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Hey yall, a quick preface before I get started...my IT and Network Admin knowledge is rooted in things that are self-taught and that I've done in the Army and for home-network purposes. I am in now way trying to pretend I'm some CCNA, A+, S+, N+ Network Router Switch MallCop Ninja Warlock of Network Doom, I am just a regular Joe that spends way too much nerding out.   At our point in human history, the Cyber Domain has become very advanced and transparent. What started off as dial-up connections and sending data over radio waves has transcended to fiber links, Layer 2 routers, easy home networking; we're connected to virtually (no pun intended) everyone, virtually everywhere. Whether it's here on TGO from our iPhones and Android devices, to Skyping a loved one in FOB Lightning to buying Full Automatic AK-47s off of the "Deep Web" from some Chechen terrorists to take down a strip-mall in Kansas, we all leave a trace on the internet.   In time's long past, people did their crime well, Analog. Whether it was swooping up your unshredded bills from the trash, carjacking you out of your brand-new Miada or blowing up your mailbox with M-80s, things were simpler. We started using cross-cut shredders from staples. We started to get our CCWs and we upgraded to metal mailboxes and bought German Shepards to maul our neighbor's 7-year-olds (KIDDING).   As we dive deeper and deeper into the Cyber Domain, where we can use our phone to remote into our computer to grab office documents or use our wifi-watches to tell our Keurig to make a cup of coffee at 0731 on Friday while we are in Santa Fe, everything is readily available AND wireless.   Rather than droning on and on about advanced network security and theorms and tin-foil-sombrero-wearing ideas about Anonymous and the CIA and the NSA and Greasy Grannie's Gigabit Galvanizer, I'd just like to touch on a few points to make your web-browsing safer.   1) Situational Awareness: Phising, Spearing, Ferretting...all of these things are common terminology when it comes to cyber crime. We know it as scamming. It can come in the form of some Nigerian Prince who needs your PayPal account to overthrow a coup, some Busty Blonde that will turn your bucks into More Boobs or some guy on Armslist that wants you to PayPal him for his BNIB M1A Springfield (actually happening, watch the Clarksville/Nasvhille Armslist classifeds)...it is every where. The signs are obvious, it's usually poorly written or really strange...your Ebay or PayPal account needs verifciation randomly, or you just won 12343421352508 Pesos in the El Salvador Lottery; just watch out. - Setup an aggressive spam filtering in your Email - Junk Mail will take care of 80% of these Spear Phishers and Ferrets - To add to that; set your email to block all messages from that sender, you can go into the HTML header of the Email to maybe block the IP address as well - I'm guilty of it on one of my accounts, but keep PII (Personal Identifying Info) out of your emails...JonDoe@webmail just let a potential hacker know you're probably a White Male and you like PBR, Corvettes and Boobs - Always call the actual company in case you're not sure - sometimes Fate is a b!tch and you reset your Ebay Password at the same time as some Vietnamese Black Hat sent your a metasploit email - Keep your email, and other account information off of Social Media...even if some of it is harmless like Target Marketing, having it passed around to the wrong people leaves you at risk (will touch on it in the next topic)   2) Strong Passwords! You've seen it everywhere and heard it everywhere...methods such as Brute Forcing, Cryptanalysis and Dictionary Attacks using Rainbow Tables are pretty involved now, it might take them a few hours but if your password is just "BlueDog1" or "!L1k3$tUff" even though it might satisfy the website's characteristics...it isn't all that strong. <Insert IT MumboJumbo> the way websites, servers, email accounts, etc store passwords is by HASHING. A hash is a 3 or 4 ASCII symbol combo for every letter, number and sign. For instance Capital "A" might be "e4B1" in Hash. That is another way Hackers attack your password, they get the Hash information from a website or service using a Linux program called HashCat. Some