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A guy goes to the supermarket and notices a very attractive woman waving at him.             She says, 'Hello.'             He's rather taken aback because he can't place where he knows her from. So he asks, 'Do you know me?'             To which she replies, 'I think you're the father of one of my kids.'             Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife.             So he asks, 'Are you the stripper from the bachelor party that I made love to on the pool table, with all my buddies watching, while your partner whipped my butt with wet celery?'             She looks into his eyes and says calmly, 'No, I'm your son's teacher.'

Guys, this will be the first, last, and only warning for trolling. If you have a problem with someone, man up and talk to that person face to face, not anonymously on an Internet forum. Or for that matter, not out in the open on THIS Internet forum. TGO will NOT be the conduit for you to attempt to trash someone who hurt your feelings. If you require counseling, I can recommend a good therapist.

I have never been a big fan of the Redhawk. I always preferred the slimmer frame of a Blackhawk. This new Redhawk looks interesting. I kinda dig the funky shape of it and like the smaller grip. Looks like it will ship with three moon clips so it can shoot 45LC or 45acp.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33130987   Here's a bit of advice on how to lower their debt... get the hell out of Connecticut!

Why are they running around with their fingers on the trigger?

Having your vehicles serviced at Walmart is roughly akin to expecting to get a gourmet meal through the McDonald's drive-through window ...

So tonight my nephew tested for his yellow belt (second belt) in Taekwondo and Hapkido. The man who test him was the same man who tested me, my dad. I thought it was pretty cool that we now have 3 Generations of Martial Artist in the family. My dad is a 6th Degree blackbelt in Taekwondo, Hapkido and Judo, My oldest sister and myself are both 1st degree black belts in all 3 arts, and now her son and my nephew has started on the same path. Here are some pictures from tonight's test. The test included judo, even though the judo belt ranks take much more time to achieve, the school has always taught all 3 together and not made separate time or classes for each. Sent from the backwoods

For the hipster, it's just another way to be fashionable and see who can spend the most money on the current trend. Not that the guys at zero tolerance or benchmade or other high end makers will complain. Sales are sales.

Do ya really think Beretta will stay when they find out the State is requiring them to stamp "Go Big Orange!!" on all their guns? :bow:

Worst.  Excuse.  Ever.    Either their firearms safety training program is substandard, their officers adherence to firearms safety is substandard, or some combination of both. 

Well, my patients can't talk, but I did have a scratch on my cornea once.  It felt like sand or a hair was in my eye constantly (like I wanted to rub and flush my eyes, but it had no effect).   When animals have corneal ulcers they will have similar symptoms--spasms of eye, excessive tearing, redness, and sometimes a constricted pupil.   I would go to an ophthalmologist.  An optometrist is more focused on correcting visual deficits with lenses.  An ophthalmologist is a medical doctor who then specialized in diseases of the eye.  Their education overlaps, but the ophthalmologist will have more training and experiences with eye diseases.

I guess if I had to choose my 2 I hate most it is a toss up between the Lawyers and the Pharmaceutical companies pushing their pills that will treat 1 issue and give you at least 5 other bad issues to get rid of one. Gotta love those with 25 Plus bad side effects to get rid of an ingrown toenail...................... :shrug: :shrug:  

No sympathy whatsoever for a company that can't exist without a firm bite on the .gov teet. 

Tough love? keep screwing around with your eyes, they will give you a free dog! Seriously, go to an Opthamologist, our opinions are worth exactly what you pay for them.

All I have to say about this is I wish they would have stayed with Beretta's because the new plant here is under construction and I want them to be successful here..............jmho

Colt messed up big time by basically ignoring the civilian market while their pockets were being filled with uncle sams moola...Now that uncle sam dropped them as their small arms supplier in favor of Remington, they were left with nowhere to peddle their wares with an already booming civilian market...

I'm not allowed in local Arby's since my last visit when I refused to leave the store until they made me a sandwich that looked like the one in the TV commercials. The manager finally made me one with all the meat they showed on TV and served it to me in a bag with fries and politely told me not to come back so I have not been back. They advertise that they have the meat so I wanted the meat.......... :rant: :rant: :rant:

Those two dufus guys for Sonic just make me sick. Talk about insulting your intelligence...they are some of the worst.

