there is no stand (save chirping on the internet) and there
is no group (save some imagined number of like minded individuals willing to
type.)

I am not advocating that you take action, I am advocating that you stop
talking about actions that you will never take. You are not shaking your
guns in the tyrants face. Graffiti and vandalism is not revolution or civil
war.

Why do I want you to shut your collective suck holes? Because you are
counter productive. All of the recent gains in legal protection and more
importantly public opinion regarding gun rights happened despite the
grandstanding and threats of your fellow travellers.

The govt is using the threat of "domestic terrorism" as a justification for
increased encroachment on our rights. There is no deterrent effect in empty
threats. The only reason the militia movement isn't just simply ignored is
because of the actions of McVeigh, various racist groups, and hutaree nut
jobs. If the militias weren't tarred with the same brush they wouldn't be
getting any ink.

Because the militias are tarred with the same brush the soccer moms that
want guns for self defense against criminals are given pause by fat guys in
camouflage screaming about killing government officials. The soccer moms
don't get that you are all hot air.

Re: The latest round of the 3 percenter nonsense

Bitter Clinging Texan — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:26:47 -0000

you are either stupid or a liar. Or possibly, most likely both. You are the one who is irrelevant. You got owned by me and responded with outright lies ASAP. I never mentioned the Hutaree, nor do I or any other III percenter that I know share their ideology. Nor do all or even most III percenters wear a patch. Put up or shut up. Prove that I share the ideology of the hutaree or apologize to me for lumping me in that category.

Re: The latest round of the 3 percenter nonsense

MostlyGenius — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:19:01 -0000

So you are a leaderless moment where individuals and/or small groups will decide when they have been infringed upon enough and retaliate with violence - but you want to be part of a club and have a patch. You want to attach yourself to the militias of the American revolution (despite having done nothing yourselves) but distance yourselves from the wacko militias like the hutaree (despite sharing some of their ideology).
Silly. Irrelevant.

Re: The latest round of the 3 percenter nonsense

Bitter Clinging Texan — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:08:23 -0000

He is obviously more coherent than you are. The III% are regular Americans, who want nothing more than to be left in peace and for an end to tyrannical, oppressive firearms laws that have plagued this nation since 1934. All of your goading, and your smug, self serving ad hom attacks on us because we aren't in the streets shooting at every fed we see wont work. Although we would be morally justified in every sense to be out killing ATF agents, local police who enforce unconstitutional gun laws(requiring of a permit to carry, banning open carry, forbidding of full auto weapons, etc), Politicians who vote for oppressive, stalinist gun laws(If we were the violent maniacs that your lamestream media and SPLC portays us as, then scum like schumer, fienstien, boxer, Daley, and company would have ceased unhindered oxygen consumption long ago), and "celebrities" and pundits who advocate the rape of our most important right( thats right, bill maher, Rosie, Rachel Madcow and the rest deserve lead as much as the jack booted thugs who are nothing more than the modern day version of Ezhov/Beria's NKVD) WE ARE NOT DOING THAT FOR SERVERAL REASONS. First and foremost, as patriotic Americans, we are determined to exhaust any and every peacable means to defend our freedom while avioding the horrors that come with pretty much every revolution and civil war since the begining of time. and Secondly, we are a leaderless movement and either individuals or small groups will decide for themselves when the ballot box is obsolete and it's time to reach for the cartridge box

Re: The latest round of the 3 percenter nonsense

MostlyGenius — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:47:18 -0000

Radical. I'll have to remember that one. Can you even read?

Re: The latest round of the 3 percenter nonsense

Ballard Nikolai — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:10:40 -0000

Your sick for attacking a group of people who excersise there freedom. Fuck your radical bullshit!

Re: British Gun Control Failure

Jmiller2 — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:36:33 -0000

Jeff Miller - Here in our country the U.S., Get bitten once by a snake-no big deal,bitten twice -what the,three times-you start bitting back

Re: The 3 percenter non-sense.

MostlyGenius — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:10:13 -0000

Well, the 3%ers claim to be extremists that stockpile weapons and think the government is out to get them. What does it mean to be a non-extremist supporter of an extremist organization? By the way, they are 'extremist' in rhetoric - not in action. They don't do action, save for a little bit of vandalism.

Re: The 3 percenter non-sense.

Gettalent — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:58:13 -0000

Geez... Im not extreme and I support the 3%ers. These folks are merely exercising their rights and beliefs. Maybe they are proud of American heritage and the American revolution. I had heard that 3% of the colonialists defeated the British and created America. Im proud of that. Doesnt mean I have a stock pile of weapons or think the govt is out to get me. I do find it kind of extreme that supporting the Constitution is radical these days. Kind of a smack in the face to anybody that has defended our country.

Re: The latest round of the 3 percenter nonsense

MostlyGenius — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:48:35 -0000

Yeah, that post was written 2008. In the years following Obama's election there have been numerous additional restrictions placed upon our god given liberty and for all of the bluster of the militia tough guys I don't see a lot of militia skirmishes against the government (certainly none endorsed by the 3%).

MV said "Don’t extrapolate from your own cowardice and assume that just because you would do anything the government told you to do that we would." Apparently we are well past making assumptions. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader if the 3% are cowards or merely hypocrites. Random vandalism surely seems to fall short of the promise to "kill anyone who tried to further restrict our God-given liberty."

Additionally, unlike your "alleged leader" I have never been a communist (recanted or otherwise.) I am not sure that proving Communism is genocidal ideology (agreed) has anything to do with the discussion at hand. You may now go about the rest of your day being really excited about talking a good fight, I just wonder that isn't the bloom off of that rose yet after all these years of inaction?

Re: The latest round of the 3 percenter nonsense

amused — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:13:52 -0000

If it needs explaining, it's unlikely your egghead is worthy of the time investment. You will know when it happens. If you have nothing worth dying for, you have nothing worth living for. But I can't help wonder where your intellectual "Essay dealing with gun control" got you? In what way did it "Deal with" anything other than to self aggrandize your ideology within your pathetic little communist social circle? Do the world a favor, and write an essay on this. http://www.scaruffi.com/politi...

Re: Stupid Gun Inventions: Loaded Chamber Indicators

PG — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:39:46 -0000

While I agree a gun should always be treated as though it is loaded there is at least one very valuable positive use for this. Lets say its 4 am your asleep you hear the worst people in the world kicking your front door down. You dive over your bed grab your pistol jump behind some cover and think you are chambered to fire if needed. Its very nice to be able to feel in the dark and tell if there should be a round in it. Other wise you need to pull the slide hard back and chamber a round telling the would be terrible guys where the hell you are. I see other post also point out it is to tell it is loaded not to check if it might not be loaded since every gun is treated as though its loaded by anyone smart.

Re: Stupid Gun Inventions: The Pistol Bayonet

MostlyGenius — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:01:13 -0000

Wow, I hope you are just a troll.

Re: Stupid Gun Inventions: The Pistol Bayonet

TheFnKey — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:01:44 -0000

okay just think about it. The recoil ( if its a larger caliber round) would kick the front of the gun upwards and in turn the knife would slice into its target. The blades sharp edge would have to be facing upwards though

Re: The Cumulative Effects of Equipment

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Re: Stupid Gun Inventions: The Small Of the Back Holster

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Re: Questions for the Three Percent

Ro Bo — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:24:18 -0000

Another interesting point to keep in mind about the military. Highest ratio of Ron Paul voters of any group. Sounds to me as if the men in uniform have much higher than 3% who've actually studied the Constitution and take their oath to it seriously.