people "salt" the Hashes by adding a random set of characters that don't mean anything..but they can be "de-salted" So here are some tips to counter these things   - Easy way to avoid that is using any number of free Password Hasher programs/extensions to Pre-Hash your password...so now ABCD = "e23f jklo 1lol 2f2d" and then THAT get's Hashed...it becomes exponential and the Hacker would probably move onto someone else DONT BE THE WEAK LINK; the downfall to that is you need the same program to autofill or to write them down...now if you lost that postIt or that file on your phone...you might be out of luck - Other ways to mitigate this is to use a lot of characters in different orders, never the same kind after another, i.e. no numbers after each other, no letters, etc. To further make that work is to NOT form real words with them. "P@$$w0rd" is just as easily cracked as "PaSsWoRD" - Use differnt passwords for all of your accounts. Even if its your MySpace account from High School or your Wells Fargo account...always have different gibberish - Change your passwords monthly. Biweekly is preferred.   3) WiFi Routers: Even though most new routers provided by ISP's and bought from retail stores are already equipped with the latest security: WPA2/WPS...a lot of people don't know that. You'd be suprised even in Gov't Facilites how many people still use WEP routers, or even worse - no security at all. WPA2/WPS can still be cracked using WiFite or Reaver - so make sure to apply the Passwords Tips to your Wifi Password too. - MUST have a WPA2/WPS router. I can crack a WEP router in a few minutes even if it has a strong password by intercepting data packets and authencation handshakes...WPA2-PSK encryptions make this much more difficult - MONITOR your network, using a tool like Wireshark might be a bit out of your level of comfort to sniff network traffic, but setting maximum connections allowed or using the Router's built in software to monitor it can be just as effective - 5.0GHz is the more modern Wifi frequency band...2.4GHz is still effective, but every wifi capable device has 2.4GHZ wifi antennas and firmware...not everyone has 5.0GHz (though lots of phones and newer high-end computers do) To prevent the "Script Kiddies" from messing with you, keep all your more important business on the 5.0GHz...Dual-Band routers are pretty cheap - Manually change your Router's broadcast channel monthly - this can boost your speeds especially if all of your neighbors are all on the same type of router/channel ...a good guide is http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/21132/change-your-wi-fi-router-channel-to-optimize-your-wireless-signal/ - If you can: hardwire your computers and devices, it will give prevent attackers from DDoS'ing your unique IP if they do get into your Router...and it frees up wireless channels   4) Know Your Enemy: This last step is definitely optional as we are all grown men and women and have important things to do, but knowing is half the battle as they say. Easy programs and Linux Distributions like Kali Linux, Backtrack, LOIC and Cain And Abel can all be used for cyber forensics and attacks, and exploitation...learning these things yourself can help you know the signs of what an attack looks like and how vulnerable (or protected) you REALLY are.   I am usually doing nothing but cleaning weapons and mowing my lawn on weekends. If you would like to learn these things on your own I can offer this: 1) Anyone in Clarksville and Nashville or in between I can get you a copy of Kali Linux on your computer (I promise I wont destory your hard drive) so you can mess with it on your own 2) I can bring my Kali-Computer to your place and show you/stress test your home networks 3) You can send me a hard drive and I can image it with all the tools you will need/use   There are plenty of free tutorials on Google on how to use it, and defend against attacks like that.   Sorry for the long-winded post; if this belongs offline I'll remove it. Anyone with questions or comments can feel free to PM or Email me!   And again, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and general know-how. I didn't intend to offer offense or challenge anyone's intelligence.   Also, if I put any jacked up information, feel free to correct me!