Transitional training from the 92 or 5906 to an M&P in the hands of a 10-20 year veteran is a major shift in direction. All of the potential bad habits of staging a DA trigger while on a target become a ND  in the making with the M&P. E1 has the right of it, this is a transitional training issue that's only going to be solved by repetitive training. He's also right in questioning the type of holsters being used. I'm not going to point a finger at "finger on the trigger" because of sloppy gun handling.  

Good Mojo sent your way. I hope Bogey takes a turn for the better, we know how you feel.

I had some friends over one night. We were sitting around a fire talking and drinking when coyotes started raising hell. All of a sudden a bobcat let out a bloodcurdling scream from the same direction as the coyotes...Silence. Like someone flipped a switch. Not another whimper out of anything the rest of the night.

Fun Fact:  Restasis for the treatment of KCS was first invented and patented as a medicine for dogs for the treatment of KCS (by a Georgia veterinarian, no less).  I was using topical cyclosporin for KCS in dogs for a long time before the human version was approved.  Most medicines shared between the species start on the human side and then are adopted for animals.   Probably costs a lot more for humans, though.

You can’t pull the trigger if your finger isn’t on it; and that shouldn't be an issue. They are going through the same learning curve Officers did went they went from revolvers to Tupperware. I want to know why the guy had his finger on the trigger when he fell over a baby stroller. Or are they trying to imply the fall fired the weapon?

Those are the ones that kill me.   We can get rid of your minor problem that is an inconvenience, but we will give you ten major problems, and possibly death, oh and if you have any other issues, you problably shouldn't take this either.         And then a year down the road, there will be one for a lawyer who is leading a class action suit against the aforementioned drug.

  While you are likely correct, unless I am mistaken this isn't the first time Colt has gone bankrupt.  Again, unless I am mistaken, the first time was when Samuel Colt, himself, was still running the company.

Memphis is nice.

Concur, but its not uncommon for the heavy DA trigger of a DA/SA pistol to be slightly preset due to piss poor handling practices. All of which reaffirms solid firearms and use of force policies coupled with continuous training.  

    Ohh yeah, let the Freedom Dbags have at 'em.  No one knows how to F up a gun company like them remington boys.  I'm sure they'll be turning out Taurus quality turds with Python stamped on them lickety split.     Honestly, is the name so valuable we would do to them what they did to Marlin?  pppfffftt.  

I sold my XDS with 5 mags and had just enough to buy the Shield w/ 2 mags. I prefer the Shield, and I am a Glock guy.

  It's always easier to use your own insurance, and have them file back against the other party. Sure it may tie up your deductible for a few months but its worth it not dealing with the heart burn.

Exactly, the suspension means lost wages, that really fixes it in an officers head that they'd better get straightened out. The remedial training, which is fully documented by the way, is to make certain the officer knows what they did wrong and how to do it correctly. That generally fixes that particular problem because the officer knows future consequences are worse. If its a problem officer they'll do enough active stupid stuff compiled to be fired. Agencies that fail to adhere to this end up with serious problems. LASO might not be perfect but its head and shoulders above a lot of other major law enforcement agencies I know of.  

The guns don't go bang all by themselves.....just sayin. Idiots.

The probability of one wearing body armor is greater than you may think. If they can get it, they will wear it. Trust me, it is not hard to get. I am not worried about a shotgun with 00 stoping them with armor on though.

Hmmm. I hate to date myself, but my parents were having this same conversation when we got our first TV set back in 1951 - 64 years ago!!

training aside, it would seem that a tiny # of officers have gotten in the habit of resting their fingers on the trigger with the understanding that the excessive trigger pull won't go off without more force being applied.  This is not working out well for a usable trigger that goes bang when a small amount of force is applied.   I suspect this has nothing to do with training and a lot to do with a small # of people doing it their own way and getting schooled on their mistake.

This reminds me of the NYPD and the KAHR K9...lighter/different trigger than the duty weapon coupled with limited training. The gun is at fault because your finger was on the trigger. In a mega department with tens of thousands of officers, how in the world can they get adequate training unless it is off duty?

I watch local TV in the morning for news. The commercials that bug me the most are the ambulance chasing lawyer commercials.

Wonder if POTUS will bail them out like the auto makers and banks?