With AR parts kits?   While the knowledge might be readily available, most people can't put in a trigger spring the right way the first time.  They're not going to make the leap to drilling the extra holes in receivers, milling out material, sourcing the needed parts and pulling that all off successfully.   The folks who are going to break the law and risk it on something like that are few and far between - at least in legitimate gun ownership circles.    I'd say for 100 parts kits sold, at least 99 end up being used for their intended purpose - whether a cheap build or full race dragon,

Picked up one 3 weeks ago and it's my new belly band/running/bike riding gun.  Trigger was noticeably heavier than any other Glock I've dry fired, so I put a Ghost Edge connector in it and now it feels normal.  Also put a Vickers Tactical extended slide stop on it and now I can actually drop the slide with the slide stop (southpaw).  Still waiting on sights from Ameriglo.  It's my new favorite gun and I'll probably get another soon for the blond.  Can't wait to get rid of the Kahrs. 

  Trijicon HD Night Sights.

In respect to the comments attributed to a Federal Agent. Municipal Law Enforcements generally more immediate with investigations done on the fly and on scene. It's pretty apparent the officers in question in this shooting were initially investigating what appears to have been a misdemeanor theft call. It could have resulted in little more than a citation, IOW no one going to jail. I handled a bunch of like investigations in the past. The suspect in this one decided to do something stupid. Now as to the how and why of the female shooting when the suspect was down already. Its pretty hard to stop a reactionary cycle once its kicked in and everyone has differing levels of neurological chemistry to sort through once in a fight/flight cycle. So no, I don't have any criticism towards either officer. FWIW I never had an FBI Agent ever make a negative observation in my presence of anything another officer had done. Overall they were pretty closed mouthed.   

  Some people don't have dainty trigger fingers.  :rofl:

    Unless you are current or former LEO you have no business criticizing them from the sidelines. 

if you are the immigrant, and all the way thru to grandkid of one, there is nothing wrong with a bit of pride in knowing your roots and all that.  Past that, making a big deal about your heritage when no one you have ever met has even visited the country in question... is silly.  People do silly things, and its harmless, but its still silly.  Waving African flags when your people been here since 1650 is silly ... Ill say it.   Wearing tribal dress when the last native in your family died in 1820 is silly.  Naming your kids a random name from your perceived motherland is silly (actual family names are acceptable).     Hyphen americans ... the entire concept of race needs to go away.  There is one.  Its human.

So now we get ready for the 9mmJHP shortage?

I have a white friend born in south africa. He is a US citizen now. He calls himself an african American much to the dismay of others.

This what I made for a portable/temporary gun rack. Cost about $5 to make. Cheap plastic sawhorse from Harbor Freight and some dog throw tennis balls. Base is a piece of plastic I had from some old packing material but could be a piece of wood.

I LOVE IT! Personal defense at it's best!

I own a 43 and have ran about 100 rounds of +P through it as thats what I intend on carrying once I get my HCP.  I'm extremely happy with it. I think it's heavily criticized as its late to the game, but coupled with the +2 baseplates, I think its ONE of the best options in the single stack 9mm carry realm.  I wouldn't hesitate to get one at all!

I actually have 12" calipers if nobody has a box I bring them

Oh but that's an easy fix. Give the Shield to your wife, then you get to replace it.

If I were in the banking industry from the lowly teller to the CEO, I think my office name and real name would not be the same and I would never share my real name.  2nd, never ever be on a social website like facebook, and definitely not be anti gun.  When going home at the end of the day, I would always do a little extra rearview mirror checking.  :2cents:

$.25 trigger job and the Ghost Edge connector in my 43 and I have a very nice 5 1/2 lb trigger. And I love my 43, so much so that I sold both my Shield and XDs.

Its definitely a lot more light weight and responsive. Thats shat they were trying with Xubuntu. Cant go wrong with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Mint or ArchLinux Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk

  Mint, I used Ubuntu for a year and got tired of how bitchy it was. I know Mint is an Ubuntu shell, but it seems to run a lot better for the most part.

  I've switched everything to Linux Distros. Which one are you using?

Missed at least one simple bit that's reasonably easy for users to do that makes it MUCH harder for attackers. Turn on two factor authentication EVERYWHERE it is available. ;)

Yep, it was meant for gershootenfighten, not gersmackenfighten.