I was about to seriously call shenanigans then, I realized you were talking about the LASD and not the LAPD. :lol: It really is a non-story as long as no citizens were hurt and were made whole for any resulting property damage.

The Jon Snow scene was different in the books.  Same ending, but different chain of events that brought him to it.  This was the only change in the series that I didn't think was okay as an alternate route.  That said, I think the writers sent the Red Woman to Castle Black so she can revive Jon Snow like Thoros of Myr did with Lord Beric Dondarian in Season 3.   Theon/Reek and Sansa jumped to a snowbank.  Death in GoT isn't that simple.

That's why I DVR most programs and fast forward through the commercials.  Worst commercial... I agree with hipower, the Sonic guys. 

That depends on the department involved. When my outfit transitioned from revolvers to auto pistols, the transition course was 1,260 rounds, fired in two range days. Having experienced California's emphasis on peace officer training standards as a police trainer out there, I would guess that the state's Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training would probably insist on a minimum of at least a 300 - 400 round course for officers already qualified on auto pistols when they transition to the new pistol, and the ammo requirement for monthly practice courses would probably be increased quite a bit for six months or so. Like I said that's an educated guess, and each department would be allowed to fire as much above and beyond the minimum as they wanted or could afford. They take firearms training out there very seriously - my department had a 2,000 round training standard for cadets in training twenty years ago, just to give you some idea, while Tennessee had a 600 round requirement at that time. They get in lots of shootings out there and do indeed take it seriously. Very seriously. Hope this helps answer your question.

What are the training requirements when departments switch to a different firearm? I would think it was a big deal, but I might be wrong. I had not thought about how used to trigger control on a certain firearm someone could get, especially in a department where there is a higher likelihood of drawing the firearm.

  Safety is everything to them. The LASD is the fourth largest police department in the United States and the largest Sheriff's Department. It's patrol area is almost entirely high density, high crime metropolitan area rife with every racial and social problem known to man.  It has 9,100 full time deputies and 900 reserve deputies operating in a county of 10 million people - close to twice the population of Tennessee in an area a fraction of its size - and every one of them is making the transition from a DA/SA pistol to a striker fired pistol - all while trying to police some of the most difficult venues in the country.   Seven unintended discharges out of the 10,000 full time and reserve deputies under these circumstances is not, by any means, an indicator of laxness in their commitment to safety.

Unashamedly borrowed from another site.....     Jigs McDonald, NHL Hall of Fame broadcaster speaking in Ontario, says: "I am truly perplexed that so many of my friends are against another mosque being built in Toronto. I think it should be the goal of every Canadian to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus the mosque should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance." “That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, 'The Turban Cowboy' and the other, a topless bar, would be called 'You Mecca Me Hot'." “Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called 'Iraq of Ribs'." “Across the street there could be a lingerie store called 'Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret' with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods and on the other side a liquor store called 'Morehammered'." "All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us. :usa:  :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:  :usa:

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is one of the most professional uniformed police agencies in the United States, and adheres to rigorous training standards. I've worked with them many times over the years.  My guess is that there is some kind of a glitch going on with the transition from the DA/SA Beretta M92 and the striker fired Smith and Wesson gun. It could involve the need for different handling procedures or enforcement tactics, or the use of different holsters, etc. etc. The number of AD's with the new gun says to me that the problem is in the transition training process or equipment somewhere, but blaming the gun is nonsense - the guns aren't firing themselves. If I had to bet on a possible cause, it would be that deputies are applying Beretta 92 habits to the new pistol and that doesn't work. LAPD is converting from the Glock to the Smith and Wesson guns and is having no such problems.

I am worried about Caster if he is having Vagina that bad he might want to see a Dr but not the same one Jenner used :)

If either one got that close to me........  That pinhead standing there was a Darwin candidate.    And bluntly..... both of those animals need to be put down - no fear whatsoever of humans.

$5 a box of 50 is .10 /per round and OK by you. But $40 for a brick of 500 .08/per round is scalping? As far as I see it they are both scalping.

Sweet! That came out the year I graduated high school. I haven't heard that song in years. Brings back a lot of memories of my teen years & good times with friends. One of my favorite soundtracks on my computer is from "Empire Records". "The Cranberries", "Toad the Wet Sprocket", "No Doubt", & "Better Than Ezra" were topping the Billboards back then.