"Milspec" as in what the US military requires are tubes made out of 7075 material with specific threading and dimensions.  There are plenty of "milspec" tubes out there that are not made of 7075 but satisfy the dimensional requirements.   It's really not something to get all bent over as the term "milspec" is way over used and very few civilians have 100% milspec weapons....for the sole reason there's that pesky little selective fire requirement.

Thanks for the info!

Glad you like the LC9s so much but I don't care for it and that's the way it is with particular guns, some folks love a particular gun others don't. Initial cost of a handgun can be deceptive unless you factor in its anticipated service life and how well it holds its value over time. As to the typical thickness, the G43's slide and grip are narrower then the G-26's which depending on the end purchaser can be the deciding factor.  

I've been flying since I was 16. 44 years. Hang glide mostly these days, every now and then burn some avgas. I've done some sailplaning, but found it to be uninspiring as well as a yacht-club mentality in the sport. Expensive to do, and hg is dirt cheap and lots safer. And lots more fun and the folks are nice. Range only so far. Using the a17 ammo by CCI, no issues as to cycling. Once I got the scope dialed in it was dead on target. Nikon 3x9x40 scope, sighted in for 100 yards. That range fits my hunting area. Made me up a little range card for shorter or longer shot placement. Tried the standard ammo and I can't tell any difference. Synthetic stock. I've no experience with a bolt action rifle in this caliber. So far it's proven to be a nice weapon. I've no doubt it'll do a number on those pesky varmints! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

IMHO, horrid little guns with TERRIBLE triggers. Opinions, huh?? Besides, I haven't owned anything with the Ruger name on it since old Bill sold us out on the AWB. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think your way off on that. Most are for cheep builds. Use what you need and the rest goes in spare parts box. I would bet the amount used to make illegal parts is more like .5 to 1%.

I'm betting that most people buying parts kits just rat hole them somewhere for another day. Of those who do complete them I suspect the overwelming majority are semi auto only.

Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants to all those left wingers out there?

I got my 43 eleven days after it was released. I love it! I use Critical Defense ammo in all of my Glocks with zero issues. The only things that I have added to the 43 are Talon rubber grips and TFX night sights. The pistol disappears when worn iwb and has become my go to pistol when I don't care to carry my 19.

No, but I would have told him politely the speed limit is 30 and not 60 and if he was obeying the law he would not have gotten on me so quick. I would not try and provoke an altercation with an already irate idiot.

yes I love mine. Put Talon grips on and it runs well with all ammo I tested . I did not try Hornady. I run Federal HST 124gr. I am waiting for the +2 extensions.

I don't have one, I have two :-)   I love the gun for concealed carry, and I bought one for my wife as well.   Both have been perfect in function so far, and they're just the right size to be comfortable, but easily concealable.  Basically, it's the carry pistol I've been waiting for for years.    Cheers, Rusty

Man I have been wanting a bow so bad. I had a nice PSE in college but had to get rid of it to free up some funds. I just never got back into it. With the technology we have in bows now you don't HAVE to spend the big bucks on a Matthews to get a good quiet bow. Not to knock them as they are good bows and better in some aspects but PSE makes some fine bows too.   When you can find a spot with a good backstop and plenty of room you should try shooting at 80-100 yards. Just for fun of course but we used to get the biggest kick out of hitting bulls eye (luck) that far. I'd do it in the off season though.

I'm more of a "listener" than "talker" on TGO, but certainly enjoy the exchanges and information on this site. I'm looking for suggestions for a rack or temporary storage system for removing/rearranging rifles and shotguns in my safe. It's always a pain to access long guns in the back of the safe and figure out where to put everything I've removed. I'm guessing this is a common issue TGOers experience. My apologies if I've missed this topic, but thought I'd check here before reinventing the wheel. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Not sure it'd have made a lot of difference because I suspect the recoil would have resulted in a depressed skull fracture

The military needs a quality pistol.  While the M9 has its flaws, it works when you take care of it properly and is a very low maintenance pistol in a field environment, which is a big deal with Army equipment.  There would be a guy I served with who might not have survived this day had it been otherwise.  Wheelgunner can confirm this or fill in any gaps since it's been almost 10 years.  He was at the same base if memory serves.     25 December 2005 SPC Steven Clark (B/2BSTB) was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor for actions in combat. After Christmas lunch, SPC Clark, a member of THT 590, was approached by an Iraqi National hired as an interpreter at the FOB. The interpreter asked SPC Clark if a weapons permit was available for him. SPC Clark told him that he would check and the two walked to the THT building.  SPC Clark told the interpreter to wait outside but after unlocking the door the interpreter pointed a 9mm handgun into SPC Clark’s back and told him to enter the building.   After entering, the interpreter demanded the names of captured personnel and the names of informants. SPC Clark pointed to a laptop computer behind the gunman and said what he wanted was on the computer. The gunman turned his back to SPC Clark. At this point, SPC Clark pulled an M9 concealed in his back belt line. At the same time, the gunman wheeled around and both men opened fire. SPC Clark was struck once in the left chest and dropped to one knee. The insurgent was shot multiple times in the chest and abdomen but was killed by two well placed headshots. SPC Clark’s life was saved by following Army Regulations and Doctrine by keeping his Ft Campbell Blue Book and Military Intelligence Badge in his left breast pocket. The 9mm round that struck SPC Clark was slowed by his Blue Book and stopped by his brass badge in its leather case. (btq's note:  the "blue book" didn't slow a damn thing, it was all his badge (Clark was a CI agent) that's just the Army being the Army in propaganda...the rest is true)

I have been in retail/wholesale over 25 years. I have had more people threaten to whip my a$$ more than most people have seen the word typed. I will tell you one thing for sure, if you call me with a problem(your fault or mine), I will do everything short of lose my job to make you happy if you are respectful. If you call me cussing and acting a fool, I will only do the bare minimum that the company policy says I have to do to comply and cover my a$$. Has anyone learned anything from this little story. 

Lmao. So sad but so so true.

  Totally agree! I never got the hang of that FMJ humane thing myself. You're shooting to kill the guy, he's not going to file a complaint.

The only thing worse is an internet tough guy.

  Something similar happened to me a few years back. I was doing the speed limit on Briley Parkway, near Opry Mills. You know, the Indy practice field; and this guy pulls in behind me and starts flashing his lights, honking the horn and just started mouthing some very unkind things.   At least that's what I thought from what I could make out in my mirror.   As he came around, he slowed down beside me and flipped me off.   I smiled at him and blew him a kiss.   I thought his head was about to explode.  It was hilarious to see his face. Wish I could have taken a photo of it.

Well don't pull out in front of me any more! :D

I think the Duke said it best........turn up your speakers.           https://youtu.be/q6N4zKM2cZs

I bought another Mosin 91/30 last week....  In another 10 years, I'll  be saying "remember back when Mosins were only $179?"   I wish I had gotten into the shooting hobby about 15 years sooner than I did....    still looking to get an M1 Garand before they get even more pricey

I don't know about you, but i'm sticking with "honky"! :no1:

if I feel the need to have a gun to go somewhere I don't go.   Go live life, it is not always about the damn gun.

That would be David Mosley that goes by the TGO screen name of dlm37015. He can usually beat most folks prices on stuff and is a heck of a nice guy to deal with. He usually also has military powder if you're looking for that. I always get my WC844 through him. Deal with David and you won't regret it.

   You're not married are you?  :rofl: I ask this for 2 reasons, 1 is that once married, things don't always go exactly as you would wish nor do they happen within the choice timeline that you would choose if your own wants and desires were the only ones to take into consideration.2 is that, and I know everyone has heard this before, weeks go by incredibly fast once you've hit that milestone. I'm sure others will agree but months go by like weeks, it literally seems like Christmas was just 4-5 weeks back.